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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

THOROW

THOROW Thor "ow, prep.

 

Defn: Through. [Obs. ] "Thorow bramble, pits, and floods." Beau. & Fl.

 

THOROW

THOROW Thor "ow, a.

 

Defn: Thorough. [Obs. ] Hakluyt.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

thorow-wax

thorow-wax |ˈθʌrəwaks | noun a European plant of the parsley family with yellowish-green flowers, formerly a widespread weed of cornfields. Genus Bupleurum, family Umbelliferae: two species, including B. rotundifolium, which is extinct in the wild in Britain. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from thorough through + wax 2 (because the stem appears to grow through the leaves ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

thorow-wax

thorow-wax |ˈθʌrəwaks | noun a European plant of the parsley family with yellowish-green flowers, formerly a widespread weed of cornfields. Genus Bupleurum, family Umbelliferae: two species, including B. rotundifolium, which is extinct in the wild in Britain. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from thorough through + wax 2 (because the stem appears to grow through the leaves ).