Blanch

1. n. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
2. a. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
3. a. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
4. a. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
5. a. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
6. a. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
7. a. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
8. a. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
9. v. i. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
10. v. t. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
11. 1n. 1 Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
12. 1a. 1 To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

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.