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A young woman; a girl; a maiden. Shak. Lord and lady, groom and wench. Chaucer. That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot. Chapman. He was received by the daughter of the house, a pretty, buxom, blue- eyed little wench. W. Black.

One who wenches; a lewd man.

Being without a wench. Shak.

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.

A ruddy, fat-faced woman; a wench. [Obs.] Shak.

Well-shaped; handsome. "The girl was a tight, clever wench as any was." Arbuthnot.

Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden.

A young woman; a wench. [Obs.] Sweet doxies and dells. B. Jonson.

A loose wench; a disreputable sweetheart. Shak.

A lewd wench; a strumpet. Shak.

One who associates with drabs; a wencher. Massinger.

Having the character of a drab or low wench. "The drabbish sorceress." Drant.

A slut; a vagabond wench. Same as Drossel. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To fly out; to turn out; to go off. [Obs.] A wench is a rare bait, with which a man No sooner's taken but he straight firks mad.B.Jonson.

n manufactured. -- Flax puller, a machine for pulling flax plants in the field. -- Flax wench. (a) A woman who spins flax. [Obs.] (b) A prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. -- Mountain flax (Min.), amianthus. -- New Zealand flax (Bot.) See Flax-plant.

A worthless woman or girl; a forward wench; a jade; -- used as a term of contempt or reproach. Grew.

A disreputable or vicious woman; a wench; a quean; also, sometimes, a worthless man. Shak. She shines the first of battered jades. Swift.

A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench. [Prov. Eng.]

Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.

me as Oyster catcher, above. -- Oyster shell (Zoöl.), the shell of an oyster. -- Oyster wench, Oyster wife, Oyster women, a women who deals in oysters. -- Pearl oyster. (Zoöl.) See under Pearl. -- Thorny oyster (Zoöl.), any spiny marine shell of the genus Spondylus.