A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
A group of common grackles.
A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
To afflict with a disease or other calamity.
That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).
A sharp protective spine of a plant.
Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).