v. t. [ OE. abrochen, OF. abrochier. See Broach. ] To set abroach; to let out, as liquor; to broach; to tap. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + broach. ] 1. Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. “Mischiefs that I set abroach.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. acrochen, accrochen, to obtain, OF. acrochier, F. accrocher; à (L. ad) + croc hook (E. crook). ] 1. To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To usurp, as jurisdiction or royal prerogatives. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had attempted to accroach to themselves royal power. Stubbs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. accrochement. ] An encroachment; usurpation. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Approached; p. pr. & vb. n. Approaching. ] [ OE. approchen, aprochen, OF. approcher, LL. appropriare, fr. L. ad + propiare to draw near, prope near. ] 1. To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city? 2 Sam. xi. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

But exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. Heb. x. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [ Archaic ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was an admirable poet, and thought even to have approached Homer. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) To take approaches to. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. approche. See Approach, v. i. ] 1. The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near. “The approach of summer.” Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nearer approach to the human type. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A access, or opportunity of drawing near. [ 1913 Webster ]

The approach to kings and principal persons. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Movements to gain favor; advances. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. (Fort.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Hort.) See Approaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Golf) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

8. (Aviation) that part of a flight during which an airplane descends toward the landing strip. [ PJC ]

9. (Bowling) the steps taken by a bowler just before delivering the ball toward the pins. [ PJC. ]

n. The quality of being approachable; approachableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being approached; accessible; as, approachable virtue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being approachable; accessibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who approaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Hort.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impossible to be approached. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. approachement. ] Approach. [ Archaic ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. broche, F. broche, fr. LL. brocca; prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. proc thrust, stab, Gael. brog awl. Cf. Brooch. ] 1. A spit. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He turned a broach that had worn a crown. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers. [ Prov. Eng. ] Forby. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) (a) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper. (b) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Masonry) A broad chisel for stonecutting. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Arch.) A spire rising from a tower. [ Local, Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Broached p. pr. & vb. n. Broaching. ] [ F. brocher, fr. broche. See Broach, n. ] 1. To spit; to pierce as with a spit. [ 1913 Webster ]

I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful blade,
He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To open for the first time, as stores. [ 1913 Webster ]

You shall want neither weapons, victuals, nor aid; I will open the old armories, I will broach my store, and will bring forth my stores. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those very opinions themselves had broached. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To cause to begin or break out. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Masonry) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool. [ Scot. & North of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach. [ 1913 Webster ]

To broach to (Naut.), to incline suddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A spit; a broach. [ 1913 Webster ]

On five sharp broachers ranked, the roast they turned. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who broaches, opens, or utters; a first publisher or promoter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some such broacher of heresy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. coche, fr. It. cocchio, dim. of cocca little boat, fr. L. concha mussel, mussel shell, Gr. &unr_;, akin to Skr. çankha. Cf. Conch, Cockboat, Cockle. ] 1. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Coaches have a variety of forms, and differ in respect to the number of persons they can carry. Mail coaches and tallyho coaches often have three or more seats inside, each for two or three persons, and seats outside, sometimes for twelve or more. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Wareham was studying for India with a Wancester coach. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain. [ Written also couch. ] [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The commanders came on board and the council sat in the coach. Pepys. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Railroad) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. One who coaches; specif. (sports), a trainer; one who assists in training individual athletes or the members of a sports team, or who performs other ancillary functions in sports; as, a third base coach. [ +PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coached p. pr. & vb. n. Coaching. ] 1. To convey in a coach. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I coached him before he got his scholarship. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with it. [ Colloq. ] “Coaching it to all quarters.” E. Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

The seat of a coachman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a craftsman who makes the bodies of motor vehicles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Zool.) One of a breed of dogs trained to accompany carriages; the Dalmatian dog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coachman [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A coachman. [ Obs. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A coach horse. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. One who coaches; specif. (Baseball), one of the side at the bat posted near first or third base to direct a base runner; also called a coach; as, third base coach. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. One of a pair of horses employed to draw a coach; hence (Fig.), a comrade. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the job of a professional coach.
Syn. -- coaching job. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Coachmen 1. A man whose business is to drive a coach or carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A tropical fish of the Atlantic ocean (Dutes auriga); -- called also charioteer. The name refers to a long, lashlike spine of the dorsal fin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Skill in driving a coach. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zool.) A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Its long and tapering tail has the scales so arranged and colored as to give it a braided appearance, whence the name. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. cucaracha. ] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The species are numerous, especially in hot countries. Those most commonly infesting houses in Europe and North America are Blatta orientalis, a large species often called black beetle, and the Croton bug (Blatta Germanica, formerly Ectobia Germanica), also called the German cockroach. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A tooth of a wool comb. [ Written also combrouch. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Incoach. ] To carry in a coach. [ R. ] Davies (Wit's Pilgr.) [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Encroached p. pr. & vb. n. Encroaching. ] [ OF. encrochier to perch, prop., to hook, fasten a hook (perh. confused with acrochier, F. accrocher, to hook, get hold of, E. accroach); pref. en- (L. in) + F. croc hook. See Crook, and cf. Accroach. ] To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway. [ 1913 Webster ]

No sense, faculty, or member must encroach upon or interfere with the duty and office of another. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Superstition, . . . a creeping and encroaching evil. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Exclude the encroaching cattle from thy ground. Dryden.

Syn. -- To intrude; trench; infringe; invade; trespass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Encroachment. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who by gradual steps enters on, and takes possession of, what is not his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way of encroachment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of entering gradually or silently upon the rights or possessions of another; unlawful intrusion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unconstitutional encroachment of military power on the civil establishment. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is taken by encroaching on another. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not approachable; unapproachable; inaccessible; unequaled. -- In`ap*proach"a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. To put a coach.

a. [ Pref. ir- not + reproachable: cf. F. irréprochable. ] Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Berkely ] erred, -- and who is free from error? -- but his intentions were irreproachable. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being irreproachable; integrity; innocence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an irreproachable manner; blamelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. loche, F. loche. ] (Zool.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (Nemachilus barbatulus) is used as a food fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Zool.) See Fatherlasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a motorbus.
Syn. -- bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, omnibus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Poached p. pr. & vb. n. Poaching. ] [ F. pocher to place in a pocket, to poach eggs (the yolk of the egg being as it were pouched in the white), from poche pocket, pouch. See Pouch, v. & n. ] 1. To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder. Garth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. OF. pocher to thrust or dig out with the fingers, to bruise (the eyes), F. pouce thumb, L. pollex, and also E. poach to cook eggs, to plunder, and poke to thrust against. ] 1. To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To force, drive, or plunge into anything. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His horse poching one of his legs into some hollow ground. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make soft or muddy by trampling. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To begin and not complete. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]