Crossword-Solution: THRUS 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Their nests are also made so as to keep out a greater pest than their carnivorous or egg-devouring enemies--namely, the parasitical starlings (Molo-thrus), which are found throughout South America, and are excessively abundant and destructive to birds' nests in some districts.

Incorrect Correct Incorrect Correct --------- -------- --------- ---------- Thrus' thrusts Harms' harm'st beace beasts wrongs' wrong'st thinks' thinkst twinkles' twinkl'dst weps' weptst black'ns black'n'dst REMARK 2.--In all cases of this kind these sounds are omitted, in the first instance, merely because they are difficult, and require care and attention for their utterance, although after a while it becomes a habit.

For softening purposes a very small quantity of gum thrus may be used, too much will result in tackiness.

Let us see fewer "thrus" and "thoros" in the amateur press! What the association needs above all things is a return to earlier forms in prose and verse alike; to poetry that does not pain the ear, and paragraphs that do not affront the aesthetic sense of the reader.