The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, Be only mine.
Southern.
4. 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 apple (Bot.), Jamestown weed. — Thorn broom (Bot.), a shrub that
produces thorns. — Thorn hedge, a hedge of thorn-bearing trees or
bushes. — Thorn devil. (Zoöl.) See Moloch, 2. — Thorn hopper (Zoöl.), a
tree hopper (Thelia cratægi) which lives on the thorn bush, apple tree,
and allied trees.