2. A thicket; as, gloomy thicks. [Obs.] Drayton.

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.

Spenser.

He through a little window cast his sight Through thick of bars, that

gave a scanty light.

Dryden.

Thick-and-thin block (Naut.), a fiddle block. See under Fiddle. —

Through thick and thin, through all obstacles and difficulties, both

great and small.

Through thick and thin she followed him.

Hudibras.

He became the panegyrist, through thick and thin, of a military frenzy.

Coleridge.

Thick (thk), adv. [AS. þicce.] 1. Frequently; fast; quick.

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