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To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach. Tennyson. Let a bleak paleness chalk the door. Herbert. To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

er India. -- Chinese wax, a snowy-wgite, waxlike substance brought from China. It is the bleached secretion of certain insects of the family Coccidæ especially Coccus Sinensis.

loride of sodium (common salt). Chloride of ammonium, sal ammoniac. -- Chloride of lime, bleaching powder; a grayish white substance, CaOClcalcium hypochlorite. See Hypochlorous acid, under Hypochlorous. -- Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate.

ndant in nature, the most important compound being common salt. It is powerful oxidizing, bleaching, and disinfecting agent. Symbol Cl. Atomic weight, 35.4. Chlorine family, the elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine, called the halogens, and classed together from their common peculiariries.…

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.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

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.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

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.