blotching

Verb

blotch (third-person singular simple present blotches, present participle blotching, simple past and past participle blotched)

1. (transitive) To mark with blotches.
   • Upon the whole, the spirit and relief of the figures, with the strength of the colouring, render it a most noble picture; and it is not done in the coarse blotching stile, so common to the pieces which pass under the name of Bassan.1770, Arthur Young, A Six Months Tour through the North of England, London: W. Strahan, Volume 2, p. 258
2. (intransitive) To develop blotches, to become blotchy.
   • […] when a man is going to drive cattle out of the county he has to put a road-brand on them […] It is generally made of letters or figures, or something that won’t cross lines, because where they cross they are apt to blotch and then it’s hard to tell what the brand is and who the animal belongs...1878, Arthur Morecamp (pseudonym of Thomas Pilgrim), Live Boys; or, Charley and Nasho in Texas, Boston: Lee & Shepard, Chapter 17, p. 166

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