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An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.

Exposing linen to the sun, on the grass, in the process of bleaching.

Act of bleaching; a whitening. [Obs.]

To deprive of color; to bleach.

A substance which removes color, or bleaches.

A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff. [Written also dungari.] [India]

Having the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.

To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.

flax, reduced by steeping in bicarbinate of soda and acidulated liquids, and prepared for bleaching and spinning like cotton. Knight. -- Flax dresser, one who breaks and swingles flax, or prepares it for the spinner. -- Flax mill, a mill or factory where flax is spun or linen manufactured. -- Flax puller, a machine…

To expose to the action of fumes; to treat with vapors, smoke, etc.; as, to bleach straw by fuming it with sulphur; to fill with fumes, vapors, odors, etc., as a room. She fumed the temple with an odorous flame. Dryden.

To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.

ent; honorable; suitable; becoming. Chaucer. Belong what honest clothes you send forth to bleaching! Shak.

in the free state, but in an orange-yellow water solution, which is a strong reducing and bleaching agent. Called also hydrosulphurous acid.

A bleaching vat; a kier.

A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.

trong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is used in dyeing, calico printing, bleaching flax and straw, the preparation of formic acid, and in salts of lemon for removing ink stains, mold, etc.

Chlorine used in bleaching. [Manufacturing name]

, potches. Potcher engine (Paper Making), a machine in which washed rags are stirred in a bleaching solution.