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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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In a thirsty manner.

The state of being thirsty; thirst.

The throstle. [Prov. Eng.]

THIRSTY a. 2 definitions

Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. 19.

THIRTEEN a. 3 definitions

One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.

THIRTEENTH a. 5 definitions

Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.

THIRTIETH a. 3 definitions

Next in order after the twenty-ninth; the tenth after the twentieth; -- the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.

THIRTY a. 3 definitions

Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

THIRTY-SECOND a.

Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided. Thirty-second note (Mus.), the thirty-second part of a whole note; a demi-semiquaver.

THIS pron. 2 definitions

As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would c…

Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. Blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. -- Bull thistle, Cnicus lan…

THISTLY a. 2 definitions

Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

THITHER adv. 4 definitions

To that place; -- opposed to Ant: hither. This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20. Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34.

To that point; so far. [Obs.]

THITHERWARD adv.

To ward that place; in that direction. They shall ask the way to Zion, with their faces thitherward. Jer. l. 5.

THITSEE n. 2 definitions

The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).

Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.

THO n. 4 definitions

The. [Obs.] Spenser.

THOLE n. 4 definitions

A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. Longfellow.

THOMAEAN; THOMEAN n.

A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.