Definition of Thorning

1. thorn [v] - See also: thorn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thorning

thornbird
thornbirds
thornbushes
thornbut
thorned
thornen
thornfish
thornfishes
thornhog
thorninesses
thorning (current term)
thornless
thornlike
thornproof
thornproofs
thorns
thorns in someone's side
thornset
thorntail
thorntails
thoro

Literary usage of Thorning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Texas and Texans by Francis White Johnson, Ernest William Winkler (1914)
"W. BURTON thorning, MD The membership in the Texas medical fraternity includes a great host of physicians and of physicians and surgeons, but the list of ..."

2. The Struggle of '72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign by Everett Chamberlin (1872)
"thorning Lincoln—The Cleveland Convention—" Anybody to Beat Lincoln"—Greeley Winks at the Movement—The Niagara Falls Affair—Greeley Hobnobs with Bogus Rebel ..."

3. Biographical History of Massachusetts: Biographies and Autobiographies of ...by Samuel Atkins Eliot by Samuel Atkins Eliot (1916)
"William thorning, father of the grandmother of William Б. Wood, Mary (thorning) Wood, was in the first skirmishes with the British on their retreat from ..."

4. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and by William Richard Cutter (1908)
"thorning Wood Hardy, born February 13, 1904. xiii. Mabel thorning Hardy, born December 30, 1874; unmarried, she is a school ..."

5. The Lady of Winderslee, a Saintly Romance, and Other Poems by George Washington Kettoman (1892)
"Young Maud she is a bonnie girl, (Oh, the shrub in the mere is thorning !) Her hair flows down in tuft and whorl, When the wind blows cool in the morning. ..."

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