Blur

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A moral stain or blot.

II. Blur ·noun That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.

III. Blur ·vt To Sully; to Stain; to blemish, as reputation.

IV. Blur ·vt To cause imperfection of vision in; to Dim; to Darken.

V. Blur ·noun A dim, confused appearance; indistinctness of vision; as, to see things with a blur; it was all blur.

VI. Blur ·vt To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to Smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink.