trenchmoret (trenchmor)

i. [ Mark, he doth courtesy, and salutes a block Will seem to wonder at a weathercock, Trench more with apes, play music to an owl. Marston, Satires, ii. 93. IMG:content-0826.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0827.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0828.png:[blocks in formation] Where the river trends westward into the main he set up a memorial cro . Bancroft, Hist. U. S., I. 91. 4. Figuratively, to have a general tendency or proclivity; incline; lean; turn. See trend, n., 2. The discu ion with his philosophic Egeria now trended away from theology in the direction of politics, or, as we now say, sociology. E. Dowden , Shelley, I. 164. 5. In geol . and mining , same as strike , 5. II. trans. 1. To cause to turn or roll. [Rare or obsolete.] Lat him rollen and trenden withinne hymself the Ayht of his inward syhte. Chaucer , Boëthius, iii. meter 11. Not farre beneath i' th' valley as she trends Her silver streame. W. Browne , Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 3. ( Nares .) 21. To follow the course or direction of; coast along. We trended the said land about 9. or 10. leagues, hoping to finde some good harborough. Hakluyt's Voyages , III. 206. trend1 (trend), n. [ course or direction; inclination of the course of something toward a particular line or point. All The trend of the coast lay hard and black. Whittier, Tent on the Beach. Owing to the westerly trend of the valley and its vast depth, there is a great difference between the climates of the north and south sides. The Century , XL. 497. The number thirty; a trental. On the mor we to seie a trent of ma es atte same ffreres. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 8.