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removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

the plant, being an impure carbonate of soda, used for making soap, glass, etc., and for bleaching purposes.

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.

A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.

Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.

The act or process of soaking or boiling cloth in an alkaline liquid in the operation of bleaching; also, the liquid used. Tomlinson.

A white wax, made by bleaching and purifying ozocerite, and used as a substitute for beeswax.

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.]

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

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.