释义 |
thickly, adv.|ˈθɪklɪ| [f. thick a. + -ly2.] In a thick manner; so as to be thick, in various senses; densely; closely; abundantly; frequently; deeply; obscurely, indistinctly.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 5672 Thei died thanne thikly. c1430Pilgr. Lyf. Manhode ii. lvii. (1869) 98 Sum time thou shalt see me thikkeliche and derkeliche. 1573–80Baret Alv. T 151 Thicklie: groslie: clubbishlie, or blockishlie. c1611Chapman Iliad xv. 440 His helmet, thickly plum'd. 1630Drayton Noah's Flood 83 Your sins..so thickly throng. 1770Cook Voy. round World iii. ii. (1773) 519 Lofty hills, all thickly clothed with wood. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xviii. 123 Mont Cervin gathered the clouds more thickly round him. 1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. I. iii. 35 The walls of the principal apartments are thickly hung with paintings. b. In comb. with ppl. or other adjs.
1797T. Park Sonn. 7 Clouds, thickly-driving, veil the face of day. 1832Motherwell Poet. Wks. (1847) 8 Those thickly-timbered shores. 1900Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 4/1 A thickly-inhabited district. |