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   Thrift , n. [Icel. þrift. See Thrive.]
   A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
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   The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands.
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   Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.  “Your thrift is gone full clean.”  
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   I have a mind presages me such thrift.
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   Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
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   (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.
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   Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink.
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   Syn. -- Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.
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