thirl able (therlabl)

[ Thaire eres shorte and sharppe, thaire een steep, Thaire noses thorled wyde and patent be. thirstine (thers'ti-nes), n. ing t ing thirsty; thirst. Bailey , 1727. thirstle (ther'sl), n. A A dialectal form of thros- thirstle (thèrst'les), a . [ thirst + -le .] Hav- ing no thirst. Thus as it falls out among men of thirstle minds in their fortunes. as in drunkelew .] Thirsty. Lydgate, Minor Poems, p. 75. thirsty (thers'ti), a . [Early mod. E. and dial. also thristy ; thursti , thresti , thrist i , thrystig = OFries. dorstig , torstig = D. dorstig = MLG. dorstich , LG. dorstig = OHG. durstag , MHG. durstec , G. durstig = Sw. Dan. törstig (cf. Icel. thyrstr ), thirsty; as thirst + -y1.] 1. Feeling thirst; suffering for want of drink. As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country. Prov. xxv. 25. What streams the verdant succory supply, And how the thirsty plant drinks rivers dry. with formative -t (-ti-), from the verb seen in Goth. thaursjan , impers., thirst ( thaurseith mik , I thirst); whence also AS. thyrre = OS. thurri = MD. dorre, D. dor = OHG. durr i, MHG. dürre, G. dürr Icel. thurr = Sw. torr = Dan. tör = Goth. thaursus, dry, withered; akin to Goth. thairsan, be dry, = L. torrere (orig. * torsere ) , parch with heat (cf. terra (* tersa ), dry ground, the earth), = Gr. τέρσεσθαι , become dry (τερσαί- νειν , dry up, wipe up), = Skt. V tarsh , thirst; ef. Ir. tart , thirst, drought, etc. From the L. source are ult. E. torrent , torrid , terra , terrenel , terrestrial , inter1, etc.] 1. A feeling of dry- ne in the mouth and throat; the uncomfort- able sensations arising from the want of fluid nutriment; the uneasine or suffering occa- sioned by want of drink; vehement desire for drink. The sensations of thirst are chiefly referred to the thorax and fauces, but the condition is really one affecting the entire body. The exce ive pains of thirst compared with those of hunger are due to the fact that the deprivation of liquids is a condition with which all the ti ues sympathize. Every solid and every fluid of the body contains water, and hence abstraction or dim i- In our pursuit. nution of the watery constituents is followed by a gen- 5. Causing thirst. [Rare.] eral depre ion of the whole system. Thirst is a common symptom of febrile and other diseases. Death from thirst, as of persons in a desert, appears to be invariably pre- ceded by acute mania. The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water. Isa. xxxv. 7. Raymounde tho lepte vp hys coursere vppon, To the fantain and wel of thrust gan to go. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 765. Among sensations of Organic Life, I may cite Thirst as remarkable for the urgency of its pre ure upon the will. A. Bain , Emotions and Will, p. 318. 2. Figuratively, an ardent desire for anything; a craving. Over all the countrie she did raunge To seeke young men to quench her flaming thrust . Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 50. Yet do their beating breasts demand the strife, And thirst of glory quells the love of life. IMG:content-0276.png:[blocks in formation] The eternal God must be prayed to, them once earnestly to thirst his true doctrine, contained in the sweet and pure fountains of his scriptures. Tyndale , Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 283. That unhappy king, my master, whom I so much thirst to see. Shak ., W. T., iv. 4. 524. He seeks his Keeper's Flesh, and thirsts his Blood. Prior , Solomon, i. thirster (thers'ter), n. [ thirst + -er1.] One who or that which thirsts. The word "desert" is used, in the West, to describe alike lands in which the principle of life, if it ever existed, is totally extinct, and those other lands which are merely thirsty. 3. Vehemently desirous; craving: with after , for , etc. Our natures do pursue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die. Thirsty thorn. See thorn1 . thirteen (ther'tēn'), a . and n. [Also dial. thret- teen ; thrittene , threttene , threottene , threótŷne = OFries. threttene = D. dertien = MLG. druttein, LG. dartein = OHG. drizen, MHG. drīzehen , drīzēn , G. dreizehn = Icel. thret- tan = Sw. tretton = Dan. tretten = Goth. * threis- taihun = L. tredecim (> (> It. tredeci = Pg. treze = Sp. trece = F. treize ) = Gr. τρεισ ( καί ) δεκα = Skt. trayodaça , thirteen; as three + ten .] I. a. Being three more than ten; consisting of one more than twelve: a cardinal numeral. II. n. 1. The number which consists of the sum of twelve and one, or of ten and three.