Word Meanings - LEECH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

LEACH
See LEECH
LEACHY
Permitting liquids to pass by percolation; not capable of retaining water; porous; pervious; -- said of gravelly or sandy soils, and the like.
BLEACHED
Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
BLEACHER
One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.
IMPLEACH
To pleach; to interweave. Shak.
PLEACH
To unite by interweaving, as branches of trees; to plash; to interlock. "The pleached bower." Shak. (more info) plicare, plicitum, to fold, lay, or wind together. Cf. Plash to
BLEACHING
The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.
BLEACHERY
A place or an establishment where bleaching is done.
BLEACH
To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous