blanchn.
/blɑːn(t)ʃ/, /blan(t)ʃ/, U.S. /blæn(t)ʃ/ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > preparations for the skin or complexion > paints or colours
tincturec1400
popping?c1450
ceruse1519
fard1540
parget1593
fucus1600
paint1600
blanch1601
complexion1601
priming colour1616
complexion-maker1619
whitewash1649
blanc1764
blusher1965
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 520 This..serueth to make an excellent blanch for women that desire a white complexion.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 529 Their blanch of cerusse for complexion.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 35 Woad and Blaunch would haue a strong ground.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark
spotOE
markOE
tachea1400
macula?a1425
ruby1542
plotch1548
flea-biting1552
fleck1598
blanch1608
staina1616
naeve1619
neve1624
dark1637
sunspot1651
pip1676
liver spot1684
beauty spot1795
heat-spot1822
spilus1822
ink-spot1839
punctation1848
punctuation1848
macule1864
soldier's spots1874
pock1894
mouche1959
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 242 In the necke thereof are two blanches.
1609 W. M. Man in Moone sig. F2 Vlcers, filth and blanches will breed vpon you.
3. Mineralogy. ‘Lead ore mixed with other minerals.’ Raymond Mining Gloss. 1881.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > lead ore > types of
fell1653
steel-ore1661
bing ore (or simply bing)1686
white lead orea1728
green lead ore1728
blanch1747
red lead of Siberia1788
red lead ore1788
hedyphane1832
cerussite1850
silver lead1860
1747 W. Hooson Miners Dict. sig. Mij They break by following some Blanch of Ore or Spar.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 108 Blanch, lead ore, mixed with other minerals.
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blanchadj.
Obsolete exc. Historical.† 1. White, pale. Chiefly in specific uses, as blanch fever, blanch powder, blanch sauce. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [adjective]
whiteOE
blankc1325
blanch1330
candid1635
1330 R. Mannyng Chron. 40 (Mätz.) He wedded þe dukes douhter, faire Emme þe blaunche.
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 916 And some þow seydist had a blaunch feuere.
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 9 Thanne cometh the blanche fever With chele.
a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 122 Aftur sopper, rosted apples, peres, blaunche powder, your stomak for to ese.
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 28 (heading) Blaunche sawce for capons.
1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 22 Affoyled with the blanche feures.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cxxvi. 110 A verie good blanch powder, to strow upon rosted apples.
2. Heraldry. White, argent.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > (silvery) white
argent1591
blanch1697
1697 London Gaz. No. 3287/4 Robert Dale, Gent., Blanch-Lion Pursuivant.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel iv. xxvii. 117 For who..Saw the blanche lion e'er fall back?
3. 1598 King James VI & I True Law Free Monarchies sig. C7 The king..changeth their holdings from tack to few, from ward to blanch, etc.1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 31 Gif anie man hes lands haldin in frie soccage (in blensch or few).1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) To hold Land in Blench, is, by payment of a Penny, Rose, Pair of Gilt Spurs, or such like thing, if it be demanded; In name of Blench.1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 45 The blanch, feu, and other casualties of superiority payable to the crown.1814 W. Scott Waverley iii. i. 8 The holding of the Barony of Bradwardine is of a nature alike honourable and peculiar, being blanch.1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria ci. §6 The lands are..to be holden of the grantor in free blench.
a. Blanch, Sc. blench; more fully blanch farm, blench ferme [Old French blanche ferme] ; according to Spelman and Coke, Rent paid in silver, instead of service, labour, or produce; in Scottish writers extended to a merely nominal quit-rent, not only of money, as a silver penny, but of other things, as a white rose, pair of gloves, pair of spurs, etc. paid in acknowledgement of superiority.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > nominal
peppercorn1577
peppercorn rent1582
blanch farm1598
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in money > instead of services
penny-farm1355
quit-rent1420
blanch farm1598
penny-rent1611
canon1643
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 36 Frie tennents, haldand their lands, be blenshe ferme.
1627 Spelman 232 Firma alba, ea est quae argento penditur, non pecude.]
a1634 E. Coke 2nd Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. (1642) 19 Redditus albi, White rents, blanch farmes, or rents, vulgarly and commonly called quit rents..called white rents, because they were paid in silver, to distinguish them from work-days, rent cummin, rent corn, etc.
1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 42.
1864 Glasgow Daily Her. 24 Sept. Changing the tenure of the castle..to free blench farm, for payment of a penny silver, if asked only.
b. as adv. = In blench.
