n. Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage. [ Written also bye-end. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

“Profit or some other by-end.” L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a. ] To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G., fr. blenden to blind, dazzle, deceive, fr. blind blind. So called either in allusion to its dazzling luster; or (Dana) because, though often resembling galena, it yields no lead. Cf. Sphalerite. ] (Min.) (a) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. (b) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. combined or mixed together so that the constituent parts are indistinguishable. Antonym of unblended. [ Narrower terms: alloyed; emulsified; homogenized ]
Syn. -- mingled, commingled. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. homogeneous heterogeneous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending. Specifically, an electrical device with a rapidly rotating spindle to which a specially designed container can be attached, so that the contents of the container are agitated by rotating blades at adjustable speeds, permitting various degrees of homogenization of the contents. container are [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of mingling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]