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▪ I. † blote, blot Obs.
[? Connected with blow in blow-fly, fly-blown. (The sense can hardly be explained from OE. blát ‘livid, pale’, to which the form answers.)]
The egg or larva of flies and other insects.
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 44 The Kings [i.e. queen-bees] do at certain seasons cast forth worms in multitudes as flies their flye blotes. Ibid. 48 As the blotes of the flyes are nourished by the flesh wherein they are blown. Ibid. ii. 314 If the Bees be few, [Moths] will breed their blots in their combes.
▪ II. blote
obs. form of bloat, blot. |