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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blot \Blot\, verb (used without an object) To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blot \Blot\, noun [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blot \Blot\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blot \Blot\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blot
noun
1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: {smudge}, {spot}, {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: {smear}, {smirch}, {spot}, {stain}]
verb
1: dry (ink) with blotting paper
2: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: {spot}, {fleck}, {blob}] [also: {blotting}, {blotted}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
229 Moby Thesaurus words for "blot": absorb, adsorb, air-dry, anhydrate, annihilate, aspersion, assimilate, attaint, baboon, badge of infamy, bag, bake, bar sinister, baton, bedarken, bend sinister, besmirch, bespatter, bespeckle, bespot, bestain, black, black eye, black mark, blacken, blackwash, blemish, bloodstain, blot out, blot up, blotch, blotting, blotting out, blow upon, blur, brand, broad arrow, brush, burn, cancel, cancellation, censure, champain, charcoal, chemisorb, chemosorb, conceal, cork, cover up, cross out, cure, dab, darken, daub, deface, defame, defect, defile, dehumidify, dehydrate, dele, delete, deletion, demolish, denigrate, desiccate, destroy, digest, dim, dinge, disapprove, discolor, disfigure, disfigurement, disparage, disparagement, dog, drain, drink, drink in, drink up, dry, dysphemize, ebonize, eclipse, efface, effacement, engross, erase, erasure, err, evaporate, expose, expose to infamy, expunction, expunge, exsiccate, eyesore, filter in, fire, flaw, fleck, flick, flyspeck, freckle, fright, gargoyle, gibbet, hag, hang in effigy, harridan, hide, imbibe, imputation, infiltrate, ink, insolate, kiln, look a fright, look a mess, look bad, look like hell, look something terrible, macula, maculate, maculation, macule, mar, mark, mark of Cain, melanize, mess, monster, monstrosity, mummify, murk, nigrify, no beauty, obliterate, obliteration, obscure, odium, offend, offend the eye, onus, osmose, oversmoke, parch, patch, percolate in, pillory, pillorying, point champain, raze, reflection, reprimand, reproach, rub, rub out, rule out, scar, scarecrow, scorch, scratch, scratch out, scrubbing, sear, seep in, shade, shadow, shrivel, sight, sin, slur, slurp up, smear, smirch, smoke, smouch, smudge, smut, smutch, soak in, soak up, soil, soilage, soilure, soot, sorb, spatter, speck, speckle, splash, splatter, splotch, spoil, sponge, sponge out, spot, stain, stigma, stigmatism, stigmatization, stigmatize, strike out, sully, sun, sun-dry, swab, swill up, taint, take in, take up, tarnish, teratism, torrefy, towel, transgress, uglify, ugly duckling, vilify, washing out, weazen, wipe, wipe out, wiping out, witch, wither, wizen
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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