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- adjective Obsolete spelling of
thick .
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Examples
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His bodie is full of haire, but not very thicke; and it is of a dunnish colour.
Essays 2007
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Makst thicke groues to resound with songes of brave
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Then enhabited thei more thicke, and spred themselues ouer all, and buylte euery where.
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Thei passe ouer raginge floudes, mounteignes and rockes: roughes and plaines, thicke and thinne, if thei be commaunded.
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Their countrie beinge also very thicke of trees, thei vse to climbe suche as siemeth them beste: and there awaite their game.
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And as the world grewe into yeares, and the earth began to waxe thicke peopled, loke as the nombre did encreace, so vices grew on, and their lyuing decaied euer into woors.
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All the maried women weare vpon their heads a kind of ornament in shape like vnto a mans foote, of a cubite and a halfe in length, and the lower part of the sayd foote is adorned with cranes feathers, and is all ouer thicke set with great and orient pearles.
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Cities so thicke, that some haue reported them in nombre fiue thousande.
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In very short time after, those two infected parts were growne mortiferous, and would disperse abroad indifferently, to all parts of the body; whereupon, such was the quality of the disease, to shew it selfe by blacke or blew spottes, which would appeare on the armes of many, others on their thighes, and every part else of the body: in some great and few, in others small and thicke.
The Decameron 2004
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All their quartres are verye full, and thicke of trees.
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