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  • English Word Trench-plow Definition Alt. of Trench-plough
  • English Word Trenchand Definition Trenchant.
  • English Word Trenchant Definition Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
  • English Word Trenchant Definition Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
  • English Word Trenchantly Definition In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
  • English Word Trenched Definition of Trench
  • English Word Trencher Definition One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches.
  • English Word Trencher Definition A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use.
  • English Word Trencher Definition The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food.
  • English Word Trencher-man Definition A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
  • English Word Trencher-man Definition A cook.
  • English Word Trencher-man Definition A table companion; a trencher mate.
  • English Word Trencher-men Definition of Trencher-man
  • English Word Trenching Definition of Trench
  • English Word Trenchmore Definition A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
  • English Word Trenchmore Definition To dance the trenchmore.
  • English Word Trend Definition To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
  • English Word Trend Definition To cause to turn; to bend.
  • English Word Trend Definition Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
  • English Word Trend Definition To cleanse, as wool.
  • English Word Trend Definition Clean wool.
  • English Word Trended Definition of Trend
  • English Word Trender Definition One whose business is to free wool from its filth.
  • English Word Trending Definition of Trend
  • English Word Trendle Definition A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
  • English Word Trental Definition An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
  • English Word Trental Definition Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
  • English Word Trenton period Definition 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.
  • English Word Trepan Definition A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.
  • English Word Trepan Definition A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.