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heir sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water thrushes.

A thrust or pass; a lunge.

The disease, also called thrush.

uth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Of the nature of aphthæ; resembling thrush.

In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. [Obs.] Spenser.

Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.] Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak.

A name given to any one of family (Timalinæ) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.

A barbed dart carrying a banderole which the banderillero thrusts into the neck or shoulder of the bull in a bullfight.

One who thrusts in the banderillas in bullfighting. W. D. Howells.

Pellitory of Spain (Anacyclus pyrethrum).

to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air. A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spen…

In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.

[Eng. Slang] Carlyle. -- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite. -- Blue thrush (Zoöl.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas). -- Blue verditer. See Verditer. -- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, e…

To poke; to thrust. [Obs. or Dial.]

enders. Bowstring bridge, a bridge formed of an arch of timber or iron, often braced, the thrust of which is resisted by a tie forming a chord of the arch. -- Bowstring girder, an arched beam strengthened by a tie connecting its two ends. -- Bowstring hemp (Bot.), the tenacious fiber of the Sanseviera Zeylanica, grow…

The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail.

.), the serval. See Serval. -- Bush chat (Zoöl.), a bird of the genus Pratincola, of the Thrush family. -- Bush dog. (Zoöl.) See Potto. -- Bush hammer. See Bushhammer in the Vocabulary. -- Bush harrow (Agric.) See under Harrow. -- Bush hog (Zoöl.), a South African wild hog (Potamochoerus Africanus); -- called also…

To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.] A snow-white steer before thine altar led, Butts with his threatening brows. Dryden.