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Thick

adjective

(compar. thicker; superl. thickest)

1.

Not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions. "A thick board" , "A thick sandwich" , "Spread a thick layer of butter" , "Thick coating of dust" , "Thick warm blankets"

2.

Having component parts closely crowded together. "A dense population" , "Thick crowds" , "A thick forest" , "Thick hair"

3.

Relatively dense in consistency. "Thick soup" , "Thick smoke" , "Thick fog"

4.

Spoken as if with a thick tongue. Synonym: slurred. "His words were slurred"

5.

Having a short and solid form or stature. Synonyms: compact, heavyset, stocky, thickset. "He was tall and heavyset" , "Stocky legs" , "A thickset young man"

6.

Hard to pass through because of dense growth. Synonym: dense. "Thick woods"

7.

(of darkness) very intense. Synonym: deep. "Thick darkness" , "A face in deep shadow" , "Deep night"

8.

(used informally) associated on close terms. Synonyms: buddy-buddy, chummy. "The bartender was chummy with the regular customers" , "The two were thick as thieves for months"

9.

(used informally) stupid. Synonyms: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thickheaded, wooden-headed.

10.

Abounding; having a lot of.

adverb

1.

With a thick consistency. Synonym: thickly.

2.

In quick succession. Synonym: thickly.

noun

1.

The location of something surrounded by other things. Synonym: midst.

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"Thick" Quotes from Famous Books

... about whose waist was a thick belt of leather, fastened by a chain to the wall, sat on a miserable cot, his face bowed in his hands. He did not look up at the white, cadaverous face and great, blazing orbs, which gleamed with fury upon him, although he knew full well that those ...

— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick

... "I don't think I could speak," again "I made no effort," or "I did not care to speak." Henrietta H. (Case 8) said, "I lost speech." She claimed that she did not move because she was tired and had a numb feeling. Mary C. (Case 7) said that her tongue had been thick and that she felt dull. Rose Sch. (Case 6) said during the psychosis that her head was upside down and retrospectively that she had been mixed up, could not remember well, did not feel like talking. ...

— Benign Stupors - A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type • August Hoch

... moon pushed slowly up through the trees. Its uncertain light fell across the clearing. For the first time the thick pale smoke of the fire was visible, rising straight up until it cleared the tops of the willows, and then caught into swift, jagging lines as the soft wind struck it. A coyote wailed from the distant hills, and before his complaint was done another sound came through the hushing of the willows, ...

— The Untamed • Max Brand

... fitted remove the wedge and fill the split with paper as shown at figure 5. Then cover all wounds over with wax brushed on warm as at figure 6. The melted wax should be about the consistency of thick honey. Tie a paper sack over all as at figure 7. This should remain until scions begin to grow. It keeps them warm and prevents drying out by hot winds. In from ten days to three weeks the scions will have started sufficient to gradually remove the cover as at figure 8. In eight or ten days from ...

— Walnut Growing in Oregon • Various

... remarkable letter to have outdone himself; and Farnese—that sincere Farnese, in whose loyal, truth-telling, chivalrous character, the Queen and her counsellors placed such implicit reliance—could thenceforward no longer be embarrassed as to the course he was to adopt. To lie daily, through, thick, and thin, and with every variety of circumstance and detail which; a genius fertile in fiction could suggest, such was the simple rule prescribed by his sovereign. And the rule was implicitly obeyed, and the English sovereign thoroughly deceived. ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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