thingutt (thingut)

A starveling. [Low.] Thou thin - gut ! Thou thing without moisture! Mas singer , Believe as you List, iii. 2. (Latham.) thin-gutted (thin'guted), a. Having a thin, lean, or flaccid belly, as a fish. A slim thin - gutted fox. Sir R. L'Estrange. The better gowns they have on, the better men they think themselves. In the which thing they do twice err; for they be no le deceived in that they think their gown the better than they be in that they think themselves the better. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 7. Thinking vs enemies, [they] sought the best aduantage they could to fight with vs. Capt . John Smith , Works, II. 227. Besides, you are a Woman; you must never speak what you think . Congreve, Love for Love, ii. 11. 7. To feel: as, to think scorn. [Obsolete or provincial.] Loue lelli what thou louest al mi lif dawes, & hate heizeli in hert that thou hate then kest. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), l. 4720. Scho fand all wrang that sould bene richt, I trow the man thought richt grit schame. Wyf of Auchtirmuchty (Child's Ballads, VIII. 121). To make a good thing of, to derive profit from: as, to make a good thing of stock-jobbing. [Colloq.] thing2 (ting), n. [Not from AS. thing, a council, but repr. Icel. thing, an a embly, confer terial; like a material object; objective; actual; real.-2. Materialistic; practical; given to thingine ; pragmatical: as, a thingy person or view. [Recent in both uses.] tion) at will; operate on by thought (in a specified way). Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Cowper, Task, vi. 85. To think one's penny silver. See penny . - To think out. (a) To gain a clear conception or understanding of, by following a line of thought. Jevons's idea of Identity is very difficult; I can hardly suppose it to be thought out. B. Bosanquet , Mind, XIII. 360. Not hinge lefte the i vn-tolde that the i cowde on thenke . Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 370. Thynke ouer thi synnes be-fore donne and of thi freeltes that thou fall is in ilke day. Hampole , Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 36. And makith his herte as hard as stoon; Thanne then kith he not on heuen blis. Hymns to Virgin , etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 92. How we shall carry ourselves in this busine is only to be thought upon . Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, i. 1. Muckle thought the gudewife to her sell, Yet ne'er a word she spak. Get up and Bar the Door (Child's Ballads, VIII. 127). And Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto And when he thought thereon, he wept. Des cartes, Discourse on Method (tr. by Veitch), p. 33. Light Sordello rose - to think now; hitherto He had perceived. Browning, Sordello. To think is pre-eminently to detect similarity amid di- versity. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 331. When scarce aught could give him greater fame, He left the world still thinking on his name. Justice she thought of as a thing that might Balk some desire of hers. 5. To have a (specified) feeling (for); be af- fected (toward); especially, to have a liking or fondne : followed by of . Marie Hamilton 's to the kirk gane, Wi' ribbons in her hair; The King thought mair o' Marie Hamilton Than ony that were (b) To think the time long; become weary or impatient, especially in waiting for something. But gin ye like to ware the time, then ye How a' the matter stood shall vively see; 'Twill may be keep us baith frae thinking lang. Thinocoridæ (thin-ō-kor'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., -idæ .] A family of limicoline =Syn. 1. To contemplate, reason. think1 (thingk), n. [ Browning , Ring and Book, VII. 914. think2 (thingk), v. i. [ thinchen , thunchen (pret. thuhte , thuzte, thouzte, thauhte ), thyncan = OS. thunkian OFries. think a , thinszia, tins a = OHG. dunch an, MHG. dunken , G. dünken = Icel. thykkja = Sw. tycka = Dan. tykkes = Goth. thugkjan , seem, appear: see think1 , with which think2 has been more or le confused.] 1. Το seem; appear: with indirect object (dative). If it be wykke, a wonder thynketh me, Whenne every torment and adversite, That cometh of him, may to me savory thynke . The beggers craft thynkynge to them moost good. Barclay , Ship of Fools, I. 303. The watchman said, Me think eth the running of the fore- most is like the running of Ahimaaz. 2 Sam. xviii. 27. 21. To seem good. All his [Priam's) sonnes to sle with sleght of your honde; Thaire riches to rob be, & there rife good is; And no lede for to lyue, but that hom selfe [i. e., to the Greeks themselves) thinke . thinkable (thing'ka-bl), a. [ think1 + -able.] Capable of being thought; cogitable; conceiv- Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any thinking ? Shak ., M. W. of W., iii. 2. 31. 3. That which is thought; a thought, idea, be- lief, opinion, notion, or the like. D. Webster , Speech, Pittsburg, July, 1833. The characters are thinly sketched, the situations at once forced and conventional. Nineteenth Century , XXIV. 536. To think good. See good. To think long. (a) To long; yearn: usually followed by after or for . Aftir his loue me then kith long , For he hath myne ful dere y-bouzte. thinne (thin'nes), n. [ thynne , thin: see thin1 and- ne .] The state or property of being thin. Like those toys Of gla y bubbles, which the gamesome boys Stretch to so nice a thinne through a quill. Donne , Progre of the Soul, xii. thinnify (thin'i-fi), v . t .; pret. and pp. thinni- fied , ppr. thinnifying . [ IMG:content-0274.jpg:[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0275.png:[merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small] 2. Having merely a thin superstratum of good soil: said of land. Hall i well . thin-skinned ne (thin's kind-nes), n. state or quality of being thin-skinned; over- sensitivene .