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Show TEEE TH He who fat-ata table with a fword hanging ove his head butby one fingle thread or hair, furely ha South enough to check his appetite The art of pleafing is the fkill of cutting to thread betwixt flattery and ill-manners. L Effran z. Any thing continued in a courfe ; uniform tenor The eagernefs and trembling of the fancy dot not always regularly follow the fame even tZread o difcourfe, but ftrikes upo fome other thing tha Burnet hath relation to it The gout being a difeafe of the nerveus parts makes it fo hard to cure; difeafes are fo as the are more remote in the thread of the motion of th Arbuthnot fluids Zo THREAD. @. 2. [from the noun. 1. To pafs through with a thread Thus out of feafon threading dark-eyed night Shakefpeare Being preft to th' war Ev'n when the nave of the ftate was touch'd Shak. Coriolan They would not thread the gates TorE ADBARE. adj. [thread and bare. wor nap th t Spenfer Th That it {pread no further, ftraitly zhreaten the that they fpeak henceforth to no man in this name Aftsy iv. 18 The void profoun Wide gaping, and with utter lofs of bein Milzon Threatens him This day blaek omens threat the brighteft fai Pope That e'er deferv'd a watchful fpirit's care 3. To menace by action Void of fear clothier means to drefs the commonwealth and fet a new nap upon it: {0 he had need ; fo *tis threadbare Shake[peare Will any freedom here from you be borne rowling from afar they threat the fhore THRE ATENER. 7. /. [from threaten.] Me Shake[peare's King Jobn Of bragging horrour ‘I'he fruit, it gives you lif To knowledge by the threat'ner. - Milt. Par. Loff [from threaten. ASpea their affault undaunte to Laufus loud with friendly threat'nin cry'd Dryden's Virgil How impoffible would it be for a maftet, that thu interceded with God for his fervants, to ufe an unkind threat'nings towards them, to damn an curfe them as dogs and fcoundrels, and treat the A threadbare juggler, and a fortune-teller Shak Many writers of moral difcourfes run into ftal topick an rbreadbar quotations their fubjet fully and clofely no handlin Savift If he underftood trade, he would not have men tioned this threadbare and exploded projeét Child on Trade TurR ADEN. adj. [from thread. Mad of thread Behold the threaden fails Borne with th' invifible and crecping wind Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd fea There is no terror, Caffius, in your threats Shakefpeare The emperor perceiving that his threars wer little regarded, regarded little to threaten any more Hayward Do not believ #res, Lat. Shall bear the olive freely Thofe rigid threars of death : ye fhall not die Milton 72 THREAT 9o Ture'aTEN. but in poetry. 1. 'To menace v. a [Bpneacian, Sax threat is feldom ufe to denounce evil Death to be wifh' Though threaten'd, which no worfe than this ca "If'(lyll/‘cfl Thefe threc and three with ofier bands we ty'd Pope bring 2. To menace Milton to terrify, or attempt t terrify, by fhewing or denouncing evil. Down to thefe worlds T trod the difmal way the three-mouth'd dog to upper day Pope A ftrait needle, fuch as glovers ufe, with three-edged point, ufeful in fewing up dead bodies Sharp z. Proverbially a fmall number Away, thou three-inch'd fool; I am no beaft Shakefpeare beggarly filthy, worfted-ftocking knave three-fuited Shak. King Lear THREEFOLD. adj. [Bpeoyeald, Saxon. Thrice repeated; confifting of three A threcfold cord is not cafily broken Ecclus. iv. 312 By a threefold juftice the world hath been governed from the beginning: by a juftice natural by which the parents and elders of families governe their chilglren natura fro in which the obedienc wa piety: again, by a juftice divine the laws of God Threepil'd hyperboles; fprucc affe@ation. Shaf adj [thre and Jeore, fixty T hreefcore and ten I can remember well Skak Their lives befere the flood were abbreviate after, and contracted unto hundreds and threcfeores Brown By chace our long-liv'd fathers earn'd their food Toil ftrung the nerves, and purify'd the blood rydet A fongo 7. /. [properly thrafber. Dodfley See 70 THRASH The careful pleughman doubting ftands Left on the threfbing floor his fheaves prave chaff Milton Gideon was taken from threfbing, as well as Cia Ture'suoLp Shaksfpeare's Antony and Cleopatra If you fpeak three words, it