Blench

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  • intransitive verb. To draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch.
  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To become pale; blanch.
  • To make white; blanch.
  • Upon or based upon the payment of a nominal or trifling yearly duty: applied to a sort of tenure of land: as, the estate is held blench of the crown. See blanch-holding.
  • To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  • To quail: said of the eye.
  • To deceive; cheat.
  • To draw back from; shirk; avoid; elude; deny from fear.
  • To hinder or obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  • noun. A deceit; a trick.
  • noun. A sidelong glance.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A looking aside or askance.
  • transitive verb. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
  • transitive verb. To draw back from; to deny from fear.
  • intransitive verb. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
  • intransitive verb. To fly off; to turn aside.
  • verb. To grow or make pale.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
  • verb. (of the eye) To quail.
  • verb. To deceive; cheat.
  • verb. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
  • verb. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
  • noun. A deceit; a trick.
  • noun. A sideling glance.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. turn pale, as if in fear
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    "( "The word 'blench' came from Rehnquist," Bradley says."
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