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To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch. Spots and blotches . . . some red, others yellow. Harvey.

Marked or covered with blotches. To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.

Having blotches.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]

Without blot.

One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

d paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

Tending to cause abortion.

To blot; to stain. Chaucer.

The harness of a drawloom.

, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

persions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance. As for those who cleanse blurs with blotted fingers, they make it worse. Fuller.

of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.