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verb-intransitive. To draw back or shy away, as from fear; flinch.

v. Variant of blanch.

v. To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

v. (of the eye) To quail.

v. To deceive; cheat.

v. To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.

v. To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.

n. A deceit; a trick.

n. A sideling glance.

verb-intransitive. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

verb-intransitive. To fly off; to turn aside.

v. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.

v. To draw back from; to deny from fear.

n. A looking aside or askance.

v. To grow or make pale.

To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.

To quail: said of the eye.

To deceive; cheat.

To draw back from; shirk; avoid; elude; deny from fear.

To hinder or obstruct; disconcert; foil.

n. A deceit; a trick.

n. A sidelong glance.

Upon or based upon the payment of a nominal or trifling yearly duty: applied to a sort of tenure of land: as, the estate is held blench of the crown. See blanch-holding.

To become pale; blanch.

To make white; blanch.

v. turn pale, as if in fear

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