think 
In this development i"f srii'litillr ithiral notliimi], rrll- 
Ki"H i:l flinx<'llH KIM Will Mil tin- rl Ideal tfllllk : HIM I* exist 
ill men :ilnr ami an- th"'jht into tin; wntl<l. 
.V. !/ I'ri/ifi-ton lii'i'., I. 152. 
To think little of, to think nothing of, to m:.k- mil.- 
or no account of; have little or no hMltauon about: a-, 
In; think* nothing of walking his thirty miles a day. 7V 
think no i,n>,,' itf is a qutisi-eonipttrutive form of to think 
IKithilrl <>l. 
Tin- \\ rstrni people, apparently //i//iA- no more of throw- 
ing down ;i ruilroud, if they want to go anywhere, than a 
eiMtsel VatiVe l'.:l- I >'l Mel line* of taking Illl Illlileellst H 1 1 1 ei I 
walk ariosH eonntry. Harper's Mti<j., LXXVI. 'jofi. 
To think one's penny silver. See penny. To think 
out. i") To gain a clear roncc-|>tiun or uniU-rstRliding of, 
liy following a line of thought. 
Jcvonn'a idea of Identity is very difficult; I can hardly 
suppose it to be th"i'<tlif <"'. 
II. Boeanquet, Mind, XIII. 300. 
(o) To devise ; plan ; project. 
It is at least possible that if an attempt to Invade Eng- 
land on carefully thought-out tines were made, the world 
would be equally surprised by the result. 
HirtnvjIMy Ree., N. S., XLIII. 166. 
(r) To solve by process of thought : as, to think out a chess 
problem. To think scorn oft. See ocorii. To think 
small beer of. See forri.=Syn. 6. To Judge, suppose, 
hold, count, account. See conjecture. 
II. (utmiis. 1. To exercise the intellect, as 
in apprehension, judgment, or inference; exer- 
cise the cognitive faculties in any way uot in- 
volving outward observation, or the passive 
reception of ideas from other minds. In this 
sense- the verb think is often followed, by on, "/. about, 
etc., with the name of the remote object sought to be 
understood, recalled, appreciated, or otherwise Investi- 
gated by the mental process. 
Nothlnge lefte the! vn-tolde that the! cowde on thenke. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), II. 370. 
Thijnke ouer thl synnos be-fore domic and of thl freeltes 
that thou fallls In like day. 
llampvle. Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 30. 
And inakith his herte as hard as stoon ; 
Thanne thenkith he not on heuen blie. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 92. 
How we shall carry ourselves in this business Is only to 
be thought upon. Delcker and Webster, Northward Ho, i. 1. 
MnrMr thought the gudewife to hersell, 
Yet ne'er a word she spak. 
Get up and Bar the Door (Child's Ballads, VIII. 127). 
And Peter called to niliul the word that Jesus said unto 
him. . . . And when he thought thereon, lie wept. 
Mark xiv. 72. 
As I observed that this truth I thini, hence I am was 
BO certain and of such evidence that no ground of doubt, 
however extravagant, conld be alleged by the Sceptics 
capable of shaking it, I concluded that I might, without 
scruple, accept It as the first principle of the Philosophy 
of which I was In search. 
Descartes, Discourse on Method (tr. by Veltch), p. 33. 
Light 
Sordello rose to think now ; hitherto 
Ho had perceived. Browning, Sordetlo. 
To think is pre-eminently to detect similarity amid di- 
versity. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 331. 
When scarce aught could give him greater fame, 
He left the world still thinking on his name. 
WOliaM Mvrrit, Earthly Paradise, I. 427. 
2. To imagine: followed by o/or OH. 
And he had also In his Gardyn nllc maner of Foules and 
of Bestes, that ony man myghte thrnke on, for to have pley 
or desport to beholde hem. Mandecille, Travels, p. 278. 
