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Thornbird (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.
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Thornbut (?), n. [Thorn + -but as in halibut; cf. G. dornbutt.] (Zoöl.) The turbot.
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Thorn-headed (?), a. Having a head armed with thorns or spines.
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Coloq. Thorn-headed worm (Zoöl.), any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
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Thornless, a. Destitute of, or free from, thorns.
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Thornset (?), a. Set with thorns. Dyer.
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Thorntail (?), n. (Zoöl.) A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.
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Thorny (?), a. [Compar. Thornier (?); superl. Thorniest.] [Cf. AS. þorniht.] 1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.
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2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. “The thorny point of bare distress.” Shak.
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The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak.
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Coloq. Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow. -- Coloq. Thorny trefoil , a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.).
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Thoro (?), a. Thorough. [Reformed spelling.]
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Thorough (?), prep. [See .] Through. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.
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Thorough, a. 1. Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. [Obs.]
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2. Passing through or to the end; hence, complete; perfect; as, a thorough reformation; thorough work; a thorough translator; a thorough poet.
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Thorough, adv. 1. Thoroughly. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chaucer.
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2. Through. [Obs.] Shak.
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Thorough, n. A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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Thorough bass (?). (Mus.) The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.
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Thorough-brace (?), n. A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of .
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Thoroughbred (?), a. Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. -- n. A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse.
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Thoroughfare (?), n. [AS. þurhfaru.] 1. A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.
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A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley.
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2. A passing or going through; passage. [R.]
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[Made] Hell and this world -- one realm, one continent
Of easy thoroughfare. Milton.
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Thoroughgoing (?), a. 1. Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.
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2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.
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Thorough-lighted (?), a. (Arch.) Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.
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Thoroughly, adv. In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
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Thoroughness, n. The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.
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Thoroughpaced (?), a. Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig.
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If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.
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Thoroughpin (?), n. (Far.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.
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Thoroughsped (?), a. Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.
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Thoroughstitch (?), adv. So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.]
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Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.
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Thoroughwax (?), n. (Bot.) (a) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves. (b) Thoroughwort.
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Thoroughwort (?), n. Same as .
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Thorow (?), prep. Through. [Obs.] “Thorow bramble, pits, and floods.” Beau. & Fl.
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Thorow, a. Thorough. [Obs.] Hakluyt.
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{ Thorp, Thorpe} (thôrp), n. [AS. þorp; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D. dorp, G. dorf, Icel. þorp, Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little farm, Goth. þaúrp a field, and probably to Lith. troba a building, a house, W. tref a hamlet, Ir. treabh a farmed village, a tribe, clan, Gael. treabhair houses, and perhaps to L. turba a crowd, mult. Cf. .] A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe. “Within a little thorp I staid.” Fairfax.
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Then thorpe and byre arose in fire. Tennyson.
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Those (?), pron. [OE. þos, þas, AS. ðās, nom. and acc. pl. of ðēs this. See , and cf. .] The plural of that. See .
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Thoth (?), n. 1. (Myth.) The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.
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2. (Zoöl.) The Egyptian sacred baboon.
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thou (�ou), pron. [Sing.: nom. Thou; poss. Thy (�ī) or Thine (�īn); obj. Thee (�ē). Pl.: nom. You (y�); poss. Your (y�r) or Yours (y�rz); obj. You.] [OE. thou, þu, AS. ðū, ðu; akin to OS. & OFries. thu, G., Dan. & Sw. du, Icel. þū, Goth. þu, Russ. tui, Ir. & Gael. tu, W. ti, L. tu, Gr. sy, Dor. ty, Skr. tvam. √185. Cf. , , .] The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
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Art thou he that should come? Matt. xi. 3.
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☞ “In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty.” Skeat.
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☞ Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.
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Thou, v. t. To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
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If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss. Shak.
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Thou, v. i. To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends. [R.]
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Though (�ō), conj. [OE. thogh, þah, AS. ðeáh, ðǣh, ðēh; akin to OS. thōh, OFries. thach, D. & G. doch but, yet, OHG. doh but, yet though, Icel. þō yet, nevertheless, Sw. dock, Dan. dog, Goth. þáuh, þáu, than, or, yet; of uncertain origin. √184.] Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.
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Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Job xiii. 15.
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Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. Milton.
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☞ It is compounded with all in although. See .
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Coloq. As though , as if.
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In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded. Gen. xl. 10.
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Though, adv. However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.
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I would not be as sick though for his place. Shak.
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A good cause would do well, though. Dryden.
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Thought (?), imp. & p. p. of .
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Thought, n. [OE. þoght, þouht, AS. þōht, geþōht, fr. þencean to think; akin to D. gedachte thought, MHG. dāht, gedāht, Icel. þōttr, þōtti. See .] 1. The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.
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Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. Dr. T. Dwight.
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2. Meditation; serious consideration.
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Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. Roscommon.
