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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)