Blamer
(Blam"er) n. One who blames. Wyclif.
Blameworthy
(Blame"wor`thy) a. Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. — Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.
Blancard
(Blan"card) n. [F., fr. blanc white.] A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of
which is partly blanches before it is woven.
Blanch
(Blanch) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blanched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blanching.] [OE. blanchen, blaunchen,
F. blanchir, fr. blanc white. See Blank, a.]
1. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
2. (Gardening) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up
or tying them together.
3. (Confectionery & Cookery) (a) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch
almonds. (b) 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.
4. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
5. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
6. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
Blanch over the blackest and most absurd things.
Tillotson.
Syn. — To Blanch, Whiten. To whiten is the generic term, denoting, to render white; as, to whiten
the walls of a room. Usually (though not of necessity) this is supposed to be done by placing some
white coloring matter in or upon the surface of the object in question. To blanch is to whiten by the
removal of coloring matter; as, to blanch linen. So the cheek is blanched by fear, i. e., by the withdrawal
of the blood, which leaves it white.
Blanch
(Blanch) v. i. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in
the sun.
[Bones] blanching on the grass.
Tennyson.
Blanch
(Blanch), v. t. [See Blench.]
1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. [Obs.]
Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch
his danger.
Bacon.
I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
Reliq. Wot.
2. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
Blanch
(Blanch), v. i. To use evasion. [Obs.]
Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch.
Bacon.
Blanch
(Blanch), n. (Mining) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
