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principality of Bareith; 20 miles south-south east of Hof, and 
75 north of Ratisbon. 
To THIEVE, v. re. [Seopan, Sax.] To steal; to prac¬ 
tise theft. 
THI'EVERY, s. The practice of stealing; theft. 
Do villainy, do, since you profess to do’t. 
Like workmen; I’ll example you with thievery. Shakspeare. 
THI'EVISH, adj. Given to stealing ; practising theft. 
What, would’st thou have me go and beg my food ? 
Or with a base, and boisterous sword enforce 
A thievish living on the common road. Shalcspeare. 
Secret; sly ; acting by stealth. 
Four-and-twenty times the pilot’s glass 
Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass. Shakspeare. 
Relating to what is stolen.—By astrology he resolved 
thievish questions with great success; that was his utmost 
sole practice. Lilly. 
THI'EVISHLY, adv. Like a thief.' 
They lay not to live by their worke, 
But thievishly loiter and lurke. Tusser. 
THI'EVISHNESS, s. Disposition to steal; habit of 
stealing. 
THIGH, s. [tSeoh, Sax.; thio, Icel.; die, Dutch.] The 
thigh includes all between the buttocks and the knee. The 
thigh- bone is the longest of all the bones in the body: its 
fibres are close and hard: it has a cavity in the middle : it is 
a little convex and round on its foreside, but a little hollow, 
with a long and small ridge on its backside. Huincy. —He 
touched the hollow of his thigh, and it was out of joint. 
Genesis. 
THILK, pron. [Silc, <5ylc, tiyllic, i. e. c5y lie, the like. 
Lye.] That same. Obsolete. 
I love thilk lass: alas, why do I love! 
She deigns not my good will, but doth reprove. 
And of my rural music holdeth scorn. Spenser. 
THILL, s. [Sille, Saxon, a piece of timber cut.] The 
shafts of a waggon; the arms of wood between which the 
last horse is placed.—More easily a waggon may be drawn 
in rough ways if the fore wheels were as high as the hinder 
wheels, and if the thills were fixed under the axis. Mor¬ 
timer. 
THILL-HORSE, orTm'LLER, s. The last horse; the 
horse that goes between the shafts.—What a beard hast thou 
got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin, than Dobbin, my 
thill-horse, has on his tail. Shakspeare. 
THI'MBLE, s. [This is supposed by Minsheu to be cor¬ 
rupted from thumb bell.] A metal cover by which women 
secure their fingers from the needle when they sew. 
Your ladies and pale-visag’d maids, 
Like Amazons, come tripping after drums; 
Their thimbles into armed gantlets change. 
Their needles to lances. Shakspeare . 
THIMBLE, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; ljmile 
north-west of Horncastle. 
THIMBLE ISLANDS, small islands of the United States, 
near the coast of Connecticut. Lat. 41. 11. N. long. 
72. 42. W. 
THIMBLEBY, a hamlet of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire; 6 miles east-norlh-east of Northallerton. 
THIMBRIC-KOUY, a village of Asiatic Turkey, in Ana¬ 
tolia, on the site of the ancient Thymbra, some considerable 
ruins of which are still found, particularly of a temple of 
Apollo. 
TIIIME, 5 . [thymus, Lat.; thym, Fr.] A fragrant herb 
from which the bees are supposed to draw honey. This 
should be written thyme. —Fair marigolds, and bees’ allur¬ 
ing thyme. Spenser. 
THlN, adj. [Sinn, Sax.; thunnr,- Icel.; dunn, Dutch.] 
Not thick.—Beat gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires. 
Exod. —Rare; not dense. 
Understand the same 
Of fish within their watery residence ; 
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Not hither summon’d, since they cannot change 
Their element, to draw the thinner air. Milton. 
Northward, beyond the mountains we will go, 
Where rocks lie cover’d with eternal snow. 
Thin herbage in the plains, and fruitless fields, 
The sand no gold, the mine no silver yields. Dry den. 
Not closely compacted or accumulated.—Seven thin ears 
blasted with the east wind sprung up. Gen. —Exile; small. 
I hear the groans of ghosts; 
Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. Dryden. 
Not coarse; not gross in substance : as, a thin veil.—Not 
abounding.—Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of 
people. Addison .—Not fat ; not bulky ; lean; slim ; 
slender.—A slim M/w-gutted fox made a hard shift to wrig¬ 
gle his body into a hen-roost, and when he had stuffed his 
guts well, the hole was too little to get out again. 
L'Estrange. —Slight; unsubstantial: we apply it, in col¬ 
loquial language, to a person of weak mind.—A thin sus¬ 
picion. Chaucer. 
THIN, adv. Not thickly. 
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. 
That last infirmity of noble mind. 
To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find. 
And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 
Comes the blind fury with th’ abhorred sheers. 
And slits the M/re-spun life. Milton. 
To THIN, v. a. [from the adjective; Sax. <5innian.] To 
make thin or rare; to make less thick. Pr. Parv .—The 
serum of the blood is neither acid nor alkaline ; oil of vitriol 
thickens, and oil of tartar thins it a little. Arbuthnot .—To 
make less close or numerous. 
T’ unload the branches, or the leaves to thin. 
That suck the vital moisture of the vine. Dryden. 
To attenuate. 
The vapours by the solar heat 
Thinn'd and exhal’d rise to their airy seat. Blackmore. 
THINE, pronoun, [theiu. Gothic; Sin, Saxon; dijn, 
Dutch.] Belonging or relating to thee ; the pronoun pos¬ 
sessive of thou. It is used for thy when the substantive is 
divided from it: as, this is thy house; thine is this house; 
this house is thine. 
Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we 
Have no such daughter. Shakspeare. 
THING, s. [Sing, Saxon; ding, Dutch and German; 
deduced from than, facere, to make.] Whatever is; not a 
person. A general word. 
Do not you chide; I have a thing for you. 
— You have a thing for me ? 
It is a common tiling — 
— Ha? 
— To have a foolish wife. Shakspeare. 
It is used in contempt.—I have a thing in prose, begun 
above twenty-eight years ago, and almost finished; it will 
make a four-shilling volume. Swift .—It is used of a person 
in contempt, or sometimes with pity. • 
See, sons, what things you are! how quickly nature 
Falls to revolt, when gold becomes her object! 
For this the foolish over-careful fathers 
Have broke their sleeps with thought, their brains with care. 
Shakspeare. 
It is used by Shakspeare in a sense of honor. 
I lov’d the maid I married; never man 
Sigh’d truer breath ; but that I see thee here. 
Thou noble thing! more dances my wrapt heart. 
Shakspeare. 
THINGHILL, Great and Little, hamlets of England, 
in the parish of Withington, Herefordshire. 
THING WALL, a village of England, in Cheshire; 5j 
miles norlh-by-west of Great Neston. 
To THINK, v. re. preter. thought, [thankgan, Goth.; 
Sencean, 
