trend let (trendl)

[ ... Bartholomæus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum [(trans., ed. Wynkyn de Worde, 1494), ix. trend1 (trend), v. [ Meuynge hath cause fyrste & pryncypally of trendynge aboute of heuen. Bartholomæus Anglicus, De Proprietatibus Rerum [(trans., ed. Wynkyn de Worde, 1494), ix. 21. To travel round or along a region, tract, etc., at its edge; skirt; coast. You shall trend about the very North erne and most Easterly point of all Asia. Hakluyt's Voyages, 1. 437. The hedde trendild on the borde. Guy of Warwick, ed. Zupitza (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3712. A tickell treasure, like a trendlynge ball. II. trans. To roll. Gas coigne , Fruits of War. IMG:content-0829.png:[blocks in formation] for sinking wells and mining shafts to great depths and sometimes of great dimensions. 2. An instrument, in the form of a crown-saw, used by surgeons for removing parts of the bones of the skull, in order to relieve the brain from pre ure or irritation. The trephine is an improved form of this instrument. See cuts under crown- saw and trephine. trepan1 (trē-pan'), v. t.; pret. and pp. trepanned, ppr. trepanning. ng. (Formerly also trepane;