Blench: Definition and part of speech

Blench

  1. v. i. & t. To grow or make pale.
  2. v. i. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
  3. v. i. To fly off; to turn aside.
  4. v. t. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; — also, to obstruct; to hinder.
  5. v. t. To draw back from; to deny from fear.
  6. n. A looking aside or askance.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blencher: Definition and part of speech

Blencher

  1. n. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.
  2. n. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blend: Definition and part of speech

Blend

  1. a. To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.
  2. v. t. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.
  3. v. t. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
  4. v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.
  5. n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blende: Definition and part of speech

Blende

  1. n. A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.
  2. n. A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.