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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THICK'ET, n. A wood or collection of trees or shrubs closely set; as a ram caught in a thicket. Genesis 22.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English *thikket, from Old English thiccet, from thicce thick Date: before 12th century 1. a dense growth of shrubbery or small trees ; coppice 2. something resembling a thicket in density or impenetrability ; tangle <a political thicket> <a thicket of reporters> • thickety adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a tangle of shrubs or trees. Etymology: OE thiccet (as THICK, -ET(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Thicket Thick"et, n. [AS. [thorn]iccet. See Thick, a.] A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. --Gen. xxii. 13.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(thickets) A thicket is a small group of trees or bushes which are growing closely together. N-COUNT

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

thik'-et (cebhakh (Ge 22:13; Isa 9:18; 10:34), or cobhekh (Jer 4:7); in 1Sa 13:6, choach): A thick or dense growth of trees or shrubs (thorns, brambles), in which wild beasts may lurk (Jer 4:7), or animals be caught by their horns (Ge 22:13; Abraham's ram).

See FOREST.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Grove, copse, wood, forest, coppice, jungle, brake, bocage.

Moby Thesaurus

batch, boscage, bosket, brake, bunch, canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, clump, cluster, coppice, copse, copsewood, covert, crop, frith, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, knot, lot, mess, motte, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thickset, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood