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- THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES
-
- CLASS I
- WORDS EXPRESSING ABSTRACT RELATIONS
-
- SECTION I. EXISTENCE
-
- 1. BEING, IN THE ABSTRACT
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-
- #1. Existence.-- N. existence, being, entity, ens[Lat], esse[Lat],
- subsistence.
- reality, actuality; positiveness &c. adj.; fact, matter of fact, sober
- reality; truth &c. 494; actual existence.
- presence &c. (existence in space) 186; coexistence &c. 120.
- stubborn fact, hard fact; not a dream &c. 515; no joke.
- center of life, essence, inmost nature, inner reality, vital
- principle.
- [Science of existence], ontology.
- V. exist, be; have being &c. n.; subsist, live, breathe, stand,
- obtain, be the case; occur &c. (event) 151; have place, prevail; find
- oneself, pass the time, vegetate.
- consist in, lie in; be comprised in, be contained in, be constituted
- by.
- come into existence &c. n.; arise &c. (begin) 66; come forth &c.
- (appear) 446.
- become &c. (be converted) 144; bring into existence &c. 161.
- abide, continue, endure, last, remain, stay.
- Adj. existing &c. v.; existent, under the sun; in existence &c. n.;
- extant; afloat, afoot, on foot, current, prevalent; undestroyed.
- real, actual, positive, absolute; true &c. 494; substantial,
- substantive; self-existing, self-existent; essential.
- well-founded, well-grounded; unideal[obs3], unimagined; not potential
- &c. 2; authentic.
- Adv. actually &c. adj.; in fact, in point of fact, in reality; indeed;
- de facto, ipso facto.
- Phr. ens rationis[Lat]; ergo sum cogito: "thinkest thou existence doth
- depend on time?" [Lat][Byron].
-
-
- #2. Inexistence.-- N. inexistence[obs3]; nonexistence, nonsubsistence;
- nonentity, nil; negativeness &c. adj.; nullity; nihility[obs3], nihilism;
- tabula rasa[Lat], blank; abeyance; absence &c. 187; no such thing &c. 4;
- nonbeing, nothingness, oblivion.
- annihilation; extinction &c. (destruction) 162; extinguishment,
- extirpation, Nirvana, obliteration.
- V. not exist &c. 1; have no existence &c. 1; be null and void; cease
- to exist &c. 1; pass away, perish; be extinct, become extinct &c. adj.; die
- out; disappear &c. 449; melt away, dissolve, leave not a rack behind; go,
- be no more; die &c. 360.
- annihilate, render null, nullify; abrogate &c. 756; destroy &c. 162;
- take away; remove &c. (displace) 185; obliterate, extirpate.
- Adj. inexistent[obs3], nonexistent &c. 1; negative, blank; missing,
- omitted; absent &c. 187,; insubstantial, shadowy, spectral, visionary.
- unreal, potential, virtual; baseless, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubstantial
- &c. 4; vain.
- unborn, uncreated[obs3], unbegotten, unconceived, unproduced, unmade.
- perished, annihilated, &c. v.; extinct, exhausted, gone, lost,
- vanished, departed, gone with the wind; defunct &c. (dead) 360.
- fabulous, ideal &c. (imaginary) 515, supposititious &c. 514.
- Adv. negatively, virtually &c. adj.
- Phr. non ens[Lat].
-
- <-- p. 1 -->
-
- %
- 2. BEING, IN THE CONCRETE
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-
- #3. Substantiality. -- N. substantiality, hypostasis; person, being,
- thing, object, article, item; something, a being, an existence; creature,
- body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff , substratum; matter &c. 316;
- corporeity[obs3], element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality,
- substantialness, vital part.
- [Totality of existences], world &c. 318; plenum.
- Adj. substantive, substantial; hypostatic; personal, bodily, tangible
- &c. (material) 316; corporeal.
- Adv. substantially &c. adj.; bodily, essentially.
-
-
-
- #4. Unsubstantiality. -- N. unsubstantiality[obs3], insubstantiality;
- nothingness, nihility[obs3]; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.
- nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a
- one, ne'er a one[contr]; no such thing, none in the world; nothing
- whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle &c. (smallness)
- 32; all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance,
- matter of no consequence. thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and
- Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra[Lat], nonentity; flash in the pan,
- vox et praeterea nihil[Lat].
- shadow; phantom &c.(fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (imagination)
- 515; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423[Lat]; " such stuff as dreams are made
- of " [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble &c. 353; " baseless fabric of
- a vision " [Tempest]; mockery.
- hollowness, blank; void &c. (absence) 187.
- inanity, fool's paradise.
- V. vanish, evaporate, fade, dissolve, melt away; disappear &c. 449.
- Adj. unsubstantial; baseless, groundless; ungrounded; without
- foundation, having no foundation.
- visionary &c. (imaginary) 515; immaterial &c. 137; spectral &c. 980;
- dreamy; shadowy; ethereal, airy; cloud built, cloud formed; gossamery,
- illusory, insubstantial, unreal.
- vacant, vacuous; empty &c. 187; eviscerated; blank, hollow; nominal;
- null; inane.
- Phr. there's nothing in it; " an ocean of dreams without a sound"
- [Shelley].
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- %
- 3. FORMAL EXISTENCE
-
- Internal conditions
- %
-
- #5. Intrinsicality.-- N. intrinsicality[obs3], inbeing[obs3],
- inherence, inhesion[obs3]; subjectiveness; ego; egohood[obs3]; essence,
- noumenon; essentialness[obs3] &c. adj.; essential part, quintessence,
- incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone,
- heart, soul; important part &c. (importance) 642.
- principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality,
- crasis[obs3], diathesis[obs3].
- habit; temper, temperament; spirit, humor, grain; disposition.
- endowment, capacity; capability &c. (power) 157.
- moods, declensions, features, aspects; peculiarities &c. (speciality)
- 79; idiosyncrasy, oddity; idiocrasy &c. (tendency) 176[obs3]; diagnostics.
- V. be in the blood, run in the blood; be born so; be intrinsic &c.
- adj.
- Adj. derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical[obs3];
- fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate,
- inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous[obs3],
- haematobious[obs3], syngenic[obs3]; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred,
- hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite|; connate, running
- in the blood; ingenerate[obs3], ingenite|; indigenous; in the grain &c. n.;
- bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal &c. 221; to the manner
- born; virtual.
- characteristic &c. (special) 79, (indicative) 550; invariable,
- incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed.
- Adv. intrinsically &c. adj.; at bottom, in the main, in effect,
- practically, virtually, substantially, au fond; fairly.
- Phr. " character is higher than intellect " [Emerson]; "come give us a
- taste of your quality " magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna [Lat][
- Hamlet][Nepos]; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere [Lat][Cicero]; "
- vital spark of heavenly flame " [Pope].
-
-
- %
- External conditions
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-
- #6. Extrinsicality.-- N. extrinsicality[obs3], objectiveness, non ego;
- extraneousness &c. 57; accident; appearance, phenomenon &c. 448.
- Adj. derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical[obs3];
- extraneous &c. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious[obs3],
- adscititious[obs3]; incidental, accidental, nonessential; contingent,
- fortuitous.
- implanted, ingrafted[obs3]; inculcated, infused.
- outward, apparent &c. (external) 220.
- Adv. extrinsically &c. adj.
-
-
- <-- p. 2 -->
-
- 4. MODAL EXISTENCE
-
- Absolute
- #7. State. -- N. state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim,
- mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect &c. (appearance) 448, dilemma, pass,
- predicament.
- constitution, habitude, diathesis[obs3]; frame, fabric &c. 329; stamp,
- set, fit, mold, mould.
- mode, modality, schesis[obs3]; form &c. (shape) 240.
- tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style,
- character.
- V. be in a state, possess a state, enjoy a state, labor under a state
- &c. n.; be on a footing, do, fare; come to pass.
- Adj. conditional, modal, formal; structural, organic.
- Adv. conditionally &c. adj.; as the matter stands, as things are; such
- being the case &c. 8.
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- Relative
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-
- #8. Circumstance. -- N. circumstance, situation, phase, position,
- posture, attitude, place, point; terms; regime; footing, standing, status.
- occasion, juncture, conjunctive; contingency &c. (event) 151.
- predicament; emergence, emergency; exigency, crisis, pinch, pass,
- push; occurrence; turning point.
- bearings, how the land lies.
- surroundings, context, environment 229a[TE 232]; location 184.
- contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; causation 153, attribution
- 155.
- Adj. circumstantial; given, conditional, provisional; critical; modal;
- contingent, incidental; adventitious &c. (extrinsic) 6; limitative[obs3].
- Adv. in the circumstances, under the circumstances &c. n., the
- circumstances, conditions &c. 7; thus, in such wise.
- accordingly; that being the case, such being the case, in view of the
- circumstances; that being so, sith[obs3], since, seeing that.
- as matters stand; as things go, as times go.
- conditionally, provided, if, in case; if so, if so be, if it be so;
- depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain
- conditions; if it so happen, if it so turn out; in the event of; in such a
- contingency, in such a case, in such an event; provisionally, unless,
- without.
- according to circumstances, according to the occasion; as it may
- happen, as it may turn out,as it may be; as the case may be, as the wind
- blows; pro re nata[Lat].
- Phr. " yet are my sins not those of circumstance " [Lytton].
-
- <-- p. 3 -->
-
-
- SECTION II. RELATION
-
- . 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION
- #9. Relation. -- N. relation, bearing, reference, connection,
- concern,. cognation ; correlation &c. 12; analogy; similarity &c. 17;
- affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation &c.
- (nearness) 197; filiation &c. (consanguinity) 11[obs3]; interest; relevancy
- &c. 23; dependency, relationship, relative position.
- comparison &c. 464; ratio, proportion.
- link, tie, bond of union.
- V. be related &c. adj.; have a relation &c. n.; relate to, refer to;
- bear upon, regard, concern, touch, affect, have to do with; pertain to,
- belong to, appertain to; answer to; interest.
- bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw
- a parallel; link &c. 43.
- Adj. relative; correlative &c. 12; cognate; relating to &c. v.;
- relative to, in relation with, referable or referrible to[obs3]; belonging
- to &c. v.; appurtenant to, in common with.
- related, connected; implicated, associated, affiliated, allied to; en
- rapport, in touch with.
- approximative[obs3], approximating; proportional, proportionate,
- proportionable; allusive, comparable.
- in the same category &c. 75; like &c. 17; relevant &c. (apt) 23;
- applicable, equiparant[obs3].
- Adv. relatively &c. adj.; pertinently &c. 23.
- thereof; as to, as for, as respects, as regards; about; concerning &c.
- v.; anent; relating to, as relates to; with relation, with reference to,
- with respect to,with regard to; in respect of; while speaking of, a propos
- of[Fr]; in connection with; by the way, by the by; whereas; for as much
- as, in as much as; in point of, as far as; on the part of, on the score
- of; quoad hoc[Lat]; pro re nata[Lat]; under the head of &c. (class) 75 of;
- in the matter of, in re.
- Phr. " thereby hangs a tale " [Taming of the Shrew].
-
- #10. [Want, or absence of relation.] Irrelation. -- N.
- irrelation[obs3], dissociation; misrelation[obs3]; inapplicability;
- inconnection[obs3]; multifariousness; disconnection &c. (disjunction) 44;
- inconsequence, independence; incommensurability; irreconcilableness &c.
- (disagreement) 24; heterogeneity; unconformity &c. 83; irrelevancy,
- impertinence, nihil ad rem[Lat]; intrusion &c. 24; non-pertinence.
- V. have no relation to &c. 9; have no bearing upon, have no concern
- with &c. 9 , have no business with; not concern &c. 9; have no business
- there, have nothing to do with,
- intrude &c. 24.
- bring in head and shoulders, drag in head and shoulders, lug in head
- and shoulders.
- Adj. irrelative[obs3], irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary;
- independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated,
- insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.
- not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable &c. 83.
- irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent,
- inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes[Fr]; aside from the
- purpose,, away from the purpose,, foreign to the purpose, beside the
- purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point;
- misplaced &c. (intrusive) 24; traveling out of the record.
- remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there,
- quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant[obs3].
- multifarious; discordant &c. 24.
- incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.
- Adv. parenthetically &c. adj.; by the way, by the by; en passant[Fr],
- incidentally; irrespectively &c. adj.; without reference to, without regard
- to; in the abstract &c. 87; a se.
-
- #11. [Relations of kindred.] Consanguinity. -- N. consanguinity,
- relationship, kindred, blood; parentage &c. (paternity) 166;
- filiation[obs3], affiliation; lineage, agnation[obs3], connection,
- alliance; family connection, family tie; ties of blood; nepotism.
- kinsman, kinfolk; kith and kin; relation, relative; connection;
- sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece; cousin, cousin-
- german[obs3]; first cousin, second cousin; cousin once removed, cousin
- twice &c. removed; near relation, distant relation; brother, sister, one's
- own flesh and blood.
- family, fraternity; brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood[obs3].
- race, stock, generation; sept &c. 166; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan,
- tribe, nation.
- V. be related to &c. adj. claim relationship with &c. n. with.
- Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied,
- collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal.
-
- <-- p. 4 -->
-
- intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related,
- distantly related, allied; german.
-
- #12. [Double or reciprocal relation.] Correlation. -- N.
- reciprocalness &c. adj[obs3].; reciprocity, reciprocation; mutuality,
- correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association;
- interchange &c. 148; exchange, barter.
- reciprocator, reprocitist.
- V. reciprocate, alternate; interchange &c. 148; exchange;
- counterchange[obs3].
- Adj. reciprocal, mutual, commutual[obs3], correlative, reciprocative,
- interrelated, closely related; alternate; interchangeable; interdependent;
- international; complemental, complementary.
- Adv. mutually, mutatis mutandis[Lat]; vice versa; each other, one
- another; by turns &c. 148; reciprocally &c. adj.
- Phr. " happy in our mutual help " [Milton].
-
- #13. Identity. -- N. identity, sameness; coincidence, coalescence;
- convertibility; equality &c. 27; selfness[obs3], self, oneself;
- identification.
- monotony, tautology &c. (repetition) 104.
- facsimile &c. (copy) 21; homoousia: alter ego &c. (similar) 17[obs3];
- ipsissima verba &c. (exactness) 494[Lat]; same; self, very , one and the
- same; very thing, actual thing; real McCoy; no other; one and only; in the
- flesh.
- V. be identical &c. adj.; coincide, coalesce, merge.
- treat as the same, render the same, identical; identify; recognize
- the identity of, .
- Adj. identical; self, ilk; the same &c. n. selfsame, one and the same,
- homoousian[obs3].
- coincide, coalescent, coalescing; indistinguishable; one; equivalent
- &c. (equal) 27; tweedle dee and tweedle dum[Lat]; much the same, of a
- muchness[obs3]; unaltered. .
- Adv. identically &c. adj.; on all fours.
-
-
- #14. [Noncoincidence.] Contrariety. N. contrariety, contrast, foil,
- antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism &c. (opposition) 708;
- clashing, repugnance.
- inversion &c. 218; the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the
- converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme.
- V. be contrary &c. adj.; contrast with, oppose; diller toto coelo[Lat].
- invert, reverse, turn the tables; turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end,
- turn upside down, turn inside out.
- contradict, contravene; antagonize &c. 708.
- Adj. contrary, contrarious[obs3], contrariant[obs3]; opposite,
- counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, antithetical,
- contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent,
- contradictory, at cross purposes; negative; hostile &c. 703. differing toto
- coelo[Lat]; diametrically opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as
- black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and
- water, as opposite as the poles; as different as night and day; " Hyperion
- to a satyr"[ Hamlet]; quite the contrary, quite the reverse ;no such thing,
- just the other way, tout au contraire[Fr].
- Adv. contrarily &c. adj.; contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the
- contrary, nay rather; vice versa; on the other hand &c. (in compensation)
- 30.
- Phr. " all concord's born of contraries " [B. Jonson]. Thesis,
- antithesis, synthesis [Marx].
-
- #15 Difference. -- N. difference; variance, variation, variety;
- diversity, dissimilarity &c. 18; disagreement &c. 24; disparity &c.
- (inequality) 28; distinction, contradistinction; alteration.
- modification, permutation, moods and tenses.
- nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle
- distinction; shade of difference, nuance; discrimination &c. 465;
- differentia.
- different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair
- of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other.
- V. be different &c. adj.; differ, vary, ablude|, mismatch, contrast;
- divaricate; differ toto coelo[Lat], differ longo intervallo[It].
- vary, modify &c. (change) 140.
- discriminate &c. 465.
- Adj. differing &c. v.; different, diverse, heterogeneous,
- multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified;
- diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform &c.
- 81[obs3]; daedal[obs3].
- other, another, not the same; unequal &c. 28. unmatched; widely apart,
- poles apart, distinctive, characteristic, ; discriminative; distinguishing.
- incommensurable, incommensurate.
- Adv. differently &c. adj.
- Phr. il y a fagots et fagots.
-
- <-- p. 5 -->
-
- %
- 2. CONTINUOUS RELATION
- %
-
- #16. Uniformity. -- N. uniformity; homogeneity, homogeneousness;
- consistency; connaturality[obs3], connaturalness[obs3]; homology;
- accordance; conformity &c. 82; agreement &c. 23; consonance, uniformness.
- regularity, constancy, even tenor,.routine; monotony.
- V. be uniform &c. adj.; accord with &c. 23; run through.
- become uniform &c. adj.; conform to &c. 82.
- render uniform, homogenize &c. adj.; assimilate, level, smooth, dress.
- Adj. uniform; homogeneous, homologous;of a piece[Fr], consistent,
- connatural[obs3]; monotonous, even, invariable; regular, unchanged,
- undeviating, unvaried, unvarying.
- unsegmented.
- Adv. uniformly &c. adj.; uniformly with &c. (conformably) 82; in
- harmony with &c. (agreeing) 23.
- always, invariably, without exception, without fail, unfailingly,
- never otherwise; by clockwork.
- Phr. ab uno disce omnes[Lat].
-
- #16a. [Absence or want of uniformity.] Nonuniformity. -- N. diversity,
- irregularity, unevenness; multiformity &c. 81; unconformity &c. 83;
- roughness &c. 256; dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence.
- Adj. diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough &c. 256;
- multifarious; multiform &c. 81; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts
- of, all kinds of.
- Adv. variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere.
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- #17. Similarity. -- N. similarity, resemblance, likeness, similitude,
- semblance; affinity, approximation, parallelism; agreement &c. 23; analogy,
- analogicalness[obs3]; correspondence, homoiousia[obs3], parity.
- connaturalness[obs3], connaturality[obs3]; brotherhood, family
- likeness.
- alliteration, rhyme, pun.
- repetition &c. 104; sameness &c. (identity) 13; uniformity &c. 16;
- isogamy[obs3].
- analogue; the like; match, pendant, fellow companion, pair, mate,
- twin, double, counterpart, brother, sister; one's second self, alter ego,
- chip of the old block, par nobile fratrum[Lat], Arcades ambo[obs3], birds
- of a feather, et hoc genus omne[Lat]; gens de meme famille[Fr].
- parallel; simile; type &c. (metaphor) 521; image &c. (representation)
- 554; photograph; close resemblance, striking resemblance, speaking
- resemblance, faithful likeness, faithful resemblance.
- V. be similar &c. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack
- of, savor of,; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after;
- imitate &c. 19; favor, span [U. S.].
- render similar &c. adj.; assimilate, approximate, bring near;
- connaturalize[obs3], make alike; rhyme, pun.
- Adj. similar; resembling &c. v.; like, alike; twin.
- analogous, analogical; parallel, of a piece[Fr]; such as, so;
- homoiousian[obs3].
- connatural[obs3], congener, allied to; akin to &c. (consanguineous) 1
- 1.
- approximate, much the same, near, close, something like, sort of, in
- the ballpark, such like; a show of; mock, pseudo, simulating, representing.
- exact &c. (true) 494; lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to
- life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme
- deux gouttes d'eau[Fr]; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can
- stare; instar omnium[Lat], cast in the same mold, ridiculously like.
- Adv. as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as,
- veluti in speculum[Lat].
- Phr. et sic de similibus[Lat]; tel maitre tel valet[Fr]; tel pere tel
- fils[Fr]; like master, like servant; like father, like son; the fruit
- doesn't fall far from the tree; a chip off the old block
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- #18. Dissimilarity. -- N. dissimilarity, dissimilaritude[obs3];
- unlikeness, diversity, disparity, dissemblance[obs3]; divergence,
- variation.; difference &c. 15; novelty, originality; creativeness;
- oogamy[obs3].
- V. be unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (differ) 15; bear no resemblance to,
- differ toto coelo[Lat].
- render unlike &c. adj.; vary &c. (diversify) 140.
- Adj. dissimilar, unlike, disparate; divergent; of a different kind &c.
- (class) 75 unmatched, unique; new, novel; unprecedented &c. 83; original.
- nothing of the kind; no such thing, quite another thing; far from it,
- cast in a different mold, tertium quid[Lat], as like a dock as a daisy,
- "very like a whale " [Hamlet]; as different as chalk from cheese, as
- different as Macedon and Monmouth; lucus a non lucendo[Lat].
- diversified &c. 16a.
- Adv. otherwise.
- Phr. diis aliter visum[Lat]; " no more like my father than I to
- Hercules" [Hamlet].
-
- #19. Imitation. -- N. imitation; copying &c. v.; transcription;
- repetition, duplication, reduplication; quotation; reproduction;
- mimeograph, xerox, facsimile; reprint, offprint.
- mockery, mimicry; simulation, impersonation, personation;
- representation &c. 554; semblance; copy &c. 21; assimilation.
- paraphrase, parody, take-off, lampoon, caricature &c. 21.
- plagiarism; forgery, counterfeit &c. (falsehood) 544; celluloid.
- imitator, echo, cuckoo|, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime;
- copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate.
- V. imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo,
- reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel.
- mock, take off, mimic, ape, simulate, impersonate, personate; act &c.
- (drama) 599; represent &c. 554; counterfeit, parody, travesty, caricature,
- lampoon, burlesque.
- follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps
- of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the
- example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike
- in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate.
- Adj. imitated &c. v.; mock, mimic; modelled after, molded on.
- paraphrastic; literal; imitative; secondhand; imitable; aping, apish,
- mimicking.
-
- Adv. literally, to the letter, verbatim, literatim[Lat], sic, totidem
- verbis[Lat], word for word, mot a mot[Fr]; exactly, precisely.
-
- Phr.like master like man; " like - but oh! how different! "
- [Wordsworth]; " genius borrows nobly " [Emerson]; " pursuing echoes calling
- 'mong the rocks " [A. Coles]; " quotation confesses inferiority "
- [Emerson]; "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery".
-
-
- #20. Nonimitation. -- N. no imitation; originality; creativeness.
- invention, creation.
- Adj. unimitated[obs3], uncopied[obs3]; unmatched, unparalleled;
- inimitable &c. 13; unique, original; creative, inventive, untranslated;
- exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon[Lat], unexampled.
-
-
- #20a. Variation. -- N. variation; alteration &c. (change) 140.
- modification, moods and tenses; discrepance[obs3], discrepancy.
- divergency &c. 291[obs3]; deviation &c. 279; aberration; innovation.
- V. vary &c. (change) 140; deviate &c. 279; diverge &c. 291; alternate,
- swerve.
- Adj. varied &c. v.; modified; diversified &c. 16a.
-
- #21. [Result of imitation.] Copy. -- N. copy, facsimile, counterpart,
- effigies, effigy, form, likeness.
- image, picture, photo, xerox, similitude, semblance, ectype[obs3],
- photo offset, electrotype; imitation &c. 19; model, representation,
- adumbration, study; portrait &c. (representation) 554; resemblance.
- duplicate, reproduction; cast, tracing; reflex, reflexion[Brit],
- reflection; shadow, echo.
- transcript[copy into a non-visual form], transcription; recording,
- scan.
- chip off the old block; reprint, new printing; rechauffe[Fr];
- apograph[obs3], fair copy.
- parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty, travestie[obs3], paraphrase.
- [copy with some differences] derivative, derivation, modification,
- expansion, extension, revision; second edition &c. (repetition) 104.
- servile copy, servile imitation; plagiarism, counterfeit, fake
- &c.(deception) 545; pasticcio[obs3].
- Adj. faithful; lifelike &c. (similar) 17; close, conscientious.
- unoriginal, imitative, derivative.
-
- #22. [Thing copied.] Prototype. -- N. prototype, original, model,
- pattern, precedent, standard, ideal, reference, scantling, type; archetype,
- antitype[obs3]; protoplast, module, exemplar, example, ensample[obs3],
- paradigm; lay-figure.
- text, copy, design; fugleman[obs3], keynote. die, mold; matrix, last,
- plasm[obs3]; proplasm[obs3], protoplasm; mint; seal, punch, intaglio,
- negative; stamp.
- V. be an example, be a role model, set an example; set a copy. Phr. a
- precedent embalms a principle [Disraeli]; exempla sunt odiosa[Lat].
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- #23. Agreement. -- N. agreement; accord, accordance; unison, harmony;
- concord &c. 714; concordance, concert; understanding, mutual understanding.
- conformity &c. 82; conformance; uniformity &c. 16; consonance,
- consentaneousness[obs3], consistency; congruity, congruence; keeping;
- congeniality; correspondence, parallelism, apposition, union.
- fitness, aptness &c. adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey[obs3];
- sortance|; case in point; aptitude, coaptation[obs3], propriety,
- applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation
- &c. (relation) 9.
- adaption[obs3], adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation,
- reconcilement; assimilation.
- consent &c. (assent) 488; concurrence &c. 178; cooperation &c. 709.
- right man in the right place, very thing,; quite the thing, just the
- thing.
- V. be accordant &c. adj.; agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally,
- respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime
- in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail,
- assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match &c. 17;
- become one; homologate[obs3].
- consent &c. (assent) 488.
- render accordant &c. adj.; fit, suit, adapt, accommodate; graduate;
- adjust &c. (render, equal) 27; dress, regulate, readjust; accord,
- harmonize,. reconcile; fadge[obs3], dovetail, square.
- Adj. agreeing, suiting &c. v.; in accord, accordant, concordant,
- consonant, congruous, consentaneous[obs3], correspondent, congenial;
- coherent; becoming; harmonious reconcilable, conformable; in accordance
- with, in harmony with, in keeping with, in unison with, &c. n.; at one
- with, of one mind, of a piece[Fr]; consistent, compatible, proportionate;
- commensurate; on all fours.
- apt, apposite, pertinent, pat; to the point, to the purpose; happy,
- felicitous, germane, ad rem[Lat], in point, on point, directly on point,
- bearing upon, applicable, relevant, admissible.
- fit adapted, in loco, a propos[Fr], appropriate, seasonable, sortable,
- suitable, idoneous[obs3], deft; meet &c. (expedient) 646.
-
- at home, in one's proper element.
- Adv. a propos of[Fr]; pertinently &c. adj.
- Phr. rem acu tetigisti[Lat][obs3]; if the shoe fits, wear it; the cap
- fits; auxilia humilia firma consensus facit [Lat][Syrus]; discers concordia
- [Lat][Ovid].
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- #24. Disagreement. -- N. disagreement; discord, discordance;
- dissonance, dissidence, discrepancy; unconformity &c. 83; incongruity,
- incongruence[obs3]; discongruity[obs3], mesalliance; jarring &c. v.;
- dissension &c. 713; conflict &c. (opposition) 708; bickering, clashing,
- misunderstanding, wrangle.
- disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality;
- disproportionateness &c. adj[obs3].; variance, divergence, repugnance.
- unfitness &c. adj.; inaptitude, impropriety; inapplicability &c. adj.;
- inconsistency, inconcinnity[obs3]; irrelevancy &c. (irrelation) 10[obs3].
- misjoining[obs3], misjoinder[obs3]; syncretism[obs3], intrusion,
- interference; concordia discors[Lat].
- fish out of water.
- V. disagree; clash, jar &c. (discord) 713; interfere, intrude, come
- amiss; not concern &c. 10; mismatch; humano capiti cervicem jungere
- equinam[Lat].
- Adj. disagreeing &c. v.; discordant, discrepant; at variance, at war;
- hostile, antagonistic, repugnant, incompatible, irreconcilable,
- inconsistent with; unconformable, exceptional &c. 83; intrusive,
- incongruous; disproportionate, disproportionated[obs3]; inharmonious,
- unharmonious[obs3]; inconsonant, unconsonant[obs3]; divergent, repugnant
- to.
- inapt, unapt, inappropriate, improper; unsuited, unsuitable;
- inapplicable, not to the point; unfit, unfitting, unbefitting; unbecoming;
- illtimed, unseasonable, mal a propos[Fr], inadmissible; inapposite &c.
- (irrelevant) 10. uncongenial; ill-assorted, ill-sorted; mismatched,
- misjoined[obs3], misplaced, misclassified; unaccommodating, irreducible,
- incommensurable, uncommensurable[obs3]; unsympathetic.
- out of character, out of keeping, out of proportion, out of joint,
- out of tune, out of place, out of season, out of its element; at odds
- with, at variance with.
- Adv. in defiance, in contempt,in spite of; discordantly &c. adj.; a
- tort et a travers[obs3].
- Phr. asinus ad lyram[Lat].
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- #25. [Absolute quantity.] Quantity. -- N. quantity, magnitude; size
- &c. (dimensions) 192; amplitude, magnitude, mass, amount, sum, quantum,
- measure, substance, strength, force.
- [Science of quantity.] mathematics, mathesis[obs3].
- [Logic.] category, general conception, universal predicament.
- [Definite or finite quantity.] armful, handful, mouthful, spoonful,
- capful; stock, batch, lot, dose; yaffle[obs3].
- V. quantify, measure, fix, estimate, determine, quantitate, enumerate.
- Adj. quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few.
- Adv. to the tune of, all of, a full, the sum of, fully, exactly,
- precisely.
-
-
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- #26. [Relative quantity.] Degree. -- N. degree, grade, extent,
- measure, amount, ratio, stint, standard, height, pitch; reach, amplitude,
- range, scope, caliber; gradation, shade; tenor, compass; sphere, station,
- rank, standing; rate, way, sort.
- point, mark, stage &c. (term) 71; intensity, strength &c. (greatness)
- 31.
- Adj. comparative; gradual, shading off; within the bounds &c. (limit)
- 233.
- Adv. by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto[It]; however,
- howsoever; step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop
- by drop; a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by
- little and little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di
- grado in grado[Lat].
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- #27. [Sameness of quantity or degree.] Equality. -- N. equality,
- parity, coextension[obs3], symmetry, balance, poise; evenness, monotony,
- level.
- equivalence; equipollence[obs3], equipoise, equilibrium,
- equiponderance[obs3]; par, quits, a wash; not a pin to choose; distinction
- without a difference, six of one and half a dozen of the other; tweedle dee
- and tweedle dum[Lat]; identity &c. 13; similarity &c. 17.
- equalization, equation; equilibration, co*ordination, adjustment,
- readjustment. drawn game, drawn battle; neck and neck race; tie, draw,
- standoff, dead heat.
- match, peer, compeer, equal, mate, fellow, brother; equivalent.
- V. be equal &c. adj.; equal, match,reach, keep pace with, run abreast;
- come to, amount to, come up to; be on a level with, lie on a level with;
- balance; cope with; come to the same thing.
- render equal &c. adj.; equalize level, dress, balance, equate,
- handicap, give points, spot points, handicap, trim, adjust, poise; fit,
- accommodate; adapt &c. (render accordant) 23; strike a balance; establish
- equality, restore equality, restore equilibrium; readjust; stretch on the
- bed of Procrustes.
- Adj. equal, even, level, monotonous, coequal, symmetrical, coordinate;
- on a par with, on a level with, on a footing with; up to the mark;
- equiparant[obs3].
- equivalent, tantamount; indistinguishable; quits; homologous;
- synonymous &c. 522; resolvable into, convertible, much at one, as broad as
- long, neither more nor less.; much the same as, the same thing as, as good
- as; all one, all the same; equipollent, equiponderant[obs3],
- equiponderous[obs3], equibalanced[obs3]; equalized &c. v.; drawn; half and
- half; isochronal, isochronous isoperimetric[obs3], isoperimetrical[obs3];
- isobath[Oceanography], isobathic[Oceanography].
- Adv. equally &c. adj.; pari passu[Lat], ad eundum[Lat], caeteris
- paribus[Lat]; in equilibrio[Lat]; to all intents and purposes.
-
- Phr. it comes to the same thing, it amounts to the same thing; what
- is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
-
-
-
- #28. [Difference of quantity or degree.] Inequality. -- N. inequality;
- disparity, imparity; odds; difference &c. 15; unevenness; inclination of
- the balance, partiality, bias, weight; shortcoming; casting weight, make-
- weight; superiority &c. 33; inferiority &c. 34; inequation[obs3].
- V. be unequal &c. adj.; countervail; have the advantage, give the
- advantage; turn the scale; kick the beam; topple,topple over; overmatch &c.
- 33; not come up to &c. 34.
- Adj. unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced;
- top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant[obs3].
- Adv. haud passibus aequis [Latin][Vergil].
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- #29. Mean. -- N. mean, average; median, mode; balance, medium,
- mediocrity, generality; golden mean &c. (mid-course) 628; middle &c. 68;
- compromise &c. 774; middle course, middle state; neutrality.
- mediocrity, least common denominator.
- V. split the difference; take the average &c. n.; reduce to a mean &c.
- n.; strike a balance, pair off.
- Adj. mean, intermediate; middle &c. 68; average; neutral.
- mediocre, middle-class; commonplace &c. (unimportant) 643.
- Adv. on an average, in the long run; taking one with another, taking
- all things together, taking it for all in all; communibus annis[Lat], in
- round numbers.
- Phr. medium tenuere beati[Lat].
-
- #30. Compensation. -- N. compensation, equation; commutation;
- indemnification; compromise &c. 774 neutralization, nullification;
- counteraction &c. 179; reaction; measure for measure. retaliation &c. 718
- equalization &c. 27; robbing Peter to pay Paul.
- set-off, offset; make-weight, casting-weight; counterpoise, ballast;
- indemnity, equivalent, quid pro,quo; bribe, hush money; amends &c.
- (atonement) 952; counterbalance, counterclaim; cross-debt, cross-demand.
- V. make compensation; compensate, compense[obs3]; indemnify;
- counteract, countervail, counterpoise; balance; outbalance[obs3],
- overbalance, counterbalance; set off; hedge, square, give and take; make up
- for, lee way; cover, fill up, neutralize, nullify; equalize &c. 27; make
- good; redeem &c. (atone) 952.
- Adj. compensating, compensatory; countervailing &c. v.; in the
- opposite scale; equivalent &c. (equal) 27.
- Adv. in return, in consideration; but, however, yet, still,
- notwithstanding; nevertheless, nathless[obs3], none the less; although,
- though; albeit, howbeit; mauger[obs3]; at all events, at any rate; be that
- as it may, for all that, even so, on the other, hand, at the same time,
- quoad minus[Lat], quand meme[Fr], however that may be; after all is said
- and done; taking one thing with another &c. (average) 29.
- Phr. " light is mingled with the gloom " [Whittier]; every dark cloud
- has a silver lining; primo avulso non deficit alter [Lat][obs3][Vergil];
- saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas [Lat][Ovid].
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- #31. Greatness. -- N. greatness &c. adj.; magnitude; size &c.
- (dimensions) 192; multitude &c. (number) 102; immensity; enormity; infinity
- &c. 105; might, strength, intensity, fullness; importance &c. 642.
- great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world;
- mass, heap &c. (assemblage) 72; stock &c. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load,
- cargo; cartload[obs3], wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance
- &c. (sufficiency) 639.
- principal part, chief part, main part, greater part, major part, best
- part, essential part ; bulk, mass &c. (whole) 50.
- V. be great &c. adj.; run high, soar, tower, transcend; rise to a
- great height, carry to a great height; know no bounds; ascend, mount.
- enlarge &c. (increase) 35, (expand) 194.
- Adj. great; greater &c. 33; large, considerable, fair, above par; big,
- huge &c. (large in size) 192; Herculean, cyclopean; ample; abundant &c.
- (enough) 639 full, intense, strong, sound, passing, heavy, plenary, deep,
- high; signal, at its height, in the zenith.
- world-wide, widespread, far-famed, extensive; wholesale; many &c. 102.
- goodly, noble, precious, mighty; sad, grave, heavy, serious; far gone,
- arrant, downright; utter, uttermost; crass, gross, arch, profound, intense,
- consummate; rank, uninitiated, red-hot, desperate; glaring, flagrant, stark
- staring; thorough-paced, thoroughgoing; roaring, thumping; extraordinary.;
- important &c. 642; unsurpassed &c. (supreme) 33; complete &c. 52. august,
- grand, dignified, sublime, majestic &c. (repute) 873.
- vast, immense, enormous, extreme; inordinate, excessive, extravagant,
- exorbitant, outrageous, preposterous, unconscionable, swinging, monstrous,
- overgrown; towering, stupendous, prodigious, astonishing, incredible;
- marvelous &c.
- 870.
- unlimited &c. (infinite) 105; unapproachable, unutterable,
- indescribable, ineffable, unspeakable, inexpressible, beyond expression,
- fabulous.
- undiminished, unabated, unreduced[obs3], unrestricted.
- absolute, positive, stark, decided, unequivocal, essential, perfect,
- finished.
- remarkable, of mark, marked, pointed, veriest; noteworthy; renowned.
- Adv. truly &c. (truth) 494[in a positive degree]; decidedly,
- unequivocally, purely, absolutely, seriously, essentially, fundamentally,
- radically, downright, in all conscience; for the most part, in the main.
- [in a complete degree] entirely &c. (completely) 52; abundantly &c.
- (sufficiently) 639; widely, far and wide.
- [in a great or high degree] greatly &c. adj.; much, muckle[obs3],
- well, indeed, very, very much, a deal, no end of, most, not a little;
- pretty, pretty well; enough, in a great measure, richly; to a large extent,
- to a great extent, to a gigantic extent; on a large scale; so; never so,
- ever so; ever so dole; scrap, shred, tag, splinter, rag, much; by
- wholesale; mighty, powerfully; with a witness, ultra[Lat], in the extreme,
- extremely, exceedingly, intensely, exquisitely, acutely, indefinitely,
- immeasurably; beyond compare, beyond comparison, beyond measure, beyond all
- bounds; incalculably, infinitely.
- [in a supreme degree] preeminently, superlatively &c. (superiority)
- 33.
- [in a too great degree] immoderately, monstrously, preposterously,
- inordinately, exorbitantly, excessively, enormously, out of all proportion,
- with a vengeance.
- [in a marked degree] particularly, remarkably, singularly, curiously,
- uncommonly, unusually, peculiarly, notably, signally, strikingly,
- pointedly, mainly, chiefly; famously, egregiously, prominently, glaringly,
- emphatically, <gr/kat exochin/>[Grl], strangely, wonderfully, amazingly,
- surprisingly, astonishingly, incredibly, marvelously, awfully,
- stupendously.
- [in an exceptional degree] peculiarly &c. (unconformity) 83.
- [in a violent degree] furiously &c. (violence) 173; severely,
- desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly,
- devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance[obs3], a toute outrance[Fr][obs3].
- [in a painful degree] painfully, sadly, grossly, sorely, bitterly,
- piteously, grievously, miserably, cruelly, woefully, lamentably,
- shockingly, frightfully, dreadfully, fearfully, terribly, horribly.
- Phr. a maximis ad minima[Lat]; " greatness knows itself" [Henry IV]; "
- mightiest powers by deepest calms are fed " [B. Cornwall]; minimum decet
- libere cui multum licet [Lat][Seneca]; " some are born great, some achieve
- greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them " [Twelfth Night].
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- #32. Smallness. -- N. smallness &c. adj.; littleness &c. (small size)
- 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness &c (small number) 103; meanness,
- insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.
- small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point;
- material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot,
- mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab,
- dight[obs3], whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch,
- cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop,
- droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau[obs3], screed, smack, tinge, tincture;
- inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet[obs3], flitter, gobbet[obs3], mite,
- bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive[obs3]; snip, snippet; snick[obs3],
- snack, snatch, slip, scrag[obs3]; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet,
- clipping, paring, shaving, hair.
- nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment;
- fraction &c. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.
- animalcule &c. 193.
- trifle &c. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing;
- hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.
- finiteness, finite quantity.
- V. be small &c. adj.; lie in a nutshell.
- diminish &c. (decrease) 36; (contract) 195.
- Adj. small, little; diminutive &c. (small in size) 193; minute; fine;
- inconsiderable, paltry &c. (unimportant) 643; faint &c. (weak) 160;
- slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited; meager &c. (insufficient)
- 640; sparing; few &c. 103; low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great
- shakes; below par, under par, below the mark; at a low ebb; halfway;
- moderate, modest; tender, subtle.
- inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small;
- atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic.
- mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run.
- dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent.
- Adv. to a small extent[in a small degree], on a small scale; a little
- bit, a wee bit; slightly &c. adj.; imperceptibly; miserably, wretchedly;
- insufficiently &c. 640; imperfectly; faintly &c. 160; passably, pretty
- well, well enough.
- [in a certain or limited degree] partially, in part; in a certain
- degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some,
- rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only,
- purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so
- little, as little as may be, tant soit peu[Fr], in ever so small a degree;
- thus far, pro tanto[It], within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so
- to speak.
- almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon,
- close upon; peu s'en faut[Fr], near the mark; within an ace of, within an
- inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more
- than. about[in an uncertain degree], thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly,
- say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways[in no degree], no way,
- no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a
- whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by
- no manner of means; on no account, at no hand.
- Phr. dare pondus idonea fumo [Lat][Persius]; magno conatu magnas nugas
- [Lat][Terence]; " small sands the mountain, moments make the year "
- [Young].
-
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- %
-
- QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT
- %
-
- #33. Superiority. [Supremacy.] -- N. superiority, majority; greatness
- &c. 31; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground,
- prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility &c. (rank) 875;
- Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares[Lat], nulli secundus[Lat],
- captain; crackajack * [obs3][U. S.].
- supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; <gr/trikumia/>[obs3],
- climax; culmination &c. (summit) 210; transcendence; ne plus ultra[Lat];
- lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus &c. (remainder) 40;
- (redundancy) 641.
- V. be superior &c. adj.; exceed, excel, transcend; outdo,
- outbalance[obs3], outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass,
- get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh,
- overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip &c. 303;
- eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's
- nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the
- advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle &c.
- (importance) 642,; preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take
- precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat &c. all others,
- bear the palm; break the record; take the cake * [U. S.].
- become larger, render larger &c. (increase) 35, (expand) 194.
- Adj. superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding &c. v.;great &c. 31;
- distinguished, ultra[Lat]; vaulting; more than a match for.
- supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning;
- first-rate &c. (important) 642, (excellent) 648; unrivaled peerless,
- matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil[Fr]; unparagoned[obs3],
- unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached[obs3], unsurpassed; superlative,
- inimitable facile princeps[Lat], incomparable, sovereign, without parallel,
- nulli secundus[Lat], ne plus ultra[Lat]; beyond compare, beyond comparison;
- culminating &c. (topmost) 210; transcendent, transcendental;plus royaliste
- que le Roi[Fr], more catholic than the Pope
- increased &c. (added to) 35; enlarged &c. (expanded) 194.
- Adv. beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par;
- upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its
- height.
- [in a superior or supreme degree] eminently, egregiously,
- preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all,
- of all things, the most, to crown all, <gr/kat exochin/gr>[Grl], par
- excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori,
- even, yea, still more.
-
- Phr. " I shall not look upon his like again " [Hamlet]; deos fortioribus
- addesse [Lat][Tacitus].
-
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-
-
- #34. Inferiority. -- N. inferiority, minority, subordinacy;
- shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness &c. 32; imperfection; lower
- quality, lower worth.
- [personal inferiority] commonalty &c. 876.
- V. be inferior &c. adj.; fall short of, come short of; not pass, not
- come up to; want.
- become smaller, render smaller &c. (decrease) 36, (contract) 195; hide
- its diminished head, retire into the shade, yield the palm, play second
- fiddle, be upstaged, take a back seat.
- Adj. inferior, smaller; small &c. 32; minor, less, lesser, deficient,
- minus, lower, subordinate, secondary; secondrate &c. (imperfect) 651; sub,
- subaltern; thrown into the shade; weighed in the balance and found wanting;
- not fit to hold a candle to, can't hold a candle to.
- least, smallest &c. (see little, small &c. 193); lowest.
- diminished &c. (decreased) 36; reduced &c. (contracted) 195;
- unimportant &c. 643.
- Adv. less; under the mark, below the mark,below par; at the bottom of the
- scale, at a low ebb, at a disadvantage; short of, under.
-
- %
- CHANGES IN QUANTITY
- %
-
- #35. Increase. -- N. increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension;
- dilatation &c. (expansion) 194; increment, accretion; accession &c. 37;
- development, growth; aggrandizement, aggravation; rise; ascent &c. 305;
- exaggeration exacerbation; spread &c. (dispersion) 73; flood tide; gain,
- produce, product, profit.
- V. increase, augment, add to, enlarge;. dilate &c. (expand) 194; grow,
- wax, get ahead. gain strength; advance; run up, shoot up; rise; ascend &c.
- 305; sprout &c. 194.
- aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify,
- enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate;
- add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino[Lat], superadd &c. (add)
- 37[obs3]; spread &c. (disperse) 73.
- Adj. increased &c. v.; on the increase, undiminished; additional &c.
- (added) 37.
- Adv. crescendo.
- Phr. vires acquirit eundo [Lat][Vergil].
-
-
- #36. Nonincrease, Decrease. -- N. decrease, diminution; lessening &c.
- v.; subtraction &c. 38; reduction, abatement, declension; shrinking &c.
- (contraction.) 195; coarctation|; abridgment &c. (shortening) 201;
- extenuation.
- subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent &c. 306; decrement,
- reflux, depreciation; deterioration &c. 659; anticlimax; mitigation &c.
- (moderation) 174.
- V. decrease, diminish, lessen; abridge &c. (shorten) 201; shrink &c.
- (contract) 195; drop off, fall off, tail off; fall away, waste, wear; wane,
- ebb, decline; descend &c. 306; subside; melt away, die away; retire into
- the shade, hide its diminished head, fall to a low ebb, run low, languish,
- decay, crumble.
- bate, abate, dequantitate|; discount; depreciate; extenuate, lower,
- weaken, attenuate, fritter away; mitigate &c. (moderate) 174; dwarf, throw
- into the shade; reduce &c. 195; shorten &c. 201; subtract &c. 38.
- Adj. unincreased &c. (see increase &c.35)[obs3]; decreased &c. v.;
- decreasing &c. v.; on the wane &c. n.
- Phr. " a gilded halo hovering round decay " [Byron]; " fine by degrees
- and beautifully less " [Prior].
-
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-
- 3. CONJUNCTIVE QUANTITY
-
- #37. Addition. -- N. addition, annexation, adjection[obs3]; junction
- &c. 43; superposition, superaddition, superjunction[obs3], superfetation;
- accession, reinforcement; increase &c. 35; increment, supplement;
- accompaniment &c. 88; interposition &c. 228; insertion &c. 300.
- V. add, annex, affix, superadd[obs3], subjoin, superpose; clap on,
- saddle on; tack to, append, tag; ingraft[obs3]; saddle with; sprinkle;
- introduce &c. (interpose) 228; insert &c. 300.
- become added, accrue; advene[obs3], supervene.
- reinforce, reenforce, restrengthen[obs3]; swell the ranks of; augment
- &c. 35.
- Adj. added &c. v.; additional; supplemental, supplementary;
- suppletory[obs3], subjunctive; adjectitious[obs3], adscititious[obs3],
- ascititious[obs3]; additive, extra, accessory.
- Adv. au reste[Fr], in addition, more, plus, extra; and, also,
- likewise, too, furthermore, further, item; and also, and eke; else,
- besides, to boot, et cetera; &c.; and so on, and so forth; into the
- bargain, cum multis aliis[Lat], over and above, moreover.
- with, withal; including, inclusive, as well as, not to mention, let
- alone; together with, along with, coupled with, in conjunction with;
- conjointly; jointly &c. 43.
- Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit[Lat].
-
-
-
- #38. Nonaddition. Subtraction. - N. subtraction, subduction|!;
- deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation[obs3];
- abstraction &c. (taking) 789; garbling,, &c. v. mutilation,
- detruncation[obs3]; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment
- &c. 201; minuend, subtrahend; decrease &c. 36; abrasion.
- V. subduct, subtract; deduct, deduce; bate, retrench; remove,
- withdraw, take from, take away; detract.
- garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate[obs3]; cut off, cut away, cut
- out; abscind[obs3], excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape,
- file; geld, castrate; eliminate.
- diminish &c. 36; curtail &c. (shorten) 201; deprive of &c. (take) 789;
- weaken.
- Adj. subtracted &c. v.; subtractive.
- Adv. in deduction &c. n.; less; short of; minus, without, except,
- except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of,
- save and except, with a reservation; not counting, if one doesn't count.
-
-
-
- #39. [Thing added] Adjunct. -- N. adjunct; addition, additament[obs3];
- additum[Lat], affix, appelidage[obs3], annexe[obs3], annex; augment,
- augmentation; increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item;
- garnish, sauce; accompaniment &c. 88; adjective, addendum; complement,
- supplement; continuation.
- rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary; piece[Fr]; flap,
- lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege; tail, suffix &c. (sequel)
- 65; wing.
- Adj. additional &c. 37. alate[obs3], alated[obs3]; winged.
- Adv. in addition &c. 37.
-
-
- #40. [Thing remaining.] Remainder. -- N.
- remainder, residue; remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic; leavings,
- heeltap[obs3], odds and ends, cheesepairings[obs3], candle ends,
- orts[obs3]; residuum; dregs &c. (dirt) 653; refuse &c. (useless) 645;
- stubble, result, educt[obs3]; fag-end; ruins, wreck, skeleton., stump;
- alluvium.
- surplus, overplus[obs3], excess; balance, complement; superplus[obs3],
- surplusage[obs3]; superfluity &c.(redundancy) 641; survival,
- survivance[obs3].
- V. remain,; be left &c. adj.; exceed, survive; leave.
-
-
-
- Adj.remaining, left; left behind left over; residual, residuary; over,
- odd; unconsumed, sedimentary; surviving; net; exceeding, over and above;
- outlying, outstanding; cast off &c. 782; superfluous &c. (redundant) 641.
-
-
- #40a. [Thing deducted.] Decrement. -- N. decrement, discount, defect,
- loss, deduction; afterglow; eduction[obs3]; waste.
-
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-
-
- #41. [Forming a whole without coherence.] Mixture. -- N. mixture,
- admixture, commixture, commixtion[obs3]; commixion[obs3], intermixture,
- alloyage[obs3], matrimony; junction &c. 43; combination &c. 48;
- miscegenation.
- impregnation; infusion, diffusion suffusion, transfusion;
- infiltration; seasoning, sprinkling, interlarding; interpolation &c. 228
- adulteration, sophistication.
- [Thing mixed] tinge, tincture, touch, dash, smack, sprinkling, spice,
- seasoning, infusion, soupcon.
- [Compound resulting from mixture] alloy, amalgam; brass,
- chowchow[obs3], pewter; magma, half-and-half, melange, tertium quid[Lat],
- miscellany, ambigu|, medley, mess, hotchpot[obs3], pasticcio[obs3],
- patchwork, odds and ends, all sorts; jumble &c. (disorder) 59; salad,
- sauce, mash, omnium gatherum[Lat], gallimaufry, olla-podrida[obs3], olio,
- salmagundi, potpourri, Noah's ark, caldron texture, mingled yarn; mosaic
- &c. (variegation) 440.
-
- half-blood, half-caste. mulatto; terceron[obs3], quarteron[obs3],
- quinteron &c.[obs3];.quadroon, octoroon; griffo[obs3], zambo[obs3];
- cafuzo[obs3]; Eurasian; fustee[obs3], fustie[obs3]; griffe, ladino[obs3],
- marabou, mestee[obs3], mestizo, quintroon, sacatra zebrule[obs3][U. S.];
- catalo[obs3]; cross, hybrid, mongrel.
-
- V. mix; join &c. 43; combine &c. 48; commix, immix[obs3], intermix;
- mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle[obs3]; shuffle &c.
- (derange) 61; pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate
- with; interlard &c. (interpolate) 228; intertwine, interweave &c. 219;
- associate with; miscegenate[obs3].
- be mixed &c.; get among, be entangled with.
- instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge,
- tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper[obs3], medicate, blend,
- cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.
-
- Adj. mixed &c. v.; implex[obs3], composite, half-and-half, linsey-
- woolsey, chowchow, hybrid, mongrel, heterogeneous; motley &c. (variegated)
- 440; miscellaneous, promiscuous, indiscriminate; miscible.
- Adv. among, amongst, amid, amidst; with; in the midst of, in the crowd.
-
- #42. [Freedom from mixture.] Simpleness. -- N. simpleness &c. adj.;
- purity, homogeneity.
- elimination; sifting &c. v.; purification &c. (cleanness) 652.
- V. render simple &c. adj.; simplify.
- sift, winnow, bolt, eliminate; exclude, get rid of; clear; purify &c.
- (clean) 652; disentangle &c. (disjoin) 44.
- Adj. simple, uniform, of a piece[Fr], homogeneous, single, pure,
- sheer, neat.
- unmixed, unmingled[obs3], unblended, uncombined, uncompounded;
- elementary, undecomposed; unadulterated, unsophisticated, unalloyed,
- untinged[obs3], unfortified, pur et simple[Fr]; incomplex[obs3].
- free from, exempt from; exclusive.
- Adv. simple &c. adj. only.
-
-
-
- #43. Junction. -- N. junction; joining &c. v.; joinder[Law], union
- connection, conjunction, conjugation; annexion[obs3], annexation,
- annexment[obs3]; astriction[obs3], attachment, compagination[obs3],
- vincture[obs3], ligation, alligation[obs3]; accouplement[obs3]; marriage
- &c. (wedlock,) 903; infibulation[obs3], inosculation[obs3],
- symphysis[Anat], anastomosis, confluence, communication, concatenation;
- meeting, reunion; assemblage &c. 72.
- coition, copulation;sex, sexual congress,sexual conjunction, sexual
- intercourse, love-making.
- joint, joining, juncture, pivot, hinge, articulation,
- commissure[obs3], seam, gore, gusset, suture, stitch; link &c. 45; miter
- mortise.
- closeness, tightness, &c. adj.; coherence &c. 46; combination &c. 48.
- annexationist.
- V. join, unite; conjoin, connect; associate; put together, lay
- together, clap together, hang together, lump together, hold together, piece
- together[Fr], tack together, fix together, bind up together together;
- embody, reembody[obs3]; roll into one.
- attach, fix, affix, saddle on, fasten, bind, secure, clinch, twist,
- make fast &c. adj.; tie, pinion, string, strap, sew, lace, tat, stitch,
- tack, knit, button, buckle, hitch, lash, truss, bandage, braid, splice,
- swathe, gird, tether, moor, picket, harness, chain; fetter &c. (restrain)
- 751; lock, latch, belay, brace, hook, grapple, leash, couple,
- accouple[obs3], link, yoke, bracket; marry &c. (wed) 903; bridge over,
- span.
- braze; pin, nail, bolt, hasp, clasp, clamp, crimp, screw, rivet;
- impact, solder, set; weld together, fuse together; wedge, rabbet, mortise,
- miter, jam, dovetail, enchase[obs3]; graft, ingraft[obs3],
- inosculate[obs3]; entwine, intwine[obs3]; interlink, interlace, intertwine,
- intertwist[obs3], interweave; entangle; twine round, belay; tighten; trice
- up, screw up.
- be joined &c.; hang together, hold together; cohere &c. 46.
- Adj. joined &c. v.; joint; conjoint, conjunct; corporate, compact;
- hand in hand.
- firm, fast, close, tight, taut, taught, secure, set, intervolved |;
- inseparable, indissoluble, insecable[obs3], severable.
- Adv. jointly &c. adj.; in conjunction with &c. (in addition to) 37;
- fast, firmly, &c. adj.; intimately.
- Phr. tria juncta in uno[Lat].
-
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-
-
-
-
- #44. Disjunction. -- N. disjunction, disconnection, disunity,
- disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity &c. 70;
- abjunction[obs3]; cataclasm[obs3]; inconnection[obs3]; abstraction,
- abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island;
- separateness &c. adj.; severalty; disjecta membra[Lat]; dispersion &c. 73;
- apportionment &c. 786.
- separation; parting &c. v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation;
- divorce, sejunction|, seposition|, diduction[obs3], diremption[obs3],
- discerption[obs3]; elision; caesura, break, fracture,
- division, subdivision, rupture; compartition |; dismemberment,
- dislocation; luxation[obs3]; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission,
- abscission; laceration, dilaceration[obs3]; disruption, abruption[obs3];
- avulsion[obs3], divulsion[obs3]; section, resection, cleavage; fission;
- partibility[obs3], separability.
-
- fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.
- dissection anatomy; decomposition &c. 49; cutting instrument &c
- (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.
- separatist.
- V. be disjoined &c.; come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to
- pieces; peel off; get loose.
- disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair[obs3];
- divorce, part, dispart[obs3], detach, separate, cut off, rescind,
- segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate,, isolate; throw out of gear;
- cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock &c. (fix) 43,
- unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free &c. (liberate) 750.
- sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind[obs3]; circumcise;
- cut; incide|, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split,
- splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c. rend asunder,
- rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch[obs3], crunch,
- craunch[obs3], chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle,
- hackle, discind|, lacerate, scamble[obs3], mangle, gash, hash, slice.
- cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize; dislimb[obs3]; take to pieces, pull
- to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces; tear to tatters, tear piecemeal,
- tear limb from limb; divellicate[obs3]; skin &c. 226; disintegrate,
- dismember, disbranch[obs3], disband; disperse &c. 73; dislocate, disjoint;
- break up; mince; comminute &c. (pulverize) 330; apportion &c. 786.
- part, part company; separate, leave.
- Adj. disjoined &c. v.; discontinuous &c. 70; multipartite[obs3],
- abstract; disjunctive; secant; isolated &c. v.; insular, separate,
- disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free; unattached,
- unannexed, unassociated, unconnected; distinct; adrift; straggling; rift,
- reft[obs3].
- [capable of being cut] scissile[Chem], divisible, discerptible[obs3],
- partible, separable.
- Adv. separately &c. adj.; one by one, severally, apart; adrift,
- asunder, in twain; in the abstract, abstractedly.
-
-
- #45. [Connecting medium.] Connection. -- N. vinculum, link;
- connective, connection; junction &c. 43; bond of union, copula, hyphen,
- intermedium[obs3]; bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus.
- bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope,
- guy, cable, line, halser|, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string
- &c. (filament) 205.
- fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging;
- standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband,
- bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle[obs3]; with, withe, withy; thong,
- braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus[obs3], garter, halter, noose,
- lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro [obs3][U. S.], cinch [U.
- S.], lariat, legadero[obs3], oxreim[obs3]; suspenders.
-
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-
- pin, corking pin, nail, brad, tack, skewer, staple, corrugated
- fastener; clamp, U-clamp, C-clamp; cramp, cramp iron; ratchet, detent,
- larigo[obs3], pawl; terret[obs3], treenail, screw, button, buckle; clasp,
- hasp, hinge, hank, catch, latch, bolt, latchet[obs3], tag; tooth; hook,
- hook and eye; lock, holdfast[obs3], padlock, rivet; anchor, grappling iron,
- trennel[obs3], stake, post.
- cement, glue, gum, paste, size, wafer, solder, lute, putty, birdlime,
- mortar, stucco, plaster, grout; viscum[obs3].
- shackle, rein &c. (means of restraint) 752; prop &c. (support) 215.
- V. bridge over, span; connect &c. 43; hang &c. 214.
-
-
-
- #46. Coherence. -- N. coherence, adherence, adhesion, adhesiveness;
- concretion accretion; conglutination, agglutination, agglomeration;
- aggregation; consolidation, set, cementation; sticking, soldering &c. v.;
- connection; dependence.
- tenacity, toughness; stickiness &c. 352; inseparability,
- inseparableness; bur, remora.
- conglomerate, concrete &c. (density) 321.
- V. cohere, adhere, stick, cling, cleave, hold, take hold of, hold
- fast, close with, clasp, hug; grow together, hang together; twine round &c.
- (join) 43.
- stick like a leech, stick like wax; stick close;
- cling like ivy, cling like a bur; adhere like a remora, adhere like
- Dejanira's shirt.
- glue; agglutinate, conglutinate[obs3]; cement, lute, paste, gum;
- solder, weld; cake, consolidate &c. (solidify) 321; agglomerate.
- Adj. cohesive, adhesive, adhering, cohering &c. v.; tenacious, tough;
- sticky &c. 352.
- united, unseparated, unsessile[obs3], inseparable, inextricable,
- infrangible[obs3]; compact &c. (dense) 321.
-
-
- #47. [Want of adhesion, nonadhesion, immiscibility.] Incoherence. - N.
- nonadhesion[obs3]; immiscibility; incoherence; looseness &c. adj.; laxity;
- relaxation; loosening &c. v.; freedom; disjunction &c. 44; rope of sand.
- V. make loose &c. adj.; loosen, slacken, relax; unglue &c. 46; detach
- &c. (disjoin) 44.
- Adj. nonadhesive, immiscible; incoherent, detached, loose, baggy,
- slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming; disheveled; segregated, like
- grains of sand unconsolidated &c. 231, uncombined &c. 48;
- noncohesive[obs3].
-
-
-
- #48. Combination. -- N. combination; mixture &c. 41; junction &c. 43;
- union, unification, synthesis, incorporation, amalgamation, embodiment,
- coalescence, crasis[obs3], fusion, blending, absorption, centralization.
- alloy, compound, amalgam, composition, tertium quid[Lat]; resultant,
- impregnation.
- V. combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb,
- reembody[obs3], blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce,
- centralize, impregnate; put together, lump together; cement a union, marry.
- Adj. combined &c. v.; impregnated with, ingrained; imbued inoculated.
-
- #49. Decomposition. -- N. decomposition, analysis, dissection,
- resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption &c. (uncleanness) 653;
- dispersion &c. 73; disjunction &c. 44; disintegration.
- V. decompose, decompound; analyze, disembody, dissolve; resolve into
- its elements, separate into its elements; electrolyze[Chem]; dissect,
- decentralize, break up; disperse &c. 73; unravel &c. (unroll) 313; crumble
- into dust.
- Adj. decomposed &c. v.; catalytic, analytical; resolvent, separative,
- solvent.
-
-
- <-- p. 17 -->
-
- 4. CONCRETE QUANTITY
-
- #50. Whole. [Principal part.] -- N. whole, totality, integrity;
- totalness &c. adj[obs3].; entirety, ensemble, collectiveness[obs3]; unity
- &c. 87; completeness &c. 52; indivisibility, indiscerptibility[obs3];
- integration, embodiment; integer.
- all, the whole, total, aggregate, one and all, gross amount, sum, sum
- total, tout ensemble, length and breadth of,
- Alpha and Omega, " be all and end all "; complex, complexus [obs3]; lock
- stock and barrel.
- bulk, mass, lump, tissue, staple, body, compages[obs3]; trunk, torso,
- bole, hull, hulk, skeleton greater part, major part, best part, principal
- part, main part; essential part &c. (importance). 642; lion's share,
- Benjamin's mess; the long and the short; nearly, all, almost all.
- V. form a whole, constitute a whole; integrate, embody, amass;
- aggregate &c. (assemble) 72; amount to, come to.
- Adj. whole, total, integral, entire; complete &c. 52; one, individual.
- unbroken, intact, uncut, undivided, unsevered[obs3], unclipped[obs3],
- uncropped, unshorn; seamless; undiminished; undemolished, undissolved,
- undestroyed, unbruised.
- indivisible, indissoluble, indissolvable[obs3], indiscerptible[obs3].
- wholesale, sweeping; comprehensive.
- Adv. wholly, altogether; totally &c. (completely) 52; entirely, all,
- all in all, as a whole, wholesale, in a body, collectively, all put
- together; in the aggregate, in the lump, in the mass, in the gross, in the
- main, in the long run; en masse, as a body, on the whole, bodily|!, en
- bloc, in extenso[Lat], throughout, every inch; substantially.
- Phr. tout bien ou rien[Fr].
-
-
-
- #51. Part. -- N. part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any;
- division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph,
- verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle,
- frustum; detachment, parcel.
- piece[Fr], lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop[obs3], slice,
- scale; lamina &c. 204; small part; morsel, particle &c. (smallness) 32;
- installment, dividend; share &c. (allotment) 786.
- debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus; excerpta[obs3]; member,
- limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot,
- ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig; runner; leaf, leaflet; stump;
- component part &c. 56; sarmentum[obs3].
- compartment; department &c. (class) 75; county &c. (region) 181.
- V. part, divide, break &c. (disjoin) 44; partition &c. (apportion)
- 786.
- Adj. fractional, fragmentary; sectional, aliquot; divided &c. v.; in
- compartments, multifid[obs3]; disconnected; partial.
- Adv. partly, in part, partially; piecemeal, part by part; by by
- installments,by snatches, by inches, by driblets; bit by bit, inch by inch,
- foot by foot, drop by drop; in detail, in lots.
-
-
-
-
- #52. Completeness. -- N. completeness &c. adj.; completion &c. 729;
- integration; allness[obs3].
- entirety; perfection &c. 650; solidity, solidarity; unity; all; ne
- plus ultra[Lat], ideal, limit.
- complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up &c. v.
- impletion[obs3]; saturation, saturity|; high water; high tide, flood
- tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful[obs3]; brimmer[obs3];
- sufficiency &c. 639.
- V. be complete &c. adj.; come to a head.
- render complete &c. adj.; complete &c. (accomplish) 729; fill, charge,
- load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out[Fr], eke out; supply
- deficiencies; fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of;
- saturate.
- go the whole hog, go the whole length; go all lengths.
- Adj. complete, entire; whole &c. 50; perfect &c. 650; full, good,
- absolute, thorough, plenary; solid, undivided; with all its parts; all-
- sided.
- exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead.
- regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional,
- free; abundant &c. (sufficient) 639.
- brimming; brimful, topful, topfull; chock full, choke full; as full as
- an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch; saturated, crammed; replete &c.
- (redundant) 641; fraught, laden; full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged;
- heavy laden.
- completing &c. v.; supplemental, supplementary; ascititious[obs3].
- Adv. completely &c. adj.; altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in
- toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all,
- nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel,
- neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and
- out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo[Lat]; utterly; clean, clean as
- a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark;
- heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.
- to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance[obs3].
- throughout; from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to
- end, from one end to the other, from Dan to Beersheba, from head to foot,
- from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble[Fr]; a fond, a
- capite ad calcem [Lat], ab ovo usque ad mala[Lat], fore and aft; every,
- whit, every inch; cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter; up to the brim, up
- to the ears, up to the eyes; as . . . as can be.
- on all accounts;,sous tous les rapports[Fr]; with a vengeance, with a
- witness.
- Phr. falsus in uno falsus in omnibus [Latin: false in one thing, false
- in everything]; omnem movere lapidem[Lat]; una scopa nuova spazza bene
- [Italian].
-
-
- #53. Incompleteness. -- N. incompleteness &c. adj.; deficiency, short
- measure; shortcoming &c. 304; insufficiency &c. 640; imperfection &c. 651;
- immaturity &c. (nonpreparation) 674; half measures.
- [part wanting] defect, deficit, defalcation, omission; caret;
- shortage; interval &c. 198; break &c. (discontinuity) 70; noncompletion &c.
- 730; missing link.
- missing piece, missing part, gap, hole, lacuna.
- V. be incomplete &c. adj.; fall short of &c. 304; lack &c. (be
- insufficient) 640; neglect &c. 460.
- Adj. incomplete; imperfect &c. 651; unfinished; uncompleted &c. (see
- complete &c. 729); defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in
- default, in arrear[obs3]; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half,
- perfunctory, sketchy; crude &c. (unprepared) 674.
- mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated.
- in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding.
- Adv. incompletely &c. adj.; by halves.
- Phr. caetera desunt[Lat]; caret.
-
- <-- p. 18 -->
-
- #54. Composition. -- N. composition, constitution, crasis[obs3];
- combination &c. 48; inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception;
- embodiment; formation.
- V. be composed of, be made of, be formed of, be made up of; consist
- of, be resolved into.
- include &c. (in a class) 76; contain, hold, comprehend, take in,
- admit, embrace, embody; involve, implicate; drag into.
- compose, constitute, form, make; make up, fill up, build up; enter into the
- composition of &c. (be a component) 56.
- Adj. containing, constituting &c.v.
-
- #55. Exclusion. -- N. exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception,
- rejection, repudiation; exile &c. (seclusion) 893; noninclusion[obs3],
- preclusion, prohibition.
- separation, segregation, seposition[obs3], elimination, expulsion;
- cofferdam.
- V. be excluded from &c.
- exclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate,
- blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate,
- segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect &c. 460; banish
- &c. (seclude) 893; separate.&c. (disjoin) 44.
- pass over, omit; garble; eliminate, weed, winnow.
- Adj. excluding &c. v.; exclusive. excluded &c. v.; unrecounted[obs3],
- not included in; inadmissible.
- Adv. exclusive of, barring; except; with the exception of; save;
- bating.
-
- #56. Component. -- N. component; component part, integral part,
- integrant part[obs3]; element, constituent, ingredient, leaven; part and
- parcel; contents; appurtenance; feature; member &c. (part) 51; personnel.
- V. enter into, enter into the composition of; be a component &c. n; be
- part of, form part of &c. 51 ; merge in, be merged in; be implicated in;
- share in &c. (participate) 778; belong to, appertain to; combine, inhere
- in, unite.
- form, make, constitute, compose.
- Adj. forming &c. v. inclusive.
-
- #57. Extraneousness. -- N. extraneousness &c. adj.; extrinsicality &c.
- 6[obs3]; exteriority &c. 220[obs3]; alienage[obs3], alienism. foreign body,
- foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper,
- foreigner, novus homo[Lat], newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole,
- Africander[obs3]; outsider; Dago*, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant,
- Easterner [U.S.], Dutchman, tenderfoot.
- Adj. extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior; tramontane, ultramontane.
- excluded &c. 55; inadmissible; exceptional.
- Adv. in foreign parts, in foreign lands; abroad, beyond seas; over sea
- on one's travels.
-
- <-- p. 19 -->
-
- SECTION IV. ORDER
-
- 1. ORDER
-
- #58. Order. -- N. order, regularity, uniformity, symmetry, lucidus
- ordo[Lat]; music of the spheres.
- gradation, progression; series &c. (continuity) 69.
- subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition,
- arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness &c. adj.
- rank, place &c. (term) 71.
- V. be in order, become in order &c. adj.; form, fall in, draw up;
- arrange itself, range itself, place itself; fall into one's place, take
- one's place, take one's rank; rally round.
- adjust, methodize, regulate, systematize.
- Adj. orderly, regular; in order,in trim, in apple-pie order, in its
- proper place; neat, tidy, en regle[Fr], well regulated, correct,
- methodical, uniform, symmetrical, shipshape, businesslike, systematic;
- unconfused &c. (see confuse &c. 61); arranged &c. 60.
- Adv. in order; methodically &c. adj.; in -turn, - its turn; step by
- step; by regular -steps, -gradations, -stages, -intervals; seriatim,
- systematically, by clockwork, gradatim[Lat]; at stated periods &c.
- (periodically) 138.
- Phr. natura non facit saltum[Lat]; "order is heaven's first law"
- [Pope]; "order from disorder sprung" [Paradise Lost]; ordo est parium
- dispariumque rerum sua loca tribuens dispositio [Lat][St. Augustine].
-
- <-- here we should break up 59 into disorder (randomness), and complexity.
- These are two different concepts. Note that simplicity, (entry 849) refers
- to affections or appearance, not internal complexity.
- We also need a corresponding entry for conceptual or organizational
- simplicity. -->
-
- #59. [Absence, or want of Order, &c.] Disorder. -- N. disorder;
- derangement &c. 61; irregularity; anomaly &c. (unconformity) 83; anarchy,
- anarchism; want of method; untidiness &c. adj.; disunion; discord &c. 24.
- confusion; confusedness &c. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle,
- litter, lumber; cahotage[obs3]; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U. S.],
- hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch[obs3], hotch-pot[obs3]; imbroglio, chaos,
- omnium gatherum[Lat], medley; mere mixture &c. 41; fortuitous concourse of
- atoms, disjecta membra[Lat], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat][Ovid].
- complexity &c. 59a.
- turmoil; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder[obs3],
- pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar,
- revolution, riot, rumpus, stour[obs3], scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb
- [baseball], fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee,
- spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind &c. 349; bear garden, Babel,
- Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most
- admired disorder, concordia discors[Lat]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose;
- bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre[Fr], Devil
- to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work[Fr], pretty piece of
- business[Fr].
- [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence;
- misdemeanor.
- [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.
- V. be disorderly &c. adj.; ferment, play at cross-purposes.
- put out of order; derange &c. 61; ravel &c. 219; ruffle, rumple.
- Adj. disorderly, orderless; out of order, out of place, out of gear;
- irregular, desultory; anomalous &c. (unconformable) 83; acephalous[obs3],
- deranged; aimless; disorganized; straggling; unmethodical,
- immethodical[obs3]; unsymmetric[obs3], unsystematic; untidy, slovenly;
- dislocated; out of sorts; promiscuous, indiscriminate; chaotic, anarchical;
- unarranged &c. (see arrange &c. 60)[obs3]; confused; deranged &c. 61;
- topsy-turvy &c. (inverted) 218; shapeless &c. 241; disjointed, out of
- joint.
- troublous[obs3]; riotous &c. (violent) 173.
- complex &c. 59a.
- Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and
- starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a
- ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down &c. 218.
- Phr. the cart before the horse; <gr/hysteron proteron/gr>[Grk][Grk];
- chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds "
- [Addison].
-
- #59a. Complexity -- N. complexity; complexness &c. adj.;
- complexus[obs3]; complication, implication; intricacy, intrication[obs3];
- perplexity; network, labyrinth; wilderness, jungle; involution, raveling,
- entanglement; coil &c. (convolution) 248; sleave[obs3], tangled skein,
- knot, Gordian knot, wheels within wheels; kink, gnarl, knarl[obs3];
- webwork[obs3].
- [complexity if a task or action] difficulty &c. 704.
- V. complexify[obs3], complicate.
- Adj. gnarled, knarled[obs3]. complex, complexed; intricate,
- complicated, perplexed, involved, raveled, entangled, knotted, tangled,
- inextricable; irreducible.
-
- <-- p. 20 -->
-
- #60. [Reduction to Order.] Arrangement. -- N. arrangement; plan &c.
- 626; preparation &c. 673; disposal, disposition; collocation, allocation;
- distribution; sorting &c. v.; assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis,
- taxonomy, syntaxis[obs3], graduation, organization; grouping; tabulation.
- analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion.
- [Result of arrangement] digest; synopsis &c. (compendium) 596;
- syntagma[Gram], table, atlas; file, database; register. &c. (record) 551;
- organism, architecture.
- [Instrument for sorting] sieve, riddle, screen, sorter.
- V. reduce to order, bring into order; introduce order into; rally.
- arrange, dispose, place, form; put in order, set in order, place in order;
- set out, collocate, pack, marshal, range, size, rank, group, parcel out,
- allot, distribute, deal; cast the parts, assign the parts; dispose of,
- assign places to; assort, sort; sift, riddle; put to rights, set to rights,
- put into shape, put in trim, put in array; apportion.
- class, classify; divide; file, string together, thread; register &c.
- (record) 551; catalogue, tabulate, index, graduate, digest, grade.
- methodize, regulate, systematize, coordinate, organize, settle, fix.
- unravel, disentangle, ravel, card; disembroil[obs3]; feaze[obs3].
- Adj. arranged &c. v.; embattled, in battle array; cut and dried;
- methodical, orderly, regular, systematic.
- Phr. "In vast cumbrous array" [Churchill].
-
-
- #61. [Subversion of Order; bringing into disorder.] Derangement. -- N.
- derangement &c. v.; disorder &c. 59; evection[obs3], discomposure,
- disturbance; disorganization, deorganization[obs3]; dislocation;
- perturbation, interruption; shuffling &c. v.; inversion &c. 218;
- corrugation &c. (fold) 258; involvement.
- interchange &c. 148.
- V. derange; disarrange, misarrange[obs3]; displace, misplace; mislay,
- discompose, disorder; deorganize[obs3], discombobulate, disorganize;
- embroil, unsettle, disturb, confuse, trouble, perturb, jumble, tumble;
- shuffle, randomize; huddle, muddle, toss, hustle, fumble, riot; bring into
- disorder, put into disorder, throw into disorder &c. 59; muss [U.S.];
- break the ranks, disconcert, convulse; break in upon.
- unhinge, dislocate, put out of joint, throw out of gear.
- turn topsy-turvy &c. (invert) 218; bedevil; complicate, involve,
- perplex, confound; imbrangle[obs3], embrangle[obs3], tangle, entangle,
- ravel, tousle, towzle[obs3], dishevel, ruffle; rumple &c. (fold) 258.
- litter, scatter; mix &c. 41.
- rearrange &c. 148.
- Adj. deranged &c. v.; syncretic, syncretistic[obs3]; mussy, messy;
- flaky; random, unordered [U.S.].
-
- 2. CONSECUTIVE ORDER
-
- #62. Precedence. -- N. precedence; coming before &c. v.; the lead, le
- pas; superiority &c. 33; importance &c. 642; antecedence,
- antecedency[obs3]; anteriority &c. (front) 234[obs3]; precursor &c. 64;
- priority &c. 116; precession &c. 280; anteposition[obs3]; epacme[obs3];
- preference.
- V. precede; come before, come first; head, lead, take the lead; lead
- the way, lead the dance; be in the vanguard; introduce, usher in; have the
- pas; set the fashion &c. (influence) 175; open the ball; take precedence,
- have precedence; have the start &c. (get before) 280.
- place before; prefix; premise, prelude, preface.
- Adj. preceding &c. v.; precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior &c. 116;
- before; former; foregoing; beforementioned[obs3], abovementioned[obs3],
- aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive[obs3];
- prevenient[obs3], preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive,
- prelusory; proemial[obs3], preparatory.
- Adv. before; in advance &c. (precession) 280.
- Phr. seniores priores[Lat]; prior tempore prior jure[Lat].
-
- #63. Sequence. -- N. sequence, coming after; going after &c.
- (following) 281; consecution, succession; posteriority &c. 117.
- continuation; order of succession; successiveness; paracme[obs3].
- secondariness[obs3]; subordinancy &c. (inferiority) 34[obs3].
- afterbirth, afterburden[obs3]; placenta, secundines[Med].
- V. succeed; come after, come on, come next; follow, ensue, step into
- the shoes of; alternate.
- place after, suffix, append.
- Adj. succeeding &c.v.; sequent[obs3]; subsequent, consequent,
- sequacious[obs3], proximate, next; consecutive &c. (continuity) 69;
- alternate, amoebean[obs3].
- latter; posterior &c. 117.
- Adv. after, subsequently; behind &c. (rear) 235.
-
- <-- p. 21 -->
-
- #64. Precursor. -- N. precursor, antecedent, precedent, predecessor;
- forerunner, vancourier[obs3], avant-coureur[Fr], pioneer, prodrome|,
- prodromos[obs3], prodromus[obs3], outrider; leader, bellwether; herald,
- harbinger; foreboding; dawn; avant-courier, avant-garde, bellmare[obs3],
- forelooper[obs3], foreloper[obs3], stalking-horse, voorlooper[Afrikaans],
- voortrekker[Afrikaans].
- prelude, preamble, preface, prologue, foreword, avant-propos[Fr],
- protasis[obs3], proemium[obs3], prolusion[obs3], proem, prolepsis[Gram],
- prolegomena, prefix, introduction; heading, frontispiece, groundwork;
- preparation &c. 673; overture, exordium[Lat], symphony; premises.
- prefigurement &c. 511; omen &c. 512.
- Adj. precursory; prelusive, prelusory, preludious[obs3];
- proemial[obs3], introductory, prefatory, prodromous[obs3], inaugural,
- preliminary; precedent &c. (prior) 116.
- Phr. "a precedent embalms a principle" [Disraeli].
-
- #65. Sequel. -- N. sequel, suffix, successor; tail, queue, train,
- wake, trail, rear; retinue, suite; appendix, postscript; epilogue;
- peroration; codicil; continuation, sequela[obs3]; appendage; tail
- piece[Fr], heelpiece[obs3]; tag, more last words; colophon.
- aftercome[obs3], aftergrowth[obs3], afterpart[obs3],
- afterpiece[obs3], aftercourse[obs3], afterthought, aftergame[obs3];
- arriere pensee[Fr], second thoughts; outgrowth.
