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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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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.]Thōle, v. i. p. 1376To wait. [Prov. Eng.]Thōle, n. p. 1376The roof of a temple. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] ☞ “Not properly an old word, but an affected Latinism.” Nares.Thōle'-pĭn, n. p. 1376The same as THOLE, q. v.Thŏl'o-bāte, n. p. 1376(Arch.) The substructure on which a dome or cupola rests. Oxf. Gloss.Thō'lus, n. p. 1376(Arch.) A thole. See THOLE.Tho-mæ'an or Tho-mē'an, n. p. 1376(Eccl. Hist.) One of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, and thought to have been originally founded by St. Thomas. Brande.Thō'ma-ĭsm or Thō'mism, n. p. 1377(Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas with respect to predestination and grace.Thō'mist, n. p. 1377(Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Thomas Aquinas, in opposition to the Scotists.Thō'mite, n. p. 1377(Eccl. Hist.) A Thomæan.Thom-sō'ni-an, a. p. 1377(Med.) Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, Thomsonianism.