[Made] Hell and this world — one realm, one continent Of easy
thoroughfare.
Milton.
Thor"ough*go`ing (?), a. 1. Going through, or to the end or bottom;
very thorough; complete.
2. Going all lengths; extreme; thoroughplaced; — less common in this
sense.
Thor"ough-light`ed (?), a. (Arch.) Provided with thorough lights or
windows at opposite sides, as a room or building. Gwilt.
Thor"ough*ly, adv. In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
Thor"ough*ness, n. The quality or state of being thorough;
completeness.
Thor"ough*paced` (?), a. Perfect in what is undertaken; complete; going
all lengths; as, a thoroughplaced Tory or Whig.
If she be a thoroughplaced impostor.
Sir W. Scott.
Thor"ough*pin` (?), n. (Far.) A disease of the hock (sometimes of the
knee) of a horse, caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a
consequent excessive secretion of the synovial fluid; — probably so
called because there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the
leg, appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.
Thor"ough*sped` (?), a. Fully accomplished; thoroughplaced. [R.] Swift.
Thor"ough*stitch` (?), adv. So as to go the whole length of any
business; fully; completely. [Obs.]
Preservance alone can carry us thoroughstitch.
L'Estrange.
Thor"ough*wax` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum
rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves. (b) Thoroughwort.
Thor"ough*wort` (?), n. Same as Boneset.
Thor"ow (?), prep. Through. [Obs.] "Thorow bramble, pits, and floods."
Beau. & Fl.
Thor"ow, a. Thorough. [Obs.] Hakluyt.
{ Thorp, Thorpe} (thôrp), n. [AS. þorp; akin to OS. & OFries. thorp, D.
dorp, G. dorf, Icel. þorp, Dan. torp, Sw. torp a cottage, a little
farm, Goth. þaúrp a field, and probably to Lith. troba a building, a
house, W. tref a hamlet, Ir. treabh a farmed village, a tribe, clan,
Gael. treabhair houses, and perhaps to L. turba a crowd, mult. Cf.
Dorp.] A group of houses in the country; a small village; a hamlet; a
dorp; — now chiefly occurring in names of places and persons; as,
Althorp, Mablethorpe. "Within a little thorp I staid." Fairfax.
Then thorpe and byre arose in fire.
Tennyson.
Those (?), pron. [OE. þos, þas, AS. ðs, nom. and acc. pl. of ðs this.
See This, and cf. These.] The plural of that. See That.
||Thoth (?), n. 1. (Myth.) The god of eloquence and letters among the
||ancient Egyptians, and supposed to be the inventor of writing and
||philosophy. He corresponded to the Mercury of the Romans, and was
||usually represented as a human figure with the head of an ibis or a
||lamb.
||
2. (Zoöl.) The Egyptian sacred baboon.
Thou (?), pron. [Sing.: nom. Thou; poss. Thy (?) or Thine (&?;); obj.
Thee (?). Pl.: nom. You (&?;); poss. Your (?) or Yours (&?;); obj.
You.] [OE. thou, þu, AS. ð, ðu; akin to OS. & OFries. thu, G., Dan. &
Sw. du, Icel. þ, Goth. þu, Russ. tui, Ir. & Gael. tu, W. ti, L. tu, Gr.
sy`, Dor. ty`, Skr. tvam. √185. Cf. Thee, Thine, Te Deum.] The second
personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person
addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in
the solemn or poetical style.
Art thou he that should come?
Matt. xi. 3.
"In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a
servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship,
love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the
language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further
expresses honor, submission, or entreaty." Skeat.
Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar
discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.
Thou, v. t. To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with
insolent familiarity or contempt.
If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.
Shak.
Thou, v. i. To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the
manner of the Friends. [R.]
Though (), conj. [OE. thogh, þah, AS. ðeáh, ðh, ðh; akin to OS. thh,
OFries. thach, D. & G. doch but, yet, OHG. doh but, yet though, Icel. þ
yet, nevertheless, Sw. dock, Dan. dog, Goth. þáuh, þáu, than, or, yet;
of uncertain origin. √184.] Granting, admitting, or supposing that;
notwithstanding that; if.
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
Job xiii. 15.
Not that I so affirm, though so it seem.
Milton.
It is compounded with all in although. See Although.
As though, as if.
In the vine were three branches; and it was as though it budded.
Gen. xl. 10.
Though, adv. However; nevertheless; notwithstanding; — used in familiar
language, and in the middle or at the end of a sentence.