Definition of thorn

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Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..

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Jamestown Weed :: "Jamestown weed () The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura..
Hawebake :: Hawebake (n.) Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2..
Haw :: Haw (n.) The fruit of the hawthorn.
Rhamnus :: Rhamnus (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges.
May :: May (n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn..
Spiniform :: Spiniferous (a.) Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.
Inermis :: Inermis (a.) Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf..
Whitethorn :: Whitethorn (n.) The hawthorn.
Ye :: Ye () an old method of printing the article the (AS. /e), the y being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (/). It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4..
Spine :: Spine (n.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..
Boxthorn :: Boxthorn (n.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum..
Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..
Glasstonbury Thorn :: Glasstonbury thorn () A variety of the common hawthorn.
Maid :: Maid (n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata)..
Crackle :: Crackle (v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle..
Quickset :: Quickset (n.) A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn..
Spiny :: Spiny (a.) Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree..
Sapan Wood :: Sapan wood () A dyewood yielded by Caesalpinia Sappan, a thorny leguminous tree of Southern Asia and the neighboring islands. It is the original Brazil wood..
Thorn :: Thorn (n.) Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
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