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us and improbable, miraculous and incredible, may be allowed to remain convertible terms. Trench.

To remove or retrench the faults or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

nnumerable facts attesting the counter principle." I. Taylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bond (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another. -- Counter brace. See Counter bra…

achment of troops sent for the protection of another detachment, as of men working in the trenches. -- To cover into, to transfer to; as, to cover into the treasury.

rsonal knowledge; belief; credit; confidence. To give credence to the Scripture miracles. Trench. An assertion which might easily find credence. Macualay.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

d. (Her.) See under Forked. -- Cross frog. See under Frog. -- Cross furrow, a furrow or trench cut across other furrows to receive the water running in them and conduct it to the side of the field. -- Cross handle, a handle attached transversely to the axis of a tool, as in the augur. Knight. -- Cross lode (Mining)…

ds. The argument . . . is in very truth not logical and single, but moral and cumulative. Trench.

A drain trench, in a ditch or moat; -- called also cuvette.

his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (Naut.) To raze; as, to cut down a frigate into a sloop. -- To cut the knot or the Gordian knot, to dispose of a difficulty summarily; to solve it by prompt, arbitrary action, rat…

he fields are dank and ways are mire. Milton. Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. Trench.

r appearance. Language altogether deceptive, and hiding the deeper reality from our eyes. Trench. Deceptive cadence (Mus.), a cadence on the subdominant, or in some foreign key, postponing the final close.

rt, a word whose place neither "dissuade" nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.

discriminate in use; -- applied to words which have been employed as synonyms. Coleridge. Trench.

with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. "Dexterous sleights of hand." Trench.

ore, digging potatoes. -- To dig in, to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance; -- used of warfare. Also figuratively, esp. in the phrase to dig in one's heels.

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.

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

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.