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Thickly

adverb

Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue.

In a concentrated manner. Synonym: densely. "A thickly populated area"

With a thick consistency. Synonym: thick.

With thickness; in a thick manner. "We were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt"

In quick succession. Synonym: thick.

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... for a period of ten or twelve years, which has been the longest period devoted to these trials; and the liquid, if it were naturally limpid, will not be in the least polluted neither on its surface nor in its mass, although the outside of the flask may become thickly coated with dust. This is a most irrefutable proof of the impossibility of ...

— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... birds with the same care as for roasting. Make a crust as for chicken pie; lay the birds in whole, and season with pepper, salt, bits of butter, and a little sweet marjoram; flour them thickly; then strain the water in which they were boiled, and fill up the vessel two-thirds full with it; cover with the crust; cut hole in the center. Bake ...

— Recipes Tried and True • the Ladies' Aid Society

... be thickly infiltrated with a reddish serum and the blood-vessels congested," he remarked slowly. "There was a frothy mucus in the bronchial tubes. The blood was liquid, dark, and didn't clot. The fact of the matter is that the autopsical ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... simplicity of vision", to use a happy phrase of Hawthorne's, recognizes the truth and wisdom there are in the blessed renovations of the Romantique, and looks upon them as the sweeps of a besom clearing away the dust and cobwebs which ages of prejudice have spread thickly around the magnificent art ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various

... impossible in the obscurity of night to judge accurately of the distance to the coast, and there were no landmarks or bearings which would enable them to steer clear of it. Many a ton of valuable freight has been launched overboard there; and, indeed, all the approaches to Wilmington are paved as thickly with valuables as a certain place is said to ...

— The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner • John Wilkinson

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