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Splenius :: Splenium (n.) The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.

Incrassative :: Incrassative (a.) Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken.

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..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..

Clot :: Clot (v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod..

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..

Roux :: Roux (n.) A thickening, made of flour, for soups and gravies..

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..

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

Gumbo :: Gumbo (n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

Heteroptera :: Heteroptera (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera..

Placentiform :: Placentiform (a.) Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows..

Clitellus :: Clitellus (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes..

Footing :: Footing (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot..

Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..

Incrassation :: Incrassation (n.) The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

Nail :: Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.

Tuber :: Tuber (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous..

Anta :: Anta (n.) A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base..

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