What is to use evasion. [Obs.] Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. Bacon called?
blanch — To use evasion. [Obs.] Books will speak plain, when counselors blanch. Bacon. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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