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A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

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

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.

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.…

A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees in a wood; underbrush.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

Fighting in the bush, or from behind bushes, trees, or thickets.

A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Obs.] Raleigh.

A thicket of canes. Ellicott.

A thicket of low evergreen oaks.

pple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.