A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence. • A nonplus. • The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim. • A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated. • An empty space; a void, for example on a paper. • A space to be filled in on a form or template. • Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form is to be settled in committee. • A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled in at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form. • An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all. • An unprinted leaf of a book. • Blank verse. • A piece of material roughly cut, forged, cast, etc. to the size and shape of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping. • Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required. • The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus. • A vacant space, place, or period; a void. • The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain. • An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory. • A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word. • The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space bar on a keyboard. • A domino without points on one or both of its divisions. • A tile that can be played as any letter and having a point value of zero. • Ellipsis of blank cartridge. • An ineffective effort which achieves nothing. • A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it. • Infertile semen. • Used as a substitute for a profanity.