thoughtful 
And i>h ' what business had she to be so ungrateful and 
to try and thwart Philip in his thiM;/ht/ul wish of escorting 
them through the streets of the rough, riotous town 't 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, iii. 
5. Full of care ; anxious ; troubled. 
thoughtful herte, plungyd in dystres. 
Lydgate, Life of Our Lady. (Hoppe.) 
Around her crowd distrust and doubt and fear, 
And thoughtful foresight and tormenting care. 
Prior. 
= Syn. 1. .Reflective, pensive, studious. 3. Considerate, 
regardful. 
thoughtfully (that'ful-i), adv. In a thought- 
ful or considerate manner; with thought or 
solicitude. 
thoughtfulness (that'ful-nes), n. The state of 
being thoughtful; meditation; serious atten- 
tion; considerateness; solicitude. 
thoughtless (that'les), a. [< thought* + -less.] 
1. Devoid of or lacking capacity for thought. 
Just as a blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull, 
And thanks his stars he was not born a fool. 
Pope, Epil. to Howe's Jane Shore, 1. 7. 
A fair average human skull, which might have belonged 
to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless 
brains of a savage. Huxley, Man's Place in Nature, p. 181. 
2. Unthinking; heedless; careless; giddy. 
He was lively, witty, good-natur'd, and a pleasant com- 
panion, but idle, thoughtless, and imprudent to the last 
degree. Franklin, Autobiog., p. 159. 
They cajole with gold 
And promises of fame the thoughtless youth. 
Shelley, Queen Mab, iv. 
That thoughtless sense of joy bewildering 
That kisses youthful hearts amidst of spring. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 396. 
= Syn. 2. Heedless, Remiss, etc. (see negligent), regard- 
less, inattentive, inconsiderate, unmindful, flighty, hare- 
brained. 
thoughtlessly (that'les-li), adv. In a thought- 
less, inconsiderate, or careless manner; with- 
out thought. 
In restless hurries thoughtlessly they live. Garth. 
thoughtlessness (that'les-nes), n. The state of 
being thoughtless, heedless, or inconsiderate. 
What is called absence is a thoughtlessness and want of 
attention about what is doing. Chesterfield. 
thought-reader (that're"der), n. A mind- 
reader. 
We are all convinced that when mistakes are made the 
fault rests, for the most part, with the thinkers, rather 
than with the thought-readers. 
Proc. Soe. Psyeh. Research, I. 43. 
thpughtsick (that'sik), a. [< thought + sick.~\ 
Sick from thinking. 
Heaven's face doth glow ; 
Yea, this solidity and compound mass, 
With tristful visage, as against the doom, 
Is thought-sick at the act. Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 51. 
thoughtsome (that'sum), a. [< thought 1 + 
-some.'] Thoughtful. Encyc. Diet. 
thoughtsomeness (that' sum-nes), n. Thought- 
fulness. N. Fairfax, Bulk and Selvedge of the 
World. (Encyc. Diet.) 
thought-transfer (that'trans"fer), M. Same as 
telepathy. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXV. 704. [Recent.] 
thought-transference (that'trans"fer-ens), n. 
Same as telepathy. [Kecent.] 
thought-transferential (that'trans-fe-ren"- 
shal), a. Of the nature of or pertaining to 
thought-transference; telepathic. Proc. Soc. 
Psych. Research, XVII. 461. [Recent.] 
thought-wave (that'wav), n. A supposed un- 
dulation of a hypothetical medium of thought- 
transference, assumed to account for the phe- 
nomena of telepathy. [Kecent.] 
Thous (tho'us), n. [NL. (J. E. Gray), also 
Tlios, < Gr. ftiof , 6u , a kind of wild dog : see 
thooid.] 1. A genus of canines, or a section 
of Cams, combining some characters of foxes 
Senegal Thous (Thous senegalcusis). 
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with others of wolves. The group is not well marked, 
but has been made to cover several African forms which 
represent the peculiar South American fox-wolves, and 
come under the general head of jackals. Some of them 
arc brindled with light and dark colors on the back. Among 
them are T. anthus, the wild dog of Egypt ; T. variegatux, 
the Nubian thous ; T. mesomelas, the black-backed or Cape 
jackal; T. senegaleiws, the Senegal thous or jackal; etc. 
See also cut under jackal. 
