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An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.

• THICKKNEE
  A stone curlew. See under Stone.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Thickness
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• Thickset
  Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge.
• THICKSKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Thickskin
  A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard.
• THICKSKULLED
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Thick-skinned
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse.
• THICKWIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• Finestill
  To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
• Thickskull
  A dullard, or dull person; a blockhead; a numskull.
• THICKWINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• Finestiller
  One who finestills.
• Thick-skulled
  Having a thick skull; hence, dull; heavy; stupid; slow to learn.

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