THOWLESS, thow'les, _adj._ (_Scot._) pithless: lazy. [_Thew_.]

THRALL, thrawl, _n._ a slave, serf: slavery, servitude: a shelf for

barrels.--_adj._ (_arch._) subject.--_v.t._ to enslave.--_ns._ THRAL'DOM,

THRALL'DOM, the condition of a thrall or slave: slavery: bondage.--_adj._

THRALL'-LIKE (_Milt._), resembling a thrall or slave: resembling slavery:

slavish. [Old Northumbrian _ðr['æ]l_--Ice. _þræll_, a slave; cf. Old High

Ger. _drigil_, a slave, one who runs errands. From root of A.S. _þrægian_,

to run.]

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