Thorough-

in combination. (See also THOROUGH a. 2, and THROUGH- in comb.)

  1.  Combinations of THOROUGH adv. with verbs, pples., or adjs.: † thorough-bear v. [BEAR v.¹ 35], trans. to ‘bear’ through, pierce, transfix, stab; thorough-bind v., trans. to bind or fasten (a wall, etc.) by a stone or iron, passing through from side to side (cf. thorough-band in 2); thorough-bore v. [OE. þurhborian], trans. to bore through, perforate; † thorough-cleansing a., cleansing throughout or thoroughly; † thorough-devilled ppl. adj. Obs., nonce-wd., completely possessed by a devil; thorough-dress v., trans. to dress or manure (ground) thoroughly; thorough-dry v., trans. to dry thoroughly; thorough-felt pa. pple., felt throughout; † thorough-fill (þuruh fullen) v., to fill up, complete; thorough-fought ppl. a., fought through or to the end; thorough-go-nimble (slang or dial.): see quots.; † thorough-humble v., trans. to humble thoroughly or completely; † thorough-lined ppl. a., lined throughout; † thorough-made ppl. a., thoroughly made, made with full determination; thorough-ripe (through-ripe) a., ripe throughout, thoroughly ripe; † thorough-run, v. trans. to run through, pierce, penetrate; † thorough-seasoned ppl. a., seasoned throughout or thoroughly; † thorough-shot ppl. a., shot through, transfixed as with an arrow; † thorough-siping ppl. a. [SIPE v.], oozing or trickling through; thorough-sped ppl. a. (? obs. exc. dial.), thoroughly accomplished or developed; perfect, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced; † thorough-stain v., trans. to stain thoroughly. See also THOROUGHBRED, etc.

  (In early use the adv. was often written separately before a vb., as it still is when it follows the vb.)

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 7624. Þe king smat til him wit a sper In breth he wald him *thoru ber.

c. 1400.  Laud Troy Bk., 16431. Echon other al to-bet, Sclow, & wounded, & thorow-bare.

1884.  L. Oliphant, Haifa (1887), 189. The crusaders used them [granite pillars] to *thorough-bind their walls.

1900.  Union Mag., Oct., 457/2. Ancient columns are built into the walls of later castles, to thoroughbind the masonry.

c. 1000.  in Cockayne, Narrat. (1861), 20. Het hie þa *þurhborian.

c. 1330.  R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 16184. Handes, armes, þey dide þorow bore.

1703.  T. N., City. & C. Purchaser, 4. They then thorough bore their Poles.

1642.  H. More, Song Soul, II. i. 1. xxi. *Thorough-cleansing virtue.

1604.  Parsons, 3rd Pt. Three Convers. Eng., 279. They were indeuilled, superdeuilled, and *thorowdeuilled.

1733.  W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 31. Their vast Crops of Straws, and great Numbers of Cattle, make such Returns of Dung, as enables most of them to *thorough-dress their own Grounds.

1707.  Mortimer, Husb. (1721), I. 184. Firing … must be long continued to *thorough-dry so many together.

1817.  Moore, Lalla R., Fire-worsh., iv. 115. How deep, how *thorough-felt the glow Of rapture.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 404. Heo … *þuruh fulleð, onont hire, Godes pine o rode.

1585–6.  Earl Leycester, Corr. (Camden), 427. A gallant and a *thorow-fought assault.

1822.  Scott, Pirate, iv. The small beer of the college, commonly there termed *‘thorough-go-nimble.’

1825.  Brockett, N. C. Words, Thorough-go-nimble, a diarrhœa.

1617.  Hieron, Wks., II. 77. To bring Dauid to these two specialties: first, of *thorow-humbling himselfe; secondly, of making an acknowledgement.

1605.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. iii. III. Law, 1006. A cloak of clouds, all *thorough-lin’d with thunder.

1649.  Lovelace, To Deare Bro. Col. F. L., v. One gallant *thorough-made Resolve Doth Starry Influence dissolve.

1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 153. They get more in the *through-ripe Hop by the weight, than they loose in the colour.

1707.  Mortimer, Husb. (1721), II. 347. Cyder pressed from pulpy, or thorough-ripe, or mellow Fruit.

1658.  A. Fox, Würtz’ Surg., I. iv. 18. If … sharper things should be used, they would *thorough-run the Wound.

1598.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. i. I. Eden, 62. The *thorough-seasoned But Wherein the tears of death-prest Grapes are put.

