Word Meanings - TRENCHER-MAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A feeder; a great eater; a gormandizer. Shak. 2. A cook. The skillfulest trencher-men of Media. Sir P. Sidney. 3. A table companion; a trencher mate. Thackeray.
Related words: (words related to TRENCHER-MAN)
- TABLER
1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson. - TABLEAU VIVANT
See 2 - COMPANIONLESS
Without a companion. - TABLEMAN
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - 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 - MEDIATRESS; MEDIATRIX
A female mediator. - MEDIALUNA
See HALF-MOON - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - MEDIA
pl. of Medium. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - MEDIAN
Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts. Median line. Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which - MEDIAEVALIST
One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. - MEDIAEVALS
The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - TABLESPOON
A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. - COMPANIONABLE
Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv. - COMPANION
companio , fr. L. com- + panis 1. One who accompanies or is in company with another for a longer or shorter period, either from choice or casually; one who is much in the company of, or is associated with, another or others; an associate; - MEDIATIZATION
The act of mediatizing. - IMPALATABLE
Unpalatable. - MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - 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. - 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. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - SUPERMEDIAL
Above the middle. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - IMPERSCRUTABLE
Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable. -- Im`per*scru"ta*ble*ness, n. - DISCREDITABLE
Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.