This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. Botany A modified branch in the form of a sharp, woody spine.

n. Botany Any of various shrubs, trees, or woody plants bearing sharp, woody spines.

n. Any of various sharp, spiny protuberances; a prickle.

n. One that causes sharp pain, irritation, or discomfort: He is a thorn in my side.

n. The runic letter þ originally representing either sound of the Modern English th, as in the and thin, used in Old English and Middle English manuscripts.

n. A sharp protective spine of a plant.

n. 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 thigh

v. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

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

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

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

n. 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.

v. To prick, as with a thorn.

n. A sharp excrescence on a plant: usually a branch, or the termination of a stem or branch, indurated, leafless, and attenuated to a point; a spine; a prickle. See spine, 1.

n. Figuratively, that which wounds or annoys; a cause of discomfort or irritation; a painful circumstance.

n. One of numerous thorny shrubs or trees, especially the members of the genus Cratægus, otherwise called haw.

n. In zoology, some sharp process, horn, or spine. See spine, 3.

n. In entomology, one of certain geometrid moths: an English book-name. The little thorn is Epione advenaria; the early thorn is Selenia illunaria.

n. In lace-making, a small pointed projection used to decorate the cordon-net, etc. Compare spine, 5.

n. The Anglo-Saxon letter þ, equivalent to th; also, the corresponding character in Icelandic.

n. In the United States, sometimes, the scarlet-fruited thorn.

n. See Macrocnemum.

To prick or pierce with or as with a thorn.

To fasten with a thorn.

Supplied (?).

To be supplied (?).

n. a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

n. a Germanic character of runic origin

n. something that causes irritation and annoyance

"Sometimes, as in any exorcism movie -- and most horror movies are that, by other names -- the alien thorn is successfully removed from the suppurating flank of the real."

thorned    thorning    thorns   

rune    runic letter    annoyance    infliction    pain    pain in the ass    bother    botheration    pain in the neck   

annoyance    september thorn    waythorn    scorpion-thorn    jerusalem thorn    willow-thorn    wait-a-bit thorn    christ's thorn    buffalo-thorn    side   

thornbush    thorn in one's side    thorn apple   

spine    trouble    care   

Born    Horn    Horne    Lorne    Thorne    aborn    adorn    born    borne    bourn   

bramble    fern    vine    twig    foliage    brushwood    willow    ivy    oak    thicket