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English Dictionary: blot by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blot
n
  1. a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
    Synonym(s): 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"
    Synonym(s): blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
v
  1. dry (ink) with blotting paper
  2. make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
    Synonym(s): spot, fleck, blob, blot
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blot \Blot\, v. i.
      To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blot \Blot\, n. [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]
      1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. [bd]Inky
            blots and rotten parchment bonds.[b8] --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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Blot
      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).
     
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