drenching horn (drenching horn)

A cow's horn with perforations at the pointed end, the other being closed, used in giving medicine to sick animals. drengt (dreng), n. [In historical books cited also as drenge and drench; in Law L. drengus, repr. ME. dreng, also dring, pl. drenges, dringes, rarely drenches, a va al, plied to tenants holding directly of the king or of ecclesiastics, but in virtue of a service le honorable than knighthood, including commonly some agricultural work, and service as me enger and in the care of dogs and horses. Its application seems to have varied greatly in different places and times; but it implied generally a servile va al who aspired to be a military va al. Bothe of erl and of baroun, And of dreng and of thayn, And of knith and of sweyn. Havelok, 1. 2182. It seems, then, that the drengs were tenants in pure villenage, bound to the lord, and annexed to the manor, and that they were usually sold with the forest to which they belonged, as mere drudges, to perform the most servile and laborious offices. Gentleman's Mag. Library, I. 188. Lanfranc, we are told, turned the drengs , the rent paying tenants of his archiepiscopal estates, into knights for the defence of the country. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 96. drengaget (dreng'aj), n. [ There are also services connected with the bishop's hunting expeditions. Thus there are persons holding in drengage, who have to feed a horse and a dog, and to go in the great hunt (magna caz a) with two harriers and 15 "cordons," etc. Seebohm , Eng. Vil. Community, p. 71. 2. The quantity of land, usually sixteen acres, to be plowed, sown, and harrowed by a dreng. drenket, n. An obsolete form of drench1 . drenklet, v. See drinkle , dronkle . drentt (drent). An obsolete preterit and past participle of drench1 . Drepane (drep'a-nē), n. [NL., δρέπανον , a sickle, a pruning-hook, δρέπειν , pluck.] A genus of fishes, typical of the family Drepanid a : so called from the elongated falci- form pectoral fins. drepania, n. Plural of drepanium . drepanid (drep'a-nid), n. A fish of the family Drepanid a. Drepanidæ (dre-pan'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Dre- pane + -ida.] A family of scombroid acan- thopterygian fishes, represented by the genus Drepane. They have a compre ed elevated body, with Browning, Ring and Book, II. 75. scales encroaching on the dorsal fin; the dorsal fin is divided Him thenketh verrayly that he may se Noes flood come walking as the see To drenchen Alisoun, his honey deere. into a shorter anterior and a larger posterior portion, and the pectorals are falciform. The Drepane punctata is common in the Indian and Australian seas. drepanidium (drep-a-nid'i-um), n.; pl. drepa Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 431. nidi a (-a). [NL., Drepane), + dim. -ίδιον.] In zoöl.: ( a ) The flagellula or sickle-shaped young of certain protozoans, as a gregarine, as hatched from a spore. (b) The phase or stage of growth in which a young gregarine is sickle-shaped. (ct) [ cap.] A genus of such organisms. Drepanidium ranarum, the falciform young of an unascertained coccid i ide. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 853.