The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blank \Blank\, a. [OE. blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, fr. F. blanc, fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin to E. blink, cf. also AS. blanc white. ?98. See Blink, and cf. 1st Blanch.]
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Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon Her office they prescribed.
--Milton. 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.
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Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.
--Milton. 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.
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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.
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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.
Usage examples of "blank window".
This gloomy recognition came to him wrapped in the unhappiness that seemed to leak from every blank window and closed door on the street.
Across the center of its scratched, pitted face, a blank window had come alight, perhaps for the first time in centuries.
Shadow wondered about the other trains he'd seen, blank window-less metal cars that went on for mile after mile, hooting their lonely way through the night.
Shadow wondered about the other trains he’d seen, blank window-less metal cars that went on for mile after mile, hooting their lonely way through the night.
He saw something flash in Archie's eyes, like looking at a blank window and observing a ghost peeking out.
The series of incidents called up by the name of the flag and by the now comprehensible message had come back to him accurately and in great detail the moment Admiral Smyth gave his definition, yet now as he sat there staring at the blank window he went over the history again and again.