thrush2 (thrush)

[= Dan. tröske = Sw. dial. trösk, Sw. tors torsk, thrush on the tongue; perhaps connected with Dan. tör = Sw. torr = Icel. thurr = AS. thyrre = G. dürr, dry, and with Dan. törke =Sw. torka = Icel. thurka, drought, and so with E. thirst: see thirst.] 1. A diseased condition of the frog of the horse's foot, characterized by a fetid discharge: it is generally ascribed to the irritation of wet and filth.-2. Parasitic stomatitis, caused by the thrush-fungus. Also called aphthæ, sprew, sprue. At last, which at last came very speedily, they had reduced him to a total di olution, by a diabetes and a Walpole , Letters, II. 20. IMG:content-0359.jpg:[graphic] thrush. IMG:content-0360.png:[blocks in formation] rusty. thrushel (thrush'l), n. [See throstle ( f ).] Same as throstle. [Prov. Eng.] Guttural thrush, Pachycephala guttural is. See thun dia. Latham.-Ground thrush. See ground - thrush.-thrusher (thrush'èr), n. der - bird. Harmonic thrush, Coll uric incl a harmonica, of Australia, 94 inches long, of a gray, brown, and white coloration, originally described as Turdus harmonic us. - Hermit thrush. See hermit -thrush. - Long-billed thrush. See Tatare (with cut). - Long-legged thrush. See long - legged. Madagascar thrush, a sturnoid bird, [Appar. a var. of thrushel, with accom. term. -er. Hence prob., as another var., thrasher2, q. v.] Same as thrush1; specifically, the song-thrush, Turdus music us. See cut under thrush1.