will zhree times report you the whole three words. Bacon's Nat. Hift Great Atreus' fons, Tydides fixt above With three-ag'd Neftor Creech's Manilius Jove hurls the three-fork'd thunder from above fhallow Shakefprage Locke on Education worl proud art cinnatus from the plough, to command armies this a profp'rous day, the three-nook' A bafe Thou art good velvet; thou 'rta threepil'd piece I had as licf be Englifh kerfey, as be piied as tho Ture'sHING 1. Two and one And dragg' Befpeaks a mafer [Spe, Saxon ; dry, Dutch S/?al'rf/)mrr 90 TerEAP. w. a. A country word denoting to argue much or contend. infaw THREAT. n. /. [from the verb.] Menace denunciation of ill Here too the threfber brandifhing his flail The engines which in them fad death do hide Prov Shakefpeare THRE'SHER Like as a warlike brigandine applid To fight, lays forth her threatful pikes afore tri, Welth and Erfe and the obedienc calle The groun z [ [Bpeycpalo or fte Saxon. under the door entrance ; gate ; door Fair marching forth in honourable wife Him at the thre/bold met fhe well did enterprize Spenfer Many men, that ftumble at the threfbold Are well foretold that danger lurks within. Sha Not bette Than fill at hell's dark zbrefbold t* have fat watch Unnam'd undreaded and th)‘lélflxalt'-&ax'\"ti Miltan Before the ftarry threfbold of Jove's cour My manfion is, where thofe immortal fhape Of bright acrial fpirits live infpher' In regions mild, of calm and ferene air Milten Tliere fought the queen's apartment, {‘Eood betor The peaceful threfbold, and befieg'd the door. Dlyd THREW preterite of throw Turice adv A broken rock the force of Pyrrhus threw Full on his ankle fell the pond'rous frone Burft the ftrong nerves, and crafh'd the folid *;'0;: [from three. 1. Three times Thrice he affay'd it from his foot to draw And thrice in vain to draw it didba_g.ay, 1 pre th to rob hi m It booted3 nought too think Thrice within this ho.u ir up agai zbric dow hi I fa a Spenfe §baktj{!4 draw wa I, in my time, wore threepile, but am out offer lamentation of threats; minacious adj adj TarENO DY. 7. /. [Semwdiz. The honour that thus flames in ydur fair eyes Before I fpeak, too threat'ningly replies Shakefp TuREE Wi S [tricbolaris, Lat. But we their fons, a pamper'd race of men Are dwindled down to zhreefcore years and gn. Law SPC‘@Q'/' A mere anatomy, a mountebank THurEEPENNY Thrice twenty did abide only as the dregs of the creation Shakefp. Henry V111 Laying a cauftick, I made an efcar the Compaf of a threepence, and gave vent to the matter THRE'ESCORE A menace ; a denanciation of evil THREATFUL. adj. [threat and full.] Ful A hungry lean-fac'd villain Old asI am, to queen i one on another He din'd and fupp'd at charge of other folk Saift A Thracian f{lave the porter's place maintain'd out ; trite A threspence bow'd wou!d hire me TrrREEPI'LED. adj. Set with a thick pile in another place it feems to mean piled Be ftirring as the time ; be fire with firg T'hreaten the ¢threatener, and outface the bro n. / penny vice nacer ; one that threatens THREATENINGLY.adw. [from threaten. With menace ; in a threatening manner 2. Wor THRE'EPENCE. 2. [, [three and pence. A fmall filver coin valued at thrice ])r»)'(/"n THREATENING Pope's Odyfi Ture'erive. m f [three and pike.] - A old name for good velvet noife increafes as the billows roar Whofe cloaths are threadbare, and whofe cloaks ar torn Dryden's Fuwenal He walk'd the fireets, and wore a threadbar cloak Sworn foe to threadbare fuppliants, and with prid His mafter's prefence, nay, his name, deny'd Harte A buli, a ram, a boar Vulgar; mean He threaten'd with his long protended fpear, Dryd And thu Threadbare coat, and cobbled thoes he ware A threefold oftring to his altar bring Shakefpe Richard 111 Tell him, and fpare not and the obedience f Raléigb this we call duty What tbreat you me awith telling of the king Whe .2. To pafs through ; to pierce through 1. Deprived of th naked threads Tt has avith before the thing threatened ifa noun; to, ifa verb Th The largeft crooked needle, with a ligature o the fize of that I have tbreaded it with, in takin Sharp's Surgery up the fpermatick veffels begotte by Both the forme called confeicnce: and lagtly, by a Juttice civil Thri5 ce did he knock his iron teeth 5 fotit C:::'f' D | forehead rowl And into frowns his wrathf 2. A wor |