blotn.1
/blɒt/, U.S. /blɑt/ 1.
a. A spot or stain of ink, mud, or other discolouring matter; a disfiguring spot or mark.
ΘΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > stain
lita1325
pleckc1350
blotc1400
smodc1400
discolouring?a1425
spot?a1425
stain1583
denigration1641
discolouration1666
staddle1691
discolour1812
spang1839
blotting1842
suddle1861
staddle-stead1868
dabble1871
staddle-mark1876
c1400 [see sense 2a].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 41 Blotte vpon a boke, oblitum.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 158 Vne paste, a blotte made with ynke.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 64 Inckie blots, and rotten parchment bonds. View more context for this quotation
1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 32 Whose dashing Hoofs..mark, with muddy Blots, the gazing 'Squire.
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds xi. 110 A globule of ink, which fell on the paper..making a blot as large as a sixpence.
1876 E. Jenkins Blot on Queen's Head 31 The ruthless hand had painted in an ugly black crown, which..only looked like a great blot.
b. An obliteration by way of correction.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > instance of
blot1710
erasure1734
blotting1791
erasion1889
caviar1899
1710 J. Swift Tale of Tub (ed. 5) Apol. sig. A2v Which he could have easily corrected with a very few Blots.
1788–9 R. Burns Let. Dec.–Jan. (2001) I. 347 Glance over the foregoing verses, and let me have your blots.
c. transferred. Any black or dark patch, especially as contrasted with light surroundings; also, anything that sullies or mars a fair surface, a blemish or disfigurement. Esp. in a blot (up)on the landscape; also figurative.
ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish
tachec1330
vicec1386
flakec1400
plotc1400
offencec1425
defectc1450
disconformity1505
defection1526
blemish1535
fitch1550
blot1578
flaw1604
tainta1616
mulct1632
smitch1638
scarring1816
out1886
the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > black thing or matter > [noun] > black mark
black coal1525
blot1578
the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing
eyesore1530
blind side1606
dissightc1710
ugly1755
desight1828
eye-sorrow1828
sight1862
a blot (up)on the landscape1912
to be no oil painting1919
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. cxiii. 306 It taketh away the hawe or webbe in the eye & al spottes or blottes in the same.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 45 If thou..wert grim..Full of vnpleasing blots, and sightlesse staines. View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Milton Comus 6 When the Dragon woome Of Stygian darknesse..Makes one blot of all the aire.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 177 Distinction lost; and gay variety One universal blot.
1823 C. Lamb Praise of Chimney-sweepers in Elia 249 I have a kindly yearning towards these dim specks—poor blots [sc. little sweeps].
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xix. 148 There are the black hills, blots upon rolling snow.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xix. 262 That plain gilt cross..is rather a blot, is it not?
1912 T. E. Lawrence Let. 20 Feb. (1938) 137 His two Kufti people..will be rather a blot on the landscape.
1960 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves in Offing i. 8 ‘And a rousing toodle-oo to you, you young blot on the landscape,’ she replied cordially.
1962 Listener 11 Jan. 90/2 Charabancs and monstrous hordes of hikers are blots upon the landscape.
d. spec. A set of ink-blots made on a piece of paper as a basis for the composition of an imaginary landscape, according to the technique invented by Alex. Cozens (d. 1786). (Cf. Rorschach n.) Also attributive.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > surface for painting or drawing > preparing of surface > specific method
blot?1785
linography1888
frottage1935
?1785 A. Cozens New Method in Drawing Landscape 7 A blot is an assemblage of dark shapes or masses made with ink upon a piece of paper. All the shapes are rude and unmeaning, as they are formed with the swiftest hand. But at the same time there appears a general disposition of these masses, producing one comprehensive form.
1931 Times 24 Mar. 19/6 Examples of Cozens's ‘blots’ have long been known. But it was only the other day that five blots accompanied by the five drawings made from them, were discovered.
