v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Thrust p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting. ] [ OE. &unr_;rusten, &unr_;risten, &unr_;resten, Icel. &unr_;r&unr_;st&unr_; to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat. ] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through. [ 1913 Webster ]

To thrust away or
To thrust from, to push away; to reject. --
To thrust in, to push or drive in. --
To thrust off, to push away. --
To thrust on, to impel; to urge. --
To thrust one's self in or
To thrust one's self into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. --
To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. --
To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. “I am eight times thrust through the doublet.” Shak. --
To thrust together, to compress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. [ 1913 Webster ]

And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. “Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.” Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

To thrust to, to rush upon. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As doth an eager hound
Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Polites ] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An attack; an assault. [ 1913 Webster ]

One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mech.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. --
Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. Thrist. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who thrusts or stabs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of pushing with force. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Dairies) (a) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey. (b) pl. The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made. [ Written also thrutchthings. ] [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrusting screw, the screw of a screw press, as for pressing curd in making cheese. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The throstle, or song thrust. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When he heard the thrustel sing. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]