Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To whiten.
  • Whitened; especially, in botany, covered with a very white opaque powder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To whiten.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To whiten.

Etymologies

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Latin dealbatus, past participle of dealbare. See daub.

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  • What a deal! bleached bats!

    September 12, 2010