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Webster 1913 Edition
Thrift
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
. Shakespeare
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Thrift
THRIFT
,Noun.
The rest--willing to fall to thrift; prove very good husbands.
1.
Prosperity; success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain. I have a mind presages me such thrift.
2.
Vigorous growth, as of a plant.3.
In botany, a plant of the genus Statice.