BLOT

Blot. Blot
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).

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blot. Blot, v.t. to blur, stain, efface, disgrace, darken

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Blot (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blotted (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Blotting.] [[Cf. Dan. plette. See 3d Blot.]] 1. 1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
The brief was writ and blotted all with gore. Gascoigne. 2. 2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads. Shak. 3. 3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe. 4. 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. 5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley. 6. 6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
Syn. — To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.