1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 393. [The Paper] would not hold inke … and was euermore in danger of blurring and blotting.
a. 1638. Mede, Wks., IV. xxix. 784. Everlasting mending, blurring, and pausing at every sentence to alter it.
1864. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., III. 440. The blurring of the lime, on the greensward.
