Emily Dickinson Lexicon

THREE'-PILE, n. [three and pile.]

An old name for good velvet. Shak.

THREE'-PIL-ED, a.

Set with a thick pile. [Obs.] Shak.

THREE'-PLIED, a. [three, and Fr. prier, L. plico.]

Threefold; consisting of three thicknesses, as cloth or carpeting.

THREE'-POINT-ED, a.

Tricuspidate; having three lengthened points ending in a bristle.

THREE-RIB-BED, a.

Having three ribs.

THREE'SCORE, a. [three and score.]

Thrice twenty; sixty; as, threescore years.

THREE'-SEED-ED, a. [three and seed.]

Having three seeds; as, a three-seeded capsule. Botany.

THREE'-SID-ED, a. [three and side.]

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

THREE'-VALVED, a. [three and valve.]

Trivalvular; consisting of three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp. Martyn.

THRENE, n. [Gr. θρηνος.]

Lamentation. [Not used.]

THRE-NET'IC, a.

Sorrowful; mournful. Shak.

THREN'O-DY, n. [Gr. θρηνος, lamentation, and ωδη, ode.]

A song of lamentation. Herbert.

THRESH, v.t.

To thrash. [See Thrash.] The latter is the popular pronunciation, but the word is written thrash or thresh, indifferently. [See the derivation and definitions under Thrash.]

THRESH'ER, n.

The sea fox, Squalus vulpes, a fish of the shark genus. Cyc.

THRESH'OLD, n. [Sax. thærscwald; G. thürschwelle; Sw. tröskel; Ice. throsulldur. The Saxon and Swedish words seem by their orthography to be connected with thrash, thresh, and the last syllable to be wald, wood; but the German word is obviously compounded of thür, door, and schwelle, sill; door-sill.]

1. The door-sill; the plank, stone or piece of timber which lies at the bottom or under a door, particularly of a dwelling-house, church, temple or the like; hence, entrance; gate; door.
2. Entrance; the place or point of entering or beginning. He is now at the threshold of his argument. Many men that stumble at the threshold. Shak.

THREW, v. [pret. of Throw.]

THRICE, adv. [from three; perhaps three and L. vice; or a change of Fr. tiers.]

1. Three times. Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Matth. xxvi.
2. Sometimes used by way of amplification; very. Thrice, noble Lord, let me entreat of you / To pardon me. Shak.

THRICE-FA-VOR-ED, a.

Favored thrice; highly favored. Irving.

THRID, v.t. [W. treiziaw, to penetrate; treidiaw, to course, to range.]

To slide through a narrow passage; to slip, shoot or run through, as a needle, bodkin, or the like. Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair. Pope.

THRID'DED, pp.

Slid through.

THRID'DING, ppr.

Sliding through; causing to pass through.

THRIFT, n. [from thrive.]

1. Frugality; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property. The rest – willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. Spenser.
2. Prosperity; success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain. I have a mind presages me such thrift. Shak.
3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4. In botany, a plant of the genus Statice.

THRIFT'I-LY, adv.

1. Frugally; with parsimony.
2. With increase of worldly goods.

THRIFT'I-NESS, n.

1. Frugality; good husbandry; as, thriftiness to save; thriftiness in preserving one's own. Wotton. Spenser.
2. Prosperity in business; increase of property.

THRIFT'LESS, a.

Having no frugality or good management; profuse; extravagant; not thriving. Shak.