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Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Abnormal thickening and hardening of the walls of the arteries, esp. of the intima, occurring mostly in old age. -- Ar*te`ri*o*scle*rot"ic (#), a.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.

A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toees, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome. Welkome, gentlemen! Ladies that have their toes Unplagued with corns, will have a bout with you. Shak.

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.…

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.

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

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

d rubbing it through a sieve; as, a purée of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated.

A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies.

The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.

tened starch obtained from the roots of the cassava. It is much used in puddings and as a thickening for soups. See Cassava.

One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolæ.

ham, veal, beef, fowl, bouillon, etc., then adding soup stock, seasoning, vegetables, and thickening, and again boiling and straining.

small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillæ, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.