blench

[blench]

Turn pale, as if in fear

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To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

Verb
turn pale, as if in fear

v. i.
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

v. i.
To fly off; to turn aside.

v. t.
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

v. t.
To draw back from; to deny from fear.

n.
A looking aside or askance.

v. i. & t.
To grow or make pale.

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.

Blench not at thy chosen lot.

This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment.

2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

Blench

Blench, v. t. 1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.]

Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further.

2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]

He now blenched what before he affirmed.

Blench

Blench, n. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.]

These blenches gave my heart another youth.

Blench

Blench, v. i. & t. [See 1st Blanch.] To grow or make pale. Barbour.

To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

A looking aside or askance.

To grow or make pale.

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