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3. That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.
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Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. Pope.
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Why do you keep alone, . . .
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died
With them they think on? Shak.
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Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. Dryden.
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All their thoughts are against me for evil. Ps. lvi. 5.
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4. Solicitude; anxious care; concern.
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Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end. Bacon.
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Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. Matt. vi. 25.
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5. A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. [Colloq.]
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If the hair were a thought browner. Shak.
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☞ Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually comprehended under judgment.
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This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the “elaborative faculty,” -- the faculty of relations or comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated thought. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Syn. -- Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.
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Thoughtful (?), a. 1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind.
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War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope.
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2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. Glanvill.
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3. Anxious; solicitous; concerned.
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Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear,
And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. Prior.
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Syn. -- Considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive; careful; wary; circumspect; reflective; discreet. -- , . He who is habitually thoughtful rarely neglects his duty or his true interest; he who is considerate pauses to reflect and guard himself against error. One who is not thoughtful by nature, if he can be made considerate, will usually be guarded against serious mistakes. “He who is thoughtful does not forget his duty; he who is considerate pauses, and considers properly what is his duty. It is a recommendation to a subordinate person to be thoughtful in doing what is wished of him; it is the recommendation of a confidential person to be considerate, as he has often to judge according to his own discretion. Crabb.
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-- Thoughtfully, adv. -- Thoughtfulness, n.
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Thoughtless, adv. 1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.
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2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.] Johnson.
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3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.
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Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden.
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-- Thoughtlessly, adv. -- Thoughtlessness, n.
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Thought transference. Telepathy.
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Thousand (?), n. [OE. þousend, þusend, AS. þūsend; akin to OS. thūsundig, thūsind, OFries. thusend, D. duizend, G. tausend, OHG. tūsunt, dūsunt, Icel. þūsund, þūshund, Sw. tusen, Dan. tusind, Goth. þūsundi, Lith. tukstantis, Russ. tuisiacha; of uncertain origin.] 1. The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.
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2. Hence, indefinitely, a great number.
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A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7.
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☞ The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under .
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3. A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI�.
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Thousand, a. 1. Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.
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2. Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. “Perplexed with a thousand cares.” Shak.
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Thousandfold (?), a. Multiplied by a thousand.
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Thousand legs (?). (Zoöl.) A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.
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Thousandth (?), a. 1. Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.
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2. Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.
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3. Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.
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Thousandth, n. The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.
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{ Thowel (?), Thowl (?), } n. [See .] (Naut.) (a) A thole pin. (b) A rowlock.
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I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.
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Thracian (?), a. Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Thrace.
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Thrack (?), v. t. To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property. [Obs.] South.
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Thrackscat (?), n. Metal still in the mine. [Obs.]
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Thraldom (?), n. [Icel. �rældōmr. See , and .] The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.]
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Women are born to thraldom and penance
And to be under man's governance. Chaucer.
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He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.
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Thrall (?), n. [OE. thral, þral, Icel. þræll, perhaps through AS. þrǣl; akin to Sw. träl, Dan. træl, and probably to AS. þrægian to run, Goth. þragjan, Gr. trechein; cf. OHG. dregil, drigil, a servant.] 1. A slave; a bondman. Chaucer.
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Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.
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2. Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. Tennyson.
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He still in thrall
Of all-subdoing sleep. Chapman.
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3. A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
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Thrall, a. Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved. [Obs.] Spenser.
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The fiend that would make you thrall and bond. Chaucer.
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Thrall, v. t. To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] Spenser.
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Thralldom (?), n. Thraldom.
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Thrall-less, a. (a) Having no thralls. (b) Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.
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Thrall-like (?), a. Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish.
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Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.
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Thranite (?), n. [Gr. �, from � a bench, form, especially the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.] (Gr. Antiq.) One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.
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Thrapple (?), n. [Also thropple, corrupted fr. throttle.] Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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{ Thrash (?), Thresh (?) }, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrashed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thrashing.] [OE. þreschen, þreshen, to beat, AS. þerscan, þrescan; akin to D. dorschen, OD. derschen, G. dreschen, OHG. dreskan, Icel. þreskja, Sw. tröska, Dan. tærske, Goth. þriskan, Lith. traszketi to rattle, Russ. treskate to burst, crackle, tresk' a crash, OSlav. troska a stroke of lighting. Cf. .] 1. To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
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The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.
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2. To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
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{ Thrash, Thresh}, v. t. 1. To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
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2. Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
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I rather would be Mævius, thrash for rhymes,
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. Dryden.
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Thrashel (?), n. An instrument to thrash with; a flail. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
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{ Thrasher (?), Thresher (?) }, n. 1. One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.
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2. (Zoöl.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.
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3. (Zoöl.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See .
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Coloq. Sage thrasher . (Zoöl.) See under . -- Coloq. Thrasher whale (Zoöl.), the common killer of the Atlantic.
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