they 
Wlthlokke* eiiillc lenrledl us Hi'-:/ were Icyd In nresse. 
Chiiurrr, (JiMi. I'rul. lot 1 . T. <cd. Morris), 1. 81. 
Thei dldu Ills comaundcincnt, :iml i to-gedcr, thri 
thru and two stiuyrcs only. Merlin (K. 1'.. T. ,s.x iii M... 
They of lUly salute you. Hcb. xlll. 24. 
I hese .lie //,. K Vlhieh eaillc "III iif tfiva' lribnl:llioa. 
Kev. vli. 14. 
(ft) Poss. MrtV. Of or hi'lonaing to thorn : now always |.iv. 
ceiling the ilium, with the value of an attributive adjec- 
tin. 
Pantasilia come pertly with hir pure iinii.liics, . . . 
(All Ihiiin- colouria hy form' were of clcane white). 
IMnirtwn <>j TniH (E. E. T. 8.X 1. 10970. 
Some glory i" their liirth, some in tlu-ir iikill. 
Sunn- in '/!<! wr:ilth. MHIII- in their bodies' f' >i > > 
Shak., Sonnets, xci. 
As If (Sod were so beholden to us for our Rood deeds as 
to be bound for llu-ir sakes to forgive us our 111 ones ! 
Bp. Atierbury, Sermons. I. II. 
.Sometimes fonnerly used alone, with the value now given 
to ilieirt. 
M> clothinn keeps me full as warm as (An'r, 
My meates unto my taste as pleasing are. 
Wither, Motto, C 8 I), repr. (.Yam.) 
(c) Poss. theim. That which belongs to them: always used 
without the noun, and having the value of a nominative 
or an objective. 
Belfagor and Belyal and Belssabub als 
Heyred hem as hyjly as lumen wer thai/ret. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), II. 1527. 
This love of theirs myself have often seen. 
Shale., T. O. of V., lit 1. 24. 
Nothing but the name of teal appears 
'Twlxt our best actions and the worst of thein. 
SirJ. n, a l:ii in. Cooper's H ill. 
(d) ObJ. (ace.), MOM. 
Bot If we may with any gyn 
Mak Main to do dedly syn ; 
Than with thain wil I wun and wake. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. .), p. 96. 
h'.n cilery off Maim was full wysc and sage. 
limn, nf I'artenay (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1824. 
Let him and them agree it ; they are able to answer for 
themselves. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 183SX II. 236. 
() ObJ. (dat.), fAnn. 
Give than wlue to drink. Jer. XXXT. 2. 
(/) Used for those. [Now provincial, Eng. and U. 8.) 
As if between them twain there were no strife. 
Shot., Lucrece, 1. 405. 
Let they ministers preach till they 'in black In the face. 
Kiivjuley, Westward Ho, xxx. 
Like Hi, in big hotels 
Where they shift plates, au' let ye live on smells. 
totrelt, Bigfow Papers, 2d ser., II. 
They say, H is said : then meaning persons generally. 
We must not run, they i)/, into sudden extreams. 
.Vttenn, Reformation In Eng., II. 
They M<J he will come far ben, that lad ; wha kens but 
he may come to be Sub- Prior himself? 
Scott, Monastery, xiii. 
6987 
took part in characler. with boisterous mirth 
and miiHtc, and bearing attributes of the god; 
sometimes a political, commercial, social, or 
benevolent association or gild (i/wn'or); specifi- 
cally, the mythological band of nymphs, mae- 
nads, satyrs, etc., forming the personal cortege 
of Dionysus, and often represented in sculp- 
ture and painting. See Itni'i-lmn. 
Thibaudia ithi-ba'di-ji), . [ML. (Pavon, 1818), 
named after a French botanist, Tliilinml do 
Chanvallon, who traveled in the West Indies 
in I7f)l.] 1. A genus of gamopetalous pi: 
type of the tribe Thibaudiefem the order !'"<- 
i-iiii/irex. It is characterized hy racemose flowers with 
small bracts, a short calyx-tube, with live-toothed border, 
:incl ten elongated anthers, far surpassed by a membra 
nous extension into straight narrow tubes which open 
Icngthwiwhy chinks. The 2 species, T. floribwuia and T. 
Itchinclienn*, are natives of the Andes, the United States 
of Colombia, and Pcm. They are shrubs, sometimes witli 
high-climbing stems, bearing alternate evergreen entire 
l> ;i\es with very oblique veins, and numerous pedlcelled 
scarlet flowers In axillary crowded racemes, sometimes 
tipped with green or yellow. These and also a few species 
of related genera are known in cultivation as thibaii'li". 
2. [/. <.] A plant of this genus. 
Thibaudieae uhi-ba-di'e-e). . i>l. [Nl.. (Ben- 
thatn and Hooker, 1876), < ZSwNMM + -<?#.] 
A tribe of gamopetalous plants, of the order 
1'iin-iiiiiii-rfe. It Is characterized by rather large and 
usually thick and fleshy or coriaceous flowers with short 
fllaments which are commonly contiguous or connate. 
