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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language. |
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1828 Definition
BLENCH, v.i. [This evidently is the blanch of Bacon [see Blanch.] and perhaps the modern flinch.]
To shrink; to start back to give way.
BLENCH, v.t. To hinder or obstruct, says Johnson. But the etymology explains the passage he cites in a different manner. "The rebels carried great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants' fight." That is, to render the combat blank; to render it ineffectual; to break the force of the attack; to deaden the shot.
BLENCH, n. A start.
1913 Definition
To shrink;
to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch;
to quail.
Blench not at thy chosen lot. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never
blenched from its fulfillment. To fly off; to turn aside.
[Obs.]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. To
baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
[Obs.]
Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet
he might and would of likelihood have gone further. To draw back from; to deny from fear.
[Obs.]
He now blenched what before he affirmed. A looking aside or
askance.
[Obs.]
These blenches gave my heart another youth. To grow or make pale.
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