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▪ I. † blatch Obs.
Forms: 5 blacche, 6 blatche, blache.
[ME. blacche, answering to an OE. *blæcce, not found, but pointing to an OTeut. *blakkjo- or *blakkjâ-, f. *blakkó- ‘black’: see black a., and cf. black n., bleach n.2, bleck, and bletch.]
Blacking. Hence blatch-pot, blacche-pot.
a1500Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 628 Attramentorium (blacchepot), sunt attromenta (blacche), sed atrum (blacke). 1519W. Horman Vulg. 81 b, Wrytters ynke shulde be fyner than blatche [lectius esset sutorio]. 1552Huloet, Blache that shomakers vse Atramentum sutorium.
▪ II. † blatch, v. Obs.
[f. prec.: cf. black v., bleach v.2, bletch v.]
trans. To smear with blacking or other black substance.
[c1205Lay. 17700, Iblæcched he hæfede his licame swulc ismitte of cole.] 1587J. Harmar tr. Beza's Serm. 195 (R.) No man can like to be smutted and blatched in his face. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. ix. 110 It is with the enimies crosse that we are blatched. |