Blench

imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching

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. [Obs.]

   Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.

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.

2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]

   He now blenched what before he affirmed.

1. A looking aside or askance. [Obs.]

   These blenches gave my heart another youth.

1. To grow or make pale.