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Bleached :: Bleached (a.) Whitened; make white.

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

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..

Letchy :: Letchy (a.) See Leachy.

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

Leach :: Leach (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali..

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.

Impleach :: Impleach (v. t.) To pleach; to interweave.

Antichlor :: Antichlor (n.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

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

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

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

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

Potash :: Potash (n.) The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash)..

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

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..

Leech :: Leech (n.) See 2d Leach.

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

Leaching :: Leaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Leac.

Oxygen :: Oxygen (n.) Chlorine used in bleaching.

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