GLOSSARY
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- Thick, 173, Cu.
- Thig, 145, to ask, beg, Ic. thygg-ia, to receive as a gift, accept hospitality for a night. Da. tigger, a beggar
- Think shame to, 92
- Thirr, 90
- Thissilaga, 156, colt's-foot
- Thiudans, 22, Go.; Ger. Deutsch, the "folk," national name
- Thiud-isk, 7, "theodisca lingua in Lat. texts, 788—eccles., not polit., term," O.Sc. thede, a nation
- Thole, 33, 69, 70, 97, 139, endure. Go. thulan, to suffer, Ger. dulden; cog. Lat. tolerare, all Teut. in Sc. sense, to put up with
- Thone, 38, 45
- Thoo, thou, 172, familiar
- Thoo gan, 172, Cu.
- Thowless, thewless, thieveless, 87, feeble, applied in Sc. to bodily qualities, in O.E. to mental, theauwe, virtues, A.S. theawas, manners, E. thews; "sense of bulk, strength, comes straight from the root, tu, to be strong."—Sk.
- Thraep, hraep, 13, 171, to argue, assert with pertinacity. Go. hropjan, to cry out, hropei, clamour, Sc. roup
- Thraif, thraves, threave, 129, 171, twenty-four sheaves of corn, Ic. threfi. Da. trave, a score of sheaves, threve, Cu. a number of sheaves
- Thrang, 90, busy, A.S. thringen, to press, Ger. dringen. Go. threihan, Ger. drängen, E. throng
- Thraw, 67, to twist, A.S. thrâwan, var. of throw
- "Thraw-cruck" 62, twist-crook
- Thriutan, 27, Go. to threaten
- Throo-gawn, 137, through-going, pushful
- Throo-pit, 140
- Through his sleep, 89
- Thrummy cap, 134, cap of thrums, Ic. thröm-r, margin, selvage
- Thruts-fill, 27, Go. leprosy. See fill
- Thur ans, 167, Cu.; Sc. thirr yins or ains
- Thut-haum, 28, Go. a trumpet, Du. toet-horen, Ic. thjota, to blow a horn
- Ticky-molie, 129, 140. The trick lay in fastening a long thread to the astragal of the window-pane. From this fixed end hang a short length with a pin or tack attached. A slight regular pull on the thread from a safe distance produced an eerie sound in the still room. If surprised, it was easy for the boy to "cut the painter"
- Tig, 127, a tap, slight stroke; boys' game; var. of tick, tack
- Timmer, 23, 26, 249, syn. of tree, wooden; timrjan. Go. to build, Ger. Zimmer
- Tinder, 21, Eng.; Go. tundja, a bush; prob. not related. A.S. tyndre, tendan, to kindle. Da. tönder
- Tine, 26, Go. tains, tain-jo, which see. Prong in a harrow, stag's antler; O.E. tinde, Ic. tind-r, Sw. tinne, a prickle, Ger. Zinne, a pinnacle, ult. akin to tooth
- Tinkler, 92, 153, 168, 183, tinker
- Tipt, 67, tepid
- Tirr, 231, prob. a var. of tear; "most common usage not given—to remove subsoil above a bed of rock in a quarry" (J. B. F.)
- Titty, 173, sister
- Tiuhan, 12, Go. to tow, tug. See tew, taw, tyaave
- To, prep. 89, "no fault to him"
- †Toff, 192, doubtful if var. of topf
- Toh, 13, A.S. tough, Sc. tyuch, tchuch. Go. tah-jan, to rend; or. to bite. See tiuhan, tyuch
- Token, 53, A.S. tácn, Du. tecken, Go. taikns, a miracle (in Leather's "Bible" its cog. zeichen is used)
- Took their bare feet, 88
- Toom, tume, 204, empty
- Toom, 202, C. Du. a bridle rein, Ic. taum-r, Ger. Zaum, from sense of reducing to order, as in E. team—base tau, in taw, to curry leather. Go. tau-jan, to cause, make
- Toon, 5, 41, 249, town, -ton. Go. tun, A.S. tún, Du. tuin, hedge, O.N. tún, homestead, Ger. Zaun, a hedge. Klüge finds it in Lugdûnum, Roman London
- Toot, 28, E. to sound a horn, Du. tuiten, Ger. tuten
