Blot
Blot ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Compare Danish plette. See 3d Blot.]
1.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
2.
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
3.
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
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.
5.
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
6.
To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Blot , intransitive verb
To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
Blot , noun
[Compare Icelandic blettr, Danish plet.]
1.
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds.
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.
Blot , noun
[Compare Danish blot bare, naked, Swedish blott, d. bloot, German bloss, and perh. English bloat.]
1.
(a) (Backgammon) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
(b)
(Backgammon) 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.
2.
A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.