Blot

imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting

1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

   The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.

2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

   It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.

3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

   Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.

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.

5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

   He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

1. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

   This deadly blot in thy digressing son.

1. An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (Backgammon)

   He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit.

2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.