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ed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

The act of mingling.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.

A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

ntaining considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species. Hornblende schist (Geol.), a hornblende rock of schistose structure.

Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.

A pitch-black mineral consisting chiefly of the oxide of uranium; uraninite. See Uraninite.

Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.

us tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

To unite in an amalgam; to blend with another metal, as quicksilver.

The mixing or blending of different elements, races, societies, etc.; also, the result of such combination or blending; a homogeneous union. Macaulay.

uminium and iron. Some common varieties are tremolite, actinolite, asbestus, edenite, hornblende (the last name being also used as a general term for the whole species). Amphibole is a constituent of many crystalline rocks, as syenite, diorite, most varieties of trachyte, etc. See Hornblende.

ck allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.

A mineral of the hornblende group, of a yellowish gray or clove brown color. -- An`tho*phyl*lit"ic, a.

A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende.

Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.

See Blende.

To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.