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To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower. He must either bate the laborer's wages, or not employ or not pay him. Locke.

. [Obs.] And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser. Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.

educing of any agreement to certain heads or capitula should not be called to capitulate. Trench.

t carnal. 1 Car. iii. 3. Not sunk in carnal pleasure. Milton rnal desires after miracles. Trench.

To throw up, as a mound, or rampart. Thine enemies shall cast a trench [bank] about thee. Luke xix. 48.

ses, and swine. Belted cattle, Black cattle. See under Belted, Black. -- Cattle guard, a trench under a railroad track and alongside a crossing (as of a public highway). It is intended to prevent cattle from getting upon the track. -- cattle louse (Zoöl.), any species of louse infecting cattle. There are several spec…

To talk much and idly; to chatter. Trench.

To form a channel in; to cut or wear a channel or channels in; to groove. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

galleries, palaces, and ruins, is termed by them [the Italians] a cicerone, or a Cicero. Trench.

fication from the word civility has obliged the creation of another word -- civilization. Trench.

A trench dug in the botton of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

mpanions in the world. Shak. A companion is one with whom we share our bread; a messmate. Trench.

of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison. Trench.

terrors and with clamors compassed round. Milton. Now all the blessings Of a glad cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round.uke xix. 43.

ection; accumulation. A conglomerate of marvelous anecdotes, marvelously heaped together. Trench.

estruction. Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, to secure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.