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TREMUDA, a river of Guatimala, which runs north, and 
enters the sea opposite the island of Roatan. 
TREN, a small river of Denmark, in the duchy of Sles- 
wick. It falls into the Eyder at Friedrichstadt. 
TREN, s. A fish spear. Ainsworth. 
To TRENCH, v. a. [trancher , Fr.] To cut. 
Safe in a ditch he bides, 
With twenty trenched gashes on his head. Shafcspeare. 
To cut or dig into pits or ditches.— Trench the ground, 
and make it ready for the Spring. Evelyn. —To fortify by 
earth thrown up. 
Pioneers with spades and pickax arm’d, 
Forerun the royal camp to trench a field. Milton. 
To TRENCH, v. n. To encroach.—We are said to have 
trenched upon the liberty of subjects and property of goods. 
Bp. Hall. 
TRENCH, s. [tranche , Fr.] A pit or ditch. 
On that coast build, 
And with a trench enclose the fruitful field. Dryden. 
Earth thrown up to defend soldiers in their approach to a 
town, or to guard a camp. 
The citizens of Corioli have issued forth 
And given to Lartius and to Marcius battle: 
I saw our party to the trenches driven. 
And then I came away. Shakspeare. 
TRE'NCHAND, or Tre'nchant, adj. [trenchant, Fr.] 
Cutting; sharp. 
Against a vanquish’d foe, their swords 
Were sharp and trenchant, not their words. Hudihras. 
TRENCHE’S ISLAND, or Hilton Head, an island of 
the United States, near the coast of South Carolina ; 25 miles 
long. Lat. 32. 13. N. long. 80. 68. W. 
TRENCHE-MONT RIVER, a small river of the island of 
St. John’s, in the gulf of St. Lawrence. It empties into the 
sea three or four leagues to the westward of the eastern extre¬ 
mity of the island. 
TRE'NCHER, s. [trenchoir, Fr.] A piece of wood on 
which meat is cut at table. 
No more 
I’ll scrape trencher, nor wash dish. Shakspeare. 
The table. 
How often hast thou, 
Fed from my trencher, kneel’d down at the board, 
When I have feasted ? Shakspeare. 
Food; pleasures of the table.—It could be no ordinary 
declension of nature that could bring some men, after an 
ingenuous education, to place their summurn bonum upon 
their trenchers, and their utmost felicity in wine. South. 
TRE'NCHERFLY, s. One that haunts tables; a para¬ 
site.—He found all people came to him promiscuously, and 
he tried which of them were friends, and which only tren- 
clierflies and spungers. Li Estrange. 
TRE'NCHERFRIEND, s. A parasite; a trenchermate. 
—You fools of fortune, trencherfriends, time’s flies. Shak¬ 
speare. 
TRE'NCHERMAN, s. A cook. Obsolete. —Palladius 
assured him, that he had already been more fed to his liking 
than he could be by the skilfullest trenchermen of Media. 
Sidney.—A feeder; an eater.—You had musty victuals and 
he hath holp to eat it: he’s a very valiant trencherman ; he 
hath an excellent stomach. Shakspeare. 
TRE'NCHERMATE, s. A table companion; a para¬ 
site.—Because that judicious learning of the ancient sages 
doth not in this case serve the turn, these trcnchermates 
frame to themselves a way more pleasant; a new method 
they have of turning things that are serious into mockery, 
an art of contradiction by way of scorn. Hooker. 
TRENCK (Frederic, Baron von), an adventurer, was des¬ 
cended from a noble Prussian family, and born at Konigs- 
berg, in 1726. Having been much indulged in his youth, 
and losing his father when he was twelve years of age, he 
became ungovernable, and the sport of his own impetuous 
passions. In 1742, at the age of sixteen years, he entered 
into the Prussian guards, then quartered at Potsdam. In 
1744, at the commencement of the second Silesian war, he 
attended the king as an aid-de-camp; but being suspected of 
a traitorous correspondence, he was arrested, and confined 
in the prison of Glatz, and failing in his first attempt to make 
his escape from prison, he at length succeeded by bribery, 
and got safe to Bohemia, and afterwards to Elbing, in Polish 
Prussia, in March, 1747, After various adventures he arrived 
at Moscow, where he insinuated himself into the good graces 
of the lady of the grand chancellor Bestuchef, the favourite 
of Elizabeth. From Moscow he made a circuitous tour to 
Vienna, with a view of recovering some contested property; 
and dissatisfied with the reception he found at the Austrian 
court, he determined to return again to Russia; but in 
passing through Danlzic, he was arrested at the request of 
the Prussian resident, and committed to prison at Magde¬ 
burg, where he remained ten years. Here he amused him¬ 
self, during a tedious and rigorous imprisonment, in writing 
verses; which, long after his release in 1763, he published at 
Frankfort-on-the-Mayne, in 1769. He published some other 
works at Aix-la-Cbapelle, where he became editor of a 
gazette, and married a lady of respectable character and con¬ 
nections. Finding the occupation of a gazette-writer tire¬ 
some and not lucrative, he began business as a wine-mer¬ 
chant ; but the wine-trade not answering his expectations, 
he disappeared abput the year 1783. In 1792, he edited a 
journal at Hamburgh and Altona, and from the latter place 
he removed to France, where he lost his life by the guillotine 
in the month of July, 1794. The Memoirs of his own Life 
appeared at Berlin in 1787, in two parts 8vo. Of the au¬ 
thenticity of the facts stated in these memoirs, great doubts 
have been entertained. His life, translated into French by 
himself, was published at Paris in 1789, 3 vols. 8vo. A new 
edition of his “Macedonian Hero,” was printed in 1788, 
Franckfort and Leipsic, 8vo. Gen. Biog. 
To TREND, v. n. To tend; to lie in any particular 
direction. Dr. Johnson —The word, Mr. Mason says, is 
merely nautical: “ To trend, to run off in a certain di¬ 
rection.”—On one side, the vast range of the Pyrenees trend 
away till lost in remoteness. Young. 
TRENDELBURG. See Drennelburg. 
TRE'NDING, s. A particular direction. 
The scouts to several parts divide their way. 
To learn the natives’ names, their towns explore. 
The coasts and trendings of the crooked shore. Dryden. 
TRE'NDLE, s. [cpenbel, Sax ] Any thing turned 
round. Now improperly written trundle. 
TRENDLE, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Pit- 
minster, Somersetshire. 
TRENEGLOS, a parish of England, in Cornwall; 7£ 
miles north-east-by-east of Cameliord. 
TRENO, a small town of Austrian Italy ; 4 miles north¬ 
west of Milan. 
TRENT, a river of England, which has its rise in Stafford¬ 
shire, from three springs to the west of Leek. It soon be¬ 
comes a pretty large river, coming down from the hdls with 
a very rapid current; and being augmented in the flat coun¬ 
try by the accession of other rivers, it flows past Trentham, 
to which it gives name, and from thence to Burton in Derby¬ 
shire, when it first becomes navigable. It soon after enters 
Nottinghamshire near Radcliffe-upon-Soar, in a clear stream, 
and bold rapid current; thence flowing past the groves of 
Clifton, it winds round the town of Nottingham, giving fer¬ 
tility to an immense range of meadows studded with villas, 
villages, and comfortable farms, in some places sweeping 
over fertile plains, in others reflecting on its glossy surface, 
high swelling knolls, and green feathered cliffs that add to 
the sublimity of the scene. Its scenery round Holme Pier- 
poiut and Radcliffe is pleasing in the extreme. It then pro¬ 
ceeds with rather a tortuous course through a highly cultivated 
country towards Newark, where it suddenly takes a bend to¬ 
wards the north, and pursues that route as far as Clifton-upon- 
Trent, 
