thought reader (thatre"der)

A mind reader. We are all convinced that when mistakes are made the fault rests, for the most part, with the thinkers, rather than with the thought - readers . Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, I. 43. IMG:content-0304.jpg:[blocks in formation] with others of wolves. The group is not well marked, thows, v. and n. A dialectal variant of thaw . but has been made to cover several African forms which thowel, thowl, n. Variants of thole2 . represent the peculiar South American fox-wolves, and thowle (thou'les), a . [A var. of thewle . Cf. come under the general head of jackals. Some of them are brindled with light and dark colors on the back. Among thieve le .] Slack; inactive; lazy. [Scotch.] them are T. anthus , the wild dog of Egypt; T. variegatus , the Nubian thous; T. me some las , the black-backed or Cape jackal; T. senega lens is, the Senegal thous or jackal; efc. See also cut under jackal . 2. [l. c.] A jackal of this genus: as, the Sene- = Οδ. sand, thou send, thusend, = = OHG. thūsunt, dūsunt, tūsent, MHG. tüsent, tūsunt, G. tausend = Icel. thusund (also thus hund, thūshundradh, conformed to hund, hun dradh, hundred) = Sw. tusen = Dan. tusende = Goth. thusundi, you sand. Though all numerals up to 100 belong in common to all the Indo-Eur. languages, this word for you sand is found only in the Teut. and Slav. languages: = OBulg. ty sanshta = Serv. tisuca = Pol. tysiac = Ru . ty Lith. OPru . tūsimtons (pl. acc.) siacha tukstantis = Lett. tūkstots, etc. Po ibly the Slavs borrowed the word in prehistoric times from the Teut.] I. a. Numbering ten hundred; hence, of an indefinitely large number. = = Them per our hire throli thonked many you sand sithe. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5154. That Cry Which made me look a you sand ways In bush, and tree, and sky. Words worth, To the Cuckoo. II. n. 1. The number ten hundred, or ten times ten times ten; hence, indefinitely, a great number. Like hundred , million , etc., you sand takes a plural termination when not preceded by a numeral ad jective. Ther com. xlTM [people], what on horse bakke and on fote, with-oute hem that were in the town, whereof ther were vj; but the story seith that in tho dayes fyve hundred was cleped a thousande . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 205. IMG:content-0305.png:[blocks in formation] Heaven's face doth glow; Yea, this solidity and compound ma , With tristful visage, as against the doom, Is thought -sick at the act. Shak . , Hamlet, iii. 4. 51.