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.
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.
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.
Blot, v. i. To take a blot; as, this
paper blots easily.
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.