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The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

ved manner; to try to carry out secretly; as, to steal a look. Always, when thou changest thine opinion or course, profess it plainly, . . . and do not think to steal it. Bacon. To steal a march, to march in a covert way; to gain an advantage unobserved; -- formerly followed by of, but now by on or upon, and sometimes…

To cause to submit; to prostrate. [Obs.] Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive. Chapman.

aves; leaves strewed the ground. The snow which does the top of Pindus strew. Spenser. Is thine alone the seed that strews the plain Pope.

bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish. I will subdue all thine enemies. 1 Chron. xvii. 10.

o the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce. To thy husband's will Thine shall submit. Milton.

f seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey. Sultana bird (Zoöl.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.

Swarthiness. [R.] Dr. R. Clerke.

Swarthiness. [Obs.]

ommended as freely as I have taxed their crimes. Dryden. Fear not now that men should tax thine honor. M. Arnold.

as, in absolute governments, men hold their rights by a precarious tenure. All that seems thine own, Held by the tenure of his will alone. Cowper. Tenure by fee alms. (Law) See Frankalmoigne.

Of or pertaining to turpentine; resembling turpentine; terbinthine; as, terbinthic qualities.

Impregnating with the qualities of turpentine; terbinthine.

Any oil substance having a hyacinthine odor, obtained by the action of acids on terpin, and regarded as a related hydrate.

Quality of being earthy; earthiness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.

ly for blame. "Graunt mercy, lord, that thank I you," quod she. Chaucer. I thank thee for thine honest care. Shak. Weigh the danger with the doubtful bliss, And thank yourself if aught should fall amiss. Dryden.

from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl xanthine.

Of thee, or belonging to thee; the more common form of thine, possessive case of thou; -- used always attributively, and chiefly in the solemn or grave style, and in poetry. Thine is used in the predicate; as, the knife is thine. See Thine. Our father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy wil…

y father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. Prov. vi. 20,21.