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Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

Pain in the bones. Shak.

A group of beetles having short elytra, as the rove beetles.

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. --Ca*chæ"mic, Ca*che"mic (#), a.

A hole in the ground, or hiding place, for concealing and preserving provisions which it is inconvenient to carry. Kane.

Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. Arbuthnot.

An ornamental casing for a flowerpot, of porcelain, metal, paper, etc.

A seal, as of a letter. Lettre de cachet Etym: [F.], a sealed letter, especially a letter or missive emanating from the sovereign; -- much used in France before the Revolution as an arbitrary order of imprisonment.

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

A fabulous cow of enormous size, whose food was patient wives, and which was therefore in very lean condition.

A coachman [Slang]

One who coaches; specif. (Baseball),

To scratch. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.

Ache or pain in the ear.

One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.