n. [ F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a. ]
☞ The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
To cry, “Hold, hold!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blanket sheet,
A wet blanket,
v. t.
I'll . . . blanket my loins. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
Blanket cattle.
. (Law) A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n.
That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]
. A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]