Part 1174

<h1>Blanket</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blan"ket</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>blanchet</ets>, OF. also <ets>blanket</ets>, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of <ets>blanc</ets> white; <ets>blanquette</ets> a kind of white pear, fr. <ets>blanc</ets> white. See <er>Blank</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A streak or layer of blubber in whales.</def>

<note>&hand; The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare.</note>

<i>Nares.</i>

<blockquote>Nor heaven peep through the <b>blanket</b> of the dark To cry, "Hold, hold!" <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Blanket sheet</col>, <cd>a newspaper of folio size.</cd> -- <col>A wet blanket</col>, <cd>anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour<?/ges.</cd></cs>

<h1>Blanket</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blan"ket</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blanketed</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blanketing</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To cover with a blanket.</def>

<blockquote>I'll . . . <b>blanket</b> my loins. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.</def>

<blockquote>We'll have our men <b>blanket</b> 'em i' the hall. <i>B. Jonson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.</def>

<cs><col>Blanket cattle</col>. <cd>See <i>Belted cattle<i>, under <er>Belted</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Blanketing</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blan"ket*ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Cloth for blankets.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket.</def>

<blockquote>That affair of the <b>blanketing</b> happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. <i>Smollett.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blankly</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blank"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; <as>as, to stare <ex>blankly</ex></as>.</def>

<i>G. Eliot.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Directly; flatly; point blank.</def>

<i>De Quincey.</i>

<h1>Blankness</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blank"ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being blank.</def>

<h1>Blanquette</h1> <Xpage=152>

<hw>Blan*quette"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>blanquette</ets>, from <ets>blanc</ets> white.]</ety> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>A white fricassee.</def>