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What does thorn mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word thorn? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.
  2. (botany) Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.
  3. A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh
Verb
  1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn
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