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noun. A modified branch in the form of a sharp woody structure.

noun. Any of various other sharp protuberances, such as a spine.

noun. Any of various shrubs, trees, or woody plants bearing such sharp structures.

noun. Any of various sharp protuberances on an animal.

noun. One that causes sharp pain, irritation, or discomfort.

noun. The runic letter þ, used in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse manuscripts to represent both the voiceless sound (th) of Modern English thin and the voiced sound (ᴛʜ) of Modern English this, and in modern Icelandic orthography to represent the voiceless sound (th).

To prick or pierce with or as with a thorn.

To fasten with a thorn.

To be supplied (?).

Supplied (?).

noun. A sharp excrescence on a plant: usually a branch, or the termination of a stem or branch, indurated, leafless, and attenuated to a point; a spine; a prickle. See spine, 1.

noun. Figuratively, that which wounds or annoys; a cause of discomfort or irritation; a painful circumstance.

noun. One of numerous thorny shrubs or trees, especially the members of the genus Cratægus, otherwise called haw.

noun. In zoology, some sharp process, horn, or spine. See spine, 3.

noun. In entomology, one of certain geometrid moths: an English book-name. The little thorn is Epione advenaria; the early thorn is Selenia illunaria.

noun. In lace-making, a small pointed projection used to decorate the cordon-net, etc. Compare spine, 5.

noun. The Anglo-Saxon letter þ, equivalent to th; also, the corresponding character in Icelandic.

noun. In the United States, sometimes, the scarlet-fruited thorn.

noun. See Macrocnemum.

transitive verb. To prick, as with a thorn.

noun. A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

noun. Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

noun. Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.

noun. The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter �, capital form �. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.

noun. Jamestown weed.

noun. a shrub that produces thorns.

noun. a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes.

noun. See Moloch, 2.

noun. a tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees.

noun. A sharp protective spine of a plant.

noun. A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh

verb. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

noun. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

noun. a Germanic character of runic origin

noun. something that causes irritation and annoyance

"And do you know what that sting or thorn is in Latin?"

annoyance  buffalo-thorn  christ's thorn  cockspur-thorn  edh  

thorn apple  thorn in one's side  thornbush  

annoyance  bother  botheration  infliction  pain  

Born  Horn  Horne  Lorne  Thorne  

blossom  bramble  branch  brush  brushwood  

adherent  adhesive  affliction  annoyance  bane  

thorned  thorning  thorns