BLENT

Verb

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

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

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