Part 690

These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

Blench, v. i. & t. [See 1st Blanch.] To grow or make pale. Barbour.

Blench"er (&?;), n. 1. One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See Blancher. [Obs.]

2. One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.

Blench" hold`ing. (Law) See Blanch holding.

Blend (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blended or Blent (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blending.] [OE. blenden, blanden, AS. blandan to blend, mix; akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, OHG. blantan to mis; to unknown origin.] 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse; to confound.

Blending the grand, the beautiful, the gay. Percival.

2. To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. [Obs.] Spenser.

Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.

Blend (&?;), v. i. To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.

There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

Blend, n. A thorough mixture of one thing with another, as color, tint, etc., into another, so that it cannot be known where one ends or the other begins.

Blend, v. t. [AS. blendan, from blind blind. See Blind, a.] To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Blende (&?;), n. [G., fr. blenden to blind, dazzle, deceive, fr. blind blind. So called either in allusion to its dazzling luster; or (Dana) because, though often resembling galena, it yields no lead. Cf. Sphalerite.] (Min.) (a) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. (b) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster.

Blend"er (&?;), n. One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.

Blend"ing, n. 1. The act of mingling.

2. (Paint.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

Blend"ous (&?;), a. Pertaining to, consisting of, or containing, blende.

Blend"wa`ter (&?;), n. A distemper incident to cattle, in which their livers are affected. Crabb.

Blen"heim span"iel (&?;). [So called from Blenheim House, the seat of the duke of Marlborough, in England.] A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.

Blenk, v. i. To blink; to shine; to look. [Obs.]

{ Blen"ni*oid (&?;), Blen"ni*id (&?;), } a. [Blenny + -oid] (Zoöl.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the blennies.

Blen*nog"e*nous (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; mucus + -genous.] Generating mucus.

||Blen`nor*rhe"a (&?;), n. [Gr. &?; mucus + &?; to flow.] (Med.) (a) An inordinate secretion and discharge of mucus. (b) Gonorrhea. Dunglison.

Blen"ny (&?;), n.; pl. Blennies (&?;). [L. blennius, blendius, blendea, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; slime, mucus.] (Zoöl.) A marine fish of the genus Blennius or family Blenniidæ; -- so called from its coating of mucus. The species are numerous.

Blent (&?;), imp. & p. p. of Blend to mingle. Mingled; mixed; blended; also, polluted; stained.

Rider and horse, friend, foe, in one red burial blent. Byron.

Blent, imp. & p. p. of Blend to blind. Blinded. Also (Chaucer), 3d sing. pres. Blindeth. [Obs.]