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<h1>Blench</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blench</hw>, <tt>v. i. & t.</tt> <ety>[See 1st <er>Blanch</er>.]</ety> <def>To grow or make pale.</def>

<i>Barbour.</i>

<h1>Blencher</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blench"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who, or that which, scares another; specifically, a person stationed to prevent the escape of the deer, at a hunt. See <er>Blancher</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who blenches, flinches, or shrinks back.</def>

<h1>Blench holding</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blench" hold`ing</hw>. <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>See <er>Blanch holding</er>.</def>

<h1>Blend</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blend</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blended</er> or <er>Blent</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blending</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>blenden</ets>, <ets>blanden</ets>, AS. <ets>blandan</ets> to blend, mix; akin to Goth. <ets>blandan</ets> to mix, Icel. <ets>blanda</ets>, Sw. <ets>blanda</ets>, Dan. <ets>blande</ets>, OHG. <ets>blantan</ets> to mis; to unknown origin.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote><b>Blending</b> the grand, the beautiful, the gay. <i>Percival.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- To commingle; combine; fuse; merge; amalgamate; harmonize.</syn>

<h1>Blend</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blend</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors.</def>

<blockquote>There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that <b>blends</b> with our conviviality. <i>Irving.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blend</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blend</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Blend</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blend</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>blendan</ets>, from <ets>blind</ets> blind. See <er>Blind</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety> <def>To make blind, literally or figuratively; to dazzle; to deceive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Blende</h1> <Xpage=154>

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

<h1>Blender</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blend"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.</def>

<h1>Blending</h1> <Xpage=154>

<hw>Blend"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of mingling.</def>