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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.

One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.

Cloth for blankets.

Gray; bluish gray. [Obs.] Our bloncket liveries been all too sad. Spenser.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

A gas fixture or lamp holder projecting from the face of a wall, column, or the like. Bracket light, a gas fixture or a lamp attached to a wall, column, etc.

A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.

The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.

That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.

A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.

A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.

ell, or for catching, holding, or carrying water, sap, or other liquids. The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. Wordsworth.

An office or a place where facilities are given for betting small sums on current prices of stocks, petroleum, etc. [Slang, U.S.]

Paste used by weavers to dress their webs. Buchanan.

A small bush; also, a sprig or bouquet. [Obs.] Spenser.

A warm jacket of knit worsted with or without sleeves.

or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc. The little casket bring me hither. Shak.

The knocker of a door. [Prov. Eng.]

Pert; saucy. [Obs.] Halliwell.