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▪ I. † shrench, v.1 Obs.
Also 2–3 screnche, 3 schrenche, Ormin scr-, skrennkenn, 4 chrenche.
[OE. screncan = (M)LG. schrenken to place crosswise, MDu. schrencken to ensnare, hinder, deceive, OHG. screnchan, screnken to lay crosswise, deceive (MHG. schrenken, G. schränken):—prehistoric *skraŋkjan.
From the root skraŋk- oblique, awry, are also MLG. schrank neut., barrier, hedge, OHG., MHG. schranc masc., bar, barrier, limit, enclosed space, deception, also MHG. schranke fem., G. schrank, schranke; MLG. schranken to shamble, stutter, MDu. schranken to sit cross-legged, waver, totter, OHG. scranchôn, MHG. schranken to be crossed, waver, stagger.]
trans. To put a stumbling-block in the way of; to overthrow; to entrap; to deceive.
c897ælfred Gregory's Past. C. ix. 59 Healden hie ðæt hie..ða ne screncen ða ðe gað on ryhtne weᵹ toweard ðæs hefonrices. Ibid. lix. 453 Ne screnc ðu ðone blindan. c1000Ags. Ps. (Splm.) xvii. 41 Þu ᵹescrenctyst on arisende on me, supplantasti insurgentes in me. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 209 Ute we..bidden god þat he us..shilde þer-wið þat he us ne schrenche. c1200Ormin 2618 Þe deofell, Þatt..stanndeþþ inn To scrennkenn ure sawless. Ibid. 11467 Þatt te deofell næfre Ne blinneþþ off to skrennkenn þa Þatt haffdenn himm forrworrpenn. a1225Leg. Kath. 1189 He bicherde þene feont, & schrenchte þen alde deouel. a1225Juliana 34 Þat weneð me to schrenchen ant schunchen of þe weie. 13..in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXII. 348 He hatied wommen..he seyde hit weren paunceris [read paunteris] mannus soule to chrenche.
▪ II. † shrench, v.2 Obs.
[OE. screncan, causative of scrincan to shrink.]
trans. To cause to shrink or shrivel with heat.
c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 6 Weron ᵹescrencde, aruerunt. c1290S. Eng. Leg. 316/589 Men I-seoth ofte liȝtingue brenne hous and schrenche. 13..in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXII. 342 Brondis me dedin to his sydus his fel for to schrenche. |