'Blench' definitions:

Definition of 'blench'

verb

Turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale, blanch, blench]

From: GCIDE

From: GCIDE

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

From: GCIDE

Blench \Blench\, 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]

From: GCIDE

Blench \Blench\, v. t.
1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further. --Sir T. More. [1913 Webster]
2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]