'Blot' definitions:

Definition of 'blot'

noun

A blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur]

noun

An act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook" [syn: blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain]

verb

Dry (ink) with blotting paper

verb

Make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth" [syn: spot, fleck, blob, blot]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

Blot \Blot\, n. [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]
1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish. [1913 Webster]
This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Blot \Blot\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Blot \Blot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted; p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.] [1913 Webster]
1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink. [1913 Webster]
The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. --Gascoigne. [1913 Webster]
2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil. [1913 Webster]
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace. [1913 Webster]
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. --Rowe. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. [1913 Webster]
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper. [1913 Webster]
Syn: To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch. [1913 Webster]

Blot a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).