ΚΠ
1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) I. 254 A grant of land..either for military service or to be held blench for the payment of a nominal feu-duty.
1860 J. Irving Dumbartonshire 386 The coronatorship of the County to be held blench of the crown for one penny.
c. So blanch duty, blanch holding, blanch kane; blanch holden adj.
ΚΠ
1634–46 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 345 All blench holden lands.
1723 W. Buchanan Family Buchanan (1820) 245 Payment of four pennies of blench-duty if demanded.
1753 Scots Mag. 15 49/1 To change all ward holdings of the principality of Scotland into blanch holdings.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. iv. 140 Blanch-holding..is that whereby the vassal is to pay to the superiour an elusory yearly duty, as a penny money, a rose, a pair of gilt spurs, &c. merely in acknowledgment of the superiority, nomine albae firmae.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 137 (note) The obligations..commuted for a money payment, known as Blanche Kane.
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blanchv.1
/blɑːn(t)ʃ/, /blan(t)ʃ/, U.S. /blæn(t)ʃ/ 1.
a. transitive. To make white, whiten: chiefly, in modern use, by depriving of colour; to bleach. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > whitening > make white [verb (transitive)] > bleach
bleachc1200
blanch?a1400
white?a1425
whiten1548
whitewash1576
to whiten up1808
overbleach1857
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3040 Chirches and chapelles chalke whitte blawnchede.
1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. F4v Patience has blancht thy soule, as white as snow.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Guiacum The Salt of Guaiacum, which you may blanch by calcining it with a great Fire in a Crucible.
1805 R. Southey Madoc i. viii. 83 His bones had now been blanched.
1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. lv. 326 Age had blanched his hair.
1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 120 All at once, a cloud has blanched the blue.
b. To make (metals) white: in Alchemy by ‘albation,’ or ‘albification’; in technical use, to tin.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [verb (transitive)] > to make white
blanch1582
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal
tin1398
leadc1440
ironc1450
lay1472
copper1530
braze1552
silverize1605
foliate1665
plate1686
whiten1687
foil1714
blanch1729
quicken1738
amalgam1789
quick1790
aluminize1791
plate1791
zincify1801
platinize1825
resilver1832
galvanize1839
electroplate1843
zinc1843
electro-silver1851
platinate1858
electrotin1859
white-lead1863
palladiumize1864
white-metal1864
brassc1865
nickelize1865
nickel-plate1872
nickel1875
stopper1884
electro1891
sherardize1904
steel1911
stellite1934
flame-plate1954
steel-face1961
1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. civ. 130 Orpiment..doeth blanche all mettals.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 102 Like them that pass base money, blanch it to cover the brass.
1729 W. Rutty Tin-plates in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 635 Till..you would tin them, or in the Term of Art, blanch them.
c. To remove the dark crust from an alloy after annealing. spec. in coining money.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > harden, temper, or anneal > processes involved in
blanch1803
to blaze (off)1823
1803 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 93 187 Gold alloyed with one-twelfth of silver..may be stamped without being annealed; it consequently does not require to be blanched.
1868 E. Seyd Bullion 545 The furnaces for..blanching are on the first floor.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 489/2 The removal of a small portion of the alloying metal in this way constitutes ‘blanching’ or ‘pickling’ the coin.
2.
a. Cookery. To whiten almonds, or the like, by taking off the skin; hence (as this is done by throwing them into boiling water), to scald by a short rapid boil in order to remove the skin, or for any other purpose.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > cook [verb (transitive)] > blanch
blanch1398
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparing fruit and vegetables > prepare fruit and vegetables [verb (transitive)] > remove skin (of almonds)
blanch1398
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xvii. cix They [Hazel-nuts] engender moche ventosite, yf þey ben ete with þe small skynnes; þerfore..it is good to blaunche hem in hoot water.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 38 Blanchyn almandys, or oþer lyke. dealbo, decortico.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 456/2 He can blandysshe better..than blanche almondes.
