thorough bass noun (music)

1. (esp in baroque music) a bass part underlying a piece, usu with figures to indicate the chords, and usu played on a keyboard instrument
2. (loosely) harmony
3. A deep bass (non-standard)

thorˈoughbrace noun (US)

1. A leather band supporting the body of certain types of carriage
2. A stagecoach

thorˈoughbraced adjective

thorˈoughbred adjective

1. Thoroughly or completely bred or trained
2. (of a horse) bred from a dam and sire of the best blood, and having the qualities supposed to depend on such breeding
3. Pure-bred
4. (with cap) relating to the Thoroughbred breed of horses
5. High-spirited

noun

1. An animal (esp a horse) of pure blood
2. (with cap) a racehorse of a breed descended from any of three Arabian stallions of the early 18c whose ideal gait is the gallop

thorˈoughfare noun

1. A passage or way through
2. A road open at both ends
3. A public way or street
4. Right of passing through

thorˈoughgoing adjective

1. Going through or to the end
2. Going all lengths
3. Complete
4. Out-and-out

thorˈoughgoingly adverb

thorˈoughgoingness noun

thorˈough-paced adjective

1. (of a horse) thoroughly or perfectly trained in all paces
2. Complete

thorˈoughpin noun (veterinary medicine)

Inflammation of a horse's hock joint

thorˈoughwax or thorˈow-wax noun

The plant hare's-ear, from the stem seeming to wax (ie grow) through the leaves

post-vintage thoroughbred

A car built between 1 January 1931 and 31 December 1941