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A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Same as Treenail.

pe by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. The wide wound that the boar had trenched In his soft flank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.

To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual.

Trenchant. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer.

In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.

One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.

A cook. [Obs.] The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney.

sic in triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

One whose business is to free wool from its filth. [Prov. Eng.]

A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle. [Obs.] The shaft the wheel, the wheel, the trendle turns. Sylvester.

Corrupt form of Treenail.

An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.

Same as Rouge et noir, under Rouge.

A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; -- so named from Trenton Falls, in New York. The rocks are mostly limestones, and the period is divided into the Trenton, Utica, and Cincinnati epochs. See the Chart of Geology.

To outrun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Belonging to a camp. Sir T. Browne.

Castrensial. [R.]