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Incrassation :: Incrassation (n.) The act or process of thickening or making thick; the process of becoming thick or thicker.

Inspissation :: Inspissation (n.) The act or the process of inspissating, or thickening a fluid substance, as by evaporation; also, the state of being so thickened..

Curdle :: Curdle (v. i.) To thicken; to congeal.

Sclerenchyma :: Sclerenchyma (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic..

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Made thick or thicker; thickened; inspissated.

Chalaza :: Chalaza (n.) A spiral band of thickened albuminous substance which exists in the white of the bird's egg, and serves to maintain the yolk in its position; the treadle..

Atheroma :: Atheroma (n.) A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Thickening :: Thickening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thicke.

Pad :: Pad (n.) A cushionlike thickening of the skin one the under side of the toes of animals.

Gumbo :: Gumbo (n.) A soup thickened with the mucilaginous pods of the okra; okra soup.

Clitellus :: Clitellus (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes..

Puree :: Puree (n.) A dish made by boiling any article of food to a pulp and rubbing it through a sieve; as, a puree of fish, or of potatoes; especially, a soup the thickening of which is so treated..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men..

Inspissate :: Inspissate (v. t.) To thicken or bring to greater consistence, as fluids by evaporation..

Torus :: Torus (n.) One of the ventral parapodia of tubicolous annelids. It usually has the form of an oblong thickening or elevation of the integument with rows of uncini or hooks along the center. See Illust. under Tubicolae.

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows..

Thickened :: Thickened (imp. & p. p.) of Thicke.

Placentiform :: Placentiform (a.) Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disk somewhat thinner about the middle..

Jump :: Jump (v. t.) To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.

Collenchyma :: Collenchyma (n.) A tissue of vegetable cells which are thickend at the angles and (usually) elongated.

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