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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.

Definition 2024

blót

blót

See also: blot, Blot, and blöt

English

Noun

blót ‎(plural blóts)

  1. A Norse pagan ritual sacrifice, now performed by the followers of Asatru.
    • 2001, John Lindow, Handbook of Norse Mythology, ABC-CLIO, page 35
      These show us the importance of verbal activity at a blót, specifically verbal activity aimed at producing a result, presumably by means of intervention by the deities.
    • 2005, Galina Krasskova, Exploring the Northern Tradition: A Guide to the Gods, Lore, Rites, and Celebrations from the Norse, German, and Anglo-Saxon Traditions, Career Press, page 151
      In the past, before Christianity spread across Europe, the average blót would generally have involved some sort of animal sacrifice.
    • 2006, Anders Andrén, Kristina Jennbert, Catharina Raudvere, Old Norse Religion in Long-term Perspectives: Origins, Changes, and Interactions : an International Conference in Lund, Sweden, June 3-7, 2004, Nordic Academic Press, page 75
      He soon comes back to land, makes a largely undescribed blót sacrifice to Óðinn, and receives confirmation of his god's approval in the flight of two cawing ravens.
    • 2009, , The Ásatrú Edda: Sacred Lore of the North, The Norroena Society, page 5
      Do you know how to blót? / Do you know how to slaughter?

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blōtą ‎(“offering, sacrifice”). Cognate with Old English blōt and possibly the first part of Old High German bluozhūs ‎(“heathen temple”).
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlād- ‎(“to offer, sacrifice”).

Pronunciation

  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈbloːt/

Noun

blót n (genitive blóts, plural blót)

  1. (Heathenry, especially in the plural) idolatry
    • Kristni saga 11, in 1858, J. Sigurðsson, G. Vigfússon, Biskupa sögur, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 20:
      […] fyri norðan, þar voru áðr blót ok hörgar.
      […] to the north, where ere were idolatry and heathen temples.
  2. (Heathenry) sacrifice, sacrificial feast
    • Separate Saga of St. Olaf 96, in 1853, P. A. Munch, C. R. Unger, Saga Olafs konungs ens Helga. Copenhagen, page 104:
      En þat er siðr þeirra at hafa blot a havst oc fagna þa vetri, […]
      But it is a custom for them to have a feast at fall and celebrate the winter, […]
  3. (Heathenry) idol, amulet
    • Borgarthings-Christenret 24, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 383:
      Engi maðr ſkal hafa i huſi ſinu ſtaf eða ſtalla, vit eða blot, […]
      No man shall have in his house a staff or an altar, a charm or an idol, […]
  4. swearing, cursing
    • Sturlunga saga, chapter IV, 50, in 1817, Þ. E. Rangel, Sturlunga-Saga edr Íslendínga-Saga hin mikla, Volume I. Copenhagen, page 101:
      […] snéri hann til dura ok sá fimm menn úti, heyrdi hann þá blot, […]
      […] he turned to the doors and saw there five men, and then heard cursing, […]

Declension

Related terms

  • blóta ‎(“to worship”)
  • blœti ‎(“idol”)

Derived terms

References

  • blót in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
  • blót in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

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