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thorn


  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thorn  \Thorn\,  n.  [AS.  [thorn]orn;  akin  to  OS  &  OFries  thorn, 
  D.  doorn,  G.  dorn,  Dan.  torn,  Sw  t["o]rne,  Icel.  [thorn]orn, 
  Goth.  [thorn]a['u]rnus;  cf  Pol.  tarn,  Russ.  tern'  the 
  blackthorn,  ternie  thorns,  Skr.  t[.r][.n]a  grass,  blade  of 
  grass.  [root]53.] 
  1.  A  hard  and  sharp-pointed  projection  from  a  woody  stem; 
  usually,  a  branch  so  transformed;  a  spine. 
 
  2.  (Bot.)  Any  shrub  or  small  tree  which  bears  thorns; 
  especially,  any  species  of  the  genus  Crat[ae]gus,  as  the 
  hawthorn,  whitethorn,  cockspur  thorn. 
 
  3.  Fig.:  That  which  pricks  or  annoys  as  a  thorn;  anything 
  troublesome;  trouble;  care 
 
  There  was  given  to  me  a  thorn  in  the  flesh,  the 
  messenger  of  Satan  to  buffet  me  --2  Cor.  xii. 
  7. 
 
  The  guilt  of  empire,  all  its  thorns  and  cares  Be 
  only  mine.  --Southern. 
 
  4.  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. 
 
  {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}.  (Zo["o]l.)  See  {Moloch},  2. 
 
  {Thorn  hopper}  (Zo["o]l.),  a  tree  hopper  ({Thelia 
  crat[ae]gi})  which  lives  on  the  thorn  bush,  apple  tree, 
  and  allied  trees. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thorn  \Thorn\,  v.  t. 
  To  prick,  as  with  a  thorn.  [Poetic] 
 
  I  am  the  only  rose  of  all  the  stock  That  never  thorn'd 
  him  --Tennyson. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  thorn 
  n  1:  something  that  causes  irritation  and  annoyance;  "he's  a 
  thorn  in  my  flesh"  [syn:  {irritant}] 
  2:  a  sharp-pointed  tip  on  a  stem  or  leaf  [syn:  {spine},  {prickle}] 
  3:  a  Germanic  character  of  runic  origin 
 
  From  Easton's  1897  Bible  Dictionary  [easton]: 
 
  Thorn 
  (1.)  Heb.  hedek  (Prov.  15:19),  rendered  brier"  in  Micah  7:4. 
  Some  thorny  plant,  of  the  Solanum  family,  suitable  for  hedges. 
  This  is  probably  the  so-called  "apple  of  Sodom,"  which  grows 
  very  abundantly  in  the  Jordan  valley.  "It  is  a  shrubby  plant, 
  from  3  to  5  feet  high,  with  very  branching  stems,  thickly  clad 
  with  spines,  like  those  of  the  English  brier,  with  leaves  very 
  large  and  woolly  on  the  under  side  and  thorny  on  the  midriff." 
 
  (2.)  Heb.  kotz  (Gen.  3:18;  Hos.  10:8),  rendered  _akantha_  by 
  the  LXX.  In  the  New  Testament  this  word  _akantha_  is  also 
  rendered  thorns"  (Matt.  7:16;  13:7;  Heb.  6:8).  The  word  seems 
  to  denote  any  thorny  or  prickly  plant  (Jer.  12:13).  It  has  been 
  identified  with  the  Ononis  spinosa  by  some 
 
  (3.)  Heb.  na'atzutz  (Isa.  7:19;  55:13).  This  word  has  been 
  interpreted  as  denoting  the  Zizyphus  spina  Christi,  or  the 
  jujube-tree.  It  is  supposed  by  some  that  the  crown  of  thorns 
  placed  in  wanton  cruelty  by  the  Roman  soldiers  on  our  Saviour's 
  brow  before  his  crucifixion  was  plaited  of  branches  of  this 
  tree.  It  overruns  a  great  part  of  the  Jordan  valley.  It  is 
  sometimes  called  the  lotus-tree.  "The  thorns  are  long  and  sharp 
  and  recurved,  and  often  create  a  festering  wound."  It  often 
  grows  to  a  great  size.  (See  CROWN  OF  {THORNS}.) 
 
  (4.)  Heb.  atad  (Ps.  58:9)  is  rendered  in  the  LXX.  and  Vulgate 
  by  Rhamnus,  or  Lycium  Europoeum  a  thorny  shrub,  which  is  common 
  all  over  Palestine.  From  its  resemblance  to  the  box  it  is 
  frequently  called  the  box-thorn. 
 




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