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was the son of Odin; yet, in some of the northern parts, 
they- worshipped the Supreme Deity under his name, attri¬ 
buting the power over all things, even the inferior deities, to 
him. Stilling fleet The fifth day of the week 
THURSFORD, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 34 
miles south-east-by-east of Little Walsingham. 
THURSLEY, a parish of England, in Surrey; 5£ miles 
south-west-by-west of Godaiming. Population 564. 
THURSO, a parish of Scotland, in the county of Caithness, 
which extends three miles round the town of Thurso, in every 
direction. Population of the town and parish, 3462. 
THURSO, a town of Scotland, in the above parish; 20 
miles north-west of Wick, 18 west of Johnny Groat’s-house, 
and 290 north of Edinburgh, situated on the north coast of 
the county, at the head of a spacious bay at the estuary of the 
river Thurso. It contains 2225 inhabitants. Besides the 
parish church, there are Congregational, Antiburgher, and 
Baptist places of worship. 
THURSO RIVER, a river of Scotland, in the county of 
Caithness, which rises from some springs on the borders of 
Sutherlandshire, passes through Loch More, and, after a rapid 
impetuous course over a rocky channel, through a fertile 
country, falls into the Pentiand frith at the town of 
Thurso. 
THURSTANTON, a parish of England, in Cheshire; 5 
miles north-west-by-north of Great Neston. 
THURSTON, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 54 miles 
east-by-north of St. Edmund’s Bury. Population 360. 
THURSTON-MERE, a river of England, in Cumberland, 
and Lancashire, which runs into the Fosse, near Crakeford. 
THURTON, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 8| miles 
south-east of Norwich. 
THURW ASTON, a township of England, in Derbyshire; 
1~ miles west north-west of Derby. 
THURY HARCOURT, a small town in the north of 
France, department of Calvados, on the river Orne. Popula¬ 
tion 1100; 15 miles south-south-west of Caen. 
THUS, adv. [Sup, Saxon.] In this manner; in this wise. 
To be thus is nothing; 
But to be safely thus. Shakspeare. 
To this degree; to this quantity. 
THUSIS, or Tossana, a small town of the Swiss canton 
of the Grisons, near the confluence of the Albula and the 
Hinter Rhine ; 10 miles south-south-west of Coire. 
THUXTON, or Thurston, a parish of England, in Nor¬ 
folk ; 54 miles south-east-by-south of East Dereham. 
To THWACK, v. a. [baccian, Saxon.] The Saxon word 
was perhaps used ironically, otherwise its strict meaning was 
to touch lightly. To thnclc is the old English word : “ This 
carter thakketh his horse upon the croupe.” Chaucer. To 
strike with something blunt and heavy; to thresh; bang; to 
belabour. A ludicrous word. 
He shall not stay ; 
We’ll thwack him hence with distaffs. Shakspeare. 
THWACK, s. A heavy hard blow. 
But Talgol first with hardy thwack 
Twice bruis’d his head, and twice his back. Hudibras. 
THWA1TE, s. [Camden. Twaite, Norm. Fr.j Any 
plain parcel of ground, from which wood has been grubbed 
up, enclosed and converted into tillage: a northern word .— 
It being a 6tony and mountainous country, is not every 
where so fit for tillage or meadow; but in several parts and 
parcels, as they are marked by nature, differing in form and 
quality of soil, or otherwise enclosed by the inhabitants from 
the barren waste of the fells, such parts or parcels are now 
and were of old called thwaits, sometimes with the addition 
of their quality; as Brachenthwaitc, of brackens or fern 
growing there ; Stonethwaite, of rocks; and such like. Ni¬ 
cholson and Burn, Hist, of Cumberland. 
THWAITE, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 4| miles 
north-by-east of Aylesham.—2. Another parish in the same 
county; 12milessouth-east-by-southofNorwich.—3. Aparish 
of England, in Suffolk; 4| miles south-west-by south oi Eye. 
