[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of marking with blotches; discoloring.
1767. Specif. T. Long’s Patent, No. 869. A machine for the blotching, printing … colours on … calicoes, etc.
1872. Dana, Corals, ii. 137. A blotching of the rock with various shades of pink and purple.
b. concr. Botch, disfigurement, smudging.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IX. XX. i. 6. Read him with a Map: and divine for yourself what the real names are, out of the inhuman blotchings made of them.
