Word Meanings - DRENCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
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- WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - DRENCHER
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench. - DRENCH
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink." - DRENCHE
To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer. - INDRENCH
To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak. - HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred. - BEDRENCH
To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.