Obs. [OE. þost = OHG. dost.] Dung, excrement; a turd.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 364. Scinseocum men wyrc drenc of hwites hundes þoste on bitere leʓe.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter lxxxii[i]. 11 [10]. Þai for-worthed in Endor, Þai ere made als thoste of erthe þar-for.
a. 1327. Pol. Songs (Camden), 237. Alle weren y-haht Of an horse thoste.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), IV. 423. Alle men þrewe on hym drit and thost.
c. 1425. Cast. Persev., 2413, in Macro Plays, 149. Al oure fare is not worth a thost.
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 348. Asse vryne & swynes thost.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 492/1. Thoste (or toord), stercus.
