thammim

[Heb. tummim, thummim =perfection; from tam am =to complete; to be perfect.] [URIM.] thump, s . [THUMP, v.] The sound made by the sudden fall of a heavy body, as by a blow with a club, the fist, ., the stroke of a hammer, or the like; a heavy blow given with something thick. "The distant forge's swinging thump profound; Or yell, in the deep woods, of lonely hound." Words worth: Evening Walk. thump, v . t . & i . [Cf. Icel. dump a =to thump; Sw. dial. dompa =to thump, dump a to make a noise.] A. Trans.: To beat or strike with something thick or heavy. "Thump! then see thou thump thy master well."Henry VI., Pt . II ., ii. 3. Bot.: A genus of Garden ide, sometimes made a about twelve-toothed; corolla campanulate; capsule beaked, two-celled. Handsome and fragrant climbers, cultivated in gardens for the beauty of their flowers. Thunbergia fragrans has cordate, acuminate leaves; T. grandiflora angular, cordate leaves, larger flowers with no inner calyx, and the anthers bearded and spurred. Both are natives of the East Indies. thun-berg-1-ē'-æ, subst. pl. [Mod. Latin thun berg i (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ.] Bot.: A tribe of Acanthaceae. Seeds with a horny expansion of the placenta.