Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Thrift"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Thrift \Thrift\, n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. 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.) 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

thrift
n 1: any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the
genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white
flowers
2: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money
unnecessarily [syn: {parsimony}, {parsimoniousness}, {penny-pinching}]

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