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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

Blot

Blot

See also: blot, blót, and blöt

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • Blut (southern Moselle Franconian)

Noun

Blot n ‎(uncountable)

  1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) blood

Derived terms

blot

blot

See also: blod, Blot, blót, blöt, blöd, bløt, and blóð

English

Noun

blot ‎(plural blots)

  1. A blemish, spot or stain made by a coloured substance.
    • Shakespeare
      inky blots
  2. (by extension) A stain on someone's reputation or character; a disgrace.
    • Shakespeare
      This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
  3. (biochemistry) A method of transferring proteins, DNA or RNA, onto a carrier.
  4. (backgammon) an exposed piece in backgammon.

Translations

Verb

blot ‎(third-person singular simple present blots, present participle blotting, simple past and past participle blotted)

  1. (transitive) to cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance.
  2. (intransitive) to soak up or absorb liquid.
    This paper blots easily.
  3. (transitive) To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper.
  4. (transitive) To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
    • Gascoigne
      The briefe was writte and blotted all with gore.
  5. (transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
    • Shakespeare
      It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
  6. (transitive) To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
    • Rowe
      Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
  7. (transitive) To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; generally with out.
    to blot out a word or a sentence
    • Dryden
      One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
  8. (transitive) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
    • Cowley
      He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

Luxembourgish

Adjective

blot

  1. neuter nominative of blo
  2. neuter accusative of blo

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *blōtą.

Pronunciation

Noun

blōt n

  1. a sacrifice, especially a blood sacrifice by heathens.
    He ealle ða cuman to blote gedyde: he gave all the strangers as a sacrifice. (Alfred's Orosius)

Etymology

From Old High German (*)bluod, northern variant of bluot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bloːt/

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