=Thopas= (_Sir_), a native of Poperyng, in Flanders; a capital sportsman, archer, wrestler, and runner. Sir Thopas resolved to marry no one but an “elf queen,” and accordingly started for Faëryland. On his way he met the three-headed giant, Olifaunt, who challenged him to single combat. Sir Thopas asked permission to go for his armor, and promised to meet the giant next day. Here mine host broke in with the exclamation, “Intolerable stuff!” and the story was left unfinished.--Chaucer, _Canterbury Tales_ (“The Rime of Sir Thopas,” 1388). =Thor=, eldest son of Odin and Frigga; strongest and bravest of the gods. He launched the thunder, presided over the air and the seasons, and protected man from lightning and evil spirits. His wife was Sif (“love”). His chariot was drawn by two he-goats. His mace or hammer was called Mjolner. His belt was Megingjard. Whenever he put it on his strength was doubled. His palace was Thrudvangr. It contained 540 halls. Thursday is Thor’s day.--_Scandinavian Mythology._ The word means “Refuge from terror.” =Thoresby= (_Broad_), one of the troopers under Fitzurse.--Sir W. Scott, _Ivanhoe_ (time, Richard I.). =Thorn´berry= (_Job_), a brazier in Penzance. He was a blunt but kind man, strictly honest, most charitable, and doting on his daughter, Mary. Job Thornberry is called “John Bull,” and is meant to be a type of a genuine English tradesman, unsophisticated by cant and foreign manners. He failed in business “through the treachery of a friend;” but Peregrine, to whom he had lent ten guineas, returning from Calcutta after the absence of thirty years, gave him £10,000, which he said his loan had grown to by honest trade. _Mary Thornberry_, his daughter, in love with Frank Rochdale, son and heir of Sir Simon Rochdale, whom ultimately she married.--G. Colman, Jr., _John Bull_ (1805). =Thorne= (_Esmerald_), physician who is killed instantly by a runaway horse, and, without suspecting that his spirit has left his body, seeks first one friend, then another, remaining viewless to all. Condemned to work his way from a lower to a higher plane, he rebels against the natural law of sowing and reaping, until led by the spirit of his own little child to repentance and sanctification. _Thorne_ (_Helen_), patient wife and sorrowing widow of Esmerald.--Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, _The Gates Between_ (1887). =Thornhaugh= (_Colonel_), an officer in Cromwell’s army.--Sir W. Scott, _Woodstock_ (time, Commonwealth).