Crossword clues for thickly
thickly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thickly \Thick"ly\, adv. In a thick manner; deeply; closely.
Wiktionary
adv. In a thick manner.
WordNet
adv. spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue; "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"
in a concentrated manner; "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area" [syn: densely] [ant: thinly]
with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick" [syn: thick] [ant: thinly]
with thickness; in a thick manner; "spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt" [ant: thinly]
in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" [syn: thick]
Usage examples of "thickly".
It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.
His long, good-natured face was seamed with age around the eyes and brow, and his short beard and the curling hair that thickly fringed his balding pate were silvery white, yet he stood as straight and easy as Alec himself.
Instead of centuries, my fellow wanderers had come to command cohorts, sturdy and strong, armed with spear, bow and sword, protected by shields of stout wood and hide, their bodies covered by thickly padded cloth armor, a good substitute for metal when used only against atlatl darts.
The coachman held his hand out to Ava, which she took and quickly ducked inside, landing on a thickly padded velvet squab, the same deep red color of the silk covered walls.
The head pushed forward, bringing into visibility thickly maned shoulders, forefeet with sharply split hooves as dreadfully bedabbled as the horns.
The inner side is thickly covered with delicate bifid processes, hereafter to be described.
The east side of Broadway, during the rule of the Dutch, was thickly built up with dwellings of but one room, little better than hovels.
Air found its way in through the empty bubbler to the chimney, which had become thickly lined with condensed phosphorus.
The seeds grow numerously in the small flat flowers placed thickly together on each floral plateau, or umbel, and are best known to us in seed cake, and in Caraway comfits.
The cenote lay below a ridge which was thickly covered in trees and Rider was worried about the problem of getting in while coping with air currents.
This plain was practically bare, but Caracol Dagh was thickly covered with dwarf oak and scrub, and Anzac with a good undergrowth of rhododendron, veronica, and other similar bushes.
Cor agreed dozily as he lifted her upper leg and slid thickly into her.
Beyond them lay slopes of some blackish slag-like material which were dotted with lovely coloured creatures, holothurians, ascidians, echini and echinoderms, as thickly as ever an English spring time bank was sprinkled with hyacinths and primroses.
Beyond this spring, small gardens bloomed with greenery, thickly scented herbs, young shoots of einkorn, and trees laden with fruit, reddish like apples but rather more swollen and round.
By now the ominous mist crawled up, to settle about them, so thickly that even Dedan and the scout, close as they were to Ramsay now, were enwreathed nearly to the point of invisibility.