Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams.
Dryden.
7. Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force;
superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin
disguise.
My tale is done, for my wit is but thin.
Chaucer.
Thin is used in the formation of compounds which are mostly
self-explaining; as, thin-faced, thin-lipped, thin-peopled,
thin-shelled, and the like.
Thin section. See under Section.
Thin, adv. Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown
thin.
Spain is thin sown of people.
Bacon.
Thin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thinned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Thinning.] [Cf.
AS. geþynnian.] To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Thin, v. i. 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.
Thine (n), pron. & a. [OE. thin, AS. ðn, originally gen. of ðu, ð,
thou; akin to G. dein thine, Icel. þinn, possessive pron., þn, gen. of
þ thou, Goth. þeins, possessive pron., þeina, gen. of þu thou. See
Thou, and cf. Thy.] A form of the possessive case of the pronoun thou,
now superseded in common discourse by your, the possessive of you, but
maintaining a place in solemn discourse, in poetry, and in the usual
language of the Friends, or Quakers.
In the old style, thine was commonly shortened to thi (thy) when used
attributively before words beginning with a consonant; now, thy is used
also before vowels. Thine is often used absolutely, the thing possessed
being understood.
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Thing (thng), n. [AS. þing a thing, cause, assembly, judicial assembly;
akin to þingan to negotiate, þingian to reconcile, conciliate, D. ding
a thing, OS. thing thing, assembly, judicial assembly, G. ding a thing,
formerly also, an assembly, court, Icel. þing a thing, assembly, court,
Sw. & Dan. ting; perhaps originally used of the transaction of or
before a popular assembly, or the time appointed for such an assembly;
cf. G. dingen to bargain, hire, MHG. dingen to hold court, speak before
a court, negotiate, Goth. þeihs time, perhaps akin to L. tempus time.
Cf. Hustings, and Temporal of time.] 1. Whatever exists, or is
conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate;
any separable or distinguishable object of thought.
God made . . . every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind.
Gen. i. 25.
He sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of
Egypt.
Gen. xiv. 23.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Keats.
2. An inanimate object, in distinction from a living being; any
lifeless material.
Ye meads and groves, unconscious things!
Cowper.