throwther

& adv. [THROUTHER.] thrum, *throm, *thrumm, *thrumb, s. & a. [Icel. thrömr (gen it. thramar )=the edge, verge, brim of a thing; hence, the rough edge of a web. Norw. tröm, tram, trumm=edge, brim: Sw. dial. tromm, trumm, trom =a stump, the end of a log; O. Dutch drom, drom - garen = thread on the shuttle of a weaver; Ger. trumm =end, thrum, stump of a tree. From the same root as Gr. term a; Lat. terminus = end, limit.] A. As substantive: 1. Nautical: (1) Coarse untwisted rope, used for mops and for mat-making. (2) A wad of such yarns or a sail pa ed overboard and hauled into the vicinity of a leak, so as to be drawn thereinto. 2. Weaving : The ends of the warp or weft threads. 3. Anything resembling a thrum, as a filamentous or fringe-like appendage. "All mo hath here and there little stalks, besides the low thrum ."- Bacon : Nat . Hist ., § 357. B. As adj .: Made of coarse yarn. "The ends are eight or nine inches long, hanging out on the upper side, like the shag or thrumb matts, which we sometimes see lying in a pa age."-Cook: First Voy age , bk. ii., ch. ix. * Thread and thrum: [THREAD, 8.] thrŭm (1), v. t. [THRUM, 8.] 1. Ord. Lang .: To furnish with thrums or appendages resembling thrums; to put tufts, fringes, or other thread-like appendages on. meshes of in making a rope-mat. 2. Naut.: To insert tufts of hemp or coir in the thrum (2), v. i. & t. [Icel. thrum a to rattle, to thunder; Dan. tromme a drum; Sw. trumma =to beat, to drum.] [DRUM.] A. Intransitive : 1. To play coarsely, or unskillfully, or purposele ly on a stringed instrument; to strum. "Blunderbu es planted in every loop-hole, go off constantly at the squeaking of a fiddle and the thrumming of a guitar."-Dryden: Spanish Friar , i. 2. 2. To make a dull, drumming, monotonous noise on anything, as with the fingers; to drum. B. Transitive : 1. To play roughly on with the fingers, as a piano, harp, guitar, . Thrum is generally used of keyed, and strum of stringed instruments. 2. To play or sing in a monotonous tone. "If men should ever be thrumming the drone of one plain song, it would be a dull opiate to the most wakeful attention."- Milton : Animad , on Rem. Defence. 3. To drum, to tap, to beat. "Oh! how I long, how ardently desire, To view those rosy fingers strike the lyre! For late, when bees to change their climes began, How did I see them thrum the frying-pan!" Shenstone: Colemira, 4. To tell over in a tiresome manner. (Scotch.) "He wad thrum them ower and ower to the like o' me ayont the ingle."- Scott : Antiquary , ch. xxi. *thrum-ble, v. t . [A frequent. from thrum, v.] To crowd or heap together. "Wicked and leud folk, who gather, thrumble, and heape up together all sorts of gaine."-P. Holland : Plu tarch , p. 213. thrŭmmed, a. [Eng. thrum (1), s.; -ed.] 1. Made of thrums or coarse yarn. *2. Interwoven, matted, covered thickly. "Which bears a gra as soft as is the dainty sleave, And thrumm'd so thick and deep." Drayton: Polyolbion , s. 23.