Word Meanings - IMPALLID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.

BLANCH HOLDING
A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise.
PALLIDNESS
The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
BLANCH
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging
BLANCHIMETER
An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.
BLANCHARD LATHE
A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work
PALLID
Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue. Spenser.
PALLIDLY
In a pallid manner.
PALLIDITY
Pallidness; paleness.
BLANCHER
One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.
IMPALLID
To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
EMBLANCH
To whiten. See Blanch. Heylin.
POMME BLANCHE
The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.
CARTE BLANCHE
A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.