2. [I. c.~] A jackal of this genus: as, the Sene- 
gal tltous. 
thousand (thou'zand), . and H. [< ME. thou- 
sand, thousend, tli.usend,_ < AS. thusend = OS. 
thusiind-ig = OFries. thusend, dusent = D. dui- 
zend = OLG. thusint, MLG. dusent, LG. dusend 
= OHG. thusunt, dusunt, tusent, MHG. tiisent, 
tmunt, G. tausend = Icel. thusund (also thus- 
liund, thushundradh, conformed to hund, hun- 
dradh, hundred) = Sw. tusen = Dan. tusende = 
Goth, thusundi, thousand. Though all numerals 
up to 100 belong in common to all the Indo-Eur. 
languages, this word for thousand is found only 
in the Teut. and Slav, languages: = OBulg. ty- 
sanshta = Serv. tisuca = Pol. tysiac = Russ. ty- 
siacha = OPruss. tusimtons (pi. ace.) = Lith. 
tukstantis = Lett, tukstots, etc. Possibly the 
Slavs borrowed the word in prehistoric times 
from the Tent.] I. a. Numbering ten hun- 
dred; hence, of an indefinitely large number. ' 
Themperour hire throli thonked many thousand sithe. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5154. 
That Cry 
Which made me look a thousand ways 
In bush, and tree, and sky. 
Wordsworth, To the Cuckoo. 
II. ti. 1. The number ten hundred, or ten 
times ten times ten; hence, indefinitely, a great 
number. Like hundred, million, etc., thousand takes a 
plural termination when not preceded by a numeral ad- 
jective. 
Ther com . . . xl Ml [people], what on horse bakke and 
on fote, with-oute hem that were in the town, whereof 
ther were vj"" ; but the story seith that in tho dayes fyve 
hundred was cleped a thousande. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 205. 
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at 
thy right hand. Ps. xci. 7. 
How many thousands pronounce boldly on the affairs of 
the public whom God nor men never qualified for such 
judgment ! Watts. 
2. A symbol representing the number ten hun- 
dred, as M, 1,000. 3. In brick-making, a quan- 
tity of clay sufficient for making a thousand 
bricks. C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. 104. 
One of or In a thousand, an exception to the general 
rule ; a rare example or instance. 
Now the glass was one of a thousand. It would present 
a man, one way, with his own features exactly ; and turn 
it but another way, and it would show . . . the Prince of 
pilgrims himself. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, ii. 
Upper ten thousand. See upper. 
thousandealt, [ME. thousandeelle ; < thou- 
sand + deal 1 . Cf . halfendeal, third- 
endeal.~] A thousand times. 
For in good feythe this leveth welle, 
My wille was bettre a thousandeelle. 
Oower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134, f. 43. 
{(HalliwM.) 
thousandfold (thou ' zand - fold), 
a. [< ME. thusendfold, ihusendfeld 
(= D. duizendvoud = G. tausendfa'l- 
tig = Sw. tusenfaldt = Dan. tusend- 
fold); <. thousand + -fold.] A thou- 
sand times as much, 
thousand-legs (thou'zand-legz), . 
Any member of the class Myria- 
poda, particularly one of the cnilo- 
pod order ; a milleped. The common 
household Cermatia (or Scutigera) forceps 
is specifically so called in some parts of 
the United States. See also cuts under 
milleped, myriapod, and Scutigera. 
thousandth (thousandth), a. and 
n. [Not found in ME. or AS. ; < 
thousand + -th 2 .'] I. a. 1. Last in 
order of a series of a thousand; 
next after the nine hundred and 
ninety-ninth : an ordinal numeral. 
2. Constituting one of a thou- 
sand equal parts into which any- 
thing is divided. 
II. n. One of a thousand equal 
parts into which anything is di- 
vided. 
thoutt, v. t. [ME. thowten (= Dan. 
dutte) ; < thou, pron. Cf. yeet.~] 
To thou. A Th 
Thowtyne, or seyn thow to a maim le g s (A* 
(thowyn, or sey thu). Tuo. 
Prompt. Para., p. 492. ' 
thowH, pron. An obsolete form of thou. 
thow 2 t, H. A variant of 
thrall 
, '. and it. A dialectal variant of tlmir. 
thowel, thowl, . Variants of tliule't. 
thowless (thou'les), . [A var. of thewles.i. Cf. 
thieveless.] Slack; inactive; lazy. [Scotch.] 
I will not wait upon the thowless, thriftless, fissenless 
ministry of that carnal man, John Halftext, the curate. 
