thawn
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Example Sentences
- "Had I once lanc’d thy froward flinty heart / And cruddled bloud had thawn with living fire / And prickt thy drouſie ſprite with gentle ſmart / How wouldſt thou wake to kindly ſweet deſire, / Thy ſoul fill’d up with overflowing pleaſures / Would dew thy lips with hony-dropping meaſures."
- "There is a Plant that grows on Mount Libanus in Syria, which the Arabian calls the Golden Herb; it begins to appear in the Month of May, after the Snow is thawn; […]"
- "Footprint in the dews of dawn, / Dustwhirl on a desert plain, / Shadow of a flickering awn / Of wheat that waits the harvest wain, / These shall last if joy remain, / Nymph, when all thy snows have thawn."
- "It is noteworthy that despite of the flow of the soil all shore-lines engraved in loose material are apparently not the least destructed. From this fact it must be inferred that the earth-flow in Novaya Zemlya is a surface phenomenon only active during the thaw in the spring, when the surface layers have thawn but to a minute depth."
- "An increase can be expected in soils, in which the activities of microorganisms have been kept in check, as in the case of dry soils moistened, soils treated with gaseous disinfectants, samples from low depths, frozen soils after they have thawn off."
- "reminds me about an episode back in 1971 when I visited my 2. cousin at the farm where my grandmothers was born (they still have a quite big part of the Kjerra-fishery in Numedalslågen, Norway) where some guests was expected to arrive the day before I came there and they had thawn a 18 kg piece of cured salmon for that meeting (expecting about 80 people)."
Etymology
From thaw + -n.