blanket

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A large piece of woven material used as a covering for warmth, especially on a bed.
2. n. A layer that covers or encloses: a thick blanket of snow.
3. adj. Applying to or covering all conditions or instances: a blanket insurance policy.
4. adj. Applying to or covering all members of a class: blanket sanctions against human-rights violators.
5. v. To cover with or as if with a blanket: leaves that blanket the ground.
6. v. To cover so as to inhibit, suppress, or extinguish: blanketed the grease fire with sand.
7. v. To apply to generally and uniformly without exception: high telephone service charges that blanketed our region.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. . A coarse woolen fabric, white or undyed, used for clothing.
2. n. A large oblong piece of soft, loosely woven woolen cloth, used for the sake of its warmth as a bed-covering, or (usually made of coarser material and closer texture) as a covering for a horse when standing or exposed to cold, and sometimes worn as a garment, especially among rude or uncivilized people.
3. n. In printing, a sheet of woolen cloth, white baize, or rubber, laid between the outer and inner tympans of a hand-press, or on a machine-cylinder, to moderate and equalize the pressure on the type.
4. n. In cloth-printing, the cover of the printing-table.
5. n. Same as blanquette, 4.
6. n. In paper-making, an endless felt upon which the pulp is laid.
7. To cover with a blanket or as with a blanket: as, to blanket a horse.
8. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment or practical joke.
9. To take the wind out of the sails of, as the sails of one vessel when it is passing close to windward of another.
10. That covers, or is intended (like a blanket) to cover, many different but more or less closely related things, conditions, contingencies, requirements, or the like; as a blanket-mortgage; a blanket-clause in a deed or resolution.

Wiktionary

1. n. A cloth, usually large, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
2. n. A layer of anything.
3. n. A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
4. adj. In general; covering or encompassing everything.
5. v. To cover.
6. v. To traverse or complete thoroughly.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
2. n. A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
3. n. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
4. v. To cover with a blanket.
5. v. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
6. v. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. form a blanket-like cover (over)
2. n. bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
3. adj. broad in scope or content
4. v. cover as if with a blanket
5. n. a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor
6. n. anything that covers