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BLANC, Mont, the highest, and in other respects one of the most remarkable mountains in Europe, is situated in that division of the great Alpine system known as the Pennine Alp3, in 45° 49' 58" N. lat. and 6° 51' 54* E. long. It rises almost in the shape of a pyramid to the height of 15,780 feet, and is visible at a distance of 130 miles to the west. The mass of the mountain is composed of granite, covered with strata of schist3 and limestones. To the N.E. lies the beautiful vale of Chamouni, and on the S.W. the Allée Blanche. Of the numerous glaciers that send their ice-3treams down its sides the most remarkable is the Mer de Glace, which winds down its northern slope towards Chamouni, and gives birth to the River Arve. The ascent of Mont Blanc was first accomplished in 1786 by a guide named Jacques Balmat, who shortly afterwards led Dr Paccard, a local physician, to the summit, and thus gave him the honour of being the first person of scientific education to make known the possibility of the undertaking. De Saussure, the naturalist, ascended in the following year, and when the Italian naturalist Imperiale do Sant-Angelo made the ascent in 1840 he had been preceded by thirty-three known travellers. The whole journey to the top and back can now be accomplished in 50 or 60 hours; but in general the view can hardly be said to be worth the fatigue, the extreme height of the position, even when the outlook is unclouded, rendering the prospect indistinct. For authorities and map3, see Alps, vol. i. pp. 635-6.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 3, p. 807
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Blanc-manger [Pronoun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

blomonge. In cookery, a preparation of dissolved isinglass, milk, sugar, cinnamon, etc., boiled into a thick consistence, and garnished for the table with blanched almonds.

Blancard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of linen cloth, manufactured in Normandy, so called because the thread is half blanched before it is woven.

Blancard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

Blanch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To evade; to shift; to speak softly.

2. Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.

3. Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch

Blanch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate.

2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty.

3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds.

Blanch [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

2. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

3. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

4. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

5. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

6. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

7. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

Blanch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

Blanch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

2. To use evasion.

Blanch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

2. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

Blanch holding Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

Blanched [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Whitened.

Blanched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Blancher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who whitens; also, one who anneals, and cleanses money.

Blancher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

2. One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

Blanchimeter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of oxymuriate [chloride] of lime, and potash.

Blanchimeter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

Blanching [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Whitening. In coinage, the operation of giving brightness to pieces of silver, by heating them on a peel, and afterwards boiling them successively in two pans of copper, with aqua fortis, common salt, and tartar of Montpelier; then draining off the water in a sieve; sand and fresh water are then thrown over them, and when dry, they are rubbed with a towel.

2. The covering of iron plates with a thin coat of tin is also called blanching

3. Blanch-fern, or blank farm, in ancient law, a white farm, was one, where the rent was paid in silver, not in cattle.

4. Blanch-holding, in law, a tenure by which the tenant is bound to pay only an elusory yearly duty to his superior, as an acknowledgment to his right.

Blanching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Blancmange [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A preparation for desserts, etc., made from isinglass, sea moss, cornstarch, or other gelatinous or starchy substance, with mild, usually sweetened and flavored, and shaped in a mold.

Blancmanger [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.