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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A piece or pad of blotting paper.
  • noun A book containing daily records of occurrences or transactions.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A piece of blotting-paper or other device for absorbing an excess of ink or other fluid, used especially in writing.
  • noun In com., a waste-book in which are recorded all transactions in the order of their occurrence.
  • noun The current record of arrests and charges in a police office: called in Great Britain a charge-sheet.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.
  • noun (Com.) A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun a piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture
  • noun a daily register of arrests and other events in a police station

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun absorbent paper used to dry ink
  • noun the daily written record of events (as arrests) in a police station

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Examples

  • Then, too, every time we make a landing on an island, part of our strength, like water, soaking into a blotter, is absorbed in the men and materials that must be left there.

    The Unfinished Task 1945

  • It was also where I was introduced to a variety of drugs, including paper acid, called blotter acid back then.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • It was also where I was introduced to a variety of drugs, including paper acid, called blotter acid back then.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • It was also where I was introduced to a variety of drugs, including paper acid, called blotter acid back then.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • It was also where I was introduced to a variety of drugs, including paper acid, called blotter acid back then.

    Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

  • But that takes sometimes a more sophisticated and -- pulling those stories together sometimes takes a bigger reporting effort than the blotter, which is an accurate way, but sometimes it's as it happens, we're putting it out and watching it develop.

    CNN Transcript May 21, 2006 2006

  • Almost obscured by the blotter was a tenth envelope, a tell-tale mauve in colour and edged in black.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Spread out on the blotter were a quantity of envelopes.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Almost obscured by the blotter was a tenth envelope, a tell-tale mauve in colour and edged in black.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

  • Spread out on the blotter were a quantity of envelopes.

    The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

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  • Sheets of paper which are soaked into an LSD solution, dried, and perforated into small squares of individual dosage units. The paper is then cut into small square pieces called "tabs" or "hits". The user can then absorb the LSD out of the paper using his/her tongue, or simply swallow it. Individual producers often print designs onto the paper serving to identify different makers, batches or strengths, and such "blotter art" often emphasizes psychedelic themes.

    _Wikipedia

    February 4, 2008