THIEVE
THIEVE, verb intransitive [from thief.] To steal; to practice theft.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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THIEVERY
THIE'VERY, noun The practice of stealing; theft. [See Theft.]Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest.1. That which is stolen.
THIEVISH
THIE'VISH, adjective Given to stealing; addicted to the practice of theft; as a thievish boy.Or with a base and boist'rous sword enforceA thievish living on the common road.1. S...
THIEVISHLY
THIE'VISHLY, adverb In a thievish manner; by theft.
THIEVISHNESS
THIE'VISHNESS, noun The disposition to steal.1. The practice or habit of stealing.
THIGH
THIGH, noun That part of men, quadrupeds and fowls, which is between the leg and the trunk.As the word signifies, it is the thick part of the lower limbs.
THILK
THILK, pronoun The same.
THILL
THILL, noun The shaft of a cart, gig or other carriage. The thills are the two pieces of timber extending from the body of the carriage on each side of the last horse, by which ...
THILL-HORSE
THILL'-HORSE, noun The horse which goes between the thills or shafts, and supports them. In a team, the last horse.
THILLER
THILL'ERTHIM'BLE, noun [I know not the origin or primary sense of this word. Possibly it may be from thumb.]1. A kind of cap or cover for the finger, usually made of metal, used...
THIME
THIME. [See Thyme.]
THIN
THIN, adjective [Latin tenuis; Gr. narrow.]1. Having little thickness or extent from one surface to the opposite; as a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin cove...
THINE
THINE, pronominal adj. Thy; belonging to thee; relating to thee; being the property of thee. It was formerly used for thy, before a vowel.Then thou mightest eat grapes thy fill,...
THING
THING, noun [The primary sense of thing is that which comes, falls or happens, like event, from Latin evenio.]1. An event or action; that which happens or falls out, or that whi...
THINK
THINK, verb intransitivepreterit tense and participle passive thought, pronoun thaut. [Latin duco.]1. To have the mind occupied on some subject; to have ideas, or to revolve ide...
THINKER
THINK'ER, noun One who thinks; but chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker
THINKING
THINK'ING, participle present tense Having ideas; supposing; judging; imagining; intending; meditating.1.adjective Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regula...
THINLY
THIN'LY, adverb [from thin.] In a loose scattered manner; not thickly; as ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.
THINNESS
THIN'NESS, noun The state of being thin; smallness of extent from one side or surface to the opposite; as the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate; the thinness of the skin....
THIRD
THIRD, adjective thurd. [Latin tertius.] The first after the second; the ordinal of three. The third hour in the day among the ancients, was nine o'clock in the morning.THIRD es...
THIRDBOROUGH
THIRDBOROUGH, noun thurd'burro. [third and borough.]An under constable.
THIRDINGS
THIRD'INGS, noun The third year of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
THIRDLY
THIRD'LY, adverb In the third place.
THIRDS
THIRDS, nounplural The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which by law the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life.
THIRL
THIRL, verb transitive thurl. To bore; to perforate. It is now written drill and thrill. [See these words, and see Nos tril.]
THIRLAGE
THIRLAGE, noun thurl'age. In English customs, the right which the owner of a mill possesses by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district to bring all their gr...
THIRST
THIRST, noun thurst. [Latin torreo.]1. A painful sensation of the throat or fauces, occasioned by the want of drink.Wherefore is it that thou hast brought us out of Egypt, to ki...