Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 35
Threat (v. t. & i.) To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] -- Shak.
Of all his threating reck not a mite. -- Chaucer.
Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. -- Dryden.
Threat (n.) Something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" [syn: menace, threat].
Threat (n.) A warning that something unpleasant is imminent; "they were under threat of arrest."
Threat (n.) Declaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on another; "his threat to kill me was quite explicit."
Threat (n.) A person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood" [syn: terror, scourge, threat].
Threat, () crim. law. A menace of destruction or injury to the lives or property of those against whom it is made.
Threat, () Sending threatening letters to persons for the purpose of extorting money, is said to, be a misdemeanor at common law. Hawk. B. 1, c. 53, s. 1; 2 Russ. on Cr. 575; 2 Chit. Cr. L. 841; 4 Bl. Com. l26. To be indictable, the threat must be of a nature calculated to overcome a firm and prudent man. The party who makes a threat may be held to bail for his good behaviour. Vide Com. Dig. Battery, D; 13 Vin. Ab. 357.
THREAT, () Evidence. Menace.
THREAT, () When a confession is obtained from a person accused of crime, in consequence of a threat, evidence of such confession cannot be received, because, being obtained by the torture of fear, it comes in so questionable a shape, that no credit ought to be given to it; 1 Leach, 263; this is the general principle, but what amounts to a threat is not so easily defined. It is proper to observe, however, that the threat must be made by a person having authority over the prisoner, or by another in the presence of such authorized person, and not dissented from by the latter. 8 C. & P. 733. Vide Confession, and the cases there cited.
Threatened (imp. & p. p.) of Threaten.
Threatening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Threaten.
Threaten (v. t.) To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn.
Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. -- Acts iv. 17.
Threaten (v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death. -- Milton.
The skies look grimly And threaten present blusters. -- Shak.
Syn: To menace.
Usage: Threaten, Menace. Threaten is Anglo-Saxon, and menace is Latin. As often happens, the former is the more familiar term; the latter is more employed in formal style. We are threatened with a drought; the country is menaced with war.
By turns put on the suppliant and the lord: Threatened this moment, and the next implored. -- Prior.
Of the sharp ax Regardless, that o'er his devoted head Hangs menacing. -- Somerville.
Threaten (v. i.) To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
Though the seas threaten, they are merciful. -- Shak.
Threaten (v.) Pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril].
Threaten (v.) To utter intentions of injury or punishment against:"He threatened me when I tried to call the police."
Threaten (v.) To be a menacing indication of something:"The clouds threaten rain"; "Danger threatens."
Threaten (v.) (B2) [ T ] 威脅，恐嚇；揚言要 To tell someone that you will kill or hurt them or cause problems if they do not do what you want.
// They threatened the shopkeeper with a gun.
// [ + to infinitive ] They threatened to kill him unless he did as they asked.
Threaten (v.) (C1) [ T ] 威脅到；危害到 To be likely to cause harm or damage to something or someone.
// Changing patterns of agriculture are threatening the countryside.
Threaten (v.) (C2) [ I ] 預示凶兆；逼近 If something bad threatens to happen, it is likely to happen.
// Look at those clouds! There's a storm threatening.
Threatener (n.) One who threatens. -- Shak.
Threatening () a. & n. from Threaten, v. -- Threat"en*ing*ly, adv.
Threatening letters (Law), Letters containing threats, especially those designed to extort money, or to obtain other property, by menaces; blackmailing letters.
Threatening (a.) Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening].
Threatening (a.) Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening].
Threateningly (adv.) In a menacing manner; "the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly" [syn: menacingly, threateningly].
Threatful (a.) Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. -- Spenser. -- Threat"ful*ly, adv.
Threave (n.) Same as Thrave. [Obs.]
Three (a.) One more than two; two and one. "I offer thee three things." -- 2 Sam. xxiv. 12.
Three solemn aisles approach the shrine. -- Keble.
