Definition of leach

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

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Calico :: Calico (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc..
Dealbation :: Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.
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..
Spineless :: Spinel (n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
Grass :: Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc..
Pleach :: Pleach (v. t.) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock..
Leach :: Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc..
Lixiviation :: Lixiviation (n.) Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching..
Leach :: Leach (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
Dungaree :: Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..
Chlorometer :: Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.
Leach :: Leach (n.) See 3d Leech.
Leaching :: Leaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leac.
Antichlor :: Antichlor (n.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.
Bleachery :: Bleachery (n.) A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.
Crefting :: Crefting (n.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching..
Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching..
Impleach :: Impleach (v. t.) To pleach; to interweave.
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..
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