thistles
7.Theophilus Thistle, the successful thistle-sifter, Sifted sixty thistles through the thick of his thumb.
8.Any of various thistles of the genus Centaurea, having variously colored flowers grouped in a head with a spiny involucre.
9.(of plants such as dandelions and thistles) having pappi or tufts of featherlike hairs or delicate bristles.
10.At the Yule Ball of 1994, she wore dress robes of red tartan and arranged a rather ugly wreath of thistles around the brim of her hat.


