Blend \Blend\, v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. --Irving.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Blend \Blend\, n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Blend \Blend\, v. t. [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.]

To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Blend \Blend\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent; p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.]

[OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.]

1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.

Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. --Percival.

2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.]

--Spenser.

Syn: To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)