Shak.
2. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation,
running through the body.
To seek sweet safety out In vaults and prisons, and to thrill and
shake.
Shak.
Thrill, n. 1. A drill. See 3d Drill, 1.
2. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement; as, a
thrill of horror; a thrill of joy. Burns.
Thrill"ant (?), a. Piercing; sharp; thrilling. [Obs.] "His thrillant
spear." Spenser.
Thrill"ing, a. Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply
moving; as, a thrilling romance. — Thrill"ing*ly, adv. —
Thrill"ing*ness, n.
Thring (?), v. t. & i. [imp. Throng (?).] [AS. þringan. See Throng.] To
press, crowd, or throng. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Thrips (?), n. [L., a woodworm, Gr. &?;.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous
||small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful
||plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
||
The term is also popularly applied to various other small injurious
insects.
Thrist (?), n. Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.
Thrit"tene` (?), a. Thirteen. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Thrive (thrv), v. i. [imp. Throve (thrv) or Thrived (thrvd); p. p.
Thrived or Thriven (thrv"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Thriving.] [OE. þriven,
Icel. þrfask; probably originally, to grasp for one's self, from þrfa
to grasp; akin to Dan. trives to thrive, Sw. trifvas. Cf. Thrift.] 1.
To prosper by industry, economy, and good management of property; to
increase in goods and estate; as, a farmer thrives by good husbandry.
Diligence and humility is the way to thrive in the riches of the
understanding, as well as in gold.