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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..

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

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

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..

Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach..

Bleached :: Bleached (imp. & p. p.) of Bleac.

Holland :: Holland (n.) A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

Sulphurize :: Sulphuring (n.) Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur..

Leached :: Leached (imp. & p. p.) of Leac.

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

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..

Taw :: Taw (v. t.) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them..

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

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

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