thank 
II. t iiitriiH.i. To give thanks. 
Which we toke IIH denouiu t- u roinlr. ;ui<l Ituiiike ac- 
cordyng. Hir It. Uuijlforde, I'ylKOmw p. '''> 
thanker (th.mg'kiT), . [< (///. + -<!.] One 
who "ivos llninks; a giver of thanks. 
I hopu he may long cuntliiue to feel all the value of such 
a reconciliation, lie is a very liberal thanktr. 
Jane Awttvu, F.mimt, It. 
thankest, . [ME., gen. of tlnuil, IIM-I| ndvc-r- 
biully with the poss. pronouns, meaning 'of liis, 
her, their, my, tny, your, our accord': see tlninl;. \ 
A form used only in I he phi-uses hi.*, tliy, etc., 
l/iinil.-cs, of liis, thy, etc., accord; voluntarily. 
Kul sooth i seycl that love ne lordshipe 
\Vol might, liis thankfs, have no felaweshipe. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 768. 
Thyne herto shal so ravysshed be 
That nevere thou woldest, ltd thankis, lete 
Ne removen for to see that swete. 
Rom. of Ike Rote, 1.2463. 
thankful (thangk'fiil), a. [< ME. "thankful, < 
AS. thancfull, < thane, thank: see thank and 
-ful.] 1. Impressed with a sense of kindness 
received, and ready to acknowledge it; grate- 
ful. 
? unto him, and bless his name. Pa. c. 4. 
At I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee 
for't. SAo*.,T. N.,iv. 2.89. 
It is no improper Comparison that a thankful Heart is 
like a Box of precious Ointment, which keeps the Smell 
long after the Thing Is spent. //...//, Letters, ii. 23. 
2. Expressive of thanks; given or done in token 
of thanks. 
Give the gods a tltankful sacrifice. 
Shot., A. and C., 1. 2. 167. 
Again and again the old soldier said his thankful prayers, 
and blessed his benefactor. Thackeray, Philip, xvii. 
3f. Deserving thanks; meritorious; acceptable. 
Tumaccus thought him selfe happie that he had pre- 
sented owre men with such thankeful gyftes and was ad- 
mitted to theyr frendshippe. 
Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, 
[ed. Arber, p. 141). 
Thank may you have for such a thankful part. 
Sir P. Sidney (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 550). 
4t. Pleasing; pleasant. 
They of late years have taken this pastime vp among 
them, many times gratifying their ladies, and often times 
the princes cf the realme, with some such thankfull nov- 
eltle. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, Ii. (Danes.) 
= Syn. 1. See grateful. 
thankfully (thangk'ful-i), adv. [< ME. tltnnl;- 
fitltirhe; < thankful + -lyt.] In a thankful 
manner; with grateful acknowledgment of fa- 
vors or kindness received. 
His ring I do accept most thankfully. 
Shak., M. of V., iv. 2. 9. 
thankfulness (thangk'ful-nes), n. The state or 
character of being thankful : acknowledgment 
of a favor received : gratitude. 
thankingt, n. [< ME. thanlynge, < AS. thancung, 
< tliaiifian, thank: see thank, v.~] An expres- 
sion of thanks. 
Therto yeve hem such thankyntjes. 
Ram, of the ROK, 1. 6041. 
Thanne he wente prevylly, alle be nyghte, tille he cam 
to his folk, that weren fulle glad of his comynge, and 
maden grete thankynges to God Inmortalle. 
Mandfvitte, Travels, p. 227. 
thankless (thaugk'les), a. [< thank + -less.} 
1. Unthankful; ungrateful; not acknowledg- 
ing kindness or benefits. 
That she may feel 
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child ! Shak., Lear, i. 4. 311. 
2. Not deserving thanks, or not likely to be re- 
warded with thanks: as, a thankless task. 
But whereunto these thankless tales in vain 
Do I rehearse? Surrey, .Eneid, ii. 125. 
The Sun but thankless shines that shews not thee. 
Congreve, Tears of Amaryllis. 
= SyTL See grateful. 
thanklessly (thangk'les-li), adv. In a thank- 
less manner; without thanks; ungratefully; 
in a grudging spirit. 
The will of God may be done thanklessly. 
Bp. Hall, Jehu with Jehoram and Jezebel. 
thanklessness (thangk'les-nes), . The state 
or character of being thankless ; ingratitude. 
Not to have written then seems little less 
Than worst of civil vices, thnnklrxxiirt*. 
i>imne, To the Countess of Bedford. 
= Syn. Sea grateful. 
thanklyt (thangk'li), adi: [< thiink + -ly*.~\ 
Thankfully. [Rare.] 
He giueth frankly what we thtiiMn spend. 
Sylrexter, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
thank-offering (tliangk'of er-ing). ii. An offer- 
ing made in ancient Jewish rites as an expres- 
sion of gratitude to God; a peace-offering. 
