thou /ˈðaʊ/
 你;汝
 Thou, v. i. To use the words thou and thee in discourse after the manner of the Friends. [R.]
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 Thou, v. t. To address as thou, esp. to do so in order to treat with insolent familiarity or contempt.
    If thou thouest him some thrice, it shall not be amiss.   --Shak.
 thou pron. [Sing.: nom. Thou; poss. Thy or Thine obj. Thee Pl.: nom. You poss. Your or Yours obj. You.]  The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
    Art thou he that should come?   --Matt. xi. 3.
 Note: ☞ “In Old English, generally, thou is the language of a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and expresses also companionship, love, permission, defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further expresses honor, submission, or entreaty.”
 Note: ☞ Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers, in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly say thee instead of thou.
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 thou
      n : the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn:
          thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad,
          G, grand, yard]