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- English Word Thilk Definition That same; this; that.
- English Word Thill Definition One of the two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.
- English Word Thill Definition The floor of a coal mine.
- English Word Thiller Definition The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.
- English Word Thimble Definition 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.
- English Word Thimble Definition Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
- English Word Thimble Definition A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
- English Word Thimble Definition A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
- English Word Thimble Definition A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
- English Word Thimble Definition 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.
- English Word Thimbleberry Definition A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
- English Word Thimbleeye Definition The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
- English Word Thimbleful Definition As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
- English Word Thimblefuls Definition of Thimbleful
- English Word Thimblerig Definition A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
- English Word Thimblerig Definition 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.
- English Word Thimblerigged Definition of Thimblerig
- English Word Thimblerigger Definition One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
- English Word Thimblerigging Definition of Thimblerig
- English Word Thimbleweed Definition Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.
- English Word Thin Definition 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.
- English Word Thin Definition Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
- English Word Thin Definition 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.
- English Word Thin Definition Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
- English Word Thin Definition Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
- English Word Thin Definition Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- English Word Thin Definition Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
- English Word Thin Definition Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
- English Word Thin Definition To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
- English Word Thin Definition To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.