6265 
A thousand thank offering* an <lu>- 1>< tii.ii I'tovidence 
which has delivered our tuition from these absurd iniqui- 
ties. '. 
thanksgivet dhaiif-'ks-^iv'). r. t. [A back-for- 
inittion, < tliiiiil.sf/iriii;/.] To offer in token of 
thankfulness. 
To thanks/ice or blesse a thing In a way to a sacred use 
he took U> be an offering of it to God. 
J. Mede, Diatribe, p. S3. (Latham.) 
thanksgiver (tlmngks-giv'er), . [< thank*, pi. 
of tlmtik, + ijin r. \ One who gives thanks, or 
acknowledges a benefit, a kindness, or a mercy. 
Wherefore we flnd (our never-to-be-forgotten) example, 
the devout thanksyioer, David, continually declaring tbe 
great price he set upon the divine favours. 
Harrow, Works, I. vlli. 
thanksgiving (thangks-giv'ing), n. [< thanks, 
pi. of titanic, + giving.'] 1. The act of render- 
ing thanks or of expressing gratitude for favors, 
benefits, or mercies; an acknowledgment of 
benefits received: used in the Old Testament 
for acknowledgment by the act of offering, 
If he offer It for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with 
the sacrifice of thanbujimny unleavened cakes. 
Lev. vii. 12. 
Kvery creature of God Is good, and nothing to be re- 
fused, If It be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. 
2. A public celebration of divine goodness ; spe- 
cifically [cop.], in the United States, Thanks- 
giving day (see the phrase below). 
Great as the preparations were for the dinner, every- 
thing was so contrived that not a soul in the house should 
be kept from the morning service of Thanksgiving in the 
church, and from listening to the Thanksgiving sermon, 
In which the minister was expected to express his views 
freely concerning the politics of the country, and the 
state of things In society generally, in a somewhat more 
secular vein of thought than was deemed exactly appro- 
priate to the Lord's day. //. B. Stuwe, Oldtown, p. 340. 
3. A form of words expressive of thanks to God ; 
a grace. 
There 's not a soldier of us all that. In the thanksgiving 
before meat, do relish the petition well that prays for 
peace. Shak., M. for M., i. 2. 15. 
General Thanksgiving, in the Book of Common Prayer, 
a form of thanksgiving, preceding the last two prayers 
of morning or evening prayer or of the litany, for the 
general or ordinary blessings of life : so called as distin- 
guished from the forms provided for special persons and 
occasions.- Thanksgiving day, a day set apart for a 
public celebration of divine goodness ; specifically, in the 
United States, an annual festival appointed by proclama- 
tion, and held usually on the last Thursday of November. 
It is celebrated with religious services and social festivi- 
ties. The first celebration was held by the Plymouth Col- 
ony in 1621, and the usage soon became general In New 
England. After the revolution the custom gradually ex- 
tended to the Middle States, and later to the West, and 
more slowly to the' South. Since 1863 its observance 
has been annually recommended by the President. The 
Great Thanksgiving, in early and Oriental liturgies, a 
form ascribing praiseto God for the creation of the world 
and his dealings with man, now represented by the pre- 
face and part of the canon. See preface, 2. 
thanksworthyt (thangks'wer'Tiu), a. Same as 
thankworthy. 
This seemeth to us in our case much thanksworthy. 
Bp. Ridley, in Bradford's Letters (Parker Soc., 1863), II. 168. 
thankworthiness (thangk'wer'THi-nes), . 
The state of being worthy of thanks. 
thankworthy (thangk'wer'THi), a. [=G.dank- 
wtirdig; as thank + worthy."] Worthy of or de- 
serving thanks; entitled to grateful acknow- 
ledgment. 
Nowe wherein we want desert were a thanltewarthy 
labour to expresse ; but, if I knew, J should haue mended 
my selfe. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
For this Is thankworthy. It a man for conscience toward 
God endure grief, suffering wrongfully. 1 Pet. IL 19. 
thank-you-ma'am (thangk'u-mam), n. [Also 
thank-you-mam; so called in humorous allusion 
to the sudden bobbing of the head (as if making 
a bow of acknowledgment) caused by the jolt- 
ing when a vehicle passes over the ridge.] A 
low ridge of earth formed across a road on the 
face of a hill to throw to one side downflowing 
rain-water, and thus to prevent the wasting of 
the road. It also serves to check downward movement 
of a vehicle and afford relief to the horses both in going 
up and in going down the hill. Also called water-bar. 
[Colloq.,U. S.] 
We jogged along very comfortable and very happy, 
down steep hills crossed by abrupt and Jerky thnnk-ymt- 
mains. Seribner's Mag., VUI. 565. 
thannah (than'S), n. Same as tana 1 . 
thannet, <idr. A Middle English form of than 
and thru. 