TiM, I say, their Misfortune not to have Thought of an 
Alphabet. Lister, Journey to Paris, p. 49. 
3. To attend (on); fasten the mind (ou): fol- 
lowed by of. 
That we can at any moment tliink of the same thing 
which at any former moment we thought of is the ultimate 
law of our intellectual constitution. 
W. Jamet, Prin. of Psychology, II. 290. 
4. To entertain a sentiment or opinion (in a 
specified way): with of: as, to tliink highly of 
a person's abilities. 
But now I forbear, lest any man should think of me 
above that which he seeth me to be. 2 Cor. xii. 6. 
Think of me as you please. Shak., T. N.. v. 1. 317. 
Justice she thought o/as a thing that might 
Balk some desire of hers. 
H'illi'iM Morrii, Earthly Paradise, III. 104. 
6. To have a (specified) feeling (for); be af- 
fected (toward) ; especially, to have a liking or 
fondness: followed by of. 
.Marie Hamilton 's to the kirk gane, 
\YT riblH)ns in her hair; 
The King thought mair o' Marie Hamilton 
Than ony that were there. 
The Queen'i itarie (Child's Ballads, III. 115). 
To think good. See wood. To think long, (o) To 
long ; yearn : usually followed by after or for. 
Aftir his lone me thrnkith long, 
For lie hath inyne ful dere y-boii3te. 
Iliiinns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 9. 
Have I thotiiiht ti>n;r to see this morning's face, 
And doth it give me such a sight as this? 
Shak., R. and J., iv. 5. 41. 
Ae bit I canno' eat, father, . . . 
I ill I *er my inithri and slater dear, 
Kor lany for them I think. 
r<;i.-/ Akin (Child's Ballads, I. 185). 
MM 
(b) To think tin- timr IMIIK; lieeonie wi-m-y or impatient, 
i -I" eially in \vailiiiu fur s., mi-thing. 
I'.nt gin ye like to ware the time, then ye 
How u' the matter stood shall vlvely see ; 
"I'w ill may be keep us baith fiae thinking long. 
Ron, Ilelenore, p. W. (Jamittmi.) 
[Obsolete or provincial In )>oth senses.} 
Syn. 1. To contemplate, reason. 
think 1 (thingk), . [< W/i;i/.', r.] A thinking; 
thought. 
He thinks nmny a long think. 
Brvmung, Ring and Book, VII. 914. 
think- (thingk), v. i. [< ME. thinktii, thaiken. 
also assibilated tliinclieii, lltitnclten (pret. tltukle, 
thugte, tl<ztt; tltatiltte), < AS. thyiican = OS. 
tlniiikiitii = OFries. thiiika, thiuxziu, tinsit = 
OHO. dunclian, MHO. diinken, G. dunktii = !<( -1. 
thykkjn = Sw. tycka = Dan. tykkes = Goth. 
thiiilkjan, seem, appear: see think 1 , with which 
think'* has been more or less confused.] 1. To 
seem; appear: with indirect object (dative). 
[Rare except in met/links, methougltt.] 
If It be wykke, a wonder thynketk me, 
Whenne every torment and adverslte. 
That cometh of him, may to me savory thynke. 
Chaucer, Trolltu, 1. 405. 
Ye thenke as that ye were in a dreme, and I mervelle 
moche of youre grete wfsdome where it is bc-come. 
Mrrtin (E. E. T. S.), 11. 228. 
The beggers craft thynkynge to them inoott good. 
Barclay, Ship of Fools, I. 303. 
The watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the fore- 
most Is like the running of Ahlmaaz. 2 Sam. xvill. 27. 
2f. To seem good. 
All his (Priam's) sonnes to sle with sleght of your honde ; 
Thaire riches to robbe, & there rife goodis ; 
And no lede for to lyue, but that horn selfe [i. e., to the 
Greeks themselves] thinff<\ 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), I. 4486. 
thinkable (thing'ka-bl), . [< think l + -<ti>le.] 
Capable of being thought ; cogitable ; conceiv- 
able. 
A general relation becomes thinkable, apart from the 
many special relations displaying it, only as the faculty 
of abstraction develops. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 1 488. 
thinker (thing'ker), n. [< think 1 + *!. J One 
who thinks ; especially, one who has cultivated 
or exercised to an unusual extent the powers 
of thought. 
A Thinker; memor. Cath. Any., p. 383. 
The Democrltlcks and Epicureans did Indeed suppose 
all humane cogitations to In- caused or produced by the 
Incursion of corporeal atoms upon the thinker. 
Cuduvrth, Intellectual System, p. 781. 
He considered himself a thinker, and was certainly of a 
thoughtful turn, but, with his own path to discover, had 
perhaps hardly yet reached the point where an educated 
man begins to think. llatrthorne. Seven Gables, xii. 
thinking (thing'king), H. [< ME. "thenking, 
thenching ; verbal u. of think*, r.] 1. The men- 
tal operation performed by one who thinks. 
Thinking, In the propriety of the English tongue, signi- 
fies that sort of operation of the mind about its ideas 
wherein the mind is active. 
Locke, Human Understanding, II. i\. 1. 
2. The faculty of thought; the mind. 
Has Page any brains? hath he any eyes? hath he any 
thinking f Shak., M. W. of W., ill. 2. 31. 
3. That which is thought; a thought, idea, be- 
lief, opinion, notion, or the like. 
I prithee, speak to me as to thy Mnkingi. 
Stak., Othello, ill. S. 131. 
The idea of the perpetuity of the Roman Empire entered 
deeply Into the Christian thinking of the middle ages. 
0. P. t'ifher. Begin, of Christianity, p. 41. 
thinkingly (thing'king-H), arfc. With thought 
or reflection ; consciously ; deliberately, 
thinly (thin'li), ativ. [< tltinl + -fy2.] In a 
thin manner; with little thickness or depth; 
sparsely; slightly; not substantially. 
At the unexpected sight of him |his brother], Elidure, 
himself also then but thinly accompanied, runns to him 
with open Arms. Miiton, Hist. Eng., I. 
The West Is new, vast, and thinly peopled. 
D. Webtter, Speech, Plttsburg, July, 1833. 
The characters are thinly sketched, the situations at 
once forced and conventional. 
Xiaeteenth Century, XXIV. 586. 
thinner (thin'er), n. [< /Aiw 1 + -eri.] One who 
or that which thins. 
thinness (thin'nes), . [< ME. thynnesse, < AS. 
tlii/itnys, < thynnc, thin: see thin 1 and -M*M.] 
The state or property of being thin. 
Like those toys 
Of glassy bubbles, which the gamesome boys 
Stretch to so nice a thinnas through a quill. 
Donne, Progress of the Soul, ill. 
thinnify (thin'i-fi), <. t. : l>rct. and pp. tliiuni- 
lit'il. ppr. Iliini/ifi/iiii/. [< f/n'i + -i'-///.] To 
iniikc thin. [Rare.] 
thio-arsenic 
The In art doth ill its left side ventricle so thiniti.li/ the 
blood that it thereby obtains the name of spiritual. 
I'.'./nhiirt. tr. of Rabelais, ill. I. 
thinnishdliiii'ifli), <(. [< //n// 1 + -//<'. ] Some- 
what thin. 
ThinocoridaB (iliin-<>-k<>r'i-di'). . jil. [XL.. < 
'I'lnoiM-iii-iiK + -iil/e.] A family of liniii-olinr 
and somewhat clmradrio- 
morphic birds of South 
America, represents I liy 
the genera ZMMMWM and 
.l/lii/li.--. Their nearest rela- 
tives are the sheathbllls, with 
which they have been combined 
In the family Chumididje. The 
palatal structure is peculiar in 
the broadly rounded vomer, the 
form and connections of which 
recall the eglthognathous pal- 
ate ; there are no naslpteryuolds ; 
the nasals are schizorhinal ; sn- 
perorbital fossteare present ; the 
carotids are two in number; and 
the ambiens, femorocaiidal, sem- 
Itendlnosns, and their accesso- 
ries are present. In general out- 
ward appearance these birds re- 
semble quails or partridges, and 
they were formerly considered to 
be gallinaceous rather than llmlcoline. They nest on the 
ground, and lay colored eggs. There are two or three spe- 
cies of each of the genera, of southern parts of the conti- 
nent, extending Into the tropics only in elevated regions. 
The birds have been singularly called trinyoid yrouge. 
thinocorine (thi-iiokVi-riu), . Characteristic 
of or pertaining to the Thinocoridte. Stand. Xitt. 
Hint., II. 92. 
Thinocorus (thi-nok'6-rus), u. [NL. (Eseh- 
scholtz, 1829), also TlnochoriiH (Lesson, 1830), 
also Tliiiiocliorus (Agassiz, 1846), also Tliyini- 
ehorus, Tliinocoris; prop. "Thinocoryx, < Gr. Hiy 
(6tv-), the shore, + nopvf, the crested lark.] 
The leading genus of Thinocoritlir : the lark- 
plovers, as T. ruiiiieiroms, the gachita, of the 
<* 
%g*3i 
h.iif times tuiural 
/*. prcmaoiury; mx r . 
maxilbpalatinc : TO. IvoaJ 
""'"" roun.it.1 off in rmm : 
' "" : ' 
l.ark-plover { 7 hino(i>rt<s in^mt. 
Argentine Republic, Chili, and other southerly 
parts of the Neotropical region. This singular bird 
Is common on dry open plains. In flocks. On the ground 
it resembles a quail, but Its flight is more like that of 
a snipe. It nests on the ground, and lays pale stone-gray 
eggs heavily marked with light and dark chocolate-brown 
spots. Other species are described, as /'. inyge, but they 
are all much alike. The genus is also called Ocypetes{or 
Oiypetet) and Ityt. 
thinolite (thin'6-llt), . [< Gr. ft'c (Otv-), shore, + 
/./(tef, stone.] A pseudomorphous tufa-like de- 
posit of calcium carbonate, crystalline in form. 
It is found In great quantities on the shores of Pyramid 
Lake, Nevada, and at other points within the area of the 
great Quaternary lake called Lake Lahontan. Its original 
character is as yet uncertain. 
thin-skinned i tlii n'ski ml). . 1. Having a thin 
skin; hence, unduly sensitive; easily offended ; 
irritable. 
Ring's vanity was very thin-tikinned, his selfishness 
easily wounded. Thackeray, Philip, Iv. 
2. Having merely a thin superstratum of good 
soil : said of laud. Hull! in II. 
thin-skinnedness (thin'skind-nes), . The 
state or quality of being thin-skinned ; ovi r- 
seusitiveness. 
This too great susceptibility, or lliinMnnednet*, as It 
has been called, is not confined to us. 
/.. C<us, France, its King, etc. (ed. l-tl\ p. .M. 
thio-acid (thi-o-as'id), M. [< Gr. Briuv, sulphur. 
+ E. a fid.] A designation somewhat loosely 
applied to certain acids derived from others 
by the substitution of sulphur for oxygen, gen- 
erally but uot always in the hydroxyl group. 
thio-arsenic (thi-o-ar'se-nik), a. [< Gr. tff/or, 
sulphur. + apacvik6v, arsenic.] Contaiiiing sul- 
phur and arsenic: applied only to certain ar- 
senic acids (see below). Thlo-arsenlc add, an 
arsenic acid in which sulphur may be regarded as sul>- 
slituted for oxygen. There are three of these acids, not 
known in the free state, but having well-defined salts. 
Their formula are ll|As.S : , I|..AsS : ., 11 
