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Webster 1913 Edition
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
. Often figuratively; blot
out a word or a sentenceas, to
. blot
out offensesOne 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
easilyBlot
,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.
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 darkenHe 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.
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
blöt
blöt
Swedish
Adjective
blöt
- wet (about an object: covered with or impregnated with liquid)
- (about weather) rainy
- (about a social gathering) including large amounts of alcohol
Declension
| Inflection of blöt | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite/attributive | Positive | Comparative | Superlative2 |
| Common singular | blöt | blötare | blötast |
| Neuter singular | blött | blötare | blötast |
| Plural | blöta | blötare | blötast |
| Definite | Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| Masculine singular1 | blöte | blötare | blötaste |
| All | blöta | blötare | blötaste |
| 1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role. | |||
Verb
blöt
- imperative of blöta.