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To cover with a blanket. I'll . . . blanket my loins. Shak.

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.

A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

A kind of worsted blanket or wrap.

ainable. [Obs.] General Howe would not permit the purchase of those articles [clothes and blankets] in Philadelphia, and they were not attainable in the country. Marshall.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.

broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; -- called also blanketed cattle.

A bed blanket. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of very coarse woolen blanket.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

h supplies, to admit to a building, a place of entertainment, or the like; as, orders for blankets are large. In those days were pit orders -- beshrew the uncomfortable manager who abolished them. Lamb.

To look cautiously or slyly; to peer, as through a crevice; to pry. eep through the blanket of the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.

A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.

A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.