Blank
Blank ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[Old English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from French blanc, fem. blanche, from Old High German blanch shining, bright, white, German blank; akin to English blink, compare also Anglo-Saxon blanc white. {not transcribed}98. See Blink, and compare 1st Blanch.]
1.
Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon
Her office they prescribed.
2.
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
3.
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam... astonied stood, and blank.
4.
Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
5.
Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
6.
Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
Blank and horror-stricken faces.
The blank... glance of a half returned consciousness.
7.
Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
Collocations (10)
Blank bar (Law) , a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; -- called also common bar.
Blank cartridge , a cartridge containing no ball.
Blank deed , See Deed.
Blank door or Blank window (Architecture) , a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.
Blank indorsement (Law) , an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on the back of the bill.
Blank line (Printing) , a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
Blank tire (Mechanics) , a tire without a flange.
Blank tooling , See Blind tooling, under Blind.
Blank verse , See under Verse.
Blank wall , a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.
Blank ({not transcribed}) , noun
1.
Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you.
From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.
2.
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
In Fortune's lottery lies
A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize.
3.
A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank.
4.
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
5.
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
Let me still remain
The true blank of thine eye.
6.
Aim; shot; range. [Obsolete]
I have stood... within the blank of his displeasure
For my free speech.
7.
A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. — Nares
8.
(Mechanics) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
9.
(Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the “double blank”; the “six blank.”
Collocations (1)
In blank , with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
Blank ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Compare 3d Blanch.]
1.
To make void; to annul. [Obsolete] — Spenser
2.
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obsolete]
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.