blank the white in the centre of the butts (see
clout), also the mark or aim in gunnery:
“the blank And level of my brain,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, ii. 3. 5
(the mark and range or line of aim);
“ As level as the cannon to his blank,”
HAMLET, iv. 1. 42
;
“The true blank of thine eye,”
KING LEAR, i. 1. 158
;
“within the blank of his
displeasure,”
OTHELLO, iii. 4. 129.
（
“shot,”
JOHNSON)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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