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

Fume :: Fume (v. t.) To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room..

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

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

Carrigeen :: Carrigeen (n.) A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce..

Lye :: Lye (n.) A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc..

Buck :: Buck (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed..

Spineless :: Spinel (n.) Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle.

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..

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

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

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..

Letchy :: Letchy (a.) See Leachy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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