thrill 
3t. To hurl. 
i nil wull-trlde Nymphs like wild Kids cllm'd thosi- hils, 
And thnl:l their urniwlu lavelins after him. 
Ueyicood, Pelopoea and Alope (Works, ed. 1874, VI. SOI). 
II. iiitnuix. 1. To penetrate or permeate; 
pans, run, or stir with sudden permeating in- 
llow ; move quiveringly or so us to cause a sort 
of shivering sensation. 
Hi- nilKhtie Hliil'l 
Upon Ills iniuily aniie tic soone addrest, 
And at him trvrsly flew, with corage Hid, 
And egi-i- Ki'rnlitit-sHu through evory member thrild. 
Spenser, . Q.,I. vlil. 6. 
A faint cold fear Ihriilt through my veins, 
That almost freezes up the heat of life. 
Shot., K. and J., Iv. S. 15. 
2. To be agitated or moved by or as by the per- 
meating inllow of some subtle feeling or influ- 
ence; quiver; shiver. 
To seek sweet safety out 
In vaults and prisons, and to //,//// and shake. 
Shak., K. John, v. 2. 143. 
Everything that Mr. Carlyle wrote during this first pe- 
riod itti >// with the purest appreciation of whatever is 
brave and beautiful in human nature. 
l.Hifdl, Study Windows, p. 123. 
3. To quiver or move with a tremulous move- 
ment ; vibrate ; throb, as a voice. 
He hadna wecl been out o' the stable, 
And on his saddle set, 
Till four-and-twenty broad arrows 
Were thriHiny in his heart. 
Young Johnntoiie (Child's Ballads, II. 297). 
That last cypress tree, 
Green at the gate, which thrilled as we came out. 
Mrs. Br&iming. 
All Nature with thy parting tlniil-; 
Like branches after birds new-flown. 
Lowell, To the Muse. 
thrilli (thril), n. [In def. 1 , < ME. thril, a trans- 
posed form of thirl 1 , n. Cf. thrill 1 , v., for thirl 1 , 
i'. In the later senses, directly < thrill 1 , P.] If. 
A hole ; specifically, a breathing-hole ; a nostril. 
Compare nostril (nose-thrill). 
With thrillei noght thrat but thriftily made, 
Nawther to Wyde ne to wan, but as horn well semyt 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3045. 
The bill of the dodo hooks and bends downwards ; the 
thrill or breathing-place is In the midst. 
Sir T. Herbert, Travels, p. 383. (Latham.) 
2. A subtle permeating influx of emotion or 
sensation ; a feeling that permeates the whole 
system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a 
tin-ill of horror. 
A thrill of pity for the patient, and of gratitude for his 
services, which exaggerated, in her eyes, his good mien 
and handsome features. Scott, Qucntin Durward, xv. 
The least motion which they made, 
It seemed a thrill of pleasure. Wordnmrth. 
And I wait, with a thrill in every vein, 
For the coming of the hurricane ! 
Bryant, The Hurricane. 
3. In med., a peculiar tremor felt, in certain 
conditions of the respiratory or circulatory or- 
gans, upon applying the hand to the body; 
fremitus. 4. A throb; a beat or pulsation. 
Is It enough? or must I, while a thrill 
Lives in your sapient homing, cheat you still? 
Moan, Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet. 
The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill 
Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes. 
LtiicHl, Agassiz, i. 1. 
6. A tale or book the hearing or penisal of 
which sends a thrill or sensation of pleasure, 
pity, or excitement through one; a sensa- 
tional story. [Slang, Eng.] 
That it should have been called by a name which rather 
reminds one of the sensational title of a shilling thrill 
seems to us a matter to be regretted. 
Westminster Rev., CXXVI. 382. 
Hydatid thrill, a vibration felt upon percussion of a 
hydatid tumor.-- Purring thrill. See jmrri. 
thrill 2 (thril), c. /. [A var. of trill?, simulating 
thrill 1 .'] To warble; trill. [Rare.] 
The solemn harp's melodious warblings thrill. 
M !,!.!: tr. of Camoens's Luslad, Ix. 783. 
thrill- (thril), M. [See tf.riV-] A warbling; 
a trill. 
Deafening the swallow's twitter, came a thrill 
(if trumpets. Keat, Lamia, ii. 
Carolling to her spinet with its thin metallic thrill*. 
O. W. Holmtg, Opening of the Piano. 
The starts and thrill 
Of birds that sang and nistln! in tin- trees. 
R. W. Qilder, The Poet's Fame. 
thrillantt (thril'ann, n. [Irreg. < ihrill 1 + 
-ant.} Piercing: thrilling. 
The knight his thrillant speare agalneassayd. 
Spenter, V. g., I. xi. 20. 
thrilling 1 (thril'iiig),^. a. It. Piercing: pene- 
trating. 
