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Thrist, Thryst, Thrust, v.2 Also: thirst, thraist, threst, thrast. P.t. thrist, thirst, thrust, threst, thrast, thristit, thrystyt, -yd, thrusted. P.p. thrust, thurst, threst, thristin, thrussine, thristit, -ed, thrystyt, thruschit. [ME and e.m.E. þrist, þrest (both Cursor M.), thryste (c1400), þrust (c1440), p.t. þruste (c1175), ðrist (c1250), thristid (c1440), thrusted (1634), p.p. thrist (Cursor M.), þryst (Manning), þrust (Wyclif), þristed (c1425), þirstyn (1435), ON þrýsta to thrust, press, compress, force, appar. fallen together by 1200 with ME threst, thrast, OE þræstán to writhe, twist, torture, torment, constrain.]

1. tr. a. To cause a (sharp) implement, etc. to penetrate (an object); to push or press (it) (doun) in(to) or (out)throch (the thing penetrated); to insert (something) in, on (a place). Also to thrist in.(1) pres. a1400 Leg. S. xix 264.
The staf, that is lange & rond, Thrist it fast done in the grownd
c1420 Wynt. vi 1408.
Bot gyve a man wald in thame [sc. the candles] thryst [C. thrist, W. thrast] A scharpe brode, … Swa sloknyd mycht thai lychtis be
1560–1 St. A. Kirk S. 63.
He suld thrist his quhingar throch my cheikes
p.t. 1608 Dundonald Par. Rec. 169.
Scho tuik ane auld left foot scho of hir husbandis and thairin thrust the said Kaithreinis sair pap
p.p. a1450 Fifteen Ois 227.
O Jesu Crist … the scharp brodis of breris … In thy tender heid wes thristin, Quhill blud and bane wes tobrissin
(b) 1513 Doug. i vi 87.
He schew the knyf outthrow hys breist threst
(c) a1400 Leg. S. xl 516.
For-thi his [sc. Ninian's] stafe sone has he tan, [&] in the maste hoile [sc. of the boat] he fand, It thristit ful faste with his hand, Trewand succure for til hafe, Of his meryt that acht the stafe
c1552 Lynd. Mon. 3916.
Frome thornis, thristit on his heid, Ran doun the bulryng stremis reid
(2) 1590–1 Crim. Trials I ii 222.
Under everie nayle there was thrust in two needels over even up to the heads
1596 Dalr. II 43/17.
Sche thristis in her tender arme into the hole of the bar

b. To cause (an object) to be transfixed or penetrated by a (sharp) implement, etc., to push or press (an object) on … (to, upoun) (something capable of penetrating it). c1530-40 Stewart in Bann. MS 36a/53.
Syn thristit on ane crewall croun of thorne Vpoun my heid
a1540 Freiris Berw. 134 (B).
This fair wyfe … thristit on fatt caponis to the speit And fatt cunyng[is] to fyre did scho lay
c1550 Lynd. Meldrum 1002.
Scho rais, and tenderlie him kist, And on his hand ane ring scho thrist

2. fig. To stab, pierce. c1420 Wynt. v 3369 (see Thrist n.2 1).
Thrystyt
a1568 Bann. MS 134a/36.
Allace, allace, ȝe thrist me throw

b. To oppress, torment. 1513 Doug. i v 58.
Sen sic thochtis thé thraistis [L. quando haec te cura remordet]
a1568 Bann. MS 224a/41.
Sayand at anis ‘hairt now suld thow brest And nocht daly in thrang me thus to threst’

3. To force forward or down; to press; to push, shove; to drive (people). Const. doun, furth, also (un)to, in (a place), on (a person). Also fig. a1400 Leg. S. xxxvii 285.
A roste yrne wes mad bone … & he on it wichtly wane & bath wes bralit & brynt than With yrne forkis & thrussine done
1513 Doug. iv xii 29.
And saying this, hir mouth fast thristis sche Doun in the bed: Onwrokyn sal we de?
1513 Doug. v x 22.
Thar harys all war tukkyt vp on thar crown, That baith with how and helm was thrystyt doun
1600 Acts IV 206/2.
The deponar … pullit vp the brod of the windo quhairvnto the said … Alexander had thruschit [Panton Dissert. Gowry Consp. 1812, thrust] his maiesteis heid and schulderis
c1600 Montg. Suppl. xxi 11.
Hir rosie lippis me thocht on me sche thirst And said, ‘may this nocht stanche ȝow of your harmes!'
1690 Shields Grievances and Sufferings 9.
Souldiers … stripped them who reset the fugitives, and thrusted them in crouds to prisons
fig. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 39.
Him I say scho thrustis furth to uncertane deith, and maist certane perrellis
1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 68.
Quhy forsuik ȝe the populus places in the hart of the cietie, and neirnes to the court, and thrust ȝour self in ane desolate corner?

