[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

thick \thick\ thi^k, a. compar. thicker -~er; superl.
   thickest. oe. thicke, as. thornicce; akin to d. dik,
   os. thikki, ohg. dicchi thick, dense, g. dick thick, icel.
   thornykkr, thornj"okkr, and probably to gael.  ir.
   tiugh. cf. tight.
   1. 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.
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            were it as thick as is a branched oak. --chaucer.
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            my little finger shall be thicker than my father's
            loins.                                --1 kings xii.
                                                  10.
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   2. 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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   3. dense; not thin; inspissated; as, thick vapors. also used
      figuratively; as, thick darkness.
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            make the gruel thick and slab.        --shak.
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   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.
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   5. abundant, close, or crowded in space; closely set;
      following in quick succession; frequently recurring.
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            the people were gathered thick together. --luke xi.
                                                  29.
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            black was the forest; thick with beech it stood.
                                                  --dryden.
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   6. not having due distinction of syllables, or good
      articulation; indistinct; as, a thick utterance.
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   7. deep; profound; as, thick sleep. r. --shak.
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   8. dull; not quick; as, thick of fearing. --shak.
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            his dimensions to any thick sight were invincible.
                                                  --shak.
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   9. intimate; very friendly; familiar. colloq.
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            we have been thick ever since.        --t. hughes.
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   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.
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   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.
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   syn: dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.
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see also:
thicker thickest tight thick register register thick stuff 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

thick \thick\ thi^k, adv. as. thornicce.
   1. frequently; fast; quick.
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   2. closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown.
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   3. to a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as,
      land covered thick with manure.
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   thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great
      numbers. obs. --l'estrange.
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see also:
thick and threefold 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

thick \thick\, n.
   1. the thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
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            in the thick of the dust and smoke.   --knolles.
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   2. a thicket; as, gloomy thicks. obs. --drayton.
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            through the thick they heard one rudely rush.
                                                  --spenser.
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            he through a little window cast his sight
            through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light.
                                                  --dryden.
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   thick-and-thin block naut., a fiddle block. see under
      fiddle.

   through thick and thin, through all obstacles and
      difficulties, both great and small.
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            through thick and thin she followed him. --hudibras.
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            he became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of
            a military frenzy.                    --coleridge.
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see also:
thick-and-thin block fiddle through thick and thin 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

thick \thick\, v. t.  i. cf. as. thorniccian.
   to thicken. r.
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         the nightmare life-in-death was she,
         who thicks man's blood with cold.        --coleridge.
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[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

thick
     adj 1: not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great
            extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the
            smallest of the three solid dimensions; "an inch
            thick"; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a
            thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust";
            "thick warm blankets" ant: thin
     2: closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a
        dense population"; "thick crowds" syn: compact, dense
     3: relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick
        soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog" ant: thin
     4: spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a
        drunkard"; "his words were slurred" syn: slurred
     5: wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark" syn: heavy
     6: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense
        vegetation"; "thick woods" syn: dense
     7: of darkness very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness";
        "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night" syn: deep
     8: abundant; "a thick head of hair"
     9: heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
        build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
        thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" syn: compact,
         heavyset, stocky, thickset
     10: used informally associated on close terms; "a close
         friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular
         customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months"
         syn: chummy, buddy-buddy, thickp
     11: used informally syn: blockheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded,
          loggerheaded, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed
     12: abundantly covered or filled; "the top was thick with dust"
     n : the location of something surrounded by other things; "in
         the midst of the crowd" syn: midst
     adv 1: with a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick"
            syn: thickly ant: thinly
     2: in quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick" syn:
         thickly
see also:
thin compact dense slurred heavy deep 
heavyset stocky thickset chummy buddy-buddy 
thickp blockheaded boneheaded fatheaded loggerheaded 
thickheaded thick-skulled wooden-headed midst thickly 
thinly 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

