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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)
Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Thick'-skūll, n. p. 1375Dullness, or a dull person; a blockhead. Entick.Thick'-skulled, a. p. 1375Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.Thĭck'-sprŭng, a. p. 1375Sprung up thick or close together. Shak.Thief, n. p. 1375One who is guilty of theft or larceny; one who secretly, unlawfully, and feloniously takes the goods or personal property of another. 2. An excrescence or waster in the snuff of a candle. May.Thieves'-vinegar p. 1375a kind of aromatic vinegar for the sick-room, taking its name from the story that thieves, by using it, were enabled to plunder, with impunity to health, in the great plague at London. [Eng.]…Thief'-catch'er, n. p. 1375One who catches thieves, or whose business it is to detect thieves and bring them to justice.Thiēf'-lēad'er, n. p. 1375One who leads, or takes or leads away a thief. [Rare.]Thiēf'ly, a. p. 1375Like or becoming a thief; thievish. [Obs. and rare.] Chaucer.Thiēf'-tāk'er, n. p. 1375One whose business is to find and take thieves, and bring them to justice.Thiēve, v. i. p. 1375To practice theft; to steal.Thiēv'er-y, n. p. 1375The practice of stealing; theft. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South. 2. That which is stolen. Shak.Thiēv'ish, a. p. 1375Given to stealing; addicted to the practice of theft; as, a thievish boy. Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road. Shak. 2. Like a thief; acting by stealth…Thiēv'ish-ly, adv. p. 1375In a thievish manner; by theft.Thiēv'ish-ness, n. p. 1375The state or quality of being thievish.Thīgh, n. p. 1375(Anat.) The thick, fleshy portion of the leg, between the knee and the trunk.Thīgh'-bōne, n. p. 1375The bone of the thigh.Thĭlk, pron. p. 1375The same. [Obs.] Spenser.Thĭll, n. p. 1375A shaft of a cart, gig, or other carriage.Thĭll'er or Thĭll'-hôrse, n. p. 1375The horse which goes between the thills or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team.Thĭm'ble, n. p. 1375A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a mere ring, for the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger from the needle. It is usually made of metal, and is indented upon the surface with numerous…Thĭm'ble-bĕr'ry, n. p. 1375(Bot.) A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America. Gray.Thĭm'ble-ful, n. p. 1375As much as a thimble will hold; hence, a small quantity. Goldsmith.Thĭm'ble-rĭg, n. p. 1375A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball.Thĭm'ble-rĭg, v. t. p. 1375To cheat by tricks of legerdemain, especially by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of the thimbles, and quickly shifted to another.Thĭm'ble-rĭg'ger, n. p. 1375One who cheats by thimble-rigging, or tricks of legerdemain.Thĭm'ble-weed, n. p. 1375(Bot.) A tall plant of the genus Rudbeckia, resembling the sun-flower;— so called from the shape of the receptacle. It is used in medicine. Bartlett.Thīme, n. p. 1375Thyme. See THYME.Thĭn, a. p. 1375Having little thickness or extent from one surface to the opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering. 2. Rare; not dense; — applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as…Thĭn, adv. p. 1375Not thickly or closely; in a scattered state; as, seed sown thin. Spain is thin sown of people. Bacon.Thĭn, v. t. p. 1375To make thin in any of its senses; as, (a.) To make rare or less thick; to attenuate; as, to thin the blood. (b.) To make less close, crowded, or numerous; as, to thin the ranks of an enemy; to thin…Thĭn, v. i. p. 1375To grow or become thin;—used with some adverbs, as out, away, &c.; as, geological strata thin out when they gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.Thīne p. 1375pronominal a. [A-S. thîn, properly and originally gen. of thu or thû, thou; Goth. theina, theins, O. Sax. thîn, O. Fries. thîn, Icel. thinn, Sw. & Dan. dîn, O. H. Ger. dîn, N. H. Ger. dein.]…Thĭng, n. p. 1375An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any lifeless material. 2. Whatever exists or is conceived to exist, as a separate being, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or…Thĭnk, v. i. p. 1375To employ any of the intellectual powers except sense and perception; hence, specifically, (a.) To exercise the mind; to call any thing to mind; to remember; as, I would have sent the books, but I…Think, v. t. p. 1376To conceive; to imagine. Charity . . . thinketh no evil. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 5. 2. To plan or design; to plot; to compass. “To think the death of her own son.” Beau. & Fl. 3. To believe; to consider; to…Think, v. i. p. 1376To seem or appear;—used chiefly in the phrases methinketh or methinks, and methought. ☞ These are genuine Anglo-Saxon phrases, equivalent to it seems to me, it seemed to me. In these expressions, me…Thĭnk'a-ble, a. p. 1376Capable of being thought or conceived. [Rare.] Sir W. Hamilton.Think'er, n. p. 1376One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.Thĭnk'ing, p. a. p. 1376Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being.Thĭnk'ing, n. p. 1376Imagination; cogitation; judgment. I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king. Shak.Thĭnk'ing-ly, adv. p. 1376By thought.Thĭn'ly, adv. p. 1376In a thin, loose, scattered manner; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.Thin'ness, n. p. 1376The state of being thin, in any of the senses of the word; smallness of extent from one side or surface to the opposite; tenuity; rareness; fluidity; as, the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate…Thĭn'ner, n. p. 1376One who thins, or makes thinner.Thĭn'nĭsh, a. p. 1376Somewhat thin.Thĭn'-skinned, a. p. 1376Having a thin skin. 2. Hence, sensitive; irritable.Third, a. p. 1376The next after the second; coming after two of the same class;—the ordinal of three; as, the third hour in the day. 2. Constituting or being one of three equal parts into which any thing is divided.…Thĭrd, n. p. 1376The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts. 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time. 3. (Mus.) The interval of a tone and a semitone, embracing three diatonic degrees of the…Thĭrd'-bŏr'ough, n. p. 1376(O. Eng. Law.) An under constable. Johnson.Third’ings, n. pl. p. 1376(Eng. Law.) The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground, at the tenant’s death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.Thĩrd'ly, adv. p. 1376In the third place. Bacon.Thĩrd'-pĕn'ny, n. p. 1376(A-S. Law.) A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the county court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl. Burrill.Thĩrl, v. t. p. 1376To bore; to perforate; to drill or thrill. [Obs.]Thirl'age, n. p. 1376(Scots Law.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding. Erskine.Thirst, n. p. 1376The desire, uneasiness, or suffering, occasioned by want of drink; vehement desire for drink. Wherefore is it that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, and our children, and our cattle…Thirst, v. i. p. 1376To experience a painful sensation of the throat, or fauces, for want of drink;— with for. The people thirsted there for water. Ex. xvii. 3. 2. To have a vehement desire. My soul thirsteth for . . .…Thĭrst, v. t. p. 1376To want to drink; to have a thirst for; as, to thirst blood. [Obs. and rare.] Prior.Thĭrst'er, n. p. 1376One who thirsts.Thirst'i-ly, adv. p. 1376In a thirsty manner.Thirst'i-ness, n. p. 1376The state of being thirsty; thirst.