Blend

v. t. [imp. & p. p. BLENDED; p. pr. & vb. n. BLENDING.] [A-S. blandan and blendan, to blend, mix, stain, bliudan, blendjan, to blind, Goth. blandan, to mix, gublindjan, to blind, O. S. blandan, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, O. H. Ger. blantan, to mix, Ger. blenden, to blind.]

1Sense 1. To mix or mingle together; hence, to confound, so that the separate things mixed can not be distinguished.

Curiosity blends itself more or less with all our passions. Burke.

Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

2Sense 2. To pollute by mixture; to spoil or corrupt. [Obs.] Spenser.

3Sense 3. To blind. [Obs.] Spenser.

v. i. To be mixed; to be united. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.