blanch

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[edit] Noun

Singular
blanch

Plural
uncountable

blanch (uncountable)

  1. Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to blanch

Third person singular
blanches

Simple past
blanched

Past participle
blanched

Present participle
blanching

to blanch (third-person singular simple present blanches, present participle blanching, simple past and past participle blanched)

  1. To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
  2. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
  3. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
  4. To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
  5. To use evasion.
  6. (cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
  7. 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
  8. To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
  9. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
  10. To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
  11. To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
  12. (figuratively) To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.

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