Chapter Thermochemic to Thick of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. Dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. Also used figuratively; as, thick darkness.

Make the gruel thick and slab.

Shak.

4. 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." Sir W. Scott.

5. 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.

6. Not having due distinction of syllables, or good articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.

7. Deep; profound; as, thick sleep. [R.] Shak.

8. Dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. Shak.

His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible.

Shak.

9. Intimate; very friendly; familiar. [Colloq.]

We have been thick ever since.

T. Hughes.

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.

Thick
(Thick), n.

1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.

In the thick of the dust and smoke.

Knolles.

2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton.

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.

Spenser.

He through a little window cast his sight
Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.

Dryden.

Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. — Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small.

Through thick and thin she followed him.

Hudibras.

He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy.

Coleridge.

Thick
(Thick) adv. [AS. þicce.]

1. Frequently; fast; quick.

2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.