-
- #66. Beginning.-- N. beginning, commencement, opening, outset,
- incipience, inception, inchoation[obs3]; introduction &c. (precursor) 64;
- alpha, initial; inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation[Fr],
- rising of the curtain; maiden speech; outbreak, onset, brunt; initiative,
- move, first move; narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge; fresh
- start, new departure.
- origin &c. (cause) 153; source, rise; bud, germ &c. 153; egg,
- rudiment; genesis, primogenesis[obs3], birth, nativity, cradle, infancy;
- start, inception, creation, starting point &c. 293; dawn &c. (morning) 125;
- evolution.
- title-page; head, heading; van &c. (front)
- 234; caption, fatihah[obs3].
- entrance, entry; inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal,
- portico, propylon[obs3], door; gate, gateway; postern, wicket, threshold,
- vestibule; propylaeum[obs3]; skirts, border &c. (edge) 231.
- first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight.
- rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABCE.
- V. begin, start, commence; conceive, open, dawn, set in, take its
- rise, enter upon, enter; set out &c. (depart) 293; embark in; incept[obs3].
- [transitive] initiate, launch, inaugurate.
- [intransitive] inchoate, rise, arise, originate.
- usher in; lead off, lead the way; take the lead, take the initiative;
- head; stand at the head, stand first, stand for; lay the foundations &c.
- (prepare) 673; found &c. (cause) 153; set up, set on foot, agoing[obs3],
- set abroach[obs3], set the ball in motion; apply the match to a train;
- broach; open up, open the door to.
- [intransitive] get underway, set about, get to work, set to work, set
- to; make a beginning, make a start.
- handsel; take the first step, lay the first stone, cut the first turf;
- break ground, break the ice, break cover; pass the Rubicon, cross the
- Rubicon; open fire, open the ball; ventilate, air; undertake &c. 676.
- come into existence, come into the world; make one's debut, take
- birth; burst forth, break out; spring up, spring forth, crop up, pop up,
- appear, materialize.
- begin at the beginning, begin ab ovo[Lat].
- begin again, begin de novo; start afresh, make a fresh start, take it
- from the top, shuffle the cards, reshuffle the cards, resume, recommence.
- Adj. beginning &c. v.; initial, initiatory, initiative; inceptive,
- introductory, incipient; proemial[obs3], inaugural; inchoate,
- inchoative[obs3]; embryonic, rudimental; primogenial[obs3]; primeval,
- primitive, primordial &c. (old) 124; aboriginal; natal, nascent.
- first, foremost, leading; maiden.
- begun &c. v.; just begun &c. v.
- Adv. at the beginning, in the beginning, &c. n.; first, in the first
- place, imprimis[Lat], first and foremost; in limine[Lat]; in the bud, in
- embryo, in its infancy; from the beginning, from its birth; ab initio[Lat],
- ab ovo[Lat], ab incunabilis[Lat], ab origine[Lat].
- Phr. let's get going! let's get this show on the road! up and at 'em!
- aller Anfang ist schwer [Ger]; dimidium facti qui coepit habet
- [Lat][Cicero]; omnium rerum principia parva sunt [Lat][Cicero].
-
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-
- #67. End. -- N. end, close, termination; desinence[obs3], conclusion,
- finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme,
- extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail &c. (rear)
- 235; verge &c. (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche[Fr]; bottom
- dollar, tail end, rear guard.
- consummation, denouement; finish &c. (completion) 729; fate; doom,
- doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain;
- goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry[obs3],
- extinction, extermination; death &c. 360; end of all things; finality;
- eschatology.
- break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de
- grace, deathblow; knock-out, -blow; sockdolager* [obs3][U.S.].
- V. end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die
- &c. 360; come-, draw- to a -close &c. n.; have run its course; run out,
- pass away. bring to an -end &c. n.; put an end to, make an end of;
- determine; get through; achieve &c. (complete) 729; stop &c. (make to
- cease) 142; shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle.
- Adj. ending &c. v.; final, terminal, definitive; crowning &c.
- (completing) 729; last, ultimate; hindermost[obs3]; rear &c. 235; caudal;
- vergent[obs3].
- conterminate[obs3], conterminous, conterminable[obs3].
- ended &c. v.; at an end; settled, decided, over, played out, set at
- rest; conclusive. penultimate; last but one, last but two, &c. unbegun,
- uncommenced[obs3]; fresh.
- Adv. finally &c. adj.; in fine; at the last; once for all.
- Phr. "as high as Heaven and as deep as hell" [Beaumont & Fletcher];
- deficit omne quod nascitur [Lat][Quintilian]; en toute chose il faut
- considerer la fin[Fr][obs3]; finem respice[Lat][obs3]; ultimus
- Romanorum[Lat].
-
- #68. Middle. -- N. middle, midst, mediety|, mean &c. 29; medium,
- middle term; center &c. 222, mid-course &c. 628; mezzo termine[It]; juste
- milieu &c. 628[Fr]; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos[obs3]; nucleus,
- nucleolus.
- equidistance[obs3], bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm,
- midriff; intermediate &c. 228.
- Adj. middle, medial, mesial[Med], mean, mid, median, average;
- middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate &c. (interjacent) 228[obs3];
- equidistant; central &c. 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric.
- Adv. in the middle; midway, halfway; midships[obs3], amidships, in
- medias res.
-
- #69. [Uninterrupted sequence.] Continuity. -- N. continuity;
- consecution, consecutiveness &c. adj.; succession, round, suite,
- progression, series, train chain; catenation, concatenation; scale;
- gradation, course; ceaselessness, constant flow, unbroken extent.
- procession, column; retinue, cortege, cavalcade, rank and file, line
- of battle, array.
- pedigree, genealogy, lineage, race; ancestry, descent, family, house;
- line, line of ancestors; strain.
- rank, file, line, row, range, tier, string, thread, team; suit;
- colonnade.
- V. follow in a series, form a series &c. n.; fall in.
- arrange in a series, collate &c. n.; string together, file, thread,
- graduate, organize, sort, tabulate.
- Adj. continuous, continued; consecutive; progressive, gradual; serial,
- successive; immediate, unbroken, entire; linear; in a line, in a row &c.
- n.; uninterrupted, unintermitting[obs3]; unremitting, unrelenting
- (perseverence) 604a; perennial, evergreen; constant.
- Adv. continuously &c. adj.; seriatim; in a line &c. n.; in succession,
- in turn; running, gradually, step by step, gradatim[Lat], at a stretch; in
- file, in column, in single file, in Indian file.
-
- #70. [Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity.-- N. discontinuity;
- disjunction &c. 44; anacoluthon[obs3]; interruption, break, fracture, flaw,
- fault, crack, cut; gap &c. (interval) 198; solution of continuity, caesura;
- broken thread; parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork; intermission;
- alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; dropping fire.
- V. be discontinuous &c. adj.; alternate, intermit, sputter, stop and
- start, hesitate.
- discontinue, pause, interrupt; intervene; break, break in upon, break
- off; interpose &c. 228; break the thread, snap the thread; disconnect &c.
- (disjoin) 44; dissever.
- Adj. discontinuous, unsuccessive[obs3], broken, interrupted,
- dicousu[Fr]; disconnected, unconnected; discrete, disjunctive; fitful &c.
- (irregular) 139; spasmodic, desultory; intermitting, occasional &c. v.,
- intermittent; alternate; recurrent &c. (periodic) 138.
- Adv. at intervals; by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by
- fits and starts; skippingly[obs3], per saltum[Lat]; longo intervallo[It].
- Phr. like "angel visits few and far between" [Campbell].
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-
- #71. Term. -- N. term, rank, station, stage, step; degree &c. 26;
- scale, remove, grade, link, peg, round of the ladder, status, position,
- place, point, mark, pas, period, pitch; stand, standing; footing, range.
- V. hold a place, occupy a place, find a place, fall into a place &c.
- n.
-
- 3. COLLECTIVE ORDER
-
- #72. Assemblage. -- N. {opp. 73} assemblage; collection, collocation,
- colligation[obs3]; compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster,
- attroupement[obs3]; team; concourse, conflux[obs3], congregation,
- contesseration|, convergence &c. 290; meeting, levee, reunion, drawing
- room, at home; conversazione &c. (social gathering) 892[It]; assembly,
- congress; convention, conventicle; gemote[obs3]; conclave &c. (council)
- 696; posse, posse comitatus[Lat]; Noah's ark.
- miscellany, collectanea[obs3]; museum, menagerie &c. (store) 636;
- museology[obs3].
- crowd, throng, group,; flood, rush, deluge; rabble, mob, press,
- crush, cohue[obs3], horde, body, tribe; crew, gang, knot, squad, band,
- party; swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove; atajo[obs3]; bunch,
- drive, force, mulada [obs3][U.S.]; remuda[obs3]; roundup [U.S.]; array,
- bevy, galaxy; corps, company, troop, troupe, task force; army, regiment &c.
- (combatants) 726; host &c. (multitude) 102; populousness.
- clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association &c. (party) 712.
- volley, shower, storm, cloud.
- group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil; set, batch, lot, pack;
- budget, assortment, bunch; parcel; packet, package; bundle, fascine[obs3],
- fasces[obs3], bale; seron[obs3], seroon[obs3]; fagot, wisp, truss, tuft;
- shock, rick, fardel[obs3], stack, sheaf, haycock[obs3]; fascicle,
- fascicule[obs3], fasciculus[Lat], gavel, hattock[obs3], stook[obs3].
- accumulation &c. (store) 636; congeries, heap, lump, pile,
- rouleau[obs3], tissue, mass, pyramid; bing[obs3]; drift; snowball,
- snowdrift; acervation[obs3], cumulation; glomeration[obs3], agglomeration;
- conglobation[obs3]; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate[Chem],
- coacervation[Chem], coagmentation[obs3], aggregation, concentration,
- congestion, omnium gaterum[Lat], spicilegium[obs3], black hole of Calcutta;
- quantity &c. (greatness) 31.
- collector, gatherer; whip, whipper in.
- V. assemble[be or come together], collect, muster; meet, unite, join,
- rejoin; cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng,
- associate; congregate, conglomerate, concentrate; precipitate; center
- round, rendezvous, resort; come together, flock get together, pig together;
- forgather; huddle; reassemble.
- [get or bring together] assemble, muster; bring together, get
- together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together;
- collect, collocate, colligate[obs3]; get , whip in; gather; hold a meeting;
- convene, convoke, convocate[obs3]; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack,
- put up, truss, cram; acervate[obs3]; agglomerate, aggregate; compile;
- group, aggroup[obs3], concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into
- a focus; amass, accumulate &c. (store) 636; collect in a dragnet; heap
- Ossa upon Pelion.
- Adj. assembled &c. v.; closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to
- suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous; as thick as hops; all of a heap,
- fasciculated cumulative.
- Phr. the plot thickens; acervatim[Lat]; tibi seris tibi metis[Lat].
-
- #73. Nonassemblage. Dispersion. -- N. {opp. 72} dispersion;
- disjunction &c. 44; divergence &c. 291; aspersion; scattering &c. v.;
- dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution; apportionment &c. 786;
- spread, respersion[obs3], circumfusion[obs3], interspersion,
- spargefaction[obs3]; affusion[obs3]. waifs and estrays[obs3], flotsam and
- jetsam, disjecta membra[Lat], [Hor.]; waveson[obs3].
- V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed,
- spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember,
- distribute; apportion &c. 786; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth,
- draught off; strew, straw, strow[obs3]; ted; spirtle[obs3], cast, sprinkle;
- issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse[obs3], intersperse; set
- abroach[obs3], circumfuse[obs3].
- turn adrift, cast adrift; scatter to the winds;.
- spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.
- Adj. unassembled &c. (see assemble &c. 72); dispersed &c. v.; sparse,
- dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread; epidemic &c. (general) 78;
- adrift, stray; disheveled, streaming.
- Adv. sparsim[obs3], here and there, passim.
-
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-
- #74. [Place of meeting.] Focus. -- N. focus; point of convergence &c.
- 290; corradiation[obs3]; center &c. 222; gathering place, resort haunt
- retreat; venue; rendezvous; rallying point, headquarters, home, club; depot
- &c. (store) 636; trysting place; place of meeting, place of resort, place
- of assignation; point de reunion; issue.
- V. bring to a point, bring to a focus, bring to an issue.
-
- 4. DISTRIBUTIVE ORDER
-
- #75. Class. -- N. class, division, category, categorema[obs3], head,
- order, section; department, subdepartment, province, domain.
- kind, sort, genus, species, variety, family, order, kingdom, race,
- tribe, caste, sept, clan, breed, type, subtype, kit, sect, set, subset;
- assortment; feather, kidney; suit; range; gender, sex, kin.
- manner, description, denomination, designation, rubric, character,
- stamp predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.
- similarity &c. 17.
-
- #76. Inclusion. [Comprehension under, or reference to a class.] -- N.
- {opp. 77} inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception.
- composition &c. (inclusion in a compound) 54.
- V. be included in &c.; come under, fall under, range under; belong to,
- pertain to; range with; merge in.
- include, comprise, comprehend, contain, admit, embrace, receive;
- inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; embody, encircle.
- reckon among, enumerate among, number among; refer to; place with,
- arrange with, place under; take into account.
- Adj. included, including &c. v.; inclusive; congener, congenerous; of
- the same class &c. 75; encircling.
- Phr. a maximis ad minima[Lat], et hoc genus omne[Lat], &c., etc.; et
- coetera[Lat].
-
- #77. Exclusion. -- N. {opp. 76} exclusion &c. 55.
- <-- The same set of words are used to express Exclusion from a class and
- Exclusion from a compound. Reference is therefore made to the former at
- 55. This identity does not occur with regard to Inclusion, which therefore
- constitutes a separate category. -->
-
- #78. Generality. -- N. {opp. 79} generality, generalization;
- universality; catholicity, catholicism; miscellany,
- miscellaneousness[obs3]; dragnet; common run; worldwideness[obs3].
- everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N
- or M, all sorts.
- prevalence, run.
- V. be general &c. adj.; prevail, be going about, stalk abroad.
- render general &c. adj.; generalize.
- Adj. general, generic, collective; broad, comprehensive, sweeping;
- encyclopedical[obs3], widespread &c. (dispersed) 73.
- universal; catholic, catholical[obs3]; common, worldwide; ,
- ecumenical, oecumenical[obs3]; transcendental; prevalent, prevailing, rife,
- epidemic, besetting; all over, covered with.
- Pan-American, Anglican[obs3], Pan-Hellenic, Pan-Germanic, slavic;
- panharmonic[obs3].
- every, all; unspecified, impersonal.
- customary &c. (habitual) 613.
- Adv. whatever, whatsoever; to a man, one and all.
- generally &c. adj.; always, for better for worse; in general,
- generally speaking; speaking generally; for the most part; in the long run
- &c. (on an average) 29.
-
- <-- p. 25 -->
-
-
- #79. Speciality. -- N. {opp. 78} speciality, specialite[obs3];
- individuality, individuity|; particularity, peculiarity; idiocrasy &c.
- (tendency) 176[obs3]; personality, characteristic, mannerism, idiosyncrasy;
- specificness &c. adj[obs3].; singularity &c. (unconformity) 83; reading,
- version, lection; state; trait; distinctive feature; technicality;
- differentia.
- particulars, details, items, counts; minutiae.
- I, self, I myself; myself, himself, herself, itself.
- V. specify, particularize, individualize, realize, specialize,
- designate, determine; denote, indicate, point out, select.
- descend to particulars, enter into detail, go into detail, come to the
- point.
- Adj. special, particular, individual, specific, proper, personal,
- original, private, respective, definite, determinate, especial, certain,
- esoteric, endemic, partial, party, peculiar, appropriate, several,
- characteristic, diagnostic, exclusive; singular &c. (exceptional) 83;
- idiomatic; idiotypical; typical.
- this, that; yon, yonder.
- Adv. specially, especially, particularly &c. adj.; in particular,
- in propria persona[Lat]; ad hominem[Lat]; for my part.
- each, apiece, one by one, one at a time; severally, respectively, each
- to each; seriatim, in detail, in great detail, in excruciating detail, in
- mind-numbing detail; bit by bit; pro hac vice[Lat], pro re nata[Lat].
- namely, that is to say, for example, id est, exemplia gratia[Lat],
- e.g., i.e.,videlicet, viz.; to wit.
- Phr. le style est l'homme meme[Fr].
-
- 5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES
-
- #80. Normality. -- N. normality, normalcy, normalness[obs3];
- familiarity, naturalness; commonness (frequency) 136; rule, standard
- (conformity) 82; customary (habit) 613; standard, pattern (prototype) 22.
- V. normalize, standardize.
- Adj. normal, natural, unexceptional; common, usual (frequency) 136;
-
- #81. Multiformity. -- N. multiformity, omniformity[obs3]; variety,
- diversity; multifariousness &c. adj.; varied assortment.
- dissimilarity &c. 18.
- Adj. polymorphous, multiform, multifold, multifarious,
- multigenerous[obs3], multiplex; heterogeneous, diversified, dissimilar,
- various, varied, variform[obs3]; manifold, many-sided; variegated, motley,
- mosaic; epicene, indiscriminate, desultory, irregular; mixed, different,
- assorted, mingled, odd, diverse, divers; all manner of; of every
- description, of all sorts and kinds; et hoc genus omne[Lat]; and what not?
- de omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis [Lat].
- jumbled, confused, mixed up, discordant; inharmonious, unmatched,
- unrelated, nonuniform.
- omniform[obs3], omnigenous[obs3], omnifarious[obs3]; protean (form)
- 240.
- Phr. "harmoniously confused" [Pope]; " variety's the very spice of
- life" [Cowper].
-
- #82. Conformity. -- N. {opp. 83} conformity, conformance; observance;
- habituation. naturalization; conventionality &c. (custom) 613; agreement
- &c. 23.
- example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation; exemplification,
- illustration, case in point; object lesson; elucidation.
- standard, model, pattern &c. (prototype) 22.
- rule, nature, principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural
- state, ordinary state, model state, normal condition, natural condition,
- ordinary condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order;
- Procrustean law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.
-
- V. conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt oneself
- to; rub off corners.
- be regular &c. adj.; move in a groove; follow observe the rules, go by
- the rules, bend to the rules ,obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply
- with, tally with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated
- by; fall into a custom,fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow the
- crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do, hurler avec les
- loups [Fr]; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as the Romans do; go with
- the stream, go with the flow, swim with the stream, swim with the current,
- swim with the tide, blow with the wind; stick to the beaten track &c.
- (habit) 613; keep one in countenance.
- exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent, quote authority,
- appeal to authority, put a case; produce an instance &c. n.; elucidate,
- explain.
- Adj. conformable to rule; regular &c. 136; according to regulation,
- according to rule, according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to
- Gunter; en regle [Fr], selon les regles[Fr], well regulated, orderly;
- symmetric &c. 242.
- conventional &c. (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday
- occurrence; in the natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual,
- usual, everyday, workaday.
- in the order of the day; naturalized.
- typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict,
- rigid, positive, uncompromising, Procrustean.
- secundum artem[Lat], shipshape, technical. exempIe[Fr]. illustrative,
- in point.
- Adv. conformably &c. adj.; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with,
- in accordance with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as
- usual, ad instar[Lat], instar omnium[Lat]; more solito[Lat], more-majorum.
- for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro
- forma[Lat], for form's sake, by the card.
- invariably, &c. (uniformly) 16.
- for example, exempli gratia[Lat], e. g.; inter alia[Lat], among other
- things; for instance.
- Phr. cela va sans dire[Fr]; ex pede Herculem[Lat]; noscitur a sociis
- [Lat]; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Lat][Erasmus]; "they are happy men
- whose natures sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. "The nail that sticks up
- will get hammered down" [Japanese saying]; "Stick your neck out and it may
- get cut off."
-
- <-- p. 26 -->
-
-
-
- #83. Unconformity.-- N. {opp. 82} nonconformity &c. 82; unconformity,
- disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity[obs3],
- abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness &c. adj[obs3].; exception, peculiarity;
- infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of
- custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom,
- infringement of usage; teratism[obs3], eccentricity, bizarrerie[obs3],
- oddity, je ne sais quoi[Fr], monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of
- Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter* [U.S.].
- individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.
- aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c.
- (qualification) 469.
- nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch,
- nonsuch[obs3], monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish,
- black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae[Lat], rara avis[Lat], queer fish;
- mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis[Lat],
- crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid[Lat], hermaphrodite.
- [mythical animal] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin,
- griffon; centaur; saggittary[obs3]; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc,
- dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk[obs3]; unicorn; Cyclops, "men
- whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders" [Othello]; teratology.
- [unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one
- thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor
- good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand;
- outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.
- V. be uncomformable &c. adj.; abnormalize[obs3]; leave the beaten
- track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a
- usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break
- a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a
- custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business
- there; baffle all description, beggar all description.
- Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous[obs3]; anomalous,
- anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out
- of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal,
- aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural,
- eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of
- the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of;
- misplaced; funny.
- unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare,
- curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous;
- wonderful &c. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre[Fr], out of the way,
- remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui
- generis[Lat]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish,
- exotic, tombe des nues[Fr], preternatural; denaturalized[obs3].
- heterogeneous, heteroclite[Gram], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious,
- epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal[obs3]; asymmetric &c.
- 243; adelomorphous[obs3], bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous[obs3].
- qualified &c. 469.
- singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.
- newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard
- of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.
- Adv. unconformably &c. adj.; except, unless, save barring, beside,
- without, save and except, let alone.
- however, yet, but.
- once in a blue moon, once in a million years.
- Int. what on earth! what in the world! What the devil! Holy cow! Can
- you top that?; Sacre bleu [Fr].
- Phr. never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was
- known the like.
- I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it.
-
- <-- p. 27 -->
-
- SECTION V. NUMBER
-
- 1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT
-
- #84. Number. -- N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit,
- integer; counter; round number; formula; function; series.
- sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand,
- multiplier, multiplicator[obs3]; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor,
- factor, quotient, submultiple[Math]; fraction, rational number; surd,
- irrational number; transcendental number; mixed number, complex number,
- complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal, circulating decimal,
- repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number, prime, relative
- prime, prime factor, prime pair; reciprocal; totient[obs3].
- binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number[Comp].
- permutation, combination, variation; election.
- ratio, proportion, comparison &c.464; progression; arithmetical
- progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression[obs3];
- percentage, permilage.
- figurate numbers[obs3], pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers.
- power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm; modulus, base.
- differential, integral, fluxion[obs3], fluent.
- Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime,
- relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate[obs3], incommensurable.
- proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric[obs3],
- differential, fluxional[obs3], integral, totitive[obs3].
- positive, negative; rational, irrational; surd, radical, real;
- complex, imaginary; finite; infinite; impossible.
- Adv. numerically; modulo.
-
- #85. Numeration. -- N. numeration; numbering &c. v.; pagination;
- tale, recension[obs3], enumeration, summation, reckoning, computation,
- supputation[obs3]; calculation, calculus; algorithm, algorism[obs3],
- rhabdology[obs3], dactylonomy[obs3]; measurement &c. 466; statistics.
- arithmetic, analysis, algebra, geometry, analytical geometry,
- fluxions[obs3]; differential calculus, integral calculus, infinitesimal
- calculus; calculus of differences.
- [Statistics] dead reckoning, muster, poll, census, capitation, roll
- call, recapitulation; account &c. (list) 86.
- [Operations] notation, addition, subtraction, multiplication,
- division, rule of three, practice, equations, extraction of roots,
- reduction, involution, evolution, estimation, approximation, interpolation,
- differentiation, integration.
- [Instruments] abacus, logometer[obs3], slide rule, slipstick[coll.],
- tallies, Napier's bones, calculating machine, difference engine, suan-
- pan[obs3]; adding machine; cash register; electronic calculator,
- calculator, computer;
- [people who calculate] arithmetician, calculator, abacist[obs3],
- algebraist, mathematician; statistician, geometer; programmer; accountant,
- auditor.
- V. number, count, tally, tell; call over, run over; take an account
- of, enumerate, muster, poll, recite, recapitulate; sum; sum up, cast up;
- tell off, score, cipher, compute, calculate, suppute[obs3], add, subtract,
- multiply, divide, extract roots. algebraize[obs3].
- check, prove, demonstrate, balance, audit, overhaul, take stock; affix
- numbers to, page.
- amount to, add up to, come to.
- Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic,
- statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable,
- commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable,
- infinite.
- Adv. quantitatively; arithmetically; measurably; in numbers.
-
- #86. List. -- N. list, catalog, catalogue, inventory; register &c.
- (record) 551.
- account; bill, bill of costs; terrier; tally, listing, itemization;
- atlas; book, ledger; catalogue raisonne[Fr]; tableau; invoice, bill of
- lading; prospectus; bill of fare, menu, carte[Fr]; score, census,
- statistics, returns.
- [list of topics in a document] contents, table of contents, outline;
- synopsis.
- [list of topics in a protracted activity (frame)] program,
- programme[Brit]; syllabus; agenda, schedule, calendar, docket.
- [computer-generated list] listing, printout, output.
- [written list used as an aid to memory] checklist.
- table, chart, database; index, inverted file, word list, concordance.
- dictionary, lexicon; vocabulary, glossary; thesaurus.
- file, card index, card file, rolodex, address book.
- Red book, Blue book, Domesday book; cadastre[Fr]; directory,
- gazetter[obs3]. almanac; army list, clergy list, civil service list, navy
- list; Almanach de Gotha[obs3], cadaster; Lloyd's register, nautical
- almanac;
- who's who; Guiness's Book of World Records.
- roll; check roll, checker roll, bead roll; muster roll, muster book;
- roster, panel, jury list; cartulary, diptych.
- V. list, itemize; sort, collate; enumerate, tabulate, catalog, tally.
- Adj. cadastral[obs3].
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- %
- 2. DETERMINATE NUMBER
- %
-
- #87. {opp. 100} Unity. -- N. unity; oneness &c. adj.; individuality;
- solitude &c. (seclusion) 893; isolation &c. (disjunction) 44; unification
- &c. 48.
- one, unit, ace; individual; none else, no other.
- V. be one, be alone &c. adj.; dine with Duke Humphrey[obs3].
- isolate &c. (disjoin) 44.
- render one; unite &c. (join) 43, (combine) 48.
- Adj. one, sole, single, solitary, unitary; individual, apart, alone;
- kithless[obs3].
- unaccompanied, unattended; solus[Lat], single-handed; singular, odd,
- unique, unrepeated[obs3], azygous, first and last; isolated &c. (disjoined)
- 44; insular.
- monospermous[obs3]; unific[obs3], uniflorous[obs3], unifoliate[obs3],
- unigenital[obs3], uniliteral[obs3], unijocular[obs3], unimodal
- [statistics], unimodular[obs3].
- lone, lonely, lonesome; desolate, dreary. insecable|,
- inseverable[obs3], indiscerptible[obs3]; compact, indivisible, atomic,
- irresolvable[obs3].
- Adv. singly &c. adj.; alone, by itself, per se, only, apart, in the
- singular number, in the abstract; one by one, one at a time; simply; one
- and a half, sesqui-[obs3].
- Phr. natura il fece [It], e poi roppe la stampa[It]; du fort au faible
- [obs3][Fr]; "two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as
- one".
-
- #88 Accompaniment. -- N. accompaniment; adjunct &c. 39; context;
- appendage, appurtenance.
- coexistence, concomitance, company, association, companionship;
- partnership, copartnership; coefficiency[obs3].
- concomitant, accessory, coefficient; companion, buddy, attendant,
- fellow, associate, friend, colleague; consort, spouse, mate; partner, co-
- partner; satellite, hanger on, fellow-traveller, shadow; escort, cortege;
- attribute.
- V. accompany, coexist, attend; hang on, wait on; go hand in hand with;
- synchronize &c. 120; bear company, keep company; row in the same boat;
- bring in its train; associate with, couple with.
- Adj. accompanying &c. v.; concomitant, fellow, twin, joint; associated
- with, coupled with; accessory, attendant, obbligato.
- Adv. with, withal; together with, along with, in company with; hand in
- hand, side by side; cheek by jowl, cheek by jole[obs3]; arm in arm;
- therewith, herewith; and &c. (addition) 37.
- together, in a body, collectively.
- Phr. noscitur a sociis[Lat]; virtutis fortuna comes[Lat].
-
- #89. Duality. -- N. duality, dualism; duplicity; biplicity[obs3],
- biformity[obs3]; polarity. two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks,
- twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins; fellows; yoke,
- conjugation; dispermy[obs3], doublets, dyad, span.
- V. pair[unite in pairs], couple, bracket, yoke; conduplicate[obs3];
- mate, span [U.S.].
- Adj. two, twin; dual, dualistic, double; binary, binomial; twin,
- biparous[obs3]; dyadic[Math]; conduplicate[obs3]; duplex &c. 90;
- biduous[obs3], binate[obs3], diphyletic[obs3], dispermic[obs3],
- unijugate[obs3]; tete-a-tete.
- coupled &c. v.; conjugate.
- both, both the one and the other.
-
- #90. Duplication. -- N. duplication; doubling &c. v.; gemination,
- ingemination[obs3]; reduplication; iteration &c. (repetition) 104; renewal.
- V. double, redouble, duplicate, reduplicate; geminate; repeat &c. 104;
- renew &c. 660.
- Adj. double; doubled &c. v.; bicipital[obs3], bicephalous[obs3],
- bidental[obs3], bilabiate, bivalve, bivalvular[obs3], bifold[obs3],
- biform[obs3], bilateral; bifarious[obs3], bifacial[obs3]; twofold, two-
- sided; disomatous[obs3]; duplex; double-faced, double-headed; twin,
- duplicate, ingeminate[obs3]; second.
- Adv. twice, once more; over again &c. (repeatedly) 104; as much again,
- twofold. secondly, in the second place, again.
-
- #91. [Division into two parts.] bisection. -- N. bisection,
- bipartition; dichotomy, subdichotomy[obs3]; halving &c. v.;
- dimidiation[obs3].
- bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork,
- prong; fold. half, moiety.
- V. bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate[obs3],
- dichotomize.
- go halves, divide with.
- separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify.
- Adj. bisected &c. v.; cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate[obs3],
- bicuspid, bifid; bifurcous[obs3], bifurcate, bifurcated; distichous,
- dichotomous, furcular[obs3]; semi-, demi-, hemi[obs3].
-
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-
- #92. Triality. -- N. Triality[obs3], trinity; triunity[obs3].
- three, triad, triplet, trey, trio, ternion[obs3], leash; shamrock,
- tierce[obs3], spike-team [U.S.], trefoil; triangle, trident,
- triennium[obs3], trigon[obs3], trinomial, trionym[obs3], triplopia[obs3],
- tripod, trireme, triseme[obs3], triskele[obs3], triskelion, trisula[obs3].
- third power, cube; cube root.
- Adj. three ; triform[obs3], trinal[obs3], trinomial; tertiary;
- ternary; triune; triarch, triadie[obs3]; triple &c. 93.
- Pref. tri-, tris-.
- Phr. tria juncta in uno[Lat].
-
- #93. Triplication. -- N. triplication, triplicity[obs3];
- trebleness[obs3], trine.
- V. treble, triple; triplicate, cube.
- Adj. treble, triple; tern, ternary; triplicate, threefold,
- trilogistic[obs3]; third; trinal[obs3], trine.
- Adv. three times, three fold; thrice, in the third place, thirdly;
- trebly &c. adj.
-
- #94. [Division into three parts.] Trisection. -- N. trisection,
- tripartition[obs3], trichotomy; third, third part.
- V. trisect, divide into three parts.
- Adj. trifid; trisected &c. v.; tripartite, trichotomous[obs3],
- trisulcate[obs3].
- Triadelphous[obs3], triangular, tricuspid, tricapsular[obs3],
- tridental[obs3], tridentate, tridentiferous[obs3], trifoliate, trifurcate,
- trigonal[obs3], trigrammic[obs3], trigrammatic[obs3], tripetalous[obs3],
- tripodal, tripodic[obs3], triquetral[obs3], triquetrous[obs3].
-
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- than to four. Subdivide? -->
- #95. Four. -- N. quaternity[obs3], four, tetrad, quartet, quaternion,
- square, quarter.
- [planar form with four sides] tetract[obs3], tetragon, quadrangle,
- rectangle.
- [three dimensional object with four surfaces] tetrahedron.
- quadrature, quadrifoil, quadriform, quadruplet; quatrefoil.
- [object or animal with four legs] tetrapod.
- [geographical area with four sides] quadrangle, quad[coll.].
- [electromagnetic object] quadrupole.
- [four fundamental studies] quadrivium.
- V. reduce to a square, square.
- Adj. four; quaternary, quaternal[obs3]; quadratic; quartile;
- tetract[obs3], tetractic[obs3], tetractinal[obs3]; tetrad, tetragonal;
- square, quadrate.
-
- #96. Quadruplication. -- N. quadruplication.
- V. multiply by four, quadruplicate, biquadrate[obs3].
- Adj. fourfold, four times; quadrable[obs3], quadrumanous[obs3],
- quadruple, quadruplicate, quadrible[obs3]; fourth.
- quadrifoliate[obs3], quadrifoliolate[obs3], quadrigeminal[obs3],
- quadrigeminate[obs3], quadriplanar[obs3], quadriserial[obs3].
- Adv. four times; in the fourth place, fourthly.
-
- #97. [Division into four parts.] Quadrisection. -- N. quadrisection,
- quadripartition[obs3]; quartering &c. v; fourth; quart; quarter,
- quartern[obs3]; farthing (i.e. fourthing)[obs3]; quadrant.
- V. quarter, divide into four parts.
- Adj. quartered &c. v.; quadrifid[obs3], quadripartite.
- rectangular.
-
- #98. Five, &c. -- N. five, cinque[Fr], quint, quincux[obs3]; six,
- half-a-dozen, half dozen; seven; eight; nine, three times three; dicker;
- ten, decade; eleven; twelve, dozen; thirteen; long dozen, baker's dozen;
- quintuplet; twenty, score; twenty-four, four and twenty, two dozen; twenty-
- five, five and twenty, quarter of a hundred; forty, two score; fifty, half
- a hundred; sixty, three score; seventy, three score and ten; eighty, four
- score; ninety, fourscore and ten; sestiad[obs3].
- hundred, centenary, hecatomb, century; hundredweight, cwt.; one
- hundred and forty-four, gross.
- thousand, chiliad; millennium, thousand years, grand[coll.]; myriad;
- ten thousand, ban[Japanese], man[Japanese]; ten thousand years,
- banzai[Japanese]; lac, one hundred thousand, plum; million; thousand
- million, milliard, billion, trillion &c.
- V. centuriate[obs3]; quintuplicate.
- Adj. five, quinary[obs3], quintuple; fifth; senary[obs3], sextuple;
- sixth; seventh; septuple; octuple; eighth; ninefold, ninth; tenfold,
- decimal, denary[obs3], decuple[obs3], tenth; eleventh; duodenary[obs3],
- duodenal; twelfth; in one's 'teens, thirteenth.
- vicesimal[obs3], vigesimal; twentieth; twenty-fourth &c. n.;
- vicenary[obs3], vicennial[obs3].
- centuple[obs3], centuplicate[obs3], centennial, centenary,
- centurial[obs3]; secular, hundredth; thousandth, &c.
-
- #99. Quinquesection, &c. -- N. division by five &c. 98; quinquesection
- &c.; decimation; fifth &c.
- V. decimate; quinquesect.
- Adj. quinquefid, quinquelateral, quinquepartite; quinqevalent,
- pentavalent; quinquarticular[obs3]; octifid[obs3]; decimal, tenth, tithe;
- duodecimal, twelfth; sexagesimal[obs3], sexagenary[obs3]; hundredth,
- centesimal; millesimal &c.
-
- [obs3]<-- p. 30 -->
-
-
- #100. {opp. 87} [More than one.] Plurality. -- N. plurality; a number,
- a certain number; one or two, two or three &c.; a few, several; multitude
- &c. 102; majority.
- [large number] multitude &c. 102.
- Adj. plural, more than one, upwards of; some, several, a few; certain;
- not alone &c. 87.
- Adv. et cetera, &c., etc.
- among other things, inter alia[Lat].
- Phr. non deficit alter [Lat].
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- %
- 3. Indeterminate Number
- %
-
- #100a. [Less than one.] Fraction -- N. fraction, fractional part; part
- &c. 51.
- Adj. fractional, fragmentary, inconsiderable, negligible,
- infinitesimal.
-
- #101. Zero. -- N. zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void;
- cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts[Ger.], nixie*, nix*; zilch,
- zip, zippo [all slang]; not a soul; ame qui vive[Fr]; absence &c. 187;
- unsubstantiality &c. 4[obs3].
- Adj. not one, not a one, not any, nary a one [dial.];not a, never a;
- not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot;
- not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a
- shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.
-
- #102. Multitude. -- N. multitude; numerous &c. adj.; numerosity,
- numerality; multiplicity; profusion &c. (plenty) 639; legion, host; great
- number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers,
- array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm,
- draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood,
- litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd &c. (assemblage) 72; lots; all in the
- world and his wife.
- [Increase of number] greater number, majority; multiplication,
- multiple.
- V. be numerous &c. adj.; swarm with, teem with, creep with; crowd,
- swarm, come thick upon; outnumber, multiply; people; swarm like locusts,
- swarm like bees.
- Adj. many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a
- hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a
- thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty &c.; half a
- dozen, half a hundred &c.; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous;
- numerose[obs3]; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multitudinous,
- multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick,
- studded; galore.
- thick coming, many more, more than one can tell, a world of; no end
- of, no end to; cum multis aliis[Lat]; thick as hops, thick as hail; plenty
- as blackberries; numerous as the stars in the firmament, numerous as the
- sands on the seashore, numerous as the hairs on the head; and what not, and
- heaven knows what; endless &c. (infinite) 105.
- Phr. their name is "legion"; acervatim[Lat]; en foule[Fr]; "many-
- headed multitude" [Sidney]; "numerous as glittering gems of morning dew"
- [Young]; vel prece vel pretio[Lat][obs3].
-
- #103. Fewness. -- N. fewness &c. adj.; paucity, small number; small
- quantity &c. 32; rarity; infrequency &c. 137; handful, maniple; minority;
- exiguity.
- [Diminution of number] reduction; weeding &c. v.; elimination,
- sarculation|, decimation; eradication.
- V. be few &c. adj.
- render few &c. adj.; reduce, diminish the number, weed, eliminate,
- cull, thin, decimate.
- Adj. few; scant, scanty; thin, rare, scattered, thinly scattered,
- spotty, few and far between, exiguous; infrequent &c. 137; rari
- nantes[Latin]; hardly any, scarcely any; to be counted on one's fingers;
- reduced &c. v.; unrepeated[obs3].
- Adv. rarely, here and there.
-
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-
- #104. Repetition. -- N. repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping,
- recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony;
- rhythm &c. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.
- chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello[obs3], burden of a song, refrain;
- rehearsal; rechauffe[Fr], rifacimento[It], recapitulation.
- cuckoo &c. (imitation) 19; reverberation &c. 408; drumming &c. (roll)
- 407; renewal &c. (restoration) 660.
- twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition;
- reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp]; periodicity &c. 138.
- V. repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp
- upon, battologize[obs3], hammer, redouble.
- recur, revert, return, reappear, recurse [Comp]; renew &c. (restore)
- 660.
- rehearse; do over again, say over again; ring the changes on; harp on
- the same string; din in the ear, drum in the ear; conjugate in all its
- moods tenses and inflexions[obs3], begin again, go over the same ground, go
- the same round, never hear the last of; resume, return to, recapitulate,
- reword.
- Adj. repeated &c. v.; repetitional[obs3], repetitionary[obs3];
- recurrent, recurring; ever recurring, thick coming; frequent, incessant;
- redundant, pleonastic.
- monotonous, harping, iterative, recursive [Math, Comp], unvaried;
- mocking, chiming; retold; aforesaid, aforenamed[obs3]; above-mentioned,
- above-said; habitual &c. 613; another.
- Adv. repeatedly, often, again, anew, over again, afresh, once more;
- ding-dong, ditto, encore, de novo, bis[obs3], da capo[It].
- again and again; over and over, over and over again; recursively
- [Comp]; many times over; time and again, time after time; year after year;
- day by day &c.; many times, several times, a number of times; many a time,
- full many a time; frequently &c. 136.
- Phr. ecce iterum Crispinus[Lat]; toujours perdrix[Fr]; "cut and come
- again" [Crabbe]; "tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow" [Macbeth]; cantilenam
- eandem canis [Lat][Terence]; nullum est jam dictum quod non dictum sit
- prius [Lat][Terence].
-
- #105. Infinity. -- N. infinity, infinitude, infiniteness &c. adj.;
- perpetuity &c. 112; boundlessness.
