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bar clasp arm(medicine)

thrum(3) (iou) and Clasp (health)


thrum(3) (iou)



thrum noun2.
[Old English Trum (only in (under)tunge Trum) = Middle Dutch drom, drum (mod. Dutch dreum thrum), Old High German drum end-piece, remnant (German Trumm end-piece, Trummer remnants, ruins), from Germanic, from Indo-European base repr. also by Latin terminus, termo, Greek terma end, term.]
A ligament. Only in tongue thrum, undertongue thrum, ligament of the tongue. Only in OE.
A short piece of waste thread or yarn including the unwoven ends of the warp (see sense 3 below); sing. & in pl., odds and ends of thread. Also, a short or loose end of thread projecting from the surface of a woven fabric; a tuft, tassel, or fringe of threads at the edge of a piece of cloth etc. ME.
b. Nautical. sing. & in pl. Short pieces of coarse woollen or hempen yarn, used for mops, mats, etc. LME.
c. fig. A scrap, a shred; in pl. odds and ends. LME.
Weaving. Any of the ends of the warp-threads left unwoven and remaining attached to the loom when the finished web is cut off; sing. & (usu.) in pl., a row or fringe of such threads. LME.
a. The central petals or florets of a composite or double flower; the stamens collectively. Also in pl. obsolete exc. in thrum-eyed below. L16.
b. A tuft or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibres of a root, etc. L16-L17.
c. ellipt. A thrum-eyed plant. M20.
A ragged or poorly dressed person. joc. or derog. E17-E18.
Comb.: thrum cap (a) a cap made of thrums; (b) Canad. (obsolete exc. in place-names) a small island with a conical shape suggestive of a thrum cap; thrum-eyed adjective (of a heterostylous plant, esp. a primula, or its flowers) having the stamens inserted at the mouth of the corolla-tube and the style shorter than the tube (opp. pin-eyed); thrumwort the star fruit, Damasonium alisma.
thrummy adjective (now rare) consisting of, characterized by, or covered with thrums; shaggy, downy, velvety: L16.

Clasp (health)


Device that retains a removable partial denture to stationary teeth.