Thatch, vb. to cover as with a roof of straw: “t. your poor thin roofs with burthens of the dead,” Tim. IV, 3, 144 (i. e. with false hair). --ed == having a roof covered with straw: “my visor is Philemon's roof . . . Why, then, your visor should be --ed,” Ado II, 1, 102. “ill-inhabited, worse than Jove in a --ed house,” As III, 3, 11. In Tp. IV, 63: flat meads --ed with stover, it seems == covered in general, which is the original signification of the word.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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