thirled 
Tlmin- ITI s nhurte and whurppe, thaire een steep, 
Thaiiv iiH>rs tfii'i-lfil \vyile iind patent be. 
I'lillndius. HnslMindrlu (E. E. T. H.). p. l:i:(. 
thirling (ther'ling), M. [Also thurUiig; < ME. 
Iliiiiiitni/r. < AS. thi/rrliiiiii, verbal n. of 
U II.-, 
thirstineSS (tliers'ti-nesi. //. Tin' state of be- 
iin; thirsty ; tliirst. Hnili-i/. 1727. 
d), w. A iliiilectal form of thros- 
thirstless(therst'les),. [< f/n>< + -/<*.] Hav- 
ing no thirst. 
Thus as It falls out among men of thirstiest minds In 
their fortunes. 
Dp. Reynolds, On the Passions, p. ML (Latham.) 
thirstlewt, a. [ME. lliur.itli-ir; < thirst + -/ 
as in drunkrlnr.~\ Thirsty. Lydgutr, Minor 
Poems, p. 75. 
iiiinnif, \ ftu. iityi v, " " ;t , , 
.mi. perforate: see Mir/ 1 , r.J 1. The act of 
boring or perforating. 2. In mal-niiiiiiig, same 
as Wii'i'/ 1 , 2; in the lead-mines of the north of 
Kn^liind. a mark indicating the termination of 
;i Ml or pitch. K. Hunt. 
thirst (tlierst), n. [Early mod. E. or dial, also 
i/icii.s-/. tlirist; < ME. tlntr.it, thorst, thirst, also 
transposed thrixt, threat, thrust, < AS. thurst, thirsty '(thers'ti). a. [Early mod. E. and dial. 
tlutrsl = OS. thiir.it = D. dorst = MLG. LG. 
<toi:il OHG. MHG. G. durst = Icel. thorsti 
= Sw. Dan. tiii-xt = Goth, thaurstei, thirst; 
with formative -t (-</-), from the verb seen in 
Goth, tliaiirajati, imperg.. thirst (thaurseith mik, 
I thirst) ; whence also AS, thyrre = OS. thvrri 
= MD. dorre, D. dor = OHG. durri, MHG. diirrt; 
G. diirr = Icel. thurr Sw. torr = Dan. tor = 
Goth, thaursiis, dry, withered; akin to Goth. 
thairsan, be dry, = L. torrere (orig. *torsere), 
parch with heat (cf. terra (" tersa), dry ground, 
the earth), = Or. ripaeaOat, become dry (rtpoai- 
vetv, dry up, wipe up), = Skt. ^/ tarsh, thirst; 
cf. Ir. tart, thirst, drought, etc. From the L. 
source are ult. E. torrent, torrid, terra, terrene 1 , 
terrestrial, inter 1 , etc.] 1. A feeling of dry- 
ness in the mouth and throat; the uncomfort- 
able sensations arising from the want of fluid 
nutriment; the uneasiness or suffering occa- 
sioned by want of drink ; vehement desire for 
drink. The sensations of thirst are chiefly referred to 
the thorax and fauces, but the condition Is really one 
affecting the entire body. The excessive pains of thirst 
compared with those of hunger are due to the tact that 
the deprivation of liquids Is a condition with which all 
the tissues sympathize. Every solid and every fluid of 
the body contains water, and hence abstraction or dimi- 
nution of the watery constituents Is followed by a gen- 
eral depression of the whole system. Thirst Is a common 
symptom of febrile and other diseases. Death from thirst, 
as of persons in a desert, appears to be invariably pre- 
ceded by acute mania. 
Than he commanded him to Presoun, and alle hU Tre- 
soilr 
this 
law, a thirteenth part of the rents of the year, 
or of movables, or both, granted or levied by 
way of tax. 3. In m.-, the interval, whether 
melodic or harmonic, between any tone and a 
tone one octave and six degrees distant from 
it; also, a tone distant by such an interval from 
a given tone; a compound sixth. 
thirtieth nher'ti-eth), . ami . [Altered t., 
suit the mod. form Ihirtij : < ME. thrittithi; thrit- 
tuthi . tl,rittii ; -ti; < AS. thritigotha, etc. ; as thirty 
+ -etlft.'] I, a. 1. Next after the twenty-ninth: 
an ordinal numeral. 2. Constituting any one 
of thirty equal parts into which anything is 
divided. 
II. H. 1. Any one of thirty equal parts into 
which anything is divided. 2. In early Kng. 
l<iu; a thirtieth of the rents of the year, or of 
movables, or both, granted or levied by way 
of tax. 
thirty (ther'ti), a. and n. [Early mod. E. and 
dial, also thretty; < ME. thirty, thrifty, thritti. 
ihi'tty, thriti, < AS. thritig, thrittig = OS. thri- 
tiq = OFries. thritich, thritech = D. dertig = 
MLG. dortich, LG. dortig, diirtig = OHG. dri:ug, 
MHG. drizef,&. dreissig = Icel. thrjdtiu (cf. also 
thritugr, thri-togr) = Sw. trettio = Dan. tredire 
= Goth, threis tigjug; cf. L. triginta (> It. Pg. 
trenta = Sp. treinta = F. trente, > E. trenft) = 
The word "desert" is used, in the West, to describe alike Gr. rpianovra, dial. TpifiKovra = Skt. trineat, thir- 
lands in which the principle of life, if It ever existed, Is ..,,- 
totally extinct, and those other lands which are merely 
thirsty. The Century, XXXVIII. 298. 
