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- English Word Thimbleberry Definition A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
- English Word Thimbleeye Definition The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
- English Word Thimbleful Definition As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
- English Word Thimblefuls Definition of Thimbleful
- English Word Thimblerig Definition A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
- English Word Thimblerig Definition To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.
- English Word Thimblerigged Definition of Thimblerig
- English Word Thimblerigger Definition One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
- English Word Thimblerigging Definition of Thimblerig
- English Word Thimbleweed Definition Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.
- English Word Thin Definition Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
- English Word Thin Definition Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
- English Word Thin Definition Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
- English Word Thin Definition Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
- English Word Thin Definition Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
- English Word Thin Definition Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
- English Word Thin Definition Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
- English Word Thin Definition Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
- English Word Thin Definition To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
- English Word Thin Definition To grow or become thin; -- used with some adverbs, as out, away, etc.; as, geological strata thin out, i. e., gradually diminish in thickness until they disappear.