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Blank [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Void; empty; consequently white; as a blank paper.

2. White or pale; as the blank moon.

3. Pale from fear or terror; hence confused; confounded; dispirited; dejected.

4. Adam--astonished stood, and blank

5. Without rhyme; as blank verse, verse in which rhyme is wanting.

6. Pure; entire; complete.

7. Not containing balls or bullets; as blank cartridges.

8. This word is applied to various other objects, usually in the sense of destitution, emptiness; as a blank line; a blank space, in a book.etc.

Blank [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument.

2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery which draws no prize.

3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters.

4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ or execution, with vacant spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions. etc.

5. The point to which an arrow is directed, marked with white paper. [Little used.]

6. Aim; shot.

7. Object to which any thing is directed.

8. A small copper coin formerly current in France, at the rate of 5 deniers Tournois. There were also pieces of three blanks, and of six; but they are now become moneys of account.

9. BLANK -bar, in law, a common bar, or a plea in bar, which, in an action of trespass, is put in to oblige the plaintiff to assign the place where the trespass was committed.

10. Point-blank, in gunnery, the shot of a gun leveled horizontally. The distance between the piece, and the point where the shot first touches the ground, is called the point-blank range; the shot proceeding on a straight line, without curving.

Blank [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make void; to annul.

2. To deprive of color, the index of health and spirits; to damp the spirits; to dispirit or confuse; as, to blank the face of joy.

Blank [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of a white or pale color; without color.

2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.

3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.

4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

5. Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.

6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.

7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

Blank [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.

4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.

5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

6. Aim; shot; range.

7. A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.

8. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

9. A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."

Blank [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make void; to annul.

2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

Blanked [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Confused; dispirited.

Blanked [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Blanket [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A cover for a bed, made of coarse wool loosely woven, and used for securing against cold. Blankets are used also by soldiers, and seamen, for covering.

2. A kind of pear, sometimes written after the French, blanquet.

3. Among printers, woolen cloth or white baize, to lay between the tympans.

Blanket [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment; an ancient custom. The Emperor Otho used to sally forth in dark nights, and if he found a drunken man, he administered the discipline of the blanket

2. To cover with a blanket

Blanket [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

2. A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.

Blanket [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cover with a blanket.

2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

3. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

Blanketed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Blanketing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The punishment of tossing in a blanket.

2. Cloth for blankets.

Blanketing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Tossing in a blanket.

Blanketing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Cloth for blankets.

2. The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.

Blanketing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Blankly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a blank manner; with paleness or confusion.

Blankly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.

2. Directly; flatly; point blank.

Blankness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state of being blank.