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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..

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..

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

Bleached :: Bleached (a.) Whitened; make white.

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

Bleachery :: Bleachery (n.) A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

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

Whitester :: Whitester (n.) A bleacher of linen; a whitener; a whitster.

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

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

Crefting :: Crefting (n.) Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching..

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

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..

Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair..

Bleaching :: Bleaching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bleac.

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

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

Bleacher :: Bleacher (n.) One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching..

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

Leach :: Leach (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc..

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