blanched

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Water should be boiling at a gallop when vegetables are blanched--berries and soft fruits are not usually blanched, though some are scalded to loosen the skin BERRIES OR FRUIT RISING TO THE TOP Some women are disturbed because berries and fruits have a tendency to always rise to the top of the jar leaving a sirup space in the bottom.

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  1. Whitened; deprived of color; bleached. And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender'd. Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, xxx.
  2. Specifically applied to coins and silver articles containing copper which have been submitted to the action of hot dilute sulphuric acid, to dissolve a part of the copper of the alloy on the surface, and leave a film or coating richer in silver.
  3. Blanched copper an alloy of copper and arsenic, in about the proportion of 10 of the former to 1 of the latter. It is used for clock-dials and thermometer- and barometer-scales. It is prepared by heating copper clippings with white arsenic (arsenious acid), arranged in alternate layers and covered with common salt, in an earthen crucible.

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  • His face was blanched, his clothes a mess. —  Police Your Planet
  • Water should be boiling at a gallop when vegetables are blanched--berries and soft fruits are not usually blanched, though some are scalded to loosen the skin BERRIES OR FRUIT RISING TO THE TOP Some women are disturbed because berries and fruits have a tendency to always rise to the top of the jar leaving a sirup space in the bottom. —  Every Step in Canning
  • Peanuts should always be freshly roasted and crisp PEANUT BUTTER When peanuts have been blanched, are cold, dry and crisp, run them through a food chopper. —  Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans"
  • His visage blanched, and he stared at her strangely Nancy, is this thing true Nancy nodded. —  The Purple Heights
  • He blanched, and for the thousandth part of a second all that was devil in him rushed with smouldering lights to his eyes. —  The Penalty
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