Blench
Blench ({not transcribed}) , intransitive verb
[Old English blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, Anglo-Saxon blencan to deceive; akin to Icelandic blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and compare 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.
This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment.
2.
To fly off; to turn aside. [Obsolete]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
Blench , transitive verb
1.
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obsolete]
Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further.
2.
To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obsolete]
He now blenched what before he affirmed.
Blench , noun
A looking aside or askance. [Obsolete]
These blenches gave my heart another youth.
Blench , verb, intransitive and transitive
[See 1st Blanch.]
To grow or make pale. — Barbour