| Thracian |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people. |
| Thracian |
n. |
A native or inhabitant of Thrace. |
| Thrack |
v. t. |
To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property. |
| Thrackscat |
n. |
Metal still in the mine. |
| Thraldom |
n. |
The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. |
| Thrall |
n. |
A slave; a bondman. |
| Thrall |
n. |
Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. |
| Thrall |
n. |
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc. |
| Thrall |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved. |
| Thrall |
v. t. |
To enslave. |
| Thrall-less |
a. |
Having no thralls. |
| Thrall-less |
a. |
Not enslaved; not subject to bonds. |
| Thrall-like |
a. |
Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish. |
| Thralldom |
n. |
Thraldom. |
| Thranite |
n. |
One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme. |
| Thrapple |
n. |
Windpipe; throttle. |
| Thrash |
v. t. |
Alt. of Thresh |
| Thrash |
v. t. |
Alt. of Thresh |
| Thrashed |
imp. & p. p. |
of Thresh |
| Thrashel |
n. |
An instrument to thrash with; a flail. |
| Thrasher |
n. |
Alt. of Thresher |
| Thrashing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Thresh |
| Thrashing |
|
a. & n. from Thrash, v. |
| Thrasonical |
a. |
Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious. |
| Thrast |
p. p. |
of Thraste |
| Thraste |
imp. |
of Thraste |
| Thraste |
v. t. |
To thrust. |
| Thrave |
n. |
Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. |
| Thrave |
n. |
The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng. |
| Thraw |
n. & v. |
See Throse. |
| Thread |
n. |
A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted. |
| Thread |
n. |
A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver. |
| Thread |
n. |
The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1. |
| Thread |
n. |
Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. |
| Thread |
n. |
Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. |
| Thread |
v. t. |
To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle. |
| Thread |
v. t. |
To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid. |
| Thread |
v. t. |
To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut. |
| Thread-shaped |
a. |
Having the form of a thread; filiform. |
| Threadbare |
a. |
Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. |
| Threadbare |
a. |
Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. |
| Threadbareness |
n. |
The state of being threadbare. |
| Threaded |
imp. & p. p. |
of Thread |
| Threaden |
a. |
Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. |
| Threader |
n. |
A device for assisting in threading a needle. |
| Threader |
n. |
A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut. |
| Threadfin |
n. |
Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments. |
| Threadfish |
n. |
The cutlass fish. |
| Threadfish |
n. |
A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads. |
| Threadiness |
n. |
Quality of being thready. |
| Threading |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Thread |
| Threadworm |
n. |
Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria. |
| Thready |
a. |
Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub. |
| Thready |
a. |
Containing, or consisting of, thread. |
| Threap |
v. t. |
To call; to name. |
| Threap |
v. t. |
To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. |
| Threap |
v. t. |
To beat, or thrash. |
| Threap |
v. t. |
To cozen, or cheat. |
| Threap |
v. i. |
To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. |
| Threap |
n. |
An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. |
| Threaped |
imp. & p. p. |
of Threap |
| Threaping |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Threap |
| Threat |
n. |
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation. |
| Threat |
n. |
To threaten. |
| Threaten |
v. t. |
To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. |
| Threaten |
v. t. |
To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. |
| Threaten |
v. i. |
To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance. |
| Threatened |
imp. & p. p. |
of Threaten |
| Threatener |
n. |
One who threatens. |
| Threatening |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Threaten |
| Threatening |
|
a. & n. from Threaten, v. |
| Threatful |
a. |
Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. |
| Threave |
n. |
Same as Thrave. |
| Three |
a. |
One more than two; two and one. |
| Three |
n. |
The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects. |
| Three |
n. |
A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii. |
| Three-coat |
a. |
Having or consisting of three coats;
applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat. |
| Three-color |
a. |
Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue. |
| Three-cornered |
a. |
Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat. |
| Three-cornered |
a. |
Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem. |
| Three-decker |
n. |
A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks. |
| Three-flowered |
a. |
Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers. |
| Three-handed |
a. |
Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards. |
| Three-leafed |
a. |
Alt. of Three-leaved |
| Three-leaved |
a. |
Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade. |
| Three-leaved |
a. |
Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes. |
| Three-lobed |
a. |
Having three lobes. |
| Three-mile |
a. |
Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the three-mile belt / zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state. |
| Three-nerved |
a. |
Having three nerves. |
| Three-parted |
a. |
Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite. |
| Three-pile |
n. |
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. |
| Three-piled |
a. |
Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. |
| Three-piled |
a. |
Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. |
| Three-piled |
a. |
Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. |
| Three-ply |
a. |
Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold. |
| Three-pointed |
a. |
Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate. |
| Three-port |
a. |
Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke. |
| Three-quarter |
a. |
Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five;
said of portraitures. |
| Three-score |
a. |
Thrice twenty; sixty. |
| Three-sided |
a. |
Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp. |
