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It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

ed with white, the true Arcadian strain. Dryden. A bird, a cloud, flecking the sunny air. Trench.

x of things, And that same infant beauty that she wore Is fixed upon her now forevermore. Trench. Languages, like our bodies, are in a continual flux. Felton.

. Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people. Trench.

t man's "folly," and name of the foolish builder is thus kept alive for long after years. Trench.

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

g or evening); the gloaming. When the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

out two and a half inches in diameter, to be thrown from the hand into the head of a sap, trenches, covered way, or upon besiegers mounting a breach. (b) A portable fire extinguisher consisting of a glass bottle containing water and gas. It is thrown into the flames. Called also fire grenade. Rampart grenades, grenades…

To trench; to drain.

A heron; esp., the common European heron. "A stately hern." Trench.

hind, that homeward driving the slow steer Tells how man's daily work goes forward here. Trench.

belonging to a home or to a particular country; a native; as, a word which is a homeling. Trench.

that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be so bad!" Trench.

resses of the insides of these shells. Woodward. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice. Shak.

nity or congruousness; unsuitableness. There is an inconcinnity in admitting these words. Trench.

aceful; degrading. Chaucer. Counts it scorn to draw Comfort indign from any meaner thing. Trench.

dulgence in sloth and ease is that which would constitute for us the absence of all pain. Trench.

vestment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

ces, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks. " Jagged vine leaves' shade." Trench. -- Jag"ged*ly, adv. -- Jag"ged*ness, n.

days of joyance are decreed to all. Byron. From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow Trench.