THY 
—4. A township of England, in Cumberland; 10 miles south¬ 
east of Ravenglass. 
THWART, adj. [bpyp, Saxon; dwaers, Teut. obliquus; 
thwer, Icel. transversus, oppositus. Sereniusf] Transverse; 
cross to something else. 
This else to several spheres thou must ascribe, 
Mov’d contrary with thwart obliquities. Milton. 
Perverse; inconvenient; mischievous. [ thairs , Goth, ira- 
tus; bpeop, Sax.; thwere, Icel. contrarius, rebellis. Screniusf] 
If she must teem. 
Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, 
And be a thwart disnatur’d torment to her. Shakspeare. 
THWART, adv. Obliquely. 
Yet whether thwart or flatly it did lyte. 
The tempred steele did not into his braynepan byte. Spenser. 
To THWART, v. a. To cross; to lie or come cross any 
thing. 
Swift as a shooting star 
In autumn thwarts the night. Milton. 
To cross; to oppose; to traverse; to contravene. 
Some sixteen months and longer might have staid. 
If crooked fortune had not thwarted me. Shakspeare. 
To THWART, ». n. To be in opposition to.—It is easy 
to be imagined what reception any proposition shall find, 
that shall at all thwart with these internal oracles. Locke. 
THWART THE WAY. See Middle Island. 
TIIWARTER, Trembling, or Leaping-Ill, a disease 
in sheep, of the convulsive kind. 
THWA'RTING, s. The act of crossing; the act of op¬ 
posing.—Socrates knew before he married her, that his Xan- 
tippe was a scold insufferable; yet he wittingly did marry 
her, to exercise his patience, that, by the practice of enduring 
her shrewish heats, he might be able to brook all companies; 
the brawls, the scorns, the sophisms, and the petulancies of 
rude and unskilful men; the freltings, the thwartings, and 
the excruciations of life. Feltham. 
THWA'RTINGLY, adv. Oppositely; with opposition. 
THWA'RTNESS, s. Untowardness; perverseness.—Can 
any man be so unreasonable as to defend it lawful, upon 
some unkind usages or thwartness of disposition, for a 
parent to abandon and forsake his child, or the son to cast 
off his parent ? much less therefore may it be thus betwixt an 
husband and wife: “ They two are one flesh.’’ Bp. Hall. 
THWING, a township of England, East Riding of York¬ 
shire; 84 miles west-north-west of Bridlington. 
To THWITE, v. a. [Spitan, Sax.] To cut, chip, or 
hack with a knife: used in the north, and is in the old 
dictionary of Huloet. 
A bow—full even— 
And it was painted well and thwitten. Chaucer. 
THWI'TTLE, s. [hpicel, Sax. whence our whittle ; but 
thwittle is the older English word. See To Tiiwite.] A 
kind of knife: this is also a northern word. —A Shefeld 
thwitel bare he in his hose. Chaucer. 
THY, pronoun, [bin, Saxon.] Of thee; belonging to 
thee; relating to thee: the possessive of thou. See Thou. — 
These are thy works, parent of good. Milton. 
TIIYINE WOOD, s. A precious wood.—The merchandize 
of gold and all thyine wood are departed from thee. Rev. 
THYLACION, a word used by the ancient medical wri¬ 
ters, to express the bag formed by the membranes of the 
foetus at the orifice of the pudenda, before the birth. 
T1IYMBRA, in Botany, a genus of the class didynamia, 
order gymnospermia, natural order of verticillatae or labiatae. 
—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth one-leafed, sub- 
cylindrical, keeled at the sides, two-lipped at the mouth : 
upper lip wider, half-three-cleft, equal, converging; lower 
narrower, two-parted. Corolla ringent; tube subcylindri- 
cal; upper lip flat, straight, half-two-cleft, obtuse; lower 
three-cleft, almost equal, flat. Stamina: filaments four, 
filiform, approaching by pairs; the two lower ones shorter. 
Anthers two-lobed; lobes remote, under the upper lip of the 
corolla. 
