† thrilln.1
/θrɪl/, U.S. /θrɪl/ Obsolete.in combination.1618 R. Brathwait Descr. Death xiv Naked his scalpe, thrill-open is his Nose.
A hole or aperture; esp. a nose-thirl n., nostril.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > nostril
nasethirleOE
nostrilOE
nesethirla1275
nose-thirla1333
thirla1350
narea1398
thrilla1400
nose-holl?a1425
nose-holec1450
throlla1475
narel1486
snot-hole1648
snuffera1658
snurl1691
naris1693
smeller1854
prenaris1882
a1400–50 Alexander 4073 Hale he þam [images] fyndis..& aithire thrill stoppis.
a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) Num. xi. 20 To the tyme that it come out bi ȝoure noose thrillis.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3045 Hir nose..With thrilles noght thrat, but thriftily made.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy 7727 He neyt as a nagge, at his nose thrilles.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 211 Her [sc. the dodo's] bill is crooked downwards, in midst is the thrill.
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† thrilln.2
Scottish. Obsolete.
One who is bound in servitude; a thrall. † thrillman n. Obsolete bondman.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > [noun] > slave
theowc893
thrallc950
young manOE
slavec1290
boyc1300
servanta1325
bondc1330
bondmana1340
manciplea1387
man's-bond?a1400
thrillc1480
thrillmanc1480
serf1483
bondservant1535
bondslave1561
bondling1587
slave-boy1607
slave-labourer1607
chattel1649
bondsman1713
livestock1755
esne1819
thirl-man1871
task-labourer1897
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 974 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 57 To..pure men, to thrillmen & to women.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Evangelist 202 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 115 Riche man is thril alway to twa: þe tane, is riches.
c1480 (a1400) St. Katherine 220 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 448 Be þe body giff þu will gowerne þe, þu beis a thrill.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 220 Bath serhandis and threllis mad he fre.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 274 Schortly to say, is nane can tell Ye halle condicioun off a threll.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 243 He that thryll is has nocht his, All that he has enbandownyt Is Till hys lord.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. biiv Our doughty elderis has bene endurand Thriuandly in this thede vnchargit as thril.
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thrilln.3
/θrɪl/, U.S. /θrɪl/ 1.
a. A subtle nervous tremor caused by intense emotion or excitement (as pleasure, fear, etc.), producing a slight shudder or tingling through the body; a penetrating influx of feeling or emotion.
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the mind > emotion > [noun] > sudden access of emotion
heart-quakinga1398
pang1542
heart-quake1561
heart-qualm1590
correption1659
surprise1670
thrilla1680
shock1705
thrilling1747
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [noun] > trembling with emotion
trembling1303
thrilla1680
twittering1682
strumming1822
shiver1863
the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > thrill of
thrilla1680
dirl1787
stound1827
kick1899
jolly1905
drive1921
bang1931
belt1932
a1680 J. Glanvill Serm. vii. (R.) Joy warms the..blood, and sends it about with a pleasant thrill through all the channels of its motion.
1799 H. Lee Canterbury Tales (ed. 2) I. 240 Those communications..shot cold thrills through his frame.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxii. 67 St. Clare would feel a sudden thrill, and clasp her in his arms.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland ix. 227 The intelligence caused a thrill of indignation to run throughout England.
b. Thrilling property (of a play, novel, narrative, speech, etc.); sensational quality; transferred (slang), a literary work having this property, a sensational story, a ‘thriller’.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > exciting > [noun] > quality
excitancya1834
thrillingness1847
thrill1886
voltage1890
excitingnessa1910
zizz1920
sizzle1964
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [noun] > sensational novel or thriller
sensation novel1856
penny dreadful1861
dime novel1864
curdler1872
dreadful1874
blood and thunder1876
penny awful1880
shilling dreadful1885
thrill1886
thriller1889
blood1892
terror novel1896
penny horrible1899
spine-thriller1912
roman noir1926
spine-chiller1940
scorcher1942
spine-tingler1942
spine-freezer1960
1886 Westm. Rev. Oct. 382 The sensational title of a shilling thrill.
1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 97 Relevancy..is apparently not a matter of so much consequence as thrill, as the man says in Mark Twain's book.
1894 Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. i. i. 14 Whatever had been spoken by him had grace, thrill, meaning.
c. A thrilling experience or incident.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > thrill of > experience or incident
thrill1936
buzz1942
1936 G. B. Shaw Simpleton i. 48 The Clergyman: Yes: I know I should have explained that. But she let me kiss her. Mrs. Hyering: That must have been a thrill, Mr Hammingtap. Life came to you that time, didn't it?
1947 Sporting Mirror 7 Nov. 8/1 I must add that in actual fact there was not much scientific football. But the dizzy paced thrills made up for that.
1951 R. Campbell Light on Dark Horse ii. 37 To be driven round in these new horse-less machines was a thrill of which we never tired in those days.
1964 in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 32 Going to a party and being rowdy, dancing to very loud music,..being driven in a very fast car, are all great thrills.
2.
a. The vibrating or quivering of anything tangible or visible; acute tremulousness, as of a sound; a vibration, throbbing, tremor.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > [noun] > trembling or quivering > a tremble or quiver > acute
thrill1817
1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 14 While a thrill Lives in your sapient bosoms.
1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders IV. 14 As the thrill of a nerve unexpectedly jarred, will awaken the sensation of agony.
1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves xiv. 240 Listening to the harplike thrill of the breeze in the old grey tree-tops.
1874 J. R. Lowell Agassiz i. i The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes.
1892 Tyndall in Times 3 Feb. 5/6 The sudden..dropping and lifting of an opaque screen over the electric light, thus producing vivid thrills upon the fog.
b. Physiology and Pathology. A vibratory movement, resonance, or murmur, felt or heard in auscultation.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > sounds heard in auscultation
bombus1753
hydatism1753
pectoriloquism1820
murmur1821
resonance1821
snoring1822
thrill1822
râle1825
pectoriloquy1826
respiration1826
rhonchus1827
bronchophonism1834
bronchophony1834
hum1839
tick-tack1853
friction-sound1860
friction-fremitus1877
sibilus1887
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of heart > [noun] > murmur or thrill
thrill1822
inorganic murmur1884
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 25 That vibratory thrill [of the pulse] which has been called wireness.
1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. 9 Thrill or purring tremor..indicate the special character of a peculiar vibratory sensation conveyed to the fingers.
1879 R. N. Khory Digest Med. 56 Besides impulse we have another movement of the heart, known as thrill.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 58 He..has a well-marked pre-systolic thrill and a loud pre-systolic murmur at the cardiac apex.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
thrill-seeker n.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > thrill of > one seeking
thrill-seeker1928
kickster1963
adrenaline junkie1976
1928Thrill-seeker [see thrill hold-up n. at Compounds 2].
1967 W. Breedlove & J. Breedlove Swinging Set xii. 146 A variety of sexual thrill-seekers.
C2. attributive passing into adj., of a crime: committed purely for the sake of the excitement experienced in carrying it out.
thrill hold-up n.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [adjective] > types of crime generally
statutory1678
aggravated1726
incestuous1744
first degree1851
thrill hold-up1928
white-collar crime1964
arrestable1965
victimless1965
1928 Daily Tel. 30 Oct. 11/5 A long series of ‘thrill’ hold-ups [at Atlanta, Georgia]..is cleared up here with the arrest of two Oglethorpe University students. The youthful thrill-seekers are George Harsh and James Galogly, both members of good families.
thrill killing n.
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1978 LaRosa & Tanenbaum Random Factor (1979) xi. 172 Billy Krieg died because he was part in a series of thrill killings.
thrill murder n.
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1973 R. C. Dennis Sweat of Fear xiii. 98 The police think it was a thrill murder. Do you feel such a person can be wholly sane?
Draft additions December 2002
thrillcraft n. chiefly U.S. any of various types of recreational water vehicle, usually capable of high speeds, that can be used in exciting or dangerous water sports.
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1986 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) 25 Sept. c10/6 The commission heard from an industry representative on the subject of jet ski operation, a problem under study along with the impact of other ‘thrill craft’ on boating safety.
