Blotting
['blɔtiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blot
Editor: Lorna
Examples
- He tore off a strip of the blotting-paper and turned towards us the following hieroglyphic: GRAPHIC Cyril Overton was much excited. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Allow the paper to remain half a minute, and then dip it into water, and again dry it lightly with blotting paper. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- After being placed for an instant between blotting paper, to remove superfluous moisture, it is laid with the drawing downwards on the stone, which is slightly warmed. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Behind, was a high shadow of a peak, blotting out the stars, like a ghoSt. They drew near to their home. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then dip it into a vessel of water; remove the water on the surface by blotting paper, and dry it by a fire, in the dark or by candle-light. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- This flows too easily, and even using the greatest care I can hardly keep from blotting it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You must find your own ink, pens, and blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that blotting-paper has been used. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Dinner over, we produced a bundle of pens, a copious supply of ink, and a goodly show of writing and blotting paper. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And Miss Annie paints a little---- Oh, I know--apple-blossoms on blotting-paper; just the kind of thing I shall be doing myself before long! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- It was first damped, passed through blotting rolls, and then to the printing cylinders. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Use by sprinkling, or moistening blotting paper with the solution. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Let remain a moment and blot off with clean blotting-paper. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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