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mortal apprehension. South. It was relief to quit the ken And the inquiring looks of men. Trench.

A lamp or candlestick. [R.] By him who 'mid the golden lampads went. Trench.

An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.

on. "These would be details too lengthy." Jefferson. "To cut short lengthy explanations." Trench.

Anything which misleads or disappoints. Wishing this lie of life was o'er. Trench. To give the lie to. (a) To charge with falsehood; as, the man gave him the lie. (b) To reveal to be false; as, a man's actions may give the lie to his words. -- White lie, a euphemism for such lies as one finds it convenient to tell, an…

Confined within limits; limited in extent, authority, power, etc. "The limitary ocean." Trench. The poor, limitary creature calling himself a man of the world. De Quincey.

A trench or rampart. (b) pl.

is no longer applied to the ration or stated portion of food delivered at stated periods. Trench.

ater. A fountain bubbled up, whose lymph serene Nothing of earthly mixture might distain. Trench.

n of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic. [R.] "Mantic fury." Trench.

A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

bservance which is overdone, of an unmanly readiness to fall in with the will of another. Trench.

obability. "Preëminent by so much odds." Milton. "The fearful odds of that unequal fray." Trench. The odds Is that we scare are men and you are gods. Shak. There appeared, at least, four to one odds against them. Swift. All the odds between them has been the different s "cope....given to their understandings to range i…

Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.

losed or unexplored tract. Also used figuratively. The great outfield of thought or fact. Trench.

Of or pertaining to an outline; being in, or forming, an outline. Trench.

A kind of stockaded intrenchment. [New Zealand.] Farrow.

A camp permanently intrenched, attached to Turkish frontier fortresses.

One of a series of long trenches constructed before a besieged fortress, by the besieging force, as a cover for troops supporting the attacking batteries. They are roughly parallel to the line of outer defenses of the fortress.

e present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. Trench.