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See Sith, Sithe. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

n, sled, or the like. "A team of dolphins." Spenser. To take his team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. Macaulay.

To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

The consideration, condition, or service which the occupier of land gives to his lord or superior for the use of his land.

To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Boring; piercing; -- applied to certain kinds of pain, especially to those of locomotor ataxia.

It needs; need. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. What thar thee reck or care Chaucer.

Discourse on a certain subject. Then ran repentance and rehearsed his theme. Piers Plowman. It was the subject of my theme. Shak.

To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. Mitford. They would not thread the gates. Shak.

To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [Obs.] He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand. Spenser.

Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [Obs.] "His thrillant spear." Spenser.

From one end or side to the other; as, to pierce a thing through.

r. (c) To distance; to leave behind. Addison. (d) To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment. (e) To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light. (f) To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator. -- To throw over, to abandon the cause of; to deser…

Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums. Dampier. On her head thrummy cap she had. Chalkhill.

To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. -- To thrust in, to push or drive in. -- To thrust off, to push away. -- To thrust on, to impel; to urge. -- To thrust one's self in or into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not…

To cut through; to pierce. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

y; the apartments are well furnished and tidy. A tidy man, that tened [injured] me never. Piers Plowman.

To cultivate land. Piers Plowman.