Emily Dickinson Lexicon

THRIFT, n. [from thrive.]

1. Frugality; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property. The rest – willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands. Spenser.
2. Prosperity; success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain. I have a mind presages me such thrift. Shak.
3. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
4. In botany, a plant of the genus Statice.