King James Bible Dictionary

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

BLOT, verb transitive [Latin litura, [whence lituro, oblitero.] without the prefix.]

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

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

BLOT not thy innocence with guiltless blood.

5. To darken

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

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

1. An obliteration of something written or printed.

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

3. Censure; scorn; reproach.

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

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

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

BLOTCH, verb transitive To blacken.

BLOTE, verb transitive [The affinities of this word are not clearly ascertained.]

To dry and smoke; as, to blote herrings.

BLO'TED, participle passive Smoked and dried.

BLOT'TED, participle passive Stained; spotted; erased.

BLOT'TER, noun In counting houses, a waste book.

BLOT'TING, participle present tense Spotting with ink; obliterating; staining.