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.
Thriftily
(Thrift"i*ly) adv.
1. In a thrifty manner.
2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.]
A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted].
Chaucer. Thriftiness
(Thrift"i*ness), n. The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
Thriftless
(Thrift"less), a. Without thrift; not prudent or prosperous in money affairs. — Thrift"less*ly,
adv. — Thrift"less*ness, n.
Thrifty
(Thrift"y) a. [Compar. Thriftier ; superl. Thriftiest.]
1. Given to, or evincing, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal.
Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new.
Chaucer.
I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty.
Swift. 2. Thriving by industry and frugality; prosperous in the acquisition of worldly goods; increasing in wealth; as,
a thrifty farmer or mechanic.
3. Growing rapidly or vigorously; thriving; as, a thrifty plant or colt.
4. Secured by thrift; well husbanded. [R.]
I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I saved under your father.
Shak. 5. Well appearing; looking or being in good condition; becoming. [Obs.]
I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth.
Chaucer. Syn. — Frugal; sparing; economical; saving; careful.
Thrill
(Thrill) n. [See Trill.] A warbling; a trill.
Thrill
(Thrill), n. [AS. þyrel an aperture. See Thrill, v. t.] A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a
bird.