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Thraw   Listen
noun
Thraw  n., v.  See Throse. (Scot.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Thraw" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself or other fellow creatures. This is the proto natural(141) obligation upon the creature, therefore it should have returned in a direct line to his majesty all its affections and endeavours. But man's fall from God hath made a wretched thraw(142) and crook in the soul that it cannot look any more after him, but bows downwards towards creatures below it, or bends inwardly towards itself, and so since the fall man hath turned his heart from the true God, and set it upon vanity,—upon lying ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning

... however, the wryneck may have been connected with the belief that the perpetrator of a murder, or a death spell, could be detected when he approached his victim's corpse. If there was no wound to "bleed afresh", the "death thraw" (the contortions of death) might indicate who the criminal was. In a Scottish ballad regarding a lady, who was murdered by ...
— Myths of Babylonia and Assyria • Donald A. Mackenzie

... sirs," cried the paralytic hag from the cottage, "and let us do what is needfu', and say what is fitting; for, if the dead corpse binna straughted, it will girn and thraw, and that will fear ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott



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