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To drown. [Obs.] In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

One who administers a drench.

The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.

Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.

An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.

Conveyed outward; as, efferent impulses, i. e., such as are conveyed by the motor or efferent nerves from the central nervous organ outwards; -- opposed to afferent.

Unbridled license; unruliness. [Obs.] Cockeram.

A justice of the peace; irenarch.

Pacific. See Irenic.

To madden. [Obs.]

A small wrenlike Australian bird (Stipiturus malachurus), having the tail feathers long and loosely barbed, like emu feathers.

The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge. This same entireness or completeness. Trench.

See Intrench.

One who creates a product on his own account; whoever undertakes on his own account an industrial enterprise in which workmen are employed. F. A. Walker.

Having equal differences; as, the terms of arithmetical progression are equidifferent.

Ubiquity; omnipresence. [R.] Grew.

Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top.