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n. Ability of body or mind; force; vigor. [ Obs. or R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being abominable; odiousness. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acceptable, or suitable to be favorably received; acceptability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or condition of being accommodable. [ R. ] Todd. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. “General adaptability for every purpose.” Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being admirable; wonderful excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being adorable, or worthy of adoration. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Affability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amiable; amiability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amicable; amicability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Associability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being attainable; attainability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being audible. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blenched p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching. ] [ OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch. ] 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fly off; to turn aside. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A looking aside or askance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ See 1st Blanch. ] To grow or make pale. Barbour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) See Blanch holding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent p. pr. & vb. n. Blending. ] [ OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin. ] 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a. ] To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., fr. blenden to blind, dazzle, deceive, fr. blind blind. So called either in allusion to its dazzling luster; or (Dana) because, though often resembling galena, it yields no lead. Cf. Sphalerite. ] (Min.) (a) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. (b) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable. Antonym of unblended. [ Narrower terms: alloyed; emulsified; homogenized ]
Syn. -- mingled, commingled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. homogeneous heterogeneous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending. Specifically, an electrical device with a rapidly rotating spindle to which a specially designed container can be attached, so that the contents of the container are agitated by rotating blades at adjustable speeds, permitting various degrees of homogenization of the contents. container are [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of mingling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ So called from Blenheim House, the seat of the duke of Marlborough, in England. ] A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To blink; to shine; to look. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Blenny + -oid ] (Zool.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; mucus + -genous. ] Generating mucus. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_; mucus + &unr_; to flow. ] (Med.) (a) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. (b) Gonorrhea. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Blennies [ L. blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; slime, mucus. ] (Zool.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Blend to blind. Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. & p. p. of Blend to mingle. Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being breathable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being chargeable or expensive. [ Obs. ] Whitelocke. [ 1913 Webster ]