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Moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
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spittle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 spit, usually frothy and of a milky coloration. 2 Something frothy and white that resembles spit. 3 spit-up or drool of an infant. 4 A small sort of spade. 5 (obsolete form of lang=en spital) vb. To dig or stir with a small spade.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He smelled light sweat, felt spittle reaching to his chin. ▪ Her spittle caught him full in the face, caught him off guard. ▪ I started to twitch and my husband had to wipe the spittle from the corner of my mouth. ▪ It wiped ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Spital \Spit"al\, n. [Abbreviated from hospital.] [Written also spittle .] A hospital. [Obs.] --Shak.
Usage examples of spittle.
Herr Hummel gently took my instrument from me, blew away my spittle and raised it to his own mouth, making some strange contortions with his lips before allowing them to settle in a hesitant-seeming posture around the reed.
She spat at the van, watched the spittle hit pavement, freeze into a lump of pearlized glue chip.
A thin drool of coloured spittle from the berries streams out after it, spattering and staining the mess.
He just banged out the spittle and settled onto one hip, waiting for the word.
Szehpee, Kahndoot wiped the spittle from her skin, then lowered the cheekpieces and stood stock-still while they were buckled tightly under her square chin.
Blotted enough to make earnest idle conversation with nerdish kids who shouted right in his face to make themselves heard over the din, spraying him with spittle.
He knew that people want to see their own spittle dripping from the lacy openwork of art.
I glance at the infamous Jack Ziegler, slumped on the gorgeous sofa, spittle on his dry lips, his hand waving feebly, but not in time to the music.
Petey spat again and mud sputtered out with saliva, but instead of a good hard hork onto the mud, something that might have salvaged some of his dignity, even just to him, the muddied spittle stayed mostly on his bottom lip.
But once they put these Red Diaper Doper Baby lawyers from NYU on Prozac, the spittle started appearing again.
Oh, how gladly I could throw those fifty thousand roubles in his face, and spit in it, and then rub the spittle in!
At last, what with a round of blasphemy, and the whole crowd with clay pistols belching smoke and fire and slander of their neighbours, and the floor already befouled with dregs and spittle, I feared lest viler deeds should happen, and craved to depart.
Peering at the confrontation through a 500-mm lens, Willie Vasquez-Washington could make out amazing detailsthe electric green bottleflies buzzing about the rhino's rear end, the shining strands of spittle on the dog's chin .
Peering at the confrontation through a 500-mm lens, Willie Vasquez-Washington could make out amazing details—the electric green bottleflies buzzing about the rhino's rear end, the shining strands of spittle on the dog's chin.
How do I calculate this distant road of long term into my action of this moment, now, with our dead comrade clutching the soup and both of us with spittle on our chins as we regard the soup?