Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Whitened; especially, in botany, covered with a very white opaque powder.
- To whiten.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To whiten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To
whiten .
Etymologies
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Latin dealbatus, past participle of dealbare. See daub.
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fbharjo commented on the word dealbate
What a deal! bleached bats!
September 12, 2010