1649.  Lovelace, Poems, 50. Thee and thy wounds I would bemoane Faire *thorough-shot Religion.

1642.  H. More, Song Soul, I. III. xxiv. Here fifty Sisters in sieve do draw *Thorough-siping water: Tantalus is here.

1730.  Swift, Vind. Ld. Cartaret, ¶ 28. Our *thoroughsped republic of Whigs.

1898.  T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 63. Never upon me Had she thrown look of love so thorough-sped.

1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., Wks. (Grosart), IV. 216. Spotting and *thorow-stayning thy deere bought Spyrit.

  2.  Combinations with sbs. or derived adjs. (cf. THOROUGH a.): thorough-band (through-band), a stone, etc., extending through the breadth of a wall or dyke so as to bind the sides together (cf. band-stone, BAND sb.¹ 15); also attrib.; thorough-blood a., of pure breed (said of a horse); cf. FULL-BLOOD; thorough-door, a door leading through; the door of a passage; thorough-draught (through-draught), a draught or current of air passing through a room, etc. (in quot. 1866, a channel or passage for a draught of air); thorough-edged a., thoroughly or perfectly edged; keen-edged; thorough-foot, a disarrangement in a tackle caused by one or both of the blocks getting entangled in the fall (cf. thorough-put); thorough-hearted a., whole-hearted, entirely devoted; hence thorough-heartedness; thorough-joint (Anat.), a perfectly movable joint or articulation (cf. DIARTHROSIS); thorough-put, a knot or tangle upon a rope formed by putting one part of it through a loop in another (cf. thorough-foot); † thorough-road = THOROUGHFARE sb. (in quot. attrib.); thorough-shot, thorough-stem: see quots.; † thorough-touch († through-touch), a touch that penetrates the soul, a deep spiritual impression; thorough-winded a. (of a horse), sound in ‘wind’ or breathing; not broken-winded. See also THOROUGHBASS to THOROUGHWORT.

1805.  Dickson, Pract. Agric., I. Pl. xxix. The *through band turf … being first lightly laid.

1810.  S. Smith, Agric. Surv. Galloway, vi. 88. It is essential to the durability of a dyke … that the two sides be well bound together by long stones laid across, termed throughbands.

1844.  Stephens, Bk. Farm, III. 1007. It tends much to the stability of a dyke to have what is called a thorough-band stone … placed across it.

1829.  Sporting Mag., XXIII. 271. Our nearly *thorough-blood hunter and carriage horses.

1827.  G. Darley, Sylvia, 32. But you may catch his sullen roar More loud when opes the *thorough-door.

1866.  Howells, Venet. Life, iii. The narrow streets are bitter *thorough-drafts.

1868.  Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 438. The windows are closed and matted, and no thorough-draught is allowed.

1905.  Daily Chron., 22 July, 8/5. The drawing-room is … spared the desecrating through-draught.

1830.  Tennyson, Isabel, ii. The intuitive decision of a bright And *thorough-edged intellect ta part Error from crime.

1867.  *Thorough-foot [see thorough-put].

1887.  Athenæum, 31 Dec., 883/3. The *thorough-heartedness with which Barnes threw himself into this.

18[?].  Coues (Cent. Dict.), *Thorough-joint.

1829.  Gen. P. Thompson, Exerc. (1842), I. 112. Knots, of different degrees of complexity, from a simple *thorow-put, to a complication of loops and twists [etc.].

1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Thorough-puts, or Thorough-foots, are kinks or tangles in a rope; or parts of a tackle not leading fair by reason of one of the blocks having been passed round part of the fall.

a. 1661.  Fuller, Worthies, Lond. (1662), II. 224. He built at Buntingford (a *thorow-road market …) a neat and strong Chappel.

1891.  Cent. Dict., *Thorough-shot, same as thorough-pin. *Thorough-stem, same as thorough-wort.

1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 459. Nothing which may argue a *through-touch, or a comfortable expectation of Gods fauour. Ibid. (1617), II. 72. Whether we haue receiued any such thorow-touch as is the … fruit of true repentance.

1737.  Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1757), II. Pref. 11. You shall hear many a Horse praised for being a *thorow-winded one.