Thrift (?), n. [Icel. þrift. 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.