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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Overgrown with thistles;

as,

thistly

ground

Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.

In such a world, so thorny, and where none
Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found,
Without some

thistly

sorrow at its side.

Cowper.

Adj.

this'ly. Overgrown with thistles; as thistly ground.

thistly ‎(comparative more thistly, superlative most thistly)