• 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.