b. fig. To thrist by, to thrust to one side, push aside. a1658 Durham Commandments (1675) 22.
What overswayeth, and overcometh, or overaweth them most, so that they cannot resist it, though it thrust by duties to God

c. To thrist up, to force open by pushing. 1687 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. XIII 171.
John Grahme … thrusts up the doors and enters

d. fig. To thrist doun, to overturn, cancel out.1672 M. P. Brown Suppl. Decis. II 655.
Must all the wise and glorious actings of former ages be thurst down, to usher in the transactions of this time … ?

e. fig. To impose (something) ((up)on someone). 1633 Lithgow Poet. Remains 112.
Jack made Lord was yesterday a clowne; Yea, some-where there's Lord Baillie, and men must Vpon his sheep-drawne shaddow lordship thrust
1690 D. Williamson Sermon Preached before Commissioner 6.
[The Pope] keeps his kings under tutorie, but thrusts on them his breives and commands by his legate

4. a. To compress, squeeze; ? to prod. b. To embrace, hug. c. To pack closely togidder; to pile up.a. a1400 Leg. S. xli 185.
The feynd threst his throt sa sare [L. præfocatus a dyabolo], That ded done he fel thare
c1420 Wynt. i 359.
Goemagog wes tane And haldyn … To se how that this Coryne Walde dele wyth hym in to werslyng And … Ilkane brassyd othir samyn So fast, that frek that Coryne thrystyd Till in hys syde thre rybbys brystyde
a1540 Freiris Berw. 168 (B).
He thristit hir hand agane richt prevely
b. c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus iv 590.
Swa in hir armis than scho him thristit thryis
15.. Clar. iii 2096.
This madine into his armis then he thrust And held hir up
1572 Buch. Detect. (1572) Sig. G viii.
With that he thristit my body & said that sum of his folkis had sene ȝow in fascherie
1600-1610 Melvill 51.
He takes me in his armes, and thrusting and kissing me [etc.]
1638 Adamson Muses Thr. I 23.
With kind embracements did we thurst and thrimble
c. 1531 Bell. Boece I xliv.
Als sone as the fischaris findis thir mussillis thay thrist thaim fast togidder
?c1615 Misc. Abbotsf. C. 236.
The bookes and papers are forced to be thrust up in heapes [sc. for want of room]

5. To thrist out (from). a. To expel, squeeze out. b. To eject, remove (a person) (from an office, etc.). c. To exclude.a. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 179/613.
He cairfull euer thristis Als manie sichis out of his brest as teares from eies out bristis
a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 765.
He that wrings sair, thirsts out blude [L. Qui nimium emungit elicit sanguinem]
b., c. c1590 Fowler I 56/230.
How he jelous walkis … Suspecting ay his riwall foe by lowe shuld thrust him owt
a1658 Durham Commandments (1675) 10.
One duty doth not justle with nor thrust out another
1672 Edinb. B. Rec. X 129.
If he faillye he should be totally thrust out of the haill work
1691 J. M. Beale Fife Schools 168.
[The heritors] offered to cause Mr. David Setton to precent to him [Rev. Andrew Aitken] and upon his refusal did thretten to thrust him from his office as schoolmaster in that parish
1692 Cramond Kirk S. III 14 Jan.
Some appointed to speak to his master to thraist him out of his service, if he doe not satisfie

d. intr. To thrist outthrow, to project, protrude (through something). Cf. Out-thrist v., p.t. 1513 Doug. xi xiv 66.
The ȝallo egill … The eddir hyntis vp … Syne, fleand, in hir feit strenȝeis sa fast That oft hyr punsys outthrow the skyn dois thrast

6. intr. To push or force one's way in (owtthrow, after). Also absol. a1500 Rauf C. 657.
He thristit in throw thame thraly with threttis
1513 Doug. ii vii 82.
We all followit fast Amang glavys and armour in we thrast
1533 Bell. Livy I 66/7.
Thai thristit in on euery side, and made thame self nerrest to the king
1533 Bell. Livy I 218/13.
The more the inemyis thristit in on thame, the more straitlie war thai drawin togiddir
1540 Lynd. Sat. Proclam. 64.
I micht not thrist owtthrow the thrang, Till that ȝone man the play proclamit
a1561 Norvell Meroure 51a.
Augustine Ambros, and many holie wight, … They thrusted after me, both day and night
absol. a1605 Montg. Ch. & Slae 277 (W).
Ane fische … in the nette, … Ay wristing and thristing, The faster still is scho

b. Of two persons or creatures: To thrist togidder, to join in copulation. c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 160/28.
Thir terrible monsteris sall togidder thrist, And in the cludis gett the Antechrist

c. tr. To press or push against, to jostle. a1400 Leg. S. xviii 581.
& quhen we come to the thryswald, Al had entre that euir wald, Bot I, vnhappy, thrustyne sare, A fut mycht nocht get forthyr-mare
c1520-c1535 Nisbet Mark iii 9.
And Jesus said to His discipilis, that in the boot thai suld serue to Him for the pepile, or perauentur thai threst [W. oppressiden, P. thristen] Him
1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 67.
The multitude … that thrusted and pressed him
1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. iii 68.
Thou art thrumbled and thristed be the multitude

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