BLOT
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Blot (&unr_;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]
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1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
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The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
Gascoigne.
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2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
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It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
Shak.
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3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
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Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
Rowe.
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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.
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One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
Dryden.
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5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
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He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
Cowley.
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6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
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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.
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2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.
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3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
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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.
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He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit.
Dryden.
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2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
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