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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.

See Intrench.

To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. His face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton.

Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. [Obs.] As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.

The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched.

To cut off; to pare away. Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham.

The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing. The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that Walpole.

Being without trenches; whole; intact. [Obs.]

Shak. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee. Trench.

A canal or trench for irrigating land. [Sp. Amer.]

A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks of earth.

The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.

emper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench.