[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The process of mixing intimately; the resulting state; a harmonious mixture.
1795. Act Geo. III., civ. § 25, in Oxf. & Camb. Enactm., 109. The blending of money belonging to different Colleges.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. xlvi. A blending of all beauties.
1855. Whitby Gloss., Blendings, a minglement of beans and peas.
1876. Green, Short Hist., ii. § 6 (1882), 88. This blending of the two races.
