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

sion; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination. To cheat the eye with blear illusions. Milton.

rned, changed, or altered; resolute; determined; unyieding; inexorable; stubborn. "Inflexibleas steel." Miltom. Amanof upright and inflexibletemper . . . can overcome all private fear. Addison.

The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild. "Inhospitable wastes." Blair. -- In*hos"pi*ta*ble*mess, n. -- In*hos"pi*ta*bly, adv.

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.

Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyes; blearedness.

A tableau in which persons take part; also, specif., such a tableau as imitating a work of art.

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]

A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

h whose scales yield a pearl-like pigment used in manufacturing artificial pearls, as the bleak, and whitebait.

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

to view; delineation; appearance; representation; exhibition. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion, And give it false presentment. Milton.

to intensify (a developed image), as by bleaching with mercuric chloride and subsequently subjecting anew to a developing agent. -- Re`de*vel"op*er (#), n. --Re`de*vel"op*ment (#), n.

To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent. [R.] The night comes on, and the bleak winds Do sorely ruffle. Shak.

A beach lying along the sea. "The bleak seabeach." Longfellow.

Bleached yarn in making the linen tape called inkle; unwrought inkle. Knight.

A holder of a sublease.