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94 HAMPSHIKE QLOSSART. Thoker [thoakuT], $b. a thick piece of bread dipped in water, and then baked in the ashes. — Winch. Sch. Gl, Thraahel [thrash-ul], sb, a flaiL — ^W. See Drashel. Three^sniming [three-kun-ing], adj. intensely knowing, particnlarlj acute. — Wise, New Forest, p. 189. Thrifty [thrift'i], adj thriving, flourishing ; occasionally in the sense of being in good health. — Wise, New Forest. Throat-hapse [throat-haps], sb. a halter. — J. Throw [throaY (rather, I think, throu)], sb. a thoroughfare. — Cooper. Throw [throa], v. to produce. The ground ia said by woodmen to throw good or bad timber. — ^W. Thuck, Thnk [dhuk], pron. that. *Ak. Thnmb [thum], sb. the mousehunt, or smallest of the weasel tribe. — N and Q. 1st Ser. x. 120. Thnmb-bird^thum-burd], sb. the golden-crested regulus ; BegvUus crUtatus. — ^£!och. * Known throughout the New Forest as the thumb- 6»rd.*— Wise, New Forest, p. 308. ' Thumb-pot [thum-pot], sb. a particular kind of earthenware Eoman drinking-yessel, found in some excavated potteries in the New Forest. It somewhat resembles a tumbler, with perpendicular depressions ranged round it, which were made by the workman's thumb, whence the name. One of them is figured in Wise's New Forest, at p. 225 ; see also p. 219. Thunder-bee [thun*dur-bee], sb. a kind of horse-fly, which only appears before a thunder-storm. — ^N. H. Thwartover [thwau*toavur], adj obstinate. — J. Tickler [tiklur], sb. something to puzzle or perplex. — Cooper. Tiddle rtidl], v. (1) To bring up by hand the young of a creature which nas died or been removed from it A.S. tyddrian, to nourish, &c. *Ak. (2) To fondle.— Wise, New Forest. Tiddlin [tid'lin], adj. ^ a tiddlin* lamb,' a lamb brought up by hand.

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Tight [teit], adj. formidable in fight. Sometimes used as excess of anytning. £x. ' a tight rot ; ' 'a tight snob ; ' ' an awfcdly tight lick- ing.' — Adams' Wykehamica, p. 436. Tightith . [teitish], acfj. (1) Well; in good health. Ex, * Pretty tightish,^ pretty welL — Cooper. (2) Considerable, numerous. Ex. ' A tightish weight; ' ' ektightish lot.'— J. Tillow [tQur], V. n. to spread, to shoot out many spires. — ^Lisle. Tilt [tilth], sb. tillage. To be in good tilt is to be in good order or in good tillage. — ^Lisle.