Noah Webster
Thrift
THRIFT, noun [from thrive.] Frugality; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property.
The rest--willing to fall to thrift; prove very good husbands.
1. Prosperity; success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain.
I have a mind presages me such thrift
2. Vigorous growth, as of a plant.
3. In botany, a plant of the genus Statice.