Also bland. Obs. pa. pple. of BLEND v.2 Also used as adj. = BLENDED.
1300. [see BLEND v.2 2 b.]
1571. Wills & Inv. N. C. (1835), 352. Xxxti boles of maid malt being halff bland.
1616. Surflet & Markh., Countr. Farm, 93. Take two parts straw, and one part hay, and mix it together, which is called blend fodder.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 161. The third sort of Iron … they call blend-metall.
2. esp. in blend corn, blencorn, wheat and rye sown and grown together; blend-water, a urinary disease of cattle (Chambers, Cycl. Supp., 1753).
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 34. Vppon that ground sowe blend come, that is both wheate and rye.
1583. Wills & Inv. N. C., II. (1860), 78. In bygge 8l. In ottes 40/. In blandcorne 40/.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Countr. Farm, 550. You shall not lead your blend-corne so soone as you doe your cleane Wheat, or your cleane Rie.
1798. W. Hutton, Autobiog., 11. A sixpenny loaf of coarse blencorn bread.
1855. Whitby Gloss.
