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   Thrust , n. & v. Thrist. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   
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   Thrust, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thrust ; p. pr. & vb. n. Thrusting.] [OE. rusten, risten, resten, Icel. rst to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.]
   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.
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   Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
   Milton.
   
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   To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
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   To thrust away or To thrust 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 To thrust one's self 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.
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   Thrust, v. i.
   To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
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   To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
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   And thrust between my father and the god.
   Dryden.
   
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   To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude. “Young, old, thrust there in mighty concourse.” 
   Chapman.
   
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   To thrust to, to rush upon. [Obs.]
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   As doth an eager hound
   Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.
   Spenser.
   
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   Thrust, n.
   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.
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   [Polites] Pyrrhus with his lance pursues,
   And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.
   Dryden.
   
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   An attack; an assault.
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   One thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.
   Dr. H. More.
   
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   (Mech.) 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.
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   (Mining) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
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   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.
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   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.
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