Thapsia (thap'si-a), n. [NL.. (Tournefort, 
1700), < L. tlinpsia,"< Or. Qa-tyia, Sdywc, a plant 
used to dye yellow, said to have been T. Gar- 
j/iiiiifa, brought from the island or peninsula 
of Thapsus. Sicily; < Bail/or, L. Thu/i.tn.*. Thap- 
sus.] 1. A genus of umbelliferous plants, of 
the tribe IMXI i-/>ilii'tf. It is characterized by a fruit 
with lateral secondary ridges dilated into broad wings. 
Thargelia 
the other ridges filiform, ml the seed Hat. There are 4 
specie- tlU \li'llt>-n:ilir:i]i region. , >|., , hilly to 
tlie v, ' st. mil ext'-niiiiiK to the inland of Madeira, u : 
species have a hard and often tall and conspicuous ihrabby 
i-.iml.-x. They are perennials, or perhaps sometimes bicn 
1, the upper part of the stem with the umbel of Tftaftia Garfanita; 
a, a leaf; a, the fruit. 
nials, bearing pinnately decompound leaves with plnnatl- 
titl segments, and yellowish, whitish, or purplish flowers 
In compound umbels of many rays, usually without in- 
volucre and with the Involucels small or wanting. For 
T. Garganica, see deadly carrot (under carrot), also atadul- 
cit, later), resin of thapsia and btm-iuifa resin (under rerin). 
For T. decipiens, a remarkably palm-like species, see black 
parsley, under parsley. For T. (ilonizia) edulis, see carrot- 
tree. 
2. [/. c.] A plant of this genus. 
This thapsia, this wermoote, and elebre, 
Cucumber wild, and every bitter kynde 
Of hri In- is nought for hem. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. *.), p. :{-. 
Thapsia plaster. See plaster. 
thar ! (THar), adv. An obsolete or dialectal form 
of there. 
thar 2 t, r. See tharfl. 
thar 3 (thar), n. [Also thaar and tahr; E. Ind.] 
A wild goat of the Himalayas, Copra Jemlaica, 
also called imo and serow. The small horns curve 
directly backward, and the male has a mane of long hair 
on the neck and shoulders. 
tharborought (thar'bur-6), n. A corruption of 
third-borough. 
I myself reprehend his own person, for I am his grace's 
tharborouyh. Shak., L. L. L., i. 1. 185. 
tharcake (thar'kak), . [Also thardcake; for 
'tluirfcakc. < tharf* + cake 1 .] A cake made 
from meal, treacle, and butter, eaten on the 
night of the 5th of November. [Prov. Eng.] 
tharf't, P. t. and . [Also darf; < ME. tharf 
(often thar, dar, by confusion with forms of 
dare), inf. thurfen, < AS. thearf, inf. thurfan = 
OFries. thurf, inf. thurra = OHG. durfan = Icel. 
thurfa = Sw. tarfea = Goth, thaurban, have 
need, = D. durven = G. dvrfen, dare : see dare 1 . ] 
To need; lack. 
Whanne these tyding were told to themperour of rome 
he was gretly a-greued, no gome thort him blame. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1070. 
Tf we mon trwe restore, 
Thenne thar mon drede no wathe. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.X 1. 2354. 
Neee, I pose that he were, 
Thow thruste [pret.] nevere ban the more fere. 
Chaueer, Trollus, ill. 572. 
tharf 2 !, a. [< ME. therf, < AS. theorf= OFries. 
therre = MD. derf= OHG. derb, MHG. derp = 
Icel. thjarfr, unleavened.] Unleavened. Wyrlif. 
Also the! make here Sacrement of the Awteer of Thrrf 
Bred. Mamlerillt, Travels, p. IS. 
Thargelia (thar-ge'li-a), n. )>l. [< Gr. Oaprflia 
(sc. lepa), a festival of Apollo and Artemis (see 
def.), < Odm^Aof, equiv. to 6a).voioc,, in neut. pi. 
BaU'aia, offerings of first-fruits made to Arte- 
mis.] In Gr. until/., a festival celebrated at 
Athens on the 6th and 7th of the month Tharge- 
lion, in honor of Delian Apollo and of Artemis. 
On the first day of the festival (probably not every year) 
there was an expiatory sacrifice of two persons, for the 
men and the women of the state respectively, the victims 
being condemned criminals ; on the second day there were 
a procession and a contest for a tripod between cyclic 
choruses provided by ehoragi. 
Cases of adoption were very frequent among the Greeks 
ami Romans. . . . In the interest of the next of kin, whose 
rights were affected by a case of adoption, it was provided 
that the registration should be attended with certain for- 
malities and that it should take place at a fixed lime 
the festival of the Thargelia. Bncyc. Brit., I. 163. 
