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Apprenticeship. [Obs.]

The service or condition of an apprentice; the state in which a person is gaining instruction in a trade or art, under legal agreement.

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

Waging war; carrying on war. "Belligerent powers." E. Everett.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

of Bren. Burnt. [Obs.]

Smooth; unwrinkled. [Scot.] Your bonnie brow was brent. Burns.

Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous. Parkhurst.

So as to surround or encircle.

A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow slits for sighting, supported on a tripod by a ball and socket joint.…

Carryng on war in conjunction with another power.

Composed of mutually dependent parts; making a logical whole; consistent; as, a coherent plan, argument, or discourse.

In a coherent manner.

; coöperating. I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation. Sir J. Davies. The concurrent testimony of antiquity. Bp. Warburton.

With concurrence; unitedly.

The state or quality of being concurrent; concurrence.

Relating to conference. [R.] Clarke.

A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

Running or moving rapidly. [Archaic] Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.