Obs. Pa. pple. throd, throdd, (throded). [Northern ME., app. ad. ON. þróa-sk refl. to thrive, wax, grow: cf. þroskr adj. full-grown, þroska-sk vb. to grow up to manhood; also dial. Ger. drûhen, trûhen (Grimm), drôen, trühen to thrive, prosper, grow.) intr. To grow, wax, increase in size or stature; to grow up.
Cf. dial. Throdden ppl. adj., fat, well-grown, in good condition, well-fed (Brockett, and E.D.D. Northumb., Yorksh.).
c. 1325. Metr. Hom., 112. That ilke childe Was sa unthewed and sa wilde, That all the schathe that he moht do, He did quen he bigan to thro.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 240. Now [MS. no] gynnes Dauid to thro. For now bigynnes Dauid to wax a werreour.
13[?]. Cursor M., 3077 (Cott.). For quen [ysmael] throded [v.r. waxyn] was to yoman. Ibid., 5641. Quen it [the child Moses] was throd [F. waxen, G. thriuen] and sumdel ald To kinges doghter sco it yald. Ibid., 14806. Fast es he [Jesus] throd [G. throdd] and thriuen, And mikel grace ai es him giuen.
b. ? To advance. (Perh. a different word.)
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 10058. Al softly he bad hem go, Þat non schulde byfore oþer þro Til þey come vnto þe bataille.
