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

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

Whitener :: Whitener (n.) One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sulphur-bottom :: Sulphurator (n.) An apparatus for impregnating with, or exposing to the action of, sulphur; especially, an apparatus for fumigating or bleaching by means of the fumes of burning sulphur..

Decolorant :: Decolorant (n.) A substance which removes color, or bleaches..

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