Scott, Old Mortality, v. 
isaml- 
yfeta- 
lactari- 
thowmbet, " An old spelling of i 
Thracian (thra'shan), a. and n. [< L. Thniciiix, 
Thracian, Thraci, Thrace, < Gr. QpaK/oc, Ionic 
Qpqtiuof, SpyKtof, Thraeian, < OffKf, Ionic Op//,7/, 
Thrace, < Qpaf, Ionic 6/jr/if, 6pf, a Thracian.] 
I. a. Of or pertaining to Thrace, a region in 
southeastern Europe (formerly a Roman prov- 
ince), included between the Balkans and the 
^Egean and Black Seas. 
The riot of the tipsy Bacchanals, 
Tearing the Thraeian singer in their rage. 
Shale., M. N. D., v. 1. 49. 
II. n. An inhabitant or a native of Thrace. 
thrackt (thrak), v. t. [Appar. < ME. *threkkeit. 
thrucchen, < AS. thrycean (= OHG. druccheii, 
MHG. drucken, drucken, G. drucken, etc.), press, 
oppress.] To load or burden. 
Certainly we shall one day find that the strait gate is 
too narrow for any man to come bustling in, thrack'd with 
great possessions and greater corruptions. 
South, Sermons, II. vi. 
thragget, *' t. Apparently an error for sJiragge 
(see shrag). 
Fell, or cutt'e downe, or to thragge. Succido. 
Huloet, Abecedarian (1552). (Nares.) 
thralt, a. An old spelling of thrall. 
thraldom (thral'dum), H. [Also thralldom, and 
formerly thraldoms; < ME. thraldom (= Icel. 
tlireeldomr = Sw. traldom = Dan. treeldom); 
< thrall + -dom.~] The state or character of 
being a thrall ; bondage, literal or figurative ; 
servitude. 
Every base affection 
Keeps him [man] in slavish t[h]raldome & subjection. 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 93. 
"Such as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons 
of God," and not such as live in thraldom unto men. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, iii. 9. 
thralhoodt (thral'hud), n. [ME. thralhod, thral- 
hede; < thrall + -hood.] Thraldom. 
Thanne is mi thralhod, 
Iwent in to knijthod. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 13. 
thrall (thral), n. and a. [< ME. thral, thrallc, 
threl, threlle (pi. thralles, thrales,threlles, threles), 
< late AS. thrail (pi. thrielas), < Icel. thrsell = 
Sw. tral = Dan. trxl, a thrall, prob. = OHG. 
dregil, drigil, trigil, trikil, a serf, thrall ; Teut. 
form *thragila (contracted in Scand.), perhaps 
orig. 'a runner,' hence an attendant, servant; < 
AS. thrsegian (= Goth, thragjan), run, < thrag, 
thrah, a running, course; cf. Gr. rpox'^of, a 
small bird said to be attendant on the croc- 
odile, < Tpo%oi;, a running, < rpe%eiv, run (see 
trochil, trochus, etc.). The notion that thrall 
is connected with thrill 1 , as if meaning orig. 
'thrilled' i. e. 'one whose ears have been 
thrilled or drilled in token of servitude' is 
ridiculous in theory and erroneous in fact. 
The AS. tlirSl, thrall, cannot be derived from 
thyrelian, thyrlian,ihiTl(see thirl 1 , thrill 1 ), and if 
it were so derived, it could not mean ' thrilled,' 
or 'a thrilled man.'] I. w. 1. A slave; a serf; 
a bondman ; a captive. 
And se thi sone that in seruage 
For mannis soule was made a thralle. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 1. 
In a dungeon deepe huge nombers lay 
Of caytive wretched thralls, that wayled night and day. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 45. 
The actual slave, the thrall, the theow, is found every- 
where [in early Britain]. The class is formed and recruited 
in two ways. The captive taken in war accepts slavery as 
a lighter doom than death ; the freeman who is guilty of 
certain crimes is degraded to the state of slavery by sen- 
tence of law. In either case the servile condition of the 
parent is inherited by his children. 
E. A. Freeman, Encyc. Brit., VIII. 274. 
The thrall in person may be free in soul. 
Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 
2. One who is a slave to some desire, appe- 
tite, spell, or other influence; one who is in 
moral bondage. 
Hi ne byeth [they are not] threlles ne to gold, ne to zeluer, 
ne to hare caroyne [their flesh), ne to theguodes of fortune. 
Ayenbite of Imcyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 86. 
The slaves of drink and thralls of sleep. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 6. 13. 
3. Thraldom, literal or figurative ; bondage ; 
slavery ; subjection. 
The chafed Horse, such thrall ill-suffering, 
Begins to snuff, and snort, and leap, and fling. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Handy-Crafts. 
