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Webster 1913 Edition

Thrall

Thrall

,
Noun.
[OE.
thral
,
þral
, Icel.
þræll
, perhaps through AS.
þrǣl
; akin to Sw.
träl
, Dan.
træl
, and probably to AS.
þrægian
to run, Goth.
þragjan
, Gr.
τρέχειν
; cf. OHG.
dregil
,
drigil
, a servant.]
1.
A slave; a bondman.
Chaucer.
Gurth, the born
thrall
of Cedric.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
Slavery; bondage; servitude; thraldom.
Tennyson.
He still in
thrall

Of all-subdoing sleep.
Chapman.
3.
A shelf; a stand for barrels, etc.
[Prov. Eng.]

Thrall

,
Adj.
Of or pertaining to a thrall; in the condition of a thrall; bond; enslaved.
[Obs.]
Spenser.
The fiend that would make you
thrall
and bond.
Chaucer.

Thrall

,
Verb.
T.
To enslave.
[Obs. or Poetic]
Spenser.

Webster 1828 Edition

Thrall

THRALL

, n.
1.
A slave.
2.
Slavery.

THRALL

,
Verb.
T.
To enslave. [Enthrall is in use.]

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