THIR, dem. pron. these, those.  Bruce, I, 76; Dunbar, G.T., 127;
    Lyndsay, 4, 20, 1175; R.R., 108.  O.N. þeir. Cp.  M.E. þir,
    þer, those, Cu. thur.

THRA, adj. eager.  Bruce, XVIII, 71.  O.N. þrar, obstinate,
    persistent, Norse traa, untiring, also wilful, Sw. dial.
    tra, M.E. þra, bold, strong, thraly, adv.  Wyntoun, II,
    8, 55; VII, 8, 186.  See Wall.  Skeat cites Eng. dial. thro.

THRA, adv. boldly.  Dunbar, T.M.W., 195.  See above, thra.

TRAIF, sb. two stooks or twenty-four sheaves of grain.  Dunbar,
    228.  O.N. þrefi, a number of sheaves, Dan. trave, Sw.
    trafwe, twenty sheaves of grain, M.E. þr[-a]ve, a bundle,
    a number, Cu. threve, threeav.

THREAVE, sb. a crowd, a large number.  Ramsay, II, 463.  The same
    word as thraif, q.v.

THRIST, vb. to thrust, push, also means to clasp.  Bruce, XIII,
    156; R.R. 12, 9; Rolland, IV, 590.  O.N. þrysta, to thrust,
    force, Norse trysta, to press together, M.E. þr[-i]sten,
    þr[-y]stan. Lyndsay also uses the word in the sense of
    “to pierce.”

THWAITE, sb. originally a small piece of cleared land on which
     ahouse was built, a cottage with its paddock.  O.N. þvaeit,
    O. Ic. þveit.  Northwest England thwaite, Norse tveit,
    tvaeit, Dan. tved.  Occurs in a number of place-names in
    S. Scotland, especially in Dumfriesshire.  Its form is Norse
    not Dan. Thweet or thwet would correspond to the Dan.
    word, but see also Part III, 1.

TIT, TYT, adv. soon, quickly.  Bruce, II, 4; IV, 289.  O.N. titt,
    adv. frequently, in quick succession, “hoeggva hart ok titt.” 
    The Sco. word comes from this O.N. form, which is simply the
    neuter inflected form of tiethr, adj. meaning “customary,
    familiar.”  The comparative titter often means “rather” in
    Sco., like Eng. sooner.  Cp.  Cu.  “I’d as tite deat as nut,”
    “I’d as lief do it as not.”

TITHAND, TITAND, sb. news, tidings.  Bruce, IV, 468; Lyndsay,
     341, 720.  O.N. tiethindi, news, Norse tidende, id., Dan.
    tidende, Orm. tiþennde. Of O.E. tidung > tidings
    Bosworth says:  “the use of the word, even if its form be not
    borrowed from Scand., seems to have Scand. influence.”

TITLENE, sb. the hedge sparrow.  C.S., 38.  O.N. titlingr, a tit,
    a sparrow.

TOYM, TUME, sb. leisure.  Bruce, V, 64, 2, XVII, 735.  O.N. tom,
    leisure (Skeat).