blen

n. A looking aside or askance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blenched p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching. ] [ OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch. ] 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fly off; to turn aside. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ See 1st Blanch. ] To grow or make pale. Barbour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Law) See Blanch holding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent p. pr. & vb. n. Blending. ] [ OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]