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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blot \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blot \Blot\, v. i. To take a blot; as this paper blots easily. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blot \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blot \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: blot n 1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: {smudge}, {spot}, {daub}, {smear}, {smirch}, {slur}] 2: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: {smear}, {smirch}, {spot}, {stain}] v 1: dry (ink) with blotting paper 2: make a spot or mark onto "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: {spot}, {stain}, {fleck}, {blob}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Blot a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).
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