Thigh
[θaɪ]
Definition
(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
(n.) The coxa, or femur, of an insect.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Haunch, hip.
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Definition
n. the thick fleshy part of the leg from the knee to the trunk.—n. Thigh′-bone the bone of the leg between the hip-joint and the knee.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing your thigh smooth and white, denotes unusual good luck and pleasure. To see wounded thighs, foretells illness and treachery. For a young woman to admire her thigh, signifies willingness to engage in adventures, and she should heed this as a warning to be careful of her conduct.
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Examples
- Gurt kept close beside Maurice, fighting like the old sea-dog he was, and got a nasty stab in the thigh, which brought him to the ground. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Her fist, clenched tight in his pocket, beat hard against his thigh. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Stanley Hopkins swore between his teeth, and struck his thigh with his clenched hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Robert Jordan spread the cloth with his hands and looked at the stretch of his thigh. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The top of a skull, some teeth, and a thigh-bone have been found. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The wheels of the engine passed over his leg and thigh, and he was so severely injured, that he expired in a few hours. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- What I think is you've got an internal hemorrhage there from where that thigh bone's cut around inside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Liston, an eminent English surgeon, performed the operation of amputating the thigh while the patient was under the influence of ether. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Aymo put his hand on the elder girl's thigh and she pushed it away. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Kneeling on the hearth-rug before him, she put her arms round his loins, and put her face against his thigh. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Only a prod in the thigh. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- If thou believest so much in thy Pasionaria, get her to get us off this hill, one of the men who had a bandaged thigh said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He felt with his fingers on the left thigh and it was all right. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- This, [taking up a thigh bone,] was his. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He had already, in spite of the rain, taken off his overcoat in order to do his delicate task, and so, as he fell, his knife gashed his thigh. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Led by a woman with her brains between her thighs and a foreigner who comes to destroy you. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- He followed after her, and stood with the lanterns dangling against his white-flannelled thighs, emphasising the shadow around. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a strange reality of his being, the very stuff of being, there in the straight downflow of the thighs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Suppose I see the legs and thighs of a person in motion, while some interposed object conceals the rest of his body. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The flaps of his waist-coat came half-way down his thighs, and the ends of his cravat reached to his waist. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She traced with her hands the line of his loins and thighs, at the back, and a living fire ran through her, from him, darkly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Her face was now one dazzle of released, golden light, as she looked up at him, and laid her hands full on his thighs, behind, as he stood before her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Unconsciously, with her sensitive fingertips, she was tracing the back of his thighs, following some mysterious life-flow there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was the strange mystery of his life-motion, there, at the back of the thighs, down the flanks. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was watching Pilar, her head bare, her shoulders broad, her knees higher than her thighs as her heels hooked into the bundles. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He remembered now noticing, without realizing it, that Pablo's trousers were worn soapy shiny in the knees and thighs. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He took out a number of small steel splinters from my thighs with delicate and refined distaste. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She saw him eating with his hands, tearing his food like a beast of prey, and wiping his greasy fingers upon his thighs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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