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f catcher. Same as Thief taker. -- Thief leader, one who leads or takes away a thief. L'Estrange. -- Thief taker, one whose business is to find and capture thieves and bring them to justice. -- Thief tube, a tube for withdrawing a sample of a liquid from a cask. -- Thieves' vinegar, a kind of aromatic vinegar for t…

any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

hed with timber; -- often compounded; as, a well-timbered house; a low-timbered house. L'Estrange.

t for see (Matt. xi. 8). Then longen folk to go on pilgrimages, And palmers for to seeken strange stranders. Chaucer.

State of mind; temper; mood. The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, . . . drag the mind down . . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business. Bolingbroke. Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. W. C. Bryant.

e; fluency of speech or expression. Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together. L. Estrange.

A simpleton. L'Estrange. A pattern and companion fit For all the keeping tonies of the pit. Dryden.

nail, as if by biting and scratching; with one's utmost power; by all possible means. L'Estrange. "I shall fight tooth and nail for international copyright." Charles Reade. -- Tooth coralline (Zoöl.), any sertularian hydroid. -- Tooth edge, the sensation excited in the teeth by grating sounds, and by the touch of ce…

Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." L'Estrange. Topgallant breeze, a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.

One living beyond the mountains; hence, a foreigner; a stranger.

ard, etc. -- Trencher fly, a person who haunts the tables of others; a parasite. [R.] L'Estrange. -- Trencher friend, one who frequents the tables of others; a sponger. -- Trencher mate, a table companion; a parasite; a trencher fly. Hooker.

ate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

gnat . . . twinged him [the lion] till he made him tear himself, and so mastered him. L'Estrange.

pen and shut the eye rapidly; to blink; to wink. The owl fell a moping and twinkling. L' Estrange.

h. Tillotson. Æsop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. L'Estrange.

d a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the job. L'Estrange.

Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.

Not to be accounted for; inexplicable; not consonant with reason or rule; strange; mysterious. -- Un`ac*count"a*ble*ness}, n. -- Un`ac*count"a*bly, adv.

Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak.

Not usual; unfamiliar; strange. [Obs.] And the unacquainted light began to fear. Spenser.