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Thrashing
() a. & n. from Thrash, v.
Thrasonical
() Of or pertaining to Thraso; like, or becoming to, Thraso; bragging; boastful; vainglorious.
Thraste
() of Thraste
Thrast
() of Thraste
Thraste
() To thrust.
Thrave
() Twenty-four (in some places, twelve) sheaves of wheat; a shock, or stook.
Thrave
() The number of two dozen; also, an indefinite number; a bunch; a company; a throng.
Thraw
() See Throse.
Thread
() 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.
Thread
() A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.
Thread
() The prominent part of the spiral of a screw or nut; the rib. See Screw, n., 1.
Thread
() Fig.: Something continued in a long course or tenor; a,s the thread of life, or of a discourse.
Thread
() Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.
Threaded
() of Thread
Threading
() of Thread
Thread
() To pass a thread through the eye of; as, to thread a needle.
Thread
() To pass or pierce through as a narrow way; also, to effect or make, as one's way, through or between obstacles; to thrid.
Thread
() To form a thread, or spiral rib, on or in; as, to thread a screw or nut.
Threadbare
() Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes.
Threadbare
() Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
Threadbareness
() The state of being threadbare.
Threaden
() Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet.
Threader
() A device for assisting in threading a needle.
Threader
() A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
Threadfin
() Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
Threadfish
() The cutlass fish.
Threadfish
() A carangoid fish (Caranx gallus, or C. crinitus) having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
Threadiness
() Quality of being thready.
Thread-shaped
() Having the form of a thread; filiform.
Threadworm
() Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.
Thready
() Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.
Thready
() Containing, or consisting of, thread.
Threaped
() of Threap
Threaping
() of Threap
Threap
() To call; to name.
Threap
() 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.
Threap
() To beat, or thrash.
Threap
() To cozen, or cheat.
Threap
() To contend obstinately; to be pertinacious.
Threap
() An obstinate decision or determination; a pertinacious affirmation.
Threat
() 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.
Threat
() To threaten.
Threatened
() of Threaten
Threatening
() of Threaten
Threaten
() 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.
Threaten
() 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.
Threaten
() To use threats, or menaces; also, to have a threatening appearance.
Threatener
() One who threatens.
Threatening
() a. & n. from Threaten, v.
Threatful
() Full of threats; having a menacing appearance.