BLENCH

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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.
v.

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

3.
v.

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.

4.
v.

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

5.
n.

A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

6.
v.

To grow or make pale. Barbour.

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