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To moisten to a proper consistency and stir thoroughly, as clay for making brick, loam for molding, etc.

Thorough. [Reformed spelling.]

Thorough. [Obs.] Hakluyt.

Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge. Through bolt, a bolt which passes through all the thickness or layers of that which it fastens, or…

Thoroughly. [Obs.] Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden.

Thoroughfare. [Obs.] This world is but a thurghfare full of woe. Chaucer.

to communicate a portion of anything foreign to; to tinge. The stain of habitual sin may thoroughly tincture all our soul. Barrow.

To beat thoroughly or severely. [Obs.] Layamon.

To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

rer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll. -- Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; t…

To rub or grind to a very fine or impalpable powder; to pulverize and comminute thoroughly.

ss of teaching; instruction; as, children are sent to school for tuition; his tuition was thorough.

Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.

To do less thoroughly than is requisite; specifically, to cook insufficiently; as, to underdo the meat; -- opposed to overdo.

Thoroughly stripped; pillaged. [Obs.] Shak.

Not thoroughly or abundantly impregnated with the usual or required ingredients, or with stimulating and nourishing substances; of less than the usual strength; as, weak tea, broth, or liquor; a weak decoction or solution; a weak dose of medicine.

n, to the occasion, or to a proposed end or use; suitably; abundantly; fully; adequately; thoroughly. Lot . . . beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere. Gen. xiii. 10. WE are wellable to overcome it. Num. xiii. 30. She looketh well to the ways of her household. Prov. xxxi. 27. Servant of God…

Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted.