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thost

thost

English

Noun

thost (uncountable)

  1. (dialectal or obsolete) dung
    • 1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:
      To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]