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I meant, plain holy - thistle. Shak., Much Ado, iii. 4. 80. ... Horse thistle. (a) The common thistle (see horse-thistle). (bt) The wild lettuce, Lactuca Scariola , var. virosa . -Hundred-headed thistle, or hundred thistle, an umbelliferous plant, Eryngium campestre , so called from the numerous flower-heads. - Jersey thistle, one of the star-thistles, Centaurea aspera (C. Isnardi ). - Lady's or Our Lady's thistle. (a) See milk- thistle and Silybum . (b) Same as ble ed thistle . - Mexican thistle, Cnicus ( Erythrolæna ) conspicuus , a tall plant with rigid spiny leaves, the heads 3 inches long, with yellow florets and scarlet involucral scales. - Order of the Thistle (in full The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle ), thistle-down a very old Scottish order which has often been renewed and remodeled, and is still in existence. The devices of the order are St. Andrew's cro , or saltier, and a thistle flower with leaves; these enter into the different badges, the collar, star, etc. The motto is "Nemo me impune lace it." The ribbon is green. - Pasture-thistle, a low stout species, Cnicus pumilus , with from one to three very large purple, or rarely white, sweet-scented heads: found in the Atlantic United States. - Saffron-thistle, the safflower. - St. Barnaby's thistle, the yellow star-thistle, Centaurea solstitial is : so named as blooming about St. Barnaby's day. - Scotch thistle, a kind of thistle regard. ed as the national emblem of Scotland, but the precise species to which the name properly belongs is not settled. Most authorities consider it to be the cotton-thistle, Ono pordon Acanthium , though this is not native in Scotland; others, the milk-thistle, Silybum ( Carduus ) Marianum ; while some, with greater probability, refer it to the common Cnicus lanceolatus . The thistle intended when the emblem came into use is uncertain, owing to the fact that the figures on old coins and in paintings were not meant to be botanically exact. See cuts above and under Onopor don.Spear-thistle, the common thistle, Cnicus lanceo lat us: so called from its lance-shaped leaves. - Stemle thistle, a European thistle, Cnicus a caulis , having a tuft of prickly spreading leaves and a few largish purple heads, scarcely rising above the ground. Also dwarf thistle , and locally pod - thistle . - Swamp-thistle, a tall species, Cni cus muticus , with single or few deep-purple heads on the branches: found in damp soil in the eastern United States. -Swine-thistle. Same as sow - thistle . Syrian thistle, Cnicus ( No to basis ) Syriacus , of the Mediterranean region. It is a plant from 1 to 4 feet high, with milky-veined leaves, the heads, one to three, on short axillary branches, each head embraced by a rigid pinnatifid spiny-pointed bract.-Tall thistle, a common species of the United States east of the Mi i ippi, Cnicus alt is sim us , a branching plant sometimes 10 feet high, the leaves covered with close white wool beneath, the flowers light-purple. -Virgin Mary's thistle. Same as milk - thistle .-Way-thistle, the Canada thistle. - Welted thistle, an Old World species, Carduus a can tho ides , resembling the musk-thistle. - Wolves'- or wolf's-thistlet, Carlin a a caulis .-Woolly-headed thistle. Same as friar's - crown . - Yellow thistle, Cnicus horrid ulus , of the Atlantic United States, a stout plant from 1 to 3 feet high, with very spiny leaves and pale-yellow or purple heads. (See also bur -thistle, hedgehog - thistle , melancholy - thistle , melon - thistle , milk- this tle , musk- thistle , pine - thistle , pod- thistle , sow-thistle, star thistle , torch - thistle .) thistle-bird (this'l-berd), n . The American goldfinch, Chrysomitris or Spinus trist is , or another thistle-finch (which see). Among the occasional visitors to the yard were two American goldfinches, or thistle - birds . The Atlantic, LXVI. 260. The thistle-butterfly (this'l-but"ėr - flī), n. painted-lady, Vane a or Pyrameis cardui , а cosmopolitan butterfly whose larva feeds on the thistle. See cut under painted - lady . thistle-cock (this'l-kok), n. The common corn bunting, Emberiza miliaria . See cut under bunt ing . [Prov. Eng.] thistle-cropper (this'l-krop"ėr), n. The domestic a ; a donkey. thistle-crown (this'l-kroun), n. [So named from the thistle on the coin.] An English gold coin of the reign of James I., current 1604-11, weighing about 30 grains, and worth 4s. or 48. 44d. (about $1 or $1.10). thistle-digger (this'l-diger), n. A form of spade with a narrow, forked blade, with which the root of a thistle can be IMG:content-0279.jpg:[graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small][subsumed][merged small][merged small][subsumed][ocr errors][graphic][subsumed] cuts under thistle . Reverse. Thistle-dollar.- British Museum. (Size of the original.) thistle-down As a thistle - downe in th' ayre doth flie, So vainly shalt thou too and fro be tost. Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 634. First loves were apt to float away from memory as thistle downs upon a summer breeze. The Century, XL. 681. thistle-finch (this'l-finch), n. One of several different fringilline birds which feed to a no table extent on the seeds of the thistle and various related composites. This name, or an equiv alent, is traceable to the ἀκανθίδες of Aristotle (compare the extract given under thistle warp below), and covers numerous species of linnets, siskins, goldfinches, etc., of similar habits and of closely related subgeneric groups, for the explanation of which see spin us. Also thistle bird , and formerly this tlewarp . IMG:content-0280.jpg:[blocks in formation] grains troy, and was worth 138. 4d. Scotch (134d. English) at the time of i ue. thistle-plume (this'l-plöm), n. A plume-moth, Ptero phorus car dui dactylus, whose larva feeds on thistle heads. [U.S.] thistle-tube (this'l-tūb), n. In chem Obverse. Reverse. Thistle-merk of James VI.-British Museum. (Size of the original.) ical gla ware, a funnel-tube in which the flar ing part of the funnel is connected with a bulb of considerably larger diameter, from the bottom of which a tube extends downward, thus presenting a profile strikingly similar to the stalk of a thistle and its composite flower (whence the name). thistlewarpt (this'l-wârp), n. [ thistle + warp . Cf. moldwarp.] The goldfinch or siskin; a thistle-finch. Two sweet birds, surnamed th' Acanthi des, Which we call Thistle - warps , that near no seas Dare ever come, but still in couples fly, And feed on thistle-tops, to testify The hardne of their first life in the last. Marlowe and Chapman , Hero and Leander, vi. 277. more remote; opposite: opposed to hither. [Rare.] They cro ed from Broadway to the noisome street by the ferry, and in a little while had taken their places in the train on the thither side of the water.