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One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

a. & n. from Thrash, v. Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. -- Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw.

Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious. -- Thra*son"ic*al*ly, adv. Cæsar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.' Shak.

To thrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng. "The worst of a thrave." [Obs.] Landsdowne MS. He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale. Bp. Hall.

See Throse. [Scot.] Burns.

A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.

Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

The state of being threadbare.

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.

A device for assisting in threading a needle.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

The cutlass fish.

Quality of being thready.

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

intain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns.

The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; meance; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak.

To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. Acts iv. 17.