| thucydides | (n) ancient Greek historian remembered for his history of the Peloponnesian War (460-395 BC) | | thud | (v) make a dull sound, Syn. thump, Example: the knocker thudded against the front door | | thud | (v) strike with a dull sound, Example: Bullets were thudding against the wall | | thuggee | (n) murder and robbery by thugs | | thuggery | (n) violent or brutal acts as of thugs | | thuja | (n) red cedar, Syn. genus Thuja | | thujopsis | (n) one species; has close similarity to genus Thuja, Syn. genus Thujopsis | | thule | (n) a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there | | thule | (n) the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world, Syn. ultima Thule | | thulium | (n) a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group; isotope 170 emits X-rays and is used in small portable X-ray machines; it occurs in monazite and apatite and xenotime, Syn. atomic number 69, Tm |
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| Thud | v. i. & t. To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud. Hardly the softest thudding of velvety pads. A. C. Doyle. The waves break into spray, dash and rumble and thud below your feet. H. F. Brown. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Thud | n. [ Cf. AS. þōden a whirlwind, violent wind, or E. thump. ] A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth. [ 1913 Webster ] At every new thud of the blast, a sob arose. Jeffrey. [ 1913 Webster ] At intervals there came some tremendous thud on the side of the steamer. C. Mackay. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Thug | n. [ Hind. thag a deceiver, robber. ] 1. One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. An assassin; a ruffian; a rough. “Thugs and midnight rounders.” The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Thuggee | n. [ Hind. &tsdot_;hagī. ] The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. “One of the suppressors of Thuggee.” J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Thuggism | { } n. Thuggee. [ 1913 Webster ] [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Thuggery | | Thuja | ‖n. [ NL., from Gr. qyi`a an African tree with sweet-smelling wood. ] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [ Written also thuya. ] See Thyine wood. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitae of the Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of North-western America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber. [ 1913 Webster ] | | thujone | ‖n. An oil, C10H16O, the chief constituent of cedar leaf oil (thuja oil), which is obtained from the northern white cedar (arbor vitae, Thuja occidentalis) or the western Red Cedar (Thuja plicatis). It is a stimulant similar to camphor. It is also called thujol, thuyol, absinthol, thuyone, tanacetol, and tanacetone. Stedman. [ PJC ] | | Thule | ‖prop. n. [ L. Thule, Thyle, Gr. Qoy`lh, Qy`lh. ] The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Thulia | n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) Oxide of thulium. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Thulium | n. [ NL. See Thule. ] (Chem.) A rare metallic element of the lanthanide group having atomic number 69, and atomic weight 168.93. It is found in the mineral gadolinite and other minerals, together with other rare earths. For more information see the data from ChemGlobe. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ] |
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