Word Meanings - THOROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Through. "Thorow bramble, pits, and floods." Beau. & Fl.
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- THROUGH
thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece - BRAMBLE
Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak. - THOROW
Through. "Thorow bramble, pits, and floods." Beau. & Fl. - BRAMBLE BUSH
The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose. - BRAMBLE NET
A net to catch birds. - THROUGHLY
Thoroughly. Bacon. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Ps. li. 2. To dare in fields is valor; but how few Dare to be throughly valiant to be true Dryden. - BRAMBLED
Overgrown with brambles. Forlorn she sits upon the brambled floor. T. Warton. - THROUGHOUT
Quite through; from one extremity to the other of; also, every part of; as, to search throughout the house. Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year. Milton. - WHERETHROUGH
Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak.