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	330	DICTIONARY OF RHYMES.
	sharpen denizen negligence indifference syren oxygen penitence intelligence vixen bane preference incontinence warden bean providence impenitence acumen been recompense impertinence citizen reference improvidence residence magnificence ENCE , ENSE# reverence munificence vehemence omnipotence cense silence violence dance dense suspense benevolence cleanse fence abstinence circumference dens hence conference concupiscence scent pence confidence sense consequence ENCH thence continence whence difference bench tench commence diffidence blench f trench condense diligence clench wench % defence eloquence drench wrench dispense eminence quench intrench expense evidence stench retrench immense excellence incense frankincense END intense inference . nonsense impotence bend lend offence impudence blend mend pretence indigence end rend prepense indolence fendS send prudence innocence friend spend
	• Can ye listen in your silence ? Can your mystic voices tell us Where ye hide ? In floating islands. E. B. Browning. f Or blanch, to grow white, to flinch. I'll observe his looks; I'll tent him to the quick : if he but blench I know my course. Shakspere. \ A maid, a girl, a strumpet. A royal wench.—Shakspers. A wench went and told them.—//. Samuel xvii. if. I am a gentlewoman and no wench.—Chaucer. Now, the word is provincial and vulgar. § To keep off, exclude, to fold. To fend the bitter cold.—Dry den. He fends his flock.—Phillips.