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   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.
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   To the blank moon
   Her office they prescribed.
   Milton.
   
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   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.
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   Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank.
   Milton.
   
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   Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
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   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.
   
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   The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness.
   G. Eliot.
   
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   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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   Door , n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. thür, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. dör, Sw. dörr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ; cf. Skr. dur, dvāra. √246. Cf. Foreign.]
   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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   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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   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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   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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   ☞ 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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