Thorn

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, topographic) for someone living near a thorn bush.
  2. Noun.  A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  3. 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 '' '''th'''igh''.
  4. Verb.  To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn.

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