To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.

To use evasion.

To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.

To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.

Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to
whitewash; to palliate.

To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the
process of coining.).

To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves
of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.

To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to
blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

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.

To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with
fear; the rose blanches in the sun.