a. [f. BLANCH v.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Whitened (now, chiefly, by loss of color).

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1401.  Pol. Poems (1859), II. 50. Blaunchid graves ful of dede bones.

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1633.  P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., XII. xxxi. Her loathsome face, blancht skinne and snakie hair.

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1820.  Keats, St. Agnes, xxx. Blanched linen, smooth and lavendered.

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  b.  Blanched copper: an alloy of copper and arsenic (cf. BLANCH v. 1 b.).

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turkes (1621), 1203. A cup of blancht copper.

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  2.  Whitened (as almonds) by removal of the skin; peeled.

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c. 1420.  Liber Cocorum (1862), 28. Take blanchid almondis and small hom grynde.

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a. 1666.  A. Brome, Horace’s De Arte P. (1671), 391. Him that buys chiches blanch’t.

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  3.  Of plants: Whitened by exclusion of light.

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1793.  T. Beddoes, Calculus, 199. Blanched plants lose their green colour, and become whitish and sickly.

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1834.  Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sc., xxvii. (1849), 301. They [Plants] are found in caverns almost void of light, though generally blanched and feeble.

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  4.  Pale with fear or other emotion, hunger, etc.

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1828.  Scott, F. M. Perth, I. 50. They looked on each other with fallen countenances and blanched lips.

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  † 5.  ? Colorless, feeble; or ? perverted. Obs.

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1553–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 86/2. Now marke (good reader) what blanched stuffe here followeth.

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