单词 | blotch |
释义 | blotchn. 1. a. An inflamed eruption, or discoloured patch, on the skin; a pustule, boil, or botch. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > boil > pustule bladderc1000 whelkc1000 pustulea1398 pusha1400 pustulation?a1425 whealc1440 pust1527 burble1555 quat1597 pouk1601 bube1608 bub1612 crystal1661 blotch1669 epinyctis1676 phlyzacium1693 varus1756 stone-pock1818 whey-worm1828 1604 M. Drayton Moyses ii. 46 To giue their bloch'd and blistered bodies ease.] 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 72 In its road it leaves its character of Spots, Stains, Blotches, Buboes, Ulcers, &c. in..the skin. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 16. ¶2 Healing those Blotches and Tumours which break out in the Body. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen Pref. 34 The Diseases of Infancy are generally Scabs, Blotches and Blains over the Face, etc. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xv. 293 Dark blotches appear on the skin. b. spec. A disease in dogs. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of dogs > [noun] formicac1400 running woodnessa1425 founder1547 distemper1746 blotch1824 kennel lameness1841 foul1854 dog ill1874 salmon disease1880 piblokto1894 strongyloidiasis1907 strongyloidosis1907 salmon poisoning1925 hard-pad1948 Rubarth's disease1951 canine parvovirus1972 parvovirus1979 1824 Annals Sporting VI. 265 I found his haunches exhibited appearances of a disease..termed the ‘blotch’. c. A disease of fruit or leaves, characterized by the formation of spots; sooty blotch, a disease of the apple. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > characterized by part affected or appearance produced jaundice1600 black rot1769 root rot1831 leaf blight1849 leaf curl1850 black heart1862 icterus1866 albication1877 footrot1883 curl-leaf1886 silver top1890 stem-sickness1890 sleeping disease1899 mosaic1900 leaf mosaic1902 scorch1906 blotch1909 little leaf1911 ringspot1913 crinkle1920 vein banding1928 the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > fruit or fruit plants leaf curl1850 fly-speck1855 vine-mildew1855 vine-fungus1857 leaf blister1858 blister1864 peach-blister1866 charbon1882 crown rot1888 melanose1888 plum pocket1888 peach leaf curl1890 brown rot1894 mummy1902 sooty blotch1909 rhubarb disease1911 spur blight1915 red core1936 sclerotinia1950 Sigatoka1958 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 2. a. A large irregular spot or blot of ink, colour, etc.; a dab or patch. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > stain > blotch splotch1601 botch1699 blotch1768 splodge1854 blodge1930 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. 396 To brush off the soil..and not suffer it to gather in pitchy blotches upon the surface. 1807 Sir R. Wilson in Life II. vii. 83 The snow fell in large blotches. 1870 H. Macmillan Bible Teachings x. 201 Its leaves are covered with brown unsightly blotches. 1873 J. T. Moggridge Ants & Spiders ii. 76 Four blotches of paler colour. b. figurative. = blot n.1 2. ΘΚΠ 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 1860 N. Hawthorne Transformation III. iv. 54 She had a faculty.. of ignoring all moral blotches. c. transferred. A rude clumsy daub. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > painting badly or carelessly > work daubery1546 daubing1713 daub1761 scrabble1842 blotch1860 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) iv. 71 The artist..attempting to produce a brilliant effect at a dash, will only produce a blotch. d. A shapeless object. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > lack of shape > [noun] > shapeless mass chaos1562 indigesta1616 quab1629 blotch1872 sludge1906 1872 R. Browning Fifine lxxix. 17 Catch the puniest..And, as you nip the blotch 'twixt thumb and fingernail, etc. 3. = blot n.1 (of ink). (North of England and Scotland.)Cf. blotching n., blotchy adj. ΚΠ 1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Blotch, a blot, in a copy~book, or on a clean piece of paper. Blotch paper, blotting paper. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blotchv. 1. transitive. To mark or cover with blotches. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > blotch blotch1604 splotch1654 botch1699 beblotch1803 1604 [implied in: M. Drayton Moyses ii. 46 To giue their bloch'd and blistered bodies ease. (at blotched adj.)]. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. v. 79 The tail is..irregularly barred and blotched with an obscure ash colour. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxii. 281 A great plain, blotched by dark, jagged shadows. 1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves vi. 75 Its walls were blotched with lichen. Categories » 2. = blot v. (Common in Scotland and north of England, as ‘He has blotched two pages of his book.’) Cf. blotching n., blotchy adj. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1669v.1604 |
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