Word Meanings - THICKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat thick.

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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
• 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.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• THICK-SKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• THICKEN
  To make thick . Specifically: -- To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. To strengthen; to confirm. And this may to thicken
• 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.
• THICKLY
  In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
• THICKSKULL
  A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull. Entick.