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Bleacheries :: Bleacheries (pl. ) of Bleacher.

Leach :: Leach (n.) See Leech, a physician..

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

Letchy :: Letchy (a.) See Leachy.

Letch :: Letch (v. & n.) See Leach.

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

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..

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

Leachy :: Leachy (a.) Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like..

Lixiviate :: Lixiviate (v. t.) To subject to a washing process for the purpose of separating soluble material from that which is insoluble; to leach, as ashes, for the purpose of extracting the alkaline substances..

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

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..

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

Bleaching :: Bleaching (n.) The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents..

Chlorine :: Chlorine (n.) One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely disagreeable suffocating odor, and exceedingly poisonous. It is abundant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4..

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

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

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

Lixiviation :: Lixiviation (n.) Lixiviating; the process of separating a soluble substance form one that is insoluble, by washing with some solvent, as water; leaching..

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

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