Thicket \Thick"et\, n. [AS. [thorn]iccet. See {Thick}, a.] A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket. --Gen. xxii. 13.
A mule deer peered from a thicket.
In Tuesday's pre-dawn infiltration, three guerrillas hiding in a thicket of bushes on the mountain killed two Israeli soldiers before troops gunned them down.
Lots of the guys here attempt long-range jump shots, or "the J," whereas in more downtrodden parts of the inner city, respect is earned solely by sinking an inside basket through a thicket of arms and torsos.
His successor, Michel Delebarre, inherited a thicket of requests, rivalries and strategic questions about French civil aviation.
It sets up a complicated base-closing procedure which essentially cuts through a thicket of laws enacted by Congress in the past decade to thwart Pentagon efforts to shut down bases.
It undershot the runway by about half a mile, shearing off treetops and ripping apart with its tail embedded in the ground while the cockpit ended up in a thicket.
And in a series of meetings around the state, he demonstrated a political repertoire he's destined to employ in the thicket inside the Capitol.
But apparently the agents, who called themselves "Tech Busters," stumbled into a bureaucratic thicket, creating confusion that is yet to be resolved nearly two years later.
An intriguing situation, but it is destroyed by overkill. Winger's first trial is taking part in a midnight "game" in which a young black is set loose in a thicket with a gun and 10 bullets and hunted down by dogs and heavily armed farmers.
His voice trails off behind a thicket of microphones and he masks emotion with a stern face.
One of Mrs. Chamorro's greatest problems as president may be navigating the political thicket of warring interests within UNO.
A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the money may be connected with some crime because no one reported it missing, although it apparently had been in the bamboo thicket for several years.
The remains of the airplane lay rotting in the slimy thicket of a gulch, wings clipped, tail shorn, body stove in, a sorry looking carcass guarded by squadrons of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
The Finnish-Soviet border here in southeast Lapland is a wild and woody place, a dense thicket of grassy growth marked by a big sign and a big silence.
There, demand was increasing among corporate clients for lawyers who could guide them through an increasingly dense thicket of environmental laws and regulations.
Birds have dropped wild multiflora rose seed near the house and now the multifloras have climbed the deck, raddling with the Asiatic bittersweet, and making an impenetrable nesting thicket plus producing little red rose hips.