Found 2 items, similar to blench.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: blench blench v : turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale, blanch]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Blench Blench \Blench\, n. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] These blenches gave my heart another youth. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Blench \Blench\, v. i. & t. [See 1st Blanch.] To grow or make pale. --Barbour. [1913 Webster] Blench \Blench\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.] [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch.] 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. [1913 Webster] Blench not at thy chosen lot. --Bryant. [1913 Webster] This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. --Jeffrey. [1913 Webster] 2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Blench \Blench\, v. t. 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. --Sir T. More. [1913 Webster] 2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]