(v. i.) To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
(v. i.) To fly off; to turn aside.
(v. t.) To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
(v. t.) To draw back from; to deny from fear.
(n.) A looking aside or askance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four peptides were synthesized that correspond to relatively hydrophilic segments of the human HepG2 glucose transporter (Mueckler, M., Caruso, C., Baldwin, S.A., Panico, M., Blench, I., Morris, H.R., Allard, W. J., Lienhard, G.E., and Lodish, H.F. (1985) Science 229, 941-945), including a C-terminal segment.
(2) The word still makes me blench – Orangemen marching, Gazza playing an imaginary flute to Rangers fans, sectarian hatreds.
(3) Antibodies were raised against synthetic peptides corresponding to most of the regions of the human erythrocyte glucose transporter predicted to be extramembranous in the model of Mueckler, Caruso, Baldwin, Panico, Blench, Morris, Lienhard, Allard & Lodish [(1985) Science 229, 941-945].
(4) That's why no one blenched when Hollande said in 2006: "I don't like the rich.
(5) Western blots of whole membrane extracts revealed that the polyclonal antibody to band 4.5 used to isolate cDNA clones presumed to code for the transporter (Mueckler, M., Caruso, C., Baldwin, C.A., Pancio, M., Blench, J., Morris, H.B., Allard, W.J., Lienhard, G.E.
Elench
Definition:
(n.) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a refutation.
(n.) A specious but fallacious argument; a sophism.