blent
(archaic, poetic) simple past tense and past participle of blend
• (no date), There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.
Source: Wiktionary
Blent, imp. & p. p. of Blend to mingle.
Definition: Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained. Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.
Blent, imp. & p. p. of Blend to blind.
Definition: Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth. [Obs.]
Blend, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent; p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.] Etym: [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]
1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound. Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.
2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.
Syn.
– To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.
Blend, v. i.
Definition: To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.
Blend, n.
Definition: A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.
Blend, v. t. Etym: [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]
Definition: To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
