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thump

THUMP, n. A heavy blow given with any thing that is thick, as with a club or the fist, or with a heavy hammer, or with the britch of a gun.

The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.

THUMP, v.t. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy.

THUMP, v.i. To strike or fall on with a heavy blow.

A watchman at night thumps with his pole.


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THUMP, n. A heavy blow given with any thing that is thick, as with a club or the fist, or with a heavy hammer, or with the britch of a gun.

The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.

THUMP, v.t. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy.

THUMP, v.i. To strike or fall on with a heavy blow.

A watchman at night thumps with his pole.

THUMP, n. [It. thombo.]

A heavy blow given with any thing that is thick, as with a club or the fist, or with a heavy hammer, or with the breech of a gun. The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock. Tatler.


THUMP, v.i.

To strike or fall on with a heavy blow. A watchman at night thumps with his pole. Swift.


THUMP, v.t.

To strike or beat with something thick or heavy. Shak.


Thump
  1. The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.

    The distant forge's swinging thump profound. Wordsworth.

    With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
    They dropped down, one by one.     Coleridge.

  2. To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to cause a dull sound.

    These bastard Bretons] whom our hathers
    Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped.     Shak.

  3. To give a thump or thumps; to strike or fall with a heavy blow; to pound.

    A watchman at midnight thumps with his pole. Swift.

  4. A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.

    The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock. Tatler.

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Thump

THUMP, noun A heavy blow given with any thing that is thick, as with a club or the fist, or with a heavy hammer, or with the britch of a gun.

The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.

THUMP, verb transitive To strike or beat with something thick or heavy.

THUMP, verb intransitive To strike or fall on with a heavy blow.

A watchman at night thumps with his pole.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

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3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

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might

MIGHT, n. pret. of may. Had power or liberty. He might go, or might have gone.

1. It sometimes denotes was possible, implying ignorance of the fact in the speaker. Orders might have been given for the purpose.

MIGHT, n.

1. Strength; force; power; primarily and chiefly, bodily strength or physical power; as, to work or strive with all one's might.

There small be no might in thy hand. Deut.28.

2. Political power or great achievements.

The acts of David--with all his reign and his might.

1 Chron.29. l Kings 15.

3. National strength; physical power or military force.

We have no might against this great company that cometh against us. 2 Chron.20.

4. Valor with bodily strength; military prowess; as men of might. 1 Chron.12.

5. Ability; strength or application of means.

I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God--1 Chron.29.

6. Strength or force of purpose.

Like him was no king that turned to the Lord with all his might. 2 Kings 23.

7. Strength of affection.

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,and with all thy might. Deut.6.

8. Strength of light; splendor; effulgence.

Let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. Judges 5.

Shakespeare applied the word to an oath. "An oath of mickle might." This application is obsolete. We now use strength or force; as the strength or force of an oath or covenant.

With might and main, with the utmost strength or bodily exertion; a tautological phrase, as both words are from the same root, and mean the same thing.

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