Crossword clues for thickening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thickening \Thick"en*ing\, n. Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
Thicken \Thick"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thickened; p. pr. & vb. n. Thickening.] To make thick (in any sense of the word). 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.
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To strengthen; to confirm. [Obs.]
And this may to thicken other proofs.
--Shak. To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"substance used to thicken something," 1839, verbal noun from thicken.
Wiktionary
n. 1 the process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous 2 a substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce 3 a thickened part of a structure vb. (en-past of: thicken)
WordNet
adj. accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the gathering darkness"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: deepening(a), gathering(a), thickening(a)]
becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot"
n. any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" [syn: thickener]
the act of thickening [syn: inspissation]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "thickening".
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.
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.
The air was warm, and smelt alternately lush and foul, as trees fruited and factory waste coagulated in thickening flows.
Frequent use of the catheter, without any treatment to prevent the further enlargement of the diseased gland, or to reduce its size, permits the part to go on enlarging, and, besides, the constant use of the catheter irritates the prostatic portion of the urethra, causing thickening of the lining membrane, and sooner or later a more or less complete organic stricture of this canal, depending upon thickening of the lining mucous membrane, as well as upon the encroachment of the gland itself upon this canal.
The battle of sensualism, the scramble over material interests, the wearing absorption in the small and evanescent struggles of social rivalry, the irritated attention given to the ever thickening claims of external things, the pulverizing discussions of all sorts of opinions by hostile schools, are fatal to that concentrated calmness of mood, that unity of passion, that serene amplitude of intellectual and imaginative scope, that docile religious receptiveness of soul, requisite for the fit contemplation of a doctrine so solemn and sublime as that of immortality.
There was the chug-chug-chug of the fishing fleet just slipping into the bay, gulls thickening like a halo around them, and the one-eyed gaseosa vendor setting up his cart hopefully, unfolding his little deck chair, and then promptly falling asleep.
Take a little of the thickening left at the bottom of the pan in which a chicken or goose has been braised, and after the fat has been taken off, mix it with the giblet liquor and boil until dissolved.
Inflammation of the endocardium, the lining membrane of the heart, may cause a thickening of it, and ossification of the valves of the heart, thus impairing its function.
As she saw herself and Jondalar on the rocky beach of the remote valley, aberrant currents of light and motion, forming out of a numinous thickening of the air and disappearing into emptiness, surrounded them, joining them.
Drawing on his cigar, Planchini kept testing the aroma of the panatela as he stared into the thickening smoke.
After a time, and before they reached the sinking cloud bank, the warships turned northward, and then abruptly went about and passed into the thickening haze of evening southward.