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elf; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style. Art thou he that should come Matt. xi. 3.

Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. Job xiii. 15. Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. Milton.

of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation. Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. Dr. T. Dwight.

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.

Hence, indefinitely, a great number. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7.

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.

A kind of divorce which does not dissolve the marriage bond, but merely authorizes a separate life of the husband and wife. Abbott.

Relating to the abdomen and the thorax, or chest.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Having a spiny head, as one of the Acanthocephala.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

Having spinous petioles.

A group of teleostean fishes having spiny fins. See Acanthopterygii.

Acanthopterygious.