thickness

[A. S. thicnes.] I. Ord. Lang.: The quality or state of being thick in any of the senses of the word, as 1. The extent of a body from side to side or from a surface to its opposite. "Nor indeed can a thought be conceived, to be of such alength, breadth, and thickne , or to be hewed and sliced out, in many pieces, all which laid together, as so many small chips thereof, would make up again the entirene of that whole thought."-Cudworth: Intell. System, p. 760. 2. Depth. sate. "Thoughts that would thick my blood." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, i. 2. B. In trans.: To become thick or thicken. "But see, the welkin thicks apace." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar; March. thick-en, v. i. & t. [Icel. thykkna =to become thick; A. S. thiccian =to make thick.] A. In trans.: To become thick or more thick in any of its senses, as (1) To be inspi ated, consolidated, or coagulated. (2) To become close or more close or numerous; to pre , to crowd; hence, to become more ani mated. "On heaps the Greeks; on heaps the Trojans bled; And thickening round them, rise the hills of dead." Pope : Homer's Iliad, xvii. 417. *(3) To become dense, dark, misty, or the like. "The weather still thickening , and preventing a nearer approach to the land."-Cook: Third Voyage , bk. vi, ch. iii. *(4) To become dark or obscure. IMG:content-1013.png:[blocks in formation] Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , ii. 3. B. Trans.: To make thick or thicker, in any of (1) To make dense; to make close; to fill up the interstices of; as, to thicken cloth. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; Voyage, bk. iv., ch. vii. 3. Densene , density, consistence, spi itude. "Diseases, imagined to come from the thickne of blood, come often from the contrary cause."-Arbuthnot: On Aliments. 4. The state of being close, dense, or impervious. "The banks of the river and the thickne of the shades drew into them all the birds of the country."- Add is on . 5. Closene of the parts; the state of being crowded, close, or near; as, the thickne of trees in a wood. 6. Foggine , mistine , or darkne of weather; fog. "Praying for the thickne to settle away that some ble ed pilot-boat may heave in sight."-London Daily Telegraph. 7. Dullne of the sense of seeing or hearing; dullne of wit; want of sharpne or acutene . "What you write is printed in large letters; otherwise, between the weakne of my eyes and thickne of my hearing, I should lose the greatest pleasure."- Swift . 8. Want of due distinction of syllables or of good articulation; indistinctne or confusion of utterance; as, thickne of speech. II. Foundry: That application of loam in loam molding which represents the metal, and which is afterward knocked away to leave space for the same. exist. ph = f. 255 thickne ing thick-ne -ing, s . [Eng. thickne ; -ing .] Wood-work.: Reducing boards or pieces to an even thickne ready for dre ing to shape. thick-sět, a. . [Eng. thick , and set .] A. As adjective: 1. Planted or set close. "His eyeballs glare with fire, suffused with blood, His neck shoots up a thickset thorny wood." Dryden: Meleager and A talant a . 4066 IMG:content-1014.png:[blocks in formation] "What wouldst thou have, boor? what, thickskin ! speak, breathe, discu ; brief, short, quick, snap."Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, iv. 5. B. As adj .: The same as THICK SKINNED, 2. "Nor can I bide to pen some hungry scene For thickskin ears, and undiscerning eyne." Bp. Hall : Satires , i.