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A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer.
A cook.
A table companion; a trencher mate.
of Trencher-man
of Trench
A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance.
To dance the trenchmore.
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
To cause to turn; to bend.
Inclination in a particular direction; tendency; general direction; as, the trend of a coast.
To cleanse, as wool.
Clean wool.
of Trend
One whose business is to free wool from its filth.
of Trend
A wheel, spindle, or the like; a trundle.
An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial.
Hence, a dirge; an elegy.
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.
A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.