Crossword clues for thickest
thickest
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-superlative of: thick) adv. (en-superlative of thick POS=adverb)
Usage examples of "thickest".
Female tahr may be frequently found on open ground, but old males hide a great deal in the thickest jungle, lying during the heat of the day under the shade of trees or overhanging rocks.
The photograph is an excellent one of a magnificent head, and I should say if the measurements have been correctly made, that the horns are the longest, though not the thickest, on record.
Yet she had thought to wear her thickest nightgown, and her feet were slippered in moleskin.
Then she began maneuvering, using short bursts, as she remembered someone telling her, trying to work away from the thickest clumps of blips.
Then, as his gaze focused, he was able to discern the dim broken outlines of what appeared to be a low shelter or building of some kind nestled in the thickest part of the foliage.
And, between the stakes and the fortifications, at the thickest part of the slime sea, four huge islands lay dead.
Neil stepped in and thrust upward into the blow with the thickest part of his blade.
One might think that since the vertebrates had a better-developed nervous system than do any other group of creatures, they would naturally have the fastest-moving nerve impulses and therefore the thickest nerve fibers.
Combining that with their physical size, we find it not surprising that they require the fastest nerve-impulse rates and the thickest axons.
These are 50 times the diameter of the thickest mammalian axons and possess 2500 times the cross-sectional area.
Conway estimated that the said knee-joints were at least ten feet from ground level, that the thickest diameter of the great body was about eighteen feet and that from head to tail the brute measured well over one hundred feet.
She uttered a deep sigh, and immediately leaped out of the carriage in the form of a white hind, which fled away like lightning, and hid itself in the thickest recesses of a neighbouring wood.
Those Indians who were not enslaved, retired to the inmost parts of the island, to the shelter of the thickest woods, where they maintained themselves by hunting.
And underneath that-you could dig through the richest, thickest, sweetest layers of pure white cake until you hit the deepest layers of rich chocolate fudge .
According to our satellite tracking, you were headed straight into the thickest worm infestation on the North American continent.