• | Of a white or pale color; without color. |
• | 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. |
• | Utterly confounded or discomfited. |
• | Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a
blank day. |
• | 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. |
• | Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless;
vacant. |
• | Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror. |
• | Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written
instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a
void. |
• | A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on
which no prize is indicated. |
• | 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. |
• | 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. |
• | The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot;
hence, the object to which anything is directed. |
• | Aim; shot; range. |
• | 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. |
• | A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a
further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts. |
• | A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the
"double blank"; the "six blank." |
• | To make void; to annul. |
• | To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to
dispirit or confuse. |