English-Thai Dictionary

blench

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLENCH

v.i.[This evidently is the blanch of Bacon [see Blanch. ] and perhaps the modern flinch. ] To shrink; to start back to give way.

 

BLENCH

v.t.To hinder or obstruct, says Johnson. But the etymology explains the passage he cites in a different manner. "The rebels carried great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants' fight. " That is, to render the combat blank; to render it ineffectual; to break the force of the attack; to deaden the shot.

 

BLENCH

n.A start.

 

BLENCHER

n.That which frustrates.

 

BLENCH-HOLDING

n.A tenure of lands upon the payment of a small sum in silver, blanck, that is, white money.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BLENCH

Blench, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.]Etym: [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch. ]

 

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

 

BLENCH

BLENCH Blench, v. t.

 

1. 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.

 

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

 

BLENCH

BLENCH Blench, n.

 

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

 

BLENCH

Blench, v. i. & t. Etym: [See 1st Blanch. ]

 

Defn: To grow or make pale. Barbour.

 

BLENCHER

BLENCHER Blench "er, n.

 

1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs. ]

 

2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

 

BLENCH HOLDING

BLENCH HOLDING Blench " hold `ing. (Law )

 

Defn: See Blanch holding.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

blench

blench 1 |blenCH blɛntʃ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain: he blenched and struggled to regain his composure. ORIGIN Old English blencan ‘deceive, ’ of Germanic origin; later influenced by blink .

 

blench

blench 2 |blɛntʃ blenCH | ▶verb chiefly dialect variant spelling of blanch.

 

Oxford Dictionary

blench

blench 1 |blɛn (t )ʃ | ▶verb [ no obj. ] make a sudden flinching movement out of fear or pain: he blenched and struggled to regain his composure. ORIGIN Old English blencan ‘deceive ’, of Germanic origin; later influenced by blink .

 

blench

blench 2 |blɛn (t )ʃ | ▶verb chiefly dialect variant spelling of blanch.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

blench

blench verb she blenched at the size of the bill: flinch, start, shy (away ), recoil, shrink, pull back, back away, draw back, cringe, wince, quiver, shudder, shiver, tremble, quake, shake, quail, cower, waver, falter, hesitate, get cold feet, blanch.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

blench

blench 1 /blen (t )ʃ /動詞 自動詞 (恐怖で )たじろぐ, しりごみする .

 

blench

blench 2 動詞 ＝blanch .