Having great or considerable density, either from natural consistence or from containing much solid matter; dense, viscid; stiff. (Said of liquids…

Of a material or substance: compact, dense, solid, hard. Obsolete.

Of material objects. Solid; dense, compact; massive, heavy. Also figurative. Now rare (regional in later use).

gen. Solid, not hollow. Obsolete.

Of things or substances: Solid, massive, compact. †Of a wood: Dense.

Dense in texture or consistency; compact, substantial.

Of the nature of a physical or material body: solid, dense, gross. Obsolete.

Dense, thick. (Often with mixture of the sense of branch A. IV.) of liquids, soils, and things generally. Obsolete.

Close or compact in texture or consistency, as a solid body or substance; dense, solid; = thight, adj. 3. Obsolete. rare.

More generally: forming a solid or continuous mass; compact, dense, or uniform in internal structure. Now: esp. (a) Mineralogy (of a mineral) not…

Thick, dense, compact, close.

Of material substances: Of a dense or massive consistency; composed of particles which are firmly and continuously coherent; hard and compact.

Close, compact, or dense in structure or texture, as a membrane. Obsolete.

Solid, hard.

Coarse, gross, dense, thick (in physical constitution or texture). Now somewhat rare.

Solid; of or pertaining to a solid. Obsolete.

Dense, compact.

Having its constituent particles closely compacted together; thick, compact. Of close molecular structure. Opposed to rare.

Solid, compact.

Solid, dense. Obsolete.

= crass, adj., coarse, thick.

Of substances other than food: that is a compact or solidified mass; that is, or resembles, a thick crust or concretion.

figurative. Of parts of the body: resembling a rock in appearance or solidity.