† blenchn.

Forms: Also (in sense 1) Middle English blenk, blenc.

Etymology: < blench v.¹

Obsolete.

1. A trick, stratagem. to do or make a blenk or blench: to play a trick.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase]

to do or make a blenk or blencha1250

to play (a person) a pageant1530

to give one the geck1568

to play a paw1568

to draw through the water with a cat1631

come1714

to run one's rig upon1793

to come (the) paddy over1809

to work a traverse1840

to go on, have, take a lark1884

to pull a fast one1912

to take for a ride1925

to pull a person's pissera1935

to pull a person's chain1975

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 378 He [the fox] haveþ mid him blenches ȝarewe.

a1300 Havelok 307 Hope maketh fol man ofte blenkes.

1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 274 Þe Scottis now þei þenk of gile..How þei mot do a blenk tille Edward & hise.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 130 And uerliche makeþ his blench.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1201 Þe kyng..a counsayl hym takes..A blench for to make.

2. A turning of the eyes aside, a side glance. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > sideways

side-lookinga1500

side looka1586

blench1609

side glance1611

leera1616

skew1622

askewa1641

gloat1645

glega1650

by-glancea1658

squint1673

by-view1753

sklent1818

glee1828

squinny1902

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cx. sig. G3^v Most true it is, that I haue lookt on truth Asconce and strangely: But by all aboue, These blenches gaue my heart an other youth.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blenchv.¹

/blɛnʃ/

Forms: Middle English blenchen, Middle English ( blinche), Middle English blenche, Middle English– blench. past tense Middle English bleinte, Middle English bleynte, blynchid, Middle English blent.

Etymology: A word or series of words of very obscure history. Sense 1 is evidently < Old English blęncan to deceive, cheat = Old Norse blekkja ( < blenkja ) to impose upon, which point to a Germanic type *blankjan , assumed to be the causative of a strong *blinkan blink v.; but, as no trace of the latter occurs in early times, the origin of blęncan is thus left uncertain. The northern form was blenk v. The sense-development is involved, from confusion of blenk and blink , of blench and blanch , probably also of the past tense blent with blent , past tense of blend v.¹, and other causes: little can be done at present except to exhibit the senses actually found in use.

To cheat, elude, turn aside. Related to blench n. and blink n.¹

†1. transitive. To deceive, cheat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]

aschrenchc885

blendc888

swikec950

belirtOE

beswike971

blencha1000

blenka1000

belieOE

becatchc1175

trokec1175

beguile?c1225

biwrench?c1225

guile?c1225

trechec1230

unordainc1300

blink1303

deceivec1320

feintc1330

trechetc1330

misusea1382

blind1382

forgo1382

beglose1393

troil1393

turnc1405

lirt?a1425

abuse?a1439

ludify1447

amuse1480

wilec1480

trump1487

delude?a1505

sile1508

betrumpa1522

blear1530

aveugle1543

mislippen1552

pot1560

disglose1565

oversile1568

blaze1570

blirre1570

bleck1573

overtake1581

fail1590

bafflea1592

blanch1592

geck?a1600

hallucinate1604

hoodwink1610

intrigue1612

guggle1617

nigglea1625

nose-wipe1628

cog1629

cheat1637

flam1637

nurse1639

jilt1660

top1663

chaldese1664

bilk1672

bejuggle1680

nuzzlec1680

snub1694

bite1709

nebus1712

fugle1719

to take in1740

have?1780

quirk1791

rum1812

rattlesnake1818

chicane1835

to suck in1842

mogue1854

blinker1865

to have on1867

mag1869

sleight1876

bumfuzzle1878

swop1890

wool1890

spruce1917

jive1928

shit1934

smokescreen1950

dick1964

a1000 Be monna môde (Gr.) 33 Wrenceð he and blenceð.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 55 Abuten us he is for to blenchen.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy vi. 2483 Let no blyndnes you blenke.]

a. intransitive. To start aside, so as to elude anything; to swerve, ‘shy’; to flinch, shrink, give way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > avoid by moving to the side

blencha1250

blenka1330

blinka1400

jouk1513

jink1786

the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > cower or flinch

wondec897

shuna1000

blencha1250

cowerc1300

scunnerc1425

cringea1525

to play couch-quaila1529

quail1544

winch1605

dwindle1612

blank1642

shy1650

scringec1700

funk?1746

flinch1883

curl1913

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > shrink or recoil

wondec897

blencha1250

shunta1250

scurnc1325

blenka1330

blinka1400

startc1400

shrink1508

blanch1572

swerve1573

shruga1577

flinch1578

recoil1582

budgea1616

shucka1620

smay1632

blunk1655

shudder1668

resile1678

skew1678

reluctate1833

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 108 Đe horse þet is scheouh. & blencheð uor one scheadewe.

