An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

It is undoubtedly the pret. of blin; A. S. blan, blann, cessavit.

BLANCHART, adj. White.
Gawan and Gol.

Fr. blanc, blanche, id. The name blanchards is given to a kind of linen cloth the yarn of which has been twice bleached, before it was put into the loom; perhaps immediately from Teut. blancke, id. and aerd, Belg. aardt, nature.

V. [Art].

BLANCIS, s. pl. Ornaments worn by those who represented Moors, in the Pageant exhibited at Edinburgh, A. 1590.
Watson's Coll.

If not allied to Fr. blanc, white, it may be a cognate of Germ. Su. G. blaess, Isl. bles, signum album in fronte equi; whence E. blason, S. [Bawsand], q. v.

BLAND, s. Some honourable piece of dress worn by knights and men of rank.
Maitland Poems.

Blanda, according to Bullet, is a robe adorned with purple, a robe worn by grandees. Su. G. blyant, bliant, a kind of precious garment among the ancients, which seems to have been of silk.

To BLAND, v. a. To mix, to blend.
Douglas.

Su. G. Isl. bland-a, to mix.