Blot (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Blotted (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Blotting.] [Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]
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.
Syn. — To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.