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Bucking :: Bucking (n.) The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used..

Whitster :: Whitster (n.) A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.

Leach :: Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair..

Grass :: Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc..

Sulphur-bottom :: Sulphurator (n.) An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur..

Holland :: Holland (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands..

Bleach :: Bleach (v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.

Lixiviate :: Lixiviate (v. t.) To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances..

Lixiviation :: Lixiviation (n.) Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching..

Chlorometry :: Chlorometry (n.) The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.

Leached :: Leached (imp. & p. p.) of Leac.

Letchy :: Letchy (a.) See Leachy.

Bleacheries :: Bleacheries (pl. ) of Bleacher.

Barilla :: Barilla (n.) The alkali produced from the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes..

Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..

Lye :: Lye (n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc..

Keeve :: Keeve (n.) A bleaching vat; a kier.

Leach :: Leach (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.

Leach :: Leach (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes..

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