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Definition of Thighs
1. thigh [n] - See also: thigh
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thighs
Literary usage of Thighs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"Rump and thighs marked externally with roundish or oblong spots. Tail above, to
within about an inch of the tip, with uniform roundish spot*, ..."
2. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1901)
"HEAD OF CORPSE BETWEEN THE thighs. ... custom of burying the head of a corpse
between the thighs, the head being described in the Saga as " thigh-forked. ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"And round about they cover them with fat, _ And then the thighs cut off they ...
When burnt the thighs were for the pow'r divine, 445 And entrails eaten, ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"The entrails tasted and the thighs consumed, The other parts they sliced, and
pierced with spits, Then roasted with all care and spread them out. ..."
5. Herodotus by Herodotus, William Beloe (1830)
"She has taken from his legs and thighs every muscle not immediately requisite
for motion ; and in short has ..."
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