▪ 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.
| c 897 ælfred 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. c 1000 Ags. Ps. (Splm.) xvii. 41 Þu ᵹescrenctyst on arisende on me, supplantasti insurgentes in me. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 209 Ute we..bidden god þat he us..shilde þer-wið þat he us ne schrenche. c 1200 Ormin 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. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 1189 He bicherde þene feont, & schrenchte þen alde deouel. a 1225 Juliana 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.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 6 Weron ᵹescrencde, aruerunt. c 1290 S. 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. |