BLOSSOMLESS
Blos"som*less, a.
Defn: Without blossoms.
BLOSSOMY
Blos"som*y, a.
Defn: Full of blossoms; flowery.
BLOT
Blot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] Etym:
[Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]
1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak.
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.
4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; — generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.