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Blanch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To evade; to shift; to speak softly.

2. Rather, to fail or withhold; to be reserved; to remain blank, or empty.

3. Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch

Blanch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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.

Blanch [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

2. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

3. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

4. 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.

5. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

6. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

7. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

Blanch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

Blanch [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

2. To use evasion.

Blanch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

2. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

Blanch holding Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent (silver) or otherwise.

Blanched [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Whitened.

Blanched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Blancher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who whitens; also, one who anneals, and cleanses money.

Blancher [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one who anneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for this purpose.

2. One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

Blanchimeter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of oxymuriate [chloride] of lime, and potash.

Blanchimeter [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

Blanching [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Whitening. In coinage, the operation of giving brightness to pieces of silver, by heating them on a peel, and afterwards boiling them successively in two pans of copper, with aqua fortis, common salt, and tartar of Montpelier; then draining off the water in a sieve; sand and fresh water are then thrown over them, and when dry, they are rubbed with a towel.

2. The covering of iron plates with a thin coat of tin is also called blanching

3. Blanch-fern, or blank farm, in ancient law, a white farm, was one, where the rent was paid in silver, not in cattle.

4. Blanch-holding, in law, a tenure by which the tenant is bound to pay only an elusory yearly duty to his superior, as an acknowledgment to his right.

Blanching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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