These are the meanings of the letters ECLNHMAB when you unscramble them.
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Becalm (v. t.)
To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease.
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Becalm (v. t.)
To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
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Blanch (a.)
To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.
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Blanch (a.)
To bleach by excluding the light, as the stalks or leaves of plants, by earthing them up or tying them together.
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Blanch (a.)
To make white by removing the skin of, as by scalding; as, to blanch almonds.
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Blanch (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.
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Blanch (a.)
To give a white luster to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining.).
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Blanch (a.)
To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
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Blanch (a.)
Fig.: To whiten; to give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to palliate.
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Blanch (v. i.)
To grow or become white; as, his cheek blanched with fear; the rose blanches in the sun.
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Blanch (v. t.)
To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
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Blanch (v. t.)
To cause to turn aside or back; as, to blanch a deer.
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Blanch (v. i.)
To use evasion.
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Blanch (n.)
Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.
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Bleach (a.)
To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
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Bleach (v. i.)
To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
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Blench (v. i.)
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.
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Blench (v. i.)
To fly off; to turn aside.
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Blench (v. t.)
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; -- also, to obstruct; to hinder.
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Blench (v. t.)
To draw back from; to deny from fear.
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Blench (n.)
A looking aside or askance.
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Blench (v. i. & t.)
To grow or make pale.
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Cabmen (pl. )
of Cabman
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Manche (n.)
A sleeve.