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Blanch  v. t.  (past & past part. blanched; pres. part. blanching)  
1.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
2.
(Gardening) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
3.
(Confectionery & Cookery)
(a)
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
(b)
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.
4.
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
5.
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
6.
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate. "Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things."
Synonyms: To Blanch, Whiten. To whiten is the generic term, denoting, to render white; as, to whiten the walls of a room. Usually (though not of necessity) this is supposed to be done by placing some white coloring matter in or upon the surface of the object in question. To blanch is to whiten by the removal of coloring matter; as, to blanch linen. So the cheek is blanched by fear, i. e., by the withdrawal of the blood, which leaves it white.


Blanch  v. t.  
1.
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. (Obs.) "Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger." "I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way."
2.
To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.


Blanch  v. i.  To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. "(Bones) blanching on the grass."


Blanch  v. i.  To use evasion. (Obs.) "Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch."





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"Blanched" Quotes from Famous Books



... kept helpless by it. He who turns the stone is whosoever puts the staff of truth to the old lying incubus, whether he do it with a serious face or a laughing one. The next year stands for the coming time. Then shall the nature which had lain blanched and broken rise in its full stature and native lines in the sunshine. Then shall God's minstrels build their nests in the hearts of a new-born humanity. Then shall beauty—divinity taking outline and color—light upon the souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beatified ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... sensation. The faces of the crowd blanched, and turned mechanically toward the clock. The butcher and the weaver seemed smitten with an illness, but the blacksmith braced up and said, ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... morning," Bleary-eyes breathed at him, "huh, Doc?" Phillip blanched. To top it, the man had had a breakfast of salami. In the seat ahead, a fat man held a dead cigar clamped in his mouth like a rank growth. Phillip's stomach began rolling; he sank his face into his hand, trying unobtrusively to clamp ...
— The Coffin Cure • Alan Edward Nourse
... mirror—she is fair, And soft the light within her beaming eyes, But unshed tears are slowly gathering there, Like passing clouds that float o'er summer skies; Her cheek is wan, as blanched by thoughts of pain, And on her snowy brow a shadow sleeps: Are such surpassing gifts bestowed in vain?— The pale, sad beauty turns ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 3. March 1848 • Various
... Her face blanched; he saw for the first time a trace of feminine weakness, even fear. It was gone, however, like a mist before a wind, as her courage ...
— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler


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