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vessels. Sharp. —To pass through; to pierce through.— 
Thus out of season threading dark-ey’d night. Shakspeare. 
THREADBARE, adj. Deprived of the nap; wore to 
the naked threads.—The clothier means to dress the Com¬ 
monwealth, and set a new nap upon it; so he had need ; 
for ’tis threadbare. Shakspeare.— Worn out; trite. 
A hungry lean-fac’d villain, 
A mere anatomy, a mountebank, 
A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller. Shakspeare. 
THRE'ADBARENESS, s. State of being threadbare.— 
There was much significance in his look with regard to the 
coat; it spoke of the sleekness of folly, and the thread- 
bareness of wisdom. Man of Fee/ing. 
THRE'ADEN, adj. Made of thread. 
Behold the threaden sails. 
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, 
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow’d sea. 
Shakspeare. 
THRE'ADY, adj. Like thread ; slender.— Branehes like 
the small and threddie roots of a tree. Granger .• —Con¬ 
taining thread. 
From hand to hand 
The thready shuttle glides along the lines. Dyer. 
THREALS, a township of England, in Lancashire, ad¬ 
joining to Kirkham. Population 671. 
To THREAP, v. a. [Sax. Speapian] To argue; to 
contend : still a northern word.—Some crye upon God, 
some other threpe that he hathe forgoten theym. Bp. 
Fisher. 
To THREAT, or Threaten, v. a. [tipeatian Saxon: 
threat is seldom used but in poetry.] To menace; to 
denounce evil. 
Death to be wish’d 
Though threaten'd, which no worse than this can bring. 
Milton. 
To menace; to terrify, or attempt to terrify, by shewing 
or denouncing evil. It has with before the thing threatened, 
if a noun ; to, if a verb. 
What threat you me with telling of the king ? 
Tell him and spare not. Shakspeare. 
To menace by action. 
Void of fear, 
He threaten'd with his long protended spear. Dry den. 
THREAT, s. Menace; denunciation of ill.—'There is 
no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shakspeare. 
THREATENER, s. [formerly t hr eater. Prompt. Parv.] 
Menacer; one that threatens. 
Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; 
Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow 
Of bragging horrour. Shakspeare. 
The fruit, it gives you life 
To knowledge by the threat'ner. Milton. 
THREATENING, s. A menace; a denunciation of 
evil. 
iEneas their assault undaunted did abide, 
And thus to Lausus, loud with friendly threat'ning. cry’d. 
Dry den. 
THREATENINGLY, adv. With menace; in a threat¬ 
ening manner. 
The honour that thus flames in your fair eyes, 
Before I speak, too threat'ningly replies. . Shakspeare. 
THREATFUL, adj. Full of threats; minacious. 
Like as a warlike brigandine applide 
To fight, lays forth her threatful pikes afore. 
The engines which in them sad death do hide. Spenser. 
THRECKINGHAM, a parish of England, in Lincoln¬ 
shire ; 2 miles north of Folkingham. 
THREE, adj. [ftpie, <5pe, Sax.; dry, Dutch; tri, Welsh 
and Erse; ires, Lat.J Two and one. 
THE 
Prove this a prosperous day, the Mm?-nook’d world 
Shall bear the olive freely. Shakspeare, 
Proverbially a small number.—Away, thou three- inch’d 
fool; I am no beast. Shakspeare. 
THREE BRETHREN, a hill of Scotland, in the parish 
and county of Selkirk, elevated 1978 feet above the level of 
the sea. 
THREE BROTHERS, three small islands on the coast 
of Guiana, in the mouth of the Essequibo.—2. Three small 
islands in the Atlantic, near Prince’s island. Lat. 1. 32. N. 
long. 7. E. —3. Three hills on the north-east coast, of Terra 
del Fuego; 9 miles west of Cape Diego.—4. Three islands 
on the Spanish Main, near the Mosquito shore. Lat. 11. N. 
long. 82. 52. W.— 5. Three islands in the Indian Ocean. 
Lat. 3. 44. S. long. 62. 25. E.-—6. Three islands in the 
Eastern seas. Lat. 10. 42. N. long. 108. E.—7. Three 
small islands in the Eastern seas, near the east coast of Mada¬ 
gascar Lat. 13. 20. S. long. 51. 10. N.—-8. Three small 
islands in the Eastern seas. Lat. 5. 30. S. long. 132. 15. E. 
—9. Three small islands in the Eastern seas, near the west 
coast of Amboyna. Lat. 3. 39. S. long. 128. 18. E.—10. 
Small islands in the Eastern seas, near the south-west coast 
of Celebes. Lat. 5. 25. S. long. 119. 38. E.—11. Small 
islands in the bay of Gunong Tellu, on the coast of Celebes. 
Lat. 1. S. long. 120. 27. E.—12. Small islands in the 
Eastern seas. Lat. 6. S. long. 71.36. E.—13. Three hills 
on the east coast of New Holland, so called by Captain 
Cook. The northernmost is visible 50 miles from a ship’s 
deck at sea, and is in lat. 31. 43. S. long. 152. 45. E. 
THREE CREEK RUN, a river of Virginia, which runs 
into the Nottoway. Lat. 36. 36. N. long. 77. 12. W. 
THRE'EFOLD, adj. [Speojiealb, Sax.j Thrice re¬ 
peated ; consisting of three. 
A threefold off’ring to his altar bring, 
A bull, a ram, a boar, Pope. 
THREE HILLS ISLAND, one of the New Hebrides, in 
the South Pacific Ocean, about 12 miles in circumference. 
Lat. 17. 7. S. tong. 168. 35. E. 
THREE HUMMOCK ISLAND, a small island on the 
east coast of New Holland, separated by a channel two miles 
wide. 
THREE HUMMOCK ISLAND, an island on the north 
coast of Van Diemen’s Land. Lat. 40. 45. S. long. 145. E. 
THREE ISLANDS, small islands in the Eastern seas, 
near the east coast of Bintag. Lat, 1. 10. S. long. 105. 2. E. 
THREE ISLANDS, a name given to some small islands 
in the Indian Ocean, near the eastern coast of Africa. Lat. 
4. 50. S. 
THREE ISLANDS BAY, or Harbour, a bay on the 
east coast of the island of St. Lucia. 
THREE ISLAND HARBOUR, a bay on the coast of 
Patagonia, in the straits of Magellan ; 8 miles north-north- 
west of Batchelor’s river. 
THREE KINGS, three small islands in the South Pacific 
Ocean, near the north coast of New Zealand, discovered by 
Tasman. A singular circumstance respecting these little 
islands is, that they abound in the centipede, which reptile 
is entirely unknown in New Zealand, though only 15 miles 
distant. Lat. 34. 13. S. long. 172. 12. E. 
THRE'EPENGE, s. A small silver coin, valued at 
thrice a penny. 
A threepence bow’d would hire me. 
Old as I am to queen it. Shakspeare. 
THRE'EPENNY, adj. [triolrolaris, Lat.] Vulgar; 
mean. 
THRE’EPILE, s. An old name for good velvet. 
THRE'EPILED, adj. Set with a thick pile; in another 
place it seems to mean piled one on another.—Thou art 
good velvet; thou’rt a threepiPd piece: I had as lief be 
English kersey, as be pil’d as thou art. Shakspeare. 
THREE POINTS CAPE, the north head of the entrance 
into Broken Bay, on the east coast of New Holland. Lat. 33. 
32f.S. long. 151. 23j. E. 
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