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.

Threshold.

Same as Thrasher.

One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.

Threshold.

To thrust.

Thirteen.

Thirty.

imp. of Throw.

Triple; treble; threefold.

Three times.

The missel thrush.

Thread; continuous line.

See Thryfallow, and Trifallow.

A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

In a thrifty manner.

The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.

Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs.

Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.

A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.

Piercing; sharp; thrilling.

Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance.

To press, crowd, or throng.

Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).

Thrist.

Thirteen.

To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.

p. p. of Thrive.

One who thrives, or prospers.

In a thriving manner.

The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase.

To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats.

Same as Throatlatch.

The Adam's apple in the neck.

A drip, or drip molding.

A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice.

A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a violent beating; a papitation:

To grow; to thrive.

To put in agony.

The enzyme which converts fibrinogen into fibrin.

The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance.

A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation. A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne.

Having no throne.

Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy.

In throngs or crowds.

A thorp.

To throttle.

The song thrush. See under Song.

A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

One who, or that which, throttles, or chokes.

Going or extending through; going, extending, or serving from the beginning to the end; thorough; complete; as, a through line; a through ticket; a through train. Also, admitting of passage through; as, a through bridge.

Thoroughly.

In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.

imp. of Thrive.

The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.

to discard.