Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T

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Thou (v. t.) To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.

If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss. -- Shak.

Thou (v. i.) To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends. [R.]

Thou (n.) The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard].

Though (adv.) However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; -- used in familiar language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

I would not be as sick though for his place. -- Shak.

A good cause would do well, though. -- Dryden

Though (conj.) Granting, admitting, or supposing that; notwithstanding that; if.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. -- Job xiii. 15.

Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. -- Milton.

Note: It is compounded with all in although. See Although.

As though, as if.

In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded. -- Gen. xl. 10.

Though (adv.) (Postpositive) However; "it might be unpleasant, though".

Thought () imp. & p. p. of Think.

Thought (n.) The act of thinking; the exercise of the mind in any of its higher forms; reflection; cogitation.

Thought can not be superadded to matter, so as in any sense to render it true that matter can become cogitative. -- Dr. T. Dwight.

Thought (n.) Meditation; serious consideration.

Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. -- Roscommon.

Thought (n.) That which is thought; an idea; a mental conception, whether an opinion, judgment, fancy, purpose, or intention.

Thus Bethel spoke, who always speaks his thought. -- Pope.

Why do you keep alone, . . . Using those thoughts which should indeed have died With them they think on? -- Shak.

Thoughts come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject. -- Dryden.

All their thoughts are against me for evil. -- Ps. lvi. 5.

Thought (n.) Solicitude; anxious care; concern.

Hawis was put in trouble, and died with thought and anguish before his business came to an end. -- Bacon.

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink. -- Matt. vi. 25.

Thought (n.) A small degree or quantity; a trifle; as, a thought longer; a thought better. [Colloq.]

If the hair were a thought browner. -- Shak.

Note: Thought, in philosophical usage now somewhat current, denotes the capacity for, or the exercise of, the very highest intellectual functions, especially those usually comprehended under judgment.

This [faculty], to which I gave the name of the "elaborative faculty," -- the faculty of relations or comparison, -- constitutes what is properly denominated thought. -- Sir W. Hamilton.

Syn: Idea; conception; imagination; fancy; conceit; notion; supposition; reflection; consideration; meditation; contemplation; cogitation; deliberation.

Thought (n.) The content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" [syn: idea, thought].

Thought (n.) The process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation].

Thought (n.) The organized beliefs of a period or group or individual; "19th century thought"; "Darwinian thought".

Thought (n.) A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn: opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought].

Thought. () The operation of the mind. No one can be punished for his mere thoughts however wicked they may be. Human laws cannot reach them, first, because they are unknown; and, secondly, unless made manifest by some action, they are not injurious to any one; but when they manifest themselves, then the act, which is the consequence, may be punished. Dig. 50 16, 225.

Thoughtful (a.) Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind.

War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. -- Pope.

Thoughtful (a.) Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful of gain; thoughtful in seeking truth. -- Glanvill.

Thoughtful (a.) Anxious; solicitous; concerned.

Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear, And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. --Prior.

Syn: Considerate; deliberate; contemplative; attentive; careful; wary; circumspect; reflective; discreet.

Usage: Thoughtful, Considerate. He who is habitually thoughtful rarely neglects his duty or his true interest; he who is considerate pauses to reflect and guard himself against error. One who is not thoughtful by nature, if he can be made considerate, will usually be guarded against serious mistakes. "He who is thoughtful does not forget his duty; he who is considerate pauses, and considers properly what is his duty. It is a recommendation to a subordinate person to be thoughtful in doing what is wished of him; it is the recommendation of a confidential person to be considerate, as he has often to judge according to his own discretion." -- Crabb. -- Thought"ful*ly, adv. -- Thought"ful*ness, n.

Thoughtful (a.) Having intellectual depth; "a deeply thoughtful essay".

Thoughtful (a.) Exhibiting or characterized by careful thought; "a thoughtful paper" [ant: thoughtless].

Thoughtful (a.) Acting with or showing thought and good sense; "a sensible young man" [syn: thoughtful, serious-minded].

Thoughtful (a.) Taking heed; giving close and thoughtful attention; "heedful of the warnings"; "so heedful a writer"; "heedful of what they were doing" [syn: heedful, attentive, thoughtful, paying attention] [ant: heedless, unheeding].

Thoughtful (a.) Considerate of the feelings or well-being of others.

Thoughtfulness (n.) 深思；熟慮；體貼，親切A calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn: {contemplation}, {reflection}, {reflexion}, {rumination}, {musing}, {thoughtfulness}].

Thoughtfulness (n.) Kind and considerate regard for others; "he showed no consideration for her feelings" [syn: {consideration}, {considerateness}, {thoughtfulness}] [ant: {inconsiderateness}, {inconsideration}, {thoughtlessness}].

Thoughtfulness (n.) The trait of thinking carefully before acting [ant: {thoughtlessness}, {unthoughtfulness}].

Thoughtfulness (n.) A considerate and thoughtful act [syn: {consideration}, {thoughtfulness}].

Thoughtless (a.) 欠考慮的，粗心的，輕率的；不顧及他人的，不為他人著想的 Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.

Thoughtless (a.) Giddy; gay; dissipated. [R.] -- Johnson.

Thoughtless (a.) Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull.

Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. -- Dryden. -- {Thought"less*ly}, adv. -- {Thought"less*ness}, n.

Thoughtless (a.) Showing lack of careful thought; "the debate turned into thoughtless bickering" [ant: {thoughtful}].

Thoughtless (a.) Without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: {thoughtless}, {uncaring}, {unthinking}].

Thousand (n.) 一千；一千個；數千；許許多多，無數 [P] [（+of）] The number of ten hundred; a collection or sum consisting of ten times one hundred units or objects.

Thousand (n.) Hence, indefinitely, a great number.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand. -- Ps. xci. 7.

Note: The word thousand often takes a plural form. See the Note under Hundred.

Thousand (n.) A symbol representing one thousand units; as, 1,000, M or CI[Crev].

Thousand (a.) 一千的；一千個的；成千的；許許多多的，無數的 Consisting of ten hundred; being ten times one hundred.

Thousand (a.) Hence, consisting of a great number indefinitely. "Perplexed with a thousand cares." -- Shak.

Thousand (a.) Denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k].

Thousand (n.) The cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard].

Thousand (Number) (n. pl. Thousand or thousands) (A2) （數字）1000 The number 1,000.

// They had driven over a/ one thousand miles.

// The population of the village is about three thousand.

// The damage will cost thousands of dollars to repair.

A thousand/ thousands of sth (B2) (Informal) 一個大的數字 A large number.

// I have a thousand things to do before we go away.

The thousands 成千上萬（介乎1,000和1,000,000之間的數字） Numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000.

// His latest work is expected to sell in the thousands.

Tens of (thousands/ millions/ billions) of (something) Use this phrase to talk about a large number of something. "Tens of thousands" could mean anything from 20,000 to 100,000, but it seems like it's on the higher end of that range.

You can also say "Tens of millions" like this:

We've managed to cut tens of millions of dollars in costs from this year's budget.

By the way, if you want to talk about a general number that's between 20 and 100, you don't say "tens". Instead, you say "Dozens". A "dozen" means 12:

Thousandfold (a.) Multiplied by a thousand.

Thousandfold (a.) 千倍的 A thousand times as big or as much.

// A thousandfold increase in computer power.

Thousandfold (adv.) A thousandfold 千倍地 By a thousand times.

// Subscriber numbers have grown a thousandfold.

Thousand legs (n.)【動】千足蟲（一種節肢動物）(Zool.) A millepid, or galleyworm; -- called also thousand-legged worm.

Thousandth (a.) Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

Thousandth (a.) Constituting, or being one of, a thousand equal parts into which anything is divided; the tenth of a hundredth.

Thousandth (a.) Occurring as being one of, or the last one of, a very great number; very small; minute; -- used hyperbolically; as, to do a thing for the thousandth time.

Thousandth (n.) The quotient of a unit divided by a thousand; one of a thousand equal parts into which a unit is divided. Thowel

Thousandth (a.) The ordinal number of one thousand in counting order [syn: thousandth, 1000th].

Thousandth (n.) Position 1,000 in a countable series of things.

Thousandth (n.) One part in a thousand equal parts [syn: one-thousandth, thousandth].

Thole (n.) [Written also thowel, and thowl.] A wooden or metal pin, set in the gunwale of a boat, to serve as a fulcrum for the oar in rowing. -- Longfellow.

Thole (n.) The pin, or handle, of a scythe snath.

Thole pin. Same as Thole.

Thowel (n.) Alt. of Thowl

Thowl (n.) (Naut.) A thole pin.

Thowl (n.) (Naut.) A rowlock.

I would sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. -- Dickens.

Thracian (a.) Of or pertaining to Thrace, or its people.

Thracian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Thrace.

Thrack (v. t.) To load or burden; as, to thrack a man with property. [Obs.] -- South.

Thrackscat (n.) Metal still in the mine. [Obs.]

Thraldom (n.) The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.]
Women are born to thraldom and penance

And to be under man's governance. -- Chaucer.

He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. -- Dryden.

Thraldom (n.) The state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom].

Thrall (n.) 奴隸；奴僕 [C]；奴隸般受支配的人；沉湎而不能自拔的人 [C] [（+to/of）]；奴役；束縛 [U] [（+to）] A slave; a bondman. -- Chaucer.

Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. -- Sir W. Scott.

Thrall (n.) Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom. -- Tennyson.

He still in thrall Of all-subdoing sleep. -- Chapman.

Thrall (n.) A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc. [Prov. Eng.]

Thrall (a.) 【古】受奴役的 Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved. [Obs.] -- Spenser.

The fiend that would make you thrall and bond. -- Chaucer.

Thrall (v. t.) 【古】使成奴隸，奴役 (= enslave, enthrall) To enslave. [Obs. or Poetic] --Spenser.

Thrall (n.) The state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom].

Thrall (n.) Someone held in bondage.

Thrall, TX -- U.S. city in Texas

Population (2000): 710

Housing Units (2000): 264

Land area (2000): 0.406467 sq. miles (1.052744 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.406467 sq. miles (1.052744 sq. km)

FIPS code: 72824

Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48

Location: 30.588640 N, 97.298707 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 76578

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

Headwords:

Thrall, TX

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Thralldom (n.) Thraldom.

Thrall-less (a.) Having no thralls.

Thrall-less (a.) Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

Thrall-like (a.) Resembling a thrall, or his condition, feelings, or the like; slavish.

Servile and thrall-like fear. -- Milton.

Thranite (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

Thrapple (n.) Windpipe; throttle. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Thrash

Thrashed (imp. & p. p.) of Thresh.

Thrashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh.

Thrash (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh.

Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.

The wheat was reaped, thrashed, and winnowed by machines. -- H. Spencer.

Thresh (v. t.) To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.

Thrash (v. t.) Alt. of Thresh

Thresh (v. t.) To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.

Thresh (v. t.) Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.

I rather would be Maevius, thrash for rhymes, Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times. -- Dryden.

Thrash (n.) A swimming kick used while treading water.

Thrash (v.) Give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail].

Thrash (v.) Move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate].

Thrash (v.) Dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash].

Thrash (v.) Beat so fast that (the heart's) output starts dropping until (it) does not manage to pump out blood at all.

Thrash (v.) Move data into and out of core rather than performing useful computation; "The system is thrashing again!"

Thrash (v.) Beat the seeds out of a grain [syn: thrash, thresh].

Thrash (v.) Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick].

Thrash (v. i.) To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Someone who keeps changing his mind (esp. about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as thrashing. Compare multitask.

Thrash

Thrashing, () To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing anything useful. Paging or swapping systems that are overloaded waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather than performing useful computation) and are therefore said to thrash. Thrashing can also occur in a cache due to cache conflict or in a multiprocessor (see ping-pong).

Someone who keeps changing his mind (especially about what to work on next) is said to be thrashing. A person frantically trying to execute too many tasks at once (and not spending enough time on any single task) may also be described as thrashing.

Compare multitask.

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Thrash (v.) (Hit) [ T ] （作為懲罰）毒打，痛打 To hit a person or animal hard many times as a punishment.

// His father used to thrash him when he was a boy.

// He thrashed the horse with his whip.

Thrash (v.) (Move) [ I ] 猛烈擺動；劇烈扭動；翻騰 To move from side to side in a violent or uncontrolled way.

// He was screaming and thrashing around on the floor.

Thrash (v.) (Defeat) [ T ] (Informal) （比賽中）徹底擊敗 To defeat someone very easily in a game or sports competition.

// We thrashed the visiting team 6–0.

Thrash (v.) (Remove seeds) [ I or T ] 打穀；脫粒 To thresh.

Phrasal verb with Thrash:

Thrash sth out (v.) (Informal) 徹底討論（直到找到解決辦法）；透過反覆商討解決 To discuss a problem in detail until you reach an agreement or find a solution.

// If we have an important decision to make, we sometimes spend a whole day thrashing it out in a meeting.

Thresh (v.) [ I or T ] (Also thrash) （用機器或手持工具）使（穀物）脫粒 To remove the seeds of crop plants by hitting them, using either a machine or a hand tool.

Thrashel (n.) An instrument to thrash with; a flail. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell. Thrasher

Thrasher (n.) Alt. of Thresher

Thresher (n.) One who, or that which, thrashes grain; a thrashing machine.

Thresher (n.) (Zool.) A large and voracious shark (Alopias vulpes), remarkable for the great length of the upper lobe of its tail, with which it beats, or thrashes, its prey. It is found both upon the American and the European coasts. Called also fox shark, sea ape, sea fox, slasher, swingle-tail, and thrasher shark.

Thresher (n.) (Zool.) A name given to the brown thrush and other allied species. See Brown thrush.

Sage thrasher. (Zool.) See under Sage.

Thrasher whale (Zool.), the common killer of the Atlantic.

Thrasher (n.) A farm machine for separating seeds or grain from the husks and straw [syn: thresher, thrasher, threshing machine].

Thrasher (n.) Thrush-like American songbird able to mimic other birdsongs [syn: thrasher, mocking thrush].

Thrasher (n.) Large pelagic shark of warm seas with a whiplike tail used to round up small fish on which to feed [syn: thresher, thrasher, thresher shark, fox shark, Alopius vulpinus].

Thrashing () a. & n. from Thrash, v.

Thrashing floor, Threshing-floor, or Threshing floor, A floor or area on which grain is beaten out.

Thrashing machine, A machine for separating grain from the straw.

Thrashing (n.) A sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle,

drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping].

Thrashing (n.) The act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking].

Thrash

Compare multitask.

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Thrasonical (a.) Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious. -- Thra*son"ic*al*ly, adv.

Caesar's thrasonical brag of 'I came, saw, and overcame.' -- Shak.

Thraste (imp.) of Thraste.

Thrast (p. p.) of Thraste.

Thraste (v. t.) To thrust. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.

Thrave (n.) Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook. [Prov. Eng.]

Thrave (n.) The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng. "The worst of a thrave." [Obs.] -- Landsdowne MS.

He sends forth thraves of ballads to the sale. -- Bp. Hall.

Thraw (n. & v.) See Throse. [Scot.] -- Burns.

Thread (n.) A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted; also, one fiber of a cord composed of multiple fibers.

Thread (n.) A filament of any substance, as of glass, gold or silver; a filamentous part of an object, such as a flower; a component fiber of any or of any fibrous substance, as of bark.

Thread (n.) The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.

Thread (n.) (Fig.) Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse. -- Bp. Burnet.

Thread (n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness. [Obs.]

A neat courtier, Of a most elegant thread. -- B. Jonson.

Thread (n.) (Computers) A related sequence of instructions or actions within a program that runs at least in part independent of other actions within the program; -- such threads are capable of being executed only in oprating systems permittnig multitasking.

Thread (n.) (Computers) A sequence of messages posted to an on-line newsgroup or discussion group, dealing with the same topic; -- messages in such a thread typically refer to a previous posting, thus allowing their identification as part of the thread. Some news-reading programs allow a user to follow a single such thread independent of the other postings to that newsgroup.

Air thread, The fine white filaments which are seen floating in the air in summer, the production of spiders; gossamer.

Thread and thrum, The good and bad together. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Thread cell (Zool.), A lasso cell. See under Lasso.

Thread herring (Zool.), The gizzard shad. See under Gizzard.

Thread lace, Lace made of linen thread.

Thread needle, A game in which children stand in a row, joining hands, and in which the outer one, still holding his neighbor, runs between the others; -- called also thread the needle.

Threaded (imp. & p. p.) of Thread.

Threading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thread.

Thread (v. t.) To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.

Thread (v. t.) To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.

Heavy trading ships . . . threading the Bosphorus. -- Mitford.

They would not thread the gates. -- Shak.

Thread (v. t.) To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.

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Thread (n.) A fine cord of twisted fibers (of cotton or silk or wool or nylon etc.) used in sewing and weaving [syn: thread, yarn].

Thread (n.) Any long object resembling a thin line; "a mere ribbon of land"; "the lighted ribbon of traffic"; "from the air the road was a grey thread"; "a thread of smoke climbed upward" [syn: ribbon, thread].

Thread (n.) The connections that link the various parts of an event or argument together; "I couldn't follow his train of thought"; "he lost the thread of his argument" [syn: train of thought, thread].

Thread (n.) The raised helical rib going around a screw [syn: screw thread, thread].

Thread (v.) To move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course; "the river winds through the hills"; "the path meanders through the vineyards"; "sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body" [syn: weave, wind, thread, meander, wander].

Thread (v.) Pass a thread through; "thread a needle".

Thread (v.) Remove facial hair by tying a fine string around it and pulling at the string; "She had her eyebrows threaded".

Thread (v.) Pass through or into; "thread tape"; "thread film".

Thread (v.) Thread on or as if on a string; "string pearls on a string"; "the child drew glass beads on a string"; "thread dried cranberries" [syn: string, thread, draw].

Thread (n.). [Usenet, GEnie, CompuServe] Common abbreviation of topic thread, a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single topic. To follow a thread is to read a series of Usenet postings sharing a common subject or (more correctly) which are connected by Reference headers. The better newsreaders can present news in thread order automatically. Not to be confused with the techspeak sense of ?thread?, e.g. a lightweight process.

Interestingly, this is far from a neologism. The OED says: ?That which connects the successive points in a thought, or the like; the sequence of events or ideas continuing throughout the whole course of anything;? Citations are given going back to 1642!

Thread

Threaded

Threading, () See multithreading.
Thread

Threaded

Threading, () See threaded code.

Thread

Threaded

Threading, () Topic thread.

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Threadbare (a.) Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." -- Chaucer.

Threadbare (a.) Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations. -- Swift.

Threadbare (a.) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn].

Threadbare (a.) Having the nap worn away so that the threads show through; "threadbare rugs".

Threadbareness (n.) The state of being threadbare.

Threaden (a.) Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Threader (n.) A device for assisting in threading a needle.

Threader (n.) A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.

Threader (n.) A blunt needle for threading ribbon through loops [syn: bodkin, threader].

Threadfin (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

Threadfin (n.) Mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays.

Compare: Polyneme

Polyneme (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of tropical food fishes of the family Polynemid[ae]. They have several slender filaments, often very long, below the pectoral fin. Some of them yield isinglass of good quality. Called also threadfish.

Threadfish (n.) (Zool.) The cutlass fish.

Threadfish (n.) (Zool.) (b) A carangoid fish ({Caranx gallus, or Caranx crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.

Threadfish (n.) Fish having greatly elongated front rays on dorsal and anal fins [syn: threadfish, thread-fish, Alectis ciliaris].

Threadiness (n.) Quality of being thready.

Thread-shaped (a.) Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Threadworm (n.) (Zool.) Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

Threadworm (n.) Small threadlike worm infesting human intestines and rectum especially in children [syn: pinworm, threadworm, Enterobius vermicularis].

Thready (a.) Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

Thready (a.) Containing, or consisting of, thread.

Thready (a.) Forming viscous or glutinous threads [syn: ropy, ropey, stringy, thready].

Thready (a.) Thin in diameter; resembling a thread [syn: filamentous, filiform, filamentlike, threadlike, thready].

Threaped (imp. & p. p.) of Threap.

Threaping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Threap.

Threap (v. t.) To call; to name. [Obs.]

Threap (v. t.) To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; also, to contend or argue against (another) with obstinacy; to chide; as, he threaped me down that it was so. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Burns.

Threap (v. t.) To beat, or thrash. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.

Threap (v. t.) To cozen, or cheat. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.

Threap (v. i.) To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

It's not for a man with a woman to threap. -- Percy's Reliques.

Threap (n.) An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

He was taken a threap that he would have it finished before the year was done. -- Carlyle.

Threat (n.) The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. -- Shak.

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