blotting paper

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

• noun Absorbent paper used to blot a surface by soaking up excess ink.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb an excess of ink from freshly written paper without blurring.

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

• A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from a freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

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

• noun Absorbent paper used to dry ink.

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

• noun absorbent paper used to dry ink