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Blank door
(gcide) | 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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1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
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To the blank moon
Her office they prescribed. --Milton.
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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.
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3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
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Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton.
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4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space;
a blank day.
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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.
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6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.;
expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces."
--C. Kingsley.
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The blank . . . glance of a half returned
consciousness. --G. Eliot.
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7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
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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.
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Blank door
(gcide) | Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura,
dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor,
Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith.
durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr.
dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. Foreign.]
1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by
which to go in and out; an entrance way.
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To the same end, men several paths may tread,
As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham.
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2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually
turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house
or apartment is closed and opened.
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At last he came unto an iron door
That fast was locked. --Spenser.
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3. Passage; means of approach or access.
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I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall
be saved. --John x. 9.
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4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or
apartment to which it leads.
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Martin's office is now the second door in the
street. --Arbuthnot.
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Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank,
Blind, etc.
In doors, or Within doors, within the house.
Next door to, near to; bordering on.
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A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult.
--L'Estrange.
Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], {Out
doors}, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost.
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His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors.
--Locke.
To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge
one with a fault; to blame for.
To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to.
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If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door.
--Dryden.
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Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the
first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen),
as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or
doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door
handle, door mat, door panel.
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