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To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

nd conquest. Prescott. We speak of the "invention" of printing, the discovery of America. Trench.

erences. To make an anxious discrimination between the miracle absolute and providential. Trench.

; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.

To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

r unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. Having witnessed displays of his power and grace. Trench.

or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

To become fluid; to be melted; to be liquefied. A figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. Shak.

essation of use, practice, or exercise; inusitation; desuetude; as, the limbs lose their strength by disuse. The disuse of the tongue in the only . . . remedy. Addison. Church discipline then fell into disuse. Southey.

A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.

The process of adding some ingredient, as to wine, to give flavor, character, or strength.

The process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor. Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.

d, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.

t; the act of drinking. In his hands he took the goblet, but a while the draught forbore. Trench.

To pull; to exert strength in drawing anything; to have force to move anything by pulling; as, a horse draws well; the sails of a ship draw well.

"to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

r T. Elyot. All were dukes once, who were "duces" -- captains or leaders of their people. Trench.

as Will stupefy and dull the sense a while. Shak. Use and custom have so dulled our eyes. Trench.

ermanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.…