Blan·ket n.
  1. A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.
  2. Print. A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.
  3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
  Note: ☞ The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare.
  Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark
  To cry, “Hold, hold!”   --Shak.
  Blanket sheet, a newspaper of folio size.
  A wet blanket, anything which damps, chills, dispirits, or discour░ges.