blanch

blanch has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• a.. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
• a.. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
• a.. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
• 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.
• a.. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
• a.. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
• a.. Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
• v. i.. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
• 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.
• v. i.. To use evasion.
• n.. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.