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.]
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These blenches gave my heart another youth. --Shak.
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Blench
\Blench\, v. i. & t. [See 1st
Blanch.]
To grow or make pale. --Barbour.
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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.
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Blench not at thy chosen lot. --Bryant.
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This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never
blenched from its fulfillment. --Jeffrey.
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2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
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Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
--Shak.
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Blench
\Blench\, v. t.
1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to
obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.]
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Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet
he might and would of likelihood have gone further.
--Sir T. More.
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2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]
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He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn.
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