Blot

v. t.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Blotted ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.]
	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.
v. i.	1.	To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
n.	1.	A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
	2.	An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
	3.	A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. This deadly blot in thy digressing son. - Shak.
	1.	(Backgammon) An exposure of a single man 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.

Noun	1.	blot - a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" Synonyms: smirch, smudge, daub, slur, smear, spot
	2.	blot - an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" Synonyms: smirch, smear, stain, spot
Verb	1.	blot - dry (ink) with blotting paper
	2.	blot - make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" Synonyms: blob, fleck, spot

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