- 2. A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13, XIII, or xiii.-3. A silver shilling worth 13 pence, current in Ireland during the early part of the nineteenth century. F. A. M. is doubtle chronologically correct as to the shilling in Ireland having been worth thirteen pence pre- vious to 1825-6, but colloquially it continued to be called a thirteen to a considerably later period - so late as 1835 to my knowledge. N. and Q., 7th ser., I. 77. For it was a shill in' he gave me, glory be to God. No, I niver heard it called a thir teener before, but mother has. Quoted in Mayhew's London Labour and London Poor, [I. 484. 2. The thirteenth one of any number of things; specifically, in whist , the last card of a suit left in the hands of a player after the other twelve have been played. thirteen-lined (ther'ten'lind), a. Noting the leopard spermophile, or Hood's marmot, Spermo- phil us tridecemlineatus , a very common striped and spotted ground-squirrel of North America. The allusion is to the number of stripes (representing the thirteen original States) in the flag of the United States, suggested by the markings of the animal. See cut under Spermophilus . thirteenth (ther'tenth'), a . and n. [Altered to suit the form of thirteen ; threttethe , also (after Icel.) threttende , 〈AS. threóteótha OFries. thredtinda = D. dertiende = OHG. drit- tezēndo , MHG. dritzehende , drīzehende , G. drei- zehnte = Icel. threttandi = Sw. trettonde = Dan. trettende = Goth. * thridjataihunda ; as thirteen +-th2.] I. a. 1. Next after the twelfth: an ordinal numeral.-2. Constituting any one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is di- vided. Thirteenth cranial nervet, the chorda tym- pan i regarded as distinct from the seventh or facial nerve. Sapolini . II. n. 1. One of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.-2. In early Eng. thirtyfold (ther'ti-föld), a. much or as many. Mat. xiii. 8. Thirty-nine Articles. See article. thirty-one (ther'ti-wun'), n. bling vingt-un, but with a longer reckoning. thirty-second (ther'ti-sek'ond), a. Second in order after the thirtieth. thirty-second-note (ther'ti-sek'ond-not), n. In musical notation, a note equivalent in time- value to one half of a sixteenth-note; a dem i- semiquaver. - Thirty-second-note rest. See rest1 , 8(6). thirty two-mo (ther'ti-tö'mō), n. [An E. read- ing of 32mo, which stands for XXXIImo, a way of writing L. (in) tricesimo secundo , 'in thirty- second.' So 16mo, 12mo, are read according to the E. numbers.] A leaf from a sheet of paper folded for a book regularly in thirty-two equal parts. Commonly written 32mo. When the size of the sheet is not specified, the leaf is supposed to be a medium 32mo of the size 3 by 4 inches. A book made up of such leaves is called a 32mo. this (THis), a . and pron .; pl. these (THēz). [ thys , older thes , pl. thas , thæs, thes , Mandeville , Travels, p. 12. Frote youre visage with this her be, and youre handes. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 76. In thys cite I abode Tewysday, all day and all nyght. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 5. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary this From the town you last came through, called Brails ford, it is five miles; and you are not yet above half a mile on Cotton , in Walton's Angler, ii. 222. this side. (b) Time just past just at hand; the last the next. The reference, whether to past or to future, is determined by the circumstances; this evening may mean either the evening now approaching, or next to come, or the evening now present, or the evening just past: as, it has occurred twice this year; I shall take care not to fail this (next) time. In this connection this is sometimes used for these , the sum being reckoned up, as it were, in a total. The owle ek, which that hette Ascaphilo, Hath efter me shright al this nyghtes two. Chaucer, Troilus, v. 320. I learn'd in Worcester, as I rode along, He cannot draw his power this fourteen days. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 126. I have not wept this forty years; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes. Dryden, All for Love, i. 1. [In Shakspere the phrase this night occurs, meaning last night .