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An annular reënforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

The act of spitting; expectoration. Harvey.

Inclined to spit; spitting much. Sir H. Wotton.

To dispute; to discuss. [Obs.] Wyclif.

so rapidly as to emit saliva. They could neither of them speak their rage, and so fell a sputtering at one another, like two roasting apples. Congreve.

One who sputters.

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor.

State of being disputable.

Proneness to dispute. [Obs.] Bp. Ward.

Disputing; engaged in controversy. Milton.

The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.

Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations period. Buckminster. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Dis`pu*ta"tious*ness, n…

Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. I. Watts.

imed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to altercate; to wrangle. Therefore disputed [reasoned, Rev. Ver .] he in synagogue with the Jews. Acts xvii. 17.

Admitting no dispute; incontrovertible. Bailey.

One who disputes, or who is given to disputes; a controvertist. Where is the disputer of this world 1 Cor. i. 20.

Dispute; discussion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Spit out, or as if spit out. "Exsputory lines." Cowper.

Indisputableness.