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Passing through; as, thorough lights in a house. [Obs.]

The representation of chords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.

A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.

Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.

A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse.

d way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley.

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.

The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig. If she be a thoroughplaced impostor. Sir W. Scott.

A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.…

Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.

he whole length of any business; fully; completely. [Obs.] Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch. L'Estrange.

Thoroughwort.

Same as Boneset.

To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish. The armorers accomplishing the knights. Shak. It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. Wilkins. These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. Cowden Clarke.…

That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place,…

Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Beaus adept in everything profound. Cowper.

ame thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Colloq.] -- All the better, wholly the better; that is, better by the whole difference. -- All the same, nevertheless. "There they [certain phenomena] remain rooted all the sam…

Notoriously or preëminently bad; thorough or downright, in a bad sense; shameless; unmitigated; as, an arrant rogue or coward. I discover an arrant laziness in my soul. Fuller.