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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THICK, a.
1. Dense; not thin; as thick vapors; a thick fog.
2. Inspissated; as, the paint is too thick.
3. Turbid; muddy; feculent; not clear; as, the water of a river is thick after a rain.
4. Noting the diameter of a body; as a piece of timber seven inches thick.
My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings 12.
5. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; as a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper.
6. Close; crowded with trees or other objects; as a thick forest or wood; thick grass; thick corn.
The people were gathered thick together.
7. Frequent; following each other in quick succession. The shot flew thick as hail.
Favors came thick upon him.
Not thicker billows beat the Libyan main.
8. Set with things close to each other; not easily pervious.
Black was the forest, thick with beech it stood.
9. Not having due distinction of syllables or good articulation; as a thick utterance.
He speaks too thick.
10. Dull; somewhat deaf; as thick of hearing.
THICK, n. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
In the thick of the dust and smoke he presently entered his men.
1. A thicket. [Not in use.]
Thick and thin, whatever is in the way.
Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
THICK, adv. Frequently; fast.
I hear the trampling of thick beating feet.
1. Closely; as a plat of ground thick sown.
2. To a great depth, or to a thicker depth than usual; as a bed covered thick with tan; land covered thick with manure.and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Not in use.]
THICK, v.i. To become thick or dense. [Not used.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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; "an inch thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets" [ant: thin]
2: having component parts closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds"; "a thick forest"; "thick hair"
3: relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog" [ant: thin]
4: spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred" [syn: slurred, thick]
5: having a short and solid form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man" [syn: compact, heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset]
6: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: dense, thick]
7: (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" [syn: thick, deep]
8: (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months" [syn: chummy, buddy-buddy, thick]
9: (used informally) stupid [syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed]
10: abounding; having a lot of; "the top was thick with dust" n
1: the location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd" [syn: midst, thick] adv
1: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thickly, thick] [ant: thin, thinly]
2: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thick, thickly]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English thikke, from Old English thicce; akin to Old High German dicki thick, Old Irish tiug Date: before 12th century 1. a. having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite <a thick plank> b. heavily built ; thickset 2. a. close-packed with units or individuals <the air was thick with snow> b. occurring in large numbers ; numerous c. viscous in consistency <thick syrup> d. sultry, stuffy e. marked by haze, fog, or mist <thick weather> f. impenetrable to the eye ; profound <thick darkness> g. extremely intense <thick silence> 3. measuring in thickness <12 inches thick> 4. a. imperfectly articulated ; indistinct <thick speech> b. plainly apparent ; decided <a thick French accent> c. producing inarticulate speech <a thick tongue> 5. obtuse, stupid <too thick to understand> 6. associated on close terms ; intimate <was quite thick with his pastor> 7. exceeding bounds of propriety or fitness ; excessive <called it a bit thick to be fired without warning> • thickish adjective • thickly adverb II. adverb Date: before 12th century in a thick manner ; thickly III. noun Date: 13th century 1. the most crowded or active part <in the thick of the battle> 2. the part of greatest thickness <the thick of the thumb>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj., n., & adv. --adj. 1 a of great or specified extent between opposite surfaces (a thick wall; a wall two metres thick). b of large diameter (a thick rope). 2 a (of a line etc.) broad; not fine. b (of script or type, etc.) consisting of thick lines. 3 a arranged closely; crowded together; dense. b numerous (fell thick as peas). 4 (usu. foll. by with) densely covered or filled (air thick with snow). 5 a firm in consistency; containing much solid matter; viscous (a thick paste; thick soup). b made of thick material (a thick coat). 6 muddy, cloudy; impenetrable by sight (thick darkness). 7 colloq. (of a person) stupid, dull. 8 (of a voice) indistinct. 9 colloq. intimate or very friendly (esp. thick as thieves). --n. a thick part of anything. --adv. thickly (snow was falling thick; blows rained down thick and fast). Phrases and idioms: a bit thick Brit. colloq. unreasonable or intolerable. in the thick of 1 at the busiest part of. 2 heavily occupied with. thick ear Brit. sl. the external ear swollen as a result of a blow (esp. give a person a thick ear). thick-skinned not sensitive to reproach or criticism. thick-skulled (or -witted) stupid, dull; slow to learn. through thick and thin under all conditions; in spite of all difficulties. Derivatives: thickish adj. thickly adv. Etymology: OE thicce (adj. & adv.) f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thick 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thick 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thick 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thick 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(thicker, thickest) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Something that is thick has a large distance between its two opposite sides. For breakfast I had a thick slice of bread and syrup... This material is very thick and this needle is not strong enough to go through it. ? thin ADJ • thickly Slice the meat thickly. ADV: ADV with v 2. You can use thick to talk or ask about how wide or deep something is. The folder was two inches thick... How thick are these walls? ADJ: n ADJ, how ADJ, amount ADJ, as ADJ as • Thick is also a combining form. His life was saved by a quarter-inch-thick bullet-proof steel screen. COMB in ADJ: ADJ n • thickness (thicknesses) The size of the fish will determine the thickness of the steaks... N-VAR: oft N of n, N of amount, amount in N 3. If something that consists of several things is thick, it has a large number of them very close together. She inherited our father's thick, wavy hair... They walked through thick forest. = dense ADJ • thickly I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly... ADV: ADV after v, ADV -ed 4. If something is thick with another thing, the first thing is full of or covered with the second. The air is thick with acrid smoke from the fires... ADJ: v-link ADJ with n 5. Thick clothes are made from heavy cloth, so that they will keep you warm in cold weather. In the winter she wears thick socks, Wellington boots and gloves... ? thin ADJ 6. Thick smoke, fog, or cloud is difficult to see through. The smoke was bluish-black and thick... ADJ 7. Thick liquids are fairly stiff and solid and do not flow easily. They had to battle through thick mud to reach construction workers... ADJ 8. If someone's voice is thick, they are not speaking clearly, for example because they are ill, upset, or drunk. When he spoke his voice was thick with bitterness. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • thickly 'It's all my fault,' he mumbled thickly. ADV: ADV after v 9. A thick accent is very obvious and easy to identify. He answered our questions in English but with a thick accent... = strong ADJ: usu ADJ n 10. If you describe someone as thick, you think they are stupid. (BRIT INFORMAL) How could she have been so thick? = stupid ADJ: usu v-link ADJ [disapproval] 11. If things happen thick and fast, they happen very quickly and in large numbers. The rumours have been coming thick and fast... PHRASE: PHR after v 12. If you are in the thick of an activity or situation, you are very involved in it. I enjoy being in the thick of things... PHRASE: PHR n, usu v-link PHR, PHR after v 13. If you do something through thick and thin, you do it although the conditions or circumstances are very bad. She'd stuck by Bob through thick and thin... PHRASE: PHR after v 14. a thick skin: see skin

