Definition of blanch

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

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Endive :: Endive (n.) A composite herb (Cichorium Endivia). Its finely divided and much curled leaves, when blanched, are used for salad..
Blencher :: Blencher (n.) One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher..
Whiten :: Whiten (v. t.) To make white; to bleach; to blanch; to whitewash; as, to whiten a wall; to whiten cloth..
Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
Blanch :: Blanch (v. i.) To use evasion.
Blancher :: Blancher (n.) One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside..
Blanching :: Blanching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blanc.
Carte Blanche :: Carte blanche () A blank paper, with a person's signature, etc., at the bottom, given to another person, with permission to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Hence: Unconditional terms; unlimited authority..
Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.)..
Blench Holding :: Blench holding () See Blanch holding.
Blanchimeter :: Blanchimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.
Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair..
Whitener :: Whitener (n.) One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher..
Appall :: Appall (a.) To make pale; to blanch.
Blanch :: Blanch (v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer..
Chard :: Chard (n.) The tender leaves or leafstalks of the artichoke, white beet, etc., blanched for table use..
Celery :: Celery (n.) A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad..
Blanch :: Blanch (v. i.) To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun..
Etiolate :: Etiolate (v. t.) To blanch; to bleach; to whiten by depriving of the sun's rays.
Blanch :: Blanch (a.) To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds..
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