Note: Three is often joined with other words, forming compounds signifying divided into, composed of, or containing, three parts, portions, organs, or the like; as, three-branched, three-capsuled, three-celled, three-cleft, three-edged, three-foot, three-footed, three-forked, three-grained, three-headed, three-legged, three-mouthed, three-nooked, three-petaled, three-pronged, three-ribbed, three-seeded, three-stringed, three-toed, and the like.
Three (n.) The number greater by a unit than two; three units or objects.
Three (n.) A symbol representing three units, as 3 or iii.
Rule of three. (Arith.) See under Rule, n.
Three (a.) Being one more than two [syn: three, 3, iii].
Three (n.) The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace].
Three (n.) One of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn: trey, three].
Three-coat (a.) (Arch.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
Three-cornered (a.) Having three corners, or angles; as, a three-cornered hat.
Three-cornered (a.) (Bot.) Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three-cornered stem.
Three-cornered (a.) Having three corners; "a three-cornered hat."
Three-cornered (a.) Involving a group or set of three; "a three-cornered race."
Three-decker (n.) (Naut.) A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
Three-decker (n.) Made with three slices of usually toasted bread [syn: club sandwich, three-decker, triple-decker].
Three-decker (n.) Any ship having three decks.
Three-decker (n.) A warship carrying guns on three decks.
Three-flowered (a.) (Bot.) Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
Threefold (a.) Consisting of three, or thrice repeated; triple; as, threefold justice.
A threefold cord is not quickly broken. -- Eccl. iv. 12.
Threefold (adv.) By a factor of three; "our rent increased threefold in the past five years" [syn: threefold, three times]
Threefold (a.) Three times as great or many; "a claim for treble (or triple) damages"; "a threefold increase" [syn: treble, threefold, three-fold, triple].
Threefold (a.) Having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning" -- Frederick Harrison [syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-fold].
Three-handed (a.) Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards. Three-leafed
Three-leafed (a.) Alt. of Three-leaved.
Three-leaved (a.) (Bot.) Producing three leaves; as, three-leaved nightshade.
Three-leaved (a.) (Bot.) Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.
Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium.
Three-lobed (a.) Having three lobes.
Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), A leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
Three-nerved (a.) Having three nerves.
Three-nerved leaf (Bot.), A leaf having three distinct and prominent ribs, or nerves, extending from the base.
Three-parted (a.) Divided into, or consisting of, three parts; tripartite.
Three-parted leaf (Bot.), A leaf divided into three parts down to the base, but not entirely separate.
Threepence (n.) A small silver coin of three times the value of a penny. [Eng.]
Threepence (n.) Former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies.
Threepenny (a.) Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
Threepenny (a.) Used of nail size; 1 1/8 in long.
Threepenny (a.) Of trifling worth [syn: sixpenny, threepenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny].
Three-pile (n.) An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. -- Shak.
Three-piled (a.) Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly. [R.]
Thou art good velvet; thou 'rt three-piled piece. -- Shak.
Three-piled (a.) Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. "Three-piled hyperboles." -- Shak.
Three-piled (a.) Accustomed to wearing three-pile; hence, of high rank, or wealth. [Obs.] "Three-piled people." -- Beau. & Fl.
Three-ply (a.) Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
Three-ply (a.) Having a thickness made up of three layers or strands; "three-ply cloth"; "three-ply yarn".
Three-pointed (a.) (Bot.) Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.
Three-quarter (a.) (Paint.) Measuring thirty inches by twenty-five; -- said of portraitures.
Three-score (a.) Thrice twenty; sixty.
Three-sided (a.) Having three sides, especially three plane sides; as, a three-sided stem, leaf, petiole, peduncle, scape, or pericarp.
Three-sided (a.) Having three sides; "a trilateral figure" [syn: trilateral, triangular, three-sided].
Three-square (a.) Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
Three-valved (a.) Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
Three-way (a.) Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
Threne (n.) Lamentation; threnody; a dirge.
