Blench, v. i. & t. [See 1st Blanch.]
To grow or make pale. Barbour.
Blench (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Blenched (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Blenching.] [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, 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, n. A looking aside or
askance. [Obs.]
These blenches gave my heart another youth.
Shak.