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A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

Becoming hard and thorny; tapering gradually to a rigid, leafless point; armed with spines. Gray.

Producing spines; bearing thorns or spines; thorny; spiny.

Bearing a spine or spines; thorn-bearing.

Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.

Spinose; thorny.

Having small spines; somewhat thorny.

Full of spines; thorny; as, a spiny tree.

with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.

Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

the passions. Shak. Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me. Hawthorne.

portment. Shak. She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne.

A stem; a trunk. [Obs.] Seest not this same hawthorn stud Spenser.

Premeditated; planned; designed; as, a studied insult. "Studied magnificence." Hawthorne.

building or apartment devoted to study or to literary work. "His cheery little study." Hawthorne.

ous, is merely witty. Coleridge. The subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson's. Hawthorne.

Subtly communicating itself to my sensibilities, but evading the analysis of my mind. Hawthorne.

ng heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus. "Lighting a cigar with a sunglass." Hawthorne.

e; moderately black; swarthy; tawny. "Swart attendants." Trench. "Swart savage maids." Hawthorne. A nation strange, with visage swart. Spenser.