Were it as thick as is a branched oak. Chaucer.

My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins. 1 Kings xii. 10.

Make the gruel thick and slab. Shak.

The people were gathered thick together. Luke xi. 29.

Black was the forest; thick with beech it stood. Dryden.

His dimensions to any thick sight were invincible. Shak.

We have been thick ever since. T. Hughes.

* Thick is often used in the formation of compounds, most of which are self-explaining; as, thick-barred, thick-bodied, thick-coming, thick-cut, thick-flying, thick- growing, thick-leaved, thick-lipped, thick-necked, thick-planted, thick-ribbed, thick-shelled, thick-woven, and the like.

Thick register. (Phon.) See the Note under Register, n., 7. -- Thick stuff (Naut.), all plank that is more than four inches thick and less than twelve. J. Knowles.

Syn. -- Dense; close; compact; solid; gross; coarse.

In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles.

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush. Spenser.

He through a little window cast his sight
Through thick of bars, that gave a scanty light. Dryden.

Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. -- Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both great and small.

Through thick and thin she followed him. Hudibras.

He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy. Coleridge.

Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

The nightmare Life-in-death was she,
Who thicks man's blood with cold. Coleridge.