BLOT

Blot, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] Etym:

[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.