t pret. and pp. thrust.

To push or drive with force; as, to thrust any thing with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Neither shall one thrust another. Joel 2:8; John 20:25.

To drive; to force; to impel. To thrust away or from, to push away; to reject. Acts 7:27. To thrust in, to push or drive in. Thrust in thy sickle and reap. Revelation 14:15. To thrust on, to impel; to urge. To thrust off, to push away. To thrust through, to pierce; to stab. Numbers 25:8; 2 Samuel 18:14. To thrust out, to drive out or away; to expel. Exodus 12:39. To thrust one’s self, to obtrude; to intrude; to enter where one is not invited or not welcome. To thrust together, to compress.

To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.

To enter by pushing; to squeeze in. And thrust between my father and the god.

To intrude.

To push forward; to come with force; to press on. Young, old, thrust there . In mighty concourse.

A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a word much used in fencing. Polites Pyrrhus with his lance pursues, And often reaches, and his thrusts renews.

Attack; assault. There is one thrust at your pure, pretended mechanism.