Undotted

1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XVIII, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] nothing save the limitless expanse of ocean undotted by a solitary sail stretched out before me.

Luxenberg then returns to the undotted form (rasm) of the word to determine whether another reading (dotting) of it produces an Arabic or Aramaic word or root that makes more sense.