spitting

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of spit

noun

  1. (chiefly archaic, medicine) expectoration
    Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers. 1837, James Johnson, The Medico-chirurgical review: Volume 31, page 44
  2. (uncountable) An appearance on the surface of melted silver or platinum allowed to cool slowly, jets of oxygen forming small cones and sometimes throwing up drops of molten metal.

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