Definition of "thews" [thews]

• Attractive physical attributes or features; good bodily proportions; muscles; vigour. (noun)
• Plural form of thew. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of thew. (verb)

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• "Twisted thews of pard or panther, knot them round their hearts of flame,"
• "There were no swelling muscles, no abundant thews and wide-spreading shoulders."
• "The insides of his brain throbbed like the awesome banging of a Khitain gong and his mighty thews ached with stiffness."