Defn: A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.
BLANKETING
Blan"ket*ing, n.
1. Cloth for blankets.
2. The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.
BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
Blan"ket mortgage or Blan"ket policy .
Defn: One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.
BLANKET STITCH
Blanket stitch.
Defn: A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
BLANKLY
Blank"ly, adv.
1. In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot.