Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 31
Thialdine (n.) (Chem.) A weak nitrogenous sulphur base, C6H13NS2.
Thialol (n.) (Chem.) A colorless oily liquid, (C2H5)2S2, having a strong garlic odor; -- called also ethyl disulphide. By extension, any one of the series of related compounds.
Thibetan (a.) Of or pertaining to Thibet.
Thibetan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thibet.
Thibet cloth () A fabric made of coarse goat's hair; a kind of camlet.
Thibet cloth () A kind of fine woolen cloth, used for dresses, cloaks, etc.
Thibetian (a. & n.) Same as Thibetan.
Thibetan (a.) Of or pertaining to Thibet. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Thibet.
Thible (n.) A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Ainsworth.
Thick (a.) 厚的；密；濃，粘稠的；混濁的，多霧的 Measuring in the third dimension other than length and breadth, or in general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick.
Were it as thick as is a branched oak. -- Chaucer.
My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. -- 1 Kings xii. 10.
Thick (a.) Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
Thick (a.) Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.
Make the gruel thick and slab. -- Shak.
Thick (a.) Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. "In a thick, misty day." -- Sir W. Scott.
Thick (a.) Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
The people were gathered thick together. -- Luke xi. 29.
Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood. -- Dryden.
Thick (a.) Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.
Thick (a.) Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.] -- Shak.
Thick (a.) Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. -- Shak.
His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. -- Shak.
Thick (a.) Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.]
We have been thick ever since. -- T. Hughes.
Note: Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like.
Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n., 7.
Thick stuff (Naut.), All plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve. -- J. Knowles.
Syn: Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.
Thick (n.) The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
In the thick of the dust and smoke. -- Knolles.
Thick (n.) 厚的（粗的，密的）部分；最激烈的時候[the S][（+of）] A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] -- Drayton.
Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. -- Spenser.
He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. -- Dryden.
Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), A fiddle block. See under Fiddle.
Through thick and thin, Through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small.
Through thick and thin she followed him. -- Hudibras.
He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. -- Coleridge.
Thick (adv.) 厚厚地；密集地；濃濃地；強烈地 Frequently; fast; quick.
Thick (adv.) Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.
Thick (adv.) To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure.
Thick and threefold, In quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.] -- L'Estrange.
Thick (v. t. & i.) To thicken. [R.]
The nightmare Life-in-death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. -- Coleridge.
Thick (adv.) With a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly].
Thick (adv.) In quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thick, thickly].
Thick (a.) Not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" [ant: thin].
Thick (a.) Having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair."
Thick (a.) Relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog" [ant: thin].
Thick (a.) Spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: slurred, thick].
Thick (a.) Having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset].
Thick (a.) Hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: dense, thick].
Thick (a.) (Of darkness) Very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: thick, deep].
Thick (a.) (Used informally) Associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months" [syn: chummy, buddy-buddy, thick(p)].
Thick (a.) (Used informally) Stupid [syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed].
Thick (a.) Abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust."
Thick (n.) The location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: midst, thick].
Thickbill (n.) The bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]
Thicken (v. i.) 變厚；變粗；變密；變濃；變得不清晰，變得模糊 To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." -- Shak.
The press of people thickens to the court. -- Dryden.
The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. -- Dryden.
Thickened (imp. & p. p.) of Thicken.
Thickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thicken.
Thicken (v. t.) 使變厚（或粗、密、濃等），使更厚（或更粗、更密、更濃等）；使（話等）不清晰，使模糊 To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically:
Thicken (v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
Thicken (v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
Thicken (v. t.) To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.]
And this may to thicken other proofs. -- Shak.
Thicken (v. t.) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
Thicken (v.) Make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin].
Thicken (v.) Become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin].
Thicken (v.) Make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate].
Thickening (n.) Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
Thickening (a.) Accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: deepening(a), thickening(a)].
Thickening (a.) Becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot."
Thickening (n.) Any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" [syn: thickening, thickener]
Thickening (n.) Any thickened enlargement [syn: node, knob, thickening]
Thickening (n.) The act of thickening [syn: thickening, inspissation].
Thicket (a.) 灌林叢；雜木林 [C] A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. -- Gen. xxii. 13.
Thicket (n.) A dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket].
Thicket, () Multiple files output from some operation.
The term has been heard in use at Microsoft to describe the set of files output when Microsoft Word does "Save As a Web Page" or "Save as HTML". The process can result in a main XML or HTML file, a graphic file for each image in the original, a CSS file, etc.
This can be an issue as XML can be used as the default format in Office 2000, and document management systems can't yet cope with the relationship between the files in a thicket when checking in and out.
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Thickhead (n.) A thick-headed or stupid person. [Colloq.]
Thickhead (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright-colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes.
Thickhead (n.) Australian and southeastern Asian birds with a melodious whistling call [syn: thickhead, whistler].
Thick-headed (a.) Having a thick skull; stupid.
Thickish (a.) Somewhat thick.
Thick-knee (n.) (Zool.) A stone curlew. See under Stone.
Thick-knee (n.) Large-headed large-eyed crepuscular or nocturnal shorebird of the Old World and tropical America having a thickened knee joint [syn: stone curlew, thick-knee, Burhinus oedicnemus].
Thickly (adv.) In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
Thickly (adv.) Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly."
Thickly (adv.) In a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn: densely, thickly] [ant: thinly].
Thickly (adv.) With a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly].
Thickly (adv.) With thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt" [ant: lightly, thinly].
Thickly (adv.) In quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thick, thickly].
Thickness (n.) The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Thickness (n.) The dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width [ant: slenderness, tenuity, thinness].
Thickness (n.) Indistinct articulation; "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily."
Thickness (n.) Used of a line or mark [syn: thickness, heaviness].
Thickness (n.) Resistance to flow [ant: thinness].
Thickset (a.) Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
Thickset (a.) Having a short, thick body; stout.
Thickset (n.) A close or thick hedge.
Thickset (n.) A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen.
Thickskin (n.) A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
Thick-skinned (a.) Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
Thickskull (n.) A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull.
Thick-skulled (a.) Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
Thick wind () A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
Thick-winded (a.) Affected with thick wind.
Thider (adv.) Thither.
Thiderward (adv.) Thitherward.
Thieves (n. pl. ) of Thief.
Thief (n.) One who steals; one who commits theft or larceny. See Theft.
Thief (n.) A waster in the snuff of a candle.
Thiefly (a. & adv.) Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.
Thienone (n.) A ketone derivative of thiophene obtained as a white crystalline substance, (C4H3S)2.CO, by the action of aluminium chloride and carbonyl chloride on thiophene.
Thienyl (n.) The hypothetical radical C4H3S, regarded as the essential residue of thiophene and certain of its derivatives.
Thieved (imp. & p. p.) of Thieve.
Thieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thieve.
Thieve (v. t. & i.) To practice theft; to steal.
Thieve (v.) Take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom].
Thievery (n.) The practice of stealing; theft; thievishness.
Among the Spartans, thievery was a practice morally good and honest. -- South.
Thievery (n.) That which is stolen. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Thievery (n.) The act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing].
Thievish (a.) Given to stealing; addicted to theft; as, a thievish boy, a thievish magpie.
Thievish (a.) Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.
Time's thievish progress to eternity. -- Shak.
Thievish (a.) Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing; dishonest; as, a thievish practice.
Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce A thievish living on the common road. -- Shak. -- Thiev"ish*ly, adv. -- Thiev"ish*ness, n.
Thievish (a.) Given to thievery [syn: thieving(a), thievish].
Thigh (n.) (Anat.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
Thigh (n.) (Zool.) The coxa, or femur, of an insect.
Thigh bone (Anat.), The femur.
Thigh (n.) The part of the leg between the hip and the knee.
Thigh (n.) The upper joint of the leg of a fowl [syn: second joint, thigh].
