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Thistle bird (Zoöl.), the American goldfinch, or yellow-bird (Spinus tristis); — so called on account of its
feeding on the seeds of thistles. See Illust. under Goldfinch. — Thistle butterfly (Zoöl.), a handsomely
colored American butterfly (Vanessa cardui) whose larva feeds upon thistles; — called also painted lady.
— Thistle cock (Zoöl.), the corn bunting [Prov. Eng.] — Thistle crown, a gold coin of England of
the reign of James I., worth four shillings. — Thistle finch (Zoöl.), the goldfinch; — so called from its
fondness for thistle seeds. [Prov. Eng.] — Thistle funnel, a funnel having a bulging body and flaring
mouth.
Thistly
(This"tly) a.
1. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
2. 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. Thither
(Thith"er) adv. [OE. thider, AS. ðider; akin to E. that; cf. Icel. þaðra there, Goth. þaþro thence.
See That, and The.]
1. To that place; — opposed to hither.
This city is near; . . . O, let me escape thither. Gen. xix. 20.
Where I am, thither ye can not come. John vii. 34. 2. To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
Hither and thither, to this place and to that; one way and another.
Syn. — There. Thither, There. Thither properly denotes motion toward a place; there denotes rest in
a place; as, I am going thither, and shall meet you there. But thither has now become obsolete, except
in poetry, or a style purposely conformed to the past, and there is now used in both senses; as, I shall
go there to-morrow; we shall go there together.
Thither
(Thith"er) a.
1. Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; — a correlative of hither; as, on the thither
side of the water. W. D. Howells.
2. Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a. Huxley.
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