- V. be infinite &c. adj.; know no limits, have no limits, know no
- bounds,have no bounds; go on for ever.
- Adj. infinite; immense; numberless, countless, sumless[obs3],
- measureless; innumerable, immeasurable, incalculable, illimitable,
- inexhaustible, interminable, unfathomable, unapproachable; exhaustless,
- indefinite; without number, without measure, without limit, without end;
- incomprehensible; limitless, endless, boundless, termless[obs3]; untold,
- unnumbered, unmeasured, unbounded, unlimited; illimited[obs3]; perpetual
- &c. 112.
- Adv. infinitely &c. adj.; ad infinitum.
- Phr. "as boundless as the sea" [Romeo and Juliet].
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- % SECTION VI. TIME
-
- 1. ABSOLUTE TIME
- %
- #106. Time. -- N. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span,
- spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course &c.
- 109; snap.
- intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency[obs3];
- intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite.
- era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade &c. (period) 108;
- moment, &c. (instant) 113.
- glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of
- time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of
- time; scythe.
- V. continue last endure, go on, remain, persist; intervene; elapse &c.
- 109; hold out.
- take time, take up time, fill time, occupy time.
- pass time, pass away time, spend time, while away time, consume time,
- talk against time; tide over; use time, employ time; seize an opportunity
- &c. 134; waste time &c. (be inactive) 683.
- Adj. continuing &c. v.; on foot; permanent &c. (durable) 110.
- Adv. while, whilst, during, pending; during the time, during the
- interval; in the course of, at that point, at that point in time; for the
- time being, day by day; in the time of, when; meantime, meanwhile; in the
- meantime, in the interim; ad interim, pendente lite[Lat]; de die in
- diem[Lat]; from day to day, from hour to hour &c.; hourly, always; for a
- time, for a season;
- till, until, up to, yet, as far as, by that time, so far, hereunto,
- heretofore, prior to this, up to this point.
- the whole time, all the time; all along; throughout &c. (completely)
- 52; for good &c. (diuturnity)[obs3] 110.
- hereupon, thereupon, whereupon; then; anno Domini; A.D.; ante
- Christum; A.C.; before Christ; B.C.; anno urbis conditae[Lat]; A.U.C.; anno
- regni[Lat]; A.R.; once upon a time, one fine morning, one fine day, one
- day, once.
- Phr. time flies, tempus fugit [Lat.]; time runs out, time runs
- against, race against time, racing the clock, time marches on, time is of
- the essence, "time and tide wait for no man".
- ad calendas Groecas[Lat]; "panting Time toileth after him in vain"
- [Johnson]; "'gainst the tooth of time and razure of oblivion " [Measure for
- Measure]; " rich with the spoils of time" [Gray]; tempus edax rerum
- [Lat][Horace]; "the long hours come and go" [C.G. Rossetti]; "the time is
- out of joint" [Hamlet]; "Time rolls his ceaseless course" [Scott]; "Time
- the foe of man's dominion" [Peacock]; "time wasted is existence, used is
- life" [Young]; truditur dies die [Lat][Horace]; volat hora per orbem
- [Lat][Lucretius]; carpe diem[Lat].
-
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-
- #107. Neverness. -- N. "neverness"; absence of time, no time; dies
- non; Tib's eve; Greek Kalends, a blue moon.
- Adv. never, ne'er[contr]; at no time, at no period; on the second
- Tuesday of the week, when Hell freezes over; on no occasion, never in all
- one's born days, nevermore, sine die; in no degree.
-
- #108. [Definite duration, or portion of time.] Period. -- N. period,
- age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade,
- decenniumm lustrum[obs3], quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch,
- ghurry[obs3], lunation[obs3], moon.
- century, millennium; annus magnus[Lat].
- Adj. horary[obs3]; hourly, annual &c. (periodical) 138.
-
- #108a. Contingent Duration.-- Adv. during pleasure, during good
- behavior; quamdiu se bene gesserit[Latin].
-
- #109. [Indefinite duration.] Course. -- N. corridors of time, sweep of
- time, vesta of time[obs3], course of time, progress of time, process of
- time, succession of time, lapse of time, flow of time, flux of time, stream
- of time, tract of time, current of time, tide of time, march of time, step
- of time, flight of time; duration &c. 106.
- [Indefinite time] aorist[obs3].
- V. elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on,
- press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course.
- run out, expire; go by, pass by; be -past &c. 122.
- Adj. elapsing &c. v.; aoristic[obs3]; progressive. -
- Adv. in due time, in due season; in in due course, in due process, in
- the fullness of time; in time.
- Phr. labitur et labetur [Lat][Horace]; truditur dies die
- [Lat][Horace]; fugaces labuntur anni [Lat][Horace]; "tomorrow and tomorrow
- and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day" [Macbeth].
-
- #110. [Long duration.] Diuturnity. -- N. diuturnity[obs3]; a long
- time, a length of time; an age, a century, an eternity; slowness &c. 275;
- perpetuity &c. 112; blue moon, coon's age [U.S.], dog's age.
- durableness, durability; persistence, endlessness, lastingness &c.
- adj[obs3].; continuance, standing; permanence &c. (stability) 150 survival,
- survivance[obs3]; longevity &c. (age) 128; distance of time.
- protraction of time, prolongation of time, extension of time; delay
- &c. (lateness) 133.
- V. last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand
- years.
- tarry &c. (be late) 133; drag on, drag its slow length along, drag a
- lengthening chain; protract, prolong; spin out, eke out, draw out, lengthen
- out; temporize; gain time, make time, talk against time.
- outlast, outlive; survive; live to fight again.
- Adj. durable; lasting &c. v.; of long duration, of long-standing;
- permanent, endless, chronic, long-standing; intransient[obs3],
- intransitive; intransmutable[obs3], persistent; lifelong, livelong;
- longeval[obs3], long-lived, macrobiotic, diuturnal[obs3], evergreen,
- perennial; sempervirent[obs3], sempervirid[obs3]; unrelenting,
- unintermitting[obs3], unremitting; perpetual &c. 112.
- lingering, protracted, prolonged, spun out &c. v. long-pending, long-
- winded; slow &c. 275.
- Adv. long; for a long time, for an age, for ages, for ever so long,
- for many a long day; long ago &c. (in a past time) 122; longo
- intervallo[It].
- all the day long, all the year round; the livelong day, as the day is
- long, morning noon and night; hour after hour, day after day, &c.; for
- good; permanently &c. adj.
-
- #111. [Short duration.] Transientness. -- N. transience, transientness
- &c. adj[obs3].; evanescence, impermanence, fugacity[Chem], caducity[obs3],
- mortality, span; nine days' wonder, bubble, Mayfly; spurt; flash in the
- pan; temporary arrangement, interregnum.
- velocity &c. 274; suddenness &c. 113; changeableness &c. 149.
- transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].
- V. be transient &c. adj.; flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade,
- evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away
- like a shadow, pass away like a dream.
- Adj. transient, transitory, transitive; passing, evanescent, fleeting,
- cursory, short-lived, ephemeral; flying &c. v.; fugacious, fugitive;
- shifting, slippery; spasmodic; instantaneous, momentaneous[obs3].
- temporal, temporary; provisional, provisory; deciduous; perishable,
- mortal, precarious, unstable, insecure; impermanent.
- brief, quick, brisk, extemporaneous, summary; pressed for time &c.
- (haste) 684; sudden, momentary &c. (instantaneous) 113.
- Adv. temporarily &c. adj.; pro tempore[Lat]; for the moment, for a
- time; awhile, en passant[Fr], in transitu[Lat]; in a short time; soon &c.
- (early) 132; briefly &c. adj.; at short notice; on the point of, on the eve
- of; in articulo; between cup and lip.
- Phr. one's days are numbered; the time is up; here today and gone
- tomorrow; non semper erit aestas[Lat][obs3]; eheu! fugaces labuntur
- anni[Lat]; sic transit gloria mundi[Lat]; a schoolboy's tale, the wonder of
- the hour! [Byron]; dum loquimur fugerit invidia aetas[Lat][obs3]; fugit
- hora[Lat]; all that is transitory is but an illusion [Goethe].
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-
- #112. [Endless duration.] Perpetuity. -- N. perpetuity, eternity,
- everness[obs3], aye, sempiternity[obs3], immortality, athanasia[obs3];
- interminability[obs3], agelessness[obs3], everlastingness &c. adj.;
- perpetuation; continued existence, uninterrupted existence;
- perennity[obs3]; permanence (durability) 110.
- V. last forever, endure forever, go on forever; have no end.
- eternize, perpetuate.
- Adj. perpetual, eternal; everduring[obs3], everlasting, ever-living,
- ever-flowing; continual, sempiternal[obs3]; coeternal; endless, unending;
- ceaseless, incessant, uninterrupted, indesinent[obs3], unceasing; endless,
- unending, interminable, having no end; unfading[obs3], evergreen,
- amaranthine; neverending[obs3], never-dying, never-fading; deathless,
- immortal, undying, imperishable.
- Adv. perpetually &c. adj.; always, ever, evermore, aye; for ever, for
- aye, till the end of the universe, forevermore, forever and a day, for
- ever and ever; in all ages, from age to age; without end; world without
- end, time without end; in secula seculorum[Lat]; to the end of time, to the
- crack of doom, to the "last syllable of recorded time" [Macbeth]; till
- doomsday; constantly &c. (very frequently) 136.
- Phr. esto perpetuum[Lat]; labitur et labetur in omne volubilis oevum
- [Lat][Horace]; "but thou shall flourish in immortal youth" [Addison];
- "Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought" [Addison]; "her immortal part
- with angels lives" [Romeo & Juliet]; ohne Rast [Ger][Goethe's motto]; ora e
- sempre[It].
-
- #113. [Point of time] Instantaneity. -- N. instantaneity,
- instantaneousness, immediacy; suddenness, abruptness.
- moment, instant, second, minute; twinkling, trice, flash, breath,
- crack, jiffy, coup, burst, flash of lightning, stroke of time.
- epoch, time; time of day, time of night; hour, minute; very minute
- &c., very time, very hour; present time, right time, true time, exact
- correct time.
- V. be instantaneous &c. adj.; twinkle, flash.
- Adj. instantaneous, momentary, sudden, immediate, instant, abrupt,
- discontinuous, precipitous, precipitant, precipitate; subitaneous[obs3],
- hasty;quick as thought, quick as lightning, quick as a flash; rapid as
- electricity.
- speedy, quick, fast, fleet, swift ,lively, blitz; rapid (velocity)
- 274.
- Adv. instantaneously &c. adj.; in no time, in less than no time;
- presto, subito[obs3], instanter, suddenly, at a stroke, like a shot; in a
- moment &c. n. in the blink of an eye, in the twinkling of an eye, in a
- trice; in one's tracks; right away; toute a l'heure[Fr]; at one jump, in
- the same breath, per saltum[Lat], uno saltu[Lat]; at once, all at once;
- plump, slap; "at one fell swoop"; at the same instant &c. n.; immediately
- &c. (early) 132; extempore, on the moment, on the spot, on the spur of the
- moment; no sooner said than done; just then; slap-dash &c. (haste) 684.
- Phr. touch and go; no sooner said than done.
-
- #114. [Estimation, measurement, and record of time.] Chronometry. --
- N. chronometry, horometry[obs3], horology; date, epoch; style, era.
- almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals,
- journal, diary, chronogram.
- [Instruments for the measurement of time]; clock, wall clock, pendulum
- clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch,
- wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital
- clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer,
- chronoscope[obs3], chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial,
- sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra[obs3];
- ghurry[obs3].
- chronographer[obs3], chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper; annalist.
- calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese
- calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal
- year.
- V. fix the time, mark the time; date, register, chronicle; measure
- time, beat time, mark time; bear date; synchronize watches.
- Adj. chronological, chronometrical[obs3], chronogrammatical[obs3];
- cinquecento[Fr], quattrocento[obs3], trecento[obs3].
- Adv. o'clock.
-
- #115. [False estimate of time.] Anachronism. -- N. anachronism,
- metachronism, parachronism, prochronism; prolepsis, misdate; anticipation,
- antichronism.
- disregard of time, neglect of time, oblivion of time.
- intempestivity &c. 135[obs3].
- V. misdate, antedate, postdate, backdate, overdate[obs3]; anticipate;
- take no note of time, lose track of time; anachronize[obs3].
- Adj. misdated &c. v.; undated; overdue, past due; out of date.
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- %
- 2. RELATIVE TIME
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- 1. Time with reference to Succession
- %
-
- #116. Priority. -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence,
- pre-existence; precession &c. 280; precursor &c. 64; the past &c. 122;
- premises.
- V. precede, come before; forerun; go before &c. (lead) 280; preexist;
- dawn; presage &c. 511; herald, usher in.
- be beforehand &c. (be early) 132; steal a march upon, anticipate,
- forestall; have the start, gain the start.
- Adj. prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-
- existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-
- mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory &c. (precursory)
- 64.
- Adv. before, prior to; earlier; previously &c. adj.; afore[obs3],
- aforehand[obs3], beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile[obs3]; ere then,
- ere now, before then, before now; erewhile[obs3], already, yet,
- beforehand; on the eve of.
- Phr. prior tempore prior jure[Lat].
-
- #117. Posteriority. -- N. posteriority; succession, sequence;
- following &c. 281.; subsequence, supervention; futurity &c. 121; successor;
- sequel &c. 65; remainder, reversion.
- V. follow &c. 281 after, come after, go after; succeed, supervene;
- ensue, occur; step into the shoes of.
- Adj. subsequent, posterior, following, after, later, succeeding,
- postliminious[obs3], postnate[obs3]; postdiluvial[obs3],
- postdiluvian[obs3]; puisne|!; posthumous; future &c. 121; afterdinner,
- postprandial.
- Adv. subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later; at a subsequent,
- at a later period, at a later date; next, in the sequel, close upon,
- thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons|; from that time, from that
- moment; after a while, after a time; in process of time.
-
- #118. The Present Time. -- N. the present, the present time, the
- present day, the present moment, the present juncture, the present
- occasion; the times, the existing time, the time being; today, these
- days, nowadays, our times, modern times, the twentieth century; nonce,
- crisis, epoch, day, hour.
- age, time of life.
- Adj. present, actual, instant, current, existing, extant, that is;
- present-day, up-to-date, up-to-the-moment.
- Adv. at this time, at this moment &c. 113; at the present time &c. n.;
- now, at present; at hand.
- at this time of day, today, nowadays; already; even now, but now,
- just now; on the present occasion; for the time being, for the nonce; pro
- hac vice[Lat].; on the nail, on the spot; on the spur of the moment, until
- now; to this day, to the present day.
- Phr. "the present hour alone is man's " [Johnson].
-
- #119. [Time different from the present.] Different time. -- N.
- different time, other time.
- [Indefinite time] aorist.
- Adj. aoristic; indefinite.
- Adv. at that time, at which time, at that moment, at that instant;
- then, on that occasion, upon; not now, some other time.
- when; whenever, whensoever; upon which, on which occasion; at another,
- at a different, at some other, at any- time; at various times; some one of
- these days, one of these days, one fine morning; eventually, some day, by
- and by, sooner or later; some time or other; once upon a time.
-
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-
- #120. Synchronism. -- N. synchronism; coexistence, coincidence;
- simultaneousness, simultaneity &c. adj.; concurrence, concomitance, unity
- of time, interim.
- [Having equal times] isochronism[obs3].
- contemporary, coetanian[obs3].
- V. coexist, concur, accompany, go hand in hand, keep pace with;
- synchronize.
- Adj. synchronous, synchronal[obs3], synchronic, synchronical,
- synchronistical[obs3]; simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant,
- concurrent; coeval, coevous[obs3]; contemporary, contemporaneous;
- coetaneous[obs3]; coeternal; isochronous.
- Adv. at the same time; simultaneously &c. adj.; together, in concert,
- during the same time; in the same breath; pari passu[Lat]; in the interim;
- as one.
- at the very moment &c. 113; just as, as soon as; meanwhile &c. (while)
- 106.
-
- #121. [Prospective time.] Futurity. -- N. futurity, futurition;
- future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent
- time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age,
- approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching
- hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages,
- coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life,
- subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent
- years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of
- doom, remote future.
- approach of time advent, time drawing on, womb of time; destiny &c.
- 152; eventuality.
- heritage, heirs posterity.
- prospect &c. (expectation) 507; foresight &c. 510.
- V. look forwards; anticipate &c. (expect) 507, (foresee) 510;
- forestall &c. (be early) 132.
- come on, draw on; draw near; approach, await, threaten; impend &c. (be
- destined) 152.
- Adj. future, to come; coming &c. (impending) 152; next, near; close at
- hand; eventual, ulterior; in prospect &c. (expectation) 507.
- Adv. prospectively, hereafter, in future; kal[obs3], tomorrow, the day
- after tomorrow; in course of time, in process of time, in the fullness of
- time; eventually, ultimately, sooner or later; proximo[Lat]; paulo post
- futurum[Lat]; in after time; one of these days; after a time, after a
- while.
- from this time; henceforth, henceforwards[obs3]; thence; thenceforth,
- thenceforward; whereupon, upon which.
- soon &c. (early) 132; on the eve of, on the point of, on the brink of;
- about to; close upon.
- Phr. quid sit futurum cras fuge quaerere [Latin][Horace].
-
- #122. [Retrospective time.] The Past -- N. the past, past time; days
- of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past,
- days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former
- times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld
- lang syne[obs3]; eld|.
- antiquity, antiqueness[obs3], status quo; time immemorial; distance of
- time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity
- [study of the past] paleontology, paleography, paleology[obs3];
- paleozoology; palaetiology[obs3], archaeology; paleogeography;
- paleoecology; paleobotany; paleoclimatoogy; archaism, antiquarianism,
- medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; paleography.
- retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory &c. 505.
- <-- originally - preterition; priority &c. 116 -->
-
- laudator temporis acti[Lat]; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary,
- antiquarian; archmologist &c.[obs3]; Oldbuck, Dryasdust.
- ancestry &c. (paternity) 166.
- V. be past &c. adj.; have expired &c. adj., have run its course, have
- had its day; pass; pass by, go by , pass away, go away , pass off, go off;
- lapse, blow over.
- look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume.
- Adj. past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone;
- elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed[obs3], expired, no more, run out, blown over,
- has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to
- return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete
- &c. (old) 124.
- former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant[Fr], late; ancestral.
- foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect[obs3],
- preterpluperfect[obs3].
- looking back &c. v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological &c. n.
- Adv. paleo-; archaeo-; formerly; of old, of yore; erst[Ger], whilom,
- erewhile[obs3], time was, ago, over; in the olden time &c. n.; anciently,
- long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear,
- ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back.
- yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately &c.
- (newly) 123.
- retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore;
- no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric
- times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this
- time; ex post facto.
- Phr. time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go
- home again; fuimus Troes [Lat][Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Vergil]; hoc erat in
- more majorum[Lat]; "O call back yesterday, bid time return" [Richard II];
- tempi passati[It]; "the eternal landscape of the past" [Tennyson]; ultimus
- Romanorum[Lat]; "what's past is prologue" [Tempest]; "whose yesterdays look
- backward with a smile" [Young].
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-
- #123. Newness. -- N. newness &c. adj.; novelty, recency; immaturity;
- youth &c. 127; gloss of novelty.
- innovation; renovation &c. (restoration) 660.
- modernism; mushroom, parvenu; latest fashion.
- V. renew &c. (restore) 660; modernize.
- Adj. new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young &c. 127; evergreen; raw,
- immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled[obs3], untrodden,
- untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new.
- late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent,
- neonatal[med.], new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday;
- just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in
- fashion; in, hip [coll.]; vernal, renovated, sempervirent[obs3],
- sempervirid[obs3].
- fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.
- Adv. newly &c. adj.; afresh, anew, lately, just now, only yesterday,
- the other day; latterly, of late.
- not long ago, a short time ago.
- Phr. di novello tutto par bello[It]; nullum est jam dictum quod non
- dictum est prius[Lat]; una scopa nuova spazza bene[It].
-
- #124. Oldness. -- N. oldness &c. adj[obs3].; age, antiquity; cobwebs
- of antiquity. maturity; decline, decay; senility &c. 128.
- seniority, eldership, primogeniture. archaism &c. (the past) 122;
- thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium[obs3]; Sanskrit.
- tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
- V. be old &c. adj.; have had its day, have seen its day; become old
- &c. adj.; age, fade, senesce.
- Adj. old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable;
- elder, eldest; firstborn.
- prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous[obs3]; paleolontological,
- paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic[obs3], paleolithic, ;
- primordial, primordinate[obs3]; aboriginal &c. (beginning) 66;
- diluvian[obs3], antediluvian; protohistoric[obs3]; prehistoric; antebellum,
- colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite[obs3]; paleocrystic[obs3];
- fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial[obs3], antemundane[obs3];
- archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter.
- immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory
- of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted.
- antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age,
- obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned,
- behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out;
- senile &c. 128; time worn; crumbling &c. (deteriorated) 659; secondhand.
- old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam[obs3], old as
- history.
- [geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)]
- Archeozoic[5,000,000,000], Proterozoic[1,500,000,000],
- Paleozoic[600,000,000], Mesozoic[220,000,000], Cenozoic[70,000,000].
- [geological periods (list)] Precambrian, Cambrian[600,000,000],
- Ordovician[500,000,000], Silurian[440,000,000], Devonian[400,000,000],
- Mississippian[350,000,000], Pennsylvanian[300,000,000],
- Permian[270,000,000], Triassic[220,000,000], Jurassic[180,000,000],
- Cretaceous[135,000,000]; Tertiary[70,000,000], Paleogene[70,000,000],
- Neocene[25,0000,000]; Quaternary[1,000,000].
- [geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)] Paleocene,
- Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent.
- Adv. since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of
- Methuselah.
- Phr. vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi [Lat][Tacitus].
-
- #125. Morning. [Noon.] -- N. morning, morn, forenoon, a.m., prime,
- dawn, daybreak; dayspring[obs3], foreday[obs3], sunup;
- peep of day, break of day; aurora; first blush of the morning, first flush
- of the morning, prime of the morning; twilight, crepuscule, sunrise;
- cockcrow, cockcrowing[obs3]; the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.
- spring; vernal equinox, first point of Aries.
- noon; midday, noonday; noontide, meridian, prime; nooning, noontime.
- summer, midsummer.
- Adj. matin, matutinal[obs3]; vernal.
- Adv. at sunrise &c. n.; with the sun, with the lark, "when the morning
- dawns".
- Phr. "at shut of evening flowers" [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et
- loup[Fr]; "flames in the forehead of the morning sky" [Milton]; "the breezy
- call of incense-breathing morn" [Gray].
-
- #126. Evening. [Midnight.] -- N. evening, eve; decline of day, fall of
- day, close of day; candlelight, candlelighting[obs3]; eventide, nightfall,
- curfew, dusk, twilight, eleventh hour; sunset, sundown; going down of the
- sun, cock- shut, dewy eve, gloaming, bedtime.
- afternoon, postmeridian, p.m.
- autumn; fall, fall of the leaf; autumnal equinox; Indian summer, St.
- Luke's summer, St. Martin's summer.
- midnight; dead of night, witching hour, witching hour of night,
- witching time of night; winter; killing time.
- Adj. vespertine, autumnal, nocturnal.
- Phr. "midnight, the outpost of advancing day" [Longfellow]; "sable-
- vested Night" [Milton]; "this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd"
- [Young].
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-
- #127. Youth. -- N. youth; juvenility, juvenescence[obs3];
- juniority[obs3]; infancy; babyhood, childhood, boyhood, girlhood,
- youthhood[obs3]; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender age, bloom.
- cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage[obs3].
- prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life[obs3], seedtime of
- life, golden season of life; heyday of youth, school days; rising
- generation.
- Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne,
- beardless, under age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari[Lat]; younger,
- junior; hebetic[obs3], unfledged.
- Phr. "youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm" [Gray]; " youth . .
- . the glad season of life" [Carlyle].
-
- #128. Age. -- N. age; oldness[obs3] &c. adj.; old age, advanced age,
- golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility[obs3], gray hairs,
- climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age,
- caducity[obs3], superannuation; second childhood, second childishness;
- dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth];
- threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
- seniority, eldership; elders &c. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen,
- father; primogeniture.
- [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology|.
- V. be aged &c. adj.; grow old, get old &c. adj.; age; decline, wane,
- dodder; senesce.
- Adj. aged; old &c. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile|;
- in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime;
- gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe,
- effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years;
- stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in
- the grave; doting &c. (imbecile) 499; like the last of pea time.
- older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn.
- turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah;
- ancestral, patriarchal, &c. (ancient) 124; gerontic.
- Phr. "give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis
- pueri senes [Lat]; peu de gens savent elre vieux[Fr]; plenus annis abiit
- plenus honoribus [Lat][Pliny the Younger]; "old age is creeping on apace"
- [Byron]; "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory"
- [Proverbs xvi, 31]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to
- grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks that Time has made" [Rogers].
-
-
- #129. Infant.-- N. infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling,
- suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.
- child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling,
- bratling[obs3]; elf. youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun,
- younker[obs3], callant[obs3], whipster[obs3], whippersnapper, whiffet
- [obs3][U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master. scion;
- sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis,
- tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin ,codling; foetus, calf,
- colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin[obs3]; aurelia[obs3], caterpillar,
- cocoon, nymph, nympha[obs3], orphan, pupa, staddle[obs3].
- girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden;
- virgin; hoyden.
- Adj. infantine[obs3], infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish,
- babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.
- in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in
- leading strings; at the breast; in one's teens.
-
- #130. Veteran.-- N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard;
- grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon;
- sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard
- &c. 501.
- preadamite[obs3], Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers
- &c. (paternity) 166.
- Phr. "superfluous lags the veteran on the stage" [Johnson].
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- #131. Adolescence. -- N. adolescence, pubescence, majority; adultism;
- adultness &c. adj.; manhood, virility, maturity full age, ripe age; flower
- of age; prime of life, meridian of life, spring of life.
- man &c. 373; woman &c. 374; adult, no chicken.
- V. come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion;
- attain majority, assume the toga virilis[Lat]; have cut one's eyeteeth,
- have sown one's mild oats.
- Adj. adolescent, pubescent, of age; of full age, of ripe age; out of
- one's teens, grown up, mature, full grown, in one's prime, middle-aged,
- manly, virile, adult; womanly, matronly; marriageable, nubile.
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- #132. Earliness. -- N. {ant. 133} earliness &c. adj.; morning &c. 125.
- punctuality; promptitude &c. (activity) 682; haste &c. (velocity) 274;
- suddenness &c. (instantaneity) 113.
- prematurity, precocity, precipitation, anticipation; a stitch in time.
- V. be early &c. adj., be beforehand &c. adv.; keep time, take time by
- the forelock, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start; steal
- a march upon; gain time, draw on futurity; bespeak, secure, engage,
- preengage[obs3].
- accelerate; expedite &c. (quicken) 274; make haste &c. (hurry) 684.
- Adj. early, prime, forward; prompt &c. (active) 682; summary.
- premature, precipitate, precocious; prevenient[obs3], anticipatory;
- rath[obs3].
- sudden &c. (instantaneous) 113; unexpected &c. 508; near, near at
- hand; immediate.
- Adv. early, soon, anon, betimes, rath[obs3]; eft, eftsoons; ere long,
- before long, shortly; .
- beforehand; prematurely &c. adj.; precipitately &c. (hastily) 684; too
- soon; before its time, before one's time; in anticipation; unexpectedly
- &c. 508.
- suddenly &c. (instantaneously) 113; before one can say "Jack
- Robinson", at short notice, extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the
- spur of the occasion [Bacon]; at once; on the spot, on the instant; at
- sight; offhand, out of hand; a' vue d'oeil[Fr]; straight, straightway,
- straightforth[obs3]; forthwith, incontinently, summarily, immediately,
- briefly, shortly, quickly, speedily, apace, before the ink is dry, almost
- immediately, presently at the first opportunity, in no long time, by and
- by, in a while, directly.
- Phr. no sooner said than done, immediately, if not sooner; tout vient
- a temps pour qui sait attendre[Fr].
-
- #132a. Punctuality -- N. punctuality, promptness, immediateness.
- V. be prompt, be on time, be in time; arrive on time; be in the nick
- of time.
- Adj. timely, seasonable, in time, punctual, prompt.
- Adv. on time, punctually, at the deadline, precisely, exactly; right
- on time, to the minute; in time; in good time, in military time, in pudding
- time|, in due time; time enough; with no time to spare, by a hair's
- breadth.
- Phr. touch and go, not a minute too soon, in the nick of time, just
- under the wire, get on board before the train leaves the station.
-
- #133. Lateness. -- N. {ant. 132} lateness &c. adj.; tardiness &c.
- (slowness) 275.
- delay, delation; cunctation, procrastination; deferring, deferral &c.
- v.; postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause,
- reprieve, stay of execution; protraction, prolongation; Fabian policy,
- medecine expectante[Fr], chancery suit, federal case; leeway; high time;
- moratorium, holdover.
- V. be late &c. adj.; tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time; dawdle &c.
- (be inactive) 683; linger, loiter; bide one's time, take one's time; gain
- time; hang fire; stand over, lie over.
- put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend; table [parliamentary]; shift
- off, stave off; waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn; procrastinate;
- dally; prolong, protract; spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out;
- prorogue; keep back; tide over; push to the last, drive to the last; let
- the matter stand over; reserve &c. (store) 636; temporize; consult one's
- pillow, sleep on it.
- lose an opportunity &c. 135; be kept waiting, dance attendance; kick
- one's heels, cool one's heels; faire antichambre[Fr][obs3]; wait
- impatiently; await &c. (expect) 507; sit up, sit up at night.
- Adj. late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine[obs3], belated,
- postliminious[obs3], posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed,
- postponed; dilatory &c. (slow) 275; delayed &c. v.; in abeyance.
- Adv. late; lateward[obs3], backward; late in the day; at sunset, at
- the eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time,
- after the deadline; too late; too late for &c. 135.
- slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure; ex post facto; sine
- die [parl.].
- Phr. nonum prematur in annum [Lat][Horace]; "against the sunbeams
- serotine and lucent" [Longfellow]; ie meglio tardi che mai[It]; deliberando
- saepe perit occasio [Lat][Syrus].
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- #134. Occasion. -- N. {ant. 135} timeliness, occasion, opportunity,
- opening, room; event (eventuality) 151; suitable season, proper season ,
- suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness &c. adj.;
- tempestivity[obs3].
- crisis, turn, juncture, conjuncture; crisis, turning point, given
- time.
- nick of time; golden opportunity, well timed opportunity, fine
- opportunity, favorable opportunity, opening; clear stage, fair field;
- mollia tempora[Lat][obs3]; fata Morgana[Lat]; spare time &c. (leisure) 685.
- V. seize &c. (take) 789 an opportunity, use &c. 677 an opportunity,
- give &c. 784 an opportunity, use an occasion; improve the occasion.
- suit the occasion &c. (be expedient) 646.
- seize the occasion, strike while the iron is hot, battre le fer sur
- l'enclume[Fr], make hay while the sun shines, seize the present hour, take
- time by the forelock, prendre la balle au bond[Fr].
- Adj. opportune, timely, well-timed, timeful[obs3], seasonable.
- providential, lucky, fortunate, happy, favorable, propitious,
- auspicious, critical; suitable &c. 23; obiter dicta.
- Adv. opportunely &c. adj.; in proper course, in due course, in proper
- season, in due season, in proper time, in due time; for the nonce; in the
- nick of time, in the fullness of time; all in good time; just in time, at
- the eleventh hour, now or never.
- by the way, by the by; en passant[Fr], a propos[Fr]; pro re nata[Lat],
- pro hac vice[Lat]; par parenthese[Fr], parenthetically, by way of
- parenthesis, incidentally; while speaking of, while on the subject;
- extempore; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion; on the
- spot &c. (early) 132.
- Phr. carpe diem[Lat], [Horace]; occasionem cognosce[Lat]; one's hour
- is come, the time is up; that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to
- think of it; bien perdu bien connu[Fr]; e sempre l'ora[It]; ex quovis ligno
- non fit Mercurius[Lat]; nosce tempus[Lat]; nunc aut nunquam[Lat].
-
-
- #135. Untimeliness -- N. {ant. 134} untimeliness,
- intempestivity[obs3], unseasonableness, inexpedience; unsuitable time,
- improper time; unreasonableness &c. adj; evil hour; contretemps; intrusion;
- anachronism &c. 115.
- bad time, wrong time, inappropriate time, not the right occasion,
- unsuitable time, inopportune time, poor timing.
- V. be ill timed &c. adj.; mistime, intrude, come amiss, break in upon;
- have other fish to fry; be busy, be occupied.
- lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity,
- neglect &c. 460 an opportunity; allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the
- opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity
- to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by,
- allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow
- the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the
- occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by; waste time &c. (be
- inactive) 683; let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the
- horse is stolen.
- Adj. ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred;
- untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless,
- intrusive, untoward, mal a propos[Fr], unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous,
- unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable; unsuited &c. 24;
- inexpedient &c. 647.
- unpunctual &c. (late) 133; too late for; premature &c. (early) 132;
- too soon for; wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-
- twenty hindsight.
- Adv. inopportunely &c. adj.; as ill luck would have it, in an evil
- hour, the time having gone by, a day after the fair.
- Phr. after death the doctor, after meat mustard.
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-
- #136. Frequency. -- N. frequency, oftness[obs3], oftenness[obs3],
- commonness; repetition &c. 104; normality &c. 80; example (conformity) 82;
- routine, custom (habit) 613.
- regularity, uniformity, constancy, clock-work precision; punctuality
- &c. (exactness) 494; even tenor; system; routine &c. (custom) 613; formula;
- rule &c. (form, regulation) 697; keynote, standard, model; precedent &c.
- (prototype) 22; conformity &c. 82.
- V. recur &c. 104; do nothing but; keep, keep on.
- Adj. frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming[obs3], incessant,
- perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated &c. 104;
- customary &c. 613 (habit) 613; regular (normal) 80; according to rule &c.
- (conformable) 82.
- common, everyday, usual, ordinary, familiar.
- old-hat, boring, well-known, trivial.
- Adv. often, oft; ofttimes[obs3], oftentimes; frequently; repeatedly
- &c. 104; unseldom[obs3], not unfrequently[obs3]; in quick succession, in
- rapid succession; many a time and oft; daily, hourly &c.; every day, every
- hour, every moment &c.
- perpetually, continually, constantly, incessantly, without ceasing, at
- all times, daily and hourly, night and day, day and night, day after day,
- morning noon and night, ever anon, invariably (habit) 613 .
- most often; commonly &c. (habitually) 613.
- sometimes, occasionally, at times, now and then, from time to time,
- there being times when, toties quoties[Lat][obs3], often enough, when the
- mood strikes, again and again.
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- #137. Infrequency.-- N. infrequency, rareness, rarity; fewness &c.
- 103; seldomness[obs3]; uncommonness.
- V. be rare &c. adj.
- Adj. unfrequent[obs3], infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few
- &c. 103; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred
- within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous
- experience; not since Adam[obs3].
- scarce as hen's teeth; one in a million; few and far between.
- Adv. seldom, rarely, scarcely, hardly; not often, not much,
- infrequently, unfrequently[obs3], unoften[obs3]; scarcely, scarcely ever,
- hardly ever; once in a blue moon.
- once; once in a blue moon; once in a million years; once for all, once
- in a way; pro hac vice[Lat].
- Phr. ein mal kein mal[German].
-
- #138. Regularity of recurrence. Periodicity. -- N. periodicity,
- intermittence; beat; oscillation &c. 314; pulse, pulsation; rhythm;
- alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity[obs3].
- bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say.
- anniversary, jubilee, centenary.
- catamenia[obs3];, courses, menses, menstrual flux.
- [Regularity of return] rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days
- of the week; Sunday, Monday &c.; months of the year; January &c.; feast,
- fast &c.; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day
- &c.
- Allhallows[obs3], Allhallowmas[obs3], All Saints' Day; All Souls', All
- Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile[obs3],
- Candlemas[obs3], Dewali, groundhog day [U.S.], Halloween, Hallowmas[obs3],
- Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day [U.S.], St.
- Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide.
- punctuality, regularity, steadiness.
- V. recur in regular order, recur in regular succession; return,
- revolve; come again, come in its turn; come round, come round again; beat,
- pulsate; alternate; intermit.
- Adj. periodic, periodical; serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical;
- recurring &c. v.; intermittent, remittent; alternate, every other.
- hourly; diurnal, daily; quotidian, tertian, weekly; hebdomadal|,
- hebdomadary|; biweekly, fortnightly; bimonthly; catamenial|; monthly,
- menstrual; yearly, annual; biennial, triennial, &c.; centennial, secular;
- paschal, lenten, &c.
- regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork.
- Adv. periodically &c. adj.; at regular intervals, at stated times; at
- fixed established , at established periods; punctually &c. adj. de die in
- diem[Lat]; from day to day, day by day.
- by turns; in turn, in rotation; alternately, every other day, off and
- on, ride and tie, round and round.
-
- #139. Irregularity of recurrence. -- N. irregularity, uncertainty,
- unpunctuality; fitfulness &c. adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus|.
- Adj. irregular, uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful,
- flickering; rambling, rhapsodical; spasmodic; immethodical[obs3],
- unmethodical, variable.
- Adv. irregularly &c. adj.; by fits and starts &c. (discontinuously)
- 70.
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- 1. SIMPLE CHANGE
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- #140. [Difference at different times.] Change. -- N. change,
- alteration, mutation, permutation, variation, modification, modulation,
- inflexion, mood, qualification, innovation, metastasis, deviation, turn,
- evolution, revolution; diversion; break.
- transformation, transfiguration; metamorphosis; transmutation;
- deoxidization[Chem]; transubstantiation; mutagenesis[Genet],
- transanimation[obs3], transmigration, metempsychosis|; avatar; alterative.
- conversion &c. (gradual change) 144; revolution &c. (sudden or radical
- change) 146 inversion &c. (reversal) 218; displacement &c. 185;
- transference &c. 270.
- changeableness &c. 149; tergiversation &c. (change of mind)
- 607.
- V. change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify,
- tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate,
- turn aside, evert, intervert[obs3]; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner,
- resume.
- work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure,
- transmute, transmogrify, transume[obs3]; metamorphose, ring the changes.
- innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give
- a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new
- leaf.
- recast &c. 146; reverse &c. 218; disturb &c. 61; convert into &c. 144.
- Adj. changed &c. v.; newfangled; changeable &c. 149; transitional;
- modifiable; alterative.
- Adv. mutatis mutandis[Lat].
- Int. quantum mutatus[Lat]!
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; nous avons
- change tout cela [Fr][Moliere]; tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in
- illis[Lat][obs3]; non sum qualis eram [Lat][Horace]; casaque tourner[Fr];
- corpora lente augescent cito extinguuntur [Lat][obs3][Tacitus]; in statu
- quo ante bellum[Lat]; "still ending and beginning still" [Cowper]; vox
- audita perit littera scripta manet[Lat].
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- #141. [Absence of change.] Permanence. -- N. stability &c. 150;
- quiescence &c. 265; obstinacy &c. 606.
- permanence, persistence, endurance; durability; standing, status quo;
- maintenance, preservation, conservation; conservation; law of the Medes and
- Persians; standing dish.
- V. let alone, let be, let it be; persist, remain, stay, tarry, rest;
- stet [copy editing]; hold, hold on; last, endure, bide, abide, aby[obs3],
- dwell, maintain, keep; stand, stand still, stand fast; subsist, live,
- outlive, survive; hold one's ground, keep one's ground, hold one's footing,
- keep one's footing; hold good.
- Adj. stable &c. 150; persisting &c. v.; permanent; established;
- unchanged &c. (change &c. 140); renewed; intact, inviolate; persistent;
- monotonous, uncheckered[obs3]; unfailing.
- undestroyed, unrepealed, unsuppressed[obs3]; conservative, qualis ab
- incepto[Lat]; prescriptive &c. (old) 124; stationary &c. 265.
- Adv. in statu quo[Lat]; for good, finally; at a stand, at a
- standstill; uti possidetis[Lat]; without a shadow of turning.
- Phr. esto perpetua[Lat]; nolumus leges Angliae mutari[Lat][obs3]; j'y
- suis et j'y ereste[Fr].
-
- #142. [Change from action to rest.] Cessation. -- N. cessation,
- discontinuance, desistance, desinence[obs3].
- intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop;
- stopping &c. v.; closure, stoppage, halt; arrival &c. 292. pause, rest,
- lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S. congress].
- dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado[Sp]; blowout,
- burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full
- stop; end &c. 67; death &c. 360.
- V. cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold,
- stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out,
- blow out, melt down.
- have done with, give over, surcease, shut up shop; give up &c.
- (relinquish) 624.
- hold one's hand, stay one's hand; rest on one's oars repose on one's
- laurels.
- come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a
- full stop; arrive &c. 292; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away
- &c. (be past) 122; be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.
- intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel[obs3]; intermit, remit; put an
- end to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power
- down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill;
- stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-
- string, pull the plug on.
- Int. hold! stop! enough! avast! have done! a truce to! soft! leave
- off! tenez[Fr]!
- Phr. "I pause for a reply" [Julius Caesar].
-
-
- #143. Continuance in action. -- N. continuance, continuation; run;
- perpetuation, prolongation; persistence &c. (perseverance) 604a; repetition
- &c. 104.
- V. continue, persist; go on, jog on, keep on, run on, hold on; abide,
- keep, pursue, stick to its course, take its course, maintain its course;
- carry on, keep up.
- sustain, uphold, hold up, keep on foot; follow up, perpetuate;
- maintain; preserve &c. 604a; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104.
- keep going, keep alive, keep the pot boiling, keep up the ball, keep
- up the good work; die in harness, die with one's boots on; hold on the even
- tenor of one's way, pursue the even tenor of one's way.
- let be; stare super antiquas vias[Lat][obs3]; quieta non movere[Lat];
- let things take their course; stare decisis [Lat][Jurisprudence].
- Adj. continuing &c. v.; uninterrupted, unintermitting[obs3],
- unvarying, unshifting[obs3]; unreversed[obs3], unstopped, unrevoked,
- unvaried; sustained; undying &c. (perpetual) 112; inconvertible.
- Int. keep it up! go to it! right away! right on! attaboy!
- Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari[Lat][obs3]; vestigia nulla retrorsum
- [Lat][Horace]; labitur et albetur [Lat][obs3][Horace].
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- #144. [Gradual change to something different.] Conversion. -- N.
- conversion, reduction, transmutation, resolution, assimilation; evolution,
- sea change; change of state; assumption; naturalization; transportation;
- development [biol.], developing [photography].
- [conversion of currency] conversion of currency, exchange of currency;
- exchange rate; bureau de change.
- chemistry, alchemy; progress, growth, lapse, flux.
- passage; transit, transition; transmigration, shifting &c. v.; phase;
- conjugation; convertibility.
- crucible, alembic, caldron, retort.
- convert, pervert, renegade, apostate.
- V. be converted into; become, get, wax; come to, turn to, turn into,
- evolve into, develop into; turn out, lapse, shift; run into, fall into,
- pass into, slide into, glide into, grow into, ripen into, open into,
- resolve itself into, settle into, merge into, emerge as; melt, grow, come
- round to, mature, mellow; assume the form of, assume the shape of, assume
- the state of, assume the nature of, assume the character of; illapse|;
- begin a new phase, assume a new phase, undergo a change.
- convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form &c. 240; remodel,
- new model, refound[obs3], reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to,
- reduce to.
- Adj. converted into &c. v.; convertible, resolvable into;
- transitional; naturalized.
- Adv. gradually, &c. (slowly) 275 in transitu &c. (transference)
- 270[Lat].
-
- #145. Reversion. -- N. reversion, return; revulsion.
- turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a
- storm. alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; inversion &c. 219; recoil &c.
- 277; retreat, regression, retrogression &c. 283; restoration &c. 660;
- relapse, recidivism &c. 661; atavism; vicinism[obs3];
- V. revert, turn back, regress; relapse &c. 661; recoil &c. 277;
- retreat &c. 283; restore &c. 660; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back
- the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale.
- Adj. reverting &c. v.; regressive, revulsive, reactionary;
- retrorse[obs3].
- Adv. a rebours[Fr].
-
- #146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution. -- N. revolution,
- bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction &c. 162; sudden change,
- radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change;
- quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d'etat[Fr], counter
- revolution.
- jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience|; explosion; spasm,
- convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm.
- legerdemain &c. (trick) 545.
- V. revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something
- new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex.
- Adj. unrecognizable; revolutionary.
-
- #147. [Change of one thing for another.] Substitution. -- N.
- substitution, commutation; supplanting &c. v.; metaphor, metonymy &c.
- (figure of speech) 521.
- [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary
- expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller[Fr], stopgap, jury
- rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double;
- changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.
- representative &c. (deputy) 759; palimpsest.
- price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent.
- V. substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give
- place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede,
- replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of;
- jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul,
- take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute,
- redeem, compound for.
- Adj. substituted &c.; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious[obs3].
- Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room
- of; faute de mieux[Fr].
-
- #148. [Double or mutual change.] Interchange. -- N. interchange,
- exchange; commutation, permutation, intermutation; reciprocation,
- transposition, rearrangement; shuffling; alternation, reciprocity; castling
- [at chess]; hocus-pocus.
- interchangeableness[obs3], interchangeability.
- recombination; combination 48[ref], 84..
- barter &c. 794; tit for tat &c. (retaliation) 718; cross fire,
- battledore and shuttlecock; quid pro quo.
- V. interchange, exchange, counterchange[obs3]; bandy, transpose,
- shuffle, change bands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute; give and take,
- return the compliment; play at puss in the corner, play at battledore and
- shuttlecock; retaliate &c. 718; requite.
- rearrange, recombine.
- Adj. interchanged &c. v.; reciprocal, mutual, commutative,
- interchangeable, intercurrent[obs3].
- combinatorial[Math, Statistics].
- recombinant[Biology, Genetics].
- Adv. in exchange, vice versa, mutatis mutandis[Lat], backwards and
- forwards, by turns, turn and turn about; each in his turn, everyone in his
- turn.
- Adj. substituted &c. v.; vicarious, subdititious[obs3].
- Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room
- of; faute de mieux[Fr].
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- %
- 2. COMPLEX CHANGE
- %
- #149. Changeableness. -- N. changeableness &c. adj.; mutability,
- inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium;
- vacillation &c. (irresolution) 605; fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation
- &c. (oscillation) 314.
- restlessness &x. adj. fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest;
- agitation &c. 315.
- moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock,
- harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers[obs3]; wheel of Fortune;
- transientness &c. 111[obs3].
- V. fluctuate, vary, waver, flounder, flicker, flitter, flit, flutter,
- shift, shuffle, shake, totter, tremble, vacillate, wamble[obs3], turn and
- turn about, ring the changes; sway to and fro, shift to and fro; change and
- change about; waffle, blow with the wind (irresolute) 605; oscillate &c.
- 314; vibrate between, two extremes, oscillate between, two extremes;
- alternate; have as man phases as the moon.
- Adj. changeable, changeful; changing &c. 140; mutable, variable,
- checkered, ever changing; protean, proteiform|; versatile.
- unstaid[obs3], inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled;
- fluctuating &c. v.; restless; agitated &c. 315; erratic, fickle; irresolute
- &c. 605; capricious &c. 608; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic;
- vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable,
- plastic, mobile; transient &c. 111; wavering.
- Adv. seesaw &c. (oscillation) 314; off and on.
- Phr. "a rolling stone gathers no moss"; pictra mossa non fa muschis[It];
- honores mutant mores[Lat]; varium et mutabile semper femina [Lat][Vergil].
-
- #150. Stability. -- N. stability; immutability &c. adj.;
- unchangeability, &c. adj.; unchangeableness|!; constancy; stable
- equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment[obs3], stiffness,
- ankylosis[obs3], solidity, aplomb.
- establishment, fixture; rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's
- spots, Ethiopia's skin.
- permanence &c. 141; obstinacy &c. 606.
- V. be firm &c. adj.; stick fast; stand firm, keep firm, remain firm;
- weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith,
- don't give in, don't buckle under.
- settle, establish, stablish[obs3], ascertain, fix, set,
- stabilitate[obs3]; retain, keep hold; make good, make sure; fasten &c.
- (join) 43; set on its legs, float; perpetuate.
- settle down; strike roots, put down roots, take root; take up one's
- abode &c. 184; build one's house on a rock.
- Adj. unchangeable, immutable; unaltered, unalterable; not to be
- changed, constant; permanent &c. 141; invariable, undeviating; stable,
- durable; perennial &c. (diuturnal) 110[obs3].
- fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced; confirmed, valid;
- fiducial[obs3]; immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted; settled,
- established &c. v.; vested; incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable.
- tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as
- a rock; firmly seated, firmly established &c. v.; deep-rooted,
- ineradicable; inveterate; obstinate &c. 606.
- transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded.
- [movable object rendered unmovable] stuck, jammed; unremovable;
- quiescent &c. 265; deterioration &c. 659.
- indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable[obs3], incommutable[obs3],
- irresoluble[obs3], irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless[obs3],
- inextinguishable, irreducible; indissoluble, indissolvable[obs3];
- indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible,
- indeciduous[obs3]; insusceptible, insusceptible of change.
- Int. stet.
- Phr. littera scripta manet[Lat].
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- %
- Present Events
- %
- #151. Eventuality. -- N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident,
- affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency,
- juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just
- the facts; phenomenon; advent.
- business, concern, transaction, dealing, proceeding; circumstance,
- particular, casualty, accident, adventure, passage, crisis, pass,
- emergency, contingency, consequence; opportunity (occasion) 143.
- the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general; things in
- general, affairs in general; the times, state of affairs, order of the day;
- course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run
- of things, march of things, course of events; ups and downs of life,
- vicissitudes of life; chapter of accidents &c. (chance) 156; situation &c.
- (circumstances) 8.
- V. happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off,
- comeabout[obs3], come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass,
- come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot,
- fall in; befall, betide, bechance[obs3]; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn
- up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come
- forth, cast up; supervene, survene[obs3]; issue, arrive, ensue, arise,
- start, hold, take its course; pass off &c. (be past) 122.
- meet with; experience, enjoy, encounter, undergo, suffer, pass
- through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to; fall to the lot of; be
- one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot; find; ; endure &c. (feel)
- 821.
- Adj. happening &c. v; going on, doing, current; in the wind, in the
- air, afloat; on foot, afoot, on the tapis[obs3]; at issue, in question;
- incidental.
- eventful, stirring, bustling, full of incident; memorable, momentous,
- signal.
- Adv. eventually; in the event of, in case, just in case; in the course
- of things; as things, times go; as the world goes, wags; as the tree falls,
- cat jumps; as it may turn out, happen.
- Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie
- crumbles; you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future
- will bring; the plot thickens; "breasts the blows of circumstance"
- [Tennyson]; "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the
- waste of years" [Tennyson][Keble].
-
-
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- Future Events
- %
- #152. Destiny. -- N. destiny &c. (necessity) 601; future existence,
- post existence; hereafter; future state, next world, world to come, after
- life; futurity &c. 121; everlasting life, everlasting death; life beyond
- the grave, world beyond the grave; prospect &c. (expectation) 507.
- V. impend; hang over, lie over; threaten, loom, await, come on,
- approach, stare one in the face; foreordain, preordain; predestine, doom,
- have in store for.
- Adj. impending &c. v.; destined; about to be, happen; coming, in
- store, to come, going to happen, instant, at hand, near; near, close at
- hand; over hanging, hanging over one's head, imminent; brewing, preparing,
- forthcoming; int he wind, on the cards, in reserve; that will, is to be; in
- prospect &c. (expected) 507; looming in the distance, horizon, future;
- unborn, in embryo; int he womb of time, futurity; pregnant &c. (producing)
- 161.
- Adv. in time, the long run; all in good time; eventually &c. 151;
- whatever may happen &c. (certainly) 474; as chance &c. 156 would have it.
-
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- SECTION VIII. CAUSATION
-
- 1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS
- %
- #153. [Constant antecedent]. Cause.-- N. cause, origin, source,
- principle, element; occasioner[obs3], prime mover, primum mobile[Lat]; vera
- causa[Lat]; author &c. (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven;
- groundwork, foundation &c. (support) 215.
- spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead;
- fons et origo[Lat], genesis; descent &c. (paternity) 166; remote cause;
- influence.
- pivot, hinge, turning point, lever, crux, fulcrum; key; proximate
- cause, causa causans[Lat]; straw that breaks the camel's back.
- ground; reason, reason why; why and wherefore, rationale, occasion,
- derivation; final cause &c. (intention) 620; les dessous des cartes[Fr];
- undercurrents.
- rudiment. egg, germ, embryo, bud, root, radix radical, etymon,
- nucleus, seed, stem, stock, stirps, trunk, tap-root, gemmule[obs3],
- radicle, semen, sperm.
- nest, cradle, nursery, womb, nidus, birthplace, hotbed.
- causality, causation; origination; production &c. 161.
- V. be the cause &c. n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to,
- give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle,
- suscitate[obs3]; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce;
- create &c. 161; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, institute,
- lay the foundation of; lie at the root of.
- procure, induce, draw down, open the door to, superinduce, evoke,
- entail, operate; elicit, provoke.
- conduce to &c. (tend to) 176; contribute; have a hand in the pie, have
- a finger in the pie; determine, decide, turn the scale; have a common
- origin; derive its origin &c. (effect) 154.
- Adj. caused &c. v; causal, original; primary, primitive, primordial;
- aboriginal; protogenal[obs3]; radical; embryonic, embryotic[obs3]; in
- embryo, in ovo[Lat]; seminal, germinal; at the bottom of; connate, having a
- common origin.
- Adv. because &c. 155; behind the scenes.
- Phr. causa latet vis est notissima [Lat][Ovid]; felix qui potuit rerum
- cognoscere causas [Lat][Vergil].
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-
- #154. [Constant sequent.] Effect.-- N. effect, consequence;
- aftergrowth[obs3], aftercome[obs3]; derivative, derivation; result;
- resultant, resultance[obs3]; upshot, issue, denouement; end &c. 67;
- development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.
- production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature,
- creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits[obs3], firstlings; heredity,
- telegony[obs3]; premices premises[obs3].
- V. be the effect of &c. n. ; be due to,be owing to; originate in,
- originate from; rise -, arise, take its rise spring from, proceed from,
- emanate from, come from, grow from, bud from, sprout from, germinate from,
- issue from, flow from ,result from , follow from, derive its origin from,
- accrue from; come to, come of, come out of; depend upon, hang upon, hinge
- upon, turn upon.
- take the consequences, sow the wind and reap the whirlwind.
- Adj. owing to; resulting from &c. v.; derivable from; due to; caused
- by &c. 153; ; dependent upon; derived from, evolved from; derivative;
- hereditary; telegonous[obs3].
- Adv. of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently; as a
- consequence, in consequence; through, all along of, necessarily,
- eventually.
- Phr. cela va sans dire[Fr], "thereby hangs a tale" [Taming of the
- Shrew].
-
- #155. [Assignment of cause] Attribution -- N. attribution, theory,
- etiology, ascription, reference to, rationale; accounting for &c. v,;
- palaetiology1, imputation, derivation from.
- filiation[obs3], affiliation; pedigree &c. (paternity) 166.
- explanation &c. (interpretation) 522; reason why &c. (cause) 153.
- V. attribute to, ascribe to, impute to, refer to, lay to, point to,
- trace to, bring home to; put down to, set down to, blame; charge on,
- ground on; invest with, assign as cause, lay at, the door of, father upon;
- account for, derive from, point out the reason &c. 153; theorize; tell how
- it comes; put the saddle on the right horse.
- Adj. attributed &c. v.; attributable &c. v.; referable to, referrible
- to[obs3], due to, derivable from; owing to &c. (effect) 154; putative;
- ecbatic[obs3].
- Adv. hence, thence, therefore, for, since, on account of, because,
- owing to; on that account; from this cause, from that cause; thanks to,
- forasmuch as; whence, propter hoc[Lat].
- why? wherefore? whence? how comes it, how is it, how happens it? how
- does it happen?
- in some way, in some such way; somehow, somehow or other.
- Phr. that is why; hinc illae lachrymae [Lat][Horace].
- <--
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- 1. Whewell History of the inductive Sciences, book xviii vol. iii.p.
- 397 (3d edit.).
- 2 The word Chance has two distinct meanings: the first, the absence
- of assignable cause, as above; and the second, the absence of design -- for
- the latter see 621.
- -->
-
-
- #156. [Absence of assignable cause.] Chance. 2 -- N. chance,
- indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley,
- random, luck, raccroc[obs3], casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate
- &c. (necessity) 601; equal chance; lottery; tombola[obs3]; toss up &c. 621;
- turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of
- accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice;
- heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes[obs3], sortes
- Virgilianae[obs3].
- probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck;
- accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds.
- contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475; situation (circumstance) 8.
- statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking;
- assurance; speculation, gaming &c. 621.
- V. chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's -fate &c. 601;
- stumble on light upon; take one's chance &c. 621.
- Adj. casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless,
- incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random,
- statistical; possible &c. 470; unintentional &c. 621.
- Adv. by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance &c.
- (possibly) 470; for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would
- have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would
- have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may
- happen; as the case may be.
- Phr. " grasps the skirts of happy chance " [Tennyson]; " the accident
- of an accident " [Lord Thurlow]. "There but for the grace of God go I."
-
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-
- 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT
-
- <-- "power" contains the concepts of both efficacy and efficiency -->
- #157. Power.-- N. power; potency, potentiality; jiva[obs3]; puissance,
- might, force, energy &c. 171; dint; right hand, right arm;
- ascendency[obs3], sway, control; prepotency, prepollence|; almightiness,
- omnipotence; authority &c. 737; strength &c. 159.
- ability; ableness &c. adj[obs3].; competency; efficacy; efficiency,
- productivity, expertise (skill) 698 ; validity, cogency; enablement[obs3];
- vantage ground; influence &c. 175.
- pressure; conductivity; elasticity; gravity, electricity, magnetism,
- galvanism, voltaic electricity, voltaism, electromagnetism; atomic power,
- nuclear power, thermonuclear power; fuel cell; hydraulic power, water
- power, hydroelectric power; solar power, solar energy, solar panels; tidal
- power; wind power; attraction; vis inertiae[Lat], vis mortua[Lat], vis viva
- [Latin]; potential energy, dynamic energy; dynamic friction, dynamic
- suction; live circuit, live rail, live wire.
- capability, capacity; quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent
- [obs3][Latin]; faculty, quality, attribute, endowment, virtue, gift,
- property, qualification, susceptibility.
- V. be powerful &c. adj.; gain power &c. n.
- belong to, pertain to; lie in one's power, be in one's power; can, be
- able.
- give power, confer power, exercise power &c. n.; empower, enable,
- invest; indue[obs3], endue; endow, arm; strengthen &c. 159; compel &c. 744.
- Adj. powerful, puissant; potential; capable, able; equal to, up to;
- cogent, valid; efficient, productive; effective, effectual, efficacious,
- adequate, competent; multipotent[obs3], plenipotent[obs3], omnipotent;
- almighty.
- forcible &c. adj. (energetic) 171; influential &c. 175; productive &c.
- 168.
- Adv. powerfully &c. adj.; by virtue of, by dint of.
- Phr. a toute force[Fr]; <gr/dos moi pou sto kai kino ten
- gen/gr>[Sp][Grk][Grk][Grk][Grk][Grk]; eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque
- tyrannis [Latin]; fortis cadere cedere non potest [Latin].
-
- #158. Impotence.-- N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement,
- impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude,
- incompetence, unproductivity[obs3]; indocility[obs3]; invalidity,
- disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.
- telum imbelle[Lat], brutum fulmen[Lat], blank, blank cartridge, flash
- in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil[Lat], dead letter, bit of waste paper,
- dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun.
- inefficacy &c. (inutility) 645[obs3]; failure &c. 732.
- helplessness &c. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy,
- syncope, sideration|, deliquium|[Lat], collapse, exhaustion, softening of
- the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med], orchotomy[Med].
- cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp,
- mollycoddle; eunuch.
- V. be impotent &c. adj.; not have a leg to stand on.
- vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [French], vouloir prendre la lune
- avec les dents [French].
- collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go
- by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke &c. (fail) 732.
- render powerless &c. adj.; deprive of power; disable, disenable[obs3];
- disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the
- hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple[obs3],
- maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte,
- garrote; ratten[obs3], silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de
- combat[Fr], spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the
- snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge,
- unfit; put out of gear.
- unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter,
- sterilize, fix.
- shatter, exhaust, weaken &c. 160.
- Adj. powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; inefficient,
- ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed;
- inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled &c. v.; armless[obs3].
- harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu[Lat],
- unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable.
- paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless[obs3],
- marrowless[obs3], pithless[obs3], lustless[obs3]; emasculate, disjointed;
- out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam
- ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted,
- shattered, demoralized; graveled &c. (in difficulty) 704; helpless,
- unfriended[obs3], fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de
- combat[Fr], laid on the shelf.
- null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual
- &c. (failing) 732; inadequate &c. 640; inefficacious &c. (useless) 645.
- Phr. der kranke Mann[Ger]; "desirous still but impotent to rise"
- [Shenstone]; the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
-
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-
- #159. [Degree of power.] Strength.-- N. strength; power &c. 157;
- energy &c. 171; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force;
- spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.
- stoutness &c. adj.; lustihood[obs3], stamina, nerve, muscle, sinew,
- thews and sinews, physique; pith, pithiness; virtility, vitality.
- athletics, athleticism[obs3]; gymnastics, feats of strength.
- adamant, steel, iron, oak, heart of oak; iron grip; grit, bone.
- athlete, gymnast, acrobat; superman, Atlas, Hercules, Antaeus[obs3],
- Samson, Cyclops, Goliath; tower of strength; giant refreshed.
- strengthening &c. v.; invigoration, refreshment, refocillation[obs3].
- [Science of forces] dynamics, statics.
- V. be strong &c. adj., be stronger; overmatch.
- render strong &c. adj.; give strength &c. n.; strengthen, invigorate,
- brace, nerve, fortify, sustain, harden, case harden, steel, gird; screw up,
- wind up, set up; gird up one's loins, brace up one's loins; recruit, set on
- one's legs; vivify; refresh &c. 689; refect[obs3]; reinforce, reenforce &c.
- (restore) 660.
- Adj. strong, mighty, vigorous, forcible, hard, adamantine, stout,
- robust, sturdy, hardy, powerful, potent, puissant, valid.
- resistless, irresistible, invincible, proof against, impregnable,
- unconquerable, indomitable, dominating, inextinguishable, unquenchable;
- incontestable; more than a match for; overpowering, overwhelming; all
- powerful, all sufficient; sovereign.
- able-bodied; athletic; Herculean, Cyclopean, Atlantean[obs3];
- muscular, brawny, wiry, well-knit, broad-shouldered, sinewy, strapping,
- stalwart, gigantic.
- manly, man-like, manful; masculine, male, virile.
- unweakened[obs3], unallayed, unwithered[obs3], unshaken, unworn,
- unexhausted[obs3]; in full force, in full swing; in the plenitude of power.
- stubborn, thick-ribbed, made of iron, deep-rooted; strong as a lion,
- strong as a horse, strong as an ox, strong as brandy; sound as a roach; in
- fine feather, in high feather; built like a brick shithouse; like a giant
- refreshed.
- Adv. strongly &c. adj.; by force &c. n.; by main force &c. (by
- compulsion) 744.
- Phr. "our withers are unwrung" [Hamlet].
- Blut und Eisen[Ger]; coelitus mihi vires[Lat]; du fort au diable[Fr];
- en habiles gens[Lat]; ex vi termini; flecti non frangi[Lat]; "he that
- wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill" [Burke];
- "inflexible in faith invincible in arms" [Beattie].
-
- #160. Weakness.-- N. weakness &c. adj.; debility, atony[obs3],
- relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence &c. 158; infirmity; effeminacy,
- feminality[obs3]; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity &c. 683.
- anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood.
- declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength;
- delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia[obs3], adynamy[obs3],
- cachexy[obs3], cachexia[Med], sprain, strain.
- reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards.
- softling[obs3], weakling; infant &c. 129; youth &c. 127.
- V. be weak &c. adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake,
- halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.
- render weak &c. adj.; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of
- strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman &c.
- (render powerless) 158; cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of;
- dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the
- strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin[Fr].
- Adj. weak, feeble, debile|; impotent &c. 158; relaxed, unnerved, &c.
- v.; sapless, strengthless[obs3], powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid,
- adynamic[obs3], asthenic[obs3]; nervous.
- soft, effeminate, feminate[obs3], womanly.
- frail, fragile, shattery[obs3]; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial,
- gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy[obs3];
- drooping, tottering &c. v..
- broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied &c.
- 158; decrepit.
- languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish[obs3]; sickly &c. (disease)
- 655; dull, slack, evanid|, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten;
- decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled
- down, the worse for wear.
- unstrengthened &c. 159[obs3], unsupported, unaided, unassisted;
- aidless[obs3], defenseless &c. 158; cantilevered (support) 215.
- on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken,
- weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as
- gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless &c. 429.
- Phr. non sum qualis eram[Lat].
-
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- #161. Production.-- N. {ant. 162, 158} production, creation,
- construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture,
- erection, edification; coinage; diaster[obs3]; organization; nisus
- formativus[Lat]; putting together &c. v.; establishment; workmanship,
- performance; achievement &c. (completion) 729.
- flowering, fructification; inflorescence.
- bringing forth &c. v.: parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth,
- delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics;
- geniture[obs3]; gestation &c. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution,
- development, growth; entelechy[Phil]; fertilization, gemination,
- germination, heterogamy[Biol], genesis, generation, epigenesis[obs3],
- procreation, progeneration[obs3], propagation; fecundation, impregnation;
- albumen &c. 357.
- spontaneous generation; archegenesis[obs3], archebiosis[obs3];
- biogenesis, abiogenesis[obs3], digenesis[obs3], dysmerogenesis[obs3],
- eumerogenesis[obs3], heterogenesis[obs3], oogenesis, merogenesis[obs3],
- metogenesis[obs3], monogenesis[obs3], parthenogenesis, homogenesis[obs3],
- xenogenesis1[obs3]; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.
- biogeny[obs3], dissogeny[obs3], xenogeny[obs3]; tocogony[obs3],
- vacuolization.
- edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower,
- fruit.
- V. produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct,
- fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel;
- build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish,
- constitute, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish &c.
- (complete) 729.
- flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean[obs3], yean[obs3], farrow,
- drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to,
- lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world.
- make productive &c. 168; create; beget, get, generate, fecundate,
- impregnate; procreate, progenerate[obs3], propagate; engender; bring into
- being, call into being, bring into existence; breed, hatch, develop, bring
- up.
- induce, superinduce; suscitate|; cause &c. 153; acquire &c. 775.
- Adj. produced, producing &c. v.; productive of; prolific &c. 168;
- creative; formative, genetic, genial, genital; pregnant; enceinte, big
- with, fraught with; in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw,
- brought to bed of; puerperal, puerperous[obs3].
- digenetic[obs3], heterogenetic[obs3], oogenetic, xenogenetic[obs3];
- ectogenous[obs3], gamic[obs3], haematobious[obs3], sporogenous[Biol],
- sporophorous[Biol].
- architectonic.
- Phr. ex nihilo nihil[Lat]; fiat lux[Lat]; materiam superabat opus
- [Lat][Ovid]; nemo dat quod non habet [Latin].
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- #162. [Nonproduction.] Destruction.-- N. {ant. 161} destruction;
- waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption[obs3], disruption; consumption;
- disorganization.
- fall, downfall, devastation, ruin, perdition, crash;
- eboulement[French], smash, havoc, delabrement[French], debacle; break down,
- break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement[Fr], wreck,
- wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout.
- extinction, annihilation; destruction of life &c. 361; knock-down
- blow; doom, crack of doom.
- destroying &c. v.; demolition, demolishment; overthrow, subversion,
- suppression; abolition &c. (abrogation) 756; biblioclasm[obs3]; sacrifice;
- ravage, razzia[obs3]; inactivation; incendiarism; revolution &c. 146;
- extirpation &c. (extraction) 301; beginning of the end, commencement de la
- fin[French], road to ruin; dilapidation &c. (deterioration) 659; sabotage.
- V. be destroyed &c.; perish; fall to the ground; tumble, topple; go to
- pieces, fall to pieces; break up; crumble to dust; go to the dogs, go to
- the wall, go to smash, go to shivers, go to wreck, go to pot, go to wrack
- and ruin; go by the board, go all to smash; be all over, be all up, be all
- with; totter to its fall.
- destroy; do away with, make away with; nullify; annual &c. 756;
- sacrifice, demolish; tear up; overturn, overthrow, overwhelm; upset,
- subvert, put an end to; seal the doom of, do in, do for, dish*, undo; break
- up, cut up; break down, cut down, pull down, mow down, blow down, beat
- down; suppress, quash, put down, do a job on; cut short, take off, blot
- out; dispel, dissipate, dissolve; consume.
- smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver;
- batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to
- pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate[obs3]; nip; tear to rags,
- tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw
- over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck,
- engulf, ingulf[obs3], submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away,
- erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground;
- waste; atomize, vaporize.
- deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut;
- disorganize; dismantle &c. (render useless) 645; devour, swallow up, sap,
- mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound;
- exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out,
- trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under
- foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make
- short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and
- branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to
- the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of,
- spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs;
- eradicate &c. 301.
- Adj. destroyed &c. v.; perishing &c. v.; trembling to its fall,
- nodding to its fall, tottering to its fall; in course of destruction &c.
- n.; extinct.
- all-destroying, all-devouring, all-engulfing.
- destructive, subversive, ruinous, devastating; incendiary, deletory|;
- destroying &c. n. suicidal; deadly &c. (killing) 361.
- Adv. with crushing effect, with a sledge hammer.
- Phr. delenda est Carthago[Lat]; dum Roma deliberat Saguntum
- perit[Lat]; ecrasez l'infame [Fr][Voltaire].
-
- #163. Reproduction.-- N. reproduction, renovation; restoration &c.
- 660; renewal; new edition, reprint, revival, regeneration,
- palingenesis[obs3], revivification; apotheosis; resuscitation, reanimation,
- resurrection, reappearance; regrowth; Phoenix.
- generation &c. (production) 161; multiplication.
- V. reproduce; restore &c. 660; revive, renovate, renew, regenerate,
- revivify, resuscitate, reanimate; remake, refashion, stir the embers, put
- into the crucible; multiply, repeat; resurge[obs3].
- crop up, spring up like mushrooms.
- Adj. reproduced &c. v.; renascent, reappearing; reproductive;
- suigenetic[obs3].
-
- #164. Producer.-- N. producer, originator, inventor, author, founder,
- generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover; maker &c. (agent) 690;
- prime mover.
-
- #165. Destroyer.-- N. destroyer &c. (destroy &c. 162); cankerworm &c.
- (bane) 663; assassin &c. (killer) 361; executioner &c. (punish) 975;
- biblioclast[obs3], eidoloclast[obs3], iconoclast, idoloclast[obs3];
- nihilist.
-
- #166. Paternity.-- N. paternity; parentage; consanguinity &c. 11.
- parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba[obs3]; genitor,
- progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire[obs3], grandfather; great-
- grandfather; fathership[obs3], fatherhood; mabap[obs3].
- house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line,
- family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth,
- ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.
- motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias[Lat],
- grandmother.
- Adj. paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear,
- patriarchal.
- Phr. avi numerantur avorum[Lat]; "happy he with such a mother"
- [Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo[Sp][obs3]; philosophia
- stemma non inspicit [Lat][Seneca].
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- #167. Posterity.-- N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring,
- brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs;
- great-grandchild.
- child, son, daughter; butcha[obs3]; bantling, scion; acrospire[obs3],
- plumule[obs3], shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit[obs3], branch; off-shoot,
- off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-
- presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.
- straight descent, sonship[obs3], line, lineage, filiation[obs3],
- primogeniture.
- Adj. filial; diphyletic[obs3].
- Phr. "the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth]; "the fruit doesn't
- fall far from the tree", "like father, like son".
-
- #168. Productiveness -- N. productiveness &c. adj.; fecundity,
- fertility, luxuriance, uberty|.
- pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation,
- procreation; superfetation.
- milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk
- and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth[obs3];
- arrish[obs3], eddish[obs3], rowen[obs3]; protoplasm; fertilization.
- V. make -productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate,
- fertilize, spermative[obs3], impregnate; fecundate, fecundify[obs3]; teem,
- multiply; produce &c. 161; conceive.
- Adj. productive, prolific; teeming, teemful[obs3]; fertile, fruitful,
- frugiferous[obs3], fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant,
- uberous[obs3].
- procreant[obs3], procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic;
- multiparous; omnific[obs3], propagable.
- parturient &c. (producing) 161; profitable &c. (useful) 644.
-
- #169. Unproductiveness.-- N. unproductiveness &c. adj.; infertility,
- sterility, infecundity[obs3]; masturbation; impotence &c. 158;
- unprofitableness &c. (inutility) 645.
- waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.
- V. be - unproductive &c. adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to
- nothing.
- [make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.
- Adj. unproductive, acarpous[obs3], inoperative, barren, addled,
- infertile, unfertile, unprolific[obs3], arid, sterile, unfruitful,
- infecund[obs3]; sine prole; fallow; teemless[obs3], issueless[obs3],
- fruitless; unprofitable &c. (useless) 645; null and void, of no effect.
-
- #170. Agency.-- N. agency, operation, force, working, strain,
- function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play;
- interworking[obs3], interaction; procurement.
- causation &c. 153; instrumentality &c. 631; influence &c. 175; action
- &c. (voluntary) 680; modus operandi &c. 627.
- quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke.
- V. be -in action &c. adj.; operate, work; act, act upon; perform,
- play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.
- come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring
- to bear upon.
- Adj. operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual.
- at work, on foot; acting &c. (doing) 680; in operation, in force, in
- action, in play, in exercise; acted upon, wrought upon.
- Adv. by the -agency &c. n.- of; through &c. (instrumentality) 631; by
- means of &c. 632.
- Phr. "I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair"
- [Tennyson].
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- #171. Physical Energy.-- N. energy, physical energy, force, power &c.
- 157; keenness &c. adj.; intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high
- pressure; fire; rush.
- acrimony, acritude[obs3]; causiticity[obs3], virulence; poignancy;
- harshness &c. adj.; severity, edge, point; pungency &c. 392.
- cantharides; seasoning &c. (condiment) 393.
- activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition,
- splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy &c. 682;
- quicksilver.
- resolution &c. (mental energy) 604; exertion &c. (effort) 686;
- excitation &c. (mental) 824.
- V. give -energy &c. n.; energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert;
- sharpen, intensify; inflame &c. (render violent) 173; wind up &c.
- (strengthen) 159.
- strike home, into home, hard home; make an impression.
- Adj. strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe,
- keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.
- rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant,
- harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted[obs3], double-distilled;
- drastic, escharotic|; racy &c. (pungent) 392.
- potent &c. (powerful) 157; radioactive.
- Adv. strongly &c. adj.; fortiter in re[Lat]; with telling effect.
- Phr. the steam is up; vires acquirit eundo[Lat]; "the race by vigor
- not by vaunts is won" [Pope].
-
- #172. Physical Inertness.-- N. inertness, dullness &c. adj.; inertia,
- vis inertiae[Latin], inertion[obs3], inactivity, torpor, languor;
- quiescence &c. 265; latency, inaction; passivity.
- mental inertness; sloth &c. (inactivity) 683; inexcitability &c.
- 826[obs3]; irresolution &c. 605; obstinacy &c. 606; permanence &c. 141.
- rare gas, paraffin, noble metal, unreactivity.
- V. be -inert &c. adj.; hang fire, smolder.
- Adj. inert, inactive, passive; torpid &c. 683; sluggish, dull, heavy,
- flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead,
- uninfluential[obs3].
- latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted[obs3].
- Adv. inactively &c. adj.; in suspense, in abeyance.
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- #173. Violence.-- N. violence, inclemency, vehemence, might,
- impetuosity; boisterousness &c. adj.; effervescence, ebullition;
- turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump [obs3][U. S.], riot, row, rumpus,
- le diable a quatre[Fr], devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.
- severity &c. 739; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation,
- malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia[obs3]; force, brute
- force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog[obs3]; spasm, convulsion,
- throe; hysterics, passion &c. (state of excitability) 825.
- outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience[obs3],
- discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption,
- displosion|, torrent.
- turmoil &c. (disorder) 59; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; storm,
- tempest, rough weather; squall &c. (wind) 349; earthquake, volcano,
- thunderstorm.
- berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame,
- Tisiphone[obs3], Megaera, Alecto[obs3], madcap, wild beast; fire eater &c.
- (blusterer) 887.
- V. be -violent &c. adj.; run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage,
- go on a rampage; run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush,
- tear; rush headlong, rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot; rough
- house*; riot, storm; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod, Herod;
- spread like wildfire.
- [(person) shout or act in anger at something] explode, make a row,
- kick up a row; boil, boil over; fume, foam, come on like a lion, bluster,
- rage, roar, fly off the handle, go bananas, go ape, blow one's top, blow
- one's cool, flip one's lid, hit the ceiling, hit the roof; fly into a rage
- (anger) 900..
- break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode|,
- fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, crump[obs3], flash, flare, burst; shock,
- strain; break open, force open, prize open.
- render violent &c. adj.; sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite,
- annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle,
- suscitate|, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate,
- convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the
- flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino[Lat].
- explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off,
- detonize[obs3], fulminate.
- Adj. violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle,
- bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.
- turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging &c. v.; troublous[obs3],
- riotous; tumultuary[obs3], tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious;
- extravagant; unmitigated; ravening, inextinguishable, tameless; frenzied
- &c. (insane) 503. desperate &c. (rash) 863; infuriate, furious, outrageous,
- frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.
- fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.
- savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.
- excited &c. v.; unquelled[obs3], unquenched, unextinguished[obs3],
- unrepressed, unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable,
- immitigable, unmitigable[obs3]; uncontrollable, incontrollable[obs3];
- insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic, orgasmatic, orgasmic.
- spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating &c. v.; volcanic,
- meteoric; stormy &c. (wind) 349.
- Adv. violently &c. adj.; amain[obs3]; by storm, by force, by main
- force; with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis[Lat], at the point
- of the sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high
- hand, through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a
- outrance[obs3], a toute outrance[Fr][obs3]; headlong, head foremost.
- Phr. furor arma ministrat[Lat]; "blown with restless violence round
- about the pendent world" [Measure for Measure].
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- #174. Moderation.-- N. moderation, lenity &c. 740; temperateness,
- gentleness &c. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness &c. (inexcitability)
- 826[obs3].
- moderating &c. v.; anaphrodisia[obs3]; relaxation, remission,
- mitigation, tranquilization[obs3], assuagement, contemporation[obs3],
- pacification.
- measure, juste milieu[Fr], golden mean, <gr/ariston metron/gr>[Grk].
- moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic,
- carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk,
- opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.
- V. be -moderate &c. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compass;
- sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.
- moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy|; attemper[obs3],
- contemper[obs3]; mollify, lenify[obs3], dulcify[obs3], dull, take off the
- edge, blunt, obtund[obs3], sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down,
- smooth down; weaken &c. 160; lessen &c. (decrease) 36; check palliate.
- tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose,
- still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame,
- damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep,
- deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off;
- slake; curb &c. (restrain) 751; tame &c. (subjugate) 749; smooth over; pour
- oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre
- de l'eau dans son vin[Fr].
- go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"
- [Midsummer-Night's Dream].
- Adj. moderate; lenient &c. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober,
- temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered &c. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet,
- tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable;
- pacific, halcyon.
- unexciting, unirritating[obs3]; soft, bland, oily, demulcent,
- lenitive, anodyne; hypnotic &c. 683; sedative; antiorgastic[obs3],
- anaphrodisiac[obs3].
- mild as mother's milk; milk and water.
- Adv. moderately &c. adj.; gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half
- speed; within bounds, within compass; in reason.
- Phr. est modue in rebus[obs3]; pour oil on troubled waters.
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- 4. Indirect Power
-
- #175. Influence.-- N. influence; importance &c. 642; weight, pressure,
- preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy[obs3];
- ascendency[obs3]; dominance, reign; control, domination, pull*; authority
- &c.737; capability &c. (power) 157; effect &c. 154; interest.
- synergy (cooperation) 709.
- footing; purchase &c. (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.
- tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices.
- V. have -influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight,
- weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work
- upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.
- run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over
- weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife &c. adj.; spread
- like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper
- hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.
