the so cyte (the so sit)

One of certain reserve cells which have been described in several sponges. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 420. IMG:content-0251.png:[graphic] Thespesia (thes-pē'si-ä), n. [NL. (Correa, 1807), so called from the beauty of the flow- ers; θεσπέσιος , divinely sounding, hence ineffable, divine; doubtfully plained as εἰπεῖν , 20 pers. pl. impν. ἐσ- πετε , say, speak.] A genus of plants, of the order Malva- ceæ and tribe Hi- bisceæ. It is char- acterized by flowers with three to five small bractlets, a club-shap- ed or but slightly di- vided style, and a five- celled ovary. There are about 6 species, na- tives of tropical Asia, the Pacific islands, and Madagascar. They are trees or tall herbs, with entire or angulate leaves, and handsome flowers, commonly yellow. Two species, T. Lampas and T. populnea , are remarkable for their black- dotted seed-leaves. The latter is a tree sometimes 50 feet high, planted for shade in India, and known as umbrella- tree and bendy -tree, and in Guiana as seaside mahoe. It bears a dense head of foliage, and large yellow flowers with a purple center, changing before evening to purple throughout, and perishing. Its flowers and fruits yield a dye, its seeds a thick deep-red oil known as Portia - nut oil , and its bast a useful fiber made into sacks and wrap- pings; its wood is used to make boats and furniture. Thespian (thes'pi-an), a . and n. [F. Thes- pien , θέσπιος , of or pertaining to Thespis, Thes- pian art, the drama. The great impulse given to the drama by Thespis consisted in the adjunction to the old dithyrambic chorus of Dionysus of a single actor who might appear succe ively in several rôles. The first pub- lic contest of Thespis is a igned to the year 536 B. C. Said we not it was the highest stretch attained by the Thespian Art? Carlyle, French Rev., II. i. 12. The angry Lord Chamberlain. clapped the unoffend- ing Thespian [Powell] for a couple of days in the Gate House. Doran, Annals of the Stage, I. 93. The alian (the-sāʻlian), a . and n . [ salia , Θεσσαλία , Attic Θετταλία , The aly, Θετταλός , The alian.] I. a. Of or pertaining to The aly, a district lying south of Macedonia and east of Epirus. Since 1881 the greater part of it belongs to the mod- theta (theta), n. n. [L. theta , θῆτα , the letter Θ, 0,9 , originally an aspirated t ; in modern Gr. and in the E. pron. of ancient Gr., pronounced as E. th .] A letter of the Greek alphabet cor- responding to the English th in thin , etc. It was sometimes called the unlucky letter, because it was used by the judges in pa ing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek θάνατος, death. - Theta function, a name applied to two entirely different func- tions. (a) A sort of complication of an exponential func- tion, being expre ed by a series from n = ∞ton +8 of terms the logarithm of each of which is n2a + 2 na. A theta function of several variables, x1, x2 ,... Xn , is exp. (Φ + ΣΜη Χη), where & is a quadratic function of the con- stants m1 , M 20 mn. (b) A function which occurs in probabilities, and is expre ed by the integral fe - tadt . thetch1 (thech), v . An obsolete or dialectal form of thatch . thetch2 (thech), n. [A dial. corruption of fetch2 , vetch .] The common vetch, Vicia sativa ; also, IMG:content-0252.png:[blocks in formation] thetic alt (thet'i-kal), a . [ thetic + -al.] Laid down; prescriptive; arbitrary. This law that prohibited Adam the eating of the fruit was merely thetical or positive, not indispensable and nat- ural. Dr. H. More, Def. of Lit. Cabbala, ii. Thetis (thē'tis), n. [L. Thetis , Θέτις : see def.] 1. In cla ical myth ., a marine god- de , who became the spouse of the mortal Pe- leus, despite her efforts to escape him by count- le Protean transformations, and was by him the mother of Achilles.-2. The seventeenth planetoid, discovered by Luther at Bilk in 1852. thetsee (thet'sē), n . Same as theetsee. theurgic (thē-ér'jik), a. [= F. théurgique = Sp. teúrgico = Pg. theurgico = It. teurgico , theurgic us , θεουργικός , θεουργία , theurgy: see theurgy .] Pertaining to theurgy, or the power of performing supernatural things. The soul of the mystic would have pa ed into the world of spiritual existences; but he was not yet ble ed with theurgic faculties, and patiently awaited for the elect. Theurgic hymns or songs, songs used in incantation. theurgical (the-er'ji-kal), a . [ theurgic + -al .] Same as theurgic . theurgist (thē'er-jist), n. [=F. théurgiste ; as theurg -y + -ist .] One who believes