thumbpot

The smallest size of flower-pots. "Tiny plants in thumb - pots were also used."- Field, Jan. 1, 1887. thumb-screw, s. 1. A screw with a flat sided head adapted to be turned by the finger and thumb. 2. An old instrument of torture to break the thumb-joint; a thumbkin. IMG:content-1080.png:[blocks in formation] Beaum . & Flet.: Mad Lover, v. 2. Some person or thing very great or huge. ( Colloq .) "Small as you will, if 'twas a bumper, Centum for one would be a thumper ." Byrom Critical Remarks upon Pa ages in Horace. thump-Ing, a . [THUMP, v.] Large, heavy, huge; very great. "You've run up a thumping bill, and I'll warrant you'll pay it like a lord."-O'Keefe: Fontainebleau , iii. 1. thun-berg-I-a, subst . [Named after Carl Petter Thunberg (1743-1828), a Swedish traveler, botanist, and profe or of natural history at Upsal.] "He had brought into use a little steel thumb - screw which gave such exquisite torment that it had wrung confe ions even out of men on whom his Majesty's favor- ite boot had been tried in vain."- Macaulay : Hist. Eng., synonym of Gardenia. Involucre two-leaved; calyx ch. vi. thumb-stall, s. Thumb-screw. 1. A case, sheath, or covering of leather or other substance, to be worn on the thumb. "Gloves cut into thumb - stalls ." - Gayton: Festivous Notes , p. 97. 2. A sailor's thimble used in sail-making; it is made of iron, horn, or leather, and has the edges turned up to receive the thread. It is worn on the thumb to tighten the stitches. which a gunner wears on his thumb to cover the 13. Ordn.: A stall of buckskin stuffed with hair, vent while the piece is being sponged and loaded. thumb ( b silent), v. t. & i. [THUMB, s.] A. Transitive: 1. To handle awkwardly; to play with the fingers; as, to thumb over a tune. 2. To mark, soil, or wear with the thumb or fingers, or by frequent handling. "Within a week after it had arrived it had been thumbed by twenty families."-Macaulay: Hist. England, ch. iii. B. In trans.: To play on with the fingers. thumbed ( b silent), a. [Eng. thumb, s.; -ed.] 1. Having thumbs. 2. Having thumb-marks. thumb-le-kinş, thumb-I-kins (b silent), s. pl. [THUMBKINS.]