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adjective Blank adj. 1.Of a white or pale color; without color. "To the blank moon Her office they prescribed." 2.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. 3.Utterly confounded or discomfited. "Adam... astonied stood, and blank." 4.Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. 5.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. 6.Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." "The blank... glance of a half returned consciousness." 7.Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. Blank bar (Law), a plea put in to oblige the plaintiff in an action of trespass to assign the certain place where the trespass was committed; called also common bar. Blank cartridge, a cartridge containing no ball. Blank door, or Blank window (Arch.), a depression in a wall of the size of a door or window, either for symmetrical effect, or for the more convenient insertion of a door or window at a future time, should it be needed. Blank indorsement (Law), an indorsement which omits the name of the person in whose favor it is made; it is usually made by simply writing the name of the indorser on the back of the bill. Blank line (Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats. Blank tire (Mech.), a tire without a flange. Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. Blank verse. See under Verse. Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.
noun Blank n. 1.Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void. "I can not write a paper full, I used to do; and yet I will not forgive a blank of half an inch from you." "From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation." "I was ill. I can't tell how long it was a blank." 2.A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. "In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize." 3.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. "The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank." 4.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. 5.The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. "Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye." 6.Aim; shot; range. (Obs.) "I have stood... within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech." 7.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. 8.(Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. 9.(Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank.
verb Blank v. t. (past & past part. blanked; pres. part. blanking) 1.To make void; to annul. (Obs.) 2.To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. (Obs.) "Each opposite that blanks the face of joy."
Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48
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