An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

A. S. theow, a servant, or theow-ian, to serve, and the privative particle les, less.

2. Inactive, remiss, S.
Ramsay.
3. Not serving the purpose; as, a thieveless excuse, S.
4. Cold, forbidding, S.
Burns.
To look thieveless to one, to give one a cold reception, S. O.
5. Shy, reserved, Renfrews.
6. Applied to weather in an intermediate or uncertain, state, Renfrews.
7. Feeble.
J. Nicol.
8. Insipid, destitute of taste, S.
Ramsay.

THEWTILL, THEWITTEL, s. A large knife.
Wallace.

A. S. hwitel, id.; thwitan, cultello resecare.

THICK, adj. Intimate, familiar, S.
Burns.

THIEVELESS, adj.
V. [Thewles].

To THIG, THIGG, v. a.
1. To ask, to beg.
Wallace.

Alem. thig-en, Su. G. tigg-a, petere.

2. To go about, receiving supply, not in the way of common mendicants, but rather as giving others an opportunity of manifesting their liberality, S.
Rudd.

Isl. thygg-ia, gratis accipere, dono auferre.