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Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]

A boat. [She] thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser.

An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.

To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. Ps. xxii. 7. Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. Dryden.

To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle. As they the earth would shoulder from her seat. Spenser. Around her numberless the rabble flowed, Shouldering each other, crowding for a view. Rowe.

The missel thrush; -- so called from its harsh alarm note. [Prev. Eng.]

The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]

To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.

A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.

To fish for eels by thrusting the baited hook into their holes or hiding places. Walton.

Any species of American thrushlike birds of the genus Myadestes. They are noted their sweet songs and retiring habits. Called also fly-catching thrush. A West Indian species (Myadestes sibilans) is called the invisible bird.

otanus solitarius). -- Solitary snipe (Zoöl.), the great snipe. [Prov. Eng.] -- Solitary thrush (Zoöl.) the starling. [Prov. Eng.]

ts breast is covered with dusky brown streaks which form a blotch in the center. -- Song thrush (Zoöl.), a common European thrush (Turdus musicus), noted for its melodius song; -- called also mavis, throsite, and thrasher.

Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. [Archaic] -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. [Archaic] "In very soothfastness." Chaucer. Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with a clear conscience! Sir W. Scott.

A sword, especially a broadsword, formerly used both to cut and thrust.

dlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline spike is thrust to serve as a lever.

A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.

To thrust a spit through; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. "Infants spitted upon pikes." Shak.

Thrush. [Local, U.S.]

To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly. Squawking thrush (Zoöl.), the missel turush; -- so called from its note when alarmed. [Prov. Eng.]