6311 
I In- pitteoil* ninyilrti, careful), comfortlesse, 
Does throw out thrillintj shriekes, and shrieking cryes, 
.V.-/MW, K. <>., I. vl. 6. 
2. That thrills or stirs with subtle permeating 
emotion or sensation, as of pleasure, pain, hor- 
ror, wonder, or the like: as, a thrilling adven- 
ture; a thrilli ni/ experience. 
Hard by is the place where the Italian lost his bead ; 
but the Italian was openly In the ranks of the Insurgents ; 
so, though the thought is a little thrilling, our prwent 
travellers feel no real danger for their heads. 
E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 268. 
thrilling 2 (thril'uig), n. [< three (thri-) + -ling 1 , 
after twilling. Cf. trilling. ] In crystal., a com- 
pound or twin crystal consisting of three united 
crystals. See twin 1 . 
thrillingly (thril'ing-li), adv. In a thrilling 
manner; with thrilling sensations. 
thrillingness (thril'ing-nes), w. Thrilling char- 
acter or quality. 
Thrinax (thri'naks), n. [NL. (Linnaeus films, 
1788), from the leaves ; < Gr. 6piva, a trident, 
also rpivaZ, < rpif, thrice, + iudi, point.] A ge- 
nus of palms, of the tribe Coryphea. It Is char- 
acterized by flowers with a minute six.cleft cup-shaped 
perianth, awl-shaped filaments, Introrse anthers, and a 
one-celled ovary. It includes 9 species, natives chiefly of 
the West Indies. They are low or medium-sized palms, 
with solitary or clustered thornless trunks, marked below 
with annular scars, and above clad with a very regular net- 
work of fibers remaining from the sheathing petioles. 
They bear terminal roundish leaves with many two-cleft 
fndupllcate segments, an erect ligule, and smooth slender 
petiole. The flowers are bisexual, and borne on long spa- 
dices with numerous spathes, and slender panicled branch- 
let*. The small thin-shelled pea-shapeu fruit contains a 
single roundish seed furrowed with sinuate channels. 
The species are known in general as thatch-palms in 
Jamaica. Two species occur in Florida : T. parnfora, the 
taller, usually asmall and very slender tree, becomes stem- 
less in the pine-barrens in the variety (farberi; the other, 
T. argentea, the broom-palm of the Isthmus of Panama, 
Is sometimes known in conservatories as chip-hat palm, 
owing both names to the uses of its leaves. See also silk- 
top and rUter-top palmetto, under palmetto. 
thringf (thring), v. [< ME. thringen, thryngen 
(pret. throng, throng, pp. thrungen, throngen), 
\ AS. thringait (pret. throng, pp. thrungen), 
thrust, press, = OS. thringan = D. dringen = 
MLG. dringen, press, = OHG. dringan, MHO. 
dringen, press together, plait, weave, G. drin- 
gen, drangen, press, etc., = Icel. tliriingra, 
thryngra, thrcyngva = Sw. trdnga = Dan. treenge 
= Goth, threihan (for *thrinhen), press, urge, 
trouble. Hence ult. throng 1 . Prom the same 
ult. verb are also MHG. drihe, an embroidering- 
needle, > drihen, embroider; and perhaps E. 
thorough, through 1 , and hence thirl 1 , thrill 1 .} I. 
trans. To thrust; push; press. 
Whanne thou were in thraldom throng, 
And t ni mi nt M with many a iewe. 
Hymn* to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. is. 
Who strengths the poor, and pridful men down thrinys, 
And wracks at once the pow'rs of puissant kings. 
T. Hudson, tr. of Du Bartas's Judith, Iv. 
II. intranti. To press; push; force one's way. 
Thruch the bodi ful neythe the hert 
That gode swerd thruc him throng. 
Oy o/ Warwike, p. 51. (UalKtcell.) 
Mara . . . ne rested never stille, 
But throng now her, now ther. among hem bothe. 
Chaucer, Anellda and Arclte, 1. 55. 
thrlp (thrip), n. [An abbr. of thrippence, a 
pronunciation of three-pence.} A threepenny 
piece. [Colloq.] 
He was not above any transaction, however small, that 
promised to bring him a dime where he had invested a 
thrip. J. C. Harris, Harper's Mag., I.\ \ \ I. 703. 
ThripidSB (tbrip'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Tlirips + 
-idx.] The sole family of the order Thysanop- 
tera (which see for characters). It was for- 
merly considered as belonging to the Hemip- 
tera. Also called Thripsidee. See cut under 
Thrips. 
thripplet, t'. > [Origin obscure.] To labor 
hard. 
Manie spend more at one of these wakesses than in all 
the whole veer besides. This makes many a one to thrip. 
pie & pinch, to runne Into debte and dannger, and fluallle 
Mings many a one to vtter mine and decay. 
Stubbet, Anatomy of Abuses (ed. Furnivall), I. 153. 