3. Vehemently desirous; craving: with after, 
for, etc. 
To be thirsty after tottering honour. 
Shak., Pericles, iii. 2. 40. 
4t. Sharp; eager; active. 
We've been thirsty 
In our pursuit Ford, Fancies, i. 1. 
5. Causing thirst. [Rare.] 
Our natures do pursue, 
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, 
A thirsty evil ; and when we drink we die. 
ty ; < ME. thursti, tliresti, thrixtt, < AS. 
tliiifntig, tli ri/sti<j = OFries. dorstig, torxtii/ = D. 
dorttig = MLG. dorstieh, LG. dorstig = OHG. 
durstag, MHG. durstec, G. durstig = Sw. Dan. 
torstig (cf. Icel. thyrstr), thirsty; as thirst + 
-w 1 .] 1. Feeling thirst; suffering for want of 
drink. 
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so Is good news from a 
far country. Prov. xxv. 25. 
What streams the verdant succory supply, 
And how the thirsty plant drinks rivers dry. 
Adduon, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, Iv. 
2. Dry ; parched ; arid. 
The parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty 
land springs of water. Isa, xxxv. 7. 
ty; as three + -<yl.] I. a. Being thrice ten, 
three times ten, or twentv and ten The Thirty 
Tyrants. 8ee tyrant. Thirty years' war, a series of 
European wars lasting from 1618 to 1648. They were car- 
ried on at first by the Protestants of Bohemia and vari- 
ous Protestant German states against the Catholic League 
headed by Austria. Afterward Sweden and later France 
joined the former side, and Spain became allied with the 
latter. 
II. . 1. The number which consists of three 
times ten. 2. A symbol representing thirty 
units, as 30, XXX. or \ \ \ . 
thirtyfold (ther'ti-fold), a. Thirty times as 
much or as many. Mat. xiii. 8. 
Thirty-nine Articles. See article. 
Shak., M. for M., L 2. 134. thirty-one (ther'ti-wun'), n. A game resem- 
bling vingt-un, but with a longer reckoning. 
He Is discarded for a gamester at all games but one ami 
thirty. Earte, Microcosm. (Kares.) 
Rom.o/Partenay~(E.E.T!.$.),\.7K. MLG. 1 ' druttein, LG. dartein = OHG. dri:en, thirty-second (thr'ti-sek'ond), a. Second in 
Among sensations of Organic Life, I may cite TKrtt as MHG. drizehex, driven, G. dreixhn = Icel. thret- order after the thirtieth. 
remarkable for the urgency of its pressure upon the will. 
.1 . I'-iiiii. Emotions and Will, p. 318. 
2. Figuratively, an ardent desire for anything ; 
a craving. _ _ ^ ^ Ski* trayodaca, thirteen; as three + ten.} 
a, 
one i 
Over all the countrie she did rannge 
To sueke young men to quench her flaming thrust. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. Til. 50. 
Yet do their beating breasts demand the strife, 
And thint of glory quells the love of life. 
Adduon, The Campaign. 
thirst (therst), r. [Early mod. E. or dial, also 
tlirust, thrift; < ME. thirsten, thursten, trans- 
posed thristen, < AS. thyrstan = OS. thurgtiaii 
= D. dorsten = MLG. dorsten = OHG. dursteii, 
MHG. Qt. dursten, diirsten = Icel. thyrsta = Sw. 
tiirsta = ~ 
thaursjnii 
athirst '_ 
fortable 
desire 
If thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him 
drink. Bom. xli. 20. 
2. To have a vehement desire; crave. 
My soul thirsUth for God. Fs. xlii. 2. 
Although the beauties, riches, honours, sciences, vir- 
tues, and pcrfectionsof U men living were in the present 
possession of one, yet somewhat beyond and above all 
this there would still be sought and earnestly tUnttd for. 
I. semiquaver Thirty-second-note rest see *', 
Being three more than ten; consisting of 8(6). 
le more than twelve : a cardinal numeral. thirtytwo-mo (ther'ti-to mo), M [An E. read- 
II n. 1. The number which consists of the ig of 32mo, which stands for XXAlImo, a way 
- * ' - 
sum of twelve and one, or of ten and three. 
2. A symbol representing thirteen units, as III, 
XIII, or xiii. 3. A silver shilling worth 13 
pence, current in Ireland during the early part 
of the nineteenth century. 
F. A. M. is doubtless chronologically correct as to the 
of writing L. (') tricenimo secundo, ' in thirty- 
second.' So 16mo, 12mo, are read according to 
the E. numbers.] A leaf from a sheet of paper 
folded for a book regularly in thirty-two equal 
parts. Commonly written 32mo. When the sire of 
the sheet is not specified, the leaf is supposed to be a 
medium 32mo of the size 3 by 4; inches. A book made 
shilling in Ireland having been worth thirteen pence pre- up of , ucn jeaye, |, called a 3-2no. 
