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Thicken :: Thicken (v. i.) To become thick.

Coagulation :: Coagulation (n.) The change from a liquid to a thickened, curdlike, insoluble state, not by evaporation, but by some kind of chemical reaction; as, the spontaneous coagulation of freshly drawn blood; the coagulation of milk by rennet, or acid, and the coagulation of egg albumin by heat. Coagulation is generally the change of an albuminous body into an insoluble modification..

Heteroptera :: Heteroptera (n. pl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera..

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

Incrassated :: Incrassated (a.) Thickened; becoming thicker.

Incrassate :: Incrassate (v. t.) To make thick or thicker; to thicken; especially, in pharmacy, to thicken (a liquid) by the mixture of another substance, or by evaporating the thinner parts..

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

Clot :: Clot (v. i.) To concrete, coagulate, or thicken, as soft or fluid matter by evaporation; to become a cot or clod..

Tuber :: Tuber (n.) A fleshy, rounded stem or root, usually containing starchy matter, as the potato or arrowroot; a thickened root-stock. See Illust. of Tuberous..

Thicken :: Thicken (v. t.) To make thick (in any sense of the word).

Seminose :: Seminose (n.) A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow sirup having a sweetish-bitter taste..

Sclerogen :: Sclerogen (n.) The thickening matter of woody cells; lignin.

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

Pseudo-bulb :: Pseudo-bulb (n.) An aerial corm, or thickened stem, as of some epiphytic orchidaceous plants..

Incrassative :: Incrassative (a.) Having the quality of thickening; tending to thicken.

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

Hemelytrum :: Hemelytrum (n.) One of the partially thickened anterior wings of certain insects, as of many Hemiptera, the earwigs, etc..

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

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

Spissitude :: Spissated (a.) Rendered dense or compact, as by evaporation; inspissated; thickened..

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