WordNet DictionaryWebster's 1913 Dictionary\Thrift"i*ly\, adv. 1. In a thrifty manner. 2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. --Chaucer.
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| Definition: | [adv] in a thrifty manner; "a used towel that he had used and had left thriftily on the ledge below the mirror rather than consign to the linen basket" | ||
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| Definition: | \Thrift"i*ly\, adv. 1. In a thrifty manner. 2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. [Obs.] A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret [greeted]. --Chaucer. | ||
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