[f. prec. sb.]

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  1.  trans. To mark or cover with blotches.

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1604.  [see BLOTCHED].

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1774.  Goldsm., Hist. Earth, v. 79. The tail is … irregularly barred and blotched with an obscure ash colour.

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1853.  Kane, Grinnell Exp., xxxii. (1856), 281. A great plain, blotched by dark, jagged shadows.

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1865.  Baring-Gould, Were-wolves, vi. 75. Its walls were blotched with lichen.

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  2.  = BLOT v.1 (Common in Scotl. and north of Eng., as ‘He has blotched two pages of his book.’) Cf. BLOTCHING, BLOTCHY.

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