Banbury | Oxfordshire town, known for its rich milk cheese about an inch thick |
beef-witted | beef-brained, thick-headed, brainless |
beetle-headed | thick-headed, doltish |
billet | thick stick, cudgel |
blockish | thick, obtuse, stupid |
bolt | [short and thick, crossbow] arrow |
box-tree | type of ornamental thick shrub |
cherries | [metaphor for] lips |
close | secretive, tight-lipped, uncommunicative |
close-tongued | speaking secretly, tight-lipped |
cowl-staff | thick shoulder-pole used for carrying a heavy container |
crudy | curdy, thick, congealed |
fat-witted | thick-witted, slow, dull |
flap-mouthed | with wide loosely hanging lips |
hollowness | insincerity, hypocrisy, lip-service |
labras | Latin: lips |
lip | make an angry facial gesture |
lip | curl a lip, mock, sneer |
lip | kiss |
lip | look vexed, pout, sulk |
Lipsbury | [unclear meaning; perhaps: ‘lips-town’] space between the lips, jaws |
loggerheaded, logger-headed | thick-headed, stupid, doltish |
rubies | lips [red as rubies] |
thick | confused, clouded [with suspicion] |
thick | deep, heavy, profound |
thick | quickly, rapidly, fast |
thick | quick, rapid, fast |
thick | thicken, make dense |
thick | foul, nasty, dirty |
thick | thickset, strong, sturdy |
thick | dull, dim, poor |
thick-coming | coming in crowds, frequently appearing |
thick-eyed | heavy-eyed, dull-sighted |
thick-pleached | thickly hedged, with hedges made of closely interlaced branches |
thick-ribbed | densely surrounded, compacted |
thick-sighted | with bad eyesight |
truncheon | thick club, stout cudgel |
valley | indentation, hollow [e.g. in the upper lip, or beneath the lower lip] |