Word Meanings - INTRENCHANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.

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• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• GASHFUL
  Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.
• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• BLEATING
  Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• BLENHEIM SPANIEL
  A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.
• BLENNOGENOUS
  Generating mucus.
• MARKETER
  One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
• BLEW
  of Blow.
• SWORDLESS
  Destitute of a sword.
• BLEND
  akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse;
• MARKETSTEAD
  A market place. Drayton.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• BLEST
  Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.
• MARK
  A license of reprisals. See Marque.
• INTRENCHANT
  Not to be gashed or marked with furrows. As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.
• IMPRESS
  To take by force for public service; as, to impress sailors or money. The second five thousand pounds impressed for the service of the sick and wounded prisoners. Evelyn. (more info) pref. im- in, on + premere to press. See Press to squeeze, and
• BLENDER
  One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• RESPONSIBLE
  1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy,
• FORTIFIABLE
  Capable of being fortified. Johnson.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• REMEDIABLE
  Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• INSANABLE
  Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.
• SEAMARK
  Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• ABLE
  Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property. Note: Able for, is Scotticism. "Hardly able for such a march." Robertson. Syn. -- Competent; qualified; fitted; efficient; effective; capable; skillful;
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• NUBBLE
  To beat or bruise with the fist. Ainsworth.