Thrips (thrips), . [NL. (Linnaeus, 1748), < L. 
thrips, < Gr. Opty, a woodworm.] 1. The typi- 
cal genus of the family Thripidtr or Thripsidfp. 
The body is smooth and glabrous ; the female has a four- 
valved decurved ovipositor. The species are numerous 
and wide-spread. T. n/ruiftw destroys onions in the l*nitd 
States. 
2. [/. c.1 (a) Any member of this genus or fam- 
ily, as Phlwothrips phi/Uosine, which is said to 
feed on the leaf-gall form of the vine-pest. See 
cut in next column. (6) Among grape-growers, 
erroneously, any one of the leaf-hoppers of the 
thriving 
A Thrips </>A/<wMri/ Mr//<urw). (Line 
More enlarged wingk at title, 
fehowintc fringe*. 
il liie.) 
pp. thriven (sometimes thrived), ppr. 
[< ME. thriven, thryrcn, thrifen (pret. 
af, pp. thriven), < Icel. thrifa, clutch, 
homopterous family Jasnidir, which feed on the 
grape. Erythroneura ritu Is the common grape-vine 
thrips, so-called, of the eastern United States. Bee cut 
under Erythroneura. 
Thripsidae (thrip'si-de), B. pi. [NL., irreg. < 
Thrips + -idee.} Same as Thripida. 
thrisle, thrissel (thris'l), n. Dialectal forms 
of thin tie. 
thrist't, " An obsolete form of thrunt 1 . 
thrist 2 (thrist), n. and v. An obsolete or dia- 
lectal I'nnii of thirst. 
Who shall htm rew that swimming In the malne 
Will die for thrift, and water doth refuse? 
Spenter, . Q., II. vi. 17. 
thristy (thris'ti), a. An obsolete or dialectal 
form of thirsty. Spenser, P. Q., I. x. 38. 
thritteent, a. and n. A Middle English form of 
thirteen. 
thrive (thriv), r. '. ; pret. throve (sometimes 
thrived), pp. thriven (sometimes thrived), ppr. 
thriving, 
throf, thraj. 
grasp, grip, "fefl. thrifdslc, seize for oneself, 
thrive, = Norw. triva, seize, refl. trivast, thrive, 
= Sw. trifeax = Dan. trivet, refl., thrive.] 1. 
To prosper ; flourish ; be fortunate or success- 
ful. 
Thus he welke in the lamle 
With hys darte In his hande; 
Under the wilde wodde wande 
He wexe and wele thrafe. 
Perceval, 1. 212. (HalKirell.) 
If I thrice well, 111 visit thee again. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. a 170. 
For ought I see. 
The lewdest persons thrive best, and are free 
From punishment for sinne. 
Time* Whistle (E. E. T. 8.\ p. 5. 
2. To increase in goods and estate ; grow rich 
or richer; keep on increasing one's acquisi- 
tions. 
"Apparalle the propirli," quod Pride-, . . . 
" Late no poore neisbore thryue thee bislde ; 
AUe other menrtis councel loke thou dispise." 
Hymns to I'uyi'n, etc. (E. E. T. S.), p. 62. 
Could fools to keep their own contrive, 
On what, on whom, could gamesters Uirivef 
Gay, Pan and Fortune. 
And so she thnn-e and prosper'd ; so three years 
She prosper'd. Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
3. To grow vigorously or luxuriantly; flourish. 
Let sette hem feete a sender thries V, 
Or twies X , as best la hem to thrift. 
Pattadms, Hnsbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 76. 
Love thrives not In the heart that shadows dreadeth. 
Shak., Lucrece, L 270. 
E'en the oak 
Thrive* by the rude concussion of the storm. 
Covrper, Task. I S78. 
thriveless (thriv'les), o. [< thrive + -fes*.] 
Thriftless; unsuccessful; unprofitable. [Ob- 
solete or archaic.] 
And thou, whose thrirelf** hands are ever straining 
Earth's fluent breasts into an empty sieve. 
Quarlef, Emblems, I. 12. 
The dull stagnation of a soul content, 
Once foiled, to leave betimes a thrivrless quest 
Browning, Paracelsus. 
thriven (thriv'n), p. a. 1. Past participle of 
thrive. 2f. Grown. 
ll> in wat3 the nome Noe, as is In-noghe knawen, 
He had Hire thryutn sunez A thay thre wyuez. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 2B8. 
thriver (thri'ver), n. [< thrive + -fr 1 .'] One 
who thrives or prospers ; one who makes profit ; 
one who is frugal and economical. [Rare.] 
Pitiful Otrirers, in their gazing spent 
Shak., Sonnet*, cxxv. 
thriving (thri'ving), p. a. [< ME. "thrivinge, 
tlirinniil, tlnirond; ppr. of thrive, r.] 1. Pros- 
perous or successful; advancing in well-beingor 
wealth; thrifty; flourishing: increasing; grow- 
ing: as. a //in'ri(/mech:niic: a thriving trader; 
a thriving town. 