1993 National Wildlife Feb. 10/2 The rising popularity of thrill craft—jet skis, parasails and other recreational water vehicles that can annoy cetaceans.
1996 Chicago Tribune 14 Apr. (Womanews Suppl.) 3/2 Finally in 1991 thrillcraft were banned during the [whale] calving season.
Draft additions June 2004
thrill kill n. a murder committed purely for the sake of the excitement experienced in carrying it out; cf. thrill killer n. at Additions.
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1945 Nevada State Jrnl. 28 Nov. 2 (advt.) Murder at its mysterious best in that thrill-kill story of the ‘Brighton Strangler’.
1974 Times 28 Feb. 10/6 A Glasgow-born moulder..has been sentenced to life imprisonment on three counts of murder in the ‘thrill kill’ trial in Sydney.
2001 Metro (Toronto) 26 Apr. 6/2 Police now believe that the hit-and-run death of a 65-year-old Brampton man last year was a deliberate thrill-kill.
Draft additions June 2004
thrill killer n. originally U.S. a person who commits a murder purely for the sake of the excitement experienced in carrying it out.
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1925 N.Y. Times 17 July 8 Facing a blank wall without a single definite clue to point to the end of the chase for the accused ‘thrill killer’, police up-State shifted their inquiries toward identification of an unknown man who leaped to death at Niagara Falls.
1998 M. D. Kelleher When Good Kids Kill iv. 91 The teenager had told investigators that he had planned to murder someone because he was ‘in a rut’. In effect, [he]..openly proclaimed himself to be a thrill killer.
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thrilln.4
regional.
= thill n.1
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole
thillc1325
limber1480
sway1535
neap1553
draught-tree1580
wain-beam1589
beam1600
fills1609
spire1609
foreteam?1611
verge1611
shaft1613
rangy1657
pole1683
thrill1688
trill1688
rod1695
range1702
neb1710
sharp1733
tram1766
carriage pole1767
sill1787
tongue1792
nib1808
dissel-boom1822
tongue-tree1829
reach1869
wain-stang1876
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 139/1 The shafts, are the side of the thrill or thill.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xv. 47 The thrill-horse trotting.
1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester at Cart Two longitudinal pieces, known as thrill bars or mid thrills, are morticed into the binders, and these support the boards which form the bottom of the cart.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire The shafts are also called thrills..; hence we speak of ‘thrill-gears’.., ‘a good thrill-hoss’... But the simple word thrill, though still universally understood, is less commonly used than formerly.
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thrillv.1
/θrɪl/, U.S. /θrɪl/ I. Of the action of material bodies.† 1. † b. To break or penetrate through (an enemy's line). Also intransitive with through. Obsolete.† 2. intransitive. To penetrate or pass through, proceed (into or to a place); = thirl v.1 6. Obsolete. rare.† 3. † b. To hurl, to send (persons) flying. Obsolete. rare. (Cf. thirl v.3 1.)
a. transitive. To pierce, bore, penetrate; = thirl v.1 1. Also intransitive with through (quot. a1387).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > pierce or penetrate as a sharp thing
biteOE
delve?c1225
attamec1314
piercec1325
thrillc1330
ficche1388
traverse1477
through1578
splinter1821
stab1897
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 30 & scharp lance þat thrilled Ihesu side.
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter iii. 4 Þe fors of fire of luf..þat makis his prayere to thrill heuen.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 339 A torf..i-doo aboute a worme sleeþ hym oþer makeþ hym þrulle þoruȝ þe erþe [L. terram penetrare] for to scape a way.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 349 A grym strook of liȝtnynge..þrulled þe wal.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11824 Þe fester thrild his bodi thurgh.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 755/2 I thrill, I perce or bore thorowe a thyng... This terme is olde and nowe lytell used.
1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 35 Through Corslets, Rivets, Iacks, and Shirts of Maile, His shaft shall thrill the Foes that him assaile.
