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(archaic) (blend)

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To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.

To be mingled or mixed.

* Irving

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.

* To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent - , 1884

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner

, title= An Acoustic Arms Race , volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close

(obsolete) To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.

(Spenser)

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(bleed)

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(of an animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel.

:If her nose bleeds try to use ice.

To let or draw blood from an animal.

To take large amounts of money from.

To steadily lose (something vital).

:The company was bleeding talent.

(of an ink or dye) To spread from the intended location and stain the surrounding cloth or paper.

To remove air bubbles from a pipe containing fluids.

(obsolete) To bleed on; to make bloody.

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*:And soo they souped lyghtely and wente to bedde with grete ioye and plesaunce / and soo in his ragyng he took no kepe of his grene wound that kynge Marke had gyuen hym / And soo syr Tristram bebled both the ouer shete and the nether & pelowes / and hede shete

(copulative) To show one's group loyalty by showing (its associated color) in one's blood.

:He was a devoted Vikings fan: he bled purple.

To lose sap, gum, or juice.

:A tree or a vine bleeds when tapped or wounded.

To issue forth, or drop, like blood from an incision.

*Alexander Pope

*:For me the balm shall bleed .

(phonology, transitive, of a phonological rule) To destroy the environment where another phonological rule would have applied.

:Labialization bleeds palatalization.