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a. [ L. castrensis, fr. castra camp. ] Belonging to a camp. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Castrensial. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Daughters. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ See Daughter. ] Daughters. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. (Mil.) To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet. Same as intrench. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. to establish in a position from which dislodgement is difficult; to place firmly in a strong position. [ PJC ]

3. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon.
Syn. -- intrench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches.
Syn. -- intrenchment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. the act or process of entrenching. [ PJC ]

adj. Undiluted; -- of liquids. Opposite of diluted.
Syn. -- neat, straight. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Intrenched p. pr. & vb. n. Intrenching. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cut in; to furrow; to make trenches in or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was this very sword intrenched it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His face
Deep scars of thunder had intrenched. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To surround with a trench or with intrenchments, as in fortification; to fortify with a ditch and parapet; as, the army intrenched their camp, or intrenched itself. “In the suburbs close intrenched.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To invade; to encroach; to infringe or trespass; to enter on, and take possession of, that which belongs to another; -- usually followed by on or upon; as, the king was charged with intrenching on the rights of the nobles, and the nobles were accused of intrenching on the prerogative of the crown. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are not to intrench upon truth in any conversation, but least of all with children. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + trenchant. ] Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air
With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Intrench. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of intrenching or the state of being intrenched. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch and a parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and Prospect Hills. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any defense or protection. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An encroachment or infringement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The slight intrenchment upon individual freedom. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow.
Syn. -- magnetic intensity, magnetic induction, magnetic flux density. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Quit, a. + rent. ] (Law) A rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit from other service. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some of the United States a fee-farm rent is so termed. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strengthen again; to fortify anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Retrenched p. pr. & vb. n. Retrenching. ] [ OF. retrenchier, F. retrancher; pref. re- re- + OF. trenchier, F. trancher, to cut. See Trench. ] 1. To cut off; to pare away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy exuberant parts retrench. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lessen; to abridge; to curtail; as, to retrench superfluities or expenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

But this thy glory shall be soon retrenched. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To confine; to limit; to restrict. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

These figures, ought they then to receive a retrenched interpretation? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Fort.) To furnish with a retrenchment; as, to retrench bastions. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To lesen; diminish; curtail; abridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To cause or suffer retrenchment; specifically, to cut down living expenses; as, it is more reputable to retrench than to live embarrassed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. retrenchment. ] 1. The act or process of retrenching; as, the retrenchment of words in a writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The retrenchment of my expenses will convince you that &unr_; mean to replace your fortune as far as I can. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) A work constructed within another, to prolong the defense of the position when the enemy has gained possession of the outer work; or to protect the defenders till they can retreat or obtain terms for a capitulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Lessening; curtailment; diminution; reduction; abridgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Sisters. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. stren, streen, streon, AS. gestriénan, gestr&unr_;nan, gestreónan, to beget, to obtain, gestreón gain, wealth; akin to OHG. striunan to gain. Cf. Strian race, family. ] Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } the original compar. & superl. of Strong. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Two of us shall strenger be than one. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. strengthe, AS. strengðu, fr. strang strong. See Strong. ] 1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

All his [ Samson's ] strength in his hairs were. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou must outlive
Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Power to resist force; solidity or toughness; the quality of bodies by which they endure the application of force without breaking or yielding; -- in this sense opposed to frangibility; as, the strength of a bone, of a beam, of a wall, a rope, and the like. “The brittle strength of bones.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Power of resisting attacks; impregnability. “Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That quality which tends to secure results; effective power in an institution or enactment; security; validity; legal or moral force; logical conclusiveness; as, the strength of social or legal obligations; the strength of law; the strength of public opinion; strength of evidence; strength of argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. One who, or that which, is regarded as embodying or affording force, strength, or firmness; that on which confidence or reliance is based; support; security. [ 1913 Webster ]

God is our refuge and strength. Ps. xlvi. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