1962 Listener 19 July 95/2 The manipulation of accident in the blot landscapes of Alexander Cozens.
e. Painting. (See quot. 1910.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > [noun] > a painting > immediate appearance of
blot1910
1910 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 371 Painters are accustomed to speak of the ‘Blot’ of a picture, meaning its immediate appearance as colour, line, massing, or flat space.
2. figurative.
a. A moral stain; a disgrace, fault, blemish. Also in extended use: a person who is a disgrace (Webster, 1909).
ΘΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur
spota1225
umberc1380
blotc1386
maculate1490
touch1508
blemish1526
blur1548
attaint1592
stain1594
attainder1597
tachec1610
sullya1616
tainta1616
smutch1648
slur1662
woad1663
a blot on an escutcheon1697
blotch1860
smear1943
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > [noun] > source of discredit or discrediting circumstance > person or thing causing discredit > person causing discredit
slander1529
blot1938
c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 936 But lat no blotte be bihynde, lat no synne been vntoold.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 781 Vnblemyst I am wyth-outen blot.
a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 129 Thys..ys a grete blote in our pollycy.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 411 O indignity, O blot To Honour and Religion! View more context for this quotation
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 31 Do these theorists..mean..to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation? View more context for this quotation
1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) iv. §3. 186 The execution of Wallace was the one blot on Edward's clemency.
1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart i. iii. 60 Those four chaps were a blot.
1961 M. Kelly Spoilt Kill ii. 116 The silly blot forgot to switch on.
b. Imputation of disgrace; defamation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
teleeOE
folk-leasinga1000
tolec1000
wrayingc1000
missaw?c1225
slanderc1290
disclanderc1300
famationc1325
noisec1325
skander1338
missaying1340
misspeecha1375
slanderingc1380
biting1382
defaminga1400
filtha1400
missaya1400
obloquya1438
oblocution?a1439
juroryc1440
defamationa1450
defamea1450
forspeaking1483
depravinga1500
defamya1513
injury?1518
depravation1526
maledictiona1530
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
infamation1533
insectationa1535
calumning1541
calumniation?1549
abuse1559
calumnying1563
calumny1564
belying?1565
illingc1575
scandalizing1575
misparlance?1577
blot1587
libelling1587
scandal1596
traducement1597
injurying1604
deprave1610
vilifying1611
noisec1613
disfame1620
sycophancy1622
aspersion1633
disreport1640
medisance1648
bollocking1653
vilification1653
sugillation1654
blasphemya1656
traduction1656
calumniating1660
blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
infamizing1827
malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
1587 J. Higgins Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) Forrex iv. 7 Without the blots of everlasting blame.
1605 Hist. Tryall Cheualry sig. H4v Of all that euer liu'd, deseru'd she not, The worlds reproch, and times perpetuall blot?
1728 E. Young Love of Fame v, in Wks. (1757) I. 139 If on your fame our sex a blot has thrown, 'Twill ever stick, thro' malice of your own.
Compounds
C1. blot-headed adj.
C2.
blot-book n. Scottish = blotting-book.
ΚΠ
1857 J. W. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 313 She will find Mrs. Cook's bill in my blot-book.
blot-sheet n. Scottish a sheet of blotting-paper.
ΚΠ
1866 R. M. Ballantyne Shifting Winds xi. 106 The Bu'ster stood by with the blot-sheet, looking eager, as if he rather wished for blots.
Draft additions 1997
Biochemistry. The distribution pattern of proteins, nucleic acids, etc., on a medium on which they have been blotted (blot v. Additions 7).
ΚΠ
1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 860 (caption) Localization of the V and C regions in Ch603α6 by hybridization to Southern blots.
1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 4354/1 Enzymes separated on polyacrylamide gels could also be conveniently localized on blots by in situ assays.
1989 Jrnl. Autoimmunity 2 769 (caption) The blot was hybridized with a 32P labeled IFN-α4-specific cDNA probe, and autoradiographed for 24 h.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
blotn.2
a. In Backgammon: An exposed piece or ‘man’ liable to be taken or forfeited; also, the action of so exposing a piece. to hit a blot: to ‘take’ the piece so exposed.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > actions or positions
lympoldingc1350
blot1598
after-game1601
why-nota1612
non-pass1688
hit1766
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > backgammon > [noun] > exposed piece
blot1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Caccia, a hunting, a chasing..Also..a blot at tables.
