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  • 41white — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. snow white (see color, colorlessness); cleansed, purified; Caucasian, Caucasoid. See humanity. n. whiteness, purity; hoariness, grayness (of age); lime, paper, milk, ivory, snow, sheet, alabaster;… …

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  • 42Whiteness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Whiteness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 whiteness whiteness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 argent argent GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 albification albification etiolation Sgm: N 2 lactescence lactescence GRP …

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  • 43blanch — {{11}}blanch (v.1) to make white, turn pale, c.1400, from O.Fr. blanchir to whiten, wash, from blanc white (11c.; see BLANK (Cf. blank) (adj.)). Originally to remove the hull of (almonds, etc.) by soaking. Intransitive sense of to turn white is… …

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  • 44colorless — uncolored, achromatic mean without color. However, they are not freely interchangeable. Colorless is applied to something that is transparent {water is a colorless liquid} or to something that is bleached, blanched, or pallid {colorless leaves}… …

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  • 45blanch — UK [blɑːntʃ] / US [blæntʃ] verb Word forms blanch : present tense I/you/we/they blanch he/she/it blanches present participle blanching past tense blanched past participle blanched 1) [intransitive] mainly literary to be so shocked or frightened… …

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  • 46endive — [en′dīv΄, än′dēv΄] n. [ME & OFr < ML endivia < MGr endivi < L intibus < Gr entybon, prob. < Egypt tʾ ʿʾ bt, January (when it is said to grow in Egypt)] 1. a) a cultivated, lettucelike plant (Cichorium endivia) of the composite… …

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  • 47almond meal — noun 1. : a powder obtained by grinding or pounding blanched almonds and used as an ingredient of various cosmetics and perfumes 2. : ground almond cake * * * Chem. the meal obtained by pulverizing blanched almonds, used chiefly in the… …

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  • 48almond milk — noun : an emulsion (as from blanched almonds, acacia, sugar, and water) used as a demulcent * * * a creamy mixture of blanched almonds, sugar, and water, blended to a smooth paste and sieved …

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  • 49Apium graveolens — Celery Cel er*y, n. [F. c[ e]leri, cf. Prov. It. seleno, seler; fr. Gr. ? parsley, in Lgr. & NGr. celery. Cf. {Parsley}.] (Bot.) A plant of the Parsley family ({Apium graveolens}), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad. [1913… …

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  • 50ashen bloodless livid lurid pale pallid pasty wan waxen — Colorless Col or*less, a. 1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water; a colorless gas. Note: [Narrower terms: {ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen}; {neutral}; {white}] [Also See:… …

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