Definition of "thickly settled" []

• Densely populated (adjective)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Leaving the Saline, this war-party crossed over to the valley of the Solomon, a more thickly settled region, and where the people were in better circumstances, their farms having been started two or three years before."
• "He says Washington Co. is quite thickly settled with substantial and cultivated people, and that it is a very pleasant country, his account of San Antonio was most interesting to me, he describes it as an old, irregularly built town, with most of the buildings Mexican fashion, the situation he says is picturesque and beautiful."
• "When the British took Nieuw Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the thickly settled part of the town ended at Wall Street, while the Voorstadt—the out-city where the storehouses and the farms could be found—extended a half mile to the north."