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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

A kind of wood-turning lathe for making noncircular and irregular forms, as felloes, gun stocks, lasts, spokes, etc., after a given pattern. The pattern and work rotate on parallel spindles in the same direction with the same speed, and the work is shaped by a rapidly rotating cutter whose position is varied by the pat…

One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority.

To whiten. See Blanch. [Obs.] Heylin.

The prairie turnip. See under Prairie.

To make pale; to blanch. [Obs.] The answer that ye made to me, my dear, . . . Hath so appalled my countenance. Wyatt.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse. [Obs.] Each opposite that blanks the face of joy. Shak.

To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyran…

See Blanch holding.

other; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

A signal made for a parley by beat of a drum. They beat the chamade, and sent us carte blanche. Addison.

The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use.

A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad. Wild endive (Bot.), chicory or succory.

To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions.