thorn, fishing hook, fork, fish-bone, hand (of watch or clock), weighing scale, pointer (of balance)

be very lean, meek, skinny, weak

to prove (a sum) by means of a cross

to let down a hook or a hooked instrument (into a well in order to fish up anything)

(of a fish) strike with the fins

prickle

to extricate (one's) thorn (from), to afford relief (to one in pain)

rankle in the breast, feel uneasy

to become like a thorn,' to become lean, become as thin as a broom-stick

get rid of any pain easily

meek like a thorn

be very thin due to sickness or grief

there is no rose without a thorn, where there is happiness, there are woes

be in a state of extreme thirst

become very thin