Thrift
thrift (?), n. (Icel. trift. SeeThrive.) 1. A thriving state; good husbandry;
economical management in regard to property; frugality.
The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very
good husbands. Spenser.
2. Success and advance in the acquisition of
property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. Your
thrift is gone full clean. Chaucer.
I have a mind presages me such thrift.
Shak.
3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4. (Bot.) One of several species of
flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.
Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria
vulgaris; -- also called sea pink.
Syn. -- Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.
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