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- English Word Thrust Definition To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
- English Word Thrust Definition A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.
- English Word Thrust Definition An attack; an assault.
- English Word Thrust Definition The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.
- English Word Thrust Definition The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
- English Word Thruster Definition One who thrusts or stabs.
- English Word Thrusting Definition of Thrust
- English Word Thrusting Definition The act of pushing with force.
- English Word Thrusting Definition The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey.
- English Word Thrusting Definition The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
- English Word Thrustle Definition The throstle, or song thrust.
- English Word Thryes Definition Thrice.
- English Word Thryfallow Definition To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.
- English Word Thud Definition A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
- English Word Thug Definition One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
- English Word Thuggee Definition The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
- English Word Thuggery Definition Alt. of Thuggism
- English Word Thuggism Definition Thuggee.
- English Word Thuja Definition A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
- English Word Thule Definition The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.