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Blanket
  • (a.) 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.
  • (a.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
  • (a.) A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
  • (v. t.) To cover with a blanket.
  • (v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
  • (v. t.) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.

    OPTED is a public domain English word list dictionary, based on the public domain portion of "The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (See Project Gutenburg.)


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