1599 H. Porter Pleasant Hist. Two Angrie Women of Abington sig. B3v You neuer vse to misse a blot, Especially when it stands so faire to hit.
1672 W. Wycherley Love in Wood v. v Tho' I made a blot, your oversight has lost the game.
1880 Boy's Own Bk. (new ed.) 620 The frequent occurrence of this taking of a blot gives an adversary a great advantage.
b. figurative. An exposed or weak point in one's procedure; a fault or failing; also, a mark, butt.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > liability to harm, loss, etc. > vulnerable part, thing, or person
gap1548
weak link1581
subjecta1593
sitting1618
blota1657
soft spot1770
Achilles heel1839
sick man1853
soft underbelly1942
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule
hethinga1340
japing-stickc1380
laughing stock?1518
mocking-stock1526
laughing game1530
jesting-stock1535
mockage1535
derision1539
sporting stocka1556
game1562
May game1569
scoffing-stock1571
playing stock1579
make-play1592
flouting-stock1593
sport1598
bauchle1600
jest1606
butt1607
make-sport1611
mocking1611
mirtha1616
laughing stakea1630
scoff1640
gaud1650
blota1657
make-mirth1656
ridicule1678
flout1708
sturgeon1708
laugh1710
ludibry1722
jestee1760
make-game1762
joke1791
laughee1808
laughing post1810
target1842
jest-word1843
Aunt Sally1859
monument1866
punchline1978
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun]
misnimming?c1225
errora1340
defaulta1387
balkc1430
fault1523
jeofail1546
errat1548
trip1548
naught1557
missa1568
missinga1568
slide1570
snappera1572
amiss1576
mistaking1579
misprize1590
mistake1600
berry-block1603
solecism1603
fallibility1608
stumblea1612
blota1657
slur1662
incorrectnessa1771
bumble1823
skew1869
(to make) a false step1875
slip-up1909
ricket1958
bad1981
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > censure or condemnation > object of
blot1782
a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccclxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 92 Vpon termes gave over in the Sett, For Orleance, had the Dice, to save his Blott.
1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. d1v He is too great a Master of his Art, to make a Blott which may so easily be hit.
1734 Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 248 Its faults..have taught him the wit, The blots of his neighbours the better to hit.
1782 W. Cowper Hope in Poems 169 The very butt of slander, and the blot For ev'ry dart that malice ever shot.
1887 N.E.D. at Blot Mod. Here the critic has undoubtedly hit a blot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
blotv.
/blɒt/, U.S. /blɑt/ 1.
a. transitive. To spot or stain with ink or other discolouring liquid or matter; to blur.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain
mealeOE
litc1230
beblotc1374
depaintc1374
entachc1374
stain1382
tache1390
wem1398
molec1400
blob1429
blotc1440
imbruec1450
maculate?a1475
thorough-stain1593
commaculatec1616
stigmatizea1637
tattoo1774
staddle1828
bestain1869
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 41 Blottyn bokys, oblitero.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 458 I blotte as a writer dothe with an yvele penne, je barbouille.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 243 His holy Fillets the blue Venom blots.
c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies iii. 8 And blots the mournful numbers with a tear.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) x. 100 His note-book, blotted with the tears of sympathising humanity, lies open before us.
b. absol. To make blots.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > write with blots > make blots with pen
blot1447
1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 27 Evene as he [my pen] goth he doth blot.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) ii. f. 45v Like pennes ouer full of incke, which will soner blotte, than make any faire letter at all.