in theurgy, or practises a pretended magic. As if there be any irrational demons, as the theurgists affirm. Čudworth, Intellectual System, p. 864. theurgy (the'er-ji), n. [= F. théurgie = Sp. teurgia = Pg. theurgia = It. teurgia , theur- gia, θεουργός , one who does the works of God, a priest, θεός , god, + * ἔργειν , work.] The working of some divine or super- natural agency in human affairs; a producing of effects by supernatural means; effects or phenomena brought about among men by spir- itual agency. Specifically-( a ) Divine agency, or di- rect divine interference, in human affairs or the govern- Homer, with the vast mechanism of the Trojan war in his hands, and in such hands, and almost compelled to employ an elaborate and varied theurgy ,. was in a po- sition of advantage without parallel for giving form to the religious traditions of his country. Gladstone. (b) A system of supernatural knowledge or powers believed by the Egyptian Platonists and others to have been com- municated to mankind by the beneficent deities, and to have been handed down from generation to generation traditionally by the priests. (c) The art of invoking dei- thew1t, v. [ME. thewen , thewan , thŷwan , theówan (=MD. douwen = MLG. duwen = MHG. diuhen , dühen , diuwen ), oppre , theów , a bond- man: see thew1 , n .] To oppre ; enslave. thew2t (thu), n. [ thew , earlier theaw , usually in pl. thewes , theáu , custom, man- ner, behavior, = OS. thau = OHG. dau , * thau , also * gadau , kathau , discipline. Cf. thew3 .] Custom; habit; manner; usually in the plural, customs; habits; manners; morals; qualities; moral traits; conditions. Leue sone, this le oun me lerde my fader, that knew of kourt the thewes , for kourteour was he long. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 342. Nathelees it oghte ynough suffise With any wyf, if so were that she hadde Mo goode thewes than hire vices badde. IMG:content-0253.png:[graphic] Care I for the limb, the thewes , the stature, bulk, and big a emblance of a man! Shak . , 2 Hen. IV., iii. 2. 276. He [must] gain in sweetne and in moral height, Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world. Tennyson, Prince , vii. thew4+ (thu), n. [ME. the we ; origin obscure.] A cucking-stool; perhaps, also, a form of pillory. The we , or pylory. Collistrigium. Prompt . Parv ., p. 490. For them [women] the thew or the tumbrel was reserved. Encyc. Brit ., XIX. 96. thew (thu). An old or provincial or artificial preterit of thaw . IMG:content-0254.jpg:[blocks in formation] That through the world her goodne e is yshewed. Chaucer , Complaint of Mars, 1. 180. Yet would not see me so rude, and thewed ill, As to despise so curteous seeming part. Porphyry and some others did distinguish these two sorts, so as to condemn indeed the gro er, which they called magick or goety; but allowed other, which they termed theurgy , as laudable and honourable, and as an art by which they received angels, and had communi- cation with the gods. It may appear a subject of surprise and scandal that the Grecian mysteries should have been supported by the magic or theurgy of the modern Platonists. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, xxiii. (d) In mod. magic , the pretended production of effects by supernatural agency, as contradistinguished from natural magic. thevet, n. [ME.; cf. the vet horn .] Bramble. Theve, brusch [var. there , brusch]. theve-thornt, n. [ME., also theovethorn , also the thorn , thorn , a bramble, Christ's-thorn, thefe (appar. connected with thyfel , a bush) + thorn , thorn.] A bramble, probably Rubus fruticosus . Befor that zoure thornes shulden vnderstonde the theue thorne; as the lyuende, so in wrathe he shal soupe them vp. Wyclif , Ps. lvii. 10. The vet i a (thē - ve's hi-a), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), named after André Thevet (1502-90), a French monk and traveler.] A genus of plants, of the order Apocynaceæ , tribe Plumerieæ , and subtribe Cerbereæ . It is characterized by a glandular calyx and a funnel-shaped corolla with its lobes sinistrorse- ly overlapping. There are about 4 species, natives of trop- ical Asia, Madagascar, and the islands of the Pacific. They are smooth shrubs or small trees, with alternate leaves, and large yellow flowers in terminal cymes. For T. neriifolia , commonly cultivated in tropical America as a garden shrub or for hedges, see quashy - quasher, Till at the last a fearful was master, Amazing thewed , with fourfold plate-like horns. C. De Kay, Vision of Nimrod, iv. thewle (thu'les), a . [ thew3 +-le .] Weak; nervele . thewy (thu'i), a. [ thew3 + -y1.] Sinewy; brawny; muscular. There were burly, weather-beaten faces under powder and curls; broad, hard hands in kid gloves; thewy , red elbows, that had plied brooms, shuttles, cards, in lace ruf- fles. S. Judd , Margaret, i. 10. they1 (Tha), pron . pl . [ they , the i , thai , partly of Scand. origin (see below), partly tha = OS. thia , thie = OFries. tha = D. de = LG. de = OHG. dia , die , de , MHG. G. die = Icel. their = Goth. thai ; pl. of AS. the , etc., that, the: see that , the1 . The ME. they was declined in midland and southern ME. thus: nom, they, etc., gen. hire , here , hir , her , dat. hem ; in north- ern ME. nom. they , the i , thai , gen. thair , thaire , ther , dat. acc.thaim , tham , them ; in Orm. nom. thezz, gen. thezzre, dat. acc. thezzm ; orig. forms of the def. art., AS. nom. acc. pl. tha , gen. thar a , thæra, dat. thæm, thâm. The AS. thà , thāra , thâm retained the demonstrative force till late in ME.; the northern dialects, however, began through Danish influence to use them, or rather the Danish forms and the AS. forms together, as the plural. Cf. he, she, it. Cf. Icel. nom. their , gen. their a , gen. dat. theim , they, their, them, as the pl. of hann , hôn , he, she.] The plural pronoun of the third person. It stands for a plural noun or pronoun preceding, or in place of one not ex- pre ed when pointed out by the situation. It is without gender-forms. (a) Nom. they. And when thai saw the fyr on brede, In thaire hertis than had thai drede; Vnto the quene al gun thai cry. With lokkes crulle [curled] as they were leyd in pre e. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T. (ed. Morris), 1. 81. Thei dide his com a unde ment, and com to-geder, the i thre and two squyres only. Merlin (E. E. T. Š.), iii. 645. They of Italy salute you. Heb. xiii. 24. These are they which came out of great tribulation. Rev. vii. 14. took part in character, with boisterous mirth and music, and bearing attributes of the god; sometimes a political, commercial, social, or benevolent a ociation or gild ( έρανος ); specifi- cally, the mythological band of nymphs, mæ- nads, satyrs, etc., forming the personal cortège of Dionysus, and often represented in sculp- Thibaudia (thi-ba'di-a), n . [NL. (Pavon, 1818), named after a French botanist, Thibaud de Chanvallon, who traveled in the West Indies in 1751.] 1. A genus of gamopetalous plants, type of the tribe Thibaudieæ in the order Vac- ciniaceæ. It is characterized by racemose flowers with small bracts, a short calyx-tube, with five-toothed border, and ten elongated anthers, far surpa ed by a membra- nous extension into straight narrow tubes which open lengthwise by chinks. The 2 species, T. floribunda and T. Pichinchensis, are natives of the Andes, the United States of Colombia, and Peru. They are shrubs, sometimes with high-climbing stems, bearing alternate evergreen entire leaves with very oblique veins, and numerous pedicel led scarlet flowers in axillary crowded racemes, sometimes tipped with green or yellow. These and also a few species of related genera are known in cultivation as thibaudia . 2. [l. c.] A plant of this genus. Thibaudieæ (thi-ba-di'ē-ē), n . pl . [NL. (Ben- tham and Hooker, 1876), Thibaudia + -ex.] A tribe of gamopetalous plants, of the order Vacciniaceæ. It is characterized by rather large and usually thick and fleshy or coriaceous flowers with short filaments which are commonly contiguous or connate. It includes 17 genera, of which Thibaudia is the type: Sir J. Denham , Cooper's Hill. principally mountain shrubs, many of them natives of the Andes. Pant as ilia come pertly with hir pure maidnes,... (All thaire colour is by corse were of cleane white). Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), L. 10970. Some glory in their birth, some in their skill, Some in their wealth, some in their bodies' force. Shak., Sonnets, xci. As if God were so beholden to us for our good deeds as to be bound for their sakes to forgive us our ill ones! Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, I. ii. Sometimes formerly used alone, with the value now given to theirs . My clothing keeps me full as warm as their , My meates unto my taste as pleasing are. (c) Po . theirs. That which belongs to them: always used without the noun, and having the value of a nominative or an objective. Belfagor and Belyal and Bel abub als Heyred hem as hyzly as heuen wer thayres. Nothing but the name of zeal appears Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs . Bot-if we may with any gyn Mak tham to do dedly syn; Than with tham wil I wun and wake. Let him and them agree it; they are able to answer for themselves. Jer . Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 235. (e) Obj. (dat.), them . Give them wine to drink. Jer. xxxv. 2. (f) Used for those . [Now provincial, Eng. and U. S.] As if between them twain there were no strife. Shak., Lucrece, 1. 405. Let they ministers preach till they 'm black in the face. Kingsley, Westward Ho, xxx. Like them big hotels Where they shift plates, an' let ye live on smells. Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2d ser., ii. They say, it is said: they meaning persons generally. We must not run, they say , into sudden extreams. Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. They say he will come far ben, that lad; wha kens but he may come to be Sub-Prior himself? Scott , Monastery, xiii. they2+, conj . and adv . A Middle English variant of though . Thian-shan ( Ovis pol i ). said to be sometimes 44 feet round the curve, 14 feet about the base, their tips spreading 34 feet apart. The animal stands nearly 4 feet high at the shoulder. This sheep is a near relative of the argali and of the Rocky Mountain bighorn. It inhabits high hilly plains, runs with great speed, and is found in flocks of from 30 to 40, but is still very imperfectly known. thiasos, n. See thiasus . thiasote (thi'a-sot), (thi' n. [ θίασος , a band or company: see thiasus .] A member of or a participant in a thiasus. thiasus, thiasos (thi'a-sus, -sos), n.; pl. thiasi thible (thib'l), n. [Also thibel , thivel , the evil , theivil, theedle ; dial. variants of dibble1 .] 1. A dibble. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -2. A stick used for stirring broth, porridge, etc.; a pot- stick. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch.] The thible ran round, and the... handfuls of meal fell into the water. E. Bronte , Wuthering Heights, xiii. 31. A slice; a skimmer; a spatula. Imp . Dict . thick (thik), a . and n. [ thicke , thikke , thykke , rarely thig , thicce = OS. OFries. thikki = MD. dieke , D. dik = MLG. dick = OHG. dicchi, MHG. dik , dicke , G. dick = Icel. thykkr (older forms thjokkr or thjökkr ) = Sw. tjok = Dan. tyk (Goth. not recorded); cf. OIr. ting ( tigu ), thick. Cf. tight1 .] I. a. 1. Having rel- atively great extent or depth from one surface to its opposite; being relatively of great depth, or extent from side to side: opposed to thin . Thre hundred elne was it [the ark] long, Naild and sperd, thig and strong. If the Sun is incommodious, we have thick folding Shut- ters on the out-Side, and thin ones within, to prevent that. N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 198. 2. Having (a specified) measurement in a di- rection perpendicular to that of the length and breadth; measuring (so much) between oppo- site surfaces: as, a board one inch thick . The walles of the gallery are about two yardes thicke at the least. Coryat , Crudities, I. 33. Of Fruits, he reckons the Iacapucaya, like a pot, as big as a great bowle, two fingers thicke , with a couer on it, within full of Chesnuts. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 843. 3. Having numerous separate parts or ind i- viduals set or occurring close together; dense; compactly arranged. He is the pyes patroun and putteth it in hire ere, That there the thorne is thikkest to buylden and brede. Piers Plowman (B), xii. 228. We supposed him some French mans sonne, because he had a thicke blacke bush beard, and the Salvages seldome haue any at all. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 184. We caught another snow-storm, so thick and blinding that we dared not venture out of the harbor. B. Taylor , Northern Travel, p. 16. 4. Having relatively great consistency; also, containing much solid matter in suspension or solution; approaching the consistency of a solid; inspi ated: as, thick cream; thick paste; often of liquids, turbid; muddy; cloudy. IMG:content-0255.jpg:[blocks in formation] Bote euer-more Seraphe askes and cries, "Where was Eualac?" the stour was so thikke . Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 18. Thick slumber Again the evening closes, in thick and sultry air; There's thunder on the mountains, the storm is gathering there. Bryant , Count of Greiers. 7. Mentally dull; stupid; devoid of in tell i- gence: as, to have a thick head. He a good wit? hang him, baboon! his wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 262. The people muddied, Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers. Shak ., Hamlet, iv. 5. 