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Thicken   /θˈɪkən/   Listen
Thicken

verb
(past & past part. thickened; pres. part. thickening)
1.
Make thick or thicker.  Synonym: inspissate.  "Inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch"
2.
Become thick or thicker.  Synonym: inspissate.  "The egg yolk will inspissate"
3.
Make viscous or dense.  Synonym: inspissate.



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"Thicken" Quotes from Famous Books



... remain in it may be boiled out. When you have cooked it a little, throw it out, and again put in more; which done, boil down the remaining water unto a third part, and then pouring it out of this pan, put it into one smaller, and cook it until it grows black and begins to thicken; add one third part of pure wine, and putting it into two or three new pots, cook it until you see a sort of skin show itself on the surface; then taking these pots from the fire, place them in the sun until the black ink purifies itself from the red dregs. Afterwards take small ...
— Forty Centuries of Ink • David N. Carvalho

... in vain through its labyrinths, they would inevitably escape, and I should lose the reward. Hark thee. Stay here and I'll fetch the writing for the message. Stir not for thy life. Shouldst thou betray me I'll have thy crooked bones ground in a mill to thicken pigs' gruel." ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... cake was delicious: it tasted of Blackdeep, and the cross-over will be most useful. It will keep me warm on cold days, and the love that came with it will thicken the wool. But, mother, it is not a month ago since you sent me the stockings. You are always at work for me. You are just like father. He gave us things not only on birthdays, but when we never looked out for them. Do you remember that week when wheat dropped three shillings a quarter? ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford

... suppliant's branch and chaplet, and prepares to hasten to Delphi, a wanderer cut off from his native land. The dreadful shapes of the avenging Furies close in upon him: the fancies of incipient madness thicken on his mind: he is hounded out, his only hope of rest being Apollo's sacred shrine. The play ends with a note of hopelessness, ...
— Authors of Greece • T. W. Lumb

... the proofs of his guilt and depravity thicken, on the 15th of June committed suicide by hanging himself to the bars of his cell with a handkerchief. He left letters to his father and brother, expressing in general terms the viciousness of his life, and his hopelessness of escape from punishment. When his associates ...
— The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster • Daniel Webster


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