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Noun Plural: thorns
thorn - a Germanic character of runic origin
thorn - a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf
		spine, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet
		aculeus a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect
thorn - something that causes irritation and annoyance; "he's a thorn in my flesh"
		irritant
		pain in the ass, bother, botheration, pain in the neck, infliction, annoyance, pain an act causing pain or damage

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thorn (Noun)
A sharp protective spine of a plant.
thorn (Noun)
A letter of the Latin alphabet 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.
thorn (Verb)
To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn.

thorn (n.)
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
thorn (n.)
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
thorn (n.)
Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
thorn (n.)
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.
thorn (v. t.)
To prick, as with a thorn.

thorn
A sharp and hard protrusion that grows on a plant.
thorn
A letter in the Old English, Gothic, Old Norse, and Icelandic alphabets.

thorn
thorn, n. a sharp, woody spine on the stem of a plant: a spine: a plant having spines or thorns: anything prickly or troublesome.—ns. Thorn′-app′le, a plant of genus Datura: a haw, a thorn-tree; Thorn′back, a species of ray or skate which has nail-like crooked spines in its back; Thorn′bill, a variety of humming-bird with short, straight bill; Thorn′-bush, a shrub producing thorns; Thorn′-hedge, a hedge of hawthorn.—adjs. Thorn′less, without thorns; Thorn′set, set or beset with thorns; Thorn′y, full of thorns: prickly: troublesome: harassing (A.S. thorniht).—Thorn in the flesh, any cause of constant irritation, from 2 Cor. xii. 7. [A.S. thorn; Ice. thorn, Ger. dorn.]

thorn
A fortified town of the kingdom of Prussia, in the province of West Prussia, on the right bank of the Vistula. It is defended by walls, bastions, and two forts. This town was founded by the Teutonic Knights in 1232, and admitted into the Hanseatic League in the beginning of the 14th century. It was taken by Charles XII. of Sweden in 1703, after a siege of four months.