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To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. [R.] [Written also thrifallow.] Tusser.

A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose. Jeffrey. At intervals there came some tremendous thu…

One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. "One of the suppressors of Thuggee." J. D. Hooker.

Thuggee.

A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [Written also thuya.] See Thyine wood.

The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.

Oxide of thulium.

A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.

The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex. Upon his thumb he had of gold a ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washer…

The goldcrest. [Prov. Eng.]

Having thumbs.

An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.

Without a thumb. Darwin.

A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.

The chiff-chaff. [Prov. Eng.]

A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.

The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like. The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth. With heavy thump, a lifeless lump, They dropped down, one by one. Coleridge.

One who, or that which, thumps.

Heavy; large. [Colloq.]