Thirsty - THIRST'Y, a. [from thirst.] Feeling a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.
Give me a little water, for I am thirsty. Judg 4.
I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. Mat 25.
1. Very dry; having no moisture; parched.
The thirsty land shall become springs of water. Isa 35.
2. Having a vehement desire of any thing; as in blood-thirsty. Isa 44:65.
Thirsty - THIRST'Y, a. [from thirst.] Feeling a painful sensation of the throat or fauces for want of drink.
Give me a little water, for I am thirsty. Judg 4.
I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink. Mat 25.
1. Very dry; having no moisture; parched.
The thirsty land shall become springs of water. Isa 35.
2. Having a vehement desire of any thing; as in blood-thirsty. Isa 44:65.
This - THIS, definitive adjective or substitute. plu. these.
1. This is a definitive, or definitive adjective, denoting something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned. Is this your younger brother? What trespass is this which ye have committed?
Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? John 9.
When they heard this, they were pricked to the heart. Acts 2.
In the latter passage, this is a substitute for what had preceded, vix. the discourse of Peter just delivered. In like manner, this often represents a word, a sentence or clause, or a series of sentences of events.
In some cases, it refers to what is future, or to be immediately related.
But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Mat 24.
Here this refers to the whole subsequent member of the sentence.
2. By this, is used elliptically for by this time; as, by this the mail has arrived.
3. This is used with words denoting time past; as, I have taken no snuff for this month; and often with plural words. I have not wept this forty years.
In this case, this, in the singular, refers to the whole term of time, or period; this period of forty years.
4. This is opposed to that.
This way and that the wav'ring sails they bend.
A body of this or that denomination is produced.
This and that, in this use, denote difference indefinitely.
5. When this and that refer to different things before expressed, this refers to the thing last mentioned, and that to the thing first mentioned. [See These.]
Their judgment in this we may not, and in that we need not, follow.
6. It is sometimes opposed to other.
Consider the arguments which the author had to write this, or to design the other, before you arraign him.
Thorn - THORN, n.
1. A tree or shrub armed with spines or sharp ligneous shoots; as the black thorn; white thorn, &c. The word is sometimes applied to a bush with prickles; as a rose on a thorn.
2. A sharp ligneous or woody shoot from the stem of a tree or shrub; a sharp process from the woody part of a plant; a spine. Thorn differs from prickle; the latter being applied to the sharp points issuing from the bark of a plant and not attached to the wood, as in the rose and bramble. But in common usage, thorn is applied to the prickle of the rose, and in fact the two words are used promiscuously.
3. Any thing troublesome. St. Paul had a thorn in the flesh. 2 Cor 12. Num 33.
4. In Scripture, great difficulties and impediments.
I will hedge up thy way with thorns. Hosea 2.
5. Worldly cares; things which prevent the growth of good principles. Mat 13.
Thou - THOU, pron. in the obj. thee. The second personal pronoun, in the singular number; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn style.
Art thou he that should come? Mat 11.
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Psa 23.
Thou is used only in the solemn style, unless in very familiar language, and by the Quakers.
THOU, v.t. To treat with familiarity.
If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.
THOU, v.i. To use thou and thee in discourse.