Definition of leach

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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..

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Dungaree :: Dungaree (n.) A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..
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..
Dealbation :: Dealbation (n.) Act of bleaching; a whitening.
Whitster :: Whitster (n.) A whitener; a bleacher; a whitester.
Blanchimeter :: Blanchimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.
Impleach :: Impleach (v. t.) To pleach; to interweave.
Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach..
Bleach :: Bleach (v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
Spineless :: Spinel (n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.
Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..
Bleaching :: Bleaching (n.) The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents..
Whitester :: Whitester (n.) A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.
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..
White :: White (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
Pleached :: Pleached (imp. & p. p.) of Pleac.
Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair..
Grass :: Grass (v. t.) To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc..
Bleacher :: Bleacher (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching..
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