A process for reducing the plumped fibres of a hide or skin. It accomplishes approximately the same purpose as bating and basically in the same way - that is, through soaking in a fermenting solution. Some authorities, however, restrict the term bating to the process using ferments of manures and the term drenching to that using damp sawdust, bran, middlings, or a solution of lactic acid or some other chemical having a similar action.

The oral administration of medication.

Oral administration of a liquid, usually a medicine for internal parasites.

the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching"