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THOUSAND ISLANDS, a number of small islands in 
Hie river St. Lawrence, a little below Lake Ontario; the part 
of the river being called Thousand Island Lake. 
THOUSAND LAKES, a name given to a number of 
small lakes in America, near the river Mississippi; 60 miles 
above St. Anthony’s Falls. 
THOUSAND ROCKS, rocks on the river St. Lawrence; 
72 miles south-west of Montreal. 
THOUSANDTH, adj. The hundredth ten times told; 
the ordinal of a thousand: proverbially, very numerous.— 
He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts, and break 
but a part of a thousandth part in the affairs of love, it 
may be said of him, that Cupid hath clapt him o’ th’ shoulder, 
but I’ll warrant him heart whole. Shakspeare. 
THOWL, s. [<5o1, Saxon, “ scalmus a quo pendet remus.” 
Lye.] One of two small sticks or wooden pins, driven into 
the edge of a boat, by which oars are kept in their places 
when rowing. Ainsworth. 
THOYDON, Bois, a parish of England, in Essex; 3 
miles south of Epping. 
THOYDON, Garmon, a parish of England, in Essex; 2 
miles south-south east of Epping. Population 612. 
THOYDON, Mount, another parish in the above county; 
3|- milts south-east of Epping. 
THOYNARD (Nicholas), a native of Orleans, was born 
in 1629, and at an early age a proficient in the learned lan¬ 
guages, and in medal lie science. His own original works 
were few, but he was liberal in the assistance he afforded to 
other writers. He published two short Latin dissertations on 
particular medals, and notes upon “ Lactantius de Mortibus 
Persecutorum,” and also a Critique on R. Simon’s transla¬ 
tion of the New Testament; but his principal performance 
•was “ A Concord of the Four Evangelists,” in Greek and 
Latin, which was printing at the time of his death at Paris, 
in 1706, and appeared in 1707, with learned notes, chro¬ 
nological and historical. In this work he maintains that St. 
Matthew, of all the evangelists, paid the least regard in his 
narrative to the order of time. This work was printed at con¬ 
siderable expense, and is now rare. Moreri. 
To THRACK, v. a. [tracht, a load, German ; from 
tragen, to carry ] To load; to burthen.—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. 
THRAEVE, or Thrive, a small island of Scotland, in 
Kirkcudbright stewartry, formed by the river Dee, on which 
is situated the stately castle of the same name, formerly the 
residence of the lords of Galloway. 
THRALL, s. [Spael, Spall, Sax. thrael, Icel. a bond- 
servant, Mr. Ellis considers it is derived from the Saxon 
Sipilian, to bore\ and refers to Exod. xxi. vi.Spilie hip eape 
mib auum sele, “ drill his ear with an awl; a custom retained 
by our forefathers, and executed on their slaves at the church 
door." Specimens of the early Engl. Poets, vol. i. p. 
20.] A slave; one who is in the power of another. Not 
much in use. — Look gracious on thy prostrate thrall, 
Shakspeare. —Bondage; state of slavery or confinement. 
Her men took land. 
And first brought forth Ulysses, bed, and all 
That richly furnish’d it; he still in thrall 
Of all subduing sleep. Chapman. 
THRALL, adj. Bond; subject. 
Withstood 
The fiend that you would maken thrall and bond. 
Chaucer. 
To THRALL, v. a. To enslave; to bring into the 
power of another. Out of use. 
Let me be a slave t’ atchieve the maid. 
Whose sudden sight hath thrall'd my wounded eye. 
Shakspeare. 
The author of nature is not thralled to the laws of nature. 
Drummond. 
THRA'LDOM, s. Slavery; servitude.—How far am I 
inferior to thee in the state of the mind ? and yet know I 
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that all the Heavens cannot bring me to such thraldom. 
Sidney. 
He swore with sobs. 
That he would labour my delivery. 
—Why, so he doth, when he delivers you 
From this earth’s thraldom to the joys of Heaven. 
Shakspeare. 
THRANDESTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 3 
miles north-west-by-north of Eye. 
THRANG. See Throng. 
THRANITiE, in the Roman Trireme-gallies, or those 
which had three benches, the rowers of the upper row 
were called by this name, the second the zygitae, and the 
lowest the thalamitse. 
THRA'PPLE, s. The wind pipe of any animal. They 
still retain it in the Scottish dialect; we say rather throttle : 
THRAPSTON, a market town of England, in the county 
of Northampton, situated in a pleasant valley on the southern 
bank of the river Nen, over which there is a handsome 
bridge of several arches. The situation is extremely pleasant, 
and the surrounding country possesses all the advantages of 
a country retirement; 18 miles north-east of Northampton, 
and 75 north-north-west of London. 
To THRASH, v. a. [Sasppcan, Saxon; derschen, 
Dutch; therskia, Icel. Our word is written thrash or 
thresh • but according to the etymology, thresh is most 
correct.] To beat corn to free it from the chaff.—First 
thrash the corn, then after burn the straw. Shakspeare. 
—To beat; to drub.—Thou scurvy valiant ass; thou art 
here but to thrash Trojans, and thou art bought and sold 
among those of any wit like a Barbarian slave. Shakspeare. 
To THRASH, v. n. To labour; to drudge. 
I rather wou’d be Mrevius, thresh for rhimes 
Like his, the scorn and scandal of the times, 
Than that Philippick fatally dvine. 
Which is inscrib'd the second, should be mine. Dryden. 
THRA'SHER, s. One who thrashes corn. 
Our soldiers, like a lazy thrasher with a flail. 
Fell gently down, as if they struck their friends. Shakspeare. 
THRA'SHINGFLOOR, s. An area on which com is 
beaten. 
In vain the hinds the thrashing-floor prepare, 
And exercise their flails in empty air. Dryden. 
THRASIMENE, or Thrasymene, the ancient name of 
a lake in the central part ot Italy, now called the lake of 
Perugia, and famous for the victory gained by Hannibal, 
over the Romans under Flaminius. 
THRASO’NICAL, adj. [from Thraso, a boaster in old 
comedy.] Boastful; bragging.—His humour is lofty, his 
general behaviour, vain, ridiculous, and thrasonical. 
Shakspeare. 
THRASO'NICALLY, ado. Boastfully.—To brag thra- 
sonica/ly, to boast like Rodomonte. Johnson. 
THRAVE, or Threave, s. [Spap, Sax. trafwe , Su. 
Goth, trava, low Lat. thrave, Norm. Fr.] A herd; a 
drove; a heap. In some parts of England applied to 
twenty-four sheaves of com ; in others to a certain quantity 
of straw. 
They come 
In threaves to frolic with him. B. Jonson. 
THREAD, s. [Spreb, Saxon; from 8papan, tothrow, to 
twist. ] A small line; a small twist; the rudiment of cloth. 
Let not Bardolph’s vital thread be cut 
With edge of penny cord and vile reproach. Shakspeare. 
Any thing continued in a course: uniform tenor.—The 
eagerness and trembling of the fancy doth not always re¬ 
gularly follow the same even thread of discourse, but strikes 
upon some other thing that hath relation to it. Burnet. 
To THREAD, v. a. To pass through with a thread.— 
The largest crooked needle, with a ligature of the size of 
that I have threaded it with in taking up the spermatic 
vessels. 
