spittoon

[SPIT (2), v.] A box or earthenware ve el to receive discharges of saliva. "A large gentleman with his hat on, who amused himself by spitting alternately into the spittoon on the right hand of the stove and the spittoon on the left."- Dickens : Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. xvi. *spit-ven-om, s. [Eng. spit (2), v., and venom .] Poison ejected from the mouth. "The spitvenom of their poisoned hearts breaketh out to the annoyance of others."-Hooker.