BLOT

To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne.

To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak.

To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.

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.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

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

A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.

An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. This deadly blot in thy digressing son. Shak.

An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

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.

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