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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.

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"Blot" Quotes from Famous Books

... father's menials had worn. I had been begging my bread from Robert Beaufort's lackey! I said nothing; the man went on his business on tiptoe, that the mud might not splash above the soles of his shoes. Then, thoughts so black that they seemed to blot out every star from the sky—thoughts I had often wrestled against, but to which I now gave myself up with a sort of mad joy—seized me: and I remembered you. I had still preserved the address you gave me; I went straight ...

— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... a climax. If, as he professed to believe, "the best poet is he who best executes his work," then he is hardly a poet at all. He is habitually rapid and slovenly; an improvisatore on the spot whore his fancy is kindled, writing currente calamo, and disdaining the "art to blot." "I can never recast anything. I am like the tiger; if I miss the first spring, I go grumbling back to my jungle." He said to Medwin, "Blank verse is the most difficult, because every line must be good." ...

— Byron • John Nichol

... horrible heads before bringing them down. "These are two celebrated ones. Famous clients of ours that got us a world of credit. This chap (why you must have come down in the night and been peeping into the inkstand, to get this blot upon your eyebrow, you old rascal!) murdered his master, and, considering that he wasn't brought up to evidence, ...

— Great Expectations • Charles Dickens

... of Agatha's name, he endeavored to resume his habitual calmness. He passed his hand over his eyes, as if to blot out the remembrance of the passion which yet burned within him, and gradually regained, in voice and manner, ...

— Sister Carmen • M. Corvus

... but the bitterness which during his brief visit home had been put to sleep, raised its head and robbed him of all pleasure in his anticipated change and of much of the incentive to put forth his best effort in it. He felt that the result of this ungracious letter must be to blot the new leaf which he had so ardently desired to turn with shadows of his past which no effort of ...

— The Dreamer - A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe • Mary Newton Stanard

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