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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLOT, v.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, n. 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. Proverbs 9.
4. In backgammon, when a single man lies open to be taken up.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]
2: an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain] v
1: dry (ink) with blotting paper
2: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. a soiling or disfiguring mark ; spot 2. a mark of reproach ; moral flaw 3. a usually nitrocellulose or nylon sheet that contains spots of immobilized macromolecules (as of DNA, RNA, or protein) or their fragments and is used to identify specific components of the spots by applying a molecular probe (as a complementary nucleic acid or a radio labeled antibody) — compare Southern blot, Western blot II. verb (blotted; blotting) Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to spot, stain, or spatter with a discoloring substance 2. obsolete mar; especially to stain with infamy 3. a. to dry (as writing) with an absorbing agent b. to remove with absorbing material <blotting up spilled water> intransitive verb 1. to make a blot 2. to become marked with a blot III. noun Etymology: perhaps from Dutch bloot naked, exposed, from Middle Dutch; akin to Middle High German bloz bare Date: 1595 1. a lone backgammon man exposed to capture 2. archaic a weak or exposed point

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a spot or stain of ink etc. 2 a moral defect in an otherwise good character; a disgraceful act or quality. 3 any disfigurement or blemish. --v. (blotted, blotting) 1 a tr. spot or stain with ink; smudge. b intr. (of a pen, ink, etc.) make blots. 2 tr. a use blotting-paper or other absorbent material to absorb excess ink. b (of blotting-paper etc.) soak up (esp. ink). 3 tr. disgrace (blotted his reputation). Phrases and idioms: blot one's copybook damage one's reputation. blot on the escutcheon a disgrace to the family name. blot out 1 a obliterate (writing). b obscure (a view, sound, etc.). 2 obliterate (from the memory) as too painful. 3 destroy. blotting-paper unglazed absorbent paper used for soaking up excess ink. Etymology: ME prob. f. Scand.: cf. Icel. blettr spot, stain

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blot Blot, v. 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. --Shak. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blot Blot, n. [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. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blot Blot, n. [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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blots, blotting, blotted) 1. If something is a blot on a person's or thing's reputation, it spoils their reputation. ...a blot on the reputation of the architectural profession... This drugs scandal is another blot on the Olympics. N-COUNT: N on n 2. A blot is a drop of liquid that has fallen on to a surface and has dried. ...an ink blot. N-COUNT 3. If you blot a surface, you remove liquid from it by pressing a piece of soft paper or cloth onto it. Before applying make-up, blot the face with a tissue to remove any excess oils.. VERB: V n, also V n adj 4. If you describe something such as a building as a blot on the landscape, you mean that you think it is very ugly and spoils an otherwise attractive place. The developers insist the £80m village will not leave a blot on the landscape. PHRASE: blot inflects

Easton's Bible Dictionary

a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

blot (mum, contracted from me'um, "spot"): Occurs in the sense of scorn (Pr 9:7). In Job 31:7 (the King James Version) it is used figuratively of a moral defect; the Revised Version (British and American) has "spot." Blot out (machah, "to wipe out," exaleipho, "to smear out"), to obliterate or destroy: "That a tribe be not blotted out" (the King James Version "destroyed," Jud 21:17). To blot men out of God's book is to cut them off by an untimely death (Ex 32:32).

Figuratively: "To blot out sin" is to forgive sin fully (Ps 51:1,9; Ac 3:19; Col 2:14). Not to blot out sin is to reserve for punishment (Ne 4:5). The names of those who inherit eternal life are not blotted out of the "book of life" (Re 3:5).

See BOOK OF LIFE; BOOK OF REMEMBRANCE; FORGIVENESS.

L. Kaiser

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch out, strike out. 2. Spot, stain, blur, disfigure, deface, sully. 3. Tarnish, sully, disgrace, dishonor, blur, spot, stain. II. n. 1. Obliteration, erasure, blotting, blur. 2. Blur, spot, stain, blemish. 3. Disgrace, cause of reproach, blur, spot, stain, dishonor.

Moby Thesaurus

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