blatch

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English blacche (“black pigment or dye; black colour; black individual”), from Old English blæċċe (“black matter”). ==== Noun ==== blatch (uncountable) (obsolete) Blacking, blackening. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English blacchen, from the noun above. ==== Verb ==== blatch (third-person singular simple present blatches, present participle blatching, simple past and past participle blatched) (transitive, archaic) To blacken; to smear with blacking; to stain or mark with soot or coal. ===== Related terms ===== bletch