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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blot \Blot\, v. i. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] 2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. [1913 Webster] This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Blot \Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blotted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blotting}.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d {Blot}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. [1913 Webster] The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster] 2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. [1913 Webster] It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. [1913 Webster] Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. [1913 Webster] He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley. [1913 Webster] 6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. [1913 Webster] Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: 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. [1913 Webster] He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: blot n 1: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: {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" [syn: {blot}, {smear}, {smirch}, {spot}, {stain}] v 1: dry (ink) with blotting paper 2: make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: {spot}, {fleck}, {blob}, {blot}] From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: blot exclusively; just; only