thost

From Middle English thost, from Old English þost (“dung; ordure”), from Proto-Germanic *þustaz (“manure”), from Proto-Indo-European *tews- (“to clear; empty; drain”).

thost (uncountable)

1. (dialectal or obsolete) dung
   • 1899, William Thomas Fernie, Animal Simples, Approved for Modern Uses of Cure:

     To do away a dwarf, i.e., epileptic fit or convulsion, "give to the troubled man to eat thost (dung) of a white hound, pounded to dust and mingled with meal and baked to a cake, ere the hour of the dwarfs seizure, whether by day or by night it be; [...]

• Shott, Toths, shott, tho'ts, thots

• þost, þoste, thoste

From Old English þost, from Proto-Germanic *þustaz.

• IPA^(key): /θɔst/

thost (plural thostis)

1. Fecal matter; dung or feces, especially that of animals.
2. (rare) Something without worth.

• English: thost

• “thost (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-21.