单词 | blotter |
释义 | blottern. 1. One who, or that which, blots. Thesaurus » Categories » a. A scribbler, a sorry writer. Thesaurus » b. One who stains or defiles. c. blotter out: a quencher, extinguisher, annihilator. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation > one who annihilates extinguisher1562 expungerc1611 exterminator1611 annihilator1666 decreator1678 blotter out1827 exterminatrix1880 exterminatress1891 liquidator1949 zapper1969 1600 W. Cornwallis Ess. I. xv. sig. I8v These blotters of paper. a1631 S. Harsnett Serm. Ezek. in R. Steward Three Serm. (1656) 131 Thou tookest the blotting of Thine image in Paradise as a blemish to Thyself; and Thou saidst to the blotter, Because thou hast done it, on thy belly shalt thou creep. 1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander lxxxiv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 97 Blank Oblivion—blotter out of light. d. A ‘brand-blotter’. U.S. ΚΠ 1920 C. E. Mulford Johnny Nelson xii. r26 There ain't no sense in totin' it by th' glass to a crowd of blotters. They'll hold more liquor than a gopher hole. 2. A thing used for drying wet ink-marks, as a piece of blotting-paper or a blotting-pad. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > materials for blotting blotting-paper1519 pin-dust1561 blotter1591 blotting-book1598 writing dust1646 writing sand1656 sucking-papera1665 pounce1704 sand1753 blotting-pad1857 blotting1872 roller1875 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Borrador A blotter, a blotting paper. 1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 78 Paper—soft and soppy by the loss of glazing—acts as a blotter. 1884 Boston Lit. World 19 Apr. 132/2 His pen spluttered..and he used no blotter. 3. ‘A term applied in counting-houses to a waste-book’ (Craig 1847); also to a rough copy of a letter. ΚΠ 1769 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 12 284 In looking over the blotter I found your agreet with Rumsey to sell Deerhill for £50 Pena currency. 1770 Carroll Papers in Maryland Hist. Mag. 13 61 Pray let me know the sum you charge in yr Blotter as paid you by me when I went downe. 4. A record of arrests and charges in a police office; a charge-sheet; also gen. a record-book or list. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police records police blotter1861 charge-sheet1866 murder book1876 blotter1887 charge-book1890 crime sheet1902 mug book1902 occurrence book1929 rap sheet1949 sheet1958 murder file1967 murder log1972 society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] Domesday Book1178 registera1325 bookc1405 red book?1445 registery1483 register book1515 regesture1526 registrya1529 enroll1533 ledger1550 ledger-book1553 registry book1562 by-book1593 regest1670 registrary1696 hall-book1746 blotter1887 1887 Harper's Mag. Mar. 500/2 Every item of police duty, and of civil or criminal occurrence, is inscribed on the ‘blotter’. 1901 Munsey's Mag. 24 540/2 It is a month of uncommon virtue when the blotter shows as few as a hundred arrests. 1906 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 264 It was necessary..to examine the day-book or blotter in the chief clerk's office [at the Patent Office]. 1910 Washington Times 14 Dec. 1 Three more additions were made yesterday to the hospital blotters. 1926 J. Black You can't Win xix. 299 I never put his name, which is my name, on a police blotter or a prison register while he was alive. 1965 ‘R. L. Pike’ (title) Police blotter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591 |
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