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Definitions for: Blot
[n] an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
[n] a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
[v] make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
[v] dry (ink) with blotting paper
Webster (1913) Definition: Blot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blotting.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]
1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
--Gascoigne.
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
--Shak.
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe.
4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface;
-- generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a
sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
--Dryden.
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
--Cowley.
6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish;
disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.
Blot, v. i.
To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
Blot, n. [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]
1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. ``Inky blots
and rotten parchment bonds.'' --Shak.
2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an
erasure. --Dryden.
3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a
blemish.
This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak.
Blot, n. [Cf. Dan. blot bare, naked, Sw. blott, d. bloot,
G. bloss, and perh. E. bloat.]
1. (Backgammon)
(a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
(b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
He is too great a master of his art to make a
blot which may be so easily hit. --Dryden.
2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
Synonyms: blob, daub, fleck, slur, smear, smear, smirch, smirch, smudge, spot, spot, spot, stain
See Also: absorb, bespatter, bespeckle, blemish, blotch, change surface, defect, defile, draw, error, fault, fingermark, fingerprint, imbibe, inkblot, maculate, mistake, soak up, sop up, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, splotch, suck, suck up, sully, take in, take up, tarnish
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