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A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp. The murderous knife was dull and blunt. Shak.

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

A figure that has length, breadth, and thickness; any solid figure.

he bottom or drip of the second slate above, i. e., the space which is covered with three thicknesses; also, the distance between the nail of the under slate and the lower edge of the upper slate. -- Bond timber, timber worked into a wall to tie or strengthen it longitudinally.

A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland. And pbonnets waving high. Sir W. Scott.

e a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects. At eve the beetle boometh Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

ty inches in length, from two to three inches wide, and half or three quarters of an inch thick. When thrown from the hand with a quick rotary motion, it describes very remarkable curves, according to the shape of the instrument and the manner of throwing it, often moving nearly horizontally a long distance, then curvi…

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

The bush hog. See under Bush, a thicket.

A thicket; a small wood. "Through bosk and dell." Sir W. Scott.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

Woody or bushy; covered with boscage or thickets. Milton.

d; the cavities of the vesicles become the central cavities, or ventricles, and the walls thicken unequally and become the three segments, the fore-, mid-, and hind-brain.

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes. Rounds rising hillocks, brakes obscure and rough, To shelter thee from tempest and from rain. Shak. He stayed not for brake, and he stopped not for stone. Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake.…

es; having wide-spreading branches; consisting of branches. Beneath thy branchy bowers of thickest gloom. J. Scott.

A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.

A gathering or forming of a storm or squall, indicated by thick, dark clouds.

To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles. The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets. Thackeray. Ports bristling with thousands of masts. Macaulay.