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Blot   /blɑt/   Listen
noun
Blot  n.  
1.
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds."
2.
An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
3.
A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. "This deadly blot in thy digressing son."


Blot  n.  
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."
2.
A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.


verb
Blot  v. t.  (past & past part. blotted; pres. part. blotting)  
1.
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. "The brief was writ and blotted all with gore."
2.
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. "It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads."
3.
To stain with infamy; to disgrace. "Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood."
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."
5.
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. "He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane."
6.
To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Synonyms: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.


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





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Blot" Quotes from Famous Books



... to York Factory. Not that it is such an unpleasant place—for I spent two years very happily there—but simply (to give a poetical reason, and explain its character in one sentence) because it is a monstrous blot on a swampy spot, with a partial ...
— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne
... shadowy blot in the darkness, but the instant we reached the open street they saw us ...
— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis
... with the casual information that she was off to Canada. She was particularly sweet. She had the tact to make the interview short. The one blot on her conduct of the interview was that she congratulated him on the possible return of Mrs. Butt, of which she had ...
— Helen with the High Hand (2nd ed.) • Arnold Bennett
... choking fumes as no human hands could have done. Women frankly hysterical or swooning were roughly thrust aside. Children shrieking in uncomprehending panic were swept along with the crowd or trodden upon. Lumbering men ran and shouted and cursed and shook hairy fists at the long blot on the clouds. Some of the men leaped over iron palings like startled rabbits and flung themselves in the grass, face downward and quaking. And yet, I dare say that most of these would have walked straight into a familiar ...
— World's War Events, Vol. I • Various
... guide Monsieur through the passes of the Pyrenees to Oleron as surely as through these woods, and to defend him against the Devil, if need be, as well as your papers, which we will bring you back without blot or tear. As for recompense, I want none. I always find it in the action itself. Besides, I do not receive money, for I am a gentleman. The Laubardemonts are a very ancient and very ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet


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