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Definition: Blank indorsement
, n. [From Indorse
.] [Written also endorsement
1. The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other
2. That which is written on the back of a note, bill, or
other paper, as a name, an order for, or a receipt of,
payment, or the return of an officer, etc.; a writing,
usually upon the back, but sometimes on the face, of a
negotiable instrument, by which the property therein is
assigned and transferred. --Story. Byles. Burrill.
3. Sanction, support, or approval; as, the indorsement of a
rumor, an opinion, a course, conduct.
. See under 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.
, and cf. 1st Blanch
1. Of a white or pale color; without color.
To the blank moon
Her office they prescribed. --Milton.
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.
3. Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Adam . . . astonied stood, and blank. --Milton.
4. Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space;
a blank day.
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.
6. Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated
characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.;
expressionless; vacant. “Blank and horror-stricken
The blank . . . glance of a half returned
consciousness. --G. Eliot.
7. Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
(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
, a cartridge containing no ball.
. See Deed
, 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.
(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.
(Print.), a vacant space of the breadth of a
line, on a printed page; a line of quadrats.
(Mech.), a tire without a flange.
. See Blind tooling
, under Blind
. See under Verse
, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead