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.
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Blot, v. i.
To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
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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.
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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.
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