_:vb7083578 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#value> "It had been \"spitting\" with rain for the last half-hour, and now it began to pour in good earnest."@en . <http://kaiko.getalp.org/dbnary/eng/__ws_3_spit__Verb__2> <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#definition> _:vb7083577 . <http://kaiko.getalp.org/dbnary/eng/__ws_3_spit__Verb__2> <http://kaiko.getalp.org/dbnary#senseNumber> "3" . <http://kaiko.getalp.org/dbnary/eng/__ws_3_spit__Verb__2> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://www.w3.org/ns/lemon/ontolex#LexicalSense> . _:vb7083579 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#value> "It spits snow this afternoon. Saw a flock of snowbirds on the Walden road. I see them so commonly when it is beginning to snow that I am inclined to regard them as a sign of a snow-storm."@en . _:vb7083577 <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#value> "(impersonal) To rain or snow slightly."@en . <http://kaiko.getalp.org/dbnary/eng/__ws_3_spit__Verb__2> <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#example> _:vb7083578 . <http://kaiko.getalp.org/dbnary/eng/__ws_3_spit__Verb__2> <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#example> _:vb7083579 . _:vb7083578 <http://purl.org/dc/terms/bibliographicCitation> "1834 October, \u201CBoz\u201D [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], \u201CThe Steam Excursion\u201D, in Sketches by \u201CBoz,\u201D Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People.\u00A0[\u2026], volume II, London: John Macrone,\u00A0[\u2026], published 1836, \u2192OCLC, page 310:"@en . _:vb7083579 <http://purl.org/dc/terms/bibliographicCitation> "1851 December 23, Henry David Thoreau, \u201CDecember, 1851 (\u00C6t[atis] 34)\u201D, in Bradford Torrey, editor, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, volumes III (September 16, 1851\u00A0\u2013 April 30, 1852), Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin and Company, published 1906, \u2192OCLC, page 153:"@en .