Word Meanings - OVERDROWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To wet or drench to excess. W. Browne.

DRENCHER
1. One who, or that which, west or steeps. 2. One who administers a drench.
EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
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.