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ntly by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." Trench.

To drown. [Obs.] In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.

One who administers a drench.

To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.

A dose of physic for a horse. Shak.

To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. [Obs.] Shak.

To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten. [Obs.] The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you. Two N. Kins.

To soak or drench. [Obs.]

To drench or souse with water. "Let the maids bewash the men." Herrick.

To drench; to soak; especially, to immerse (in water believed to have curative properties). [Obs.] There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again. Carew.

A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat.

A vane in the shape of a cock; a weathercock. Drenched our steeples, drowned the cocks! Shak.

Wrinkled; puckered. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.

To make unlike a prince. [R.] For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . . And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.

p. p. of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The tenure by which a drench held land. [Obs.] Burrill.

Drenched; drowned. [Obs.] "Condemned to be drent." Spenser.

p. p., of Drench to drown. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Drenched or saturated with moisture or liquid. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood. Deut. xxxii. 42.

Saturated with liquid or moisture; drenched. Let the earth be drunken with our blood. Shak.