Definition of thicken

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

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Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.
Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Thickened; becoming thicker.
Incrassation :: Incrassation (n.) The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.
Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men..
Nail :: Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera.
Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To strengthen; to confirm.
Collenchyma :: Collenchyma (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.
Thick :: Thick (v. t. & i.) To thicken.
Chalaza :: Chalaza (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle..
Full :: Full (v. i.) To become fulled or thickened; as, this material fulls well..
Wart :: Wart (n.) A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them..
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..
Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.
Incrassative :: Incrassative (a.) Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken.
Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..
Heteroptera :: Heteroptera (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera..
Footing :: Footing (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot..
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..
Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows..
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.
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