Thilk (pron.) That same; this; that. [Obs.] "I love thilk lass." -- Spenser.
Thou spake right now of thilke traitor death. -- Chaucer.
Thill (n.) One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
Thill (n.) (Mining) The floor of a coal mine. -- Raymond.
Thill coupling, A device for connecting the thill of a vehicle to the axle.
Thill (n.) One of two shafts extending from the body of a cart or carriage on either side of the animal that pulls it.
Thiller (n.) The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.
Thimble (n.) A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
Thimble (n.) (Mech.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure. Specifically:
Thimble (n.) (Mech.) A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
Thimble (n.) (Mech.) A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
Thimble (n.) (Mech.) A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
Thimble (n.) (Naut.) A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.
Compare: Bushing
Bushing (n.) The operation of fitting bushes, or linings, into holes or places where wear is to be received, or friction diminished, as pivot holes, etc.
Bushing (n.) (Mech.) A bush or lining; -- sometimes called a thimble. See 4th Bush.
Thimble (n.) As much as a thimble will hold [syn: thimble, thimbleful].
Thimble (n.) A small metal cap to protect the finger while sewing; can be used as a small container.
Thimbleberry (n.) (Bot.) A kind of black raspberry ({Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
Thimbleberry (n.) Shrubby raspberry of eastern North America having showy rose to purplish flowers and red or orange thimble-shaped fruit [syn: flowering raspberry, purple-flowering raspberry, Rubus odoratus, thimbleberry].
Thimbleberry (n.) White-flowered raspberry of western North America and northern Mexico with thimble-shaped orange berries [syn: salmonberry, salmon berry, thimbleberry, Rubus parviflorus].
Thimbleberry (n.) Raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit [syn: black raspberry, blackcap, blackcap raspberry, thimbleberry, Rubus occidentalis].
Thimbleeye (n.) (Zool.) The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
Compare: Chub
Chub (n.) (Zool.) A species to fresh-water fish of the Cyprinid[ae] or Carp family. The common European species is Leuciscus cephalus; the cheven. In America the name is applied to various fishes of the same family, of the genera Semotilus, Squalius, Ceratichthys, etc., and locally to several very different fishes, as the tautog, black bass, etc.
Chub mackerel (Zool.), A species of mackerel ({Scomber colias) in some years found in abundance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel.
Chub sucker (Zool.), A fresh-water fish of the United States ({Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.
Thimblefuls (n. pl. ) of Thimbleful.
Thimbleful (n.) As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
For a thimbleful of golf, a thimbleful of love. -- Dryden.
Thimblerig (n.) 隱豆戲法 A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
Thimblerigged (imp. & p. p.) of Thimblerig.
Thimblerigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thimblerig.
Thimblerig (v. t.) 變隱豆戲法，欺騙 To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.
Thimblerig (n.) 隱豆戲法 A swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under [syn: {shell game}, {thimblerig}].
Thimblerigger (n.) One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Thimbleweed (n.) (Bot.) Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.
Thimbleweed (n.) A common North American anemone with cylindrical fruit clusters resembling thimbles [syn: thimbleweed, Anemone cylindrica]
Thin (a.) 薄的，細的，瘦的，稀疏的，稀薄的，淡的，弱的，空洞的 Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
Thin (a.) Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air. -- Shak.
In the day, when the air is more thin. -- Bacon.
Satan, bowing low His gray dissimulation, disappeared, Into thin air diffused. -- Milton.
Thin (a.) Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. -- Addison.
Thin (a.) Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
Seven thin ears . . . blasted with the east wind. -- Gen. xli. 6.
Thin (a.) Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
Thin (a.) Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. -- Dryden.
Thin (a.) Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
My tale is done, for my wit is but thin. -- Chaucer.
Note: Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled, thin-shelled, and the like.
Thin section. See under Section.
Thin (adv.) Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
Spain is thin sown of people. -- Bacon.
Thinned (imp. & p. p.) of Thin.
Thinning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thin.
Thin (v. t.) 使變薄，使變細 To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).