th thrust1 (thrust)

[ as a term of fence, in general, any attack by a fencer with a point. With reference to the saber, broadsword, and other cut-and-thrust weapons, it distinguishes the use of the point from a blow or cut, and is le important than in small-sword and foil work, where the point alone is used. In fencing thrusts are always made by extending the arm before moving the foot or body. A thrust (quoth he) of a sword, which went in at his side. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 71. (Encyc. Dict .) Lieut. Felton, being behind, made a Thrust with a common Tenpenny Knife over Fryer's Arm at the Duke, which lighted so fatally that he slit his Heart in two, leaving the Knife sticking in the Body. Howell , Letters, I. v. 7. I have heard Gentlemen say, Sister, that one shou'd take great Care, when one makes a Thrust in Fencing, not to 2. Attack; a ault. Two & thretty thried shippes thrast full of pepull. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4129. A hall thrust full of bare heads, some bald, some bush'd, Some bravely branch'd. Tomkis (?), Álbumazar, i. 3. 4. To stab; pierce. A base Walloon, to win the Dauphin's grace, Thrust Talbot with a spear into the back. To thrust aside, to push or jostle out of the way; displace. There are few Venetian memorials to be seen in these towns; and if the winged lion ever appeared over their gates he has been carefully thrust aside by kings and emperors. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 292. To thrust forth. (a) To drive out; expel: as, she was thrust forth into the storm. (b) To protrude; cause to project. From S. Michael's Mount Southward, immediately there is thrust forth a biland or dem i-isle. Holland, tr. of Camden, p. 189. To thrust on. (a) To impel; urge. Did she not thrust me on , And to my duty clapt the spur of honour? Fletcher, Double Marriage, iv. 3. (b) To push forward; advance, in space or time. This [evidence] thrusts on the building of the upper and greater church to a later time, surely not earlier than the reign of Just in i an. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 169. To thrust one's nose into. See nosel. - To thrust one's self in or into, to obtrude; intrude; enter where one is not welcome. Who's there, I say? How dare you thrust yourselves Into my private meditations? Shak., Hen. VIII., ii. 2. 65. IMG:content-0365.png:[blocks in formation] To thrust upon, to force upon; impose or inflict upon. Some are born great, some achieve greatne , and some have greatne thrust upon 'em. Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 158. =Syn. 1. Thrust is stronger, more energetic, than push or drive, and represents a more dignified act than shove. No other distinction really exists among these words. II. in trans. 1. To push or drive with or as with a pointed weapon. He next his falchion tried in closer fight; But the keen falchion had no power to bite; He thrust , the blunted point returned again. Dryden, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., xii. 643. They do not thrust with the skill of fencers, but cut up with the barbarity of butchers. Steele, Spectator, No. 422. 2. To push one's self; force a way or pa age. Then he threste thourgh the pre e to that Saisne, and for to yeve hym a grete stroke he reysed his ax. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 199. My fair reputation, If I thrust into crowds and seek occasions, Suffers opinion. thug handle, used for cutting up weeds, etc., in agriculture like the common hoe, but with a thrust instead of a pull. Also called Dutch hoe. See cut under hoel. thrusting (thrus'ting), n. [Verbal n. of thrust, v.] 1. The act of pushing with force. 2. pl. In cheese - making , the white whey, or that which is last pre ed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. Also thrutch ings . [Prov. Eng.] thrusting-screw (thrusting-skrö), n. The screw of a screw-pre , as of a cheese-pre . thrustle (thrus'l), n. An obsolete or dialectal variant of throstle .