- Make sense of French code - To translate from secret characters or ciphers into
intelligible terms; as, to decipher a letter written in secret
characters. - To find out, so as to be able to make known the
meaning of; to make out or read, as words badly written or partly
obliterated; to detect; to reveal; to unfold. - To stamp; to detect; to discover.
- Become firmer - To make thick (in any sense of the word). - To render dense; to inspissate; as, to thicken paint. - To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to
thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men. - To strengthen; to confirm. - To make more frequent; as, to thicken blows. - To become thick.