THRUST, v.t. pret. and pp. thrust. [L. trudo, trusum, trusito.]

1. To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Neither shall one thrust another. Joel ii. John xx.
2. To drive; to force; to impel. To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. Acts vii. To thrust in, to push or drive in. Thrust in thy sickle and reap. Rev. xiv. To thrust on, to impel; to urge. Shak. To thrust off, to push away. To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. Numb. xxv. 2 Sam xviii. To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. Exod. xii. To thrust one's self, to obtrude; to intrude; to enter where one is not invited or not welcome. Locke. To thrust together, to compress.

1. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing. Polites Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, / And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden.
2. Attack; assault. There is one thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. More. Note. Push and shove do not exactly express the sense of thrust. The two former imply the application of force by one body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust on the contrary, often implies the impulse or application of force by a moving body, a body in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled. This distinction does not extend to every case.

1. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
2. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden.
3. To intrude. Rowe.
4. To push forward; to come with force; to press on. Young, old, thrust there / In mighty concourse. Chapman.

1. Thrist.
   
   
   [Obs.] Spenser.
2. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.
   
   

   Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. Milton.

3. To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
4. A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.
   
   

   [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
   And often reaches, and his thrusts renews. Dryden.

5. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
   
   

   To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. -- To thrust in, to push or drive in. -- To thrust off, to push away. - - To thrust on, to impel; to urge. -- To thrust one's self in or into, to obtrude upon, to intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. -- To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. -- To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. "I am eight times thrust through the doublet." Shak. -- To thrust together, to compress.

6. To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
   
   

   And thrust between my father and the god. Dryden.

7. An attack; an assault.
   
   

   One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism. Dr. H. More.

8. To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
   
   
   "Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse." Chapman.

   To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]

   As doth an eager hound
   Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser.

9. The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.
10. The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
    
    

    Thrust bearing (Screw Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

    Syn. -- Push; shove; assault; attack. Thrust, Push, Shove. Push and shove usually imply the application of force by a body already in contact with the body to be impelled. Thrust, often, but not always, implies the impulse or application of force by a body which is in motion before it reaches the body to be impelled.