Thornproofadjective
Resistant to tearing by thorns.
Thornnoun
(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
Thornnoun
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
‘the white thorn’; ‘the cockspur thorn’;
Thornnoun
(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
Thornnoun
A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
Thornverb
To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn
Thornnoun
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
Thornnoun
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
Thornnoun
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.’; ‘The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,Be only mine.’;
Thornnoun
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.
Thornverb
To prick, as with a thorn.
‘I am the only rose of all the stockThat never thorn'd him.’;
Thornnoun
something that causes irritation and annoyance;
‘he's a thorn in my flesh’;
Thornnoun
a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf
Thornnoun
a Germanic character of runic origin