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

Saltpetre :: Saltpetre (n.) Potassium nitrate; niter; a white crystalline substance, KNO3, having a cooling saline taste, obtained by leaching from certain soils in which it is produced by the process of nitrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant..

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

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

Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..

Cat-salt :: Cat-salt (n.) A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine..

Kier :: Kier (n.) A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

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..

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

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

Pleaching :: Pleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pleac.

Pleached :: Pleached (imp. & p. p.) of Pleac.

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..

Dungaree :: Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.

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

Leach :: Leach (n.) See 3d Leech.

Ceresin :: Ceresin (n.) A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax..

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..

Pleach :: Pleach (v. t.) To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock..

Etiolate :: Etiolate (v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

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