[化] 印迹

Blot \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.