1. (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.

2. (n.) Success and advance in the acquisition of property; increase of worldly goods; gain; prosperity.

3. (n.) Vigorous growth, as of a plant.

4. (n.) One of several species of flowering plants of the genera Statice and Armeria.

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