BLANCH

Definitions for the word, blanch

(a.) Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

(a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

(a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

(a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).

(a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.

(a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

(a.) 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.

(n.) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

(v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.

(v. i.) To use evasion.

(v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

(v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.