a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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In a thicket of words lies plausible deniability when the time for horror's accounting arrives.

Information about eligibility is hidden behind a thicket of complicated paperwork.

The fourth is to prune the thicket of restrictive labour laws.

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In a thicket of words lies plausible deniability when the time for horror's accounting arrives.

Information about eligibility is hidden behind a thicket of complicated paperwork.

The fourth is to prune the thicket of restrictive labour laws.

In wetter areas, the thicket is tall and interwoven and in some places almost impenetrable.

You've seen the game of pachinko-a small metal ball dropped into a thicket of horizontal pegs rattles its way to the bottom.

Ankhesenamun hands her young husband an arrow to shoot at ducks in a papyrus thicket.

Most are best used as wild thicket for erosion control on steep banks.

Notarbartolo pulled off the highway and turned onto a dirt road that led into a dense thicket.

The botanists forged through a thicket and crossed a rocky ravine bed.

From the viewpoint of society as a whole, this thicket of rules may be efficient.

The white bear lumbers into a thicket and disappears.

Spreads by underground runners to form a thicket add to my plant list.

It's such a thicket that scientists and philosophers can't even reach consensus on a definition of consciousness.

The thicket of microphones was off-putting at first, and the gold-and-silver costumes looked a little garish.

Any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies.

Stalking through the forest, an early human hunter might have glimpsed an oversize ape through a thicket of bamboo.

Home entertainment without the thicket of cables and wires.

The report was unremarkable except for one recommendation that shone brightly through the usual thicket.

The chances of a mayor disappearing into this thicket are high.

The voice from the thicket seemed to convey almost nothing but purblind certainty and impatience.

The man, apparently dead for a couple of days, lay in a thicket fifty feet from the main drive.

And a thicket of red tape deters private enterprise.

We head for a low forest, only to find it's a tangled thicket of bushes and bamboo.

Just another tiny square of plastic covering a silicon thicket.

And consolidation of landholdings is hard, because of the thicket of family and legal disputes that invariably surrounds them.

Bill has placed a speaker in the thicket below and broadcast a territorial intrusion call.

Due to the thicket of government regulations heavily manipulated by the food industry, all this is opaque to the consumer.

Another five miles down river, the team floated by a thicket of alders teeming with the ruddy red birds.

In other places, eco-warriors merely have to hack their way through a thicket of arcane technicalities.

Yet the report shows how poor countries' governments often tie their own people down in a thicket of useless regulation.

Such a device would be made of metamaterial, a thicket of metal rings or other shapes that bends light in funny ways.

Around this silence, a thicket of rumor, gossip and conjecture has grown.

The thicket of bracken that fringes the road is graceful, even feathery.

The country's thicket of excitable cable-news networks reports on nothing else.

He has also managed to navigate the thicket of international soccer by being a straight arrow in an often murky business.

His black eyebrows form a thicket he calculatedly peers through.

Its opinion balanced every party's needs without getting the judiciary into the thicket of artistic criticism.

McLean moved through a thicket of sleek obstructions, clearing her way as she went.

Murdoch faces a thicket of regulatory and copyright challenges.

It was half-covered in a thicket of overgrown trees.

Wading through that thicket of story lines wasn't easy.

But judges have since suspended all the other cases, which were mired in a thicket of legal riddles.

In the gray dawn, the hunters made their way through a thicket of greenbriers, wild lemon trees and bloodweeds.

Jarvis and his team are forced to work their way through the thicket of claims.

Still, untangling the thicket of regulations built up over decades will be difficult.

But the piece is a thicket of symbols and archetypes rather than a story line in the usual sense.

Smilgis's way of sorting through a bewildering thicket of facts that have begun to surface as both friends and investigators.

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World English Dictionary

thicket (ˈθɪkɪt)

—n
	a dense growth of small trees, shrubs, and similar plants

[Old English thiccet; see thick]

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Word Origin & History

thicket

late O.E. þiccet, from þicce (see thick) + denominative suffix -et.

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Computing Dictionary

thicket definition

jargon
Multiple files output from some operation.
The term has been heard in use at Microsoft to describe the set of files output when Microsoft Word does "Save As a Web Page" or "Save as HTML". The process can result in a main XML or HTML file, a graphic file for each image in the original, a CSS file, etc.
This can be an issue as XML can be used as the default format in Office 2000, and document management systems can't yet cope with the relationship between the files in a thicket when checking in and out.
(2001-09-01)

Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia

thicket

a dense grove of small trees or shrubs that have grown from suckers or sprouts rather than from seed. A coppice usually results from human woodcutting activity and may be maintained by continually cutting new growth as it reaches usable size

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