you sand, thousynde, thousant

& a. [A. S. thúsend; cogn. with Dutch duizend; Icel thúsund, thúshund, thúsundradh; Dan.tusind; Sw. tusen; Ger. tausend; Goth. thusundi. The second element is evidently A. S. and Icel. hund =a hundred; the etymology of the first element of the word is doubtful.] A. As substantive: 1. The number of ten hundreds; ten times a hundred; hence used indefinitely for a great number, and in the plural for an indefinite number. "Some you sands of these logs." Shakesp.: Tempest , iii. 1. 2. A symbol representing the number of ten hundred, as 1,000, or M. "War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invade, And steel now glitters in the muses' shade." Pope : Chorus of A then i ans . *4. Anxious, solicitous; full of anxiety or care. amidst, what, fâll, father; we, wět, hëre, camel, her, there; pine, pit, sïre, sir, IMG:content-1043.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1044.png:[blocks in formation] *thrall, v . t . [THRALL, s.] To bring into a state of bondage or slavery; to enslave; to enthrall. " Thrall'd in an Iland; shipwrackt in his teares; And in the fancies that Calypso beares, Bound from his birthright.' IMG:content-1045.png:[blocks in formation] And first brought forth Uly es, bed, and all That richly furnish'd it; he still in thrall Of all-subduing sleepe." (1) To beat out or separate the grain or seeds from by means of a flail or thrashing machine, or by treading with oxen. "And in the sun your golden grain display, And thrash it out, and winnow it by day." Dryden: Virgil; Georgic i. 400. *(2) To beat with sticks, for the purpose of knock- ing down fruit. (Dryden: Virgil ; Georg . i. 409.) 2. Fig .: To beat soundly with a stick or whip; to IMG:content-1046.png:[blocks in formation] "I rather would be Mævius, thresh for rhimes Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times." Dryden. (Todd.) II. Nautical : To move rapidly; to make rapid progre . "A subject which has by no means been thrashed out." -St. James's Gazette, Jan. 4, 1885. †thrash, thrush (3), s . [Etym. doubtful.] Bot .: Various species of Juncus. thrash-el, thrash-le, s. [Eng. thrash ; -el,-le.] An instrument to thrash with; a flail. ( Prov .) thrasher, thresh-er, s. [Eng. thrash ; -er.] I. Ord. Lang.: One who thrashes grain, . II. Technically : 1. Ornith .: A popular American name for the 2. Zool .: [ALOPIAS, FOX-SHARK.] IMG:content-1047.png:[blocks in formation] chute furnishes the sheaf, heads foremost, to the action of the radial teeth that are attached to the skeleton-cylinder, and are opposed to the teeth in the concave plates beneath. A straw-carrier ele- vates and discharges the straw, shaking out the grain, which falls into the well. A lifting-screw elevates and forwards the grain and chaff from the well to the vibrating shoe that carries the dividing screen, which, with the aid of the blast from the fan in its rear, separates the grain from its accom- panying refuse. The clean grain then falls into a forwarding screw that discharges through a spout into a measure or bag. An elevator returns the tailings and unthrashed heads to the cylinder to be worked over. An endle belt furnished with trans- verse slats, and sometimes covered with an apron, takes the straw from the machine. Some machines are also provided with a straw carrier that elevates and forwards the straw, commonly discharging it on the stack. In some of the later American ma- chines the tops of the grain are cut off close to the heads and thrashed without pa ing the straw through the machine, and thus the haulmes are not broken, rendering the straw much more valuable for the manufacture of hats, . Still other im- provements have been made, adding much to the availability and compactne of these valuable adjuncts to farm equipment. Thrăsk-ite, s . [TRASKITE.] thrasonical thra-son-Ic-al, a. [After Thraso, the name of the braggart in the Latin comedies.] 1. Given to bragging; boasting. 2. Characterized by bragging or boasting; boastful. "There was never anything so sudden but the fight of two rams, and Cæsar's thrasonical brag of-I came, saw, and overcame." --Shakesp .: As You Like It , v. 2. thra-son-ic-al-ly, adv. [English thrasonical; -ly.] In a thrasonical or boastful manner; boastfully. "To brag thrasonically, to boast like Rodomonte."Johnson, in voce Rodomontade . *thraste, pret . of v. [THRUST, v.]