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BlenchBlench Blench, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blenched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blenching.] [OE. blenchen to blench, elude, deceive, AS.
blencan to deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon.
Prop. a causative of blink to make to wink, to deceive. See
Blink, and cf. 3d Blanch.]
1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of
courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
Blench not at thy chosen lot. --Bryant.
This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never
blenched from its fulfillment. --Jeffrey.
2. To fly off; to turn aside. [Obs.]
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that.
--Shak. Blench
Blench Blench, v. t.
1. To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to
obstruct; to hinder. [Obs.]
Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet
he might and would of likelihood have gone further.
--Sir T. More.
2. To draw back from; to deny from fear. [Obs.]
He now blenched what before he affirmed. --Evelyn.
Blench
Blench Blench, n.
A looking aside or askance. [Obs.]
These blenches gave my heart another youth. --Shak.
BlenchBlench Blench, v. i. & t. [See 1st Blanch.]
To grow or make pale. --Barbour.
Meaning of Blench from wikipedia
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Roger Marsh Blench (born
August 1, 1953) is a
British linguist,
ethnomusicologist and
development anthropologist. He has an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University...
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feature is a
tripartite singulative–collective–plurative
number system,
which Blench (2010)
believes is a
result of a noun-classifier
system in the protolanguage...
- 2017-04-30.
Blench,
Roger (2014). An
Atlas Of
Nigerian Languages. Cambridge: Kay
Williamson Educational Foundation. Crozier,
David Henry;
Blench,
Roger (1992)...
- the case,
Sidwell &
Blench suggest that
Khasic may have been an
early offshoot of
Palaungic that had
spread westward.
Sidwell &
Blench (2011)
suggest Shompen...
- to only the Kra
branch of the family. The name "Daic" is used by
Roger Blench (2008).
James R.
Chamberlain (2016)
proposes that the Tai–Kadai (Kra–Dai)...
- (DRC),
Nigeria and Cameroon. They
include the
pygmy languages Efé and Asoa.
Blench (2011)
suggests that
Central Sudanic influenced the
development of the noun-class...
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following the
desiccation of the
Sahara in c. 3500 BCE.
According to
Roger Blench (2004), all
specialists in Niger–Congo
languages believe the
languages to...
-
Temotu linkage,
named after the
Temotu Province of the
Solomon Islands.
Blench (2014)
considers Utupua and
Vanikoro to be two
separate branches that are...
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classified as a
divergent Tani
language (Post &
Blench 2011). Koro has
undergone influence from
Hruso (Post &
Blench 2011). However,
Milang and Koro do not belong...
- diversity)
based on
Blench (2019). The
Plateau languages are
highly typologically and
lexically diverse. For instance,
Roger Blench (2022)
notes that Beromic...
