\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. 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. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
         Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
                                               --Shak.

\Blench\, v. t.
1. 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.
                                               --Sir T. More.
2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]
         He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn.

\Blench\, n.
A looking aside or askance. [Obs.]
      These blenches gave my heart another youth. --Shak.

\Blench\, v. i. & t. [See 1st {Blanch}.]
To grow or make pale. --Barbour.