Definitions for: Thick


[n] the location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd"
[adv] in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick"
[adv] with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick"
[adj] abundantly covered of filled; "the top was thick with dust"
[adj] used informally
[adj] closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"
[adj] heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man"
[adj] abundant; "a thick head of hair"
[adj] spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred"
[adj] (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night"
[adj] hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods"
[adj] 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; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"
[adj] relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog"
[adj] wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark"



Webster (1913) Definition: Thick (th[i^]k), a. [Compar. Thicker (-[~e]r); superl.
Thickest.] [OE. thicke, AS. [thorn]icce; akin to D. dik,
OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel.
[thorn]ykkr, [thorn]j["o]kkr, and probably to Gael. & Ir.
tiugh. Cf. Tight.]
1. Measuring in the third dimension other than length and
breadth, or in 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.

2. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its
opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick
plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used
figuratively; as, thick darkness.

Make the gruel thick and slab. --Shak.

4. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty;
as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain.
``In a thick, misty day.'' --Sir W. Scott.

5. Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set;
following in quick succession; frequently recurring.

The people were gathered thick together. --Luke xi.
29.

Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood.
--Dryden.

6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good
articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.

7. Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.] --Shak.

8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. --Shak.

His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible.
--Shak.

9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.]

We have been thick ever since. --T. Hughes.

Note: Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most
of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred,
thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying,
thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped,
thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed,
thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like.

Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n.,
7.

Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is more than four
inches thick and less than twelve. --J. Knowles.



Syn: Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.


Thick, n.
1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.

In the thick of the dust and smoke. --Knolles.

2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] --Drayton.

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.
--Spenser.

He through a little window cast his sight Through
thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. --Dryden.

Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under
Fiddle.

Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and
difficulties, both great and small.

Through thick and thin she followed him. --Hudibras.

He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of
a military frenzy. --Coleridge.


Thick (th[i^]k), adv. [AS. [thorn]icce.]
1. Frequently; fast; quick.

2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.

3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as,
land covered thick with manure.

Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great
numbers. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.


Thick, v. t. & i. [Cf. AS. [thorn]iccian.]
To thicken. [R.]

The nightmare Life-in-death was she, Who thicks man's
blood with cold. --Coleridge.

Synonyms: abundant, blockheaded, boneheaded, clogged, clotted, coagulable, coagulate, coagulated, compact, concentrated, cream(a), creamy, curdled, deep, deep-chested, dense, fat, fatheaded, four-ply, gelatinlike, gelatinous, grumose, grumous, heavy, heavyset, impenetrable, intense, jellylike, loggerheaded, midst, quilted, ropey, ropy, slurred, soupy, stocky, stringy, stupid, syrupy, thickened, thickheaded, thickly, thickset, thick-skulled, thready, three-ply, two-ply, unintelligible, viscous, wooden-headed

Antonyms: thin, thin, thinly

See Also: broad, inside, interior, wide

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