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   Thistly (?), a.
   1. Overgrown with thistles; as, “thistly ground”.
   
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   2. Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
   
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   In such a world, so thorny, and where none
   
   Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found,
   
   Without some thistly sorrow at its side. Cowper.
   
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