▪ I. † ˈthicky, a. Obs.
[f. thick a. + -y.]
Of a thick nature; inclined to be thick.
| 1587 A. Day Daphnis & Chloe (1890) 112 Since Ceres first these thickie groues pursued. 1590 Greene Mourn. Garm. Wks. (Rtldg.) 304/2 It was near a thicky shade, That broad leaves of beech had made. 1598 Queen Elizabeth Plutarch iv. 26 Fly thou this darke and thikky mysty folded Cloude. c 1868 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 211 And light us, Lord, with Thy day-break. Beat from our brains the thicky night And fill the world up with delight. |
▪ II. thicky, dem. a.
(dial.): see thilk.