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Definition of Thrid

1. a. Third.

2. v. t. To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread.

3. n. Thread; continuous line.

Definition of Thrid

1. Verb. (archaic) (simple past of thread) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thrid

1. to thread [v THRIDDED, THRIDDING, THRIDS] - See also: thread

Medical Definition of Thrid

1. 1. To pass through in the manner of a thread or a needle; to make or find a course through; to thread. "Some thrid the mazy ringlets of her hair." (Pope) "And now he thrids the bramble bush." (J. R. Drake) "I began To thrid the musky-circled mazes." (Tennyson) 2. To make or effect (a way or course) through something; as, to thrid one's way through a wood. Origin: A variant of thread. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrid

Literary usage of Thrid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scot. Text S. by Scottish Text Society (1899)
"To that effect scho brocht hir zoung sone James the thrid to remaine still ... was win.3 Thocht he was 1 B omits; I reads " of King James the thrid and ..."

2. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1900)
"... of Brechin ane hundreth threescore fyve punds, twa shillings ; John Norie for the secund, thrid and fourt termes taxt of the ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"thrid AND TEIX. "A method of lotting arable ground for the third and tenth, or two-fifths of the produce;" Roxb.. Gl. Sibb. ..."

4. The Historie and Cronicles of Scotland: From the Slauchter of King James the by Robert Lindsay (1899)
"To that effect scho brocht hir zoung sone James the thrid to remaine still ... was win.3 Thocht he was 1 B omits; I reads " of King James the thrid and ..."

5. Criminal Trials in Scotland: From A.D. 1488 to A.D. 1624, Embracing the by Robert Pitcairne (1833)
"... of bai the the crymes aboue written, to the thrid day of the nixt ... the dyet to the thrid day of the nixt ..."

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