1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum xxxix. 172 Before you powr on the Sawce, blanch off the Pearches skin.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery ii. 23 After boiling your Palates very tender..blanch them and scrape them clean.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper iv. 76 Blanch your Tongue, slit it down the Middle, and lay it on a Soup Plate.
b. humorously. To strip.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > strip or undress a person
to dight nakedc1200
stripa1225
unclothec1300
nakea1350
despoilc1386
spoilc1386
spoila1400
uncleada1400
undighta1400
unarray14..
disarrayc1425
disattire?1473
unray1485
uncover1530
tirr1553
disclothe1570
disvesture1570
uncoat1571
uncase1576
unapparel1577
disrobe1590
unrig1591
unbusk1596
unstrip1596
untire1597
devest1598
unparel1603
unshale1604
unvest1609
disapparel1610
flaya1616
undress1615
disinvest1619
disvest1627
despoil1632
blanch1675
unpack1765
ungarment1805
peel1820
divest1848
divesture1854
1675 C. Cotton Poet. Wks. (1765) 261 Come, Ladies, blanch you to your Skins.
3. To whiten plants by depriving them of light, so as to prevent the development of chlorophyll.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > other processes
unplant1552
ingentle1622
blanch1669
tack1693
colonize1816
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ viii. 144 If you have a desire to have them [sc. lettuces]white, or blanch them, (as the French term it)..you may cover every Plant with a small Earthen-pot, and lay some hot Soyl upon them.
1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 206 The common practice of blanching Celery.
1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ Kitchen Garden 73 Blanching the shoots by a covering of sweet earth.
4. To make pale with fear, cold, hunger, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (transitive)] > make pale
appalc1386
blenkc1400
blaiken1570
blancha1616
etiolate1831
blench1845
etiolize1891
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 115 And keepe the naturall Rubie of your Cheekes, When mine is blanch'd with feare. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iii. 41 Fear blanches cold his cheeks.
1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 17 The famine blanches your lips.
5. To give a fair appearance to by artifice or suppression of the truth; to palliate, to ‘whitewash.’ Now only with over (with reference to 1b).
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)] > extenuate
whiteOE
gloze1390
colourc1400
emplasterc1405
littlec1450
polish?c1450
daub1543
plaster1546
blanch1548
flatter1552
extenuate1570
alleviate1577
soothe1587
mincea1591
soothe1592
palliate1604
sweeten1635
rarefy1637
mitigate1651
glossa1656
whitewash1703
qualify1749
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. D.ivv Blanchers..that can blanche the abuse of Images.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 186 Howsoeuer you mince it, and blaunche it ouer.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xlv. 383/2 The Author..blancheth the matter, saying, that hee died a naturall death.
1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 14 To blanch and varnish her deformities.
1709 H. Sacheverell Communic. of Sin 10 Men..that..can Hypocritically Blanch and Palliate..Iniquities.
1880 J. Ruskin Lett. to Clergy 367 To take the punishment of it [wrong], not to get it blanched over by any means.
6. intransitive. To turn or become white (chiefly by loss of colour); to bleach; to pale.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (intransitive)] > grow pale
blakea1225
fallowa1250
blokec1275
palec1400
wan1582
bleacha1616
blanch1768
lighten1781
sicken1853
unflush1866
sickly1882
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 4 If wax blanches in the sun.
1839 F. Marryat Phantom Ship III. xxix. 30 Their cheeks blanched.
1863 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 76 As when the rolling breakers boom and blanch on the precipices.
1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 115 Left the bones of his citizens to blanch on a hundred European battle-fields.
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blanchv.2
/blɑːn(t)ʃ/, /blan(t)ʃ/, U.S. /blæn(t)ʃ/ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]
aschrenchc885
blendc888
swikec950
belirtOE
beswike971
blencha1000
blenka1000
belieOE
becatchc1175
trokec1175
beguile?c1225
biwrench?c1225
guile?c1225
trechec1230
unordainc1300
blink1303
deceivec1320
feintc1330
trechetc1330
misusea1382
blind1382
forgo1382
beglose1393
troil1393
turnc1405
lirt?a1425
abuse?a1439
ludify1447
amuse1480
wilec1480
trump1487
delude?a1505
sile1508
betrumpa1522
blear1530
aveugle1543
mislippen1552
pot1560
disglose1565
oversile1568
blaze1570
blirre1570
bleck1573
overtake1581
fail1590
bafflea1592
blanch1592
geck?a1600
hallucinate1604
hoodwink1610
intrigue1612
guggle1617
nigglea1625
nose-wipe1628
cog1629
cheat1637
flam1637
nurse1639
jilt1660
top1663
chaldese1664
bilk1672
bejuggle1680
nuzzlec1680
snub1694
bite1709
nebus1712
fugle1719
to take in1740
have?1780
quirk1791
rum1812
rattlesnake1818
chicane1835
to suck in1842
mogue1854
blinker1865
to have on1867
mag1869
sleight1876
bumfuzzle1878
swop1890
wool1890
spruce1917
jive1928
shit1934
smokescreen1950
dick1964
1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxix. 174 But so obscurely hath been blancht of good workes elswheare done.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xii. lxxii. 298 Dallying Girles..that intertaine..All Louers..And, hauing blaunched many so, in single Life take pride.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)]
fordita800
forheedc1275
forget1297
to let out ofa1300
spele1338
to go beside ——a1382
waivec1400
remiss?a1425
to go by ——?c1450
misknowledge?a1475
misknow1483
misken1494
to go besides ——1530
to let pass1530
unregard1545
unmind1562
overlook1570
mislippen1581
suspend1581
omit1589
blanch1605
to blow off1631
disregard1641
to pass with ——1641
to give (a person or thing) the go-by1654
prescind1654
nihilify1656
proscribe1680
unnotice1776
ignore1795
to close one's mind1797
cushion1818
to leave out in the cold1839
overslaugh1846
unheed1847
to write off1861
to look through ——1894
scrub1943
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ss1v In Annotacions..it is ouer vsual to blaunch the obscure places, and discoarse vpon the playne. View more context for this quotation
a1618 W. Raleigh Prerogatiue Parl. (1628) 52 You blanch my question, and answere mee by examples.
