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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..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To strengthen; to confirm.

Thickening :: Thickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thicke.

Callosity :: Callosity (n.) A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction..

Pterostigma :: Pterostigma (n.) A thickened opaque spot on the wings of certain insects.

Curdle :: Curdle (v. t.) To congeal or thicken.

Thick :: Thick (v. t. & i.) To thicken.

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

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..

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

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make thick (in any sense of the word).

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..

Corn :: Corn (n.) A thickening of the epidermis at some point, esp. on the toes, by friction or pressure. It is usually painful and troublesome..

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..

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

Seminose :: Seminose (n.) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste..

Incrassative :: Incrassative (n.) A substance which has the power to thicken; formerly, a medicine supposed to thicken the humors..

Curd :: Curd (v. i.) To become coagulated or thickened; to separate into curds and whe.

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

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

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