ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy,
thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate † ; retrousse † ; stocky; squab, squabby † ; squat,
dumpy; little &c 193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c 572;
summary.
Adv. shortly &c adj.; in short &c (concisely) 572.
202. Breadth, Thickness, -- N. breadth, width, latitude, amplitude; diameter, bore,
caliber, radius; superficial extent &c (space) 180.
thickness, crassitude † ; corpulence &c (size) 192; dilation &c (expansion) 194.
V. be broad &c adj.; become broad, render broad &c adj.; expand &c 194; thicken,
widen, calibrate.
Adj. broad, wide, ample, extended; discous † ; fanlike; outspread, outstretched; wide as a
church-door [Romeo and Juliet]; latifoliate † , latifolous † .
thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.
203. Narrowness. Thinness -- N. narrowness &c adj.; closeness, exility † ; exiguity &c
(little) 193.
line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.
monolayer; epitaxial deposition [Eng.].
thinness &c adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency † , marcor † .
shaving, slip &c (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy,
spindleshanks † , lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.
middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut † ,
ghat † , pass; ravine &c 198.
narrowing, coarctation † , angustation † , tapering; contraction &c 195.
V. be narrow &c adj.; narrow, taper, contract &c 195; render narrow &c adj.; waste
away.
Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c (filament) 205; finespun † ,
gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate,
incapacious † ; contracted &c 195; unexpanded &c (expand) &c 194 [Obs.]; slender as a
thread.
[in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent † ; lank,
lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky [U.S.]; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to
a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer;
hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.
attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid † , marcid † , barebone, rawboned.
monomolecular.
204. Layer -- N. layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor,
flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess † ; flagstone; board, plank;
trencher, platter.
plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane,
film; leaf; slice, shive † , cut, rasher, shaving, integument &c (covering) 223; eschar † .
stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.
monolayer; bilayer; trilayer [Bioch.].
V. slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover &c 223.