THRIFT, noun [from thrive.] Frugality; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property. The rest--willing to fall to thrift; prove very good husbands. 1. Prosperity; success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain. I have a mind presages me such thrift 2. Vigorous growth, as of a plant. 3. In botany, a plant of the genus Statice.
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