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THRUPWICH, or Thorpe-wick, a village of England, 
in Berkshire; 1| mile east of Abingdon. 
THRUSH, s. [Spifc, Saxon ; turdus, Latin.] A small 
singing bird.—Pain, and a fine thrush, have been severally 
endeavouring to call off my attention; but both in vain. 
Pope. —A disease, indicated by small red eruptions, especi¬ 
ally in the mouth, which is named from the Fr. rouge, red, 
prefixing the English the, hence thrush. 
THRUSHEL, a river of England, in Devonshire, which 
runs into the Tamar, opposite Launceston. 
THRUSHELTON, a hamlet of England, in Devonshire; 
lOmilessouth-west-by-westofOakhampton. Population 385. 
THRUSSINGTON, aparishof England, in Leicestershire; 
8 miles north-north-east of Leicester. 
To THRUST, v. a. [ trusito, Lat.; thrijsta, trudere; 
Streams; Old Eng. threst. “ This lettre down she threst, 
under his pillow.” Chaucer.'] To push any thing into 
matter, or between close bodies.— Thrust in thy sickle and 
reap. Rev. —To push; to move with violence; to drive. 
It is used of persons or things. 
Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum. 
Clamber not you up to the casements then, 
Nor thrust your head into the public streets. Shakspeare. 
To stab.—Phineas thrust both of them through. Nu?ah. 
—To compress.—He thrust the fleece together, and wringed 
the dew out of it. Judg. —To impel; to urge.—We make 
guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we 
were villains on necessity, and all that we are evil in, by a 
divine thrusting on. Shakspeare. —To obtrude; to in¬ 
trude. 
Who’s there, I say ? How dare you thrust yourselves 
Into my private meditations. Shakspeare. 
To THRUST, v. n; To make a hostile push; to attack 
with a pointed weapon.—To squeeze in ; to put himself into 
any place by violence. 
I’ll be a Spartan while I live on earth; 
But when in heaven, I’ll stand next Hercules, 
And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden. 
To intrude. 
Not all. 
Who like intruders thrust into their service. 
Participate their sacred influence. Rowe. 
To push forwards; come violently; to throng; to 
press. 
Young, old, thrust there. 
In mighty concourse. Chapman. 
THRUST, s. Hostile attack with any pointed weapon. 
.That thrust had been mine enemy indeed. 
But that my coat is better than thou know'st. Shakspeare. 
Assault; attack.—There is one thrust at your pure, pre¬ 
tended mechanism. More. 
THRU'STER, s. He that thrusts. 
THRU'STLE, s. Thrush; throstle. 
No thrustles shrill the bramble-bush forsake ; 
No chirping lark the welkin sheen invokes. 
THRUXTON, a parish of England, in Herefordshire; 61- 
miles south-west-by-west of Hereford. 
THRUXTON, a parish of England, in the Isle of Wight, 
Southamplonshire; 6 miles west of Andover. 
THRYALLIS [©puaXXi?, ellychnium, a wick: hence a 
plant so named, because the leaves are fit to make wicks 
for lamps], in Botany, a genus of the class decandria, 
order monogynia, natural order of tricoccae, acera 
(Juss.) —Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-parted; 
segments lanceolate, erect, permanent. Corolla: petals five, 
roundish, spreading. Stamina: filaments ten, awl-shaped, 
longer than the calyx. Anthers roundish. Pistil: germ 
obtuse. Style filiform, length of the stamens. Stigma 
simple. Pericarp: capsule three-sided, triangular, obtuse, 
tripartite ; cells opening by the exterior angle. Seeds solitary, 
very smooth, obovate, obtuse at the base, mucronate and 
curved inwards .—Essential Character. Calyx five-parted. 
Petals five. Capsule tricoccous. 
ThryallisBrasiliensis.—This is a little shrub, with round 
jointed branches. Leaves opposite, petioled, ovate, entire. 
Stipules bristle-shaped. Raceme terminating, from the fork 
of the branches, simple, a foot long: with very short 
bristle-shaped bractes; and filiform pedicels, longer than 
the flower. Flowers small, yellow. Fruits tricoccous or 
three-grained.—Native of Brasil. 
THRYBERGH, a parish of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 3 miles north-east of Rotherham. 
To THRYFA'LLOW, v. a. To give the third plowing 
in summer. 
Thryfallow betime for destroying of weed. 
Lest thistles and docke fal a blooming and seed. Tusser. 
THUCYDIDES, a celebrated Greek historian, was born 
in the 77th Olympiad, about 470 B. C. The name of his 
father was Olorus, or Orolus, that of a Thracian prince, in¬ 
dicating a connection with Thrace, in which he seems to 
have possessed gold-mines, and to have had influence over 
its chiefs. He belonged to one of the principal families at 
Athens, and was related to that of Miltiades. His education 
was that which distinguished Athenians of rank: Antiphon 
being his preceptor in rhetoric, and Anaxagoras in philoso¬ 
phy. When he heard Herodotus recite his history at the 
Olympic festival, he is said to have shed tears; and Herodo¬ 
tus observing it, congratulated Olorus on his son’s disposi¬ 
tion. At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war he 
was at Athens, and shared in the calamity of pestilence that 
then occurred; and in the eighth year of that war he had a 
command in Thrace, and was opposed to the Spartan general 
Brasidas, who surprised the town of Amphipolis, for the loss 
of which Thucydides was punished by banishment, though 
it does not appear that he could have prevented it. During 
the twenty years of his exile, he devoted himself to literary 
researches and observations through different parts of Greece, 
and thus collected materials for the history which he was 
projecting. He resided for a considerable time in Thrace, 
but the place and the time of his death are not ascertained. 
Dodwell conjectures that he passed his 80th year, and died 
in Thrace. His history comprehends the transactions of the 
first twenty years of the Peloponnesian war, disposed in 
eight books; more limited in its compass than that of Hero¬ 
dotus, but not merely rivalling but surpassing it in historical 
merit, more especially if we admit what a modern writer says 
of it, “ that the first page of Thucydides is the commence¬ 
ment of real history.” The distinguishing characteristics of 
this historian are diligence of research, and the selection of 
the best authorities, and perfect impartiality. To these qua¬ 
lities we may add sagacity in investigating causes and effects, 
and a philosophical spirit in forming a discriminating judg¬ 
ment of human affairs. His narration is occasionally very 
interesting, and indicates the writer of genius. His style, 
which has undergone much criticism, is of that kind which 
the ancients termed the austere, aiming at force and brevity 
rather than harmony, elegance, or perspicuity. Its concise¬ 
ness and frequent transpositions render it frequently obscure, 
nor is this defect compensated by its energy and elevation. 
The most valued editions of this work are Hudson’s, Oxon. 
1696 ; Wasse and Ducker’s, Amst. fol. 1731; and the Leip- 
sic, 2 vols. 4to. 1790—1804. Voss. Hist. Gra:c. Gen. 
Biog. 
THUEITS, a small town in the south of France; 11 miles 
north-west of Argentiere, and 20 west-south-west of Privas. 
THUIN, a small town of the Netherlands, in the province 
of Hainault, on the Sambre. Population 3000; S miles 
south-west of Charleroi, and 16 east-south-east of Mons. 
THUIN, an old mining town of Germany, in Saxony, on 
a hill; 40 miles west-south-west of Dresden and 9 south of 
Chemnitz. Population 1400. 
THUIN, a small town of the Austrian states, in Croatia, 
near the river Ostorie, and the great road called the Josephi- 
nerstrasse. In the neighbourhood is a large and remarkable 
cave; 19 miles south-south-west of Carlstadt. 
THUIR, 
