Definition of leach

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

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Leach :: Leach (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee..
Bleacheries :: Bleacheries (pl. ) of Bleacher.
Bleach :: Bleach (a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten..
Chlorometer :: Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
Whitster :: Whitster (n.) A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..
Bleacher :: Bleacher (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching..
Dealbation :: Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.
Antichlor :: Antichlor (n.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
Leachy :: Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like..
Etiolate :: Etiolate (v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
Impleach :: Impleach (v. t.) To pleach; to interweave.
White :: White (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
Bleached :: Bleached (imp. & p. p.) of Bleac.
Pleaching :: Pleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pleac.
Leaching :: Leaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leac.
Cat-salt :: Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine..
Pleached :: Pleached (imp. & p. p.) of Pleac.
Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..
Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4..
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