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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.

Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.

te or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought. God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind. Gen. i. 25. He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt. Gen. xiv. 23. A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Keats.

To seem or appear; -- used chiefly in the expressions methinketh or methinks, and methought.

Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

ing the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.

In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

One who thins, or makes thinner.

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

Somewhat thin.

A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium). Watts.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant acanthus.

Altogether. [Obs.] Shak.

The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8.

Of or pertaining to amaranth. "Amaranthine bowers." Pope.

A group of teleostean fishes destitute of spiny fin-rays, as the cod.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.