What is "thicken"

Usage examples of "thicken".

The lorislike adapid had a shield of thickened skin over bony bumps on its back, beneath which it now tucked its head.

Add a half cupful of meat stock, thicken with a little flour and butter, and boil three minutes, squeeze a little lemon juice into it, add a sprinkling of parsley and a dash of pepper, pour over the artichokes and serve.

I focussed my image--roundabout which, as it persisted, I repeat, the interesting possibilities and the attaching wonderments, not to say the insoluble mysteries, thickened apace.

Harry Baldachin wheezed and peered out from under his thickening orbital ridges.

He sent an occasional arrow up towards the barbican, but the thickening smoke hung like fog and he could scarcely see his targets.

Cal had previously padded and thickened so that a man could wrap it around himself to belay another climber without being cut in half.

Further and further yet, until he was lost among the thickening stems and denser boskage of some rising ground beyond.

But I believe that it is the thickening of your brow ridges that makes them seem so, and the new bulbosity of your nose.

Then she took small handfuls of the doughy root starch, mixed with the berries, the sweet, flavorful licorice-fern root stalk, and the sweetening and thickening sap from the birch cambium, and dropped them on the hot rocks.

A month before, this mountain had been only a name to us, but latterly we had been moving through a steadily thickening double row of pictures of it, done in oil, water, chromo, wood, steel, copper, crayon, and photography, and so it had at length become a shape to us--and a very distinct, decided, and familiar one, too.

Stir it up, thicken the chili a little with the guar or xanthan if you think it needs it, and serve with sour cream, shredded cheese, and chopped cilantro on top.

The air was warm, and smelt alternately lush and foul, as trees fruited and factory waste coagulated in thickening flows.

Press through a colander and put into a pint of boiling milk, thickened with a tablespoonful each of butter and flour, dilute this with soup stock or chicken broth, and just before taking up add the yolks of two eggs well beaten and two tablespoonfuls of cream.

Let all simmer slowly for two hours, then put all through a colander, return it to the pot, heat to boiling, thicken with a tablespoonful of butter rolled in cornstarch, season with pepper and salt to taste and serve hot.

The elder Cracken had the same general build as his son, though he had thickened a bit in the middle and jowls were just beginning to form on him.