trounce, trounse

t. [O. Fr. tronc he a piece of timber; Fr. tronc =a trunk; tronçon=a truncheon.] To punish or beat severely; to thrash, to flog, to castigate. "We threatened to trounce him roundly when he got Now only used colloquially, but formerly used by good writers. sober."- Scribner's Magazine, July, 1887, p. 283. "The Lord trounsed Sisara and all his charettes."Judges iv. 15. (1551.) white in others. The principal species found in American waters are the Brook, or Speckled Trout, Tr Salve lin us font in alus , of the Northern States and Canada; the Lake Trout; the Red-spotted Trout, or Dolly Varden; the Mountain Trout; the Golden or Rainbow Trout; the Blue black Trout, and the Sal mon Trout. Some species have been introduced from Europe. Trout are very voracious, feeding readily on any kind of animal food. They spawn in October, and the lower jaw then becomes produced, but not to such an extent as in the Salmon (q. v.). The best known European trout are the Sea Trout or Salmon Trout (S. trutta ), a migratory species especially numerous in the North; S. brachурота , from Scotland; the Great Lake Trout (S. ferox ), confined to the lakes of the north of Ireland and boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, trow Wales; S. orca dens is , from Lough Stennis, Orkney; S. stomachic us , the Gillaroo, from Ireland; S. gal livens is , the Galway Sea-trout; S. nigripennis , from the mountain pools of Wales; the Loch Leven Trout (S. levenensis ), a species peculiar to Loch Leven; and the Sewin (S. cambric us ), occurring in the rivers of Wales, the south of England, and Ireland. Regarding the so-called Bull Trout and Peal, Dr. Günther ( Introd . to Study of Fishes , p. 644) says that these names are "not attributable to definite species. We have examined specimens of Salmo salar, S. trutta , S. cambric us , and S. fario , to which the name Bull Trout' had been given; and that of 'Peal' is given indiscriminately to Salmon-grilse and to S. cambric us ."