Blotch to Blue
Blotch
(Blotch) n. [Cf. OE. blacche in blacchepot blacking pot, akin to black, as bleach is akin to
bleak. See Black, a., or cf. Blot a spot.]
1. 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.
2. (Med.) A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
Foul scurf and blotches him defile.
Thomson.
Blotched
(Blotched) a. Marked or covered with blotches.
To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease.
Drayton.
Blotchy
(Blotch"y) a. Having blotches.
Blote
(Blote) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloted; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloting.] [Cf. Sw. blöt-fisk soaked fish, fr.
blöta to soak. See 1st Bloat.] To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]
Blotless
(Blot"less) a. Without blot.
Blotter
(Blot"ter) n.
1. One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
2. (Com.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.
Blottesque
(Blot*tesque") a. (Painting) Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting
in delineation. Ruskin.
Blotting paper
(Blot"ting pa`per) A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink
from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.
Blouse
(Blouse) n. [F. blouse. Of unknown origin.] A light, loose over-garment, like a smock frock,
worn especially by workingmen in France; also, a loose coat of any material, as the undress uniform coat
of the United States army.
Blow
(Blow) v. i. [imp. Blew (blu); p. p. Blown (blon); p. pr. & vb. n. Blowing.] [OE. blowen, AS.
blowan to blossom; akin to OS. blojan, D. bloeijen, OHG. pluojan, MHG. blüejen, G. blühen, L. florere
to flourish, OIr. blath blossom. Cf. Blow to puff, Flourish.] To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
How blows the citron grove.
Milton.
Blow
(Blow), v. t. To cause to blossom; to put forth
The odorous banks, that blow
Flowers of more mingled hue.
Milton.
Blow
(Blow), n. (Bot.) A blossom; a flower; also, a state of blossoming; a mass of blossoms. "Such a
blow of tulips." Tatler.
Blow
(Blow), n. [OE. blaw, blowe; cf. OHG. bliuwan, pliuwan, to beat, G. bläuen, Goth. bliggwan.]
1. A forcible stroke with the hand, fist, or some instrument, as a rod, a club, an ax, or a sword.
Well struck ! there was blow for blow.
Shak.
