Thost
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 dung dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
"To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]"
Example
More examples"To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]"
Etymology
From Middle English thost, from Old English þost (“dung; ordure”), from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-West Germanic *þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *tews- (“to clear; empty; drain”).
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