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- Blank - a. - Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
- Blank - a. - Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
- Blank - a. - Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
- Blank - a. - Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
- Blank - n. - Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
- Blank - n. - A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
- Blank - n. - A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
- Blank - n. - A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
- Blank - n. - The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
- Blank - n. - Aim; shot; range.
- Blank - n. - A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
- Blank - n. - A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
- Blank - n. - A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
- Blank - v. t. - To make void; to annul.
- Blank - v. t. - To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
- Blank - a. - Of a white or pale color; without color.
- Blank - a. - Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; -- said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
- Blank - a. - Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Blanked - imp. & p. p. - of Blank
- Blanket - a. - A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
- Blanket - a. - A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
- Blanket - a. - A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
- Blanket - v. t. - To cover with a blanket.
- Blanket - v. t. - To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
- Blanket - v. t. - To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
- Bearer - n. - A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.
- Rule - n. - To mark with lines made with a pen, pencil, etc., guided by a rule or ruler; to print or mark with lines by means of a rule or other contrivance effecting a similar result; as, to rule a sheet of paper of a blank book.
- Star - n. - Specifically, a radiated mark in writing or printing; an asterisk [thus, *]; -- used as a reference to a note, or to fill a blank where something is omitted, etc.
- Dummy - n. - An imitation or copy of something, to be used as a substitute; a model; a lay figure; as, a figure on which clothing is exhibited in shop windows; a blank paper copy used to show the size of the future book, etc.
- Blank - a. - Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
- Card - n. - A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
- Quadrat - n. - A block of type metal lower than the letters, -- used in spacing and in blank lines.
- Bite - v. - A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- Sheet - v. t. - A broad piece of paper, whether folded or unfolded, whether blank or written or printed upon; hence, a letter; a newspaper, etc.
- Poem - n. - A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
- Album - n. - A blank book, in which to insert autographs sketches, memorial writing of friends, photographs, etc.
- Column - n. - A perpendicular set of lines, not extending across the page, and separated from other matter by a rule or blank space; as, a column in a newspaper.
- Interleaf - n. - A leaf inserted between other leaves; a blank leaf inserted, as in a book.
- Field - n. - Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
- Blank - a. - Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
- Stationer - a. - One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
- Scrapbook - n. - A blank book in which extracts cut from books and papers may be pasted and kept.
- Blank - a. - Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
- Orb - n. - A blank window or panel.
- Carte blanche - - A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.
- Blank - n. - A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; -- especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
- Diary - n. - A register of daily events or transactions; a daily record; a journal; a blank book dated for the record of daily memoranda; as, a diary of the weather; a physician's diary.
- Stationery - n. - The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
- Domino - n. - A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played
- Blankly - adv. - In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.