1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. iv. 29 Inke..which wil not run abroad, nor blot.
c. intransitive. To become blotted, contract a blot.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [verb (intransitive)] > become blotted, contract blot
blot1860
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xiii. 144 The soul in this resembling paper which, where it has been blotted once, however careful the erasure of the blot may have been, there more easily blots and runs anew than elsewhere.
d. transitive. To write with blots or blottesquely.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > write with blots
blot1870
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. (1873) 242 Trammels and pot-hooks which the little Shearjashubs and Elkanahs blotted and blubbered across their copy-books.
2.
a. To cover (paper) with worthless writing; to disfigure. archaic or Obsolete.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > write in specific style [verb (transitive)] > illegibly or untidily > cover with
blota1513
scribble1540
daub1589
bescrawl1641
scrawl1647
bescribble1807
overscrawl1871
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxxiiii Whose oppinyons for the heryng of them shuld be tedious & vnfruttefull, I therfore wyll nat wt them blot my Booke.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 250 Heere are a few of the vnpleasant'st words that euer blotted paper. View more context for this quotation
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 471 I spare to blot much paper with the recital of those things.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) i. i. 12 They are not alwaies the Best men that blot most paper.
b. To paint coarsely, to daub. (Cf. blottesque adj.)
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [verb (intransitive)] > paint badly or carelessly
blot1844
daub1867
1844 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 2) I. Pref. p. lxii Cattermole..began his career with finished and studied pictures, which..never paid him—he now prostitutes his fine talent..and blots his way to emolument and oblivion.
3. figurative.absolute.1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. iii. 239 She passes prayse, then prayse too short doth blot . View more context for this quotation† b. To stigmatize, calumniate, throw dirt at.
a. To cast a blot upon (good qualities or reputation); to tarnish, stain, sully. archaic or Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)]
filea1325
foulc1330
tache1390
dark?c1400
distain1406
smita1413
blemish1414
black?c1425
defoul1470
maculate?a1475
macule1484
tan1530
staina1535
spota1542
smear1549
blot1566
besmear1579
defile1581
attaint1590
soila1596
slubber1599
tack1601
woad1603
besmirch1604
blur1604
to breathe upon ——1608
be-smut1610
clouda1616
sullya1616
taint1623
smutch1640
blackena1649
to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654
beslur1675
tarnish1695
blackwash1762
carbonify1792
smirch1820
tattoo1884
dirten1987
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > be or become stained or sullied [verb (intransitive)] > stain or sully
blot1566
1566 T. Stapleton Returne Vntruthes Jewelles Replie Ep. And Blotted yourselfe so much, intending to Blemish your Adversarie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. ii. 144 Vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow..It blots thy beautie. View more context for this quotation
1644 J. Milton in tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce To Parl. sig. B3v To doe me honour in that very thing, wherin these men thought to have blotted me.
1708 N. Rowe Royal Convert ii. i. 16 Blot not thy Innocence with guiltless Blood.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
belie?c1225
betell?c1225
missayc1225
skandera1300
disclanderc1300
wrenchc1300
bewrayc1330
bite1330
gothele1340
slanderc1340
deprave1362
hinderc1375
backbite1382
blasphemec1386
afamec1390
fame1393
to blow up?a1400
defamea1400
noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
infame1483
injury1484
painta1522
malicea1526
denigrate1526
disfamea1533
misreporta1535
sugill?1539
dishonest?c1550
calumniate1554
scandalize1566
ill1577
blaze1579
traduce1581
misspeak1582
blot1583
abuse1592
wronga1596
infamonize1598
vilify1598
injure?a1600
forspeak1601
libel1602
infamize1605
belibel1606
calumnize1606
besquirt1611
colly1615
scandala1616
bedirt1622
soil1641
disfigurea1643
sycophant1642
spatter1645
sugillate1647
bespattera1652
bedung1655
asperse1656
mischieve1656
opprobriatea1657
reflect1661
dehonestate1663
carbonify1792
defamate1810
mouth1810
foul-mouth1822
lynch1836
rot1890
calumny1895
ding1903
bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
1583 A. Nowell et al. True Rep. Disput. E. Campion sig. Aa2 Neyther doeth Paul blotte the holy Ghost when he saide that he was rudis sermone.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 2 He hath been blotted by some to bee an Epitomiste.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 132 Theres a good mother boy, that blots thy father. View more context for this quotation
4. To make a blot over (writing) so as to make it illegible; to obliterate, efface. (Usually with out.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > writing, etc.
deface1340
razea1393
blot1530
to put out1530
delete1540
dispunct1570
obliterate1578
expunct1596
expunge1602
erase1605
dele1612
dispunge1622
retrench1645
liturate1656
excise1663
to scratch out1712
efface1737
extrapolate1831
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 458/2 Who hath blotted out this worde.
