Word Meanings - TRENCHAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Trenchant. Spenser.
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- 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 Faƫrie 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.