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Thickening   /θˈɪkənɪŋ/  /θˈɪknɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Thicken  v. t.  (past & past part. thickened; pres. part. thickening)  To make thick (in any sense of the word). Specifically:
(a)
To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint.
(b)
To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.
(c)
To strengthen; to confirm. (Obs.) "And this may to thicken other proofs."
(d)
To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows.



Thicken  v. i.  To become thick. "Thy luster thickens when he shines by." "The press of people thickens to the court." "The combat thickens, like the storm that flies."



noun
Thickening  n.  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.






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"Thickening" Quotes from Famous Books



... Post-mortem examinations in many instances have failed to discover any lesion in connection with the brain or nervous system, while in other instances disease of the brain has been found in the form of thickening of the membranes, abscesses, and tumors, and in some cases the affection has been manifested in connection with a diseased condition of the blood. The cause has also been traced to reflex irritation, due to ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... Dormilliere at the close of that long day, thickening and pouring in from the country around, and arriving by boats across the river, to hear the returns: and as Zotique read them in triumph from a chair at the door of the Circuit Court, and the issue, at first breathlessly uncertain, finally appeared, the cheering ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair

... cooked before the fire in a tin kitchen. There should be but little water in the dripping pan, as that steams the meat and prevents its browning; it is best to add more as the water evaporates, and where there is plenty of flour on the meat it incorporates with the gravy and it requires no thickening; add a little seasoning before you take up the gravy. Meat that has been hanging up some time should be roasted in preference to boiling, as the fire extracts any taste it may have acquired. To rub fresh meat with salt ...
— Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea

... sweetbreads in the fat which has run from it, adding, if required, a little piece of butter or lard. For a breakfast dish, the sweetbreads should be served without gravy, but if for an entree the liquor in which they were stewed, with slight additions and a little thickening, can be poured round them in the dish. Calves' sweetbreads are prepared in the same manner as the above, and can either be fried, finished in a Dutch oven, or served white, with parsley ...
— Nelson's Home Comforts - Thirteenth Edition • Mary Hooper

... the nose, the touch, the eye and ear; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three, which never subscribes, which never gives, which seldom lends, and asks but one question of any project,—Will it bake bread? This is a disease like a thickening of the skin until the vital organs are destroyed. But culture, revealing the high origin of the apparent world and aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades every thing else, as health and bodily life, into means. It sees ...
— Essays, First Series • Ralph Waldo Emerson


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