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A striking and vivid representation; a picture.

Same as Tableau, n., 2.

A small fresh-water fish (Leuciscus alburnus); the bleak.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. He treble baas for help, but none can get. Sir P. Sidney.

The bleating of a sheep. Marryat.

iddle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Rousseau,…

the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

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

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [Low]

A fish. See Bleak, n.

under Holland. -- Brown paper, dark colored paper, esp. coarse wrapping paper, made of unbleached materials. -- Brown spar (Min.), a ferruginous variety of dolomite, in part identical with ankerite. -- Brown stone. See Brownstone. -- Brown stout, a strong kind of proter or malt liquor. -- Brown study, a state of m…

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).

A small, purplish, branching, cartilaginous seaweed (Chondrus crispus), which, when bleached, is the Irish moss of commerce. [Also written carragheen, carageen.]

ds. When pure, it is a white amorphous mass. See Starch, Granulose, Lignin. Unsized, well bleached linen paper is merely pure cellulose. Goodale. Starch cellulose, the delicate framework which remains when the soluble part (granulose) of starch is removed by saliva or pepsin. Goodale.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.