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Eagerness; vehement desire: with of ,for, or after. Thou 
hast allay’d the thirst I had of knowledge. Milton.— 
Draught. 
The rapid current,—through veins 
Of porous earth with kindly thirst up drawn, 
Rose a fresh fountain. Milton. 
To THIRST, v. n. [Sypptan, Saxon; dersten, Dutch ; 
thaursjan, Goth.; from thaursus, aridus, dry. Serenius.] 
To feel want of drink; to be thirsty or athirst: with for.— 
They, as they thirsted, scoop the brimming stream. Milton. 
—To have a vehement desire for any thing: with for or 
after. 
But furious thirsting thus for gore, 
The sons of men shall ne’er approach thy shore. 1 ope. 
To THIRST, v. a. To want to drink. This structure is 
not usual. 
Untam’d and fierce the tyger still remains: 
For the kind gifts of water and of food. 
He seeks his keeper’s flesh, and thirsts his blood. Prior. 
THl'RSTINESS, s. The state of being thirsty.—Next 
they will want a sucking and soaking thirstiness, or a fiery 
appetite to drink in the lime. Wootton. —A vehement desire 
for any thing.—Carried and transported with an over-desire 
and thirstiness after fame. Naunton. 
THIRSTON, East and West, hamlets of England, in 
Northumberland ; 9 miles south of Alnwick. 
THIRSTONLAND, a township of England, West Riding 
of Yorkshire; 5 miles from Huddersfield. Population 868. 
THI'RSTY, adj. [‘Suppciy, Saxon.] Suffering want of 
drink ; pained for want of drink. 
Thy brother’s blood the thirsty earth hath drank. 
Broach’d with the steely point of Clifford’s lance. 
Sha/cspeare. 
Possessed with any vehement desire: as, blood thirsty. 
THIRSTY SOUND, an inlet or bay on the east coast of 
New Holland, so called by Captain Cook, from its want of 
fresh water. It is exposed to the north-east and east winds. 
Lat. 22. 6. 53. S. long, of the northernmost, 150. 0. 10. E. 
THIRTE'EN, adj. [Speoicme, Saxon.] Ten and three.— 
Speaking at the one end, I heard it return the voice thirteen 
times. Bacon. . 
THIRTEEN ISLANDS, a cluster of small isles in the 
North Pacific Ocean. 
THIRTE'ENTH, adj. [SpeoceoSa, Sax.] The third after 
the tenth. 
If she could prove a thirteenth task for him 
Who twelve achiev’d, the work would me beseem. 
Beaumont. 
THI'RTIETH, adj. [SpittejcSa, Saxon.] The ten thrice 
told; the ordinal of thirty.—Henry shall espouse the lady 
Margaret ere the thirtieth of May next ensuing. Sha/cs¬ 
peare.. 
THI'RTY, adj. [SpiCig, Saxon.] Thrice ten. 
I have slept fifteen years. 
—Ay, and the time seems thirty unto me. Sha/cspeare. 
THIRTY MILE, or Dead River, a river of the United 
States, in Maine, which joins the Androscoggin, in Liver¬ 
more. 
THIS, pronoun. [<5ip, Saxon.] That which is present; 
what is now mentioned.—Must I endure all this ? Sha/cs- 
pearc .—The next future—Let not the Lord be angry, and I 
will speak but yet this once: peradventure ten shall be found 
there. Gen.—This is used for this time. —By this the 
vessel half her course had run. Dry den. —The last past. 
I have not wept this forty years; but now 
My mother comes afresh into my eyes. Dry den. 
It is often opposed to that. 
As when two winds with rival force contend. 
This way and that, the wavering sails they bend, 
While freezing Boreas and black Eurus blow. 
Now here, now there, the reeling vessel throw. Pope. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1619. 
When this and that respect a former sentence, this relates 
to the latter, that to the former member. See Those. —Their 
judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not 
follow. Hooker. —Sometimes it is opposed to the other. 
With endless pain this man pursues 
What if he gain’d he could not use: 
And t'other fondly hopes to see 
What never was, nor e’er shall be. Prior. 
THI'STLE, s. [Sipeel, Saxon; diestel, Dutch; carduus, 
Lat.] A prickly weed growing in fields.—Thorns also, and 
thistles it shall bring thee forth. Milton. 
THI'STLE Golden, s. A plant. Miller. 
THISTLE’S ISLAND, an island on the south coast of 
New Holland, at the mouth of Spencer’s Gulf. Lat. 34. 56. 
S. long, of the north end, 136. 3J. E. 
THISTLE-TAKE, a custom in the hundred of Halton,i n 
the county of Chester, whereby, if in driving beasts over the 
common, the driver permits them to graze, or take but a 
thistle, he shall pay a half-penny a beast to the lord of 
the fee. 
At Fiskerton, in Nottinghamshire, by ancient custom, if 
a native, or cottager, killed a swine above a year old, he 
paid the lord one penny, which was also called thistletake. 
THISTLETON, a hamlet of England, in Lancashire; 4£ 
miles north-north-west of Kirkham. 
THISTLETON, a village of England, in Rutlandshire; 8 
miles north-east of Oakham. v 
THI'STLY, adj. Overgrown with thistles. 
Wide o’er the thistly lawn as swells the breeze, 
A whitening shower of vegetable down 
Amusive floats. Thomson. 
THI'THER, ado. [Sibep, Saxon.] To that place: it is 
opposed to hither.—We’re coming thither. Sha/cspeare .— 
To that end ; to that point. 
THl'THERTO, adv. To that end; so far. 
THI'THERWARD, adv. [Sibeppeapb, Sax.] To¬ 
wards that place. 
Madam, he’s gone to serve the duke of Florence: 
We met him thitherward, for thence we came. Sha/cspeare. 
THIVA, or Stibes, the ancient Thebes, a well known 
city of ancient Greece, which, in its days of prosperity, con¬ 
tained 40,000 inhabitants. 
TH1V1ERS, a small town in the south of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Dordogne, with 1600 inhabitants, and some ma¬ 
nufactures of paper, leather, and stone-ware; 20 miles north¬ 
west of Perigueux. 
THIXENDALE, or Thistendale, a hamlet of England, 
East Riding of Yorkshire; 87 miles south-south-east of New 
Mai ton. 
THIZY, a small town in the south-east of France, depart¬ 
ment of the Rhone, situated on an eminence. Population 
1000. It has some manufactures of cotton and linen; 20 
miles west-by-north of Villefranche. 
THLASIAS, a term used by the ancients to express an 
eunuch made by a compression or contusion of the testicles, 
not by the cutting them out, 
THLASIS, a word used by the ancients to express either 
a contusion without a wound, or a wound made by some 
blunt instrument, which contused the parts. 
THLASMA, a word sometimes used like thlasis, to ex¬ 
press a contusion either with or without a wound; some¬ 
times applied particularly to a recess of the cranium in¬ 
ward without a fracture, an accident principally affecting 
children. 
THLASPI [of Pliny. Q>\a.<nri of Dioscorides, perhaps 
from SrXaa, comprimo. The seed vessel being compressed 
or flatted], in Botany, a genus of the class tetradynamia, or¬ 
der siliculosa, natural order of siliquosae or cruciformes, 
cruciferae (. Tuss .)—Generic Character. Calyx : perianth four¬ 
leaved ; leaflets ovate, concave, from erect patulous, decidu¬ 
ous. Corolla four-petalled, cruciform; petals obovate, twice 
as long as the calyx, with narrow claws. Stamina: filaments 
six, shorter by half than the corolla. Anthers acuminate. 
Pistil : germ roundish, compressed, emarginate. Style 
11 H simple, 
