bland

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /blænd/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ænd
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English blanden, blonden, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English blandan (“to blend, mix, mingle; trouble, disturb, corrupt”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to mix, blend”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to grow turbid, dim, see badly, be blind”). Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Danish and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Norwegian blande, Swedish blanda (“to mix, mingle, shuffle, blend”), Icelandic blanda (“to mix”). See also blend.

bland (third-person singular simple present blands, present participle blanding, simple past and past participle blanded)

1. (transitive, UK dialectal) To mix; blend; mingle.
2. (transitive, UK dialectal) To connect; associate.

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English bland, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English bland, blond (“blending, mixture, confusion”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *blandą (“a mixing, mixture”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bʰlendʰ- (“to grow turbid, dim, see badly, be blind”). Cognate with Icelandic blanda (“a mixture of liquids, especially of hot whey and water”).

• blaind, blaund (Scotland)

bland (plural blands)

1. (UK dialectal) Mixture; union.
2. A summer beverage prepared from the whey of churned milk, common among the inhabitants of the Shetland Islands.

• in bland

Ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin blandus (“pleasant, flattering”).

bland (comparative blander, superlative blandest)

1. (now rare) Mild; soft, gentle, balmy; smooth in manner; suave.
   • 1818, John Keats, Sonnet:

     Where didst thou find, young Bard, thy sounding lyre? / Where the bland accent, and the tender tone?

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     “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; […]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.

2. Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating.

   a bland oil;  a bland diet

3. Lacking in taste, flavor, or vigor.

   The coffee was bland.  The judge found the defense's case to be bland.

• “bland”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

bland

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of blande

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /plant/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ant

bland n

1. mix

• bland í poka

• blanda

bland

1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of blande

bland

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) imperative of blande

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bland

1. among