Blank

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Aim; shot; range.

II. Blank ·adj Utterly confounded or discomfited.

III. Blank ·adj Of a white or pale color; without color.

IV. Blank ·adj Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.

V. Blank ·vt To make void; to Annul.

VI. Blank ·adj Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.

VII. Blank ·noun A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.

VIII. Blank ·noun A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank.".

IX. Blank ·vt To Blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.

X. Blank ·noun A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

XI. Blank ·noun The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.

XII. Blank ·adj Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, ·etc.; expressionless; vacant.

XIII. Blank ·noun Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.

XIV. Blank ·noun 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.

XV. Blank ·noun 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.

XVI. Blank ·adj 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.

XVII. Blank ·noun 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.

XVIII. Blank ·adj 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.

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