- be recognized, be listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing;
- play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead,
- pull the strings; turn the scale, throw one's weight into the scale; set
- the fashion, lead the dance.
- Adj. influential, effective; important &c. 642; weighty; prevailing
- &c. v.; prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the
- ascendant, hegemonical[obs3].
- Adv. with telling effect.
- Phr. tel maure tel valet[Fr].
-
- #175a. Absence of Influence.-- N. impotence &c. 158; powerlessness;
- inertness &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10.
- V. have no -influence &c. 175.
- Adj. uninfluential[obs3], ineffective; inconsequential, nugatory;
- unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to[obs3]; powerless &c. 158;
- irrelevant &c. 10.
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- #176. Tendency.-- N. tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness,
- proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition,
- inclination, propensity, susceptibility; conatus[Lat], nisus[Lat];
- liability &c. 177; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy[obs3],
- idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift &c. (direction) 278;
- conduciveness, conducement[obs3]; applicability &c. (utility) 644;
- subservience &c. (instrumentality) 631.
- V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to,
- trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote
- &c. (aid) 707.
- Adj. tending &c. v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to,
- calculated to; liable &c. 177; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631; useful
- &c. 644; subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
- Adv. for, whither.
-
- #177. Liability.-- N. liability, liableness[obs3]; possibility,
- contingency; susceptivity[obs3], susceptibility, exposure.
- V. be -liable &c. adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance,
- stand a chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to.
- Adj. liable, subject; in danger &c. 665; open to, exposed to,
- obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from[obs3]; apt to; dependent on;
- incident to.
- contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at
- the mercy of.
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- 5. Combinations of Causes
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- #178. Concurrence.-- N. concurrence, cooperation, coagency[obs3];
- union; agreement &c. 23; consilience[obs3]; consent, coincidence &c.
- (assent) 488; alliance; concert, additivity, synergy &c. 709; partnership
- &c. 712.
- common cause.
- V. concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together,
- pull together, join forces, make common cause.
- &c. (cooperate) 709; help to &c. (aid) 707.
- keep pace with, run parallel; go with, go along with, go hand in hand
- with, coincide.
- Adj. concurring &c. v.; concurrent, in alliance with, banded together,
- of one mind, at one with, coinciding.
- Adv. with one consent.
-
- #179. Counteraction.-- N. counteraction, opposition; contrariety &c.
- 14; antagonism, polarity; clashing &c. v.; collision, interference,
- inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction &c.
- (recoil) 277; counterblast[obs3]; neutralization &c. (compensation) 30; vis
- inertiae[Lat]; check &c. (hindrance) 706.
- voluntary opposition &c. 708, voluntary resistance &c. 719; repression
- &c. (restraint) 751.
- opposites, action and reaction, yang and yin, yang-yin (contrariety)
- 14.
- V. counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict
- with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate
- against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose &c. 708; traverse; withstand
- &c. (resist) 719; hinder &c. 706; repress &c. (restrain) 751; react &c.
- (recoil) 277.
- undo, neutralize; counterpoise &c. (compensate) 30; overpoise[obs3].
- Adj. counteracting &c. v.; antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive,
- renitent, reactionary; contrary &c. 14.
- Adv. although &c. 30; in spite of &c. 708; against.
- Phr. "for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and
- opposite in direction" [Newton].
-
- <-- p. 54 -->
- %
- CLASS II
-
- WORDS RELATING TO SPACE
-
- SECTION I. S P A C E I N G E N E R A L
-
- 1. ABSTRACT SPACE
- %
- <-- dimensions must be broken down separately -->
- #180. [Indefinite space.] Space.-- N. space, extension, extent,
- superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range,
- field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.
- dimension, length &c. 200; distance &c. 196; size &c. 192; volume;
- hypervolume.
- latitude, play, leeway, purchase, tolerance, room for maneuver.
- spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage[obs3], margin;
- opening, sphere, arena.
- open space, free space; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wildness,
- wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna[obs3].
- abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited space; infinity &c. 105; world;
- ubiquity &c. (presence) 186; length and breadth of the land.
- proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches,
- hectares, square miles; square inches, square yards, square centimeters,
- square meters, yards (clothing) &c.; ares, arpents[obs3].
- Adj. spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample;
- widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless &c. (infinite)
- 105; shoreless[obs3], trackless, pathless; extended.
- Adv. extensively &c. adj.; wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and
- wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world,
- throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every
- quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from
- pole to pole, from China to Peru [Johnson], from Indus to the pole [Pope],
- from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the
- wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the
- uttermost parts of the earth.
-
- #180a. Inextension.-- N. inextension[obs3], nonextension[obs3], point;
- dot; atom &c. (smallness) 32.
-
- #181. [Definite space.] Region.-- N. region, sphere, ground, soil,
- area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit,
- circle; reservation, pale &c. (limit) 233; compartment, department;
- clearing.
- [political divisions: see property &c. 780 and Government &c. 737a.].
- arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel,
- inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street &c.
- (abode) 189.
- clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.
- biosphere; lithosphere.
- Adj. territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.
-
- #182. [Limited space.] Place.-- N. place, lieu, spot, point, dot;
- niche, nook &c. (corner) 244; hole; pigeonhole &c. (receptacle) 191;
- compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode
- &c. 189; locality &c. (situation) 183.
- ins and outs; every hole and corner.
- Adv. somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in
- various places, passim.
-
- 2. RELATIVE SPACE
-
- #183. Situation.-- N. situation, position, locality, locale, status,
- latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect,
- attitude, posture, pose.
- environment, surroundings (location) 184; circumjacence &c. 227[obs3].
- place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings &c.
- (direction) 278; spot &c. (limited space) 182.
- topography, geography, chorography[obs3]; map &c. 554.
- V. be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in.
- Adj. situate, situated; local, topical, topographical &c. n.
- Adv. in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; hereabouts,
- thereabouts, whereabouts; in place, here, there.
- in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in
- such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and
- such environs, amidst such and such entourage.
-
- #184. Location.-- N. location, localization; lodgment; deposition,
- reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment,
- settlement, installation; fixation; insertion &c. 300.
- habitat, environment, surroundings (situation) 183; circumjacence &c.
- 227[obs3].
- anchorage, mooring, encampment.
- plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization,
- domestication, situation; habitation &c. (abode) 189; cohabitation; "a
- local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; endenization[obs3],
- naturalization.
- V. place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set,
- seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix,
- pin, root; graft; plant &c. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down,
- deposit, reposit[obs3]; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed,
- imbed; vest, invest in.
- billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put
- up, bag.
- inhabit &c. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike
- root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down;
- settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself,
- establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher[Fr],
- bivouac, burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up
- one's horses at; keep house.
- endenizen[obs3], naturalize, adopt.
- put back, replace &c. (restore) 660.
- Adj. placed &c. v.; situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded,
- embosomed[obs3], rooted; domesticated; vested in, unremoved[obs3].
- moored &c. v.; at anchor.
-
- #185. Displacement.-- N. displacement, elocation[obs3], transposition.
- ejectment &c. 297[obs3]; exile &c. (banishment) 893; removal &c.
- (transference) 270.
- misplacement, dislocation &c. 61; fish out of water.
- V. displace, misplace, displant[obs3], dislodge, disestablish; exile
- &c. (seclude) 893; ablegate[obs3], set aside, remove; take away, cart away;
- take off, draft off; lade &c. 184.
- unload, empty &c. (eject) 297; transfer &c. 270; dispel.
- vacate; depart &c. 293.
- Adj. displaced &c. v.; unplaced, unhoused[obs3], unharbored[obs3],
- unestablished[obs3], unsettled; houseless[obs3], homeless; out of place,
- out of a situation; in the wrong place.
- misplaced, out of its element.
-
- 3. EXISTENCE IN SPACE
-
- #186. Presence.-- N. presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance;
- whereness[obs3].
- permeation, pervasion; diffusion &c. (dispersion) 73.
- ubiety[obs3], ubiquity, ubiquitariness[obs3]; omnipresence.
- bystander &c. (spectator) 444.
- V. exist in space, be present &c. adj.; assister[obs3]; make one of,
- make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show
- one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be
- there.
- people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge,
- nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode &c. (be located) 184; tenant.
- resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit.
- fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through;
- over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.
- Adj. present; occupying, inhabiting &c. v.; moored &c. 184;
- resiant[obs3], resident, residentiary[obs3]; domiciled.
- ubiquitous, ubiquitary[obs3]; omnipresent; universally present.
- peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited.
- Adv. here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home,
- afield; here there and everywhere &c. (space) 180; in presence of, before;
- under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria
- persona[Lat].
- on the spot; in person, in the flesh.
- Phr. nusquam est qui ubique est [Lat][Seneca].
-
- <-- p. 56 -->
-
- #187. [Nullibiety.1] Absence.-- N. absence; inexistence &c. 2[obs3];
- nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi.
- emptiness &c. adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa[Lat];
- exemption; hiatus &c. (interval) 198; lipotype|!.
- truant, absentee.
- nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive[Fr].
- V. be absent &c. adj.; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant,
- absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof.
- withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away &c. 293.
- Adj. absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing;
- lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence &c. 2[obs3].
- empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited;
- tenantless; barren, sterile; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.
- Adv. without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in
- default of; sans; behind one's back.
- Phr. the bird has flown, non est inventus[Lat].
- "absence makes the heart grow fonder" [Bayley]; "absent in body but
- present in spirit" [1 Corinthians v, 3]; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit
- [Lat][Propertius]; "Achilles absent was Achilles still" [Homer]; aux
- absents les os; briller par son absence[Fr]; "conspicuous by his absence"
- [Russell]; "in the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet"
- [B. Jonson].
-
- #188. Inhabitant.-- N. inhabitant; resident, residentiary[obs3];
- dweller, indweller[obs3]; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder,
- lodger, inmate, tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens,
- commorant[obs3]; settler, squatter, backwoodsman, colonist; islander;
- denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan[obs3], cockney, cit, townsman, burgess;
- villager; cottager, cottier[obs3], cotter; compatriot; backsettler[obs3],
- boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying guest; planter.
- native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones[obs3]; Englishman, John
- Bull; newcomer &c. (stranger) 57.
- aboriginal, American[obs3], Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck*,
- downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle
- Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
- garrison, crew; population; people &c. (mankind) 372; colony,
- settlement; household; mir[obs3].
- V. inhabit &c. (be present) 186; endenizen &c. (locate oneself)
- 184[obs3].
- Adj. indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal[obs3], autochthonous;
- British; English; American[obs3]; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh;
- domestic; domiciliated[obs3], domiciled; naturalized, vernacular,
- domesticated; domiciliary.
- in the occupation of; garrisoned by, occupied by.
-
- <-- 1. Bishop Wilkins. -->
-
- <-- p. 57 -->
-
- #189. [Place of habitation, or resort.] Abode.-- N. abode, dwelling,
- lodging, domicile, residence, apartment, place, digs, pad, address,
- habitation, where one's lot is cast, local habitation, berth, diggings,
- seat,
- lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance|, tabernacle,
- throne, ark.
- home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall[obs3]; fireside;
- hearth, hearth stone; chimney corner, inglenook, ingle side; harem,
- seraglio, zenana[obs3]; household gods, lares et penates[Lat], roof,
- household, housing, dulce domum[Lat], paternal domicile; native soil,
- native land.
- habitat, range, stamping ground; haunt, hangout; biosphere;
- environment, ecological niche.
- nest, nidus, snuggery[obs3]; arbor, bower, &c. 191; lair, den, cave,
- hole, hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum[Lat], aerie, eyrie, eyry[obs3],
- rookery, hive; covert, resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala
- jagah[obs3].
- bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation[obs3]; barrack,
- casemate[obs3], casern[obs3].
- tent &c. (covering) 223; building &c. (construction) 161; chamber &c.
- (receptacle) 191; xenodochium[obs3].
- tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft[obs3].
- cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel,
- bothy[obs3], shanty, dugout [U.S.], wigwam; pen &c. (inclosure) 232; barn,
- bawn[obs3]; kennel, sty, doghold[obs3], cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house,
- cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary[obs3], columbarium; shippen[obs3];
- igloo, iglu[obs3], jacal[obs3]; lacustrine dwelling[obs3], lacuslake
- dwelling[obs3], lacuspile dwelling[obs3]; log cabin, log house; shack,
- shebang*, tepee, topek[obs3].
- house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in
- urbe[Lat], folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court,
- manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa[Sp],
- country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house,
- tenement house; temple &c. 1000.
- hamlet, village, thorp[obs3], dorp[obs3], ham, kraal; borough, burgh,
- town, city, capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town,
- county seat; courthouse [U.S.]; ghetto.
- street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda[obs3], board walk,
- embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd[Scot],
- close, yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.
- square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade,
- peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market
- place, place, plaza.
- anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.
- quarter, parish &c. (region) 181.
- assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn;
- hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow[obs3], khan,
- hospice; public house, pub, pot house, mug house; gin mill, gin palace;
- bar, bar room; barrel house* [U.S.], cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse;
- cookshop[obs3], dive [U.S.], exchange [euphemism, U.S.]; grill room, saloon
- [U.S.], shebeen[obs3]; coffee house, eating house; canteen, restaurant,
- buffet, cafe, estaminet[obs3], posada[obs3]; almshouse[obs3], poorhouse,
- townhouse [U.S.].
- garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance[obs3], demesne.
- [quarters for animals] cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn,
- stall; zoo.
- V. take up one's abode &c. (locate oneself) 184; inhabit &c. (be
- present) 186.
- Adj. urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic;
- domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.
- Phr. eigner Hert ist goldes Werth[Ger]; "even cities have their
- graves" [Longfellow]; ubi libertas ibi patria[Lat]; home sweet home.
-
- #190. [Things contained.] Contents.-- N. contents; cargo, lading,
- freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload[obs3], shipload; cup
- of, basket of, &c. (receptacle) 191 of; inside &c. 221.; stuffing, ullage.
-
- #191. Receptacle. -- N. receptacle; inclosure &c. 232; recipient,
- receiver, reservatory.
- compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess,
- nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave &c. (concavity) 252.
- capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder;
- pericarp, udder.
- stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard,
- breadbasket; mouth.
- pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule,
- wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel,
- reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags;
- portfolio; quiver &c. (magazine) 636.
- chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk,
- bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack
- [U.S.]; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.
- vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier,
- buck-basket, hopper, maund|, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket,
- whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle,
- utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon.
- [For liquids] cistern &c. (store) 636; vat, caldron, barrel, cask,
- drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy,
- amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen,
- flagon; demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet,
- caster; urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin;
- tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug,
- pitcher, mug, pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort,
- alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl,
- cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet,
- posnet|, tureen.
- [laboratory vessels for liquids] beaker, flask, Erlenmeyer flask,
- Florence flask, round-bottom flask, graduated cylinder, test tube, culture
- tube, pipette, Pasteur pipette, disposable pipette, syringe, vial, carboy,
- vacuum flask, Petri dish, microtiter tray, centrifuge tube.
- bail, beaker, billy, canakin; catch basin, catch drain; chatti, lota,
- mussuk, schooner [U.S.], spider, terrine, toby, urceus.
- plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer,
- pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics.
- compote, gravy boat, creamer, sugar bowl, butter dish, mug, pitcher,
- punch bowl, chafing dish.
- shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch
- glass, thimble.
- closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin,
- bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of
- drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire|, secretary,
- secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury; escritoire, etagere,
- vargueno, vitrine.
- chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of
- rooms, apartment [U.S.], flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room,
- cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing
- room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box;
- boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room,
- salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room,
- smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.
- [room for defecation and urination] bath room, bathroom, toilet,
- lavatory, powder room; john, jakes, necessary, loo; [in public places]
- men's room, ladies' room, rest room; [fixtures: see 653 (uncleanness)].
- attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold,
- cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor,
- rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery,
- offices; storeroom &c. (depository) 636; lumber room; dairy, laundry.
- coach house; garage; hangar; outhouse; penthouse; lean-to.
- portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck;
- lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway;
- ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza [=veranda, U.S.].
- conservatory, greenhouse, bower, arbor, summerhouse, alcove, grotto,
- hermitage.
- lodging &c. (abode) 189; bed &c. (support) 215; carriage &c. (vehicle)
- 272.
- Adj. capsular; saccular, sacculated; recipient; ventricular, cystic,
- vascular, vesicular, cellular, camerated, locular, multilocular,
- polygastric; marsupial; siliquose, siliquous.
-
- %
- SECTION II. DIMENSIONS
-
- 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS
- %
-
- #192. Size.-- N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness
- &c. adj.; greatness &c. (of quantity) 31; expanse &c. (space) 180;
- amplitude, mass; proportions.
- capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.
- turgidity &c. (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness &c.
- adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.
- hugeness &c. adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.
- giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua,
- monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan,
- elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass,
- swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton
- among the minnows" [Coriolanus].
- mountain, mound; heap &c. (assemblage) 72.
- largest portion &c. 50; full size, life size.
- V. be large &c. adj.; become large &c. (expand) 194.
- Adj. large, big; great &c. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky,
- voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious &c.
- 180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.
- corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping,
- bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed;
- stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in
- condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.
- lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking,
- whopping, walloping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy &c.
- (swollen) 194.
- huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous,
- stupendous; monster, monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo,
- mammoth; gigantic, gigantean, giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious,
- colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, Herculean, Gargantuan;
- infinite &c. 105.
- large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a
- pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.
- immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable,
- unheard-of.
- of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh
- granddaddy of all.
-
- <-- p. 59 -->
-
- #193. Littleness.-- N. littleness &c. adj.; smallness &c. (of
- quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension[obs3]; parvitude[obs3], parvity[obs3];
- duodecimo[obs3]; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing
- point; thinness &c. 203.
- dwarf, pygmy, pigmy[obs3], Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon[obs3], urchin,
- elf; atomy[obs3], dandiprat[obs3]; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-
- thumb[obs3]; manikin, mannikin; homunculus, dapperling[obs3], cock-sparrow.
- animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet[obs3], fly, midge, gnat,
- shrimp, minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon[obs3]; bacteria; infusoria[obs3];
- microzoa[Microbiol]; phytozoaria[obs3]; microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt,
- mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of
- sand; molehill, button, bubble.
- point; atom &c. (small quantity) 32; fragment &c. (small part) 51;
- powder &c. 330; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae &c.
- (unimportance) 643.
- micrometer; vernier; scale.
- microphotography, photomicrography, micrography[obs3];
- photomicrograph, microphotograph; microscopy; microscope (optical
- instruments) 445..
- V. be little &c. adj.; lie in a nutshell; become small &c. (decrease)
- 36, (contract) 195.
- Adj. little; small &c. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive,
- microscopic; microzoal; inconsiderable &c. (unimportant) 643; exiguous,
- puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin[obs3], miniature, pygmy, pigmy[obs3],
- elfin; undersized; dwarf, dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited;
- cramp, cramped; pollard, Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative[obs3],
- portable; duodecimo[obs3]; dumpy, squat; short &c. 201.
- impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible,
- inappreciable, insignificant, inconsiderable, trivial; infinitesimal,
- homoeopathic[obs3]; atomic, subatomic, corpuscular, molecular; rudimentary,
- rudimental; embryonic, vestigial.
- weazen|!, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin &c. (narrow) 203; granular &c.
- (powdery) 330; shrunk &c. 195; brevipennate[obs3].
- Adv. in a small compass, in a nutshell; on a small scale; minutely,
- microscopically.
-
- #194. Expansion.-- N. expansion; increase &c. 35 of size; enlargement,
- extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation[obs3]; aggrandizement,
- spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation,
- rarefaction; turgescence[obs3], turgidness, turgidity; dispansion|; obesity
- &c. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus[Med]; dropsy, tumefaction,
- intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness;
- inflation; pandiculation[obs3].
- dilatability, expansibility.
- germination, growth, upgrowth[obs3]; accretion &c. 35; budding,
- gemmation[obs3].
- overgrowth, overdistension[obs3]; hypertrophy, tympany[obs3].
- bulb &c. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.
- [expansion of the universe] big bang; Hubble constant.
- V. become larger &c. (large &c. 192); expand, widen, enlarge, extend,
- grow, increase, incrassate[obs3], swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take
- open order, dilate, stretch, distend, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring
- up; bud, bourgeon[Fr], shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate,
- pullulate, open, burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread
- like wildfire, overrun.
- be larger than; surpass &c. (be superior) 33.
- render larger &c. (large &c. 192); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize,
- distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate,
- puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.
- Adj. expanded &c. v.; larger &c. (large &c. 192; swollen; expansive;
- wide open, wide spread; flabelliform[obs3]; overgrown, exaggerated,
- bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag
- bellied|; edematous, oedematous[obs3], obese, puffy, pursy[obs3], blowzy,
- bigswoln[obs3], distended; patulous; bulbous &c. (convex) 250; full blown,
- full grown, full formed; big &c. 192; abdominous[obs3], enchymatous[obs3],
- rhipidate[obs3]; tumefacient[obs3], tumefying[obs3].
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- #195. Contraction.-- N. contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease
- &c. 36 of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking &c. v.;
- compaction; tabes[obs3], collapse, emaciation, attenuation,
- tabefaction[obs3], consumption, marasmus[obs3], atrophy; systole, neck,
- hourglass.
- condensation, compression, compactness; compendium &c. 596; squeezing
- &c. v.; strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics;
- contractility, compressibility; coarctation[obs3].
- inferiority in size.
- V. become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease &c. 36; grow less,
- dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh,
- wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay &c. (deteriorate) 659.
- be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to &c. (be inferior) 34.
- render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow,
- coarctate[obs3]; boil down; constrict, constringe[obs3]; condense,
- compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse
- up, pack, squeeze, stow; pinch, tighten, strangle; cramp; dwarf,
- bedwarf[obs3]; shorten &c. 201; circumscribe &c. 229; restrain &c. 751.
- [reduce in size by abrasion or paring. see subtraction 38] abrade,
- pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind
- down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.
- Adj. contracting &c. v.; astringent; shrunk, contracted &c. v.;
- strangulated, tabid[obs3], wizened, stunted; waning &c. v.; neap, compact.
- unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194)[obs3]; contractile; compressible;
- smaller &c. (small &c.193).
-
- #196. Distance.-- N. distance; space &c. 180; remoteness,
- farness[obs3], far-cry to; longinquity[obs3], elongation; offing,
- background; remote region; removedness[obs3]; parallax; reach, span,
- stride.
- outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima
- Thule[Lat], ne plus ultra[Lat], antipodes; long range, giant's stride.
- dispersion &c.73.
- [units of distance] length &c. 200.
- cosmic distance, light-years.
- V. be distant &c. adj.; extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go
- to, get to, stretch away to; range.
- remain at a distance; keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of,
- stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of, stay away, keep one's
- distance'.
- [transitive] distance; distance oneself from.
- Adj. distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of;
- stretching to &c. v.; yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine[obs3],
- transpontine[obs3], transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane,
- ultramundane[obs3]; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way;
- unapproached[obs3], unapproachable; incontiguous[obs3].
- Adv. far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a
- great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of
- the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre
- mer[Fr], over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away "
- [Gay]; from pole to pole &c. (over great space) 180; to the uttermost
- parts, to the ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a
- perte de vue[Fr], out of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.
- apart, asunder; wide apart, wide asunder; longo intervallo[It]; at
- arm's length.
- Phr. "distance lends enchantment" [Campbell]; "it's a long long way to
- Tipperary"; out of sight, out of mind.
-
- #197. Nearness.-- N. nearness &c. adj.; proximity, propinquity;
- vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity &c. 199.
- short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters,
- stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.
- purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours[Fr], suburbs,
- confines, banlieue[obs3], borderland; whereabouts.
- bystander; neighbor, borderer[obs3].
- approach &c. 286; convergence 7c. 290; perihelion.
- V. be near &c. adj.; adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge
- upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug;
- huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn.
- touch &c. 199
- bring near, draw near &c. 286; converge &c. 290; crowd &c. 72; place
- side by side &c. adv.
- Adj. near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring;
- bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at
- hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.
- Adv. near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at
- the point of; next door to; within reach, within call,
- within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far
- from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts
- of; in the environs &c. n.; at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow,
- at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under
- one's nose; within a stone's throw &c. n.; in sight of, in presence of; at
- close quarters; cheek by jole[obs3], cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side
- by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition &c. (touching) 199; yardarm to
- yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering
- upon, verging to; in the way.
- about; hereabouts, thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers;
- approximately, approximatively[obs3]; as good as, well-nigh.
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- #198. Interval.-- N. interval, interspace[obs3]; separation &c. 44;
- break, gap, opening; hole &c. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption,
- interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek,
- cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure[obs3], rift, flaw, breach,
- rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.
- gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet,
- frith[obs3], strait, gully; pass; furrow &c. 259; abra[obs3];
- barranca[obs3], barranco[obs3]; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.];
- yawning gulf; hiatus maxime[Lat], hiatus valde deflendus[Lat]; parenthesis
- &c. (interjacence) 228[obs3]; void 7c. (absence) 187; incompleteness &c.
- 53.
- [interval of time] period &c. 108; interim (time) 106.
- V. gape &c. (open) 260.
- Adj. with an interval, far between; breachy[obs3], rimose[obs3],
- rimulose[obs3].
- Adv. at intervals &c. (discontinuously) 70; longo intervallo[It].
-
- #199. Contiguity.-- N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition,
- abuttal[obs3], juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse[obs3],
- rencontre[obs3], rencounter[obs3], syzygy[Astron], coincidence,
- coexistence; adhesion &c. 46; touching &c. v. (see touch 379).
- borderland; frontier &c. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.
- V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze,
- touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c. 46.
- [transitive][cause to be contiguous] juxtapose; contact; join (unite)
- 43; link (vinculum) 45.
- Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; conterminous, end
- to end, osculatory; pertingent|; tangential.
- hand to hand; close to &c. (near) 197; with no interval &c. 198.
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- #200. Length.-- N. length, longitude, span; mileage; distance &c. 196.
- line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
- lengthening &c. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension,
- tensure[obs3]; extension.
- [Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard,
- ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain, link; arpent[obs3],
- handbreadth[obs3], jornada [obs3][U.S.], kos[obs3], vara[obs3].
- [astronomical units of distance] astronomical unit, AU, light-year,
- parsec.
- [metric units of length] nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer,
- millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km.
- pedometer, perambulator; scale &c. (measurement) 466.
- V. be long &c. adj.; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch
- to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along."
- render long &c. adj.; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong,
- produce, protract; let out, draw out, spin out|!; drawl.
- enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
- distend (expand) 194.
- Adj. long, longsome[obs3]; lengthy, wiredrawn[obs3], outstretched;
- lengthened &c. v.; sesquipedalian &c. (words) 577; interminable, no end
- of; macrocolous[obs3].
- linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
- as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened &c.
- (shorten &c. 201)[obs3].
- Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong[obs3], along;
- tandem; in a line &c. (continuously) 69; in perspective.
- from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown
- of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.
-
-
-
- #201. Shortness.-- N. shortness &c. adj.; brevity; littleness &c. 193;
- a span.
- shortening &c. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature[obs3]; abridgment,
- concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation|; reduction &c.
- (contraction) 195; epitome &c. (compendium) 596.
- elision, ellipsis; conciseness &c. (in style) 572.
- abridger, epitomist[obs3], epitomizer[obs3].
- V. be short &c. adj.; render short &c. adj.; shorten, curtail,
- abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c. (contract) 195;
- epitomize &c. 596.
- retrench, cut short, obtruncate[obs3]; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack,
- hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap,
- crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of;
- foreshorten[in drawing].
- Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn,
- stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate[obs3];
- retrousse[obs3]; stocky; squab, squabby[obs3]; 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[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].
-
- #205. Filament.-- N. filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle[obs3],
- vein; hair, capillament[obs3], cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril,
- gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet[obs3], venula[obs3], venule[obs3].
- wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist,
- whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.
- strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband,
- roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.
- beard &c. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.
- Adj. filamentous, filamentiferous[obs3], filaceous[obs3],
- filiform[obs3]; fibrous, fibrillous[obs3]; thread-like, wiry, stringy,
- ropy; capillary, capilliform[obs3]; funicular, wire-drawn;
- anguilliform[obs3]; flagelliform[obs3]; hairy &c. (rough) 256;
- taeniate[obs3], taeniform[obs3], taenioid[obs3]; venose[obs3], venous.
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- #206. Height. -- N. height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch;
- loftiness &c. adj.; sublimity.
- tallness &c. adj.; stature, procerity[obs3]; prominence &c. 250.
- colossus &c. (size) 192; giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.
- mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle[obs3], fell,
- knap[obs3]; cape; headland, foreland[obs3]; promontory; ridge, hog's back,
- dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands,
- highlands; heights &c. (summit), 210; knob, loma[obs3], pena [obs3][U.S.],
- picacho[obs3], tump[obs3]; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole;
- steeps, bluff, cliff, craig[obs3], tor[obs3], peak, pike, clough[obs3];
- escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
- tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret,
- campanile, turret, dome, cupola;skyscraper.
- pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast.
- ceiling &c. (covering) 223.
- high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.
- altimetry &c. (angel) 244[obs3]; batophobia[obs3].
- satellite, spy-in-the-sky.
- V. be high &c. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover, hover over, fly
- over;orbit, be in orbit; cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend,
- beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover &c. 223; overtop &c.
- (be superior) 33; stand on tiptoe.
- become high &c. adj.; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow[obs3]; rise &c.
- (ascend) 305;send into orbit.
- render high &c. adj.; heighten &c. (elevate) 307.
- Adj. high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic &c. (big)
- 192; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated
- &c. 307; upper; highest &c. (topmost) 210; high reaching,
- insessorial[obs3], perching.
- upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine,
- subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt[obs3], cloudcapt[obs3],
- cloudtouching[obs3]; aerial.
- overhanging &c. v. ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent[obs3],
- supernatant, superimposed; prominent &c. c. 250.
- tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky &c.
- (thin) 203.
- Adv. on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead;
- airwind[obs3]; upstairs, abovestairs[obs3]; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on
- stilts, on the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.
- over, upwards; from top to bottom &c. (completely) 52.
- Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto[It].
-
- #207. Lowness. -- N. lowness &c. adj.; debasement, depression,
- prostration &c. (horizontal) 213; depression &c. (concave) 252.
- molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee[Fr];
- cellar; hold, bilge; feet, heels.
- low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.
- V. be low &c. adj.; lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch,
- wallow, grovel; lower &c. (depress) 308.
- Adj. low, neap, debased; nether, nether most; flat, level with the
- ground; lying low &c. v.; crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate &c.
- (horizontal) 213.
- Adv. under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown[obs3], at the
- foot of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb;
- below par.
-
- #208. Depth. -- N. depth; deepness &c. adj.; profundity, depression
- &c. (concavity) 252.
- hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf &c. 198; bowels of the earth,
- botttomless pit[obs3], hell.
- soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound,
- probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
- bathymetry.
- [instrument to measure depth] sonar, side-looking sonar;
- bathometer[obs3].
- V. be deep &c. adj.; render deep &c. adj.; deepen.
- plunge &c. 310; sound, fathom, plumb, cast the lead, heave the lead,
- take soundings, make soundings; dig &c. (excavate) 252.
- Adj. deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged &c. 310;
- subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene[obs3];
- underground.
- bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal;
- deep as a well; bathycolpian[obs3]; benthal[obs3], benthopelagic[obs3];
- downreaching[obs3], yawning.
- knee deep, ankle deep.
- Adv. beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears; mark
- twine, mark twain.
-
- #209. Shallowness. -- N. shallowness &c. adj.; shoals; mere scratch.
- Adj. shallow, slight, superficial; skin deep, ankle deep, knee deep;
- just enough to wet one's feet; shoal, shoaly[obs3].
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- #210. Summit. -- N. summit, summity|; top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith,
- pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height,
- pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point;
- turn of the tide, fountain head; water shed, water parting; sky, pole.
- tip, tip top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib; end &c. 67; crown,
- brow; head, nob[obs3], noddle[obs3], pate; capsheaf[obs3].
- high places, heights.
- topgallant mast, sky scraper; quarter deck, hurricane deck.
- architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus[obs3], capital,
- epistyle[obs3], sconce, pediment, entablature[obs3]; tympanum; ceiling &c.
- (covering) 223.
- attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story.
- [metaphorical use] summit conference, summit; peak of achievement,
- peak of performance; peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys [in graphs].
- V. culminate, crown, top; overtop &c. (be superior to) 33.
- Adj. highest &c. (high &c. 206); top; top most, upper most; tiptop;
- culminating &c. v.; meridian, meridional[obs3]; capital, head, polar,
- supreme, supernal, topgallant.
- Adv. atop, at the top of the tree.
- Phr. en flute; fleur deau[Fr].
-
- #211. Base. -- N. base, basement; plinth, dado, wainscot; baseboard,
- mopboard[obs3]; bedrock, hardpan [U.S.]; foundation &c. (support) 215;
- substructure, substratum, ground, earth, pavement, floor, paving, flag,
- carped, ground floor, deck; footing, ground work, basis; hold, bilge.
- bottom, nadir, foot, sole, toe, hoof, keel, root; centerboard.
- Adj. bottom, undermost, nethermost; fundamental; founded on, based on,
- grounded on, built on.
-
- #212. Verticality. -- N. verticality; erectness &c. adj.;
- perpendicularity &c. 216a; right angle, normal; azimuth circle.
- wall, precipice, cliff.
- elevation, erection; square, plumb line, plummet.
- V. be vertical &c. adj.; stand up, stand on end, stand erect, stand
- upright; stick up, cock up.
- render vertical &c. adj.; set up, stick up, raise up, cock up; erect,
- rear, raise on its legs.
- Adj. vertical, upright, erect, perpendicular, plumb, normal, straight,
- bolt, upright; rampant; standing up &c. v.; rectangular, orthogonal &c.
- 216a.
- Adv. vertically &c. adj.; up, on end; up on end, right on end; a
- plomb[Fr], endwise; one one's legs; at right angles.
-
- #213. Horizontality. -- N. horizontality[obs3]; flatness; level,
- plane; stratum &c. 204; dead level, dead flat; level plane.
- recumbency, lying down &c. v.; reclination[obs3], decumbence[obs3];
- decumbency[obs3], discumbency|; proneness &c. adj.; accubation[obs3],
- supination[obs3], resupination[obs3], prostration; azimuth.
- plain, floor, platform, bowling green; cricket ground; croquet ground,
- croquet lawn; billiard table; terrace, estrade[obs3], esplanade, parterre.
- [flat land area] table land, plateau, ledge; butte; mesa (plain) 344.
- [instrument to measure horizontality] level, spirit level.
- V. be horizontal &c. adj.; lie, recline, couch; lie down, lie flat,
- lie prostrate; sprawl, loll, sit down.
- render horizontal &c. adj.; lay down, lay out; level, flatten;
- prostrate, knock down, floor, fell.
- Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane; flat &c. 251; flat as a billiard
- table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond;
- smooth, smooth as glass.
- recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent[obs3]; lying &c. v.;
- prone, supine, couchant, jacent[obs3], prostrate, recubant[obs3].
- Adv. horizontally &c. adj.; on one's back, on all fours, on its beam
- ends.
-
- #214. Pendency. -- N. pendency[obs3], dependency; suspension, hanging
- &c. v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony
- tail, pendulum; hangnail
- peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook;;
- fastening &c. 45; spar, horse.
- V. be pendent &c. adj.; hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag;
- daggle[obs3], flap, trail, flow; beetle.
- suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append.
- Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting
- over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing.
- having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate[obs3], tailed, caudate.
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- #215. Support. -- N. support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra
- firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib[obs3]; point d'appui[Fr],
- <gr/pou sto/gr>[Grk][Grk], purchase footing, hold, locus standi[Lat];
- landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place;
- groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c.
- (basement) 211.
- supporter; aid &c. 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment|; cue rest,
- jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup,
- stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit[obs3],
- outrigger; ratlings[obs3].
- staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle[obs3]; bourdon[obs3],
- cowlstaff[obs3], lathi[obs3], mahlstick[obs3].
- post, pillar, shaft, thill[obs3], column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle;
- pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle[obs3], zocle[obs3]; buttress, jamb,
- mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone;
- upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.
- frame, framework; scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel,
- joist, travis[obs3], trave[obs3], corner stone, summer, transom; rung,
- round, step, sill; angle rafter, hip rafter; cantilever, modillion[obs3];;
- crown post, king post; vertebra.
- columella[obs3], backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch,
- mainstay.
- trunnion, pivot, rowlock[obs3]; peg &c. (pendency) 214[obs3]; tiebeam
- &c. (fastening) 45; thole pin[obs3].
- board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet[obs3], trivet, arbor, rack;
- mantel, mantle piece[Fr], mantleshelf[obs3]; slab, console; counter,
- dresser; flange, corbel ; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel,
- desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy[obs3].
- seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud[obs3]; chair, bench, form, stool,
- sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair;
- couch, fauteuil[Fr], woolsack[obs3], ottoman, settle, squab, bench;
- aparejo[obs3], faldstool[obs3], horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris
- chair; lamba chauki[obs3], lamba kursi[obs3]; saddle, pannel[obs3],
- pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.
- bed, berth, pallet, tester, crib, cot, hammock, shakedown,
- trucklebed[obs3], cradle, litter, stretcher, bedstead; four poster, French
- bed, bunk, kip, palang[obs3]; bedding, bichhona, mattress, paillasse[obs3];
- pillow, bolster; mat, rug, cushion.
- footstool, hassock; tabouret[obs3]; tripod, monopod.
- Atlas, Persides, Atlantes[obs3], Caryatides, Hercules.
- V. be supported &c.; lie on, sit on, recline on, lean on, loll on,
- rest on, stand on, step on, repose on, abut on, bear on, be based on &c.;
- have at one's back; bestride, bestraddle[obs3].
- support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up,
- bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear[obs3]; prop; under prop, under pin,
- under set; riprap; bandage &c. 43.
- give support, furnish support, afford support, supply support, lend
- support, give foundations, furnish foundations, afford foundations, supply
- foundations, lend foundations; bottom, found, base, ground, imbed, embed.
- maintain, keep on foot; aid &c. 707.
- Adj. supporting, supported &c. v.; fundamental; dorsigerous[obs3].
- Adv. astride on, straddle.
-
- #216. Parallelism. -- N. {ant. 216a} parallelism; coextension[obs3];
- equidistance[obs3]; similarity &c. 17.
- Adj. parallel; coextensive; equidistant.
- Adv. alongside &c. (laterally) 236.
-
- #216a. Perpendicularity -- N. {ant. 216} perpendicularity,
- orthogonality; verticality, &c. 212.
- V. be perpendicular, be orthogonal; intersect at right angles, be
- rectangular, be at right angles to, intersect at 90 degrees; have no
- correlation.
- Adj. orthogonal, perpendicular; rectangular; uncorrelated.
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- #217. Obliquity. -- N. obliquity, inclination, slope, slant,
- crookedness &c. adj.; slopeness[obs3]; leaning &c. v.; bevel, tilt; bias,
- list, twist, swag, cant, lurch; distortion &c. 243; bend &c. (curve) 245;
- tower of Pisa.
- acclivity, rise, ascent, gradient, khudd[obs3], rising ground, hill,
- bank, declivity, downhill, dip, fall, devexity|; gentle slope, rapid slope,
- easy ascent, easy descent; shelving beach; talus; monagne Russe[Fr];
- facilis descensus averni[Lat].
- V. intersect; lack parallelism.
-
- #218. Inversion. -- N. inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion,
- retroversion, introversion; contraposition &c. 237[obs3]; contrariety &c.
- 14; reversal; turn of the tide.
- overturn; somersault, somerset; summerset[obs3]; culbute[obs3];
- revulsion; pirouette.
- transposition, transposal[obs3], anastrophy[obs3], metastasis,
- hyperbaton[obs3], anastrophe[obs3], hysteron proteron[Grk][Grk],
- hypallage[obs3], synchysis[obs3], tmesis[obs3], parenthesis; metathesis;
- palindrome.
- pronation and supination[Anat][obs3].
- V. be inverted &c.; turn round, turn about, turn to the right about,
- go round, go about, go to the right about, wheel round, wheel about, wheel
- to the right about; turn over, go over, tilt over, topple over; capsize,
- turn turtle.
