WordWeight : Weighing the Words

Pronunciation : Blend
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [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.]
Definition : 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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent; p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Blend
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: 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.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Blend
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Blend
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]
Definition : Defn: To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913