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A cockroach.

Having a back like that of roach; -- said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave curve.

To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs.

An encroachment; usurpation. [Obs.] Bailey.

To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city 2 Sam. xi. 20. But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25.

The quality of being approachable; approachableness.

Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue.

The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility.

One who approaches.

, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

Impossible to be approached.

Approach. [Archaic] Holland.

A spit. [Obs.] He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon.

A spit; a broach. On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden.

An orthopterus insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.

A tooth of a wool comb. [Written also combrouch.]

ts of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. Exclude the enc…

One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own.

By way of encroachment.