Word Meanings - DRENCHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.

WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
DRENCHER
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
DRENCH
1. To cause to drink; especially, to dose by force; to put a potion down the throat of, as of a horse; hence. to purge violently by physic. As "to fell," is "to make to fall," and "to lay," to make to lie." so "to drench," is "to make to drink."
DRENCHE
To drown. In the sea he drenched. Chaucer.
INDRENCH
To overwhelm with water; to drench; to drown. Shak.
HORSE-DRENCH
1. A dose of physic for a horse. Shak. 2. The appliance by which the dose is administred.
BEDRENCH
To drench; to saturate with moisture; to soak. Shak.