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considerable objection to this hypothesis, that it is not 
supported by analogy in the other northern languages. 
Jamieson, in V. Allthochte.] Notwithstanding that ; 
although.—Not that I so affirm, though so it seem. Milton. 
As THOUGH. As if; like as if.—In the vine were three 
branches; and it was as though it budded. Gen. —It is 
used in the end of a sentence in familiar language: how¬ 
ever; yet. 
You shall not quit Cydaria for me: 
’Tis dangerous though to treat me in this sort. 
And to refuse my offers, though in sport. Dry den. 
THOUGHT, the pret. and part. pass, of think. [Sohce. 
Sax.; thahta, M. Goth.] I told him what I thought. 
Shakspeare. 
THOUGHT, s. [from the preterite of to think; Sax. 
<5eahc.] The operation of the mind; the act of thinking. 
And cards are dealt, and chessboards brought. 
To ease the pain of coward thought. Prior. 
Idea ; image formed in the mind. 
For our instruction to impart 
Things above earthly thought. Milton. 
Sentiment; fancy; imagery; conceit. — Thought, if 
translated truly, cannot be lost in another language; but 
the words that convey it to our apprehension, which are the 
image and ornament of that thought, may be so ill chosen 
as to make it appear unhandsome. Dryden —Reflection ; 
particular consideration. 
Why do you keep alone ? 
Of sorriest fancies your companions making, 
Using those thoughts which should indeed have died 
With them they think on. Shakspeare. 
Conception; preconceived notion. 
Things to their thought 
So unimaginable as hate in heaven. Milton. 
Opinion ; judgment.—They communicated their thoughts 
on this subject to each other; and therefore their reasons are 
little different. Dryden. —Meditation ; serious considera¬ 
tion. 
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, 
Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. 
Roscommon. 
Design ; purpose.—Nor was godhead from her thought. 
Milton. —Silent contemplation. 
Who is so gross 
That cannot see this palpable device ? 
Yet who so bold, but says, he sees it not ? 
Bad is the world; and all will come to nought. 
When such ill dealings must be seen in thought. 
Shakspeare. 
Solicitude ; care; concern.—Adam took no thought, 
eating his fill. Milton. —Expectation. 
The main descry 
Stands on the hourly thought. Shakspeare. 
A small degree; a small quantity. It seems a loose 
term, hut is used by good writers —My giddiness seized 
me, and though I now totter, yet I think I am a thought 
better. Swift. 
THQ'UGHTFUL, adj. Contemplative; full of reflection; 
full of meditation. 
On these he mus’d within his thoughtful mind, 
And then resolv'd what Faunus had divin’d. Dryden. 
Attentive; careful. 
Thoughful of thy gain, I all the live-long day 
Consume in meditation deep. Philips. 
Promoting meditation ; favourable to musing. 
War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades, 
And steel now glitters in the muses’ shades. Pope. 
Anxious; solicitous. 
In awful pomp, and melancholy state, 
See settled reason on the judgment-seat; 
Around her crowd distrust, and doubt, and fear. 
And thoughtful foresight, and tormenting care. Prior. 
THO'UGHTFULLY, adv. With thought or considera¬ 
tion ; with solicitude. 
THO'UGHTFULNESS, 5. Deep meditation. Suitable 
to the gravity of a Spaniard, or the silence and thoughtful¬ 
ness of an Italian. Swift. —Anxiety; solicitude. 
THO'UGHTLESS, adj. Airy; gay; dissipated; negli¬ 
gent; careless.—It is something peculiarly shocking to see 
gray hairs without remorse for the past, and thoughtless of 
the future. Rogers.— Stupid; dull. 
His goodly fabric fills the eye. 
And seems design’d for thoughtless majesty : 
Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain, 
And spread in solemn state supinely reign. Dryden. 
THO'UGHTLESSLY, adv. Without thought; care¬ 
lessly ; stupidly. 
In restless hurries thoughtlessly they live. 
At substance oft unmov’d, for shadows grieve. Garth. 
THOUGHTLESSNESS, s. Want of thought; absence 
of thought.—What is called absence, is a thoughtlessness 
and want of attention about what is doing. Ld. Chester¬ 
field. 
THO'UGHTSICK, adj. Uneasy with reflection. 
Heaven’s face doth glow 
With tristful visage ; and, as ’gainst the doom, 
Is thoughtsick at the act. Shakspeare. 
THOUINIA [so named by Dr. Smith, in honour of Mons. 
Andre Thouin, fellow of the National Institute, and Profes¬ 
sor of Horticulture in the French Museum], in Botany, a 
genus of the class pentandria, order monogynia, natural or¬ 
der of convolvuli (Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx five¬ 
leaved, permanent; leaflets roundish, three outer thicker 
wrinkled, naked, two inner membranaceous at the edge, 
silky at the back. Corolla one-petalled, bell-shaped, plaited, 
twice as long as the calyx, five-cleft; the segments very 
blunt, hispid on the outside, with very frequent rigid, fulgid 
bristles; within and along the edge between the plaits 
smooth, tomentose-ciliate at the top. Stamina: filaments 
five, round, naked, twice as long as the corolla, declining. 
Anthers biggish, cordate, two-lobed, smooth. Pistil: germ 
ovate, very hairy, superior. Style : length, form and situa¬ 
tion of the stamens. Stigma simple, obtuse. Pericarp: drupe 
globular, s;ze of a plum, supported by the permanent calyx. 
— Essential Character. Corolla one-petalled, bell-shaped, 
inferior, hispid on the outside. Style simple. 
Thouinia spectabilis.—This is a tree with a hard wrinkled 
bark: the branches are round, silky towards the top, termi¬ 
nated by leaves and flowers in bundles. Leaves scattered, 
obovate-lanceolate, smooth, with a stout midrib; petioles 
short, channelled, when young silky. Stipules none. Flowers 
axiilary, solitary, large and handsome, nodding a little, on 
roundish peduncles thickened at the top, silky towards the 
base, having in the middle two small acute silky opposite 
bractes.—Native of Madagascar. 
THOURG, a small town in the north of France, depart- 
.ment of the Eure and Loir, with 1100 inhabitants, and 
manufacturers of cotton, caps, stockings, and gloves; 3 miles 
east of Janville. 
THO'USAND, adj. or s. [Supenb, Saxon ; thusund, Icel. 
from tiu, Icel. ten, and hund, M. Goth, hundred. Sere- 
nius. ] The number of ten hundred.—About three thou¬ 
sand years ago, navigation of the world for remote voyages 
was greater than at this day Bacon. —Proverbially, a great 
number. 
For harbour at a thousand doors they knock’d, 
Not one of all the thousand but was lock’d. Dryden. 
Search the herald’s roll, 
Where thou shalt find thy famous pedigree. 
Drawn from the root of some old Tuscan tree. 
And thou, a thousand off, a fool of long degree. Dryden. 
THOUSAND ISLANDS, a cluster of islands in the Straits 
of Sunda. Lat. 5. 33. S. long. 106. 33. E. 
THOUSAND 
