Sc. Obs. Also blowt. [Cf. Du. bloot naked, bare, ON. blaut-r soft, wet. The ON. accounts best for the form, but the Du. agrees in sense.] Naked, bare, desolate.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VII. Prol. 65. Woddis, forestis, wyth nakyt bewis blout, Stud strypyt of thair weyd in every hout. Ibid., XI. xvii. 8. The baneris left all blowt and desolait. Ibid., XIII. vi. 227. Planys … blowt of bestis; and of treis bayr.
