adv. [f. THICK a. + -LY2.] In a thick manner; so as to be thick, in various senses; densely; closely; abundantly; frequently; deeply; obscurely, indistinctly.
c. 1400. Laud Troy Bk., 5672. Thei died thanne thikly.
c. 1430. Pilgr. Lyf Manhode, II. lvii. (1869), 98. Sum time thou shalt see me thikkeliche and derkeliche.
1573–80. Baret, Alv., T 151. Thicklie: groslie: clubbishlie, or blockishlie.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XV. 440. His helmet, thickly plum’d.
1630. Drayton, Noah’s Flood, 83. Your sins … so thickly throng.
1770. Cook, Voy. round World, III. ii. (1773), 519. Lofty hills, all thickly clothed with wood.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. xviii. 123. Mont Cervin gathered the clouds more thickly round him.
1883. Ld. 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.
1797. T. Park, Sonn., 7. Clouds, thickly-driving, veil the face of day.
1832. Motherwell, Poet. Wks. (1847), 8.
| Green lie those thickly-timbered shores | |
| Fair sloping to the sea. |
1900. Westm. Gaz., 7 Sept., 4/1. A thickly-inhabited district.
