Thrift \Thrift\, n. [Icel. [thorn]rift. See Thrive.]

1. A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. --Spenser.

2. Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity. ``Your thrift is gone full clean.'' --Chaucer.

I have a mind presages me such thrift. --Shak.

3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

4. (Bot.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

Common thrift (Bot.), Armeria vulgaris; -- also called sea pink.

Syn: Frugality; economy; prosperity; gain; profit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)