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A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack. [Obs. or Colloq.] Drayton.

To push; to tug; to tow. [Obs.] Drayton.

eral. [Obs.] Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks. Drayton.

A collection of tents; an encampment. [Obs.] Drayton.

To tow along, as a vessel. [Obs.] Drayton.

A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton. Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. Spenser. He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden. Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and di…

The wren; -- called also tiddy. [Prov. Eng.] The tidy for her notes as delicate as they. Drayton.

Pertaining to, abounding with, or resembling, tin. "The tinny strand." Drayton.

Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. Drayton.

Topical. Drayton. Holland.

now, and they all run away. Beau. &Fl. Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell. Drayton.

he Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary things That the first poets had. Drayton.

Taking from one to another; metaphorical. [R.] "A transumptive kind of speech." Drayton. Fictive, descriptive, digressive, transumptive, and withal definitive. Lowell.

Formed into ringlets or braided; braided; curled. Spenser. Drayton.

little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ. Shak. Small sands the mountain, moments make year, And frifles life. Young.

Nares. Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms. Drayton.

Abounding with tufts. Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell. Drayton.

accordant musical sounds. Whilst tuning to the water's fall, The small birds sang to her. Drayton.

Unmerciful; merciless. [Obs.] Drayton.

To throw up. Drayton.