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A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.

• Northwardly
  Having a northern direction.
• Thirl
  To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.
• Thankworthy
  Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious.
• Thread-shaped
  Having the form of a thread; filiform.
• Theophilanthropist
  A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.
• Thrummed
  of Thrum
• Thermotropic
  Manifesting thermotropism.
• NORTHWARDNORTHWARDS
  Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
• THEROID
  Resembling a beast in nature or habit; marked by animal characteristics; as, theroid idiocy.
• Otherwise
  In a different manner; in another way, or in other ways; differently; contrarily.
• This
  As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned.
• Thaumaturgist
  One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Theoric
  Of or pertaining to the theorica.
• Thug
  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.
• Thessalonian
  Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia.
• THEATINTHEATINE
  One of an order of nuns founded by Ursula Benincasa, who died in 1618.
• THOMAEANTHOMEAN
  A member of the ancient church of Christians established on the Malabar coast of India, which some suppose to have been originally founded by the Apostle Thomas.
• Protectorial
  Same as Protectoral.
• Thomist
  A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.

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