Blend (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.] [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.
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Blend (?), v. i.
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.
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Blend, n.
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.
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Blend, v. t. [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]
To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
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