THRIFT
Thrift, n. Etym: [Icel. . 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.)
Defn: 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.
THRIFTILY
Thrift"i*ly, adv.
1. In a thrifty manner.
2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. Chaucer.