It Includes 17 genera, of which Thibaudia Is the type : 
principally mountain shrubs, many of them natives of 
thibet, Thibetan, etc. See tibet, etc. 
thible (tbib'l), H. [Also thibel, thicel, thceril, 
tlii-iril, theedk ; dial, variants of dibble 1 .'] 1. A 
dibble. Halliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A stick 
used for stirring broth, porridge, etc. ; a pot- 
stick. [Prov. Eng. or Scotch.] 
The thible ran round, and the . . . handfuls of meal 
fell Into the water. K. Bronte, Wuthering Heights, xiii. 
3f. A slice; a skimmer; a spatula. Imp. Diet. 
thick (thik), a. and . [< ME. thicke, thikkc, 
tln/kke, rarely thig, < AS. thicce = OS. OFries. 
th'ikki = MD. ditke, D. dik = MLG. dick = OHG. 
diechi, MHG. dik, dicke, G. dick = Icel. thykkr 
(older forms thjokkr or thjokkr) = 8w. tjok 
Dan. tyk (Uoth. not recorded); cf. Olr. tiug (< 
*tigu), thick. Cf. tight 1 .} I. a. 1. Having rel- 
atively great extent or depth from one surface 
to its opposite ; being relatively of great depth, 
or extent from side to side: opposed to thin. 
Thre hundred elne was It |the ark] long, 
Nalld and sperd, thiij and strong. 
llcnesi* and Exndut (E. E. T. S.), 1. 564. 
Thou art waxen fat; thou art grown thick. 
Deut. xxxli. IB. 
thick 
Hot* euer-more .rra|ih' u-kei. ami cries, 
" Where was Eualac?" the stoar was so thikke. 
Jo*i>h ../ Arimnili,, 1 1 . i:. I . s.x p. 18. 
slumber 
If the Sun Is incommodious, we have thick folding Shut- 
ters on the out-Side, and thin ones within, to prevent 
that X. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 198. 
said to be sometimes 4 feet round the curve, 
1 1 feet about the base, their tips spreading 3$ 
I'cet apart. The animal stands nearly 4 feet high at the 
shoulder. This sheep is a near relative of the argall and 
of the Rocky Mountain bighorn. It Inhabit* high hilly 
plains, runs with great speed, and is found in flocks of 
from 30 to 40, but is still very imperfectly known. 
thiasos, . See tliiiixiix. 
thiasote (thi'a-sot), H. [< Gr. 6Wur//f. a thin- 
sot e. < (liana , a band or company: sec tliiiixiix. ] 
\ member of or a participant in a thiasus. 
thiasUS, thlaSOS (thi'a-sus, -sos), . ; pi. tliiuxi 
(-si). [Gr. ft'ooof, a band or company isce del'. '. ] 
In (Jr. nntiq., a band or company assembled 
in honor of a divinity; especially, a Diouysiac 
band or procession iu which men and women 
they 2 t, eiij. and adv. A Middle English variant 
of tl<oiu/li. 
thian-shan (thian'shan'), [Named from a 
range of mountains in central Asia.] A cen- 
tral Asian wild sheep, Orf t>oti, notable for the 2. Having (a specified) measurement in a di- 
enormous size of the male's horns, which are rection perpendicular to that of the length and 
breadth; measuring (so much) between oppo- 
site surfaces: as, a board one inch thick. 
The walles of the gallery are about two yardes thiett at 
the least. Coryal, Crudities, I. S3. 
Of Fruits, he reckons the lacapucaya, like a pot, as big 
as a great bowle, two fingers thicke, with a couer on It, 
within full of Chesnuts. Punhat, Pilgrimage, p. 843. 
3. Having numerous separate parts or indi- 
viduals set or occurring close together; dense; 
compactly arranged. 
He is the pyes patronn and pntteth it In hire ere, 
That there the thorne Is (AiMwrt to buylden and bredc. 
fieri Plmeman (li), xii. 228. 
We supposed him some French mans sonne, because he 
had a MiVAv hlacke bush beard, and the Salvages seldome 
haue any at nil. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith'i Works, 1. 184. 
We caught another snow-storm, so Ihiek and blinding 
that we dared not venture out of the harbor. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 16. 
4. Having relatively great consistency; also, 
containing much solid matter in suspension or 
solution; approaching the consistency of a 
solid ; inspissated : as, thick cream ; thick paste ; 
often of liquids, turbid; muddy; cloudy. 
I can selle 
* Hothe dregges and draffe, and drawe it at on hole, 
ThUtkt ale and thinnc ale. Piero Pltncman(B), xix.398. 
Forth gusht a stream of gore blood thick. 
Spenter, F. Q., II. 1. 39. 
Make the gruel thick and slab. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 32. 
At the end, or snout, of the glacier this water issues 
forth, not indeed as a clear bright spring, but as a Mirilr 
stream laden with detritus. Hurley, Physiography, p. 161. 
