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Word Meanings - MISLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.

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  • THICKENING
    Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
  • THICK WIND
    A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
  • DROPSICAL
    1. Diseased with dropsy; hydropical; tending to dropsy; as, a dropsical patient. 2. Of or pertaining to dropsy.
  • THICK
    ; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick 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
  • DROPSICALNESS
    State of being dropsical.
  • THICK-SKINNED
    Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
  • THICKNESS
    The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
  • THICKSET
    1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. 2. Having a short, thick body; stout.
  • THICK-WINDED
    Affected with thick wind.
  • THICKBILL
    The bullfinch.
  • THICK-SKULLED
    Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
  • THICKEN
    To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." Shak. The press of people thickens to the court. Dryden. The combat thickens, like the storm that flies. Dryden.
  • DROPSIED
    Diseased with drops. Shak.
  • DROPSY
    An unnatural collection of serous fluid in any serous cavity of the body, or in the subcutaneous cellular tissue. Dunglison. (more info) idropisie, F. hydropisie, L. hydropisis, fr. Gr. Water, and cf.
  • THICKSKIN
    A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
  • THICK-KNEE
    A stone curlew. See under Stone.
  • THICK-HEADED
    Having a thick skull; stupid.
  • THICKET
    A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. Gen. xxii. 13.
  • THICKHEAD
    Any one of several species of Australian singing birds of the genus Pachycephala. The males of some of the species are bright- colored. Some of the species are popularly called thrushes. (more info) 1. A thick-headed or stupid person.
  • THICKISH
    Somewhat thick.
  • KNOCK-OUT DROPS
    Drops of some drug put in one's drink to stupefy him for purpose of robbery, etc.
  • LADIES' EARDROPS
    The small-flowered Fuchsia , and other closely related species.

 

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