Word Meanings - TRENCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after
Additional info about word: TRENCHER
1. One who trenches; esp., one who cuts or digs ditches. 2. A large wooden plate or platter, as for table use. 3. The table; hence, the pleasures of the table; food. It could be no ordinary declension of nature that could bring some men, after an ingenuous education, to place their "summum bonum" upon their trenchers. South. Trencher cap, the cap worn by studens at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, having a stiff, flat, square appendage at top. A similar cap used in the United States is called Oxford cap, mortar board, etc. -- Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. L'Estrange. -- Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. -- Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.
Related words: (words related to TRENCHER)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - PLATEFUL
Enough to fill a plate; as much as a plate will hold. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - TABLER
1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - AFTERCAST
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower. - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - TABLEAU VIVANT
See 2 - BRITANNIC
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BROKEN WIND
The heaves. - IMPALATABLE
Unpalatable. - MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - UNWARRANTABLE
Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.