Thicket definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary THICK'ET, n. A wood ... or shrubs closely set; as a ram caught in a thicket. Genesis 22. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle English *thikket, from Old ... of shrubbery or small trees ; coppice 2. something resembling a thicket in density or impenetrability ; tangle < a political thicket > < a thicket of reporters > • thickety adjective Oxford Reference Dictionary n. a ...
... or frond. 2. A place overgrown with brake. 3. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles. 4. In the U. States, a thicket of canes, as a cane-brake; but I believe used ... Etymology: ME, rel. to BREAK(1) 4. n. 1 a thicket. 2 brushwood. Etymology: ME f. OF bracu, MLG brake branch ... into three principal branches. Less properly: Any fern. 2. A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ... stopped not for stone. --Sir W. Scott. Cane brake, a thicket of canes. See Canebrake. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Brake Brake ... Dictionary of English Synonyms n. 1. Fern (Pteris aquilina). 2. Thicket, brushwood, jungle. Moby Thesaurus arrest, backpedal, backwater, bar, bearing ...
... s 1828 Dictionary HEDGE, n. hej. [Eng. haw] Properly, a thicket of thorn-bushes or other shrubs or small trees; but appropriately, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows ... hej. To inclose with a hedge; to fence with a thicket of shrubs or small trees; to separate by a hedge ... hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See Haw a hedge.] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land ... in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in ...
... Webster's noun (plural spinneys) Etymology: Anglo-French espinei thorny thicket, ultimately from Latin spinetum, from spina thorn Date: 1597 chiefly ... Reference Dictionary n. (pl. -eys) Brit. a small wood; a thicket. Etymology: OF espinei f. L spinetum thicket f. spina thorn Webster's 1913 Dictionary Spinney Spin"ney ... espinoye, espinei, espanoi, F. ['e]pinaie, from L. spinetum a thicket of thorns, fr. spina a thorn. See Spine.] A small thicket or grove with undergrowth; a clump of trees. [Written also ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. [Written also Spinny.] Thicket, grove, shrubbery.
... under-wood; perhaps, sometimes, lands covered with underwood; also, a thicket. 2. In old laws, food or sustenance for cattle, which ... bush Date: 14th century a growth of trees or shrubs ; thicket Oxford Reference Dictionary n. (also boskage) 1 masses of trees ... n. [OF. boscage grove, F. bocage, fr. LL. boscus, buscus, thicket, wood. See 1st Bush.] 1. A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape. 2. (O. Eng. Law) Food ... Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. ; (also boskage) 1. Thicket, grove, shrubbery. 2. Foliage, leafage, shrubbiness, leafiness. Moby Thesaurus bosket ... canebrake, ceja, chamisal, chaparral, coppice, copse, copsewood, covert, frith, motte, thicket, thickset, underbrush, undergrowth, undershrubs, underwood
... The small trees and shrubs of a wood; or a thicket of small trees. 4. A skirmish; a slight encounter; also ... a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket] 2: an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set ... brushlike discharge of sparks. 6 esp. US & Austral. a undergrowth, thicket; small trees and shrubs. b US such wood cut in ... mandibles. 4. Branches of trees lopped off; brushwood. 5. A thicket of shrubs or small trees; the shrubs and small trees ... engagement, rencounter, encounter, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair. 2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, underwood, brushwood. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ... tear, tear along, tend, tentative contact, tentative poke, the bush, thicket, thunder along, tickle, timbers, tip, toothbrush, torrefy, touch, touch ...
... dwarf evergreen oak, from Basque txapar Date: 1845 1. a thicket of dwarf evergreen oaks; broadly a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees 2. an ecological community composed ... ral", n. [Sp., fr. chaparro an evergeen oak.] 1. A thicket of low evergreen oaks. 2. An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles. Chaparral ... and snake killer Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms n. Thicket (of brambles and thorny shrubs).
... 1828 Dictionary BRUSH'WOOD, n. [brush and wood.] Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs; also, branches of ... a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket] Merriam Webster's noun Date: circa 1613 1. wood of small branches especially when cut or broken 2. a thicket of shrubs and small trees Oxford Reference Dictionary n. 1 cut or broken twigs etc. 2 undergrowth; a thicket. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Brushwood Brush"wood, n. 1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches ...
... appearance of a forest. (See BAALBEC.) Heb. horesh, denoting a thicket of trees, underwood, jungle, bushes, or trees entangled, and therefore ... 7:14. (4) cebhakh, from root meaning "to interweave." A "thicket" (Ge 22:13; Jer 4:7); "thicket of trees" (Ps 74:5); "thickets of the forest" (Isa 9:18; 10:34). (5) 'adbhim, "thicket" (Jer 4:29). From many references it is evident that ... sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, sylvan, the bush, thicket, timber, timbered, timberland, timbers, transplant, tree veld, uninhabited region, up ...
... in the covert of thy wings. Psalms 111. 2. A thicket; a shady place, or a hiding place. 2 Samuel 25 ... Date: 14th century 1. a. hiding place ; shelter b. a thicket affording cover for game c. a masking or concealing device ... covert glance; covert operations). --n. 1 a shelter, esp. a thicket hiding game. 2 a feather covering the base of a ... 38). Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms I. n. 1. Thicket, shade, shrubbery, underwood. 2. Shelter, refuge, asylum, harbor, sanctuary, retreat ... cave, storm cellar, sub rosa, submerged, surreptitious, surreptitiously, swathed, tented, thicket, thickset, trench, tunnel, under an eclipse, under cover, under house ...
... sweetness] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: French, from Middle French, thicket, bunch of flowers, from Old French (Norman-Picard dialect) bosquet thicket, from Old French bosc forest — more at boscage Date: 1701 ... bouquet bunch, bunch of flowers, trees, feathers, for bousquet, bosquet, thicket, a little wood, dim. of LL. boscus. See Bush thicket, and cf. Bosket, Busket.] 1. A nosegay; a bunch of ...
Shaw definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary SHAW, n. A thicket; a small wood. [Local in England. In America not used ... beard — more at shag Date: before 12th century dialect coppice, thicket II. noun Etymology: probably alteration of show Date: 1726 chiefly ... Shaw Shaw (sh[add]), n. [OE. schawe, scha[yogh]e, thicket, grove, AS. scaga; akin to Dan. skov, Sw. skog, Icel. sk[=o]gr.] 1. A thicket; a small wood or grove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot ...
... a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: by alteration Date: 1578 coppice ... n. [Contr. from coppice.] A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the ... of English Synonyms n. Grove (of small trees or shrubs), thicket, coppice. Moby Thesaurus batch, bocage, boscage, bosk, bosket, brake, bunch ... knot, lot, mess, motte, orchard, shaw, shock, slew, spinney, stook, thicket, thickset, tope, tuft, tussock, wisp, wood lot, woodlet