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Webster 1913 Edition
Blanch
Blanch
(blȧnch)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Blanched
(blȧncht)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blanching
.] 1.
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach;
as, to
. blanch
linen; age has blanched
his hair2.
(Gardening)
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
3.
(Confectionery & Cookery)
(a)
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding;
as, to
. blanch
almonds(b)
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.
4.
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
5.
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
6.
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
Blanch
over the blackest and most absurd things. Tillotson.
To whiten is the generic term, denoting, to render white; as, to whiten the walls of a room. Usually (though not of necessity) this is supposed to be done by placing some white coloring matter in or upon the surface of the object in question. To blanch is to whiten by the removal of coloring matter; as, to blanch linen. So the cheek is blanched by fear, i. e., by the withdrawal of the blood, which leaves it white.
Blanch
(blȧnch)
, Verb.
I.
To grow or become white;
as, his cheek
. blanched
with fear; the rose blanches
in the sun[Bones]
blanching
on the grass. Tennyson.
1.
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
[Obs.]
Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and
blanch
his danger. Bacon.
I suppose you will not
blanch
Paris in your way. Reliq. Wot.
2.
To cause to turn aside or back;
as, to
. blanch
a deerBlanch
,Verb.
I.
To use evasion.
[Obs.]
Books will speak plain, when counselors
blanch
. Bacon.
Blanch
,Noun.
(Mining)
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
Webster 1828 Edition
Blanch
BL'ANCH
,Verb.
T.
1.
To whiten; to take out the color, and make white; to obliterate.2.
To slur; to balk; to pass over; that is to avoid; to make empty.3.
To strip or peel; as, to blanch almonds.BL'ANCH
,Verb.
I.
Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.
Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch.
Definition 2024
Blanch
Blanch
See also: blanch
English
Proper noun
Blanch
- A female given name, a less common spelling of Blanche.
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act II, Scene 1:
- That daughter there of Spain, the Lady Blanch, / Is near to England: look upon the years / Of Lewis the Dauphin and the lovely maid. / If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, / Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch?
- 1596, William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John, Act II, Scene 1:
blanch
blanch
See also: Blanch
English
Verb
blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)
- (intransitive) To grow or become white
- his cheek blanched with fear
- the rose blanches in the sun
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach
- to blanch linen
- age has blanched his hair
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding the light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding
- to blanch almonds
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- (tntransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive, figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate
- Tillotson
- Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
- Tillotson
Translations
to grow or become white
to make white
to cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water
Etymology 2
Variant of blench
Verb
blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- Francis Bacon
- Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger.
- Reliq. Wot
- I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
- Francis Bacon
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- to blanch a deer
- To use evasion.
- Francis Bacon
- Books will speak plain, when counsellors blanch.
- Francis Bacon
Ladin
Etymology
From Late Latin *blancus (compare Friulian blanc, Italian bianco, French blanc, Spanish blanco, Portuguese branco), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“bright, shining, blinding, white”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).
Adjective
blanch