The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thick \Thick\ (th[i^]k), a. [Compar. Thicker (-[~e]r); superl. Thickest.] [OE. thicke, AS. [thorn]icce; akin to D. dik, OS. thikki, OHG. dicchi thick, dense, G. dick thick, Icel. [thorn]ykkr, [thorn]j["o]kkr, and probably to Gael. & Ir. tiugh. Cf. Tight.]
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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 as is a branched oak.
--Chaucer.My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.
--1 Kings xii. 10. Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.
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Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.
Make the gruel thick and slab.
--Shak. Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. ``In a thick, misty day.''
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Abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set; following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
The people were gathered thick together.
--Luke xi. 29.Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood.
--Dryden. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.
Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.]
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Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing.
--Shak.His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible.
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Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.]
We have been thick ever since.
--T. Hughes.Note: Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick-growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like.
Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n., 7.
Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve.
--J. Knowles.Syn: Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.
Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: thick) adv. (en-comparative of thick POS=adverb)
Usage examples of "thicker".
The gaslight which I had left lit for Jonathan, but turned down, came only like a tiny red spark through the fog, which had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room.
The mist grew thicker and thicker and I could see now how it came in, for I could see it like smoke, or with the white energy of boiling water, pouring in, not through the window, but through the joinings of the door.
It got thicker and thicker, till it seemed as if it became concentrated into a sort of pillar of cloud in the room, through the top of which I could see the light of the gas shining like a red eye.
I tell you that the cloud of murder hangs thicker and lower than that over the heads of the people.
The distant cliff seemed to shift and quiver, and at the touch of the dawn a reek of gray vapour poured upward from the crater floor, whirls and puffs and drifting wraiths of gray, thicker and broader and denser, until at last the whole westward plain was steaming like a wet handkerchief held before the fire, and the westward cliffs were no more than refracted glare beyond.
And all this time the lunar plants were growing around us, higher and denser and more entangled, every moment thicker and taller, spiked plants, green cactus masses, fungi, fleshy and lichenous things, strangest radiate and sinuous shapes.
I tried to separate my legs and made out they were similarly fastened, and also that I was fastened to the ground by a much thicker chain about the middle of my body.
The shorter, thicker Selenite marched at first on our right flank, but presently came in front of us again.
Their sturdy little forms--ever so much shorter and thicker than the mooncalf herds--were scattered up the slope in a way that was eloquent of indecision.
Finally the great light of those thicker fungi revealed a sinister green and grey vastness pushing up through the roof of the forest and out of sight.
The vast oaks grew thicker as he pushed on beyond the village, and he looked sharply for a certain spot where they would thin somewhat, standing quite dead or dying among the unnaturally dense fungi and the rotting mould and mushy logs of their fallen brothers.
Each day the sun wheeled lower and lower in the sky, and the mists overhead grew thicker and thicker.
As the thing drew towards an end the birds came thicker and thicker, and I shot, as I have said, better and better.
Also the clouds grew thicker and thicker, and the air more and more chilly, till, had we been in any northern latitude, I should have said that snow was pending.
The thread did not slacken, but grew marginally thicker the nearer he came to its source.