n. . A coarse woolen fabric, white or undyed, used for clothing.n. A large oblong piece of soft, loosely woven woolen cloth, used for the sake of its warmth as a bed-covering, or (usually made of coarser material and closer texture) as a covering for a horse when standing or exposed to cold, and sometimes worn as a garment, especially among rude or uncivilized people.n. In printing, a sheet of woolen cloth, white baize, or rubber, laid between the outer and inner tympans of a hand-press, or on a machine-cylinder, to moderate and equalize the pressure on the type.n. In cloth-printing, the cover of the printing-table.n. Same as blanquette, 4.n. In paper-making, an endless felt upon which the pulp is laid.To cover with a blanket or as with a blanket: as, to blanket a horse.To toss in a blanket by way of punishment or practical joke.To take the wind out of the sails of, as the sails of one vessel when it is passing close to windward of another.That covers, or is intended (like a blanket) to cover, many different but more or less closely related things, conditions, contingencies, requirements, or the like; as a blanket-mortgage; a blanket-clause in a deed or resolution.