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The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).

[In this sense pronounced tîng.]

To employ any of the intellectual powers except that of simple perception through the senses; to exercise the higher intellectual faculties. For that I am I know, because I think. Dryden.

The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; -- less common in this sense.

gher 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.

ssed with great applause. Sir W. Temple. Material things are presented only through their senses. Cheyne.

; as, to throw off a disease. (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent. (c) To make a start in a hunt or race. [Eng.](e) To disconcert or confuse. Same as to throw out (f). -- To throw on, to cast on; to load. -- To throw one's self down, to lie down neglect…

vincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

her fluid; not leaky; as, a tight ship; a tight cask; a tight room; -- often used in this sense as the second member of a compound; as, water- tight; air-tight.

the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

Any pleasurable sensation. Those titillations that reach no higher than the senses. Glanvill.

Character; condition of being; purpose subserved or office filled. [In this sense archaic] "I have a king here to my flatterer." Shak. Made his masters and others . . . to consider him to a little wonder. Walton.

and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone. Tone color. (Mus.) see the Note under def. 4, above. -- Tone syllable, an accented syllable. M. Stuart.

One that tops, in any sense of the verb; specif.:

To perceive by the sense of feeling. Nothing but body can be touched or touch. Greech.

The sense or act of feeling; touch.

With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil toward his brother. Deut. xxviii. 54. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv. 16.

The use of a word in a figurative or extended sense; ametaphor; a trope. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.