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Webster 1913 Edition

Blot

Blot

,
Verb.
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.
Shakespeare
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.

Blot

,
Verb.
I.
To take a blot;
as, this paper
blots
easily
.

Blot

,
Noun.
[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.
Shakespeare

Blot

,
Noun.
[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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Blot

BLOT

,
Verb.
T.
[L. litura,[whence lituro, oblitero.] without the prefix.]
1.
To spot with ink; to stain or bespatter with ink; as, to blot a paper.
2.
To obliterate writing or letters with ink, so as to render the characters invisible, or not distinguishable; generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence.
3.
To efface; to erase; to cause to be unseen, or forgotten; to destroy; as, to blot out a crime, or the remembrance of any thing.
4.
To stain with infamy; to tarnish;; to disgrace; to disfigure.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
5.
To darken
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
6.
In scripture, to blot one out of the book of life, is to reject him from the number of those who are to be saved. To blot out a name, a person or a nation, is to destroy the person or nation; to exterminate or consume. To blot out sins, is to forgive them. Sins are compared to debts, which are recorded in God's book of remembrance,and when paid, are crossed or cancelled.

BLOT

,
Noun.
A spot or stain on paper,usually applied to ink.
1.
An obliteration of something written or printed.
2.
A spot in reputation; a stain, a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
3.
Censure;scorn; reproach.
He that rebuketh the wicked getteth a blot. Prov.9.
4.
In backgammon, when a single man lies open to be taken up.

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