Word Meanings - TRENCHAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Trenchant. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to TRENCHAND)

• TRENCHANT
  1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
• TRENCHANTLY
  In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• 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.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.