1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII i Persons, hauinge anie bibles..with anie suche annotacions or preambles shall..cutte out or blotte the same, in such wise, as they cannot be perceiued nor red.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 195 My name be blotted from the booke of life. View more context for this quotation
1709 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 75. ⁋8 By Culture, as skilful Gardiners blot a Colour out of a Tulip that hurts its Beauty.
a1784 S. Johnson in Boswell Life Johnson (1831) I. 307 He submitted that work to my castigation; and I remember I blotted a great many lines.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 118 I took his brush and blotted out the bird.
5.
a. figurative. To efface, wipe out of existence, sight, or memory; to annihilate, destroy. (Usually with out.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > annihilate or blot out of existence
dilghec897
defacec1386
annul1395
anientec1400
refer?c1400
extinct1484
annihil1490
delete1495
out-terma1500
perspoil1523
extaintc1540
extinguish1555
blot1561
wipe1564
to cut the throat of1565
annihilate1567
dissipatea1575
annihilate1586
nullify1609
nullize1615
expunge1628
nothing1637
null1647
extramund1654
be-nothing1674
erase1728
obliterate1798
simoom1821
to tear to shreds1837
snuff1852
mop1859
to take out1900
napoo1915
naught1958
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 19 Vtterly to blot and deface it out of mennes remembrance.
1611 Bible (King James) Acts iii. 19 Repent yee therefore..that your sins may be blotted out. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 891 Not to blot out mankind. View more context for this quotation
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 178 One, the tragedy of whose fate has blotted the remembrance of her sins.
1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire iv. 49 As the Persian monarchy had been blotted out by Alexander.
b. To put out of sight, obscure, eclipse; also figurative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)]
heeleOE
forhelec888
i-hedec888
dernc893
hidec897
wryOE
behelec1000
behidec1000
bewryc1000
forhidec1000
overheleOE
hilla1250
fealc1325
cover1340
forcover1382
blinda1400
hulsterc1400
overclosec1400
concealc1425
shroud1426
blend1430
close1430
shadow1436
obumber?1440
mufflea1450
alaynec1450
mew?c1450
purloin1461
to keep close?1471
oversilec1478
bewrap1481
supprime1490
occulta1500
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1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Biiijv Like mistie vapors when they blot the skie. View more context for this quotation
1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. (R.) The moon..Was blotted by the earth's approaching shade.
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 270 No shades of superstition blot the day.
1862 J. R. Wise New Forest Neither sea nor sky is seen—nothing but a dense haze blotting everything.
6. To dry with blotting-paper.
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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [verb (transitive)] > dry with blotting paper
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1854 W. Collins Hide & Seek I. 214 Here Mr. Thorpe carefully blotted the first page of the letter.
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7. Biochemistry. To transfer (biochemical material under analysis) from a medium used for electrophoretic separation to an immobilizing medium on which specific target molecules can be identified.
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1979 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 76 4350/2 The gel to be blotted was put on the nitrocellulose sheet and care was taken to remove all air bubbles.
1981 Lancet 21 Nov. 1126/1 After digestion, restricted DNA was run on 1% agarose gels, in the presence of size markers, and ‘blotted’ onto nitrocellulose filters.
1986 Sci. Amer. Mar. 45/3 The DNA is unraveled into single strands and blotted onto special filter paper.
1989 Jrnl. Autoimmunity 2 769 RNA extracted from..peritoneal macrophages..was blotted at the indicated concentrations to a Zeta-Bind nylon membrane.
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