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Pronunciation : Blench
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [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.]
Definition : 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. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey.

2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.] Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak.

i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Blench
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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. Sir T. More.

2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] He now blenched what before he affirmed. Evelyn.

t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Blench
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Blench
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [See 1st Blanch.]
Definition : Defn: To grow or make pale. Barbour.

i. & t.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913