Look up: Blanch

1. Blanch
   Blanch is American slang for to vomit
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2. Blanch
   To partially cook vegetables by parboiling them in highly salted water then cooling quickly in ice water.
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3. Blanch
   To partially cook vegetables by parboiling them in highly salted water then cooling quickly in ice water.
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4. Blanch
   To keep light from the leaves and stems, keeping the pant tissue soft (i.e. endive is grown this way).
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5. blanch
   [v] - cook briefly
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6. Blanch
   Blanch transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blanched ; present participle & verbal noun Blanching .] [ Middle English blanchen , blaunchen , French blanchir ...
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7. Blanch
   Blanch intransitive verb To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun. « [ Bones] blanching on the grass. Tennyson. »
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8. Blanch
   Blanch transitive verb [ See Blench .] 1. To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed. [ Obsolete] « Ifs and ands to qualify the words of treason, whereby every man might express his malice and blanch his danger. ...
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9. Blanch
   Blanch intransitive verb To use evasion. [ Obsolete] « Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch . Bacon. »
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10. Blanch
    Blanch noun (Mining) Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
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11. blanch
    1. To take the colour out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair. ... 2. <botany> To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together. ... 3. To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding...
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12. blanch
    parboil verb cook (vegetables) briefly; `Parboil the beans before freezing them`
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13. blanch
    (blanch) to become pale.
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14. Blanch
    • (v. t.) To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer. • (a.) 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. • (a.) To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of pla...
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15. Blanch
    Blanch is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `White, Fair` Where is it used? The name Blanch is mainly used In English.How do they say it elsewhere? Blanche ( In French and In English) See also In Spanish: Blanca In Italian: Bianca From Old English. Blanch doesn`t appear In 2007`s to...
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16. Blanch
    To boil briefly to loosen the skin of a fruit or a vegetable. After 30 seconds in boiling water, the fruit or vegetable should be plunged into ice water to stop the cooking action, and then the skin easily slices off.
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17. BLANCH
    To immerse in rapidly boiling water and allow to cook slightly.
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18. Blanch
    Blanch is American slang for to vomit
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19. Blanch
    Blanch is the daughter of Alphonso King of Castile.
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20. Blanch
    Blanch is a French expression used in cooking to describe whitening poultry, vegetables, fruit etc, by plunging them into boiling water for a short time, and afterwards plunging them into cold water and leaving them in the cold water until they are cold.
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21. Blanch
    Temporarily squeeze the blood out of capillaries
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22. Blanch
    (medical) When skin is `blanched`, it takes on a whitish appearance as blood flow to the region is prevented. This occurs during and is the basis of the physiologic test known as diascopy. Blanching of the fingers is also one of the most clinically evident signs of Raynaud`s phenomenon. Blanc...
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