1. [n]  an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
2. [n]  a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek"
3. [v]  make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth"
4. [v]  dry (ink) with blotting paper

1. \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.
   
   

2. \Blot\, v. i.
   To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
   
   

3. \Blot\, n. [Cf. Icel. blettr, Dan. plet.]
   1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. ``Inky blots
      and rotten parchment bonds.'' --Shak.
   
   2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an
      erasure. --Dryden.
   
   3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a
      blemish.
   
            This deadly blot in thy digressing son. --Shak.
   
   

4. \Blot\, n. [Cf. Dan. blot bare, naked, Sw. blott, d. bloot,
   G. bloss, and perh. E. bloat.]
   1. (Backgammon)
      (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
      (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
   
                He is too great a master of his art to make a
                blot which may be so easily hit.  --Dryden.
   
   2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
   
   

a stain or reproach (Job 31:7; Prov. 9:7). To blot out sin is to forgive it (Ps. 51:1, 9; Isa. 44:22; Acts 3:19). Christ's blotting out the handwriting of ordinances was his fulfilling the law in our behalf (Col. 2:14).