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.
Palfrey.
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.
Shak.
6. Aim; shot; range. [Obs.]
I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure
For my free speech.
Shak.
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.
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.
Blank
(Blank), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanking.] [Cf. 3d Blanch.]
1. To make void; to annul. [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.]
Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.
Shak.
Blanket
(Blan"ket) n. [F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing
press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white.
See Blank, a.]
1. 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.
2. (Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares.
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
To cry, "Hold, hold!"
Shak.
Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size. — A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or
discourges.
Blanket
(Blan"ket), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.]
1. To cover with a blanket.
I'll . . . blanket my loins.
Shak.
