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.

The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.

A rare white earthy substance, consisting of the oxide of thorium; -- formerly called also thorina.

Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium.

A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.

A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.

To prick, as with a thorn.

Having a head armed with thorns or spines.

A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back.

Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.

The turbot.

Destitute of, or free from, thorns.

Set with thorns.

A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.

Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown.

Thorough.

A furrow between two ridges, to drain off the surface water.

A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.

Provided with thorough lights or windows at opposite sides, as a room or building.

Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like. A thoroughbred animal, especially a horse.

A passage through; a passage from one street or opening to another; an unobstructed way open to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street.

Going through, or to the end or bottom; very thorough; complete.

In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.

The quality or state of being thorough; completeness.

Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig.

A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.

Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced.

So as to go the whole length of any business; fully; completely.

An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves. Thoroughwort.

Same as Boneset.

Thorough.

A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a dorp; -- now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as, Althorp, Mablethorpe.

The plural of that. See That.

The god of eloquence and letters among the ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a lamb.

The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.

To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends.

However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.

Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind.

Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

Multiplied by a thousand.

The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided.

A thole pin. A rowlock.

Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people. A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property.

Metal still in the mine.

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.

To enslave.

Having no thralls. Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish.

Thraldom.

Windpipe; throttle.

An instrument to thrash with; a flail.

a. n. from Thrash, v.

Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.

To thrust.

Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.

See Throse.

To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.

The state of being threadbare.

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.

A device for assisting in threading a needle.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or Caranx crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Quality of being thready.

Clothes; clothing; as, he was wearing his new threads at the party.

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.

To threaten.

To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.

One who threatens.

a. n. from Threaten, v.

Full of threats; having a menacing appearance.

Same as Thrave.

The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.

Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.

Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.

Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.

A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.

Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.

Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade. Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.

Having three lobes.

Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the three-mile belt or three-mile zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state.

Having three nerves.

Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.

An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.

Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.

Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.

Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.

Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in which the mixture enters the crank case through a port uncovered by the piston near the end of its stroke.

Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.

Thrice twenty; sixty.

Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.

Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.

Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.

Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.

A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny.

Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.

Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.

Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.

A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.

One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.

A song of lamentation; a threnode.

To call; to term.

The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.

Same as Thrash.