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To press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).

Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.

Thirteen. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry. Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold. I. Watts.

p. p. of Thrive.

One who thrives, or prospers.

In a thriving manner.

The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase.

A contraction of Through.

The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column.

Same as Throatlatch.

The Adam's apple in the neck. [Obs. or R.] By the throatboll he caught Aleyn. Chaucer.

A drip, or drip molding.

A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.

To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc. My heart Throbs to know one thing. Shak. Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast. Shak.

To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition. Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes. Milton.