Search the Dictionary

Telepathy.

Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope.

Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.

Multiplied by a thousand.

Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

A thole pin.

Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people. -- n.

To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property. [Obs.] South.

Metal still in the mine. [Obs.]

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.

A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

Having no thralls.

Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. Servile and thrall-like fear. Milton.

Thraldom.

One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw. The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. H. Spencer.

An instrument to thrash with; a flail. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.