Threnetic (a.) Alt. of Threnetical.
Threnetical (a.) Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.
Threnode (n.) A threne, or threnody; a dirge; a funeral song.
Threnodist (n.) One who composes, delivers, or utters, a threnode, or threnody.
Threnody (n.) A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Threpe (v. t.) To call; to term.
Threpsology (n.) The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.
Threshed (imp. & p. p.) of Thresh.
Threshing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thresh.
Thresh (v. t. & i.) Same as Thrash.
Thresher (n.) Same as Thrasher.
Thresh-fold (n.) Threshold.
Threshold (n.) The plank, stone, or piece of timber, which lies under a door, especially of a dwelling house, church, temple, or the like; the doorsill; hence, entrance; gate; door.
Threshold (n.) Fig.: The place or point of entering or beginning, entrance; outset; as, the threshold of life.
Threshwold (n.) Threshold.
Threste (imp.) of Threste.
Threst (p. p. &) of Threste.
Threste (v. t.) To thrust.
Thretteen (a.) Thirteen.
Thretty (a.) Thirty.
Threw () imp. of Throw.
Thribble (a.) Triple; treble; threefold.
Thrice (adv.) Three times.
Thrice (adv.) In a threefold manner or degree; repeatedly; very.
Thricecock (n.) The missel thrush.
Thrid (a.) Third.
Thridded (imp. & p. p.) of Thrid.
Thridding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrid.
Thrid (v. t.) To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.
Thrid (v. t.) To make or effect (a way or course) through something; as, to thrid one's way through a wood.
Thrid (n.) Thread; continuous line.
Thrifallow (v. t.) See Thryfallow, and Trifallow.
Thrift (n.) 節儉，節約 [U]；【植】海石竹；（植物等的）茁壯生長，繁茂 [U]；【美】互助儲蓄銀行 [C] A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. -- Spenser.
Compare: Husbandry
Husbandry (n.) [U] 農事，耕種；飼養業；管理 The care, cultivation, and breeding of crops and animals.
‘Crop husbandry.’
Husbandry (n.) Management and conservation of resources.
‘Low borrowing demonstrates astute husbandry of resources.’
Thrift (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. "Your thrift is gone full clean." -- Chaucer.
I have a mind presages me such thrift. -- Shak.
Thrift (n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
Thrift (n.) (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.
Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink.
Syn: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.
Thrift (n.) Any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers.
Thrift (n.) Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend mone unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching].
Thriftily (adv.) In a thrifty manner.
Thriftily (adv.) Carefully; properly; becomingly.
Thriftiness (n.) The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
Thriftless (a.) Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs.
Thrifty (a.) 節儉的，節約的；茁壯的；茂盛的 Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.
Thrifty (a.) Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as, a thrifty farmer or mechanic.
Thrifty (a.) Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.
Thrifty (a.) Secured by thrift; well husbanded.
Thrifty (a.) Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming.
Thrill (n.) A warbling; a trill.
Thrill (v. t.) A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
Thrilled (imp. & p. p.) of Thrill.
Thrilling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrill.
Thrill (v. t.) 使激動，使顫動 To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
Thrill (v. t.) Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
Thrill (v. t.) To hurl; to throw; to cast.
Thrill (v. i.) 震顫，抖顫，激動 To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering; as, a sharp sound thrills through the whole frame.
Thrill (v. i.) To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
Thrill (n.) 震顫，激動，刺激性，一陣激動 A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.
Thrill (n.) A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a thrill of horror; a thrill of joy.
Thrillant (a.) Piercing; sharp; thrilling.
Thriller (n.) 使人毛骨悚然的東西（或人）；引起激動的人（或物）；恐怖小說（或電影等）；探險小說（或電影等） One that thrills, especially a sensational or suspenseful book, story, play, or movie.
Thrilling (a.) Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance.
Throng (imp.) of Thring.