BLANCH
\blˈant͡ʃ], \blˈantʃ], \b_l_ˈa_n_tʃ]\
Definitions of BLANCH
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- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
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To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
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To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
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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.
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To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
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To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
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Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
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To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
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To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
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To use evasion.
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Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
By Oddity Software
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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
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To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
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To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
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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.
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To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
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To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
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Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
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To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
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To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
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To use evasion.
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Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
By Noah Webster.
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To take the color out of and make white; to make white by removing the peel; as, to blanch almonds.
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Become white; turn pale.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
