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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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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.Thĭrst'y, a. p. 1376Feeling a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; suffering from thirst. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink. for I am thirsty. Judg. iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry…Thĭr'teen, a. p. 1376One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen times.Thir'teen, n. p. 1376The number greater, by one, than twelve; the sum of ten and three. 2. A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13, or xiii.Thĭr'teenth, a. p. 1376Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; — the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month. 2. Constituting, or being, one of thirteen equal parts into which any thing…Thir'teenth, n. p. 1376The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts. 2. (Mus.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.Thĭr'ti-eth, a. p. 1376Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth;—the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month. 2. Constituting, or being, one of thirty equal parts into which any…Thir'ti-eth, n. p. 1376The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.Thîr'ty, a. p. 1376Three times ten; one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.Thir'ty, n. p. 1376The sum of three times ten, or twenty and ten. 2. A symbol representing thirty units, as 30, or xxx.This, pron. p. 1376A pronoun, used, (a.) As a demonstrative, denoting something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned;—thus used as a pronoun…Thĭs'tle or Thistle crown, n. p. 1376(Bot.) One of numerous prickly plants of the class Syngenesia, and several genera, as the common corn thistle, or Canada thistle; the spear-thistle; the milk-thistle, of the genus Carduus; the…Thĭs'tle-fĭnch, n. p. 1376(Ornith.) The goldfinch.Thĭs'tly, a. p. 1376Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.Thĭth’er, adv. p. 1376To that place;—opposed to hither. This city is near: . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34. 2. To that point, end, or result. Hither and…Thith'er-to', adv. p. 1376To that point; so far. [Obs.]Thĭth′er-ward, adv. p. 1376Toward that place. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5.Thĭt'ling, n. p. 1376A little village; a hamlet. [Obs.]Thĭt'nee, n. p. 1376A beautiful red dye-wood from Burmah. Simmonds.Thĭt'see, n. p. 1376(Bot.) The varnish-tree of Burmah, Melanorrhœa usitatissima. Simmonds.Thlip'sis, n. p. 1376(Med.) Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause. Dunglison.Thōle, n. p. 1376Written also thowel and throwl. [A-S. thol, O. D. & L. Ger. dolle, N. D. dol, Icel. thollr, post, pin.]<br>1. A pin inserted into the gunwale of a boat, to keep the oar in the rowlock, when used in…Thōle, v. t. p. 1376To bear; to endure; to undergo. [Obs.]