thuyite (thuyit)

[ ble uncertainty. Thuyopsidinæ (thu-yop-si-dine), n. pl. [NL. (Engler, 1887), ing also Libocedrus and Thuya. 6323 ous two-ranked branchlets wholly covered by opposite leaves imbricated in four ranks, the marginal ranks larger, acute, and slightly spreading, the others appre ed, glandular, and shining. It is cultivated in dwarf varieties as a shrub for lawns, under the name of hatchet - leaved arbor vitæ. thwack (thwak), v. t. [Also dial. twack; a var. of whack, prob. due in part to confusion with the equiv. thack2, and in part to a phonetic interchange, wh -to thw-, which occurs in the other direction in white2, var. of thwite, in whittle, var. of thwittle, in whart, var. of thwart1, etc.] 1. Το strike with something flat or hard; beat; bang; whack. He shall not stay, We'll thwack him hence with distaffs. Shak., W. T., i. 2. 37. Take all my cushions down, and thwack them soundly, After my feast of millers. Middle ton (and another ), Mayor of Queen borough, v. 1. 2t. To ram down; pack. The letters he addre ed me from time to time, to the number of six hundred, thwackt with loue and kindne e. Stan i hurst , Descrip. of Ireland (Holinshed's Chron., I. 42). thwack (thwak), n. [ thwack , v.] A sharp blow with something flat or hard; a whack; a bang. But Talgol first with hardy thwack Twice bruised his head, and twice his back. S. Butler , Hudibras, I. ii. 795. Noble captain, lend me a reasonable thwack , for the love of God, with that cane of yours over these poor shoulders. Swift , Tale of a Tub, xi. =Syn. See thump . thwacker (thwak'er), n . [ thwack + -er1.] One who or that which thwacks; specifically, a wooden tool used for beating half-dried pantiles into shape. The tiles are then trimmed with a thwacking-knife. thwacking (thwak'ing), a. Thumping; tremendous; great. [Colloq.] Sec. Ser. A bonfire, sir? Sir Ol. A thwacking one, I charge you. Middle ton , Chaste Maid, v. 3. thwacking-frame (thwak'ing-frām), n. In tile making , a table with a curved top, on which a half-dried pantile is bent to form by means of blows with a thwacker. E. H. Knight. thwart II. prep. 1. Acro ; athwart. And laying thwart her horse, In loathly wise like to a carrion corse, She bore him fast away. Spenser, F. Q., III. vii. 43, Cornel i us May and one other going ashore with some foods late the faire evening, such a sudden gust did arise that driue thwart the Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 93. 2. Opposite to; over against. The first of April we weighed anchor in the Downs, and, thwart Dover, we found our men in ketches ready to come aboard. Sir H. Middle ton , Voyage, p. 2.