Definition of Thorn

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Definition of Thorn

Thorn

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.

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.

To prick, as with a thorn.

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Thorn Quotations

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
Neil Young

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emile M. Cioran

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
Colleen McCullough

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges

Thorn Translations

thorn in Danish is torn
thorn in Dutch is doorn
thorn in Finnish is piikki
thorn in German is Dorns, Dorn, Dorn
thorn in Italian is spina
thorn in Portuguese is espinho
thorn in Spanish is espina

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