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Decolor :: Decolor (v. t.) To deprive of color; to bleach.

Ecru :: Ecru (a.) Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching..

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.

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..

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

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..

Chlorometer :: Chlorometer (n.) An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

Bleacher :: Bleacher (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching..

Letchy :: Letchy (a.) See Leachy.

Dealbation :: Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.

Blanchimeter :: Blanchimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

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

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

Bleaching :: Bleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleac.

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 quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali..

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

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

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

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