Word Meanings - BLEACHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

Related words: (words related to BLEACHED)

• BLEACH
  To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• WHITE MUSTARD
  A kind of mustard with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.
• WHITE-WATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• WHITETHROAT
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat .
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.