Blank

blangk, adj. without writing or marks, as in white paper: empty, empty of results: vacant, confused: ( poetry ) not having rhyme.— n. a paper without writing: a lottery-ticket having no mark, and therefore valuele : an empty space, a void, or vacancy: ( archery ) the white mark in the centre of a target at which an arrow is aimed, hence the object or aim of anything: a form of document having blank spaces afterwards to be filled in.— v.t. to make pale: ( Milton ) to confuse.— n. Blank′-cart′ridge , a cartridge without a bullet.— p.adj. Blanked , a minced form of damned , from the usual form of printing d——d.— adv. Blank′ly .— ns. Blank′ne ; Blank′-verse , verse without rhyme, esp. the heroic verse of five feet. [Fr. blanc , from root of Ger. blinken , to glitter—Old High Ger. blichen , Gr. phlegein , to shine.]