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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
blot n 1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, 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: blot, 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, fleck, blob, blot] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Blot \Blot\, v. i. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily. [1913 Webster] | ||
3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
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. [1913 Webster] 2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. [1913 Webster] This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak. [1913 Webster] | ||
4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Blot \Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.] [1913 Webster] 1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. [1913 Webster] The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster] 2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. [1913 Webster] It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. [1913 Webster] Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. [1913 Webster] He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley. [1913 Webster] 6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. [1913 Webster] Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch. [1913 Webster] | ||
5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
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. [1913 Webster] He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark. [1913 Webster] | ||
6. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary | ||
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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