| thunderbird | <zoology> An Australian insectivorous singing bird (Pachycephala gutturalis). The male is conspicuously marked with black and yellow, and has a black crescent on the breast. Called also white-throated thickhead, orange-breasted thrust, black-crowned thrush, guttural thrush, and black-breasted flycatcher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| thunderbolt | 1. A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth. 2. Something resembling lightning in suddenness and effectiveness. "The Scipios' worth, those thunderbolts of war." (Dryden) 3. Vehement threatening or censure; especially, ecclesiastical denunciation; fulmination. "He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication." (Hakewill) 4. <paleontology> A belemnite, or thunderstone. <zoology> Thunderbolt beetle, a long-horned beetle (Arhopalus fulminans) whose larva bores in the trunk of oak and chestnut trees. It is brownish and bluish-black, with W-shaped whitish or silvery markings on the elytra. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thunderclap | A sharp burst of thunder; a sudden report of a discharge of atmospheric electricity. "Thunderclaps that make them quake." "When suddenly the thunderclap was heard." (Dryden) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thundercloud | A cloud charged with electricity, and producing lightning and thunder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thunderer | One who thunders; used especially as a translation of L. Tonans, an epithet applied by the Romans to several of their gods, especially. To Jupiter. "That dreadful oath which binds the Thunderer." (Pope) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thunderfish | <zoology> A large European loach (Misgurnus fossilis). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thunderstone | 1. A thunderbolt, formerly believed to be a stone. "Fear no more the lightning flash, Nor the all-dreaded thunderstone." (Shak) 2. <paleontology> A belemnite. See Belemnite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thunderworm | <zoology> A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower. (01 Mar 1998) |
| thunny | <zoology> The tunny. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thurible | A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services. Origin: L. Thuribulum, turibulum, from thus, thuris, or better tus, turis, frankincense, fr. Gr. A sacrifice, an offering, from to sacrifice. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thuringite | <chemical> A mineral occurring as an aggregation of minute scales having an olive-green colour and pearly luster. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia and iron. Origin: From Thuringia, where it is found. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thurl | 1. A hole; an aperture. 2. <chemical> A short communication between adits in a mine. A long adit in a coalpit. Origin: AS. Yrel a hole. 53. See Thirl, Thrill. 1. To cut through; to pierce. 2. <chemical> To cut through, as a partition between one working and another. See: Thrill. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thurling | <chemical> Same as Thurl, 2 . Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| thus | Synonym: olibanum. Origin: L. Incense (05 Mar 2000) |
| thuya | <botany> Same as Thuja. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |