meaning of blank
1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
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.
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.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
8. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
9. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
13. Aim; shot; range.
14. 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.
15. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
16. A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank. 17.">"
17. To make void; to annul.
18. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
19. a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
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