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The act of one who lends.

The act of mingling.

urge as a reason, plea, or excuse; as, he refused to lend, alleging a resolution against lending.

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

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

Lending aid, helping.

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

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

The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound. In the commixture of anything that is more oily or sweet, such bodies are least apt to putrefy. Bacon.

2 or 3.prime number. -- Composite photograph or portrait, one made by a combination, or blending, of several distinct photographs. F. Galton. -- Composite sailing (Naut.), a combination of parallel and great circle sailing. -- Composite ship, one with a wooden casing and iron frame.

A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

commodities, or their purchase and distribution for consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital among its members. -- Coöperative store, a store established by a coöperative society, where the members make their purchases and share in the profits or losses.

To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

With distinctness; not confusedly; without the blending of one part or thing another; clearly; plainly; as, to see distinctly.

The union or blending together of things, as, melted together. The universal fusion of races, languages, and customs . . . had produced a corresponding fusion of creeds. C. Kingsley. Watery fusion (Chem.) the melting of certain crystals by heat in their own water of crystallization.

A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together…

The act of lending; a lending; permission to use; as, the loan of a book, money, services.

Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds; -- used mostly in financial business and writings.

A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.