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blanch

BL'ANCH, v.t.

1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate.

2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty.

3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds.

BL'ANCH, v.i. To evade; to shift; to speak softly.

Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.

Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch.



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BL'ANCH, v.t.

1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate.

2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty.

3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds.

BL'ANCH, v.i. To evade; to shift; to speak softly.

Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.

Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch.

BLANCH, v.i.

To evade; to shift; to speak softly. – Johnson. Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty. Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. – Bacon.


BLANCH, v.t. [Fr. blanchir; It. bianchire, the l suppressed as in blame; Sp. blanquear; Port. branquear, l changed into r; Eng. blank. See Bleach.]

  1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate. – Dryden.
  2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is, to avoid; to make empty. [Obs.] – Bacon.
  3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds. – Wiseman.

Blanch
  1. To take the color out of, and make white] to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
  2. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

    [Bones] blanching on the grass.
    Tennyson.

  3. 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.
    Bacon.

    I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
    Reliq. Wot.

  4. To use evasion.

    [Obs.]

    Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch.
    Bacon.

  5. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
  6. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
  7. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
  8. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding] as, to blanch almonds.

    (b)
  9. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
  10. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  11. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

    Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
    Tillotson.

    Syn. -- 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.

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Blanch

BL'ANCH, verb transitive

1. To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate.

2. To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty.

3. To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds.

BL'ANCH, verb intransitive To evade; to shift; to speak softly.

Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.

Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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