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 170 Ich am war, and can well blenche.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 732 Corineus bleinte.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum iii. xvii [Rays that] passeth not alwey forþe ryȝte, but blencheþ [1582 swarue] sum wheþer of þe streite wey.

c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 220 Ther with al he bleynte and cryde. A.

c1500 Partenay 4268 Apart Gaffray..Somwhat blent, the stroke..passing by With hym noght mette.

1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration C vij. He obeyeth truly, which..blenchet not out of the waye of Goddes commaundementes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. v. 5 Hold you euer to our speciall drift, Though sometimes you doe blench from this to that As cause doth minister.

a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ss/1 Art thou so poore to blench at what thou hast done?

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xii. 335 Foul fall him that blenches first!

1876 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. xi. 262 I blench and withdraw on this side and on that.

†b. Of a ship: To turn or heel over. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > heel or list

blencha1300

rolla1325

heelc1575

seela1618

list1626

stoop1663

careen1762

to lie along1769

to lay along1779

wrong1842

to roll down1856

a1300 K. Horn 1411 Þe schup bigan to blenche.

3. transitive. To elude, avoid, shirk; to flinch from; to blink. [The first quot. perhaps in form belongs rather to blink v.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > shrink or recoil from

wondec897

blench1663

c1300 Beket 2184 He nas noȝt the man that wolde: his heved enes withdrawe, Ne fonde for to blinche a strok.]

1663 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 142 He now blenched what before..he affirmed to me.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. v. 100 Will not suffer me to blench his merits.

†4. transitive. To turn aside or away (the eyes). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look sideways at > turn (eyes) sideways

blenchc1400

skew1577

goggle1582

askance1594

squinta1616

squinnya1825

c1400 Roland 402 He kest up his browes & blenchid his eye.

c1400 Melayne 570 He wolde noghte say ‘good mornynge,’ ne ones his browes blenke.

†5. transitive. To disconcert, foil, put out, turn aside. Cf. blenk v. 4. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > thwart or foil

false?c1225

confoundc1315

blenk?a1400

matea1400

interrupt1464

blench1485

fruster?a1513

frustrate?a1513

infatuate1533

disappoint1545

prevent1555

foila1564

blank1566

thwart1581

confute1589

dispurpose1607

shorten1608

foola1616

vain1628

balk1635

throwa1650

scotch1654

bafflea1674

crossbar1680

transverse1770

tomahawk1773

throttle1825

wreck1855

stultify1865

derail1889

to pull the plug1923

rank1924

the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > stop course or flow of something

stinta1330

stop1393

intercept1545

blench1602

hain1636

screen1657

to break off1791

to turn off1822

to break one's fall1849

?a1400 Morte Arth. 2858 We salle blenke theire boste, for alle theire bold profire.]

1485 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden (1527) iv. xxxiii. 181 The enemyes were blente thrugh goddes myghte.

1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 7^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Here perchase M. Cope may blenche me, in replying that Anguis may be construed generally for all kynde of Vermine.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 155^v Carrying vp great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants sight, and dead their shot.

a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1844) VIII. 122 Being blenched in his right course by the shadow.

6. intransitive. Of the eyes: To lose firmness of glance, to flinch, quail. [The first quot. may belong to 2.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > flinch

blench1775

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 215 This royal bridde..Blenchithe never for al the cliere light.]

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 35 That glaring and dazzling influence at which the eyes of eagles have blenched.

