Blot

1. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
2. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.
3. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure.
4. An exposure of a single man to be taken up.
5. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur.
6. A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.
7. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.
8. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.
9. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.
10. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.
11. To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.
12. 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.
13. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.