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As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned. When they heard this, they were pricked in their heart. Acts ii. 37. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would c…

, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants. Blessed thistle, Carduus benedictus, so named because it was formerly considered an antidote to the bite of venomous creatures. -- Bull thistle, Cnicus lanceolatus, the common large thistle of neglected pastures. -- Canada thistle, Cnic…

Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.

The condition of being poisoned by the excessive use of absinth.

See Acolythist.

An acolyte. [Obs.]

One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy.

The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

One who has an antipathy. [R.] "Antipathist of light." Coleridge.

Relieving or curing phthisis, or consumption. -- n.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional. [R.]

A genus of gigantic cephalopods, allied to the squids, found esp. in the North Atlantic and about New Zealand.

See under Thistle.

A prickly plant of the genus Carlina (C. vulgaris), found in Europe and Asia.

A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ. Hoblyn.

Relating to erethism.

A believer in, or practitioner of, homeopathy. [Written also homoepathist.]

Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy.

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.