For It was a shillln' he gave me v glory be to God. No, 
I nlver heard it called a IMrteener before, but mother has. 
Quoted In Mayhete's London Labour and London Poor, 
[L 484. 
2. The thirteenth one of any number of things ; 
specifically, in ichiat, the last card of a suit left 
in the hands of a player after the other twelve 
have been played. 
lit mill Ciuucollj nrolru tv,l . ' - r -~y 
Hooter, Eccies. Polity, L ii. thirteen-lined (ther'ten'lind), a. Noting the 
lie thirsted for all liberal knowledge. 
Miltnit, Hist Eng., v. 
II. trims. To have a thirst for, literally or 
figuratively ; desire ardently ; crave : now usu- 
ally followed by an infinitive as the object. 
The eternal God must be prayed to, . . . who also grant 
thius, thit = MD. dene, dine, dit, D. dee:, deze, dit 
= MLG. desxe = OHG. diser, deser, MHG. diner, 
G. dieser (diese, t., dieses, dies, neut.) = Icel. 
thexsi, thessi, thetta = Sw. dentie, denna, delta = 
Dan. denne, dette = Goth, "this, this; < *tha, 
the pronominal base of the, that, etc., + -*, ear- 
lier -se, -si, prob. orig. identical with AS. se, etc., 
the (but by some identified with the impv. (AS. 
seo, OHG. se, Goth. m) of the verb see*). The 
leopard spermophile.or Hood's marmot, Spermo- "*><" ,,, 7/ x f 
1,1,1,1s fr&oJStf. a very common striped P 1 - f ..** [appears in two forms, these ME. 
philus tridecemlineatus, a very common striped 
and spotted ground-squirrel of North America. 
The allusion is to the number of stripes (representing the 
thirteen original States) In the flag of the United States, 
suggested by the markings of the animal. See cut under 
9permophi2tw. 
ib. -in omv ,>nrnestly to thirst his true doctrine, contained thirteenth (ther'tenth'), a. and w. [Altered to 
1.. V. ....... ....I ........ ..*! nl Li. ......i.., 11... .^ VA vw*w y L 
iii tin- sweet and pure fountains of his scriptures. 
I'liiuiate, Ans. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc. , 1850), p. 283. 
That unhappy king, my master, whom 
I so much thirst to see. Shak., W. T., iv. 4. 524. 
He seeks his Keeper's Flesh, and thirsts his Blood. 
Prior, Solomon, i. 
thirster (tliers'ti-r). H. [< thirst + -or 1 .] One 
\\liu or Unit which thirsts. 
Having seriously pleaded the case with thy heart, and 
nvnvntlv pkMik'il the case with Hod, thou hast pleaded 
thyself from ... a lover of the world to a thirtter nft<-r 
God. Baxter, Saints' Rest, Iv. IS. 
thirstily (tliers'ti-li), nilr. In a thirsty manner. 
Kruiu such Fountain he draws, diligently, thirttilii. 
Carli/If. Sartor Resartns, It. 3. 
suit the form of thirteen ; < ME. threttethe. also 
(after Icel.) threttende, < AS. thredtfotha = 
OFries. thredtiHda = D. dertiende = OHG. drit- 
ti'-fiido, MHG. dritzehende, drizehcnde, G. ilrri- 
5 = Icel. threttandi =Sw. trettonde = Dan. 
thes, thas) and those (< ME. that, < AS. than), 
the latter being now associated with that, of 
which the historical pi. is tho, now obs. Hence 
thus.'] I. a. That is now present or at hand: 
a demonstrative adjective used to point out with 
particularity a person or thing that is present 
in place or in thought. It denotes (a) Some person 
or thing that Is present or near in place or time, or Is nearer 
In place or time than some other person or thing, or has 
Just been mentioned or referred to, and Is therefore op- 
trettende = Goth, "thridjataihunda; as thirtnn 
+ -* 2 .] I. a. 1. Next after the twelfth: an 
ordinal numeral. 2. Constituting anyone of 
thirteen equal parts into which anything is di- 
vided Thirteenth cranial nervet, the chorda tym- 
pani regarded as distinct from the seventh or facial ni-ivc. 
Sajxitini. 
II. w. 1. One of thirteen equal parts into 
which anything is divided. 2. In nirly /.'</. 
five hundred years ago, or one hundred yean earlier than 
that (city) ; this day ; this time of night ; these words. 
Of theise three Groynes sprang a Tree, as the Aun- 
gelle seyde that it scholde, and bere a Fruyt thorghe the 
whifhe Fruyt Adam scholde be saved. 
Mandmlle, Travels, p. 12. 
Frote youre visage with (Aw herbe, and youre nandes. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 3.), I. 7. 
In thys cite I abode Tewysday, all day and all nyght 
Torlmgtim, Diarie of Eng. Travell. p. 5. 
