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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.