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<p><b>4.</b> <def>To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with <i>out</i>; <as>as, to <ex>blot</ex> out a word or a sentence</as>. Often figuratively; <as>as, to <ex>blot</ex> out offenses</as>.</def>

<blockquote>One act like this <b>blots</b> out a thousand crimes. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.</def>

<blockquote>He sung how earth <b>blots</b> the moon's gilded wane. <i>Cowley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.</syn>

<h1>Blot</h1> <Xpage=157>

<hw>Blot</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To take a blot; <as>as, this paper <ex>blots</ex> easily</as>.</def>

<h1>Blot</h1> <Xpage=157>

<hw>Blot</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Icel. <ets>blettr</ets>, Dan. <ets>plet</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.</def> "Inky <i>blots</i> and rotten parchment bonds."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.</def>

<blockquote>This deadly <b>blot</b> in thy digressing son. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blot</h1> <Xpage=157>

<hw>Blot</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. Dan. <ets>blot</ets> bare, naked, Sw. <ets>blott</ets>, d. bloot, G. <ets>bloss</ets>, and perh. E. <ets>bloat</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Backgammon)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>An exposure of a single man to be taken up.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.</def>

<blockquote>He is too great a master of his art to make a <b>blot</b> which may be so easily hit. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.</def>

<h1>Blotch</h1> <Xpage=157>

<hw>Blotch</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OE. <ets>blacche</ets> in <ets>blacchepot</ets> blacking pot, akin to <ets>black</ets>, as <ets>bleach</ets> is akin to <ets>bleak</ets>. See <er>Black</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, or cf. <er>Blot</er> a spot.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also <i>Fig</i>.; <as>as, a moral <ex>blotch</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Spots and <b>blotches</b> . . . some red, others yellow. <i>Harvey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.</def>

<blockquote>Foul scurf and <b>blotches</b> him defile. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blotched</h1> <Xpage=157>

<hw>Blotched</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Marked or covered with blotches.</def>

<blockquote>To give their <b>blotched</b> and blistered bodies ease. <i>Drayton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blotchy</h1> <Xpage=157>