1616 A. Read Εωματογραϕία Ανθρωπίη sig. C6/2 A..roughnesse where there is a hole, but not thrilled through.
1661 Merry Drollery 13 The sword..doth nimbly come to the point.., Thrilling, and drilling, And killing, and spilling.
ΚΠ
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. iv. 343 Thorou the thyckest prees he thrulled thorou them.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 430 [Thai] thrillit thame [sc. the English troops] weill neir throu-out.
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society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 21098 He [sc. Thomas Didymus] soȝte þat estern thede, And þrillid [Fairf. þirled, Vesp. thirlid, Gött. thriled] intil haiþinhede.
a. transitive. To cause (a lance, dart, or the like) to pass; to dart, hurl (a piercing weapon). Obsolete.Perhaps sometimes including a notion of the quivering motion of the missile.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > a missile or projectile
hurla1400
thrill1609
1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xiii. lxx He thrild a Iavelin at the Dardans brest.
1624 F. Quarles Sions Elegies ii. 4 Darts, thrill'd from heaven, transfixe my bleeding hart.
1637 T. Heywood Pelopæa & Alope in Dial. in Wks. (1874) VI. 301 Our well-tride Nymphs,..thrild their arrowie Iavelins after him.
a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 77 I am..deeply strucke, and beare The fatall Iaveline, with me everie where; Into the Marrow thrill'd.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > off suddenly
thrill1606
spring1665
fly1676
spanghew1781
to send flying1879
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxv. 353 But leauing Romaines thrilled thence, and Brutes by Rome opprest, What hapt meane while betwixt the Picts and Scots shall be digest.
II. Of the action of non-material forces.† 4. † b. intransitive with through. Obsolete (passing into 5b).
a. figurative from 1: To pierce, penetrate (as a sound, or an emotion). Obsolete (passing into 5).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > intense emotion > affect intensely [verb (transitive)]
thirlc1315
piercec1390
thrilla1400
strikec1475
throb1600
penetratea1616
heart-strikea1637
transfix1649
sink1771
shoot1842
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17738 Of his ded als þe sorful ord Sal thril þin hert thoru als a suord.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xlv. 177 Synne in twynkelynge of an ye þrillithe alle the erþe.
c1480 (a1400) St. John Baptist 131 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 226 Þi word thrillit myn ere.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. H3 With percing point Of pitty deare his hart was thrilled sore.
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. A7v Which in their sprights, may cause sweet agony, And thrill their bodies through with pleasing dart.
1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn x, in Poems 6 Such sound..the Airy region thrilling.
ΚΠ
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. XXXi Many mo sorowes dyd teare & thryll throwe her hert.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G6v Eger greedinesse through euery member thrild.
1599 [see sense 5b]. 5.
a. transitive. To affect or move with a sudden wave of emotion. Also as past participle, extremely pleased or delighted (colloquial).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect with emotion [verb (transitive)] > affect by sudden emotion
pang1613
thrilla1616
thirl1725
a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. ii. 41 A Seruant that he bred, thrill'd with remorse, Oppos'd against the act.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xix. 266 Greece around sate thrill'd with sacred awe.
1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. ii. 43 A kind of pleasing dread thrilled her bosom.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner ii. 34 His ears are by the music thrilled.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Sir Galahad ii, in Poems (new ed.) II. 175 Me mightier transports move and thrill.
1908 E. F. Benson Climber vii. 98 Though she would not have dreamed of doing what Elizabeth had done and looked over the letter, she could not but be thrilled with the fact that there were four pages.
1964 in C. Hamblett & J. Deverson Generation X 153 I adore Nureyev. When he danced on the Palladium show on telly I was thrilled to bits.
1976 A. Miller Inside Outside iv. 40 Naturally I was thrilled to bits and accepted with alacrity.
b. intransitive. To produce a thrill, as an emotion, or anything causing emotion; to pass with a thrill through.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > affect the emotions [verb (intransitive)] > produce sudden emotion
thrill1599
thirl1725
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. iii. 15 I haue a faint cold feare thrills through my veines. View more context for this quotation
a1719 J. Addison Milton's Stile Imitated 124 A sudden horror..Ran through each nerve, and thrill'd in ev'ry vein.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward II. ii. 48 When some peculiar feeling of hope, or perhaps of remorse, happened to thrill across his mind.