413 moby thesaurus words for "thick":
   boeotian, a bit thick, a bit thin, absurd, abundant, accented,
   adhesive, alive, alive with, alveolar, ample, amylaceous, apical,
   apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, asinine, assimilated,
   back, barytone, beamy, beef-brained, beef-witted, beyond belief,
   bilabial, blockish, blubber, blubbery, blurred, boneheaded, bovine,
   brassy, brazen, breathy, brimming, bristling, broad, broad-bodied,
   bulky, bullnecked, burly, bursting, bushy, cacuminal, center,
   central, cerebral, checked, chock-full, choked, choking,
   chuck-full, chummy, chumpish, chunky, clabbered, clammy, cloddish,
   close, close-knit, close-textured, close-woven, closely, clotted,
   coagulated, coarse, compact, compacted, compactly, compressed,
   concentrated, concrete, condensed, congealed, congested,
   consolidated, consonant, consonantal, continuant, core, corpulent,
   cowish, cracked, crammed, crammed full, crass, crawling, cretinous,
   croaking, croaky, crowded, crowding, curdled, decided, deep, dense,
   densely, dental, devoted, diameter, diaphragm, dim-witted,
   dissimilated, distorted, doltish, dopey, dorsal, doubtable,
   doubtful, doughy, drawling, drawly, dry, dubious, dubitable, dull,
   dull-witted, dullard, dumb, dumpy, duncical, duncish, dysphonic,
   equator, exuberant, familiar, fat, filled, firm, firmly, flat,
   flourishing, focus, foggy, friendly, front, full, full-bodied,
   gaumy, gelatinous, glairy, glide, glossal, glottal, gluelike,
   gluey, glutenous, glutinose, glutinous, gooey, grating, gravelly,
   gross, gruff, grumous, gumbo, gumbolike, gumlike, gummous, gummy,
   guttural, hand and glove, hand in glove, hand-in-hand, hard,
   hard of belief, hard to believe, harsh, harsh-sounding, hawking,
   hazy, heart, heavily, heavy, heavyset, high, hoarse, husky,
   imbecilic, impassable, impenetrable, impermeable, implausible,
   in profusion, inarticulate, inconceivable, incredible, indistinct,
   ineducable, insensitive, inseparable, inspissated, interior,
   intimate, intonated, jam-packed, jammed, jelled, jellied,
   jellylike, jungled, jungly, kernel, klutzy, labial, labiodental,
   labiovelar, lateral, lavish, lax, light, like that, lingual,
   liquid, lisping, low, lumpish, lush, luxuriant, marked, massive,
   matey, mean, median, metallic, mid, middle, midmost, midriff,
   midst, mispronounced, misty, monophthongal, moronic, mucilaginous,
   murky, muted, muzzy, narrow, nasal, nasalized, near, nonporous,
   not deserving belief, nucleus, oafish, obese, obscure, obscuring,
   obtuse, obvious, occlusive, on good terms, opaque, open,
   open to doubt, open to suspicion, overflowing, overgrown, overrun,
   oxytone, packed, palatal, palatalized, pally, palsy-walsy,
   passing belief, pasty, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic,
   phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plentiful, populous, posttonic,
   preposterous, problematic, prodigal, profuse, proliferating,
   prolific, pronounced, quavering, questionable, ragged, rank,
   rasping, raspy, raucid, raucous, retroflex, ridiculous, rife,
   rigid, riotous, ropy, rough, rounded, roupy, rude, semivowel,
   serried, shaking, shaky, slabby, slimy, slithery, slow,
   slow-witted, smoggy, smoky, snuffling, soft, solid, solidly,
   sonant, sottish, soupy, squat, squawking, squawky,
   staggering belief, starchy, stertorous, sticky, stiff, stifled,
   stodgy, stolid, stopped, strangled, stressed, stringy, strong,
   stubby, studded, stumpy, stupid, substantial, superabundant, surd,
   suspect, suspicious, swarming, syllabic, syrupy, tacky, tall,
   teeming, tenacious, tense, thick as hail, thick as thieves,
   thick of things, thick with, thick-bodied, thick-coming,
   thick-growing, thick-headed, thick-skinned, thick-witted,
   thickened, thickheaded, thickly, thickset, thin, three-dimensional,
   throaty, thronged, thronging, tinny, tonal, tonic, tough,
   tremelloid, tremellose, tremulous, twangy, typical, unaccented,
   unbelievable, unconvincing, unearthly, ungodly, unimaginable,
   unrounded, unstressed, unteachable, unthinkable, unweeded,
   unworthy of belief, velar, viscid, viscose, viscous, vocalic,
   vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, waist, waistline,
   weak, weed-choked, weed-ridden, weedy, wide, wrongheaded, zone

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