Thrill Thrill noun [ Anglo-Saxon þyrel an aperture. See Thrill , transitive verb ] A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.

Thrill Thrill transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Thrilled ; present participle & verbal noun Thrilling .] [ Middle English thrillen , þirlen , þurlen , to pierce; all probably from Anglo-Saxon þyrlian , þyrelian , Fr. þyrel pierced; as a noun, a hole, from þurh through; probably akin to Dutch drillen to drill, to bore. √53. See Through , and confer Drill to bore, Nostril , Trill to trickle.] 1. To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [ Obsolete]

He pierced through his chafed chest
With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.

Spenser.

2. Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.

To bathe in flery floods, or to reside
In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice.

Shak.

Vivid and picturesque turns of expression which thrill the ...eader with sudden delight.

M. Arnold.

The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled ,
That sudden cold did run through every vein.

Spenser.

3. To hurl; to throw; to cast. [ Obsolete]

I'll thrill my javelin.

Heywood.

Thrill Thrill intransitive verb 1. To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.

I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins.

Shak.

2. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.

To seek sweet safety out
In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and shake.

Shak.

Thrill Thrill noun 1. A drill. See 3d Drill , 1.

2. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.

Thrillant Thrill"ant adjective Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [ Obsolete] "His thrillant spear." Spenser.

Thrilling Thrill"ing adjective Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly , adverb -- Thrill"ing*ness , noun

Thring Thring transitive verb & i. [ imperfect Throng .] [ Anglo-Saxon þringan . See Throng .] To press, crowd, or throng. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Thrips Thrips noun [ Latin , a woodworm, Greek ....] (Zoology) Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips ( Thrips cerealium ).

» The term is also popularly applied to various other small injurious insects.

Thrist Thrist noun Thrist. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Thrittene Thrit"tene` adjective Thirteen. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Thrive Thrive (thrīv) intransitive verb [ imperfect Throve (thrōv) or Thrived (thrīvd); past participle Thrived or Thriven (thrĭv"'n); present participle & verbal noun Thriving .] [ Middle English þriven , Icelandic þrīfask ; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from þrīfa to grasp; akin to Danish trives to thrive, Swedish trifvas . Confer Thrift .] 1. To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.

Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the understanding, as well as in gold.

I. Watts.

2. To prosper in any business; to have increase or success. "They by vices thrive ." Sandys.

O son, why sit we here, each other viewing
Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives ?

Milton.

And so she throve and prospered.

Tennyson.

3. To increase in bulk or stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, as a plant; to flourish; as, young cattle thrive in rich pastures; trees thrive in a good soil.

Thriven Thriv"en past participle of Thrive .

Thriver Thriv"er noun One who thrives, or prospers.

Thrivingly Thriv"ing·ly adverb In a thriving manner.

Thrivingness Thriv"ing·ness noun The quality or condition of one who thrives; prosperity; growth; increase.

Thro' Thro' A contraction of Through .

Throat Throat (thrōt) noun [ Middle English throte , Anglo-Saxon þrote , þrotu ; akin to Old High German drozza , German drossel ; confer OFries. & Dutch stort . Confer Throttle .] 1. (Anat.) (a) The part of the neck in front of, or ventral to, the vertebral column. (b) Hence, the passage through it to the stomach and lungs; the pharynx; -- sometimes restricted to the fauces.

I can vent clamor from my throat .

Shak.

2. A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

3. (Architecture) The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. Gwilt.

4. (Nautical) (a) The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. (b) That end of a gaff which is next the mast. (c) The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. Totten.

5. (Shipbuilding) The inside of a timber knee.

6. (Botany) The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces.

Throat brails (Nautical) , brails attached to the gaff close to the mast. -- Throat halyards (Nautical) , halyards that raise the throat of the gaff. -- Throat pipe (Anat.) , the windpipe, or trachea. -- To give one the lie in his throat , to accuse one pointedly of lying abominably. -- To lie in one's throat , to lie flatly or abominably.

Throat Throat transitive verb 1. To utter in the throat; to mutter; as, to throat threats. [ Obsolete] Chapman.

2. To mow, as beans, in a direction against their bending. [ Prov. Eng.]

Throatband Throat"band` noun Same as Throatlatch .

Throatboll Throat"boll` noun [ Throat + boll a ball.] The Adam's apple in the neck. [ Obsolete or R.]

By the throatboll he caught Aleyn.

Chaucer.

Throating Throat"ing noun (Architecture) A drip, or drip molding.

Throatlatch Throat"latch` noun A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

Throatwort Throat"wort` noun (Botany) A plant ( Campanula Trachelium ) formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla.

Throaty Throat"y adjective Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell.

Throb Throb intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Throbbed ; present participle & verbal noun Throbbing .] [ Middle English þrobben ; of uncertain origin; confer Russian trepete a trembling, and English trepidation .] To beat, or pulsate, with more than usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to palpitate; -- said of the heart, pulse, etc.

My heart
Throbs to know one thing.

Shak.

Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast.

Shak.

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

The impatient throbs and longings of a soul
That pants and reaches after distant good.

Addison.

Throdden Throd"den intransitive verb [ Prov. English throdden , throddle , fat, thriving; confer Icelandic throask to grow.] To grow; to thrive. [ Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Throe Throe noun [ Middle English þrowe , þrawe , Anglo-Saxon þreá a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icelandic þrā a throe, a pang, a longing; confer Anglo-Saxon þreowian to suffer.] 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or purturition.

Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes .

Milton.

2. A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Throe Throe intransitive verb To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Throe Throe transitive verb To put in agony. [ R.] Shak.

Thrombin Throm"bin noun [ See Thrombus .] (Physiol. Chem.) The fibrin ferment which produces the formation of fibrin from fibrinogen.

Thrombosis Throm·bo"sis noun [ New Latin See Thrombus .] (Medicine) 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. -- Throm*bot"ic adjective

Thrombus Throm"bus noun ; plural Thrombi . [ New Latin , from Greek ... a lump, a clot of blood.] (Medicine) (a) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation. (b) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

Throne Throne noun [ Middle English trone , French trône , Latin thronus , Greek ...; confer ... a bench, ... a footstool, ... to set one's self, to sit, Sanskrit dharana supporting, dhr to hold fast, carry, and English firm , adjective ] 1. A chair of state, commonly a royal seat, but sometimes the seat of a prince, bishop, or other high dignitary.

The noble king is set up in his throne .

Chaucer.

High on a throne of royal state.

Milton.

2. Hence, sovereign power and dignity; also, the one who occupies a throne, or is invested with sovereign authority; an exalted or dignified personage.

Only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

Gen. xli. 40.

To mold a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne .

Tennyson.

3. plural A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaning given by the schoolmen. Milton.

Great Sire! whom thrones celestial ceaseless sing.

Young.

Throne Throne transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Throned ; present participle & verbal noun Throning .] 1. To place on a royal seat; to enthrone. Shak.

2. To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt.

True image of the Father, whether throned
In the bosom of bliss, and light of light.

Milton.

Throne Throne intransitive verb To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne. Shak.

Throneless Throne"less adjective Having no throne.

Throng Throng noun [ Middle English þrong , þrang , Anglo-Saxon geþrang , from þringan to crowd, to press; akin to Old Saxon thringan , D. & German dringen , Old High German dringan , Icelandic þryngva , þröngva , Goth. þriehan , D. & German drang a throng, press, Icelandic þröng a throng, Lithuanian trenkti to jolt, tranksmas a tumult. Confer Thring .] 1. A multitude of persons or of living beings pressing or pressed into a close body or assemblage; a crowd.

2. A great multitude; as, the heavenly throng .

Syn. -- Throng , Multitude , Crowd . Any great number of persons form a multitude ; a throng is a large number of persons who are gathered or are moving together in a collective body; a crowd is composed of a large or small number of persons who press together so as to bring their bodies into immediate or inconvenient contact. A dispersed multitude ; the throngs in the streets of a city; the crowd at a fair or a street fight. But these distinctions are not carefully observed.

So, with this bold opposer rushes on
This many-headed monster, multitude .

Daniel.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng .

Milton.

I come from empty noise, and tasteless pomp,
From crowds that hide a monarch from himself.

Johnson.

Throng Throng intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Thronged ; present participle & verbal noun Thronging .] To crowd together; to press together into a close body, as a multitude of persons; to gather or move in multitudes.

I have seen the dumb men throng to see him.

Shak.

Throng Throng transitive verb 1. To crowd, or press, as persons; to oppress or annoy with a crowd of living beings.

Much people followed him, and thronged him.

Mark v. 24.

2. To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. Shak.

Throng Throng adjective Thronged; crowded; also, much occupied; busy. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] Bp. Sanderson.

To the intent the sick . . . should not lie too throng .

Robynson (More's Utopia).

Throngly Throng"ly adverb In throngs or crowds. [ Obsolete]

Throp Throp noun A thorp. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Thropple Throp"ple noun [ Confer Thrapple , and see Throttle .] The windpipe. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Thropple Throp"ple transitive verb To throttle. [ Prov. Eng.]

Throstle Thros"tle noun [ Middle English throsel , Anglo-Saxon þrostle , þrosle ; akin to Middle High German trostel , German drossel , Icelandic þröstr , Swedish trast , Lithuanian strazdas , Latin turdus . √238. Confer Thrush the bird.] 1. (Zoology) The song thrush. See under Song .

2. A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise.

Throstle cock , the missel thrush. [ Prov. Eng.]

Throstling Thros"tling noun [ Confer Throttle .] A disease of bovine cattle, consisting of a swelling under the throat, which, unless checked, causes strangulation.

Throttle Throt"tle noun [ Dim. of throat . See Throat .] 1. The windpipe, or trachea; the weasand. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Steam Engine) The throttle valve.

Throttle lever (Steam Engine) , the hand lever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive. -- Throttle valve (Steam Engine) , a valve moved by hand or by a governor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. In one form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.

Throttle Throt"tle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Throttled ; present participle & verbal noun Throttling .] 1. To compress the throat of; to choke; to strangle.

Grant him this, and the Parliament hath no more freedom than if it sat in his noose, which, when he pleases to draw together with one twitch of his negative, shall throttle a whole nation, to the wish of Caligula, in one neck.

Milton.

2. To utter with breaks and interruption, in the manner of a person half suffocated. [ R.]

Throttle their practiced accent in their fears.

Shak.

3. To shut off, or reduce flow of, as steam to an engine.

Throttle Throt"tle intransitive verb 1. To have the throat obstructed so as to be in danger of suffocation; to choke; to suffocate.

2. To breathe hard, as when nearly suffocated.

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