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(thrt), n.[AS. ret, akin to retan to vex, G. verdriessen, OHG. irdriozan, Icel. rjta to fail, want, lack, Goth. usriutan to vex, to trouble, Russ. trudite to impose a task, irritate, vex, L. trudere to push. Cf. Abstruse, Intrude, Obstrude, Protrude.] The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. Shak. Threat v. t. & i.[OE. reten, AS. retian. See Threat, n.] To threaten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden. スポンサード リンク
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