- invert, subvert, retrovert[obs3], introvert; reverse; up turn, over
- turn, up set, over set; turn topsy turvy &c. adj.; culbuter[obs3];
- transpose, put the cart before the horse, turn the tables.
- Adj. inverted &c. v.; wrong side out, wrong side up; inside out,
- upside down; bottom upwards, keel upwards; supine, on one's head, topsy-
- turvy, sens dessus dessous[Fr].
- inverse; reverse &c. (contrary) 14; opposite &c. 237.
- top heavy.
- Adv. inversely &c. adj.; hirdy-girdy[obs3]; heels over head, head over
- heels.
-
- #219. Crossing. -- N. crossing &c. v.; intersection, interdigitation;
- decussation[obs3], transversion[obs3]; convolution &c. 248; level crossing.
- reticulation, network; inosculation[obs3], anastomosis,
- intertexture[obs3], mortise.
- net, plexus, web, mesh, twill, skein, sleeve, felt, lace; wicker; mat,
- matting; plait, trellis, wattle, lattice, grating, grille, gridiron,
- tracery, fretwork, filigree, reticle; tissue, netting, mokes[obs3];
- rivulation[obs3].
- cross, chain, wreath, braid, cat's cradle, knot; entangle &c.
- (disorder) 59.
- [woven fabrics] cloth, linen, muslin, cambric &c.
- [web-footed animal] webfoot.
- V. cross, decussate[obs3]; intersect, interlace, intertwine,
- intertwist[obs3], interweave, interdigitate, interlink.
- twine, entwine, weave, inweave[obs3], twist, wreathe; anastomose[Med],
- inosculate[obs3], dovetail, splice, link; lace, tat.
- mat, plait, plat, braid, felt, twill; tangle, entangle, ravel; net,
- knot; dishevel, raddle[obs3].
- Adj. crossing &c. v.; crossed, matted &c, v. transverse.
- cross, cruciform, crucial; retiform[obs3], reticular, reticulated;
- areolar[obs3], cancellated[obs3], grated, barred, streaked; textile;
- crossbarred[obs3], cruciate[obs3], palmiped[obs3], secant; web-footed.
- Adv. cross, thwart, athwart, transversely; at grade [U.S.]; crosswise.
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- #220. Exteriority. -- N. exteriority[obs3]; outside, exterior;
- surface, superficies; skin &c. (covering) 223; superstratum[obs3]; disk,
- disc; face, facet; extrados[obs3].
- excentricity[obs3]; eccentricity; circumjacence &c. 227[obs3].
- V. be exterior &c. adj.; lie around &c. 227.
- place exteriorly, place outwardly, place outside; put out, turn out.
- Adj. exterior, external; outer most; outward, outlying, outside,
- outdoor; round about &c. 227; extramural; extralimitary[obs3],
- extramundane.
- superficial, skin-deep; frontal, discoid.
- extraregarding[obs3]; excentric[obs3], eccentric; outstanding;
- extrinsic &c. 6; ecdemic[Med], exomorphic[obs3].
- Adv. externally &c. adj.; out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out
- of doors; extra muros[Lat].
- in the open air; sub Jove, sub dio[Lat]; a la belle etoile[Fr], al
- fresco.
-
- #221. Interiority. -- N. interiority; inside, interior;
- interspace[obs3], subsoil, substratum; intrados.
- contents &c. 190; substance, pith, marrow; backbone &c. (center) 222;
- heart, bosom, breast; abdomen; vitals, viscera, entrails, bowels, belly,
- intestines, guts, chitterings[obs3], womb, lap; penetralia[Lat], recesses,
- innermost recesses; cave &c. (concavity) 252.
- V. be inside &c. adj.; within &c. adv.
- place within, keep within; inclose &c. (circumscribe) 229; intern;
- imbed &c. (insert) 300.
- Adj. interior, internal; inner, inside, inward, intraregarding[obs3];
- inmost, innermost; deep seated, gut; intestine, intestinal; inland;
- subcutaneous; abdominal, coeliac, endomorphic[Physiol]; interstitial &c.
- (interjacent) 228[obs3]; inwrought &c. (intrinsic) 5; inclosed &c. v.
- home, domestic, indoor, intramural, vernacular; endemic.
- Adv. internally &c. adj.; inwards, within, in, inly[obs3]; here in,
- there in, where in; ab intra, withinside[obs3]; in doors, within doors; at
- home, in the bosom of one's family.
-
- #222. Centrality. -- N. centrality, centricalness[obs3], center;
- middle &c. 68; focus &c. 74.
- core, kernel; nucleus, nucleolus; heart, pole axis, bull's eye; nave,
- navel; umbilicus, backbone, marrow, pith; vertebra, vertebral column;
- hotbed; concentration &c. (convergence) 290; centralization; symmetry.
- center of gravity, center of pressure, center of percussion, center of
- oscillation, center of buoyancy &c.; metacenter[obs3].
- V. be central &c. adj.; converge &c. 290.
- render central, centralize, concentrate; bring to a focus.
- Adj. central, centrical[obs3]; middle &c. 68; azygous, axial, focal,
- umbilical, concentric; middlemost; rachidian[obs3]; spinal, vertebral.
- Adv. middle; midst; centrally &c. adj.
-
- #223. Covering. -- N. covering, cover; baldachin, baldachino[obs3],
- baldaquin[obs3]; canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri[Fr],
- umbrella, parasol, sunshade; veil (shade) 424; shield &c. (defense) 717.
- roof, ceiling, thatch, tile; pantile, pentile[obs3]; tiling, slates,
- slating, leads; barrack [U.S.], plafond, planchment [obs3][U.S.], tiling,
- shed &c. (abode) 189.
- top, lid, covercle|, door, operculum; bulkhead [U.S.].
- bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil[obs3], finger stall.
- coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug,
- drugget[obs3]; housing; antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah[obs3], pillowcase,
- pillowslip[obs3]; linoleum; saddle cloth, blanket cloth; tidy; tilpah
- [obs3][U.S.], apishamore [obs3][U.S.].
- integument , tegument; skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather,
- shagreen[obs3], hide; pelt, peltry[obs3]; cordwain[obs3]; derm[obs3]; robe,
- buffalo robe [U.S.]; cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis.
- clothing &c. 225; mask &c. (concealment) 530.
- peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell,
- glume[obs3].
- capsule; sheath, sheathing; pod, cod; casing, case, theca[obs3];
- elytron[obs3]; elytrum[obs3]; involucrum[Lat]; wrapping, wrapper; envelope,
- vesicle; corn husk, corn shuck [U.S.]; dermatology, conchology;
- testaceology[obs3].
- inunction[obs3]; incrustation, superimposition, superposition,
- obduction|; scale &c. (layer) 204.
- [specific coverings: list] veneer, facing; overlay; plate, silver
- plate, gold plate, copper plate; engobe[obs3]; ormolu; Sheffield plate;
- pavement; coating, paint; varnish &c. (resin) 356a; plating, barrel
- plating, anointing &c. v.; enamel; epitaxial deposition[Engin], vapor
- deposition; ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo; cerement;
- ointment &c. (grease) 356.
- V. cover; superpose, superimpose; overlay, overspread; wrap &c. 225;
- encase, incase[obs3]; face, case, veneer, pave, paper; tip, cap, bind;
- bulkhead, bulkhead in; clapboard [U.S.].
- coat, paint, varnish, pay, incrust, stucco, dab, plaster, tar; wash;
- besmear, bedaub; anoint, do over; gild, plate, japan, lacquer,
- lacker[obs3], enamel, whitewash; parget[obs3]; lay it on thick.
- overlie, overarch[obs3]; endome[obs3]; conceal &c. 528.
- [of aluminum] anodize.
- [of steel] galvanize.
- Adj. covering &c. v.; superimposed, overlaid, plated &c. v.;
- cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary[obs3], skinny, scaly,
- squamous[Anat]; covered &c. v.; imbricated, loricated[obs3], armor plated,
- ironclad; under cover; cowled, cucullate[obs3], dermatoid[obs3],
- encuirassed[obs3], hooded, squamiferous[obs3], tectiform[obs3];
- vaginate[obs3].
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- #224. Lining. -- N. lining, inner coating; coating &c. (covering) 223;
- stalactite, stalagmite.
- filling, stuffing, wadding, padding.
- wainscot, parietes[Lat], wall.
- V. line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill.
- Adj. lined &c. v..
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- for types of cloth and other materials for garments -->
- #225. Clothing. -- N. clothing, investment; covering &c. 223; dress,
- raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim;
- habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament|, apparel,
- wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes.
- array; tailoring, millinery; finery &c. (ornament) 847; full dress &c.
- (show) 882; garniture; theatrical properties.
- outfit, equipment, trousseau; uniform, regimentals; continentals [Am.
- Hist.]; canonicals &c. 999; livery, gear, harness, turn-out, accouterment,
- caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery[obs3]; day
- wear, night wear, zoot suit; designer clothes; masquerade.
- dishabille, morning dress, undress.
- kimono; lungi[obs3]; shooting-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes;
- mourning, weeds; duds; slippers.
- robe, tunic, paletot[obs3], habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga,
- smock frock, claw coat, hammer coat, Prince Albert coat[obs3], sack coat,
- tuxedo coat, frock coat, dress coat, tail coat.
- cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua[obs3], shawl, pelisse, wrapper;
- veil; cape, tippet, kirtle[obs3], plaid, muffler, comforter, haik[obs3],
- huke|, chlamys[obs3], mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose,
- burnous, roquelaure[obs3]; houppelande[Fr]; surcoat, overcoat, great coat;
- surtout[Fr], spencer[obs3]; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-
- coat, dreadnought, wraprascal[obs3], poncho, cardinal, pelerine[obs3];
- barbe[obs3], chudder[obs3], jubbah[obs3], oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket,
- talma
- jacket[obs3], vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine;
- farthingale, kilt, jupe[obs3], crinoline, bustle, panier, skirt, apron,
- pinafore; bloomer, bloomers; chaqueta[obs3], songtag[Ger], tablier[obs3].
- pants, trousers, trowsers[obs3]; breeches, pantaloons,
- inexpressibles|!, overalls, smalls, small clothes; shintiyan|!; shorts,
- jockey shorts, boxer shorts; tights, drawers, panties, unmentionables;
- knickers, knickerbockers; philibeg[obs3], fillibeg[obs3]; pants suit;
- culottes; jeans, blue jeans, dungarees, denims.
- [brand names for jeans] Levis, Calvin Klein, Calvins, Bonjour, Gloria
- Vanderbilt.
- headdress, headgear; chapeau[Fr], crush hat, opera hat; kaffiyeh;
- sombrero, jam, tam-o-shanter, tarboosh[obs3], topi, sola topi[Lat],
- pagri[obs3], puggaree[obs3]; cap, hat, beaver hat, coonskin cap; castor,
- bonnet, tile, wideawake, billycock[obs3], wimple; nightcap, mobcap[obs3],
- skullcap; hood, coif; capote[obs3], calash; kerchief, snood, babushka;
- head, coiffure; crown &c. (circle) 247; chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke,
- periwig, caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako[obs3], busby; kepi[obs3], forage
- cap, bearskin; baseball cap; fishing hat; helmet &c. 717; mask, domino.
- body clothes; linen; hickory shirt [U.S.]; shirt, sark[obs3], smock,
- shift, chemise; night gown, negligee, dressing gown, night shirt;
- bedgown[obs3], sac de nuit[Fr].
- underclothes[underclothing], underpants, undershirt; slip[for
- women], brassiere, corset, stays, corsage, corset, corselet, bodice, girdle
- &c. (circle) 247; stomacher; petticoat, panties; under waistcoat;
- jock[for men], athletic supporter, jockstrap.
- sweater, jersey; cardigan; turtleneck, pullover; sweater vest.
- neckerchief, neckcloth[obs3]; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock,
- handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; cummerbund, rumal[obs3],
- rabat[obs3].
- shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche[obs3], galoshes, patten,
- clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot,
- wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral[obs3];
- arctics, bootee, bootikin[obs3], brogan, chaparajos[obs3]; chavar[obs3],
- chivarras[obs3], chivarros[obs3]; gums [U.S.], larrigan [obs3][N. Am.],
- rubbers, showshoe, stogy[obs3], veldtschoen[Ger], legging, buskin,
- greave[obs3], galligaskin[obs3], gamache[obs3], gamashes[obs3], moccasin,
- gambado, gaiter, spatterdash[obs3], brogue, antigropelos[obs3]; stocking,
- hose, gaskins[obs3], trunk hose, sock; hosiery.
- glove, gauntlet, mitten, cuff, wristband, sleeve.
- swaddling cloth, baby linen, layette; ice wool; taffeta.
- pocket handkerchief, hanky[obs3], hankie.
- clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress[obs3], snip;
- dressmaker, habitmaker[obs3], breechesmaker[obs3], shoemaker; Crispin;
- friseur[Fr]; cordwainer[obs3], cobbler, hosier[obs3], hatter; draper, linen
- draper, haberdasher, mercer.
- [underpants for babies] diaper, nappy[obs3][Brit]; disposable diaper,
- cloth diaper; Luvs[brand names for diapers], Huggies.
- V. invest; cover &c. 223; envelope, lap, involve; inwrap[obs3],
- enwrap; wrap; fold up, wrap up, lap up, muffle up; overlap; sheath, swathe,
- swaddle, roll up in, circumvest.
- vest, clothe, array, dress, dight[obs3], drape, robe, enrobe, attire,
- apparel, accounter[obs3], rig, fit out; deck &c. (ornament) 847; perk,
- equip, harness, caparison.
- wear; don; put on, huddle on, slip on; mantle.
- Adj. invested &c. v.; habited; dighted[obs3]; barbed, barded; clad,
- costume, shod, chausse[Fr]; en grande tenue &c. (show) 882[Fr].
- sartorial.
- Phr. "the soul of this man is his clothes" [All's Well].
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- #226. Divestment. -- N. divestment; taking off &c. v..
- nudity; bareness &c. adj.; undress; dishabille &c. 225; the
- altogether; nudation[obs3], denudation; decortication, depilation,
- excoriation, desquamation; molting; exfoliation; trichosis[Med].
- V. divest; uncover &c. (cover &c. 223); denude, bare, strip;
- disfurnish[obs3]; undress, disrobe &c. (dress, enrobe &c. 225);
- uncoif[obs3]; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare,
- decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate,
- molt, mew; cast the skin.
- Adj. divested &c. v.; bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded;
- exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless.
- in a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff,
- in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus[Lat]; with nothing on, stark naked,
- stark raving naked [joc.]; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand;
- out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless[obs3],
- hairless.
-
- #227. Circumjacence. -- N. circumjacence[obs3], circumambience[obs3];
- environment, encompassment; atmosphere, medium, surroundings.
- outpost; border &c. (edge) 231; girdle &c. (circumference) 230;
- outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs[obs3],
- environs, entourage, banlieue[obs3]; neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity.
- V. lie around &c. adv.; surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ,
- inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; belt; begird,
- engird[obs3]; skirt, twine round; hem in &c. (circumscribe) 229.
- Adj. circumjacent, circumambient[obs3], circumfluent[obs3]; ambient;
- surrounding &c. v.; circumferential, suburban.
- Adv. around, about; without; on every side; on all sides; right and
- left, all round, round about.
-
- #228. Interposition. -- N. interposition, interjacence[obs3],
- intercurrence[obs3], intervenience[obs3], interlocation[obs3],
- interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation,
- interspersion, intercalation.
- [interposition at a fine-grained level] interpenetration; permeation;
- infiltration.
- [interposition by one person in another's affairs, at the intervenor's
- initiative] intervention, interference; intrusion, obtrusion; insinuation.
- insertion &c. 300; dovetailing; embolism.
- intermediary, intermedium[obs3]; go between, bodkin|!, intruder,
- interloper; parenthesis, episode, flyleaf.
- partition, septum, diaphragm; midriff; dissepiment[obs3]; party wall,
- panel, room divider.
- halfway house.
- V. lie between, come between, get between; intervene, slide in,
- interpenetrate, permeate.
- put between, introduce, import, throw in, wedge in, edge in, jam in,
- worm in, foist in, run in, plow in, work in; interpose, interject,
- intercalate, interpolate, interline, interleave, intersperse, interweave,
- interlard, interdigitate, sandwich in, fit in, squeeze in; let in,
- dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain.
- interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have
- a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in &c.
- (insert) 300.
- Adj. interjacent[obs3], intercurrent[obs3], intervenient[obs3],
- intervening &c. v., intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial;
- embolismal[obs3].
- parenthetical, episodic; mediterranean; intrusive; embosomed[obs3];
- merged.
- Adv. between, betwixt; twixt; among, amongst; amid, amidst; mid,
- midst; in the thick of; betwixt and between; sandwich-wise;
- parenthetically, obiter dictum.
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- #229. Circumscription. -- N. circumscription, limitation, inclosure;
- confinement &c. (restraint) 751; circumvallation[obs3]; encincture;
- envelope &c. 232.
- container (receptacle) 191.
- V. circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, inclose; surround &c. 227;
- compass about; imprison &c. (restrain) 751; hedge in, wall in, rail in;
- fence round, fence in,hedge round; picket; corral.
- enfold, bury, encase, incase[obs3], pack up, enshrine, inclasp[obs3];
- wrap up &c. (invest) 225; embay[obs3], embosom[obs3].
- containment (inclusion) 76.
- Adj. circumscribed &c. v.; begirt[obs3], lapt[obs3]; buried in,
- immersed in; embosomed[obs3], in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed
- up; imprisoned &c. 751; landlocked, in a ring fence.
-
- #230. Outline. -- N. outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery,
- ambit, circuit, lines tournure[obs3], contour, profile, silhouette; bounds;
- coast line.
- zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre[Brit],
- cingle[obs3], clasp, girt; cordon &c. (inclosure) 232; circlet, &c. 247..
-
- #231. Edge. -- N. edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border,
- confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip,
- muzzle.
- threshold, door, porch; portal &c. (opening) 260; coast, shore.
- frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem,
- selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp.
- Adj. border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated[obs3],
- marginated[obs3].
-
- #232. Inclosure. -- N. inclosure, envelope; case &c. (receptacle) 191;
- wrapper; girdle &c. 230.
- pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, sheep fold; paddock, pound; corral;
- yard; net, seine net.
- wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence &c. (defense) 717; pale,
- paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling,
- circumvallation[obs3], enceinte, ring fence.
- barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle [U.S.]; door, hatch,
- cordon; prison &c. 752.
- dike, dyke, ditch, fosse[obs3], moat.
- V. inclose, circumscribe &c. 229.
-
- #233. Limit. -- N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term,
- bourn, verge, curbstone[obs3], but, pale, reservation; termination,
- terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods.
- boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, line of
- circumvallation[obs3]; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus
- ultra[Lat]; sluice, floodgate.
- Adj. definite; conterminate|, conterminable[obs3]; terminal, frontier;
- bordering.
- Adv. thus far, thus far and no further.
- Phr. stick to the reservation; go beyond the pale.
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- #234. Front. -- N. front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk,
- disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia[Lat], frontispiece;
- anteriority[obs3]; obverse [of a medal or coin].
- fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first
- line; scout.
- brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz[obs3], countenance,
- mut*[obs3]; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore[obs3], jib.
- pioneer &c. (precursor) 64; metoposcopy[obs3].
- V. be in front, stand in front &c. adj.; front, face, confront; bend
- forwards; come to the front, come to the fore.
- Adj. fore, anterior, front, frontal.
- Adv. before; in front, in the van, in advance; ahead, right ahead;
- forehead, foremost; in the foreground, in the lee of; before one's face,
- before one's eyes; face to face, vis-a-vis; front a front.
- Phr. formosa muta commendatio est [Lat][Syrus]; frons est animi janua
- [Lat][Cicero]; "Human face divine" [Milton]; imago animi vultus est indices
- oculi [Lat][Cicero]; "sea of upturned faces" [Scott].
-
- #235. Rear. -- N. rear, back, posteriority; rear rank, rear guard;
- background, hinterland.
- occiput[Anat], nape, chine; heels; tail, rump, croup, buttock,
- posteriors, backside scut[obs3], breech, dorsum, loin; dorsal region,
- lumbar region; hind quarters; aitchbone[obs3]; natch, natch bone.
- stern, poop, afterpart[obs3], heelpiece[obs3], crupper.
- wake; train &c. (sequence) 281.
- reverse; other side of the shield.
- V. be behind &c. adv.; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.
- Adj. back, rear; hind, hinder, hindmost, hindermost[obs3]; postern,
- posterior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar; mizzen, tergal[obs3].
- Adv. behind; in the rear, in the background; behind one's back; at the
- heels of, at the tail of, at the back of; back to back.
- after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost[obs3], aback, rearward.
- Phr. ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio[It][obs3]; the other side of the
- coin.
-
- #236. Laterality. -- N. laterality[obs3]; side, flank, quarter, lee;
- hand; cheek, jowl, jole[obs3], wing; profile; temple, parietes[Lat], loin,
- haunch, hip; beam.
- gable, gable end; broadside; lee side.
- points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation.
- V. be on one side &c. adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt; orientate.
- Adj. lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting;
- flanked; sideling.
- many sided; multilateral, bilateral, trilateral, quadrilateral.
- Eastern; orient, oriental; Levantine; Western, occidental, Hesperian.
- Adv. sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast,
- alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl &c.
- (near) 197; to windward, to leeward; laterally &c. adj.; right and left; on
- her beam ends.
- Phr. "his cheek the may of days outworn" [Shakespeare].
-
- #237. Contraposition. -- N. contraposition[obs3], opposition;
- polarity; inversion &c. 218; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart;
- antipodes; opposite poles, North and South.
- antonym, opposite (contrariety) 14.
- V. be opposite &c. adj.; subtend.
- Adj. opposite; reverse, inverse; converse, antipodal,
- subcontrary[obs3]; fronting, facing, diametrically opposite.
- Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic; Southern, Austral, antarctic.
- Adv. over, over the way, over against; against; face to face, vis-a-
- vis; as poles asunder.
-
- #238. Dextrality. -- N. dextrality[obs3]; right, right hand; dexter,
- offside, starboard.
- Adj. dextral, right-handed; dexter, dextrorsal[obs3], dextrorse[obs3];
- ambidextral[obs3], ambidextrous; dextro-.
- Adv. dextrad[obs3], dextrally[obs3].
-
- #239. Sinistrality. -- N. sinistrality[obs3]; left, left hand, a
- gauche; sinister, nearside[obs3], larboard, port.
- Adj. left-handed; sinister; sinistral, sinistrorsal[obs3],
- sinistrorse[obs3], sinistrous[obs3];
- Pref. laevo-.
- Adv. sinistrally, sinistrously[obs3].
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- #240. Form. -- N. form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration;
- make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's
- jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour &c. (outline) 230; structure
- &c. 329; plasmature[obs3].
- feature, lineament, turn; phase &c. (aspect) 448; posture, attitude,
- pose.
- [Science of form] morphism.
- [Similarity of form] isomorphism.
- forming &c. v.; formation, figuration, efformation[obs3]; sculpture;
- plasmation[obs3].
- V. form, shape, figure, fashion, efform[obs3], carve, cut, chisel,
- hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick
- into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold,
- sculpture; cast, stamp; build &c. (construct) 161.
- Adj. formed &c. v.
- [Receiving form] plastic, fictile[obs3]; formative; fluid.
- [Giving form] plasmic[obs3].
- [Similar in form] isomorphous.
- [taking several forms] pleomorphic; protean; changeable, &c. 149.
-
- #241. [Absence of form.] Amorphism. -- N. amorphism[obs3],
- informity[obs3]; unlicked cub[obs3]; rudis indigestaque moles[Lat];
- disorder &c. 59; deformity &c. 243.
- disfigurement, defacement; mutilation; deforming.
- chaos, randomness (disorder) 59.
- [taking form from surroundings] fluid &c. 333.
- V. deface[Destroy form], disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate;
- derange &c. 61; blemish, mar.
- Adj. shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn[obs3],
- unfashioned[obs3], unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous,
- rugged.
-
- #242. [Regularity of form.] Symmetry. -- N. symmetry, shapeliness,
- finish; beauty &c. 845; proportion, eurythmy[obs3], uniformity,
- parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral
- symmetry; centrality &c. 222.
- arborescence[obs3], branching, ramification; arbor vitae.
- Adj. symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful &c. 845;
- classic, chaste, severe.
- regular, uniform, balanced; equal &c. 27; parallel, coextensive.
- arborescent[obs3], arboriform[obs3]; dendriform[obs3], dendroid[obs3];
- branching; ramous[obs3], ramose; filiciform[obs3], filicoid[obs3];
- subarborescent[obs3]; papilionaceous[obs3].
- fuji-shaped, fujigata[Jap.].
-
- #243. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion. -- N. distortion,
- detortion[obs3], contortion; twist, crookedness &c. (obliquity) 217;
- grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation[obs3]; harelip;
- monstrosity, misproportion[obs3], want of symmetry, anamorphosis[obs3];
- ugliness &c. 846; talipes[obs3]; teratology.
- asymmetry; irregularity.
- V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform,
- misshape.
- Adj. distorted &c. v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric,
- unsymmetric[obs3], awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on
- one side, crump[obs3], deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten;
- misproportioned[obs3], ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous,
- crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch
- backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock
- kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed
- of one's fair proportions; stumpy &c. (short) 201; gaunt &c. (thin) 203;
- bloated &c. 194; scalene; simous[obs3]; taliped[obs3], talipedic[obs3].
- Adv. all manner of ways.
- Phr. crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].
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- #244. Angularity. -- N. angularity, angularness[obs3]; aduncity[obs3];
- angle, cusp, bend; fold &c. 258; notch &c. 257; fork, bifurcation.
- elbow, knee, knuckle, ankle, groin, crotch, crutch, crane, fluke,
- scythe, sickle, zigzag, kimbo[obs3], akimbo.
- corner, nook, recess, niche, oriel[Arch], coign[obs3].
- right angle &c. (perpendicular) 216a, 212; obliquity &c. 217; angle
- of 45x, miter; acute angle, obtuse angle, salient angle, reentering angle,
- spherical angle.
- angular measurement, angular elevation, angular distance, angular
- velocity; trigonometry, goniometry; altimetry[obs3]; clinometer,
- graphometer[obs3], goniometer; theodolite; sextant, quadrant; dichotomy.
- triangle, trigon[obs3], wedge; rectangle, square, lozenge, diamond;
- rhomb, rhombus; quadrangle, quadrilateral; parallelogram; quadrature;
- polygon, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, oxygon[obs3], decagon.
- pyramid, cone.
- Platonic bodies; cube, rhomboid; tetrahedron, pentahedron, hexahedron,
- octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, eicosahedron; prism, pyramid;
- parallelopiped; curb roof, gambrel roof, mansard roof.
- V. bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle.
- Adj. angular, bent, crooked, aduncous[obs3], uncinated[obs3],
- aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform[obs3], falcated[obs3];
- furcated[obs3], forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular[obs3]; hooked;
- dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo[obs3], geniculated[obs3];
- oblique &c. 217.
- fusiform[Microb], wedge-shaped, cuneiform; cuneate[obs3],
- multangular[obs3], oxygonal[obs3]; triangular, trigonal[obs3], trilateral;
- quadrangular, quadrilateral; foursquare; rectangular, square, multilateral;
- polygonal &c. n.; cubical, rhomboid, rhomboidal, pyramidal.
-
- #245. Curvature. -- N. curvature, curvity[obs3], curvation[obs3];
- incurvature[obs3], incurvity|; incurvation[obs3]; bend; flexure, flexion,
- flection[obs3]; conflexure|; crook, hook, bought, bending; deflection,
- deflexion[obs3]; inflection, inflexion[obs3]; concameration[obs3];
- arcuation[obs3], devexity|, turn, deviation, detour, sweep; curl, curling;
- bough; recurvity[obs3], recurvation[obs3]; sinuosity &c. 248.
- kink.
- carve, arc, arch, arcade, vault, bow, crescent, half-moon,
- lunule[obs3], horseshoe, loop, crane neck; parabola, hyperbola; helix,
- spiral; catenary[obs3], festoon; conchoid[obs3], cardioid; caustic;
- tracery; arched ceiling, arched roof; bay window, bow window.
- sine curve; spline, spline curve, spline function; obliquity &c. 217.
- V. be curved &c. adj[intrans].; curve, sweep, sway, swag, sag;
- deviate &c. 279; curl, turn; reenter.
- [trans] render curved &c. adj.; flex, bend, curve, incurvate[obs3];
- inflect; deflect, scatter[Phys]; refract (light) 420; crook; turn, round,
- arch, arcuate, arch over, concamerate[obs3]; bow, curl, recurve, frizzle.
- rotundity &c. 249; convexity &c. 250.
- Adj. curved &c. v.; curviform[obs3], curvilineal[obs3], curvilinear;
- devex|, devious; recurved, recurvous[obs3]; crump[obs3]; bowed &c. v.;
- vaulted, hooked; falciform[obs3], falcated[obs3]; semicircular, crescentic;
- sinusoid[Geom], parabolic, paraboloid; luniform[obs3], lunular[obs3];
- semilunar, conchoidal[obs3]; helical, double helical, spiral; kinky;
- cordiform[obs3], cordated[obs3]; cardioid; heart shaped, bell shaped, boat
- shaped, crescent shaped, lens shaped, moon shaped, oar shaped, shield
- shaped, sickle shaped, tongue shaped, pear shaped, fig shaped; kidney-
- shaped, reniform; lentiform[obs3], lenticular; bow-legged &c. (distorted)
- 243; oblique &c. 217; circular &c. 247.
- aduncated[obs3], arclike[obs3], arcuate, arched,beaked; bicorn[obs3],
- bicornuous[obs3], bicornute[obs3]; clypeate[obs3], clypeiform[obs3];
- cymbiform[obs3], embowed[obs3], galeiform[obs3]; hamate[obs3],
- hamiform[obs3], hamous[obs3]; hooked; linguiform[obs3], lingulate[obs3];
- lobiform[obs3], lunate, navicular[obs3], peltate[obs3], remiform[obs3],
- rhamphoid[obs3]; rostrate[obs3], rostriferous[obs3], rostroid[obs3];
- scutate[obs3], scaphoid[obs3], uncate[obs3]; unguiculate[obs3],
- unguiform[obs3].
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- #246. Straightness. -- N. straightness, rectilinearity[obs3],
- directness; inflexibility &c. (stiffness) 323; straight line, right line,
- direct line; short cut.
- V. be straight &c. adj.; have no turning; not incline to either side,
- not bend to either side, not turn to either side, not deviate to either
- side; go straight; steer for &c. (directions) 278.
- render straight, straighten, rectify; set straight, put straight;
- unbend, unfold, uncurl &c. 248, unravel &c. 219, unwrap.
- Adj. straight; rectilinear, rectilineal[obs3]; direct, even, right,
- true, in a line; unbent, virgate &c. v[obs3].; undeviating, unturned,
- undistorted, unswerving; straight as an arrow &c. (direct) 278; inflexible
- &c. 323.
- laser-straight; ramrod-straight.
-
- #247. [Simple circularity.] Circularity. -- N. circularity, roundness;
- rotundity &c. 249.
- circle, circlet, ring, areola, hoop, roundlet[obs3], annulus,
- annulet[obs3], bracelet, armlet; ringlet; eye, loop, wheel; cycle, orb,
- orbit, rundle, zone, belt, cordon, band; contrate wheel[obs3], crown wheel;
- hub; nave; sash, girdle, cestus[obs3], cincture, baldric, fillet, fascia,
- wreath, garland; crown, corona, coronet, chaplet, snood, necklace, collar;
- noose, lasso, lassoo[obs3].
- ellipse, oval, ovule; ellipsoid, cycloid; epicycloid[Geom], epicycle;
- semicircle; quadrant, sextant, sector.
- sphere &c. 249.
- V. make round &c. adj.; round.
- go round; encircle &c. 227; describe a circle &c. 311.
- Adj. round, rounded, circular, annular, orbicular; oval, ovate;
- elliptic, elliptical; egg-shaped; pear-shaped &c. 245; cycloidal &c.
- n[obs3].; spherical &c. 249.
- Phr. "I watched the little circles die" [Tennyson].
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- #248. [Complex curvature.] Convolution. -- N. winding &c. v.;
- convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity,
- anfractuosity[obs3]; sinuosity, sinuation[obs3]; meandering, circuit,
- circumbendibus[obs3], twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages[obs3];
- torsion; inosculation[obs3]; reticulation &c. (crossing) 219;
- rivulation[obs3]; roughness &c. 256.
- coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute,
- rundle; tendril; scollop[obs3], scallop, escalop[obs3]; kink; ammonite,
- snakestone[obs3].
- serpent, eel, maze, labyrinth.
- knot.
- V. be convoluted &c. adj.;wind, twine, turn and twist, twirl; wave,
- undulate, meander; inosculate[obs3]; entwine, intwine[obs3]; twist, coil,
- roll; wrinkle, curl, crisp, twill; frizzle; crimp, crape, indent,
- scollop[obs3], scallop, wring, intort[obs3]; contort; wreathe &c. (cross)
- 219.
- Adj. convoluted; winding, twisted &c. v.; tortile[obs3], tortive|;
- wavy; undated, undulatory; circling, snaky, snake-like, serpentine;
- serpent, anguill[obs3], vermiform; vermicular; mazy, tortuous, sinuous,
- flexuous, anfractuous[obs3], reclivate[obs3], rivulose[obs3],
- scolecoid[obs3]; sigmoid, sigmoidal[Geom]; spiriferous[obs3],
- spiroid[obs3];
- involved, intricate, complicated, perplexed; labyrinth,
- labyrinthic[obs3], labyrinthian[obs3], labyrinthine; peristaltic;
- daedalian[obs3]; kinky, knotted.
- wreathy[obs3], frizzly, crepe, buckled; raveled &c. (in disorder) 59.
- spiral, coiled, helical; cochleate, cochleous; screw-shaped;
- turbinated, turbiniform[obs3].
- Adv. in and out, round and round; a can of worms; Gordian knot.
-
- #249.. Rotundity. -- N. rotundity; roundness &c. adj.;
- cylindricity[obs3]; sphericity, spheroidity[obs3]; globosity[obs3].
- cylinder, cylindroid[obs3], cylindrical; barrel, drum; roll, roller;
- rouleau[obs3], column, rolling-pin, rundle.
- cone, conoid[obs3]; pear shape, egg shape, bell shape.
- sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder[obs3]; spheroid, ellipsoid;
- oblong spheroid; oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid; drop, spherule,
- globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote[obs3], clew, pill, marble,
- pea, knob, pommel, horn; knot (convolution) 248.
- curved surface, hypersphere; hyperdimensional surface.
- V. render spherical &c.adj.; form into a sphere, sphere, roll into a
- ball; give rotundity &c. n.; round.
- Adj. rotund; round &c. (circular) 247; cylindric, cylindrical,
- cylindroid[obs3]; columnar, lumbriciform[obs3]; conic, conical; spherical,
- spheroidal; globular, globated[obs3], globous[obs3], globose; egg shaped,
- bell shaped, pear shaped; ovoid, oviform; gibbous; rixiform[obs3];
- campaniform[obs3], campanulate[obs3], campaniliform[obs3]; fungiform[obs3],
- bead-like, moniliform[obs3], pyriform[obs3], bulbous; tres atque
- rotundus[Lat]; round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball,
- round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.
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- #250. Convexity. -- N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling,
- gibbosity[obs3], bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion; camber, cahot
- [obs3][N. Am.], thank-ye-ma'am [U.S.]. swell.
- intumescence; tumour[Brit], tumor; tubercle, tuberosity[Anat];
- excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.
- boss, embossment, hub, hubble
- [convex body parts] tooth[U.S.], knob, elbow, process,
- apophysis[obs3], condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity[obs3], tongue,
- dorsum, bump, clump; sugar loaf &c. (sharpness) 253; bow; mamelon[obs3];
- molar; belly, corporation|!, pot belly, gut[coll]; withers, back, shoulder,
- lip, flange.
- [convexities on skin] pimple, zit [slang]; wen, wheel, papula[Med],
- pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle[obs3], corn, wart,
- pappiloma, furuncle, polypus[obs3], fungus, fungosity[obs3],
- exostosis[obs3], bleb, blister, blain[obs3]; boil &c. (disease) 655;
- airbubble[obs3], blob, papule, verruca.
- [convex body parts on chest] papilla, nipple, teat, tit [vulgar],
- titty [vulgar], boob [vulgar], knocker[vulgar], pap, breast, dug,
- mammilla[obs3].
- [prominent convexity on the face] proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout,
- nozzle, schnoz[coll].
- peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag.
- cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves; pilaster.
- relief, relievo[It], cameo; bassorilievo[obs3], mezzorilevo[obs3],
- altorivievo; low relief, bas relief[Fr], high relief.
- hill &c. (height) 206; cape, promontory, mull; forehead,
- foreland[obs3]; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur;
- naze[obs3], ness.
- V. be prominent &c. adj.; project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge|[Fr],
- bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start
- up, cock up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle.
- render prominent &c. adj.; raise 307; emboss, chase.
- [become convex] belly out.
- Adj. convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting &c. v.; bossed,
- embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated[obs3], claviform;
- hummocky[obs3], moutonne[obs3], mammiliform[obs3]; papulous[obs3],
- papilose[obs3]; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied;
- tuberous, tuberculous; tumous[obs3]; cornute[obs3], odontoid[obs3];
- lentiform[obs3], lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby [obs3][U.S.],
- hubbly [obs3][U.S.], knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform[obs3],
- subclavate[obs3], torose[obs3], ventricose[obs3], verrucose[obs3].
- salient, in relief, raised, repousse; bloated &c, (expanded) 194.
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- #251. Flatness. -- N. flatness &c. adj.; smoothness &c. 255.
- plane; level &c. 213; plate, platter, table, tablet, slab.
- V. render flat, flatten; level &c. 213.
- Adj. flat, plane, even, flush, scutiform[obs3], discoid; level &c.
- (horizontal) 213; flat as a pancake, flat as a fluke, flat as a flounder,
- flat as a board, flat as my hand.
-
- #252. Concavity. -- N. concavity, depression, dip; hollow, hollowness;
- indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus,
- alveolus[obs3], lacuna; excavation, strip mine; trough &c. (furrow) 259;
- honeycomb.
- cup, basin, crater, punch bowl; cell &c. (receptacle) 191; socket.
- valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe[obs3], bottom, slade[obs3],
- strath[obs3], glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove; grot[obs3], grotto;
- alcove, cul-de-sac; gully &c. 198; arch &c. (curve) 245; bay &c. (of the
- sea) 343.
- excavator, sapper, miner.
- honeycomb (sponge) 252a.
- V. be concave &c. adj.; retire, cave in.
- render concave &c. adj.; depress, hollow; scoop, scoop out; gouge,
- gouge out, dig, delve, excavate, dent, dint, mine, sap, undermine, burrow,
- tunnel, stave in.
- Adj. depressed &c. v.; alveolate[obs3], calathiform[obs3], cup-shaped,
- dishing; favaginous[obs3], faveolate[obs3], favose[obs3]; scyphiform[obs3],
- scyphose[obs3]; concave, hollow, stove in; retiring; retreating; cavernous;
- porous &c. (with holes) 260; infundibul[obs3], infundibular[obs3],
- infundibuliform[obs3]; funnel shaped, bell shaped; campaniform[obs3],
- capsular; vaulted, arched.
-
- 252a Sponge -- N. sponge, honeycomb, network; frit[Chem], filter.
- sieve, net, screen (opening) 260.
- Adj. cellular, spongy, spongious[obs3]; honeycombed, alveolar;
- sintered; porous (opening) 260.
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- #253. Sharpness. -- N. sharpness &c. adj.; acuity, acumination[obs3];
- spinosity[obs3].
- point, spike, spine, spicule[Biol], spiculum[obs3]; needle, hypodermic
- needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp;
- horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle[obs3], bear grass
- [U.S.], tine, yucca.
- nib, tooth, tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet.
- crag, crest, arete[Fr], cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille[obs3];
- spire, pyramid, steeple.
- beard, chevaux de frise[Fr], porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble,
- thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed[obs3], cleavers,
- clivers[obs3], goose, grass, hairif[obs3], hariff, flax comb, hackle,
- hatchel[obs3], heckle.
- wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife,
- penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor,
- electric razor; scalpel; bistoury[obs3], lancet; plowshare, coulter,
- colter[obs3]; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook,
- cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters,
- wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword &c. (arms) 727; bodkin &c.
- (perforator) 262; belduque[obs3], bowie knife[obs3], paring knife;
- bushwhacker [U.S.]; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome[Microbiol];
- chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.
