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.

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.