Blench

Definition of Blench

v. i.	1.	To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. [imp. & p. p. Blenched ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.] 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. Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; - also, to obstruct; to hinder. 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. He now blenched what before he affirmed. - Evelyn.
n.	1.	A looking aside or askance. These blenches gave my heart another youth. - Shak.
v. i. & t.	1.	To grow or make pale.

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