To leave (a card) so that it must be played when the suit is led.
noun.
An opening in a forest where from any cause very few or no trees are growing.
. To make blank; make white or pale; blanch.
. To confuse; put out of countenance; disconcert; nonplus.
. To frustrate; make void; bring to naught.
A common euphemistic substitute for damn, referring to the blank or dash which is commonly substituted in printing for that word when it is used as a profane expression.
White or pale: as, “the blanc moon,”
Pale from fear or terror; hence, dispirited; dejected; confounded; confused.
Empty or unoccupied; void; bare.
Specifically— Free from written or printed characters; not written upon: as, a blank book; blank paper; blank spaces.
Not filled up: applied to legal, banking, commercial, or other forms: as, a blank check or order; a blank ballot; a blank bond.
Of uniform surface; unrelieved or unbroken by ornament or opening: as, a blank wall.
Empty of results, of interest, etc.: as, a blank outlook for the future.
Without contents; especially, wanting some part necessary to completeness: as, blank cartridges, that is, cartridges containing powder but no ball.
Vacant in expression; exhibiting perplexity, real or feigned; nonplussed; disconcerted.
Complete; utter; unmitigated: as, “blank stupidity,”
Unrimed: applied to verse, particularly to the heroic verse of five feet without rime, such as that commonly adopted in English dramatic and epic poetry.
noun.
Any void space or vacant surface; a space from which something is absent or omitted; a void; a vacancy: as, a blank in one's memory; to leave blanks in writing.
noun.
A piece of paper prepared for some special use, but without writing or printed matter on it.
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A form or document containing blank spaces; a document remaining incomplete till something essential is filled in.
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In parliamentary usage, provisional words printed in italics in a bill, the final form of which is to be settled in committee.