THICKEN
\θˈɪkən], \θˈɪkən], \θ_ˈɪ_k_ə_n]\
Definitions of THICKEN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To make thick (in any sense of the word).
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To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
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To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
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To strengthen; to confirm.
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To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
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To become thick.
By Oddity Software
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To make thick (in any sense of the word).
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To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
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To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
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To strengthen; to confirm.
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To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.
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To become thick.
By Noah Webster.
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To strengthen; to confirm.
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To make close or dense; to render less thin; to become dark or obscure; to become more numerous; to press or be crowded.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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To make less thin or slender; to make dense; as, to thicken gravy with flour; to set more closely; to make dark or obscure.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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To make thick or dense; to make close or more close; to fill up interstices; to make concrete; to inspissate; to make frequent or more frequent.
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To become thick or more thick; to become dark or obscure; to concrete; to become close or more numerous; to become quick and animated; to be crowded.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.