Definition of Thrn
Thorn (27), a town and fortress of the first rank in West Prussia,
on the Vistula, 115 m. NW. of Warsaw; formerly a member of the
Hanseatic League (q. v.); was annexed by Prussia in 1815; the
birthplace of Copernicus; carries on a brisk trade in corn and timber.
- Wikipedia
Thorn (?), n. [AS. þorn; akin to
OS. & OFries. thorn, D. doorn, G. dorn, Dan.
torn, Sw. törne, Icel. þorn, Goth.
þaúrnus; cf. Pol. tarn, Russ. tern' the
blackthorn, ternie thorns, Skr. t&rsdot;&nsdot;a grass, blade
of grass. √53.] 1. A hard and sharp-pointed
projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a
spine.
2. (Bot.) Any shrub or small tree which
bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the
hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
3. Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn;
anything troublesome; trouble; care.
There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me. 2 Cor. xii. 7.
The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,
Be only mine. Southern.
4. 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.
Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. --
Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces
thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing
trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.)
See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper
(Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which
lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.
Thorn, v. t. To prick, as with a
thorn. [Poetic]
I am the only rose of all the stock
That never thorn'd him. Tennyson.
Thorn (?), n. [AS. þorn; akin to
OS. & OFries. thorn, D. doorn, G. dorn, Dan.
torn, Sw. törne, Icel. þorn, Goth.
þaúrnus; cf. Pol. tarn, Russ. tern' the
blackthorn, ternie thorns, Skr. t&rsdot;&nsdot;a grass, blade
of grass. √53.] 1. A hard and sharp-pointed
projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a
spine.
2. (Bot.) Any shrub or small tree which
bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the
hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
3. Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn;
anything troublesome; trouble; care.
There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the
messenger of Satan to buffet me. 2 Cor. xii. 7.
The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,
Be only mine. Southern.
4. 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.
Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. --
Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces
thorns. -- Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing
trees or bushes. -- Thorn devil. (Zoöl.)
See Moloch, 2. -- Thorn hopper
(Zoöl.), a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which
lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.
Thorn, v. t. To prick, as with a
thorn. [Poetic]
I am the only rose of all the stock
That never thorn'd him. Tennyson.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a sharp spine of a plant
- a letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
- See also Etymology of ye (definite article).
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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