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Daughters. [Obs.]

Daughters. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Intrench.

Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.

To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton.

Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. [Obs.] As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.

The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.

A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone.

To strengthen again; to fortify anew.

To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham.

The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing. The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that Walpole.

Sisters. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, the original compar. & superl. of Strong. [Obs.] Two of us shall strenger be than one. Chaucer.

xertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment. All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were. Chaucer. Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty. Milton.

To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . . With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak.

One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.

That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.

Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.

A stronghold. [Obs.]