Emily Dickinson Lexicon

THINK'ING-LY, adv.

By thought.

THIN'LY, adv. [from thin.]

In a loose, scattered manner; not thickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinly inhabited.

THIN'NED, pp.

Made thin; made rite or less thick.

THIN'NESS, n.

1. The state of being thin; smallness of extent from one side or surfaco to the opposite; as, the thinness of ice; the thinness of a plate; the thinness of the skin.
2. Tenuity; rareness; as, the thinness of air or other fluid state.
3. A state approaching to fluidity, or even fluidity; opposed to spissitude; as, the thinness of honey, of white wash, or of paint.
4. Exility; as, the thinness of a point.
5. Rareness; a scattered state; paucity; as, the thinness of trees in a forest; the thinness of inhabitants.

THIN'NING, ppr.

Making thin, rare, or less thick; attenuating.

THIRD, a. [thurd; Sax. thridda; Goth. thridya; G. dritte; D. derde; Sw. and Dan. tredie; Fr. tiers; L. tertius; Gr. τριτος; W. trydy.]

The first after the second; the ordinal of three. The third hour in the day among the ancients, was nine o'clock in the morning. Third estate, in the British nation, is the commons; or in the legislature, the house of commons. Third order, among the Romanists, is a sort of religious order that observes the same rule and the same manner of life, in proportion as some other two orders previously Madtuted i as, the third order of Franciscans, instituted by St. Francis in 1221. Cyc. Third point or tierce point, in architecture, the point of section in the vertex of an equiiateral triangle. Cyc. Third rate, in navies. A third rate ship carries from 64 to 80 guns. Third sound, in music. See the noun, Third.

THIRD, n. [thurd.]

1. The third part of any thing. A man takes land and tills it for one third of the produce; the taking king two thirds.
2. The sixtieth part of a second of time.
3. In music, an interval containing three diatonic sounds; the inajor composed of two tones, called by the Greeks di-tone, and the minor called hemiditone, consisting of a tone a and a half. Rousseau. Busby.

THIRD-BOR-OUGH, n. [thurd'burro. third and borough.]

An under constable. Jahnson.

THIRD'INGS, n.

The third year of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a lieriot, within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire. Cyc.

THIRD'LY, adv.

In the third place. Bacon.

THIRDS, n. [plur.]

The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by law, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. New England.

THIRL, v.t. [thurl; Sax. thirlian.]

To bore; to perforate. It is now written drill and thral. [See these words, and see Nostril.]

THIRL-AGE, n. [thurl'age.]

In English customs, the right which the owner of a mill possesses by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding. Cyc.

THIRST, n. [thurst; Sax. thurst, thyrst; G. durst; D. dorst; Sw. törst; Dan. törst, from tör, dry; törrer, to dry, D. dorren, L. torreo, Sw. torka.]

1. A painful sensation of the throat or flumes, occasioned by the want of drink. Wherefore is it that then hast brought ns out of Egypt, tc till as and onr children and our cattle with thirst. Exod. xvii.
2. A vehement desire of drink. Ps. civ.
3. A waat and eager desire after any thing. Thirst of worldly good. Fairfax. Thirst of knowledge. Thirst of praise. Granville. Thirst after happiness. Cheyne. But for is now more generally used after thirst; as, a thirst or worldly honors; a thirst for praise.
4. Dryness; drouth. The rapid current, through veins / Of porous earth with kindly thirst opdrawa, Rose a fresh fountain. Milton

THIRST, v.i. [thurst; Sax. thyrstan; D. dorsten; G. dursten; Sw. törsta; Dan. törster.]

1. To experience a painful sensation of the throat or fances for want of drink. The people thirsted there for water. Exod. xvii.
2. To have a vehement desire for any thing. My soul thirsteth for the living God. Ps. xlii.

THIRST, v.t.

To want to drink; as, to thirst blood. [Not English.] Prior.

THIRST'ER, n.

One who thirsts.

THIRST'I-LY, adv.

In a thirsty manner.

THIRST'I-NESS, n. [from thirsty.]

The state of being thirsty; thirst. Wotton.

THIRST'ING, ppr.

Feeling pain for want of drink; having eager desire.

THIRST'Y, a. [from thirst.]

1. Feeling a painful sensation o the throat or fauces, for want of drink. Give me a little water, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. I woe thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. Matth. xxv.
2. Very dry; having no moisture; parched. The thirsty land shall become springs of water. Is. xxxv.
3. Having a vehement desire of any thing; as, in blood thirsty. Is. ally. lxv.

THIR-TEEN, a. [thur'teen; Sax. threottyne; three and ten; Sw. tretton; G. dreyzehn; D. dertien.]

Ten and three; as, thirteen times.

THIR-TEENTH, a. [thur'teenth. supra.]

The third afte the tenth; the ordinal of thirteen; us, the thirteenth day o the month.

THIR-TEENTH, n. [thur'teenth.]

In music, an interval form in the octave of the sixth, or sixth of the octave. Busby.

THIR'TI-ETH, a. [thur'tieth; from thirty; Sax. thrittigotha.]

The tenth threefold; the ordinal of thirty; as, the thirtieth day of the month.