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The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.

To practice theft; to steal.

The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness. Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. South.

Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.

The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.

The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance.

That same; this; that. [Obs.] "I love thilk lass." Spenser. Thou spake right now of thilke traitor death. Chaucer.

One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.

A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

The chub mackerel. See under Chub.

As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity. For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. Dryden.

A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.

One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.