Definition of thicken

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Thicken (v. t.) To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint..

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Elephantiasis :: Elephantiasis (n.) A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide..
Inspissate :: Inspissate (a.) Thick or thickened; inspissated.
Fulling :: Fulling (n.) The process of cleansing, shrinking, and thickening cloth by moisture, heat, and pressure..
Heteroptera :: Heteroptera (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera..
Pterostigma :: Pterostigma (n.) A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.
Curdle :: Curdle (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.
Curd :: Curd (v. t.) To cause to coagulate or thicken; to cause to congeal; to curdle.
Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..
Curdle :: Curdle (v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.
Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Thickened; becoming thicker.
Inspissation :: Inspissation (n.) The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened..
Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.
Full :: Full (n.) To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill..
Roux :: Roux (n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies..
Pad :: Pad (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.
Black Pudding :: Black pudding () A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal..
Gumbo :: Gumbo (n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.
Clot :: Clot (v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod..
Paunch :: Paunch (n.) The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper..
Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men..
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