Part 1173

<i>C. Kingsley.</i>

<blockquote>The <b>blank</b> . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Absolute; downright; unmixed; <as>as, <ex>blank</ex> terror</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Blank bar</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; -- called also <altname>common bar</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Blank cartridge</col>, <cd>a cartridge containing no ball.</cd> -- <col>Blank deed</col>. <cd>See <er>Deed</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Blank door</col>, &or; <col>Blank window</col></mcol> <fld>(Arch.)</fld>, <cd>a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed.</cd> -- <col>Blank indorsement</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on the back of the bill.</cd> -- <col>Blank line</col> <fld>(Print.)</fld>, <cd>a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.</cd> -- <col>Blank tire</col> <fld>(Mech.)</fld>, <cd>a tire without a flange.</cd> -- <col>Blank tooling</col>. <cd>See <cref>Blind tooling</cref>, under <er>Blind</er>.</cd> -- <col>Blank verse</col>. <cd>See under <er>Verse</er>.</cd> -- <col>Blank wall</col>, <cd>a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Blank</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.</def>

<blockquote>I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a <b>blank</b> of half an inch from you. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>From this time there ensues a long <b>blank</b> in the history of French legislation. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a <b>blank</b>. <i>G. Eliot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.</def>

<blockquote>In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of <b>blanks</b>, like this, for one small prize. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.</def>

<blockquote>The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a <b>blank</b>. <i>Palfrey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.</def>

<blockquote>Let me still remain The true <b>blank</b> of thine eye. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Aim; shot; range.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>I have stood . . . within the <b>blank</b> of his displeasure For my free speech. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.</def>

<i>Nares.</i>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Dominoes)</fld> <def>A piece or division of a piece, without spots; <as>as, the "double <ex>blank</ex>"; the "six <ex>blank</ex>."</as></def>

<cs><col>In blank</col>, <cd>with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check <i>in blank<i>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Blank</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blanked</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blanking</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. 3d <er>Blanch</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make void; to annul.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Each opposite that <b>blanks</b> the face of joy. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>