5. Heavy; profound: intense; extreme; gretit. 
Mo>.>- sitlien held up is bond, 
And thikkf tlierknesse earn on that lond. 
Qenerii and Exodiu (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3102. 
Hangs upon mini 
Pericles, v. 1. 286. 
6. Oliscurc; not clear; , 'specially, laden with 
clouds or vapor; misty ; foggy : noting the at- 
mosphere, the weather, < tc. 
It continued thick and twlsterons all the night. 
U'iiillinqi, Hist. New Kngland, I. 22. 
Again the i-Tcnlng closes, in thick and sultry air; 
There 'i thunder on the mountains, the storm is gathering 
there'. Bryant, Count of (ireicir. 
7. Mentally dull; stupid; devoid of intelli- 
gence: as, to have a tliiek head. 
He a good wit ? hang him, baboon ! his wit 's as Mict as 
Tewksbury mustard. >/."*. 2 Me,, IV., il. 4. 262. 
What If you think our reasons thick, and our ground of 
separation mistaken'.' 1'enn, Liberty of Conscience, v. 
8. Mentally clouded; befogged; slow, weak, or 
defective in sense-perception, sometimes in 
moral perception : as, to be thick of sight, hear- 
ing, etc. : said of persons or of the organs of 
sense. 
The people muddied, 
Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers. 
Shak., Hamlet, Iv. 5. 82. 
My sight was ever thick ; 
. . tell me what thou uotest about the IUM. 
Shak., J. i : . T. 3. 21. 
I am thick of hearing, 
Still, when the wind blows southerly. 
ford. Broken Heart, II. 1. 
A cloudlike change. 
In passing, with a grosser film made thick 
These heavy, horny eyes. 
Tennyfon, St. Simeon Stylites. 
9. Indistinct in utterance; inarticulate; not 
clear. 
He rose and walked up and down the room, and Anally 
spoke In a Mi<*, husky voice, as one who pants with emo- 
tion. H, B. Stone, Oldtown, p. 460. 
10. Abounding; filled; plentifully supplied: 
followed by Kith (formerly of or for). 
The Westerne shore by which we sayled we found all 
along well watered, bnt very mountanous and barren, 
the vallies very fertill, but cxtreame thicke of small wood 
so well as trees. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith' t Works, I. 176. 
His reign (Henry III.'s) was not onely long for continu- 
ance, flfty-slx years, but also thick jor remarkable muta- 
tions happening therein. Fuller, Ch. Hist., III. iv. 24. 
The air was thick ut'M falling snow. 
Bryant, Two Travellers. 
She looked up at Eve, her eyes thick irith tears. 
Harper', May., LXXVI1I. 44P. 
11. Numerous; plentiful; frequent; crowded. 
Thei were so Ihikke and so cntacched ech amonge other, 
that mo than a thousand till In to the river. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), IL 28C. 
These (Oxen and Klne] were . . . exceeding Ihiclre from 
the one end of the Market place ... to the other. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. Sf-. 
The brass hoof'd steeds tumultuous plunge and bound, 
And the Ihirk thunder beats the lab'rlng ground. 
J'ope, Iliad, xl. 19S. 
Lay me, 
When I shall die, within some narrow grave, 
Not by itself for that would be too proud 
But where such graves are thicket!. 
Bnnrning, Paracelsus. 
12. Being of a specified number; numbering. 
[Rare.] 
There is a guard of spies ten thick upon her. 
11. Jonson, Volpone, I. 1. 
13. Close in friendship; intimate. [Colloq.] 
He 
Could conjure, tell fortunes, and calculate tides, . . . 
And was thought to be thick with the Man in the Moon. 
Barham. Ingoldshy Legends, I. 270. 
Don't you be getting too tliirk with him he 's got his 
father's blood in him too. 
Genrge Eliot, Mill on the Floss, ii. 6. 
Half-thick file. See /fel . Thick coal, a bed of coal In 
the Dudley district, England, averaging about thirty feet 
in thickness, "a source of enormous wealth to the dis- 
trict <///(>. Thick focalold, homeoid. Intestine. 
See the nouns. Thick limestone. Same a* wor-iimc. 
ton*. Thick register. See retrutcri, 5 (6). Thick 
squall. See wpiaHl. Thick Stuff, in thip building, a 
general name for all planking above 4 inches in thickness. 
All the timber, Midr-tu/, and plank to lie fresh-cut. 
La*lett, Timber, p. 76. 
Thick 'un, a sovereign ; also, a crown, or five shillings. 
Sometimes written thiclntn. (Cant) 
I will send a few thictum to bring you 
If you like . 
. . to Start. ' 
Cornhillilaa., VI. 64*. 
If he feel that it were better for him to quaff the flow - 
ing howl, and he has a drought within him, and a friend 
or a thirk 'un to stand by him, he is a poor weak cross- 
grained fool to refuse. 
Percy Clarke, The New Chum in Australia, p. 143. 
Through thick and thin, over smooth or rough places ; 
with or without obstruction : despite nil opposition; un- 
waveringly ; steadily. 
