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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



... transmission, worked but mildly. Shakspere violated the unities; his plays were neither right comedies nor right tragedies; he had small Latin and less Greek; he wanted art and sometimes sense, committing anachronisms and Bohemian shipwrecks; wrote hastily, did not blot enough, and failed of the grand style. He was "untaught, unpractised in a barbarous age"; a wild, irregular child of nature, ignorant of the rules, unacquainted with ancient models, succeeding—when he did succeed—by happy accident and the sheer force of genius; ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... who shall dare To struggle in the solid ranks of truth; To clutch the monster error by the throat; To bear opinion to a loftier seat; To blot the era of oppression out, And lead a ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard
... Another glorious cloudless day is dawning in yellow and purple and soon the sun over the eastern peak will blot out the blue peak shadows and make all the vast white ice prairie sparkle. I slept well last night in the middle of the icy sea. The wind was cold but my sleeping-bag enabled me to lie neither warm nor intolerably cold. My three-months cough is gone. Strange ...
— Travels in Alaska • John Muir
... male. It was wild to see him rush up and down in the back yard, barking and bouncing at the wall, when there was some dog out beyond, but when the very littlest one there was got inside of the fence and only looked at Peter, Peter would retire to his Anna and blot ...
— Three Lives - Stories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena • Gertrude Stein
... Switzerland, that I received a long, overflowing letter, full of flamboyant oddities, written from London. Two or three hours later came a telegram. "Burn letter. Blot it from ...
— Marse Henry, Complete - An Autobiography • Henry Watterson


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