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Thiller
n.
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The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.
Thimble
n.
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A kind of cap or cover, or sometimes a broad ring, for the end of the finger, used in sewing to protect the finger when pushing the needle through the material. It is usually made of metal, and has upon the outer surface numerous small pits to catch the head of the needle.
Thimble
n.
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Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
Thimble
n.
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A tubular piece, generally a strut, through which a bolt or pin passes.
Thimble
n.
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A fixed or movable ring, tube, or lining placed in a hole.
Thimble
n.
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A tubular cone for expanding a flue; -- called ferrule in England.
Thimble
n.
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A ring of thin metal formed with a grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.
Thimbleberry
n.
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A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.
Thimbleeye
n.
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The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
Thimblefuls
pl.
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Thimbleful
n.
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As much as a thimble will hold; a very small quantity.
Thimblerig
n.
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A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
Thimblerigged
imp. & p. p.
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Thimblerigging
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Thimblerig
v. t.
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To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.
Thimblerigger
n.
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One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Thimbleweed
n.
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Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.
Thin
superl.
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Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite; as, a thin plate of metal; thin paper; a thin board; a thin covering.
Thin
superl.
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Rare; not dense or thick; -- applied to fluids or soft mixtures; as, thin blood; thin broth; thin air.
Thin
superl.
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Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin.
Thin
superl.
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Not full or well grown; wanting in plumpness.
Thin
superl.
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Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.
Thin
superl.
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Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full.
Thin
superl.
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Slight; small; slender; flimsy; wanting substance or depth or force; superficial; inadequate; not sufficient for a covering; as, a thin disguise.
Thin
adv.
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Not thickly or closely; in a seattered state; as, seed sown thin.
Thinned
imp. & p. p.
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Thinning
p. pr. & vb. n.
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Thin
v. t.
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To make thin (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Thin
v. i.
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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
pron. & a.
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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.