blench

Etymology 1
From and, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To shrink; start back; give way; flinch; turn aside or fly off.
 * 2) * 1998, Andrew Hurley (translator),, "Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrnth", Collected Fictions, Penguin Putnam, p.255
 * "This," said Dunraven with a vast gesture that did not blench at the cloudy stars, and that took in the black moors, the sea, and a majestic, tumbledown edifice that looked like a stable fallen upon hard times, "is my ancestral land."
 * 1)  To quail.
 * 2)  To deceive; cheat.
 * 3)  To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
 * 4)  To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
 * 5)  To fly off; to turn aside.
 * 1)  To deceive; cheat.
 * 2)  To draw back from; shrink; avoid; elude; deny, as from fear.
 * 3)  To hinder; obstruct; disconcert; foil.
 * 4)  To fly off; to turn aside.
 * 1)  To fly off; to turn aside.

Noun

 * 1) A deceit; a trick.
 * 2) A sidelong glance.

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  To blanch.

Noun

 * 1) A deceit; a trick.
 * 2) * c. 1210, MS. Cotton Caligula A IX f.246.