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v. i. & t. To make, or strike so as to make, a dull sound, or thud.

Hardly the softest thudding of velvety pads. A. C. Doyle.

The waves break into spray, dash and rumble and thud below your feet. H. F. Brown. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. thag a deceiver, robber. ] 1. One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assassin; a ruffian; a rough. “Thugs and midnight rounders.” The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind. &tsdot_;hagī. ] The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs. “One of the suppressors of Thuggee.” J. D. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Thuggee. [ 1913 Webster ]

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‖n. [ NL., from Gr. qyi`a an African tree with sweet-smelling wood. ] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves. [ Written also thuya. ] See Thyine wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Thuja occidentalis is the Arbor vitae of the Eastern and Northern United States. Thuja gigantea of North-western America is a very large tree, there called red cedar, and canoe cedar, and furnishes a useful timber. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. An oil, C10H16O, the chief constituent of cedar leaf oil (thuja oil), which is obtained from the northern white cedar (arbor vitae, Thuja occidentalis) or the western Red Cedar (Thuja plicatis). It is a stimulant similar to camphor. It is also called thujol, thuyol, absinthol, thuyone, tanacetol, and tanacetone. Stedman. [ PJC ]

‖prop. n. [ L. Thule, Thyle, Gr. Qoy`lh, Qy`lh. ] The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) Oxide of thulium. [ 1913 Webster ]