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.