blatch
verbEtymology From Middle English blacchen, from the noun above.
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Archaic To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal.
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blatch
nounEtymology From Middle English blacche (“black pigment or dye; black colour; black individual”), from Old English blæċċe (“black matter”).
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Obsolete Blacking, blackening.