1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xx. 356 In tones which thrilled upon every heart.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 513 The news of Hampden's resistance thrilled through England.
c. intransitive (? for passive). To feel, or be moved by, a thrill of emotion. Often const. at, to, with.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > [verb (intransitive)] > be affected by emotion
amove?c1335
reelc1475
thrill1598
trinkle1644
tressilate1889
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > take joy or delight in [verb (transitive)]
delightc1230
to have joy of1297
joyc1330
enjoy1462
delect1510
to enjoy of?1521
lustc1540
revel1592
luxuriate1653
rollick1848
wallow1876
thrill1935
the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [verb (intransitive)] > get thrill of pleasurable excitement
ticklec1330
dirl1718
thrill1935
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 273 Art thou not horribly afraid? doth not thy bloud thril at it? View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 143 To thrill and shake, Euen at the crying of your Nations crow, Thinking this voyce an armed Englishman. View more context for this quotation
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 179 He..read over..the ‘last words’ of his adored Fanny, till the blood thrilled in his veins.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §3. 488 England was thrilling with excitement at the thought that her own hour of deadly peril might come again.
1935 Motion Picture Nov. 29/2 If you live within range of a national radio network, you've thrilled to their voices.
1940 J. Buchan Memory Hold-the-Door ii. 42 Stevenson..thrilled as we did to those antecedents—the lights and glooms of Scottish history.
1952 T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. ii. 34 Generations of European children have thrilled to the novels of J. F. Cooper.
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a. intransitive. To move tremulously or with vibration; to quiver, vibrate. (Said esp. of sound or light.)
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > tremble or quiver > esp. of light or sound
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1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad ix. 396 Here..The solemn harp's melodious warblings thrill.
1816 W. Scott Black Dwarf iii, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. I. 60 Exhausting his voice in shrieks and imprecations that thrilled wildly along the waste heath.
1827–35 N. P. Willis Absalom 79 My pulses thrill, Like a rich harp-string.
1862 J. Tyndall Mountaineering in 1861 i. 8 Watching the lightning thrilling behind the clouds.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native III. iv. vi. 42 The great valley of purple heath thrilling silently in the sun.
b. transitive. To send forth or utter tremulously.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > trill
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1646 R. Crashaw Musicks Duell in Steps to Temple 104 Her supple Brest thrills out Sharpe Aires.
1874 F. W. Farrar Silence & Voices of God ii. 35 The spirit within us thrills its glad response to the noble utterance.
c. To cause to quiver; to throw into vibration.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (transitive)] > make tremble
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1800 T. Moore tr. Anacreon Odes lviii Sweet [are] the sighs that thrill the lyre.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. i. 12 The air is thrilled with the voice of birds.
1872 O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table (1885) v. 124 An earthquake thrills the planet.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† thrillv.2
Scottish. Obsolete.
1. transitive. To make a thrall of, enthrall, enslave; = thirl v.2 1.
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society > authority > subjection > slavery or bondage > be slave of [verb (transitive)] > enslave
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bond1835
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c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 147 Jt is..na tobe tholit..sen he [Crist] has maid man free, he suld thrill his brothir.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iii. ii. f. 24/1 To thryll ws to maist schamefull seruitude.
2. To bind or engage (lands) in thirlage: = thirl v.2 2.
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society > law > legal obligation > put under legal obligation [verb (transitive)] > bind tenant or land to particular mill
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1480 Act. Dom. Conc. (1839) 70/2 Þt þe said Robert..sall be na maner of way thrill þa landis bot deliuer þaim fre as said is.
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† thrillv.3
Obsolete.
intransitive. To flow in a small stream or in drops; to trickle, percolate; to drip; = drill v.2 1.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of dripping or falling in drops > drip or fall in drops [verb (intransitive)]
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1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxv The bloude..penetrateth, thrylleth, and yssueth forthe the soner.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. F.viii Water passing & thrilling through yt narow conduit.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse (1664) xiii. 137 They razed his Skin with a Razor till the Bloud thrilled down.
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 220 No streams of grace, Thrilling or trickling from thy blubber't face.
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