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Definition of Dotting
1. dot [v] - See also: dot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dotting
Literary usage of Dotting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brightness and Dullness in Children by Herbert Hollingworth Woodrow (1919)
"15 Besides the dotting test, devised especially to test the power of sustained
... Tape used in the dotting test (after Burt, British Journal of Psychology, ..."
2. Topographical Drawing and Sketching: Including Applications of Photography by Henry Albert Reed (1886)
"dotting, Border, and Road Pens.—These may be termed labor-saving instruments,
... The dotting-Pen (Figs. 4 and) has a set of interchangeable wheels, ..."
3. Practical Draughtsmen's Work: With Numerous Engravings and Diagrams by Paul Nooncree Hasluck (1906)
"dotting Pen. shown enlarged at Fig. 20, so that when the pen is held upright ...
dotting pens are used for the purpose of drawing lines composed of dots and ..."
4. Social life of the Chinese: With Some Account of Their Religious by Justus Doolittle (1866)
"The " dotting" of the Tablet.—Miscellaneous Practices and Opinions relating to
the Dead: Badges of Mourning worn by Widows and Widowers. ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1860)
"... also, on the copper plates, is engraved by machine (Becker's patent), and the
parks and sands are ruled by a machine with a steel dotting- ..."
6. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1858)
"He falls too often into the error of dotting what might otherwise be a desirable
and pleasing fragment of lawn, over the whole surface with an unmeaning ..."
7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1867)
"... also, on the copper plates, is engraved by machine (Becker's patent), and the
parks and sands are ruled by a machine with a steel dotting-wheel, ..."
8. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"... supplement it by dotting over the surface, of necessarily formal arrangements,
plants of noble or graceful aspect, such as Acacia, Dracaena, and Yucca. ..."
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