A colorless oily liquid, (C2H5)2S2, having a strong garlic odor; -- called also ethyl disulphide. By extension, any one of the series of related compounds.
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Of or pertaining to Thibet. A native or inhabitant of Thibet.
Same as Thibetan.
A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.
To thicken.
Having a thick skull; stupid.
A stone curlew. See under Stone.
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
Affected with thick wind.
The bullfinch.
To become thick.
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
A thick-headed or stupid person.
Somewhat thick.
In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
A close or thick hedge.
A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull.
Thither.
Thitherward.
One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.
A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminum chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.
The hypothetical radical C4H3S., regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.
To practice theft; to steal.
The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.
The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.
The property possessed by living protoplasm of contracting, and thus moving, when touched by a solid or fluid substance.
That same; this; that.
One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.
A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.
One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.
To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.
Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou, now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual language of the Friends, or Quakers.
Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
Act of thinking; a thought.
Capable of being thought or conceived; cogitable.
One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.
The act of thinking; mode of thinking; imagination; cogitation; judgment.
In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.
One who thins, or makes thinner.
The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).
Somewhat thin.
A calcareous tufa, in part crystalline, occurring on a large scale as a shore deposit about the Quaternary lake basins of Nevada.
A sulphocarbonate.
Same as Sulphocarbonic.
Same as Sulphocyanate.
Same as Sulphocyanic.
A double benzene and thiophene nucleus, C8H6S, analogous to naphthalene, and like it the base of a large series of derivatives.
Of or pertaining to sulphur; containing or resembling sulphur; specifically, designating certain of the thio compounds; as, the thionic acids. Cf. Dithionic, Trithionic, Tetrathionic, etc.
An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.
A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous powder.
A beautiful fluorescent crystalline substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.
The hypothetical radical SO, regarded as an essential constituent of certain sulphurous compounds; as, thionyl chloride.
A sulphur hydrocarbon, C4H4S, analogous to furfuran and benzene, and acting as the base of a large number of substances which closely resemble the corresponding aromatic derivatives.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, thiophene; specifically, designating a certain acid analogous to benzoic acid.
A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
A double thiophene nucleus, C6H4S2, analogous to thionaphthene, and the base of a large series of compounds.
A salt of thiosulphuric acid; -- formerly called hyposulphite.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an unstable acid, H2S2O3, analogous to sulphuric acid, and formerly called hyposulphurous acid.
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, and resembling, toluene; -- called also methyl thiophene.
Any one of three possible metameric substances, which are dimethyl derivatives of thiophene, like the xylenes from benzene.
The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided.
An under constable.
A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire.
In the third place.
To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.
The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding.
To have a thirst for.
One who thirsts.
In a thirsty manner.
The state of being thirsty; thirst.
The throstle.
Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire.
The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.
The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
The quotient of a unit divided by thirty; one of thirty equal parts.
The sum of three tens, or twenty and ten; thirty units or objects.
Being one of thirty-two equal parts into which anything is divided.
As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned.
Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
To that point; so far.
To ward that place; in that direction.
The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).
Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.
Though.
To wait.
The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, esp. with respect to predestination and grace.
A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.
A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.
A Thomaean.
A fluoride of aluminium, calcium, and sodium occurring with the cryolite of Greenland.
Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. A believer in Thomsonianism; one who practices Thomsonianism.
An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
A zeolitic mineral, occurring generally in masses of a radiated structure. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.
A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything.
Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.
The god of thunder, and son of Odin.
The operation of puncturing the chest wall so as to let out liquids contained in the cavity of the chest.
One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.
A division of cirripeds including those which have six thoracic segments, usually bearing six pairs of cirri. The common barnacles are examples.
Same as Stethometer.
A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species.
The operation of opening the pleural cavity by incision.
Of or pertaining to a bed.
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