2. Like a thief; acting by stealth; sly; secret.

Time's thievish progress to eternity.

Shak.

3. Partaking of the nature of theft; accomplished by stealing;

dishonest; as, a thievish practice.

Or with a base and biosterous sword enforce A thievish living on the

common road.

Shak.

— Thiev"ish*ly, adv. — Thiev"ish*ness, n.

Thigh (th), n. [OE. thi, þih, þeh, AS. þeóh; akin to OFries. thiach, D.

dij, dije, OHG. dioh, thioh, Icel. þj thigh, rump, and probably to

Lith. taukas fat of animals, tukti to become fat, Russ. tuke fat of

animals. √56.] 1. (Anat.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between

the knee and the trunk. See Femur.

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