- a thread or the like inserted beneath the skin to provide drainage or to guide subsequent passage of a tube.
- U.S. educator, social-welfare reformer, and religious leader: first native-born American to be canonized (1975).
- English writer and illustrator in the U.S.
- to cause to attack
- to instigate or incite; urge
- Ernest Thompson. 1860–1946, US author and illustrator of animal books, born in England
