Helen Fenton

Blot: Definition and part of speech

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Blot

  1. n. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
  2. v. t. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
  3. v. t. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
  4. v. t. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
  5. v. t. 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.
  6. v. t. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
  7. v. t. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
  8. v. i. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
  9. n. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
  10. n. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
  11. 1n. 1 A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
  12. 1v. t. 1 To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blotch: Definition and part of speech

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Blotch

  1. a. A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.
  2. a. A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.