What they boded would be a mischief to us, you are providing shall be one of our principal strengths. Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Force as measured; amount, numbers, or power of any body, as of an army, a navy, and the like; as, what is the strength of the enemy by land, or by sea? [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; -- said of literary work. [ 1913 Webster ]

And praise the easy vigor of a life
Where Denham's strength and Waller's sweetness join. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Intensity; -- said of light or color. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bright Phoebus in his strength. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Intensity or degree of the distinguishing and essential element; spirit; virtue; excellence; -- said of liquors, solutions, etc.; as, the strength of wine or of acids. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A strong place; a stronghold. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the strength of, or
Upon the strength of, in reliance upon. “The allies, after a successful summer, are too apt, upon the strength of it, to neglect their preparations for the ensuing campaign.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Force; robustness; toughness; hardness; stoutness; brawniness; lustiness; firmness; puissance; support; spirit; validity; authority. See Force. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To strengthen. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Strengthened p. pr. & vb. n. Strengthening. ] 1. To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest, . . .
With powerful policy strengthen themselves. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him. Deut. iii. 28. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To invigorate; confirm; establish; fortify; animate; encourage. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To grow strong or stronger. [ 1913 Webster ]

The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects. [1913 Webster]

a. Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

Florence my friend, in court my faction
Not meanly strengthful. Marston. [1913 Webster]

n. A stronghold. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of strength. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Strengthener. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having strength; strong. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. strenuatis. ] Strenuousness; activity. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. strenuus; cf. Gr. &unr_; strong, hard, rough, harsh. ] Eagerly pressing or urgent; zealous; ardent; earnest; bold; valiant; intrepid; as, a strenuous advocate for national rights; a strenuous reformer; a strenuous defender of his country. [ 1913 Webster ]

And spirit-stirring wine, that strenuous makes. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strenuous, continuous labor is pain. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Stren"u*ous*ly, adv. -- Stren"u*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Treen wooden. ] A fish spear. [ Obs. ] Ainsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Shipbuilding) Same as Treenail. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trenched p. pr. & vb. n. Trenching. ] [ OF. trenchier to cut, F. trancher; akin to Pr. trencar, trenchar, Sp. trinchar, It. trinciare; of uncertain origin. ] 1. To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wide wound that the boar had trenched
In his soft flank. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fort.) To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cut furrows or ditches in; as, to trench land for the purpose of draining it. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next; as, to trench a garden for certain crops. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To encroach; to intrench. [ 1913 Webster ]

Does it not seem as if for a creature to challenge to itself a boundless attribute, were to trench upon the prerogative of the divine nature? I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have direction; to aim or tend. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To trench at, to make trenches against; to approach by trenches, as a town in besieging it. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like powerful armies, trenching at a town
By slow and silent, but resistless, sap. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trenche, F. tranchée. See Trench, v. t. ] 1. A long, narrow cut in the earth; a ditch; as, a trench for draining land. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An alley; a narrow path or walk cut through woods, shrubbery, or the like. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In a trench, forth in the park, goeth she. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fort.) An excavation made during a siege, for the purpose of covering the troops as they advance toward the besieged place. The term includes the parallels and the approaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

To open the trenches (Mil.), to begin to dig or to form the lines of approach. --
Trench cavalier (Fort.), an elevation constructed (by a besieger) of gabions, fascines, earth, and the like, about half way up the glacis, in order to discover and enfilade the covered way. --
Trench plow, or
Trench plough, a kind of plow for opening land to a greater depth than that of common furrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Trenchant. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. trenchant, F. tranchant, p. pr. See Trench, v. t. ] 1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. “ Trenchant was the blade.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. trencheoir, F. tranchoir, fr. trancher to cut, carve. See Trench, v. t. ] 1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. [ 1913 Webster ]

It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their “summum bonum” upon their trenchers. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. --
Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [ R. ] L'Estrange. --
Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. --
Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Trencher-men [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cook. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To dance the trenchmore. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. t. To plow with deep furrows, for the purpose of loosening the land to a greater depth than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to turn; to bend. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Not far beneath i' the valley as she trends
Her silver stream. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]