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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing;
- Example: "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet"
[syn: space, blank]

2. a blank gap or missing part;
[syn: lacuna, blank]

3. a piece of material ready to be made into something;

4. a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet;
[syn: blank, dummy, blank shell]


VERB (1)

1. keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning;


ADJECTIVE (3)

1. (of a surface) not written or printed on;
- Example: "blank pages"
- Example: "fill in the blank spaces"
- Example: "a clean page"
- Example: "wide white margins"
[syn: blank, clean, white]

2. void of expression;
- Example: "a blank stare"
[syn: blank, vacuous]

3. not charged with a bullet;
- Example: "a blank cartridge"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blank \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. [1913 Webster] 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. --Swift. [1913 Webster] From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. [1913 Webster] In Fortune's lottery lies A heap of blanks, like this, for one small prize. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The freemen signified their approbation by an inscribed vote, and their dissent by a blank. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. [1913 Webster] Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure For my free speech. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. --Nares. [1913 Webster] 8. (Mech.) A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. [1913 Webster] 9. (Dominoes) A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank." [1913 Webster] In blank, with an essential portion to be supplied by another; as, to make out a check in blank. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blank \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98. See Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch.] [1913 Webster] 1. Of a white or pale color; without color. [1913 Webster] To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. Utterly confounded or discomfited. [1913 Webster] Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton. [1913 Webster] 4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." --C. Kingsley. [1913 Webster] The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. --G. Eliot. [1913 Webster] 7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. [1913 Webster] 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 deed. See Deed. 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. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blank \Blank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.] [Cf. 3d Blanch.] 1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

blank adj 1: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white] 2: void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous] 3: not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge" n 1: a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space, blank] 2: a blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna, blank] 3: a piece of material ready to be made into something 4: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet [syn: blank, dummy, blank shell] v 1: keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

BLANK. A space left in writing to be filled, up with one or more words, in order to make sense. 1. In what cases the ambiguity occasioned by blanks not filled before execution of the writing may be explained 2. in what cases it cannot be explained. 2. - 1. When a blank is left in a written agreement which need not - have been reduced to writing, and would have been equally binding whether written or unwritten, it is presumed, in an action for the non-performance of the contract, parol evidence might be admitted to explain the blank. And where a written instrument, which was made professedly to record a fact, is produced as evidence of that fact which it purports to record, and a blank appears in a material part, the omission may be supplied by other proof. 1 Phil. Ev. 475 1 Wils. 215; 7 Verm. R. 522; 6 Verm. R. 411. Hence a blank left in an award for a name, was allowed to be supplied by parol proof. 2 Dall. 180. But where a creditor signs a deed of composition leaving the amount of his debt in blank, he binds himself to all existing debts. 1 B. & A. 101; S. C. 2 Stark. R. 195. 3. - 2. If a blank is left in a policy of insurance for the name of the place of destination of a ship, it will avoid the policy. Molloy, b. 2, c. 7, s. 14; Park, Ins. 22; Wesk. Ins. 42. A paper signed and sealed in blank, with verbal authority to. fill it up, which is afterwards done, is void, unless afterwards delivered or acknowledged and adopted. 1 Yerg. 69, 149; 1 Hill, 267 2 N. & M. 125; 2 Brock. 64; 2 Dev. 379 1 Ham. 368; 6 Gill & John. 250; but see contra, 17 S. & R. 438. Lines ought to be drawn wherever there are blanks, to prevent anything from being inserted afterwards. 2 Valin's Comm. 151. 4. When the filling up blanks after the execution of deeds and other writings will vitiate them or not, see 3 Vin. Abr. 268; Moore, 547; Cro. Eliz. 626; 1 Vent. 185; 2 Lev. 35; 2 Ch. R. 187; 1 Anst. 228; 5 Mass. 538; 4 Binn. 1; 9 Crancb, 28; Yelv. 96; 2 Show. 161; 1 Saund. Pl. & Ev. 77; 4 B. & A. 672; Com. Dig. Fait, F 1; 4 @Bing. 123; 2 Hill. Ab. c. 25, Sec. 80; n. 33, Sec. 54-and 72; 1 Ohio, R. 368; 4 Binn. R. 1; 6 Cowen, 118; Wright, 176.