[f. SPLASH v.1]
1. Marked with splashes or irregular patches of color.
1765. Treat. Dom. Pigeons, 56. In decline of life they as gradually decrease, till they become sometimes a mottled, splashed, or whole colour.
1854. Poultry Chron., I. 124. Only tipped with black, or with splashed and smudgy feathers.
1858. Skyring, Builder’s Prices, 95. Imitation granite, or splashed work.
1882. Pall Mall Gaz., 21 June, 10/1. A globular vase of splashed crimson and purple crackle.
2. Wet, soiled, or stained with splashes of water, mud, or the like.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. I. vii. O ye hapless dulled-bright Seigneurs, and hydrophobic splashed Nankeens.
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., III. 126. As the multitude rocked to and fro, a splashed rider spurred through the streets.
1891. C. T. C. James, Rigmarole, 167. Two or three splashed and booted men stood round about, staring at me.
