5 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blank \Blank\, n.
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
--Swift.
From this time there ensues a long blank in the
history of French legislation. --Hallam.
I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.
--G. Eliot.
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. --Dryden.
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.
--Palfrey.
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.
--Shak.
6. Aim shot; range. [Obs.]
I have stood . . . within the blank of his
displeasure For my free speech. --Shak.
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. (Mech.) 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.''
{In blank}, with an essential portion to be supplied by
another; as to make out a check in blank.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blank \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc blaunche fr F.
blanc, fem. blanche, fr OHG. blanch shining, bright, white,
G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf also AS blanc white. ?98.
See {Blink}, and cf 1st {Blanch}.]
1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.
--Milton.
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. --Milton.
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.'' --C. Kingsley.
The blank . . . glance of a half returned
consciousness. --G. Eliot.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as blank terror.
{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} (Arch.), 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} (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a
line on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
{Blank tire} (Mech.), 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Blank \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blanked}; p. pr & vb n.
{Blanking}.] [Cf. 3d {Blanch}.]
1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of to
dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
blank
adj 1: of a surface; not written or printed on "blank pages";
"fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide
white margins" [syn: {clean}, {white}]
2: void of expression; "a blank stare"
3: not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge"
n 1: a blank character used to separate successive words in
writing or printing; "he said the space is the most
important character in the alphabet" [syn: {space}]
2: a substitute for a taboo word "I hit the blank blank car"
3: a blank space or missing part [syn: {lacuna}]
4: a piece of material ready to be made into something
5: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
[syn: {dummy}, {blank shell}]
v : keep the opposing team from winning, in baseball
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
BLANK-:VERSE:, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters -- the most difficult
kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind therefore, much
affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind
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