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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• thick (adj.):
    1. I. Closely packed, with small intervals between the parts:
      1. 1. densus (opp. to rarus): t. dust, d. pulvis, Liv. 21, 46: very t. woods, d. silvae, Caes. B. G. 4, 38: the t. masses of the enemy, d. hostes, Virg. Aen. 2, 511: t. air (i. e. a mist), d. aer, Hor. Od. 2, 7, 14: they put on t. coats, d. instaurant tunicas, Plin. 11, 23, 27 (of insects): a t. and rather fatty skin, d. cutis et suppinguis, Cels. 6, 4.
      2. 2. condensus (rare: stronger than preced.): a t. line of battle, c. acies, Liv. 26, 5: t. clouds, c. nubila, Lucr. 6, 466: Virg. The intensitive perdensus is in Col., praedensus in Plin.
      3. 3. spissus (mostly poet.): a t. body, s. corpus, Lucr. 6, 127: t. darkness, s. caligo, Ov. M. 7, 528: rough stones are of a t. and solid nature, caementa sunt s. et solida proprietate, Vitr. 2, 8, 6;: a t. shower of kisses, spississima basia, Petr. 31, 1: Sen. [A t. tunic, tunica s., Pl. Epid. 2, 2, 48 (opp. to ralla) in a catalogue of fashionable dresses: the expr. toga crassa, Hor. S. 1, 3, 15; pinguis, Suet. Aug. 82, denote coarse material, not closely woven.]
      4. 4. crassus (gross, solid: opp. to tenuis): in t. and moist spots, in locis c. atque humectis, Cat. R. R. 40, 1: a thin atmosphere at Athens, a t. one at Thebes, Athenis tenue coelum, c. Thebis, Cic. Fat. 4, 7.
      5. 5. artus (pressed together within narrow limits): t.er woods, artiores silvae, Caes. B. G. 7, 18. very t. darkness, artissimae tenebrae, Suet. Ner. 46.
      6. 6. confertus (closely packed): in a t. crowd, in conferta multitudine, Suet. Tib. 2. never t. but scattered, nunquam c. sed rari, Caes. B. G. 5, 16: v. crowded.
      7. 7. crēber, bra, brum (usu. with ref. to number, t. and numerous): they fell to earth as t. as pears, tam crebri ad terram accidebant quam piri, Pl. Poen. 2, 38: the south-west wind t. with storms, c. procellis Africus, Virg. Aen. 1, 85: Caes. B. G. 5, 9.
      8. 8. pinguis (fat, of luxuriant growth, dense): very t. hair, pinguissima coma, Suet. Ner. 20: very short t. leaves, folia brevissima atque pinguissima, Plin. 21, 9, 29: a t. condensed atmosphere, coelum p. et concretum, Cic. Div. 1, 57, 130. Phr.: a very t. wood, plurima silva, Ov. M. 14, 361; profunda, Lucr. 5, 41: a t. beard, b. opaca, Cat. 37, 19: t. skin, callum, Cic.: v. skin: the sky is t. with dust, stat pulvere coelum, Virg. Aen. 12, 408: the t.er nature of the atmosphere, plenior coeli natura, Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 17.
    2. II. Applied to liquids: (i.) semi-fluid:
      1. 1. crassus: very t. asses' milk, crassissimum lac asinae, Plin. 11, 41, 96: t. blood, c. cruor, Virg. Aen. 5, 469.
      2. 2. spissus: t. blood, s. sanguis, Ov. M. 11, 367.
      3. 3. concrētus: t.er and more tenacious than what is called serum, concretior lentiorque quam quod serum vocatur, Plin. 11, 41, 96: applied also to certain states of the atmosphere, Cic. Tusc. 1, 18, 42: Div. 1, 57, 130: v. curdled, congealed. Phr.: a t. sediment, crassāmen, ĭnis, n.; crassamentum, Col.; crassitudo, Cat.: (ii.) containing matter in solution: turbĭdus: the Haemus t. with gold, auro t. Haemus, Virg. G. 2, 137: Cic. Tusc. 5, 34, 97: v. turbid, muddy.
    3. III. Having some extent when measured through:
      1. 1. crassus: a t. rope, c. restis, Pl. Pers. 5, 2, 34: steps not t.er than 9 inches, gradus non crassiores dodrante, Vitr. 3, 4, 4: a t. volume, c. volumen, Mart. 5, 78, 25: three t. fingers, digiti c. tres, Cat. R. R. 40, 4: a weapon t. with blood, c. telum sanguine, Stat. Th. 2, 659.
      2. 2. callōsus (prop. t.-skinned): t. eggs, c. ova, Hor. S. 2, 4, 14.
      3. 3. expr. by "broad" or equiv. phr.: brick walls two or three bricks t., lateritii parietes diplinthii aut triplinthii, Vitr. 2, 8, 17: a wall 25 feet t., murus latus pedes xxv., Hygin. Fab. 223: if the plank be very t., si sit latissima taeda, Juv. 12, 59. [N.B.--Duplex is prob. not used in this sense: in Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 25, it means two, v. Orell. ad loc.: in Cat. R. R. 20, 2, it prob. refers to some peculiarly made nails.]
    4. IV. Of the voice: a t. utterance, obtusa vox (opp. to clara), Quint. 11, 3, 15: excessively t., praepinguis, id. 11, 3, 32: to render the voice t., obscurare vocem, id. 11, 3, 20.