Scarce vs Thorn - What's the difference?

scarce | thorn |

As an adjective scarce

is uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

As an adverb scarce

is scarcely, only just.

As a proper noun thorn is

for someone living near a thorn bush.

scarce

English

(wikipedia scarce)

Adjective

(er)

Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.

* (John Locke)

You tell him silver is scarcer now in England, and therefore risen one fifth in value.

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Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of .

* (John Milton)

A region scarce of prey.

Adverb

(-)

Scarcely, only just.

* Milton

With a scarce well-lighted flame.

* 1854 , (Edgar Allen Poe), (The Raven):

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure that I heard you [...].

* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4:

Yet had I scarce set foot in the passage when I stopped, remembering how once already this same evening I had played the coward, and run home scared with my own fears.

* 1931 , William Faulkner, Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 122:

Upon the barred and slitted wall the splotched shadow of the heaven tree shuddered and pulsed monstrously in scarce any wind.

Anagrams

thorn

English

(wikipedia thorn)

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp protective spine of a plant.

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.

the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn

(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7

There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

* South

The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.

A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh

* See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

Derived terms

* thorn apple * thorn broom * thornbush * thorn devil * thorn hopper * thorn in one's side * Thornton * thorny

Verb

(en verb)

To pierce with, or as if with, a

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