blanketing (blangketing)

1. Coarse woolen cloth of which blankets are made.2. A supply or quantity of blankets.-3. The blanketing proce of obtaining gold by collecting it as it comes from the stamps on a blanket or in a blanket-sluice. - 4. pl. The gold so obtained.5. The operation of to ing in a blanket as a punishment or a joke. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. 578 MHG. bleren, blerren, cry aloud, bleat, G. blar ren, blärren, plärren, roar, bellow, bleat, blare; prob. an imitative word.] I. in trans. 1. To roar; bellow; cry; low. [Now chiefly prov. Eng.]-2. To give forth a loud sound like a trumpet; give out a brazen sound; bellow. Warble, O bugle, and trumpet blare . Tennyson, Welcome to Alexandra. II. trans. To sound loudly; proclaim noisily. And such a tongue Smollett , tr. of Don Quixote, iii. 5. blanket-leaf (blang'ket-lef), n. The common mullen, Verbascum Thapsus . blanket-mortgage (blang'ket-môrgāj), n. A mortgage intended to cover an aggregation of property, or secure or provide for indebtedne blarel (blar), n. [ v .] 1. A roaring; previously existing in various forms. To blare its own interpretation. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. loud or bellowing noise. Whitman. sang the blare and brawn that he found Stedman, Poets of America, p. 355. in the streets.