thrifty

1. (dated) Thriving, prosperous, successful; (of an animal or plant) growing rapidly or vigorously.Examples: "The life of religion is this water of life; where that runs, where that is received, and where things are done in this spirit, there all things are well: The church thrifty, the soul thrifty, graces thrifty, and all is well."; "the lands on this road are of an excellent quality, and in many places light timbered, in others covered with thrifty oak, black walnut, sugar maple, beach and linden."; "But, Gentlemen, the gallant Admiral has told you he has two loves; and he seems to have made a prudent choice, and been a very thrifty wooer."dated

2. (obsolete) Preserved by thrift; carefully managed.Examples: "They han great stores, and thriftye flockes, / great freendes and feeble foes"; "But do not ſo: I haue fiue hundred Crownes, The thriftie hire I ſaued vnder your Father, Which I did ſtore to be my foſter Nurſe"; "No more the shadows of the plane-tree and the beech allay the intensity of the solstitial heat; no more the feathered tribes are heard to chirrup amidst the sprays, or the active squirrel seen to disport among the boughs, or collect his thrifty store of acrons ^([sic]) and of nuts, under the cool and impenetrable recesses of the glade."obsolete