Word Finder - thorn

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A sharp protective spine of a plant.

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Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

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the cockspur thorn

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That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

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A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

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To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

He'd been a thorn in her side ever since.

Large areas of the plateau are covered with grass and occasional thorn trees.

A small thorn bush grows out of the base of a wide crack.

The thorn trees look suitably spiky and you certainly know not to land on them if you can help it.

The wedding was celebrated at Torgau on the 14th of October 1711, in the house of the queen of Poland, and three weeks later the bridegroom was hurried away by his father to Thorn to superintend the provisioning of the Russian troops in Poland.

The name means the shieling near the Thorn Tree.

The remainder of the day, so far as family life is concerned, is spent in the serdab, a cellar sunk somewhat below the level of the courtyard, damp from frequent wettings, with its half windows covered with hurdles thatched with camel thorn and kept dripping with water.

Babylon had always proved a thorn in the side of the Assyrian Empire.

If a thorn stuck in the foot is such a difficult thing to find... thorn stuck in the foot is such a difficult thing to find... thorn in the heart is how much more?

There was even a thorn upon the tip of his nose and he looked so funny that Dorothy laughed when she saw him.

A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph on Friday showed that the " trust " factor remains a thorn in Blair's side.

If a thorn stuck in the foot is such a difficult thing to find... thorn in the heart is how much more?

Uxmal is a famous site of impressive Maya ruins amid deciduous thorn forest.

A single drop of blood on the thorn further brings this point home.

The month of September highlighted a problem which turned into a real thorn in Palace's side - drawing.

The ' witness ' concept is like a big thorn, used to remove the little thorn of petty ego.

There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.

The towns of the League, stretching from Thorn and Krakow on the East to the towns of the Zuider Zee on the West, and from Wisby and Reval in the North to Göttingen in the South, were arranged in groups, following in the main the territorial divisions.

Casimir began by tying the hands of the Teutonic Order by the truce of Thorn; he induced the king of Bohemia to relinquish his claims to the Polish throne by consenting to leave him a free hand in Silesia (conference of Trencsen, early in 1335); and subsequently he attended the celebrated congress of Visegrad (November 12December 3, 1 335), where Charles Robert entertained him and the king of Bohemia magnificently.

Besides the grass and the creepers the bush is made up of berry-yielding bushes (some of the bushes being rich in aromatic resinous matter), the wait-abit thorn and white thorned mimosa.

Farther east and north comes the Turkestan pine (Picea Schrenkiana), while at lower levels there grow willows, black and white poplars, tamarisk, Celtis, as well as Elaeagnus (wild olive), Hippophae rhamnoides (sallow thorn), Rubus fructicosus (blackberry), Prunus spinosa (blackthorn) and P. A rmeniaca (apricot).

Thorn is OK as far as it goes but many people use it to reify the notion of mental illness, which is unnecessary.

Victor Thorn examines why, and how, real news is suppressed by the mainstream media More...

A tame lion, from whose paw he is said to have removed a thorn, is often present...

A YouGov poll for The Daily Telegraph on Friday showed that the " trust " factor remains a thorn in Blair 's side.

The month of September highlighted a problem which turned into a real thorn in Palace 's side - drawing.

A thorn hedge stood right across the path which he had known from a child.

Visitors to St Mary 's Quad can still see a thorn tree said to have been planted by Mary Queen of Scots.

Thorn in the flesh is the Christian way of saying " pain in the neck ".

Everyone gets a splinter at some point - whether from an errant bit of wood, a metal shaving or a thorn or burr from a plant.

Box Thorn (Lycium) - Rambling shrubs, the best known being L. chinense, a common climber on cottage walls.

The symbol, known as Vesica Piscis, depicts a sword dividing two interlocked circles and foliage to symbolize the Glastonbury Holy Thorn.

Join her in her quest to save her family and stop Thorn, the King of the Trolls, from destroying all magic and bringing chaos to all the land.

Destined to become the ruler of the Kingdom and the Element of Power, her sister becomes jealous and joins forces with Thorn, the King of the Trolls.

She must stop Thorn from destroying all magic and the lands from chaos.

It is a lot of fun to play.Save Kameo's family from the Evil Troll Thorn.

When it comes to hobos, you'll find everything flirty floral accents and delicate ribbon tie bags to rock style metal grommets and thorn and rose print screens.

Eric's deep affection for Beth and her children was a thorn in wife Stephanie's side.

What Adam couldn't have realized was Dixie's relationship to Palmer Cortlandt and Tad Martin would become such a thorn in his plans.

Next, the heart is pierced by a thorn or may be wrapped in a crown of thorns, symbolic of the crown forced on Christ at his crucifixion.

From the point where the thorn pierces Christ's heart, droplets of water and blood may be depicted, signifying purification and redemption.

The history of ancient, non-tattooed body art begins in the tip of a sharp thorn, the keen edge of a bone knife or the incendiary surface of an archaic tool.

He takes no heed of his rider, pays no attention whether he be on his back or not, walks straight on when once set agoing, merely because he is too stupid to turn aside, and then should some tempting thorn or green branch allure him out of the path, continues to walk on in the new direction simply because he is too dull to turn back into the right road.

Metamorphosis.It has already been pointed out that each kind of member of the body may present a variety of forms. For example, a stem may be a tree-trunk, or a twining stem, or a tendril, or a thorn, or a creeping rhizome, or a tuber; a leaf may be a green foliage-leaf, or a scale protecting a bud, or a tendril, or a pitcher, or a floral leaf, either sepal, petal, stamen or carpel (sporophyll); a root may be a fibrous root, or a swollen tap-root like that of the beet or the turnip. All these various forms are organs discharging some special function, and are examples of what Wolff called modification, and Goethe metamorphosis.

However, it may still be useful in describing monstrosities, and perhaps also those cases in which an organ serves first one purpose and then another, as when a leafy shoot eventually becomes a thorn, or the base of a foliage-leaf becomes a bud-scale.

We have seen that the action of Bohemund at Antioch was the negation of this theory, and that Alexius in consequence helped Raymund to establish himself in Tripoli as a thorn in the side of Bohemund, and sent an army and a fleet which wrested from the Normans the towns of Cilicia (1104).

The Haud (only the northern part of which is British territory - the rest is Abyssinian) consists partly of thorn jungle, the haud of the Somali, partly of rolling grass plains, called ban, and partly of semi-desert country called aror.

His orders were at once issued and complied with with such celerity that by the 31st he stood prepared to advance with the corps of Soult, Ney, Davout and Augereau, the Guard and the reserve cavalry (80,000 men on a front of 60 m.) from Myszienec through Wollenberg to Gilgenberg; whilst Lannes on his right towards Ostrolenka and Lefebvre (X.) at Thorn covered his outer flanks.

Hitherto he had been based on the entrenched camp of Warsaw, but he had already taken steps to organize a new line of supply and retreat via Thorn, and this was now completed.

Both France and Anjou supported this pretender's cause from time to time; he was always a thorn in Henry's side till his untimely death at Alost (1128), but more especially after the catastrophe of the White Ship (1120) deprived the king of his only lawful son.