a. [f. THORN sb. + -ED2.] a. Having or provided with thorns. b. Overgrown with thorn-bushes.
1865. Ellen Russell Emerson, Poems, 120.
| The thornèd wreath doth wound thee soon, | |
| A grave thou pleadest as a boon. |
1893. Chr. Rossetti, Songs for Strangers, etc., Poems (1904), 123/2. Our crooked ground, our thorned and thistled plot.
1895. Pop. Sci. Monthly, Feb., 499. The thorned plants that inhabit them.
1903. Daily Chron., 21 March, 8/4. Long trails of thorned rose stems.
