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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Thrusting}.] [OE. [?]rusten, [?]risten, [?]resten, Icel.
      [?]r[?]st[?] to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to
      E. threat.]
      1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to
            shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or
            with an instrument.
  
                     Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
  
      {To thrust away} [or] {from}, to push away; to reject.
  
      {To thrust in}, to push or drive in.
  
      {To thrust off}, to push away.
  
      {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge.
  
      {To thrust one's self in} [or] {into}, to obtrude upon, to
            intrude, as into a room; to enter (a place) where one is
            not invited or not welcome.
  
      {To thrust out}, to drive out or away; to expel.
  
      {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. [bd]I am eight times
            thrust through the doublet.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {To thrust together}, to compress.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   From \From\, prep. [AS. fram, from; akin to OS. fram out, OHG. &
      Icel. fram forward, Sw. fram, Dan. frem, Goth. fram from,
      prob. akin to E. forth. [?]202. Cf. {Fro}, {Foremost}.]
      Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to;
      leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used
      whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action,
      being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation,
      absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is
      construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at
      which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or
      beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the
      occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis
      and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from
      Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light
      proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the
      fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good
      to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends
      on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts
      from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
  
               Experience from the time past to the time present.
                                                                              --Bacon.
  
               The song began from Jove.                        --Drpden.
  
               From high M[91]onia's rocky shores I came. --Addison.
  
               If the wind blow any way from shore.      --Shak.
  
      Note: From sometimes denotes away from, remote from,
               inconsistent with. [bd]Anything so overdone is from the
               purpose of playing.[b8] --Shak. From, when joined with
               another preposition or an adverb, gives an opportunity
               for abbreviating the sentence. [bd]There followed him
               great multitudes of people . . . from [the land] beyond
               Jordan.[b8] --Math. iv. 25. In certain constructions,
               as from forth, from out, etc., the ordinary and more
               obvious arrangment is inverted, the sense being more
               distinctly forth from, out from -- from being virtually
               the governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See
               {From off}, under {Off}, adv., and {From afar}, under
               {Afar}, adv.
  
                        Sudden partings such as press The life from out
                        young hearts.                                 --Byron.
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