intransitive verb. To take the color from; bleach.

intransitive verb. To whiten (a growing plant or plant part) by covering to cut off direct light.

intransitive verb. To whiten (a metal) by soaking in acid or by coating with tin.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To scald (almonds, for example) in order to loosen the skin.

intransitive verb. To scald (food) briefly, as before freezing or as a preliminary stage in preparing a dish.

intransitive verb. To cause to turn white or become pale.

intransitive verb. To turn white or become pale.

To blanch silver, to oxidize copper superficially, when present in an alloy with silver, by heating to redness in the air, and then dissolving out the oxid of copper by dilute sulphuric acid, thus leaving the surface of the object with the white appearance of pure silver.

noun. Lead ore mixed with other minerals.

To make white; whiten by depriving of color; render colorless: as, to blanch linen.

In horticulture, to whiten or prevent from becoming green by excluding the light: a process applied to the stems or leaves of plants, such as celery, lettuce, sea-kale, etc.

To make pale, as with sickness, fear, cold, etc.

Figuratively, to give a fair appearance to, as an immoral act; palliate; slur; pass over.

In cookery, to soak (as meat or vegetables) in hot water, or to scald by a short, rapid boiling, for the purpose of producing firmness or whiteness.

In the arts, to whiten or make lustrous (as metals) by acids or other means; also, to cover with a thin coating of tin.

Synonyms and Etiolate, etc. See whiten.

To become white; turn pale.

White; pale.

Same as blench.

literally, pale fever; hence, to have the blanch fever is either to be in love or to be sick with wantonness.

noun. Same as blanc, 3.

noun. A white spot on the skin.

noun. In mining, a piece of ore found isolated in the hard rock.

To shun or avoid, as from fear; evade.

To shrink; shift; equivocate.

intransitive verb. To use evasion.

transitive verb. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.

transitive verb. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

transitive verb. undefined

transitive verb. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding.

transitive verb. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.

transitive verb. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

transitive verb. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

transitive verb. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

transitive verb. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

transitive verb. To cause to turn aside or back.

noun. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

intransitive verb. To grow or become white.

noun. ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

verb. To grow or become white

verb. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach

verb. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

verb. To cause to turn aside or back

verb. To use evasion.

verb. To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.

verb. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices

verb. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together

verb. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding

verb. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)

"When loking at their areas of responsibility on which they have carte blanche to spend our taxes, blanch is the word."

blanch farm  blanch lion  to blanch almonds  

color  colour  cook  discolor  discolour  

Blanche  branch  ranch  stanch  tranche  

cashew  cornel  electrophoresis  filberts  hazelnut  

ache  achromatize  agonize  ail  anguish  

blanched  blanches  blanching