Thrust | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Thrŭst, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. THRUST; p. pr. & vb. n. THRUSTING.] [O. Eng. thrist, threste, Icel. thrista, to force, urge; A-S. thristjan, to hear.] To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. “Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.” Milton.

To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject.—To thrust in, to push or drive in.—To thrust off, to push away.—To thrust on, to impel; to urge.—To thrust one's self, to obtrude; to intrude; to enter where one is not invited or not welcome.—To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel.—To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. “I am eight times thrust through.” Shak.—To thrust together, to compress.

Thrüst, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

Sense 2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. “And thrust between my father and the god.” Dryden.

Sense 3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.

Young, old, thrust there In mighty concourse. Chapman.

To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]

As doth an eager hound thrust to a hind. Spenser.

Thrŭst, n.

noun

n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument;—a word much used in fencing.

Polites Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden.

Sense 2. Attack; assault.

There is one thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. More.

Sense 3. (Arch.) An horizontal, outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the walls which support them. Brande.

Thrust-bearing (Screw-steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw-shaft.

Synonyms— Push; shove; assault; attack. — THRUST, PUSH, SHOVE. Push and shove are distinguished from thrust. The two former imply the application of force by one body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, on the contrary, often implies the impulse or application of force by a moving body—a body in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. This distinction does not, however, extend to every case.