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Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs. -- Thrift"less*ly, adv. -- Thrift"less*ness, n.

ill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel.

To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.

ush 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 invited or not welcome. -- To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. -- To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. "I am eight times thrust through the…

Massive, like timber. [Obs.] His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled. Spenser.

Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. Borax.

A rude, wild, wanton girl; a hoiden; a tomboy. Dennis.

e a lower tone to. (b) (Paint.) To modify, as color, by making it less brilliant or less crude; to modify, as a composition of color, by making it more harmonius. Its thousand hues toned down harmoniusly. C. Kingsley.

A rude picture, as of a bird, beast, or the like, used by the Nord American Indians as a symbolic designation, as of a family or a clan. And they painted on the grave posts Of the graves, yet unforgotten, Each his own ancestral totem Each the symbol of his household; Figures of the bear and reindeer, Of the turtle, cra…

m.), a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above. -- Rou…

A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [Obs.] All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl.

To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

A nation of savages or uncivilized people; a body of rude people united under one leader or government; as, the tribes of the Six Nations; the Seneca tribe.

A hydrocarbon, C13H28, of the methane series, which is a probable ingredient both of crude petroleum and of kerosene, and is produced artificially as a light colorless liquid.

logical sense, as a word; to make a trope of. [R.] If . . . Minerva be tropologized into prudence. Cudworth.

A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear. With his truncheon he so rudely struck. Spenser.

Crude zinc. [India]

as a sublimation product in the flues of smelting furnaces of zinc, and consisting of a crude zinc oxide.

Not prudent; not discreet; ill advised. Shak.

Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.