Emily Dickinson Lexicon

THRALL'DOM, n. [Dan. trældom.]

Slavery; bondage; a state of servitude. The Greeks lived Us thralldom under the Turks, nearly four hundred years. He shall rule, and she in thralldom live. Dryden. [This word is in good use.]

THRALL'LESS, a.

Having no thralls.

THRA'NI-TAE, n. [THRA'NI-TÆ. plur. Gr. θρανιτης, from θρανος, a seat, θραω, to sit.]

The uppermost or foremost of the three classes of rowers in an Athenian trireme. Brande.

THRAP'PLE, n.

The windpipe of an animal. [Not an English word.] Scott.

THRASH, v.i.

1. To practice thrashing; to perform the business of thrashing; as, a man who thrashes well.
2. To labor; to drudge. I rather would be Mevidts, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scoro and scandal of the times. Dryden.

THRASH, v.t. [Sax. tharscan, or therscan; G. dreschen; D. dorschen; Sw. tröska; Ice. therskia. It is written thrash or thresh. The common pronunciation is thrash.]

1. To beat out grain from the husk with a flail; as, to thrash wheat, rye or oats.
2. To beat Indian corn off from the cob or spike; as, to thrash maiz.
3. To beat soundly with a stick or whip; to druh. Shalt.

THRASH'ED, pp.

1. Beaten out of the husk or off she ear.
2. Freed from the grain by beating.

THRASH'ER, n.

1. One who thrashes grain.
2. A species of shark.

THRASH'ING, n.

The act of beating out grain with a flail; a sound drubbing,

THRASH'ING, ppr.

Beating out of the husk or off the ear; beating soundly with a stick or whip.

THRASH'ING-FLOOR, n. [thrash and floor.]

A floor or area on which grain is beaten out. Dryden.

THRA-SON'IC-AL, a. [from Thraso, a boaster in old comedy.]

1. Boasting; implying to bragging.
2. Boastful; implying ostentatious display. Shak.

THRAVE, n.¹ [Sax. draf, a drove.]

A drove; a herd. [Not in use.]

THRAVE, n.² [W. dreva, twenty-four; drev, a bundle or tie.]

1. The number of two dozen.
2. Twenty-four sheaves of grain set up in the field.

THREAD, or THRED, n. [Sax. thred, thræd; D. draad; Sw. träd; Dan. traad; probably from drawing.]

1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length.
2. The filament of a flower. Botany.
3. The filament of any fibrous substance, as of bark. -
4. A fine filament or line of gold or silver.
5. Air-threads, the fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders.
6. Something continued in a long course or tenor; as, the thrcad of a discourse. Burnet.
7. The prominent spiral part of a screw.

THREAD, v.t.

1. To pass a thread -through the eye; as, to thread a needle.
2. To pass or pierce through, as a narrow way or channel. They wonld not thread the gates. Shak. Hesvy trading ships-threading the Bosphorus. Mi(ford.

THREAD'BARE, a. [thread and bare.]

1. Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; as, a threadbare coat; threadbare clothes. Spenser. Dryden.
2. Worn out; trite; hackneyed; used till it has lost its novelty or interest; as, a threadbare subject; state topics and threadbare quotations. Swift.

THREAD'BARE-NESS, n.

The state of being threadbare or trite.

THREAD'EN, a.

Made of thread; threaten sails. [Little used.] Shak.

THREAD'SHAP-ED, a.

In botany, filiform.

THREAD'Y, a.

1. Like thread or filaments; slender. Granger.
2. Containing thread. Dyer.

THREAP, v.t. [Sax. threapian, or rather threagan.]

To chide, contend or argue. [Local.] Ainsworth.

THREAT, n. [thret; Sax. threat. See the verb.]

A menace; denunciation of ill; declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, loss or pain on another. There Is no terror, Cassius, In your threats. Shak.

THREAT, v.t. [thret.]

To threaten,-which see. Threat is used only in poetry. Dryden.

THREAT-EN, v.t. [thret'n; Sax. threatian, from threat. But threat appears to be contracted from threagan, which is written also threawian; D. dreigen; G. drohen; Dan. tretter, to chide, to scold, dispute, wrangle.]

1. To declare the purpose of inflicting punishment, pain or other evil on another, for some sin ur offense; to menace. God threatens the finally impenitent with everlasting banishment from his presence.
2. To menace; to terrify or attempt to terrify by menaces; as for extorting money. To send threatening letters is a punishable offense.
3. To charge or enjoin with menace, or with implied rebuke; or to charge strictly. Let us straitly threatens them, that they speak henceforth to no man in his name. Acts iv.
4. To menace by action; to present the appearance of coming evil; as, rolling billows threaten to overwhelm us.
5. To exhibit the appearance of something evil or unpleasant approaching; as, the clouds threaten us with rain or a storm.