thrift

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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.

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