a. [f. THIRST sb. + -LEWE.] Thirsty.
c. 1425. Orolog. Sapient., i. in Anglia, X. 327/9. Þe whiche qwenchede not fullye here thriste, but hit … made hem more thristlewe.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 75. Drye in the see, and wete upon the stronde;… In reveris thurstlew, and moyst upon the londe. Ibid. (1430–40), Bochas, I. xv. (MS. Bodl. 263), lf. 69/2. He was … wonder thrustleuh afftir traunilyng.
