One who thatches.

The act or art of covering buildings with thatch; so as to keep out rain, snow, etc.

See Thwart.

Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things.

An optical instrument or toy for showing the persistence of an impression upon the eyes after the luminous object is withdrawn.

A magician; a wonder worker.

Of or pertaining to thaumaturgy; magical; wonderful.

Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.

One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker; a thaumaturge.

A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

The act or art of performing something wonderful; magic; legerdemain.

Same as theave.

The melting of ice, snow, or other congealed matter; the resolution of ice, or the like, into the state of a fluid; liquefaction by heat of anything congealed by frost; also, a warmth of weather sufficient to melt that which is congealed.

Liquefying by heat after having been frozen; thawing; melting.

By that; by how much; by so much; on that account; -- used before comparatives; as, the longer we continue in sin, the more difficult it is to reform.

A famous gorge, about 1/ miles long, cut by the Danube in the Carpathian mountains near the intersection of Hungary, Serbia, and Rumania.

The worst possible situation, person, or thing; something extremely bad, boring, or depressing; -- always used with the; as, cleaning the house is the pits.

A genus of plants found in China and Japan; the tea plant.

Relating to, or existing by, the union of divine and human operation in Christ, or the joint agency of the divine and human nature.

Partaking of, or combining, both divinity and humanity.

A state of being God and man.

One who advocates, or believes in, theanthropism.

Theanthropism.

Divinely sovereign or supreme.

Government by God; divine sovereignty; theocracy.

One of an order of Italian monks, established in 1524, expressly to oppose Reformation, and to raise the tone of piety among Roman Catholics. They hold no property, nor do they beg, but depend on what Providence sends. Their chief employment is preaching and giving religious instruction.

Of or pertaining to a theater; theatrical.

An edifice in which dramatic performances or spectacles are exhibited for the amusement of spectators; anciently uncovered, except the stage, but in modern times roofed.

Theatrical.

Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures.

Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.

A ewe lamb of the first year; also, a sheep three years old.

Of or pertaining to Thebes in Egypt; specifically, designating a version of the Bible preserved by the Copts, and esteemed of great value by biblical scholars. This version is also called the Sahidic version.

A Latin epic poem by Statius about Thebes in Boeotia.

A poisonous alkaloid, C19H21NO3, found in opium in small quantities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

A native or inhabitant of Thebes; also, a wise man.

A sheath; a case; as, the theca, or cell, of an anther; the theca, or spore case, of a fungus; the theca of the spinal cord.

Of or pertaining to a theca; as, a thecal abscess.

A surface or organ bearing a theca, or covered with thecae. See Basigynium.

Having the spores in thecae, or cases.

Same as Thecophora.

Any one of many species of small delicately colored butterflies belonging to Thecla and allied genera; -- called also hairstreak, and elfin.

Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.

One of the Thecodontia.

A group of fossil saurians having biconcave vertebrae and the teeth implanted in sockets.

A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecae and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.

An order of Pteropoda comprising those species which have a shell. See Pteropoda.

Success; fortune; luck; chance.

The objective case of thou. See Thou.

The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.

The receiving of a man's goods again from a thief, or a compensation for them, by way of composition, with the intent that the thief shall escape punishment.

Thane. See Thane.

Thanehood.

Having the form of tea.

See Caffeine. Called also theina.

The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.

The morbid condition resulting from the excessive use of tea.

One who believes in the existence of a God; especially, one who believes in a personal God; -- opposed to atheist.

Of or pertaining to theism, or a theist; according to the doctrine of theists.

One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.

The objective case of they. See They.

Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.

The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.

The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.

Than.

At that time; then; in those days; -- correlative to nowadays.

The palm of the hand. The prominence of the palm above the base of the thumb; the thenar eminence; the ball of the thumb. Sometimes applied to the corresponding part of the foot.

Of or pertaining to the thenar; corresponding to thenar; palmar.

Anhydrous sodium sulphate, a mineral of a white or brown color and vitreous luster.

From that place.

From that time; thereafter.

From that time onward; thenceforth.

From that place.

A genus of small trees. See Cacao.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from cacao butter (from the Theobroma Cacao), peanut oil (from Arachis hypogaea), etc., as a white waxy crystalline substance.

An alkaloidal ureide, C7H8N4O2, homologous with and resembling caffeine, produced artificially, and also extracted from cacao and chocolate (from Theobroma Cacao) as a bitter white crystalline substance; -- called also dimethyl xanthine.

Anointed by God.

Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.

A mixture of the worship of different gods, as of Jehovah and idols.

One who lives under a theocratic form of government; one who in civil affairs conforms to divine law.

Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.

A vindication of the justice of God in ordaining or permitting natural and moral evil.

An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying, for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usually of vertical angles. It is variously constructed.

Of or pertaining to a theodolite; made by means of a theodolite; as, theodolitic observations.

Of or relating to theogony.

Theogony.

A writer on theogony.

The generation or genealogy of the gods; that branch of heathen theology which deals with the origin and descent of the deities; also, a poem treating of such genealogies; as, the Theogony of Hesiod.

A pretender or quack in theology.

A theologian.

A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.

Theological.

Of or pertaining to theology, or the science of God and of divine things; as, a theological treatise.

Theology.

A theologian.

To frame a system of theology; to theorize or speculate upon theological subjects.

One who theologizes; a theologian.

A theologian.

The science of God or of religion; the science which treats of the existence, character, and attributes of God, his laws and government, the doctrines we are to believe, and the duties we are to practice; divinity; (as more commonly understood) /the knowledge derivable from the Scriptures, the systematic exhibition of revealed truth, the science of Christian faith and life./

One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.

A fighting against the gods, as the battle of the gaints with the gods.

A kind of divination drawn from the responses of oracles among heathen nations.

Of or pertaining to a theopathy.

Capacity for religious affections or worship.

Of or pertaining to a theopany; appearing to man, as a god.

A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.

Pertaining to theophilanthropy or the theophilanthropists.

The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.

A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.

Theophilanthropism.

Combining theism and philosophy, or pertaining to the combination of theism and philosophy.

Divinely inspired; theopneustic.

Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.

Divine inspiration; the supernatural influence of the Divine Spirit in qualifying men to receive and communicate revealed truth.

One who plays on a theorbo.

An instrument made like large lute, but having two necks, with two sets of pegs, the lower set holding the strings governed by frets, while to the upper set were attached the long bass strings used as open notes.

To formulate into a theorem.

Of or pertaining to a theorem or theorems; comprised in a theorem; consisting of theorems.

One who constructs theorems.