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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLANK'ET, n.
1. A cover for a bed, made of coarse wool loosely woven, and used for securing against cold. Blankets are used also by soldiers,and seamen, for covering.
2. A kind of pear, sometimes written after the French, blanquet.
3. Among printers, woolen cloth or white baize, to lay between the tympans.
BLANK'ET, v.t. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment; an ancient custom. The Emperor Otho used to sally forth in dark nights, and if he found a drunken man, he administered the discipline of the blanket.
1. To cover with a blanket.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket, broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide] n
1: bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep" [syn: blanket, cover]
2: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: blanket, mantle]
3: a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor v
1: cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields"
2: form a blanket-like cover (over)

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English white woolen cloth, bed covering, from Anglo-French blankete, from blanc white — more at blank Date: 14th century 1. a. a large usually oblong piece of woven fabric used as a bed covering b. a similar piece of fabric used as a body covering (as for an animal) <a horse blanket> 2. something that resembles a blanket <a blanket of fog> <a blanket of gloom> 3. a rubber or plastic sheet on the cylinder in an offset press that transfers the image to the surface being printed • blanketlike adjective II. transitive verb Date: 1605 1. to cover with or as if with a blanket <new grass blankets the slope> 2. a. to cover so as to obscure, interrupt, suppress, or extinguish <blanket a fire with foam> b. to interrupt the smooth flow of wind to (as a downwind ship) c. to apply or cause to apply to uniformly despite wide separation or diversity among the elements included <freight rates that blanket a region> d. to cause to be included <automatically blanketed into the insurance program> III. adjective Date: 1886 1. covering all members of a group or class <a blanket wage increase> 2. effective or applicable in all instances

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n., adj., & v. --n. 1 a large piece of woollen or other material used esp. as a bed-covering or to wrap up a person or an animal for warmth. 2 (usu. foll. by of) a thick mass or layer that covers something (blanket of fog; blanket of silence). 3 Printing a rubber surface transferring an impression from a plate to paper etc. in offset printing. --adj. covering all cases or classes; inclusive (blanket condemnation; blanket agreement). --v.tr. (blanketed, blanketing) 1 cover with or as if with a blanket (snow blanketed the land). 2 stifle; keep quiet (blanketed all discussion). 3 Naut. take wind from the sails of (another craft) by passing to windward. Phrases and idioms: blanket bath a body wash given to a bedridden patient. blanket stitch a stitch used to neaten the edges of a blanket or other material. born on the wrong side of the blanket illegitimate. electric blanket an electrically-wired blanket used for heating a bed. wet blanket colloq. a gloomy person preventing the enjoyment of others. Etymology: ME f. OF blancquet, blanchet f. blanc white, BLANK

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blanket Blan"ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanketing.] 1. To cover with a blanket. I'll . . . blanket my loins. --Shak. 2. To toss in a blanket by way of punishment. We'll have our men blanket 'em i' the hall. --B. Jonson. 3. To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. Blanket cattle. See Belted cattle, under Belted.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blanket Blan"ket, n. [F. blanchet, OF. also blanket, a woolen waistcoat or shirt, the blanket of a printing press; prop. white woolen stuff, dim. of blanc white; blanquette a kind of white pear, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.] 1. 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. (Print.) A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. 3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. --Nares. Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry, ``Hold, hold!'' --Shak. Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size. A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour?ges.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blankets, blanketing, blanketed) 1. A blanket is a large square or rectangular piece of thick cloth, especially one which you put on a bed to keep you warm. N-COUNT 2. A blanket of something such as snow is a continuous layer of it which hides what is below or beyond it. The mud disappeared under a blanket of snow... Cold damp air brought in the new year under a blanket of fog. N-COUNT: usu sing, N of n 3. If something such as snow blankets an area, it covers it. More than a foot of snow blanketed parts of Michigan... VERB: V n 4. You use blanket to describe something when you want to emphasize that it affects or refers to every person or thing in a group, without any exceptions. There's already a blanket ban on foreign unskilled labour in Japan. = comprehensive ADJ: usu ADJ n [emphasis] 5. see also electric blanket, security blanket, wet blanket

Moby Thesaurus

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