THICK (2)

Source: 566, 567

thick (2). Thick, ad. fast, closely, frequently, often, deeply

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Thick, n. 1. 1. The thickest part, or the time when anything is thickest.
In the thick of the dust and smoke. Knolles. 2. 2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. Drayton.
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.