Word Meanings - PUNCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Short and thick, or fat.

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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.
• 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
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• 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).
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• 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.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORT-DATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• SHORT-WAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• SHORT
  In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery,
• 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.
• THICKSKIN
  A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
• SHORTENING
  That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.