01 a. Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
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Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
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Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.“In such a world, so thorny, and where none Finds happiness unblighted, or, if found, Without some thistly sorrow at its side.” — Cowper.