*thorn*

n. (Bot.) (a) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. (b) A species of Cratægus or hawthorn (Cratægus tomentosa). Both are used for hedges. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The common European starfish (Asterias rubens). [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Zizyphus vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. hagaþorn, hægþorn. See Haw a hedge, and Thorn. ] (Bot.) A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Crataegus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade
To shepherds? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hawthorn. R. Scot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Lantern. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) An orthoceras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. þorn; akin to OS. & OFries. thorn, D. doorn, G. dorn, Dan. torn, Sw. törne, Icel. þorn, Goth. þaúrnus; cf. Pol. tarn, Russ. tern' the blackthorn, ternie thorns, Skr. t&rsdot_;&nsdot_;a grass, blade of grass. √53. ] 1. A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. 2 Cor. xii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,
Be only mine. Southern. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter &unr_;, capital form &unr_;. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thorn apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. --
Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that produces thorns. --
Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or bushes. --
Thorn devil. (Zool.) See Moloch, 2. --
Thorn hopper (Zool.), a tree hopper (Thelia crataegi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree, and allied trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To prick, as with a thorn. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I am the only rose of all the stock
That never thorn'd him. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on its back. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Zool.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Thorn + -but as in halibut; cf. G. dornbutt. ] (Zool.) The turbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a head armed with thorns or spines. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thorn-headed worm (Zool.), any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of, or free from, thorns. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Set with thorns. Dyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Thornier superl. Thorniest. ] [ Cf. AS. þorniht. ] 1. Full of thorns or spines; rough with thorns; spiny; as, a thorny wood; a thorny tree; a thorny crown. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing. “The thorny point of bare distress.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The steep and thorny way to heaven. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thorny rest-harrow (Bot.), rest-harrow. --
Thorny trefoil, a prickly plant of the genus Fagonia (Fagonia Cretica, etc.). [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. (Bot.) The hawthorn. [ 1913 Webster ]