BLENCH

blench. Blench, v.i. to shrink, start back, hinder, ob.

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Blench (�), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched (�); p. pr. & vb. n. Blenching.] [[OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS. blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch.]] 1. 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment. Jeffrey. 2. 2. To fly off; to turn aside.
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that. Shak.