blots
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blot
blots
plural of blot
• BOLTS, bolts
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Blot, v. i.
Definition: To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
Blot, n. Etym: [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, n. Etym: [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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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