1638 H. Wotton in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1880) 53 I suppose you will not blanch Paris in your way.
1671 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 240 Whether I am to blanch this particular?
3. intransitive. To shrink, start back, give way. archaic. (Later users apparently mix it up with blanch v.1 6, in sense of ‘turn pale, change colour for fear.’)
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)] > shrink or flinch
fikec1220
wincha1250
withshontec1450
shrink1513
squitch1570
blanch1572
shruga1577
to shrink in the neck1581
wink1605
budgea1616
shy1650
shudder1668
flincha1677
wincea1748
the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from action [verb (intransitive)] > avoid > shrink or recoil
wondec897
blencha1250
shunta1250
scurnc1325
blenka1330
blinka1400
startc1400
shrink1508
blanch1572
swerve1573
shruga1577
flinch1578
recoil1582
budgea1616
shucka1620
smay1632
blunk1655
shudder1668
resile1678
skew1678
reluctate1833
1572 in D. Neal Hist. Puritans (1732) I. 285 'Tis no time to blanch.
1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry ii. sig. D2v What weepe ye, souldiers? Blanch not.
1641 Ld. G. Digby 3rd Speech to Commons 13 A man of a sturdy conscience, that would not blanch for a little.
1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede xxii. 126 The saints forbid that I should ever blanch at the thought of battle.
4. transitive. To turn (anything) off, aside, or away; in Hunting, to ‘head back’ the deer in his flight.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [verb (transitive)] > hunt deer > other deer-hunting actions
strikea1400
rechasea1450
harbour1531
lodge1575
blanch1592
fresh find1811
withe1839
flag1884
yarda1891
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > intercept or cut off (light) [verb (transitive)] > of (some luminary)
shadowc1430
adumber1535
check1589
blanch1793
1592 J. Lyly Gallathea ii. i. sig. C2 Saw you not the Deare come this waie..I beleeue you haue blancht him.
1627 Ld. Falkland Hist. Edward II (1680) 117 He would not blaunch the Deer, the Toyl so near.
1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 232 When he [the deer] swarves or is blanched by any Accident.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §323 The lantern was secured by..the Cornice; which, when the sea rose to the top of the house, blanched it off like a sheet.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) i. x. §1.
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† blanchv.3
Obsolete.
intransitive. = blandish v. 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > flatter [verb (intransitive)]
fikea1225
flatter?c1225
ficklec1230
blandisha1340
smooth1340
glaver1380
softa1382
glozec1386
to hold (also bear) up oila1387
glothera1400
flaitec1430
smekec1440
love?a1500
flata1522
blanch1572
cog1583
to smooth it1583
smooth1587
collogue1602
to oil the tongue1607
sleek1607
wheedle1664
pepper1784
blarney1837
to pitch (the) woo1935
flannel1941
sweet-talk1956
1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes iii. vii. 196 Men which blaunche and flatter with vs, are alwayes suspicious.
a1587 J. Foxe Serm. 2 Cor. v. 10 If I shoulde say that nothing therein were amisse, I should indeede blanch and flatter too much.
1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) x. 69 Bookes will speake plaine, when Councellors blanch [L. in adulationem lapsuri].
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