1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. v. 201 His eyes seemed to blench before her still, fixed gaze.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	blench
释义	† blenchn. Forms: Also (in sense 1) Middle English blenk, blenc. Etymology: < blench v.¹ Obsolete. 1. A trick, stratagem. to do or make a blenk or blench: to play a trick. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase] to do or make a blenk or blencha1250 to play (a person) a pageant1530 to give one the geck1568 to play a paw1568 to draw through the water with a cat1631 come1714 to run one's rig upon1793 to come (the) paddy over1809 to work a traverse1840 to go on, have, take a lark1884 to pull a fast one1912 to take for a ride1925 to pull a person's pissera1935 to pull a person's chain1975 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 378 He [the fox] haveþ mid him blenches ȝarewe. a1300 Havelok 307 Hope maketh fol man ofte blenkes. 1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 274 Þe Scottis now þei þenk of gile..How þei mot do a blenk tille Edward & hise. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 130 And uerliche makeþ his blench. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1201 Þe kyng..a counsayl hym takes..A blench for to make. 2. A turning of the eyes aside, a side glance. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > sideways side-lookinga1500 side looka1586 blench1609 side glance1611 leera1616 skew1622 askewa1641 gloat1645 glega1650 by-glancea1658 squint1673 by-view1753 sklent1818 glee1828 squinny1902 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cx. sig. G3^v Most true it is, that I haue lookt on truth Asconce and strangely: But by all aboue, These blenches gaue my heart an other youth. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blenchv.¹ /blɛnʃ/ Forms: Middle English blenchen, Middle English ( blinche), Middle English blenche, Middle English– blench. past tense Middle English bleinte, Middle English bleynte, blynchid, Middle English blent. Etymology: A word or series of words of very obscure history. Sense 1 is evidently < Old English blęncan to deceive, cheat = Old Norse blekkja ( < blenkja ) to impose upon, which point to a Germanic type blankjan , assumed to be the causative of a strong blinkan blink v.; but, as no trace of the latter occurs in early times, the origin of blęncan is thus left uncertain. The northern form was blenk v. The sense-development is involved, from confusion of blenk and blink , of blench and blanch , probably also of the past tense blent with blent , past tense of blend v.¹, and other causes: little can be done at present except to exhibit the senses actually found in use. To cheat, elude, turn aside. Related to blench n. and blink n.¹ †1. transitive. To deceive, cheat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)] aschrenchc885 blendc888 swikec950 belirtOE beswike971 blencha1000 blenka1000 belieOE becatchc1175 trokec1175 beguile?c1225 biwrench?c1225 guile?c1225 trechec1230 unordainc1300 blink1303 deceivec1320 feintc1330 trechetc1330 misusea1382 blind1382 forgo1382 beglose1393 troil1393 turnc1405 lirt?a1425 abuse?a1439 ludify1447 amuse1480 wilec1480 trump1487 delude?a1505 sile1508 betrumpa1522 blear1530 aveugle1543 mislippen1552 pot1560 disglose1565 oversile1568 blaze1570 blirre1570 bleck1573 overtake1581 fail1590 bafflea1592 blanch1592 geck?a1600 hallucinate1604 hoodwink1610 intrigue1612 guggle1617 nigglea1625 nose-wipe1628 cog1629 cheat1637 flam1637 nurse1639 jilt1660 top1663 chaldese1664 bilk1672 bejuggle1680 nuzzlec1680 snub1694 bite1709 nebus1712 fugle1719 to take in1740 have?1780 quirk1791 rum1812 rattlesnake1818 chicane1835 to suck in1842 mogue1854 blinker1865 to have on1867 mag1869 sleight1876 bumfuzzle1878 swop1890 wool1890 spruce1917 jive1928 shit1934 smokescreen1950 dick1964 a1000 Be monna môde (Gr.) 33 Wrenceð he and blenceð. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 55 Abuten us he is for to blenchen. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy vi. 2483 Let no blyndnes you blenke.] 2. a. intransitive. To start aside, so as to elude anything; to swerve, ‘shy’; to flinch, shrink, give way. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > move sideways [verb (intransitive)] > avoid by moving to the side blencha1250 blenka1330 blinka1400 jouk1513 jink1786 the mind > emotion > fear > physical symptoms of fear > exhibit physical symptoms [verb (intransitive)] > cower or flinch wondec897 shuna1000 blencha1250 cowerc1300 scunnerc1425 cringea1525 to play couch-quaila1529 quail1544 winch1605 dwindle1612 blank1642 shy1650 scringec1700 funk?1746 flinch1883 curl1913 the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > shrink or recoil wondec897 blencha1250 shunta1250 scurnc1325 blenka1330 blinka1400 startc1400 shrink1508 blanch1572 swerve1573 shruga1577 flinch1578 recoil1582 budgea1616 shucka1620 smay1632 blunk1655 shudder1668 resile1678 skew1678 reluctate1833 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 108 Đe horse þet is scheouh. & blencheð uor one scheadewe. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 170 Ich am war, and can well blenche. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 732 Corineus bleinte. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum iii. xvii [Rays that] passeth not alwey forþe ryȝte, but blencheþ [1582 swarue] sum wheþer of þe streite wey. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 220 Ther with al he bleynte and cryde. A. c1500 Partenay 4268 Apart Gaffray..Somwhat blent, the stroke..passing by With hym noght mette. 1553 tr. S. Gardiner De Vera Obediencia: Oration C vij. He obeyeth truly, which..blenchet not out of the waye of Goddes commaundementes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. v. 5 Hold you euer to our speciall drift, Though sometimes you doe blench from this to that As cause doth minister. View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger False One iv. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ss/1 Art thou so poore to blench at what thou hast done? 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xii. 335 Foul fall him that blenches first! 1876 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. xi. 262 I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. †b. Of a ship: To turn or heel over. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > heel or list blencha1300 rolla1325 heelc1575 seela1618 list1626 stoop1663 careen1762 to lie along1769 to lay along1779 wrong1842 to roll down1856 a1300 K. Horn 1411 Þe schup bigan to blenche. 3. transitive. To elude, avoid, shirk; to flinch from; to blink. [The first quot. perhaps in form belongs rather to blink v.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > shrink or recoil from wondec897 blench1663 c1300 Beket 2184 He nas noȝt the man that wolde: his heved enes withdrawe, Ne fonde for to blinche a strok.] 1663 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 142 He now blenched what before..he affirmed to me. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. v. 100 Will not suffer me to blench his merits. †4. transitive. To turn aside or away (the eyes). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look sideways at > turn (eyes) sideways blenchc1400 skew1577 goggle1582 askance1594 squinta1616 squinnya1825 c1400 Roland 402 He kest up his browes & blenchid his eye. c1400 Melayne 570 He wolde noghte say ‘good mornynge,’ ne ones his browes blenke. †5. transitive. To disconcert, foil, put out, turn aside. Cf. blenk v. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > thwart or foil false?c1225 confoundc1315 blenk?a1400 matea1400 interrupt1464 blench1485 fruster?a1513 frustrate?a1513 infatuate1533 disappoint1545 prevent1555 foila1564 blank1566 thwart1581 confute1589 dispurpose1607 shorten1608 foola1616 vain1628 balk1635 throwa1650 scotch1654 bafflea1674 crossbar1680 transverse1770 tomahawk1773 throttle1825 wreck1855 stultify1865 derail1889 to pull the plug1923 rank1924 the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > stop course or flow of something stinta1330 stop1393 intercept1545 blench1602 hain1636 screen1657 to break off1791 to turn off1822 to break one's fall1849 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2858 We salle blenke theire boste, for alle theire bold profire.] 1485 W. Caxton Trevisa's Higden (1527) iv. xxxiii. 181 The enemyes were blente thrugh goddes myghte. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 7^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Here perchase M. Cope may blenche me, in replying that Anguis may be construed generally for all kynde of Vermine. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 155^v Carrying vp great trusses of hay before them, to blench the defendants sight, and dead their shot. a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1844) VIII. 122 Being blenched in his right course by the shadow. 6. intransitive. Of the eyes: To lose firmness of glance, to flinch, quail. [The first quot. may belong to 2.] ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > flinch blench1775 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 215 This royal bridde..Blenchithe never for al the cliere light.] 1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 35 That glaring and dazzling influence at which the eyes of eagles have blenched. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. v. 201 His eyes seemed to blench before her still, fixed gaze. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). blenchv.² Etymology: A variant of blanch v.¹ (The confusion is partly phonetic, as in blanch n.; partly of sense, since, with fear, the cheeks blanch, the eyes blench.) 1. intransitive. To become pale. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (intransitive)] > become or turn pale blakea1225 fallowa1250 blokec1275 bloknec1315 bleykec1327 blikena1400 falla1450 to paint pale (also white)a1529 blemish1530 appale1534 to turn (one's) colour1548 wan1582 bleak1605 whiten1775 blench1813 etiolate1882 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Introd. 29 Where the vexed rubies blench in death, Beneath yon lips and balmy breath. 1842 R. H. Barham Ingoldsby Penance! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 93 That little Foot-page he blench'd with fear. 2. transitive. To whiten, make pale. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (transitive)] > make pale appalc1386 blenkc1400 blaiken1570 blancha1616 etiolate1831 blench1845 etiolize1891 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 82 The northern tribes Whom ceaseless snows and starry winters blench. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1250v.¹a1000v.²1813
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† blenchn.

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