Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 34

Thou (v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.

Thou (v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

Though (conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.

Though (adv.) However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

Thought () imp. & p. p. of Think.

Thought (n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.

Thought (n.) Meditation; serious consideration.

Thought (n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.

Thought (n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.

Thought (n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better.

Thoughtful (a.) Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind.

Thoughtful (a.) Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth.

Thoughtful (a.) Anxious; solicitous; concerned.

Thoughtless (adv.) Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

Thoughtless (adv.) Giddy; gay; dissipated.

Thoughtless (adv.) Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.

Thousand (n.) The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Thousand (n.) Hence, indefinitely, a great number.

Thousand (n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI/.

Thousand (a.) Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

Thousand (a.) Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely.

Thousandfold (a.) Multiplied by a thousand.

Thousand legs () A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.

Thousandth (a.) 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.

Thousandth (a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

Thousandth (a.) 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.

Thousandth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

Thowel (n.) Alt. of Thowl

Thowl (n.) A thole pin.

Thowl (n.) A rowlock.

Thracian (a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.

Thracian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

Thrack (v. t.) To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property.

Thrackscat (n.) Metal still in the mine.

Thraldom (n.) The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.

Thrall (n.) A slave; a bondman.

Thrall (n.) Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.

Thrall (n.) A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.

Thrall (a.) Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.

Thrall (v. t.) To enslave.

Thralldom (n.) Thraldom.

Thrall-less (a.) Having no thralls.

Thrall-less (a.) Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

Thrall-like (a.) Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish.

Thranite (n.) One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

Thrapple (n.) Windpipe; throttle.

Thrashed (imp. & p. p.) of Thresh

Thrashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh

Thrash (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

Thresh (v. t.) 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.

Thresh (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

Thresh (v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

Thrashel (n.) An instrument to thrash with; a flail.

Thrasher (n.) Alt. of Thresher

Thresher (n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

Thresher (n.) 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.

Thresher (n.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.

Thrashing () a. & n. from Thrash, v.

Thrasonical (a.) Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.

Thraste (imp.) of Thraste

Thrast (p. p.) of Thraste

Thraste (v. t.) To thrust.

Thrave (n.) Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.

Thrave (n.) The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.

Thraw (n. & v.) See Throse.

Thread (n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

Thread (n.) A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

Thread (n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

Thread (n.) Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.

Thread (n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

Threaded (imp. & p. p.) of Thread

Threading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thread

Thread (v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

Thread (v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.

Thread (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

Threadbare (a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.

Threadbare (a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.

Threadbareness (n.) The state of being threadbare.

Threaden (a.) Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.

Threader (n.) A device for assisting in threading a needle.

Threader (n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

Threadfin (n.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

Threadfish (n.) The cutlass fish.

Threadfish (n.) A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Threadiness (n.) Quality of being thready.

Thread-shaped (a.) Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Threadworm (n.) Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

Thready (a.) Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

Thready (a.) Containing, or consisting of, thread.

Threaped (imp. & p. p.) of Threap

Threaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Threap

Threap (v. t.) To call; to name.

Threap (v. t.) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so.

Threap (v. t.) To beat, or thrash.

Threap (v. t.) To cozen, or cheat.

Threap (v. i.) To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.

Threap (n.) An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.

Threat (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.

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