[f. prec.] trans. To cover with splotches; to splash or stain in patches.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. ii. 71. The bumps in his flesh, which was like a bruised Pig (but not so white), splotch’d all over.
1863. Trevelyan, Compet. Wallah (1866), 219. He splotches his turban with pink paint.
1880. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, IV. iii. 176. In places black moss splotched the otherwise bald stones.
