spitting

noun

1. (archaic)expectoration

   “Four brothers of the name of Smith, died with black spitting; all of them were stone-workers.”

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.

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of spit