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)