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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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562 words match “THICK”

THICK a. 15 definitions
n general dimension other than length; -- said of a solid body; as, a timber seven inches thick. Were it as thick as is a branched oak. Chaucer. My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings xii. 10.
THICK WIND n.
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
THICK-HEADED a.
Having a thick skull; stupid.
THICK-KNEE n.
A stone curlew. See under Stone.
THICK-SKINNED a.
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
THICK-SKULLED a.
Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
THICK-WINDED a.
Affected with thick wind.
THICKBILL n.
The bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]
THICKEN v. 6 definitions
To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically: --
THICKENING n.
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
THICKET n.
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
THICKHEAD n. 2 definitions
A thick-headed or stupid person. [Colloq.]
THICKISH a.
Somewhat thick.
THICKLY adv.
In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
THICKNESS n.
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
THICKSET a. 4 definitions
Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden.
THICKSKIN n.
A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
THICKSKULL n.
A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.
ABJECT a.
-lying. [Obs.] From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood. Milton.
AGOG a.
In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.
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