82. tell me what thou notest about the field. Shak ., J. C., v. 3. 21. I am thick of hearing, Still, when the wind blows southerly. In pa ing, with a gro er film made thick These heavy, horny eyes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 288. exceeding thicke from to the other. Coryat, Crudities, I. 55. The bra -hoof'd steeds tumultuous plunge and bound, And the thick thunder beats the lab'ring ground. Pope , Iliad, xi. 198. Lay me, When I shall die, within some narrow grave, Not by itself-for that would be too proud - But where such graves are thickest . IMG:content-0256.jpg:[graphic] 12. Being of a specified number; numbering. [Rare.] There is a guard of spies ten thick upon her. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. 13. Close in friendship; intimate. [Colloq.] Could conjure, tell fortunes, and calculate tides,... And was thought to be thick with the Man in the Moon. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 270. Don't you be getting too thick with him - he's got his father's blood in him too. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , ii. 6. Half-thick file. See filel . - Thick coal, a bed of coal in the Dudley district, England, averaging about thirty feet in thickne , "a source of enormous wealth to the dis- trict" ( Hull ).- Thick focaloid, homeoid, intestine. See the nouns. - Thick limestone. Same as scar - lime- stone. Thick register. See register1 , 5 (b). - Thick squall. See squall1 . - Thick stuff, in ship - building , a general name for all planking above 4 inches in thickne . All the timber, thick - stuff , and plank to be fresh-cut. Laslett , Timber, p. 76. Thick 'un, a sovereign; also, a crown, or five shillings. Sometimes written thickun . [Cant.] I will send a few thickuns to bring you If you like to Start. Corn hill Mag., VI. 648. IMG:content-0257.jpg:[blocks in formation] thick When the horse was laus, he gynneth gon Forth with "We hee," thurgh thikke and thurgh thenne. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 146. Through thick and thin , through mountains and through playns, Those two great champions did attonce pursew The feare full damzell. Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 46. To lie daily, through thick and thin , and with every variety of circumstance and detail which a genius fertile in fiction could suggest, such was the simple rule prescribed by his [Alexander Farnese's) sovereign [Philip II.]. 6288 (dt) To make obscure or dark; hence, to hide; conceal. Hauing past three days and three nightes, forsaking all high wayes, thicked my self in the great desert, and being utterly tired, and no le e in feare of them that should seek mee, I conueyed my selfe into a great caue. Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 144. II. in trans. To become thick. But see, the Welkin thicks apace, And stouping Phebus steepes his face. Spenser, Shep. Cal., March. He had been giving the squire a full and particular account à la Henslowe of my proceedings since I came. Henslowe lays it on thick - paints with a will. Mrs. Humphry Ward, Robert Elsmere, xviii. II. n. 1. The thickest part of anything. (a) That part which is of longest measurement acro or through; the bulkiest part. The freke. Braid out a big sword, bare to hym sone With a dedly dynt, & der it hym full euyll Throgh the thicke of the thegh. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 9021. An' blacksmith 'e strips me the thick ov 'is airın, an 'e shaws it to me. Tennyson, Northern Cobbler. (b) The densest or most crowded part; the place of greatest resort or abundance. Achimetes in the thick of the dust and smoke presently entered his men. Knolles. I am plain Elia-no Selden, nor Archbishop Usher though at present in the thick of their books. Lamb , Oxford in the Vacation. He has lived in the thick of people all his life. W. M. Baker , New Timothy, p. 104. (c) The spot of greatest intensity or activity. He dre ed as if life were a battle, and he were appointed to the thick of the fight. T. Winthrop, Cecil Dreeme, iv. 2. The time when anything is thickest. In the thick of question and reply I fled the house. Tennyson, The Sisters. to go through thick and thin; thorough; devoted: as, a thick -and-thin supporter; a thick and-thin advocate of a measure.-2. Having one sheave thicker than the other. Thick-and thin blocks were formerly used as quarter blocks under a yard.