#202.  Breadth, Thickness.—­ N. breadth, width, latitude, amplitude;
diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent &c. (space) 180.
     thickness, crassitude[obs3]; 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[obs3]; fanlike; outspread,
outstretched; “wide as a church-door” [Romeo and Juliet]; latifoliate[obs3], latifolous[obs3].
     thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.

     #203.  Narrowness.  Thinness.—­ N. narrowness &c. adj.; closeness,
exility[obs3]; exiguity 7c. (little) 193.
     line; hair’s breadth, finger’s breadth; strip, streak, vein.
     monolayer; epitaxial deposition[Engin].
     thinness &c. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency[obs3], marcor|.
     shaving, slip &c. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow,
anatomy, spindleshanks[obs3], lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.
     middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass;
ridge, ghaut[obs3], ghat[obs3], pass; ravine &c. 198.
     narrowing, coarctation[obs3], angustation[obs3], 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[obs3], gossamer; paper-thin; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious[obs3]; contracted &c. 195; unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194)[obs3]; slender as a thread.
     [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt,
macilent[obs3]; 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[obs3], 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[obs3]; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.
     plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel;
coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive[obs3], cut, rasher, shaving, integument &c. (covering) 223; eschar[obs3].
     stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.
     monolayer; bilayer; trilayer[Biochem]. 
     V. slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover
&c. 223. 
     Adj. lamellar, lamellated[obs3], lamelliform[obs3], layered;
laminated, laminiferous[obs3]; micaceous[obs3]; schistose, schistous[obs3]; scaly, filmy, membranous, pellicular, flaky, squamous[Anat]; foliated, foliaceous[obs3]; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid; spathic[obs3], spathose[obs3].
     trilamellar[obs3].
     graphitic[obs3].