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When the gage was thrown The deadly gage of battle--thou, alone Strong in thy self-control, didst stoop to lay The olive-branch thereon, and calmly pray We might have peace, the rather.

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  1. pronoun Used to indicate the one being addressed, especially in a literary, liturgical, or devotional context.
  2. noun Slang A thousand, especially of dollars.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English thū, second person nominative sing. personal pron.; see tu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English thou, thow, thu (in enclitic use attached to a preceding auxiliary, tou, tow—artow, art thou, hastou, hast thou, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon thū (genitive thīn, dative thē, accusative thē, older and poetical thec, instrumental thē; plural nominative gē (ye), genitive eówer (your), dative eów (you), accusative eów, poetical eówic (you); dual. nominative git, genitive incer, dative inc, accusative inc, incit) = Old Saxon thū = OFries. thu = Middle Dutch du (modern D. uses the plural gij, = English ye, for singular) = Middle Low German Low German du = Old High German Middle High German du, dū, German du = Icelandic thū= Swedish Danish du = Gothic (Moesogothic) thu = Welsh ti = Gaelic Irish tu = Old Bulgarian ti = Russian tui, etc., = Latin tu = Greek σύ, Doric τύ = Sanskrit tvam, thou, orig.*tva, one of the orig. Indo-European personal pronouns (cf. I, he, the, that, etc.). Hence thine, thy.
  2. from Middle English thowen (= Icelandic thūa = Swedish dua = Middle Latin tuare; cf. French tutoyer); from thou, pron. Cf. thout.
 

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