Word Meanings - BLANCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. To whiten, as the surface of meat, by plunging

Additional info about word: BLANCH

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds. 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 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. (more info) 1. To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

Related words: (words related to BLANCH)

• BLEACH
  To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• TYPHLOSOLE
  A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
• TYPIFICATION
  The act of typifying, or representing by a figure.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• TYRANT
  Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birds belonging to the family Tyrannidæ; -- called also tyrant bird. Note: These birds are noted for their irritability and pugnacity, and for the courage with which they attack rapacious birds
• TYMP
  A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
• TYRANNOUS
  Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P. Sidney. -- Tyr"an*nous*ly, adv.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• TYNY
  Small; tiny.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• MEATY
  Abounding in meat.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• MARTYROLOGIC; MARTYROLOGICAL
  Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.
• INCORRIGIBILITY
  The state or quality of being incorrigible. The ingratitude, the incorrigibility, the strange perverseness . . . of mankind. Barrow.
• APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
  The state or quality of being apostolical.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• TENUITY
  1. The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair. 2. Rarily; rareness; thinness, as of a fluid; as, the tenuity of
• FORMALITY
  The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• AMENABILITY
  The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.
• OPACITY
  1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.
• TENSIBILITY
  The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• ACCENDIBILITY
  Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
• EMOTIVITY
  Emotiveness. Hickok.