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To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.

The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure. Fulling mill, a mill for fulling cloth as by means of pesties or stampers, which alternately fall into and rise from troughs where the cloth is placed with hot water and fuller's earth, or other cleansing materials.…

A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc.

Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts. Acids dissolve or attenuate; alkalies precipitate or incrassate. Sir I. Newton. Liquors which time hath incrassated into jellies. Sir T. Browne.…

Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken. Harvey.

To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation.

The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened.

m or hip; ischiac; ischiadic; ischiatic. Ischial callosity (Zoöl.), one of the patches of thickened hairless, and often bright-colored skin, on the buttocks of many apes, as the drill.

To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper. Paunch mat (Naut.), a thick mat made of strands of rope, used to prevent the yard or rigging from chafing.

Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle.

tive sheath. (Anat.) See Neurilemma. -- Primitive streak or trace (Anat.), an opaque and thickened band where the mesoblast first appears in the vertebrate blastoderm.

An aërial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants.