Thrust - THRUST, v.t. pret. and pp. thrust. [L. trudo, trusum, trusito.]
1. To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.
Neither shall one thrust another. Joel 2. John 20.
2. To drive; to force; to impel.
To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. Acts 7.
To thrust in, to push or drive in.
Thrust in thy sickle and reap. Rev 14.
To thrust on, to impel; to urge.
To thrust off, to push away.
To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. Num 25. 2 Sam 18.
To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. Exo 12.
To thrust one's self, to obtrude; to intrude; to enter where one is not invited or not welcome.
To thrust together, to compress.
THRUST, v.i. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
1. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
And thrust between my father and the god.
2. To intrude.
3. To push forward; to come with force; to press on.
Young, old, thrust there
In mighty concourse.
THRUST, n. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing.
Polites Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.
1. Attack; assault.
There is one thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
[Note. Push and shove do not exactly express the sense of thrust. The two former imply the application of force by one body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust on the contrary, often implies the impulse or application of force by a moving body, a body in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. This distinction does not extend to every case.]
Tinkle - TINK'LE, v.i.
1. To make small quick sharp sounds, as by striking on metal; to clink.
--And have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor 13. Isa 3.
The sprightly horse
Moves to the music of his tinkling bells.
The moment the money tinkles in the chest, the soul mounts out of purgatory.
2. To hear a small sharp sound.
And his ears tinkled, and his color fled.
TINK'LE, v.t. To cause to clink or make sharp quick sounds.
Tinkling - TINK'LING, ppr. Making a small quick sharp noise.
TINK'LING, n. A small quick sharp sound.
Making a tinkling with their feet. Isa 3.
Tire - TIRE, n. [Heb. tur, a row or series.]
1. A tier; a row or rank. This is the same word as tier, differently written. [See Tier and Tour.]
2. A head dress; something that encompasses the head. [See Tiara.] Ezek 24. Isa 3.
On her head she wore a tire of gold.
3. Furniture; apparatus; as the tire of war.
4. Attire. [See Attire.]
5. A band or hoop of iron, used to bind the fellies of wheels, to secure them from wearing and breaking; as cart-tire; wagon-tire. This tire however is generally formed of different pieces, and is not one entire hoop.
TIRE, v.t. To adorn; to attire; to dress; as the head. Obs. [See Attire.] 2 Ki 9.
TIRE, v.t. [L. tero.]
1. To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the strength by toil or labor; as, to tire a horse or an ox. A long day's work in summer will tire the laborer.
Tir'd with toil, all hopes of safety past.
2. To weary; to fatigue; to exhaust the power of attending, or to exhaust patience with dullness or tediousness. A dull advocate may tire the court and jury, and injure his cause.
To tire out, to weary or fatigue to excess; to harass.
TIRE, v.i. To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted. A feeble body soon tires with hard labor.
Tolerable - TOL'ERABLE, a. [L. tolerabilis. See Tolerate.]
1. That may be borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. The cold in Canada is severe, but tolerable. The insults and indignities of our enemies are not tolerable.
It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Mat 10.
2. Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment or opposition; as a tolerable translation; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable administration.