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Not thin (in measure). 2. Dumpy, squab, squat, plump, bulky, solid. 3. Dense. 4. Dense, gross, inspissate, inspissated, grumous. 5. Misty, cloudy, foggy, hazy, dirty, vaporous, vapory. 6. Turbid, muddy, roiled. 7. Abundant, frequent, numerous, multitudinous. 8. Compact, crowded, close, closely set, dense. 9. Indistinct, inarticulate, confused. 10. Dull, not quick. 11. Dim, indistinct, weak. 12. (Colloq.) Intimate, familiar, neighborly, well-acquainted, friendly, hand and glove. II. n. Thickest part. III. ad. 1. Frequently, fast, quick. 2. Densely, closely, thickly. 3. To a great depth.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers.

Moby Thesaurus

Boeotian, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, abundant, accented, adhesive, alive, alive with, alveolar, ample, amylaceous, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, asinine, assimilated, back, barytone, beamy, beef-brained, beef-witted, beyond belief, bilabial, blockish, blubber, blubbery, blurred, boneheaded, bovine, brassy, brazen, breathy, brimming, bristling, broad, broad-bodied, bulky, bullnecked, burly, bursting, bushy, cacuminal, center, central, cerebral, checked, chock-full, choked, choking, chuck-full, chummy, chumpish, chunky, clabbered, clammy, cloddish, close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, closely, clotted, coagulated, coarse, compact, compacted, compactly, compressed, concentrated, concrete, condensed, congealed, congested, consolidated, consonant, consonantal, continuant, core, corpulent, cowish, cracked, crammed, crammed full, crass, crawling, cretinous, croaking, croaky, crowded, crowding, curdled, decided, deep, dense, densely, dental, devoted, diameter, diaphragm, dim-witted, dissimilated, distorted, doltish, dopey, dorsal, doubtable, doubtful, doughy, drawling, drawly, dry, dubious, dubitable, dull, dull-witted, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical, duncish, dysphonic, equator, exuberant, familiar, fat, filled, firm, firmly, flat, flourishing, focus, foggy, friendly, front, full, full-bodied, gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, glide, glossal, glottal, gluelike, gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grating, gravelly, gross, gruff, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy, guttural, hand and glove, hand in glove, hand-in-hand, hard, hard of belief, hard to believe, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking, hazy, heart, heavily, heavy, heavyset, high, hoarse, husky, imbecilic, impassable, impenetrable, impermeable, implausible, in profusion, inarticulate, inconceivable, incredible, indistinct, ineducable, insensitive, inseparable, inspissated, interior, intimate, intonated, jam-packed, jammed, jelled, jellied, jellylike, jungled, jungly, kernel, klutzy, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lavish, lax, light, like that, lingual, liquid, lisping, low, lumpish, lush, luxuriant, marked, massive, matey, mean, median, metallic, mid, middle, midmost, midriff, midst, mispronounced, misty, monophthongal, moronic, mucilaginous, murky, muted, muzzy, narrow, nasal, nasalized, near, nonporous, not deserving belief, nucleus, oafish, obese, obscure, obscuring, obtuse, obvious, occlusive, on good terms, opaque, open, open to doubt, open to suspicion, overflowing, overgrown, overrun, oxytone, packed, palatal, palatalized, pally, palsy-walsy, passing belief, pasty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plentiful, populous, posttonic, preposterous, problematic, prodigal, profuse, proliferating, prolific, pronounced, quavering, questionable, ragged, rank, rasping, raspy, raucid, raucous, retroflex, ridiculous, rife, rigid, riotous, ropy, rough, rounded, roupy, rude, semivowel, serried, shaking, shaky, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow, slow-witted, smoggy, smoky, snuffling, soft, solid, solidly, sonant, sottish, soupy, squat, squawking, squawky, staggering belief, starchy, stertorous, sticky, stiff, stifled, stodgy, stolid, stopped, strangled, stressed, stringy, strong, stubby, studded, stumpy, stupid, substantial, superabundant, surd, suspect, suspicious, swarming, syllabic, syrupy, tacky, tall, teeming, tenacious, tense, thick as hail, thick as thieves, thick of things, thick with, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-growing, thick-headed, thick-skinned, thick-witted, thickened, thickheaded, thickly, thickset, thin, three-dimensional, throaty, thronged, thronging, tinny, tonal, tonic, tough, tremelloid, tremellose, tremulous, twangy, typical, unaccented, unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable, unrounded, unstressed, unteachable, unthinkable, unweeded, unworthy of belief, velar, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, waist, waistline, weak, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, wide, wrongheaded, zone