'Blank tooling' definitions:

Definition of 'Blank tooling'

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  • Blank \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98. See Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch.] [1913 Webster]
  • 1. Of a white or pale color; without color. [1913 Webster]
  • To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Utterly confounded or discomfited. [1913 Webster]
  • Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster]
  • The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. [1913 Webster]
  • Blank bar (Law), 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 common bar.
  • Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball.
  • Blank deed. See Deed.
  • Blank door, or Blank window (Arch.), 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.
  • Blank indorsement (Law), 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.
  • Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
  • Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange.
  • Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind.
  • Blank verse. See under Verse.
  • Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'blank tooling'

From: GCIDE
  • Blind \Blind\, a. [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]
  • 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. [1913 Webster]
  • He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. [1913 Webster]
  • But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. [1913 Webster]
  • This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. --Jay. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. [1913 Webster]
  • The blind mazes of this tangled wood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. [1913 Webster]
  • Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.
  • Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. --Knight.
  • Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.
  • Blind cat (Zool.), a species of catfish ({Gronias nigrolabris}), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
  • Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. --Simmonds.
  • Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or Blank window, under Blank, a.
  • Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. --Knight.
  • Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.
  • Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.
  • Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. --Swift.
  • Blind snake (Zool.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopid[ae], with rudimentary eyes.
  • Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.
  • Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.
  • Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall. [1913 Webster]