Thrift
Pronunciation : Thrift
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Icel. . See Thrive.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913