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Thiknes, Thikeness, Thicknes, n. [ME and e.m.E. thickenes (Wyclif), þiknesse, thyknesse, þiknes (all Trevisa), thykkenesse (Prompt. Parv.), OE þicness.] Measurement through (a thing) from one side to the other; width, extent through. 1425 Soc. Ant. II 387.
The quhilk gauyle sall contene in brede and thicknes thre fute 1466 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 23.
The wall to be bygit of sufficient thiknes and heicht be the sicht of the provest baillies and counsall c1515 Asl. MS I 154/8.
The thiknes of the erd sall be almast vj^m & v^c myle saif ix that lakkis 1508 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 117.
The cuppillis sall be of the thiknes that euerye thre cuppillis sall tak the lenth of a Burdeous [pr. windeous] pipe staf 1514 (c1580) Edinb. B. Rec. I 150.
Thet thai … big vp thair heid dykis … weill and competently of heicht and thiknes 1562 Reeves Sc. Prose bef. 1600 79.
Ane vondrous greit pictoure of ane man callit Golyas … viij faddoum heicht and v faddoum of thiknes a1578 Pitsc. I 249 heading.
Margret queine of Scotland … buldit ane schipp; the lenth breid and thiknes of the said schip 1618 Glasgow Chart. II 575.
Keipand the measoure of wydnes, braidnes, and thicknes of the stop [sc. firlot stoup], conforme to the said act of parliament 1639 Cochran-Patrick Coinage I lx.
I … did se them malte thair siluer for casting thairof into lignets of a certaine breid quhilk thairefter was to be broght to lenth and thikeness