Terrify. *(3) Add:—This is a Gloucestershire use of the word.
*Thee and Thou. (1) 'He thee'd and thou'd us,' said of a clergyman who was very familiar with his flock.—S.W. (2) v. To abuse violently, to insult a person by addressing him in the second person singular. A man complained of the way in which his neighbours had been abusing him, the climax of it all being reached when they began to 'thee and thou' him.—N. & S.W.
Thetches. Add:—Thatch. Vicia sativa, L.—S.W. (Charlton.) All vetches are known as 'Thetches' or 'Thatches' in Wilts, being 'Blue,' 'Yellow,' or 'Red' Thetches according to the colour of the flower.
Thread-the-needle. A very complicated form of this children's game is played at Deverill, under the name of Dred-th'-wold-'ooman's-needle.—S.W.
*Thunder-stones. Nodules of iron pyrites. *Hunder-stones, q.v., may be merely a misreading of the MS.
'Thunder-stones, as the vulgar call them, are a pyrites; their fibres do all tend to the centre. They are found at Broad Chalke frequently.'—Aubrey's Nat. Hist. Wilts, p. 40, ed. Brit.
Tine. Add:—(6) To collect and burn couch and weeds in the fields.—N.W.
'What 'ould thy husband do ... if thee was too vine to turn hay, or go tinin' or leazin'?'—Dark, ch. XV.
*Tippertant. A young upstart.—S.W.