thornen

adj

thornen

adj

Etymology From Middle English thornen, from Old English þyrnen (“thorny, of thorns”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurnīn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnīnaz (“of thorns”), equivalent to thorn + -en.

Dialectal, Obsolete Made of or consisting of thorns.

In that district it was a favourite remedy for scald head in a baby to hang cotton wool on a "thornen hedge" by moonlight.1897, Frederick Hancock, The parish of Selworthy in the county of Somerset, page 233:

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