blot
Speech parts
1. blot - Noun
2. blot - Verb
Meaning
To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
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.
To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.
I envy your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot or contamination must be an exquisite treasure - an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?
Cleaning a blot with blotted fingers maketh a greater.
A common blot is held no stain.