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The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest. In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles.

Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.

To posper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

re close in any manner. Just where I please, with tightened rein I'll urge thee round the dusty plain. Fawkes. Tightening pulley (Mach.), a pulley which rests, or is forced, against a driving belt to tighten it.

To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

tlatch, and the use of immense labrets were characteristic. Many now work in the salmon industry.

A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

cle is called among traders, etc.; as, tin spirits is a common trade name in the dyeing industry for various solutions of tin salts.

To exchange; to give in exchange; to barter; as, to truck knives for gold dust. We will begin by supposing the international trade to be in form, what it always is in reality, an actual trucking of one commodity against another. J. S. Mill.

osing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we are industrious.

se from the state of being monopolized. [R.] Unmonopolizing the rewards of learning and industry. Milton.

To fade; hence, to vanish. [Obs.] " Summer leaves all vaded." Shak. They into dust shall vade. Spenser.

r galvanizing is accomplished by heating the articles to be galvanized together with zinc dust in an air tight receptacle to a temperature of about 600º F., which is 188º below the melting point of zinc, or by exposing the articles to vapor from molten zinc in a separate receptacle, using hydrogen or other reducing gas…

The act of fanning, or winnowing, for the purpose of separating chaff and dust from the grain.

est exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels. Thackeray.

ather, split sheepskin dressed with oil, in imitation of chamois, or shammy, and used for dusting, cleaning glass or plate, etc.; also, alumed, or buff, leather for soldiers' belts.

moves with a whirling motion. He saw Falmouth under gray, iron skies, and whirls of March dust. Carlyle.

To sweep, brush, or agitate, with a light, rapid motion; as, to whisk dust from a table; to whisk the white of eggs into a froth.

ing health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. Milton. From which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food. A Smith.