from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Th
n 1: the fifth day of the week; the fourth working day [syn:
{Thursday}, {Th}]
2: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic
element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear
reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands [syn:
{thorium}, {Th}, {atomic number 90}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Th \Th\
In Old English, the article the, when the following word
began with a vowel, was often written with elision as if a
part of the word. Thus in Chaucer, the forms thabsence,
tharray, thegle, thend, thingot, etc., are found for the
absence, the array, the eagle, the end, etc.
[1913 Webster] Thack