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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Blot

Blōt, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. BLOTTED; p. pr. & vb. n. BLOTTING.] [Icel. bletta, to spot, to stain; Dan. plette.]

Sense 1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

Sense 2. To stain with infamy; to tarnish; to disgrace; to disfigure. “Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.” Rowe. “It blots thy beauty.” Shak.

Sense 3. To obliterate so as to render invisible, as writing, or letters, with ink; to obscure; — generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence.

The sun blotted out from the heavens to be again rekindled. Prescott.

Sense 4. To cause to be unseen or forgotten; to efface; to erase; to destroy; — with out.

One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

Synonyms— To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace.

Blōt, n.

noun

n. 1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; blur. Distinction lost, and gay variety One universal blot. Thomson.

  1. An obliteration of something written or printed. Dryden.
  2. A spot in reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

This deadly blot in thy digressing son. Shak. 4. (Backgammon.) (a.) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. [Obs.] (b.) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up. Bohn. He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. Dryden.