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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thrift  \Thrift\,  n.  [Icel.  [thorn]rift.  See  {Thrive}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  thrift 
  n  1:  any  of  numerous  sun-loving  low-growing  evergreens  of  the 
  genus  Armeria  having  round  heads  of  pink  or  white 
  flowers 
  2:  extreme  care  in  spending  money;  reluctance  to  spend  money 
  unnecessarily  [syn:  {parsimony},  {parsimoniousness},  {penny-pinching}]




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