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Blotting paper   /blˈɑtɪŋ pˈeɪpər/   Listen
Blotting paper

noun
1.
Absorbent paper used to dry ink.  Synonym: blotter.






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"Blotting paper" Quotes from Famous Books



... imitation coat of mail which looked very much like the real article at a distance, but would have been of about as much use to keep out sword-point or lance-head in the tourneys of the olden time, as so much cobweb or blotting paper. ...
— Shoulder-Straps - A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 • Henry Morford

... many men laid up, footsore. I should say that the boots supplied to the army are the very worst that soldiers were ever cursed with. They are heavy, they are nearly as hard as iron when the weather is dry, and are as rotten as blotting paper when it is wet. It is quite an accident if a man gets a pair to fit him properly. I believe it would be better if they were trained to march barefooted. Their feet would soon get hardened and, at any rate, ...
— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty

... flat, baking, quivering expanse of alkali the crawling splotch of black showed up as plainly as a blot of ink on a sheet of clean white blotting paper. Peering over the edge of the chassis they ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham

... hastily among the papers there and upset the ink stand. I jumped back, but not before I had received several large spots of ink on my trousers. He was profuse in his apologies for the accident, and tried to take out the spots with blotting paper. Then at last, when I insisted upon going, he looked out to see whether there was still a light on the stairs, and led me down to the door himself, standing there for some time looking ...
— The Case of the Registered Letter • Augusta Groner

... blotting paper, signifies you will be deceived into the betrayal of secrets which will seriously ...
— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... disappointment awaited the boys. As we know, the camp was deserted and no trace or clue of the whereabouts of its occupants was to be found. In the tent, however, lay a piece of blotting paper with ink-marks on it. It was the material with which Jack ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol • Howard Payson

... head, and traced lines with her pen on the blotting paper. "Oh, you can't have forgotten her! A young lady, riding on a grand white horse. All the people were admiring her. I wonder you cared to look at me, after that beautiful creature had gone by. Ah, she knows all sorts of things that I don't—she doesn't sound a note at a ...
— The Fallen Leaves • Wilkie Collins

... there is but one method, which has often been described. The Agaric, or other similar fungus, is cut perpendicularly from the pileus downwards through the stem. A second cut in the same direction removes a thin slice, which represents a section of the fungus; this may be laid on blotting paper, or plant-drying paper, and put under slight pressure to dry. From one-half of the fungus the pileus is removed, and with a sharp knife the gills and fleshy portion of the pileus are cut away. In the same manner the inner flesh of the half stem is also ...
— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

... meal any more than the cockroach did. It seemed as though he couldn't get enough paste. Pretty soon he put one hand to his head and looked crosseyed. He tried to climb down off the paste-dish, and fell over himself and turned a flip-flap on the blotting paper. Then he looked at us in a sort of mysterious way, winked one eye as much as to say: "You think you are smart, don't ...
— Peck's Sunshine - Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, - Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 • George W. Peck

... being effected slowly, the artist applied a second gauze on the first, then successively two thicknesses of grey blotting paper." ...
— Paris As It Was and As It Is • Francis W. Blagdon

... business in all its branches, not only supplying ladies with bandboxes, trunks, pasteboard stays and stomachers, but he also papered rooms in the neatest fashion. Books and stationery were imported by Joshua Merryman, who also advertised blotting paper, quills, ink powder, inkpots, sealing wax and wafers—in fact, all the ...
— Seaport in Virginia - George Washington's Alexandria • Gay Montague Moore



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