Category:Thrift

Thrift, n. Etym: [icel. . 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.)

Defn: 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.