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A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f

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  • THICKENING
    Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • THICK WIND
    A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
  • THICK
    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. L'Estrange.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • AFRICAN
    A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • AFRICANISM
    A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.
  • THICK-SKINNED
    Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
  • OPPOSITE
    1. One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist. The opposites of this day's strife. Shak. 2. That which is opposed or contrary; as, sweetness and its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.
  • THICKNESS
    The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • THICKSET
    1. A close or thick hedge. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.
  • THICK-WINDED
    Affected with thick wind.
  • THICKBILL
    The bullfinch.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
    the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
  • SOUTHING
    Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
  • SUBGENUS
    A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
  • PARKLEAVES
    A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
  • EURAFRIC; EURAFRICAN
    Of, pertaining to, or designating, the continents of Europe and Africa combined. 2. Pert. to or designating a region including most of Europe and northern Africa south to the Sahara. 3. Of European and African descent.
  • AFRICANIZE
    To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. Bartlett.
  • SOUTHNESS
    A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
  • THICK-SKULLED
    Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

 

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