BLANK, a.

1. Void; empty; consequently white; as, a blank paper.
2. White or pale; as, the blank moon. – Milton.
3. Pale from fear or terror; hence, confused; confounded; dispirited; dejected. Adam … astonished stood, and blank. – Milton.
4. Without rhyme; as, blank verse, verse in which rhyme is wanting.
5. Pure; entire; complete. – Beddoes.
6. Not containing balls or bullets; as, blank cartridges. This word is applied to various other objects, usually in the sense of destitution, emptiness; as, a blank line; a blank space, in a book, &c.

1. Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument.
2. A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery which draws no prize.
3. A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters.
4. A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ or execution, with vacant spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, &c.
5. The point to which an arrow is directed, marked with white paper. [Little used.] – Shak.
6. Aim; shot. [Obs.] Shak.
7. Object to which any thing is directed. – Shak.
8. A small copper coin formerly current in France, at the rate of 5 deniers Tournois. There were also pieces of three blanks, and of six; but they are now become moneys of account. – Encyc.
9. In coinage, a plate or piece of gold or silver, cut and shaped, but not stamped. – Encyc. Blank-bar, in law, a common bar, or a plea in bar, which, in an action of trespass, is put in to oblige the plaintif to assign the place where the trespass was committed. – Encyc. Point-blank, in gunnery, the shot of a gun leveled horizontally. The distance between the piece, and the point where the shot first touches the ground, is called the point-blank range; the shot proceeding on a straight line, without curving. – Encyc.

1. To make void; to annul. – Spenser.
2. To deprive of color, the index of health and spirits; to damp the spirits; to dispirit or confuse; as, to blank the face of joy. – Shak. Tillotson.

1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
   
   

   To the blank moon
   Her office they prescribed.
   Milton.

2. 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.
   Swift.

   From this time there ensues a long blank in the history of French legislation.
   Hallam.

   I was ill. I can't tell how long -- it was a blank.
   G. Eliot.

3. To make void] to annul.
   
   
   [Obs.] Spenser.
4. 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.
5. 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.
   Dryden.

6. To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   Each opposite that blanks the face of joy.
   Shak.

7. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
   
   

   Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.
   Milton.

8. 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.

9. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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.

13. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
    
    
    "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley.

    The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness.
    G. Eliot.

14. Aim; shot; range.
    
    
    [Obs.]

    I have stood . . . within the blank of his displeasure
    For my free speech.
    Shak.

15. 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 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.

16. 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.
17. A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
18. 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.