bleynte

bleynte

Middle English

Verb

bleynte

1. past participle of blenchen
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale: 219-21.

     He cast his eye upon Emelya,

     And therwithal he bleynte, and cryede "A!"

     As though he stongen were unto the herte.

References

• bleynte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913