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Blot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A spot or stain on paper, usually applied to ink.

2. An obliteration of something written or printed.

3. A spot in reputation; a stain, a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

4. Censure; scorn; reproach.

5. He that rebuketh the wicked getteth a blot Proverbs 9:7 .

6. In backgammon, when a single man lies open to be taken up.

Blot [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. without the prefix.]

2. To spot with ink; to stain or bespatter with ink; as, to blot a paper.

3. To obliterate writing or letters with ink, so as to render the characters invisible, or not distinguishable; generally with out; as, to blot out a word or a sentence.

4. To efface; to erase; to cause to be unseen, or forgotten; to destroy; as, to blot out a crime, or the remembrance of any thing.

5. To stain with infamy; to tarnish; ; to disgrace; to disfigure.

6. BLOT not thy innocence with guiltless blood.

7. To darken

8. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.

9. In scripture, to blot one out of the book of life, is to reject him from the number of those who are to be saved. To blot out a name, a person or a nation, is to destroy the person or nation; to exterminate or consume. To blot out sins, is to forgive them. Sins are compared to debts, which are recorded in God's book of remembrance, and when paid, are crossed or cancelled.

Blot [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.

2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.

3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

4. An exposure of a single man to be taken up.

5. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

6. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.

Blot [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

Blot [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

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.

5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

Blotch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A pustule upon the skin; an eruption, usually of a large kind.

Blotch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To blacken.

Blotch [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

2. A large pustule, or a coarse eruption.

Blotched [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Marked or covered with blotches.

Blotchy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having blotches.

Blote [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To dry and smoke; as, to blote herrings.

Blote [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

Bloted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Smoked and dried.

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

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

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Blotless [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Without blot.

Blotted [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stained; spotted; erased.

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

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Blotter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In counting houses, a waste book.

Blotter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.

2. A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place.

Blottesque [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation.

Blotting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Spotting with ink; obliterating; staining.

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

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Blotting paper Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

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Genesis 6:7

And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”

Genesis 7:23

And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

Exodus 17:14

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Exodus 32:32

Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

Yet now, if You would only forgive their sin.... But if not, please blot me out of the book that You have written.”

Exodus 32:33

And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:

And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

Deuteronomy 9:14

Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.

Leave Me alone, so that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven. Then I will make you into a nation mightier and greater than they are.”

Deuteronomy 25:6

And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.

The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Deuteronomy 25:19

Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.

When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

Deuteronomy 29:20

The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.

The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven

Deuteronomy 32:26

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

2 Kings 14:27

And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

and since the LORD had said that He would not blot out the name of Israel from under heaven, He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

Nehemiah 4:5

And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

Nehemiah 13:14

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my deeds of loving devotion for the house of my God and for its services.

Job 31:7

If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

Psalms 51:1

Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Have mercy on me, O God, according to Your loving devotion; according to Your great compassion, blot out my transgressions.

Psalms 51:9

Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

Psalms 69:28

Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.

May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.

Psalms 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

May his descendants be cut off; may their name be blotted out from the next generation.

Psalms 109:14

Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.

May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.