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blench

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.



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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.


BLENCH, n.

A start. – Shak.


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. – Shak.


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.” Carew. That is, to render the combat blank; to render it ineffectual; to break the force of the attack; to deaden the shot.


Blench
  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 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.

  3. A looking aside or askance.

    [Obs.]

    These blenches gave my heart another youth.
    Shak.

  4. To grow or make pale.

    Barbour.
  5. To fly off; to turn aside.

    [Obs.]

    Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
    Shak.

  6. To draw back from; to deny from fear.

    [Obs.]

    He now blenched what before he affirmed.
    Evelyn.

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Blench

BLENCH, verb intransitive [This evidently is the blanch of Bacon [see Blanch.] and perhaps the modern flinch.]

To shrink; to start back to give way.

BLENCH, verb transitive 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, noun A start.

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2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

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DESERVE, v.t. [L. To serve.]

1. To merit; to be worthy of; applied to good or evil.

2. To merit by labor or services; to have a just claim to an equivalent for good conferred. The laborer deserves his wages; he deserves the value of his services.

3. To merit by good actions or qualities in general; to be worthy of, on account of excellence. The virtuous man deserves esteem and commendation. A work of value deserves praise.

4. To be worthy of, in a bad sense; to merit by an evil act; as, to deserve blame or punishment.

God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job 11.

DESERVE, v.i. To merit; to be worthy of or deserving; as, he deserves well or ill of his neighbor.

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