- sharpener, hone, strop; grindstone, whetstone; novaculite[obs3];
- steel, emery.
- V. be sharp &c. adj.; taper to a point; bristle with.
- render sharp &c. adj.; sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb,
- spiculate[obs3], set, strop, grind; chip [flint].
- cut &c. (sunder) 44.
- Adj. sharp, keen; acute; acicular, aciform[obs3]; aculeated[obs3],
- acuminated[obs3]; pointed; tapering; conical, pyramidal; mucronate[obs3],
- mucronated[obs3]; spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky,
- ensiform[obs3], peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated[obs3];
- cornute[obs3], cornuted[obs3], cornicultate[obs3]; prickly; spiny,
- spinous[obs3], spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated[obs3],
- pectinated[obs3], studded, thistly, briary[obs3]; craggy &c. (rough) 256;
- snaggy, digitated[obs3], two-edged, fusiform[Microb]; dentiform[obs3],
- denticulated; toothed; odontoid[obs3]; starlike; stellated[obs3],
- stelliform[obs3]; sagittate[obs3], sagittiform[obs3]; arrowheaded[obs3];
- arrowy[obs3], barbed, spurred.
- acinaciform; apiculate[obs3], apiculated[obs3]; aristate[obs3], awned,
- awny[obs3], bearded, calamiform[obs3], cone-shaped, coniform[obs3],
- crestate[obs3], echinate[obs3], gladiate[obs3]; lanceolate[obs3],
- lanciform; awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped,
- sword-shaped; setarious[obs3], spinuliferous[obs3], subulate[obs3],
- tetrahedral, xiphoid[obs3].
- cutting; sharp edged, knife edged; sharp as a razor, keen as a razor;
- sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; sharpened &c. v.; set
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- #254. Bluntness. -- N. bluntness &c. adj.
- V. be blunt, render blunt &c. adj.; obtund[obs3], dull; take off the
- point, take off the edge; turn.
- Adj. blunt, obtuse, dull, bluff; edentate, toothless.
-
- #255. Smoothness. -- N. smoothness &c. adj.; polish, gloss; lubricity,
- lubrication.
- [smooth materials] down, velvet, velure, silk, satin; velveteen,
- velour, velours, velumen[obs3]; glass, ice.
- slide; bowling green &c. (level) 213; asphalt, wood pavement,
- flagstone, flags.
- [objects used to smooth other objects] roller, steam roller, lawn
- roller, rolling pin, rolling mill; sand paper, emery paper, emery cloth,
- sander; flat iron, sad iron; burnisher, turpentine and beeswax; polish,
- shoe polish.
- [art of cutting and polishing gemstones] lapidary.
- [person who polishes gemstones] lapidary, lapidarian.
- V. smooth, smoothen[obs3]; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll;
- macadamize; polish, burnish, calender[obs3], glaze; iron, hot-press,
- mangle; lubricate &c. (oil) 332.
- Adj. smooth; polished &c. v.; leiodermatous[obs3], slick,
- velutinous[obs3]; even; level &c. 213; plane &c. (flat) 251; sleek, glossy;
- silken, silky; lanate[obs3], downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery , glassy,
- lubricous, oily, soft, unwrinkled[obs3]; smooth as glass, smooth as ice,
- smooth as monumental alabaster, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery
- as an eel; woolly &c. (feathery) 256.
- Phr. smooth as silk; slippery as coonshit on a pump handle; slippery
- as a greased pig.
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- #256. Roughness. -- N. roughness &c. adj.; tooth, grain, texture,
- ripple; asperity, rugosity[obs3], salebrosity|, corrugation,
- nodosity[obs3]; arborescence[obs3] &c. 242; pilosity[obs3].
- brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress,
- lock, curl, ringlet; fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi; lovelock;
- beaucatcher[obs3]; curl paper; goatee; papillote, scalp lock.
- plumage, plumosity[obs3]; plume, panache, crest; feather, tuft,
- fringe, toupee.
- wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down; byssus[obs3], moss,
- bur; fluff.
- knot (convolution) 248.
- V. be rough &c. adj.; go against the grain.
- render-rough &c. adj.; roughen, ruffle, crisp, crumple, corrugate, set
- on edge, stroke the wrong way, rumple.
- Adj. rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose[obs3],
- rugous[obs3]; knurly[obs3]; asperous[obs3], crisp, salebrous|, gnarled,
- unpolished, unsmooth[obs3], roughhewn[obs3]; craggy, cragged;
- crankling[obs3], scraggy; prickly &c. (sharp) 253; arborescent &c.
- 242[obs3]; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous[obs3];
- laciniate[obs3], laciniform[obs3], laciniose[obs3]; pappose[obs3];
- pileous[obs3], pilose[obs3]; trichogenous[obs3], trichoid[Med]; tufted,
- fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose[obs3],
- crinite[obs3]; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous[obs3], bearded,
- pilous[obs3], shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed[obs3]; setous|,
- setose[obs3], setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine" [Hamlet];
- rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.
- downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly; lanate[obs3], lanated[obs3];
- lanuginous[obs3], lanuginose[obs3]; tomentose[obs3]; fluffy.
- Adv. against the grain.
- Phr. cabello luengo y corto el seso[Sp].
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- #257. Notch. -- N. notch, dent, nick, cut; indent, indentation;
- dimple.
- embrasure, battlement, machicolation[obs3]; saw, tooth,
- crenelle[obs3], scallop, scollop[obs3], vandyke; depression; jag.
- V. notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp,
- scallop, scollop[obs3], crenulate[obs3], vandyke.
- Adj. notched &c. v.; crenate[obs3], crenated[obs3]; dentate, dentated;
- denticulate, denticulated; toothed, palmated[obs3], serrated.
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- #258. Fold. -- N. fold, plicature[obs3], plait, pleat,ply, crease;
- tuck, gather; flexion, flexure, joint, elbow, double, doubling,
- duplicature[obs3], gather, wrinkle, rimple[obs3], crinkle, crankle[obs3],
- crumple, rumple, rivel[obs3], ruck[obs3], ruffle, dog's ear, corrugation,
- frounce[obs3], flounce, lapel; pucker, crow's feet; plication[obs3].
- V. fold, double, plicate[obs3], plait, crease, wrinkle, crinkle,
- crankle[obs3], curl, cockle up, cocker, rimple[obs3], rumple,
- flute,frizzle, frounce[obs3], rivel[obs3], twill, corrugate, ruffle,
- crimple|, crumple, pucker; turn down, double down, down under; tuck,
- ruck[obs3], hem, gather.
- Adj. folded, fluted, pleated &c. v..
-
- #259. Furrow. -- N. furrow, groove, rut, sulcus[Anat], scratch,
- streak, striae, crack, score, incision, slit; chamfer, fluting; corduroy
- road, cradle hole.
- channel, gutter, trench, ditch, dike, dyke; moat, fosse[obs3], trough,
- kennel; ravine &c. (interval) 198; tajo [obs3][U.S.], thank-ye-ma'am
- [U.S.].
- V. furrow &c. n.; flute, plow; incise, engrave, etch, bite in.
- Adj. furrowed &c. v.; ribbed, striated, sulcated[Anat], fluted,
- canaliculated[obs3]; bisulcous[obs3], bisulcate[obs3], bisulcated[obs3];
- canaliferous[obs3]; trisulcate[obs3]; corduroy; unisulcate[obs3];
- costate[obs3], rimiform[obs3].
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- #260. Opening -- N. hole, foramen; puncture, perforation;
- fontanel[obs3]; transforation[obs3]; pinhole, keyhole, loophole, porthole,
- peephole, mousehole, pigeonhole; eye of a needle; eyelet; slot.
- opening; aperture, apertness[obs3]; hiation[obs3], yawning,
- oscitancy[obs3], dehiscence, patefaction|, pandiculation[obs3]; chasm &c.
- (interval) 198.
- embrasure, window, casement; abatjour[obs3]; light; sky light, fan
- light; lattice; bay window, bow window; oriel[Arch]; dormer, lantern.
- outlet, inlet; vent, vomitory; embouchure; orifice, mouth, sucker,
- muzzle, throat, gullet, weasand[obs3], wizen, nozzle; placket.
- portal, porch, gate, ostiary|, postern, wicket, trapdoor, hatch, door;
- arcade; cellarway[obs3], driveway, gateway, doorway, hatchway, gangway;
- lich gate[obs3].
- way, path &c. 627; thoroughfare; channel; passage, passageway; tube,
- pipe; water pipe &c. 350; air pipe &c. 351; vessel, tubule, canal, gut,
- fistula; adjutage[obs3], ajutage[obs3]; ostium[obs3]; smokestack; chimney,
- flue, tap, funnel, gully, tunnel, main; mine, pit, adit[obs3], shaft;
- gallery.
- alley, aisle, glade, vista.
- bore, caliber; pore; blind orifice; fulgurite[obs3],
- thundertube[obs3].
- porousness, porosity.
- sieve, cullender[obs3], colander; cribble[obs3], riddle, screen;
- honeycomb.
- apertion[obs3], perforation; piercing &c. v.; terebration[obs3],
- empalement[obs3], pertusion|, puncture, acupuncture, penetration.
- key &c. 631, opener, master key, password, combination, passe-partout.
- V. open, ope[obs3], gape, yawn, bilge; fly open.
- perforate, pierce, empierce|, tap, bore, drill; mine &c. (scoop out)
- 252; tunnel; transpierce[obs3], transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear,
- gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave
- in.
- cut a passage through; make way for, make room for.
- uncover, unclose, unrip[obs3]; lay open, cut open, rip open, throw
- open, pop open, blow open, pry open, tear open, pull open.
- Adj. open; perforated &c. v.; perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed,
- unstopped; oscitant[obs3], gaping, yawning; patent.
- tubular, cannular[obs3], fistulous; pervious, permeable;
- foraminous[obs3]; vesicular, vasicular[obs3]; porous, follicular,
- cribriform[obs3], honeycombed, infundibular[obs3], riddled; tubulous[obs3],
- tubulated[obs3]; piped, tubate[obs3].
- opening &c. v.; aperient[obs3].
- Int. open sesame!
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- #261. Closure. -- N. closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up &c. v.;
- obstruction &c. (hindrance) 706; embolus; contraction &c. 195; infarction;
- constipation, obstipation[obs3]; blind alley, blind corner; keddah[obs3];
- cul-de-sac, caecum; imperforation[obs3], imperviousness &c. adj.;
- impermeability; stopper &c. 263.
- V. close, occlude, plug; block up, stop up, fill up, bung up, cork up,
- button up, stuff up, shut up, dam up; blockade, obstruct &c.
- (hinder) 706; bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down,
- dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door.
- Adj. closed &c. v.; shut, operculated[obs3]; unopened.
- unpierced[obs3], imporous[obs3], caecal[Med]; closable; imperforate,
- impervious, impermeable; impenetrable; impassable, unpassable|2; invious|;
- pathless, wayless[obs3]; untrodden, untrod.
- unventilated; air tight, water tight; hermetically sealed; tight,
- snug.
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- #262. Perforator. -- N. perforator, piercer, borer, auger, chisel,
- gimlet, stylet[obs3], drill, wimble[obs3], awl, bradawl, scoop, terrier,
- corkscrew, dibble, trocar[Med], trepan, probe, bodkin, needle, stiletto,
- rimer, warder, lancet; punch, puncheon; spikebit[obs3], gouge; spear &c.
- (weapon) 727; puncher; punching machine, punching press; punch pliers.
-
- #263. Stopper. -- N. stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill,
- stopcock, tap; rammer[obs3]; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding,
- stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil[obs3], pledget[obs3], tompion[obs3],
- tourniquet.
- cover &c. 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.
- janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary[obs3].
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- Section IV. MOTION
- 1. Motion in General
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- #264 [Successive change of place.] Motion. -- N. motion, movement,
- move; going &c. v.; unrest.
- stream, flow, flux, run, course, stir; evolution; kinematics;
- telekinesis.
- step, rate, pace, tread, stride, gait, port, footfall, cadence,
- carriage, velocity, angular velocity; clip, progress, locomotion; journey
- &c. 266; voyage &c. 267; transit &c. 270.
- restlessness &c. (changeableness) 149; mobility; movableness, motive
- power; laws of motion; mobilization.
- V. be in motion &c. adj.; move, go, hie, gang, budge, stir, pass,
- flit; hover about, hover round, hover about; shift, slide, glide; roll,
- roll on; flow, stream, run, drift, sweep along; wander &c. (deviate) 279;
- walk &c. 266; change one's place, shift one's place, change one's quarters,
- shift one's quarters; dodge; keep going, keep moving;.
- put in motion, set in motion; move; impel &c. 276; propel &c. 284;
- render movable, mobilize.
- Adj. moving &c. v.; in motion; transitional; motory[obs3], motive;
- shifting, movable, mobile, mercurial, unquiet; restless &c. (changeable)
- 149; nomadic &c. 266; erratic &c. 279.
- Adv. under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.
- Phr. eppur si muove [It][Galileo]; es bildet ein Talent sich in der
- Stille[Ger], sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt[Ger].
-
- #265. Quiescence. -- N. rest; stillness &c. adj.; quiescence;
- stagnation, stagnancy; fixity, immobility, catalepsy; indisturbance[obs3];
- quietism.
- quiet, tranquility, calm; repose &c. 687; peace; dead calm,
- anticyclone|!; statue-like repose; silence &c. 203; not a breath of air,
- not a mouse stirring; sleep &c. (inactivity) 683.
- pause, lull &c. (cessation) 142; stand still; standing still &c. v.;
- lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.
- resting place; gite[Fr]; bivouac; home &c. (abode) 189; pillow &c.
- (support) 215; haven &c. (refuge) 666; goal &c. (arrival) 292.
- V. be quiescent &c. adj.; stand still, lie still; keep quiet, repose,
- hold the breath.
- remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry,
- mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop,
- stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest
- on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop &c. (discontinue)
- 142.
- stagnate; quieta non movere[Lat]; let alone; abide, rest and be
- thankful; keep within doors, stay at home, go to bed.
- dwell &c. (be present) 186; settle &c. (be located) 184; alight &c.
- (arrive) 292 stick, stick fast; stand like a post; not stir a peg, not stir
- a step; be at a stand &c. n. quell, becalm, hush, stay, lull to sleep, lay
- an embargo on.
- Adj. quiescent, still; motionless, moveless; fixed; stationary;
- immotile; at rest at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor; stock, still;
- standing still &c. v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed,
- stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful;
- cataleptic; immovable &c. (stable) 150; sleeping &c. (inactive) 683; silent
- &c. 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as
- death; vegetative, vegetating.
- Adv. at a stand &c. adj.; tout court; at the halt.
- Int. stop! stay! avast! halt! hold hard! whoa! hold! sabr karo[obs3]!.
- Phr. requiescat in pace[Lat]; Deus nobis haec otia fecit
- [Lat][Vergil]; "the noonday quiet holds the hill" [Tennyson].
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- #266. [Locomotion by land.] Journey. -- N. travel; traveling &c. v.
- wayfaring, campaigning.
- journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit,
- peregrination, discursion|, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course,
- ambulation[obs3], march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter,
- tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation[obs3],
- noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
- equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege[Fr], ride and tie;
- basophobia[obs3].
- roving, vagrancy, pererration|; marching and countermarching;
- nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit,
- flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration|,
- intermigration[obs3]; wanderlust.
- plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, guidebook, road book;
- Baedeker[obs3], Bradshaw, Murray; map, road map, transportation guide,
- subway map.
- procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column.
- [Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle &c. 272; automobile,
- train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt
- bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter',trolley, locomotive;
- legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters.
- traveler &c. 268.
- depot [U.S.], railway station, station.
- V. travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk,
- go out for walk &c. n.; have a run; take the air.
- flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range,
- patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the
- country; peragrate|; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize[obs3], wander,
- ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about;
- expatiate.
- walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare;
- promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it,
- stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.
- take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk[obs3],
- frisk, caracoler[obs3], caracole; gallop &c. (move quickly) 274.
- [start riding] embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get
- underway.
- peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's
- steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way,
- pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide,
- glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.
- go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
- Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving,
- rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic;
- circumforanean[obs3], circumforaneous[obs3]; noctivagrant[obs3],
- mundivagrant; locomotive.
- wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
- Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:
- in transitu &c. 270[Lat]; en route &c. 282.
- Int. come along!
-
- #267. [Locomotion by water, or air.] Navigation. -- N. navigation;
- aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail,
- canvas, aileron.
- natation[obs3], swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail.
- aerostation[obs3], aerostatics[obs3], aeronautics; balloonery[obs3];
- balloon &c. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight,
- volitation[obs3]; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics,
- orbital mechanics, orbiting.
- voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus[obs3];
- headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.
- mariner &c. 269.
- flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift.
- V. sail; put to sea &c. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set
- sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry
- sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk
- the waters.
- navigate, warp, luff[obs3], scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise,
- coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.
- ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
- swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer[Fr],
- dive, wade.
- fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing,
- take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one's
- flight, wing one's way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide.
- Adj. sailing &c. v.; volant[obs3], aerostatic[obs3]; seafaring,
- nautical, maritime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial,
- aeronautic; grallatory[obs3].
- Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in
- flight, in orbit.
- Phr. bon voyage; "spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale"
- [Pope].
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- #268. Traveler. -- N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant,
- passenger, commuter.
- tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker,
- backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator[obs3], wanderer, rover, straggler,
- rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling[obs3]; vagrant,
- scatterling[obs3], landloper[obs3], waifs and estrays[obs3], wastrel,
- foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy,
- Arab[obs3], Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic;
- somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly[obs3];
- globegirdler[obs3], globetrotter; vagrant, hobo [U.S.], night walker, sleep
- walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman
- [obs3][Aust.]; trecker[obs3], trekker, zingano[obs3], zingaro[obs3].
- runner, courier; Mercury, Iris, Ariel[obs3], comet.
- pedestrian, walker, foot passenger; cyclist; wheelman.
- rider,horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer,
- breaker.
- driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy[obs3],
- carter, wagoner, drayman[obs3]; cabman, cabdriver; voiturier[obs3],
- vetturino[obs3], condottiere[obs3]; engine driver; stoker, fireman, guard;
- chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah[obs3], gari-wala[obs3],
- hackman, syce[obs3], truckman[obs3].
- Phr. on the road
-
- #269. Mariner. -- N. sailor, mariner, navigator; seaman, seafarer,
- seafaring man; dock walloper*; tar, jack tar, salt, able seaman, A. B.;
- man-of-war's man, bluejacket, galiongee[obs3], galionji[obs3], marine,
- jolly, midshipman, middy; skipper; shipman[obs3], boatman, ferryman,
- waterman[obs3], lighterman[obs3], bargeman, longshoreman; bargee[obs3],
- gondolier; oar, oarsman; rower; boatswain, cockswain[obs3]; coxswain;
- steersman, pilot; crew.
- aerial navigator, aeronaut, balloonist, Icarus; aeroplanist[obs3],
- airman, aviator, birdman, man-bird, wizard of the air, aviatrix, flier,
- pilot, test pilot, glider pilot, bush pilot, navigator, flight attendant,
- steward, stewardess, crew; astronaut, cosmonaut; parachutist, paratrooper.
-
- #270. Transference. -- N. transfer, transference; translocation,
- elocation|; displacement; metastasis, metathesis; removal; remotion[obs3],
- amotion[obs3]; relegation; deportation, asportation[obs3]; extradition,
- conveyance, draft, carrying, carriage; convection, conduction, contagion;
- transfer &c. (of property) 783.
- transit, transition; passage, ferry, gestation; portage,
- porterage[obs3], carting, cartage; shoveling &c. v.; vection|, vecture|,
- vectitation|; shipment, freight, wafture[obs3]; transmission, transport,
- transportation, importation, exportation, transumption[obs3],
- transplantation, translation; shifting, dodging; dispersion &c. 73;
- transposition &c. (interchange) 148; traction &c. 285.
- [Thing transferred] drift.
- V. transfer, transmit, transport, transplace[obs3], transplant,
- translocate; convey, carry, bear, fetch and carry; carry over, ferry over;
- hand pass, forward; shift; conduct, convoy, bring, fetch, reach; tote
- [U.S.]; port, import, export.
- send, delegate, consign, relegate, turn over to, deliver; ship,
- embark; waft; shunt; transpose &c. (interchange) 148; displace &c. 185;
- throw &c. 284; drag &c. 285; mail, post.
- shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.
- Adj. transferred &c. v.; drifted, movable; portable, portative[obs3];
- mailable [U.S.]; contagious.
- Adv. from hand to hand, from pillar to post.
- on the way, by the way; on the road, on the wing, under way, in
- transit, on course; as one goes; in transitu[Lat], en route, chemin
- faisant[Fr], en passant[Fr], in mid progress, in mid course.
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- #271. Carrier. -- N. carrier, porter, bearer, tranter|, conveyer;
- cargador[obs3]; express, expressman; stevedore, coolie; conductor,
- locomotive, motor.
- beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab[obs3], blood
- horse, thoroughbred, galloway[obs3], charger, courser, racer, hunter,
- jument[obs3], pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad,
- cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer[obs3]; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse,
- cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie;
- garran[obs3], garron[obs3]; jennet, genet[obs3], bayard[obs3], mare,
- stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho[obs3], cayuse [U.S.]; creature, critter
- [rural U.S.]; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler[obs3]; stud.
- Pegasus, Bucephalus, Rocinante.
- ass, donkey, jackass, mule, hinny; sumpter horse, sumpter mule; burro,
- cuddy[obs3], ladino [obs3][U.S.]; reindeer; camel, dromedary, llama,
- elephant; carrier pigeon.
- [object used for carrying] pallet, brace, cart, dolley; support &c.
- 215; fork lift.
- carriage &c. (vehicle) 272; ship &c. 273.
- Adj. equine, asinine.
-
- #272. Vehicle. -- N. vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van;
- common carrier; wagon, waggon[obs3], wain, dray, cart, lorry.
- truck, tram; cariole, carriole[obs3]; limber, tumbrel, pontoon;
- barrow; wheel barrow, hand barrow; perambulator; Bath chair, wheel chair,
- sedan chair; chaise; palankeen[obs3], palanquin; litter, brancard[obs3],
- crate, hurdle, stretcher, ambulance; black Maria; conestoga wagon,
- conestoga wain; jinrikisha, ricksha, brett[obs3], dearborn [obs3][U.S.],
- dump cart, hack, hackery[obs3], jigger, kittereen[obs3], mailstate[obs3],
- manomotor[obs3], rig, rockaway[obs3], prairie schooner [U.S.], shay, sloven
- [Can.], team, tonga[obs3], wheel; hobbyhorse, go-cart; cycle; bicycle,
- bike, two-wheeler; tricycle, velocipede, quadricycle[obs3].
- equipage, turn-out; coach, chariot, phaeton, break, mail phaeton,
- wagonette, drag, curricle[obs3], tilbury[obs3], whisky, landau, barouche,
- victoria, brougham, clarence[obs3], calash, caleche[French], britzka[obs3],
- araba[obs3], kibitka[obs3]; berlin; sulky, desobligeant[French], sociable,
- vis-a-vis, dormeuse[Fr]; jaunting car, outside car; dandi[obs3];
- doolie[obs3], dooly[obs3]; munchil[obs3], palki[obs3]; roller skates,
- skate; runabout; ski; tonjon[obs3]; vettura[obs3].
- post chaise, diligence, stage; stage coach, mail coach, hackney coach,
- glass coach; stage wagon, car, omnibus, fly, cabriolet[obs3], cab, hansom,
- shofle[obs3], four-wheeler, growler, droshki[obs3], drosky[obs3].
- dogcart, trap, whitechapel, buggy, four-in-hand, unicorn, random,
- tandem; shandredhan[obs3], char-a-bancs[French].
- motor car, automobile, limousine, car, auto, jalopy, clunker, lemon,
- flivver, coupe, sedan, two-door sedan, four-door sedan, luxury sedan;
- wheels [coll.], sports car, roadster, gran turismo[It], jeep, four-wheel
- drive vehicle, electric car, steamer; golf cart, electric wagon; taxicab,
- cab, taxicoach[obs3], checker cab, yellow cab; station wagon, family car;
- motorcycle, motor bike, side car; van, minivan, bus, minibus, microbus;
- truck, wagon, pick-up wagon, pick-up, tractor-trailer, road train,
- articulated vehicle; racing car, racer, hot rod, stock car, souped-up car..
- bob, bobsled, bobsleigh[obs3]; cutter; double ripper, double runner
- [U.S.]; jumper, sled, sledge, sleigh, toboggan.
- train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special
- train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train,
- goods train; 1st class train, 2nd class train, 3rd class train, 1st class
- carriage, 2nd class carriage, 3rd class carriage, 1st class compartment,
- 2nd class compartment, 3rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box,
- cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining
- car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car,
- trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car [U.S.]; bullet train, shinkansen
- [Jap.], cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van;
- mail, mail car, mail van.
- shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle[obs3],
- loy[obs3]; spud; pitchfork; post hole digger.
- [powered construction vehicles] tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork
- lift, earth mover, dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench
- digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane, wrecking crane.
-
- #273. Ship. -- N. ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.
- navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.
- man of war &c. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship[obs3];
- merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier,
- coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht;
- baggala[obs3]; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
- ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine,
- barkantine[obs3]; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three
- masted schooner; chasse-maree[Fr]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist,
- yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy[obs3], cat, buss; sailer,
- sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean
- liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch,
- thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse|, baste; pelt,
- patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line;
- destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST[abbr]; aircraft carrier,
- carrier, flattop[coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible,
- atomic submarine.
- boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly
- boat, cock boat, ferry oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.],
- bateau battery[Can.], broadhorn[obs3], dory, droger[obs3], drogher;
- dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot[obs3]; shallop[obs3], gig, funny,
- skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble[obs3], punt, cog, kedge,
- lerret[obs3]; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan[obs3]; outrigger;
- float, raft, pontoon; prame[obs3]; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.
- catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel[obs3],
- caravel; felucca, caique[obs3], canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe,;
- galley, galleyfoist[obs3]; bilander[obs3], dogger[obs3], hooker,
- howker[obs3]; argosy, carack[obs3]; galliass[obs3], galleon; polacca[obs3],
- polacre[obs3], tartane[obs3], junk, lorcha[obs3], praam[obs3], proa[obs3],
- prahu[obs3], saick[obs3], sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah[obs3];
- nuggah[obs3]; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue;
- quadrireme[obs3], trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan[obs3], wangan
- [obs3][U.S.], wharf boat.
- balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane[obs3];
- hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible,
- zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute.
- jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller
- plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation;
- airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy
- plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.
- Adv. afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port,
- hard a starboard, hard a weather.
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- #274. Velocity. -- N. velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness &c. adj.;
- rapidity, eagle speed; expedition &c. (activity) 682; pernicity|;
- acceleration; haste &c. 684.
- spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift
- rate &c. adj.; rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace,
- lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace;
- round pace; flying, flight.
- lightning, greased lightning, light, electricity, wind; cannon ball,
- rocket, arrow, dart, hydrargyrum[Lat], quicksilver; telegraph, express
- train; torrent.
- eagle, antelope, courser, race horse, gazelle, greyhound, hare, doe,
- squirrel, camel bird, chickaree[obs3], chipmunk, hackee [obs3][U.S.],
- ostrich, scorcher*.
- Mercury, Ariel[obs3], Camilla[obs3], Harlequin.
- [Measurement of velocity] log, log line; speedometer, odometer,
- tachometer, strobe, radar speed detector, radar trap, air speed gauge, wind
- sock, wind speed meter; pedometer.
- V. move quickly, trip, fisk|; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank,
- scuttle; scud, scuddle[obs3]; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like
- mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom,
- swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel;
- scorch, burn up the track; rush &c. (be violent) 173; dash on, dash off,
- dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart,
- boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the
- ground.
- hurry &c. (hasten) 684; accelerate, put on; quicken; quicken one's
- pace, mend one's pace; clap spurs to one's horse; make haste, make rapid
- strides, make forced marches, make the best of one's way; put one's best
- leg foremost, stir one's stumps, wing one's way, set off at a score; carry
- sail, crowd sail; go off like a shot, go like a shot, go ahead, gain
- ground; outstrip the wind, fly on the wings of the wind.
- keep up with, keep pace with; outstrip &c. 303; outmarch[obs3].
- Adj. fast, speedy, swift, rapid, quick, fleet; aliped[obs3]; nimble,
- agile, expeditious; express; active &c. 682; flying, galloping &c. v.;
- light footed, nimble footed; winged, eagle winged, mercurial, electric,
- telegraphic; light-legged, light of heel; swift as an arrow &c. n.; quick
- as lightning &c. n., quick as a thought.
- Adv. swiftly &c. adj.; with speed &c. n.; apace; at a great rate, at
- full speed, at railway speed; full drive, full gallop; posthaste, in full
- sail, tantivy[obs3]; trippingly; instantaneously &c. 113.
- under press of sail, under press of canvas, under press of sail and
- steam; velis et remis[Lat], on eagle's wing, in double quick time; with
- rapid strides, with giant strides; a pas de geant[Fr]; in seven league
- boots; whip and spur; ventre a terre[Fr]; as fast as one's legs will carry
- one, as fast as one's heels will carry one; as fast as one can lay legs to
- the ground, at the top of one;s speed; by leaps and bounds; with haste &c.
- 684.
- Phr. vires acquirit eundo[Lat]; "I'll put a girdle about the earth in
- forty minutes" [M.N.D.]; "swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow"
- [M.N.D.]; go like a bat out of hell; tempus fugit[Lat].
-
- #275. Slowness. -- N. slowness &c. adj.; languor &c. (inactivity) 683;
- drawl; creeping &c. v., lentor[obs3].
- retardation; slackening &c. v.; delay &c. (lateness) 133;
- claudication|.
- jog trot, dog trot; mincing steps; slow march, slow time.
- slow goer[obs3], slow coach, slow back; lingerer, loiterer, sluggard,
- tortoise, snail; poke* [U.S.]; dawdle &c. (inactive) 683.
- V. move slowly &c. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger,
- loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle &c.
- (be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on,
- bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble[obs3], slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle,
- halt, hobble, limp, caludicate|, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger;
- mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take
- one's time; hang fire &c. (be late) 133.
- retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike
- sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip
- the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose
- ground.
- Adj. slow, slack; tardy; dilatory &c. (inactive) 683; gentle, easy;
- leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial,
- languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade|!, snail-like; creeping &c. v.;
- reptatorial[obs3].
- Adv. slowly &c. adj.; leisurely; piano, adagio; largo, larghetto; at
- half speed, under easy sail; at a foots pace, at a snail's pace, at a
- funeral pace; in slow time, with mincing steps, with clipped wings; haud
- passibus aequis [Lat][Vergil].
- gradually &c. adj.; gradatim[Lat]; by degrees, by slow degrees, by
- inches, by little and little; step by step, one step at a time; inch by
- inch, bit by bit, little by little, seriatim; consecutively.
- Phr. dum Roma deliberat Saguntum perit[Lat]; at a glacial pace.
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- %<-- distinguish between impact, collision, and impulse imparted thereby?
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- #276. Impulse. -- N. impulse, impulsion, impetus; momentum; push,
- pulsion[obs3], thrust, shove, jog, jolt, brunt, booming, boost [U.S.],
- throw; explosion &c. (violence) 173; propulsion &c. 284.
- percussion, concussion, collision, occursion|, clash, encounter,
- cannon, carambole[obs3], appulse[obs3], shock, crash, bump; impact; elan;
- charge &c. (attack) 716; beating &c. (punishment) 972.
- blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip;
- slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff &c. 972; squash, dowse, swap,
- whap[obs3], punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce|, calcitration[obs3];
- ruade[obs3]; arietation|; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk|; carom, carrom[obs3],
- clip *, jab, plug*, sidewinder* [U.S.], sidewipe[obs3], sideswipe [U.S.].
- hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer[obs3];
- battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel
- &c. (weapon) 727; ax &c. (sharp) 253.
- [Science of mechanical forces] dynamics; seismometer, accelerometer,
- earthquake detector.
- V. give an impetus &c. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set
- going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin[Fr]; cant; elbow, shoulder,
- jostle, justle[obs3], hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run
- against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's
- head against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out;
- jab, plug *.
- strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow,
- bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap,
- batter, dowse|, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow;
- poke at, pink, lunge, yerk[obs3]; kick, calcitrate[obs3]; butt, strike at
- &c. (attack) 716; whip *c. (punish) 972.
- come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul;
- fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.
- throw &c. (propel) 284.
- Adj. impelling &c. v.; impulsive, impellent[obs3]; booming; dynamic,
- dynamical; impelled &c. v.
- Phr. "a hit, a very palpable hit" [Hamlet].
-
- #277. Recoil. -- N. recoil; reaction, retroaction; revulsion; bounce,
- rebound, ricochet; repercussion, recalcitration[obs3]; kick,
- contrecoup[Fr]; springing back &c. v.; elasticity &c. 325; reflection,
- reflexion[Brit], reflex, reflux; reverberation &c. (resonance) 408; rebuff,
- repulse; return.
- ducks and drakes; boomerang; spring, reactionist[obs3].
- elastic collision, coefficient of restitution.
- V. recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back;
- rebound, reverberate, repercuss[obs3], recalcitrate[obs3]; echo, ricochet.
- Adj. recoiling &c. v.; refluent[obs3], repercussive, recalcitrant,
- reactionary; retroactive.
- Adv. on the rebound, on the recoil &c. n.
- Phr. for every action there is a reaction equal in force and opposite
- in direction [Newton].
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-
- #278. Direction. -- N. direction, bearing, course, vector; set, drift,
- tenor; tendency &c. 176; incidence; bending, trending &c. v.; dip, tack,
- aim, collimation; steering steerage.
- point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by
- E, ENE, NE by N, NE, &c; rhumb[obs3], azimuth, line of collimation.
- line, path, road, range, quarter, line of march; alignment,
- allignment[obs3]; air line, beeline; straight shoot.
- V. tend towards, bend towards, point towards; conduct to, go to; point
- to, point at; bend, trend, verge, incline, dip, determine.
- steer for, steer towards, make for, make towards; aim at, level at;
- take aim; keep a course, hold a course; be bound for; bend one's steps
- towards; direct one's course, steer one's course, bend one's course, shape
- one's course; align one's march, allign one's march[obs3]; to straight, go
- straight to the point; march on, march on a point.
- ascertain one's direction &c. n.; s'orienter[French], see which way
- the wind blows; box the compass; take the air line.
- Adj. directed &c. v. directed towards; pointing towards &c. v.; bound
- for; aligned, with alligned with[obs3]; direct, straight; undeviating,
- unswerving; straightforward; North, Northern, Northerly, &c. n.
- Adv. towards; on the road, on the high road to; en avant; versus, to;
- hither, thither, whither; directly; straight as an arrow, forwards as an
- arrow; point blank; in a bee line to, in a direct line to, as the crow
- flies, in a straight line to, in a bee line for, in a direct line for, in a
- straight line for, in a bee line with, in a direct line with, in a straight
- line with; in a line with; full tilt at, as the crow flies.
- before the wind, near the wind, close to the wind, against the wind;
- windwards, in the wind's eye.
- through, via, by way of; in all directions, in all manner of ways;
- quaquaversum[Lat], from the four winds.
- Phr. the shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
-
- #279. Deviation. -- N. deviation; swerving &c. v.; obliquation|, warp,
- refraction; flection[obs3], flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure[obs3];
- declination.
- diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence &c. 291;
- zigzag; detour &c. (circuit) 629; divagation.
- [Desultory motion] wandering &c. v.; vagrancy, evagation[obs3];
- bypaths and crooked ways; byroad.
- [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling &c. v.; knight's move at
- chess.
- V. alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve
- &c. 245; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe[obs3], wear.
- intervert[obs3]; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new
- scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp.
- stray, straggle; sidle; diverge &c. 291; tralineate|; digress, wander;
- wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a
- corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go
- astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy.
- fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the
- right about, face to the right about; waddle &c. (oscillate) 314; go out of
- one's way &c. (perform a circuit) 629; lose one's way.
- Adj. deviating &c. v.; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive;
- devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected,
- circuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.
- Adv. astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about;
- all manner of ways; circuitously &c. 629.
- obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.
-
- #280. [Going before.] Precession. -- N. precession, leading, heading;
- precedence &c. 62; priority &c. 116; the lead, le pas; van &c. (front) 234;
- precursor &c. 64.
- V. go before, go ahead, go in the van, go in advance; precede,
- forerun; usher in, introduce, herald, head, take the lead; lead the way,
- lead the dance; get the start, have the start; steal a march; get before,
- get ahead, get in front of; outstrip &c. 303; take precedence &c. (first in
- order) 62.
- Adj. leading, precedent &c. v.
- Adv. in advance, before, ahead, in the van, in the lead; foremost,
- headmost[obs3]; in front; at the head, out in front; way out in front, far
- ahead.
- Phr. seniores priores[Lat], ahead of his time.
-
- #281. [Going after.] Sequence. -- N. sequence; coming after &c.
- (order) 63; (time) 117; following pursuit &c. 622.
- follower, attendant, satellite, shadow, dangler, train.
- V. follow; pursue &c. 622; go after, fly after.
- attend, beset, dance attendance on, dog; tread in the steps of, tread
- close upon; be in the wake of, be in the trail of, be in the rear of, go in
- the wake of, go in the trail of, go in the rear of, follow in the wake of,
- follow in the trail of, follow in the rear of; follow as a shadow, hang on
- the skirts of; tread on the heels of, follow on the heels of; camp on the
- trail.
- Adj. subsequent, next, succeeding; following &c. v..
- Adv. behind; in the rear &c. 235, in the train of, in the wake of;
- after &c. (order) 63, (time) 117.
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- #282. [Motion forward; progressive motion.] Progression. -- N.
- progress, progression, progressiveness; advancing &c. v.; advance,
- advancement; ongoing; flood, tide, headway; march &c. 266; rise;
- improvement &c. 658.
- V. advance; proceed, progress; get on, get along, get over the ground;
- gain ground; forge ahead; jog on, rub on, wag on; go with the stream; keep
- one;s course, hold on one's course; go on, move on, come one, get on, pass
- on, push on, press on, go forward, move forward, come forward, get forward,
- pass forward, push forward, press forward, go forwards, move forwards, come
- forwards, get forwards, pass forwards, push forwards, press forwards, go
- ahead, move ahead, come ahead, get ahead, pass ahead, push ahead, press
- ahead; make one's way, work one's way, carve one's way, push one's way,
- force one's way, edge one's way, elbow one's way; make progress, make head,
- make way, make headway, make advances, make strides, make rapid strides &c.
- (velocity) 274; go ahead, shoot ahead; distance; make up leeway.
- Adj. advancing &c. v.; progressive, profluent[obs3]; advanced.
- Adv. forward, onward; forth, on, ahead, under way, en route for, on
- one's way, on the way, on the road, on the high road, on the road to; in
- progress; in mid progress; in transitu &c. 270[Lat].
- Phr. vestigia nulla retrorsum[Lat]; "westward the course of empire
- takes its way" [Berkeley].
-
- #283. [Motion backwards.] Regression. -- N. regress, regression;
- retrocession[obs3], retrogression, retrograduation[obs3], retroaction;
- reculade[obs3]; retreat, withdrawal, retirement, remigration[obs3];
- recession &c. (motion from) 287; recess; crab-like motion.
- refluence[obs3], reflux; backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return;
- resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil) 277[Brit]; flip-flop, volte-
- face[Fr].
- counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in
- reverse, counter movement, counter march; veering, tergiversation,
- recidivation|, backsliding, fall; deterioration &c. 659; recidivism,
- recidivity[obs3].
- reversal, relapse, turning point &c.(reversion) 145.
- V. recede, regrade, return, revert, retreat, retire; retrograde,
- retrocede; back out; back down; balk; crawfish* [U.S.], crawl*; withdraw;
- rebound &c. 277; go back, come back, turn back, hark back, draw back, fall
- back, get back, put back, run back; lose ground; fall astern, drop astern;
- backwater, put about; backtrack, take the back track; veer round; double,
- wheel, countermarch; ebb, regurgitate; jib, shrink, shy.
- turn tail, turn round, turn upon one's heel, turn one's back upon;
- retrace one's steps, dance the back step; sound a retreat, beat a retreat;
- go home.
- Adj. receding &c. v.; retrograde, retrogressive; regressive,
- refluent[obs3], reflex, recidivous, resilient; crab-like; balky;
- reactionary &c. 277.
- Adv. back, backwards; reflexively, to the right about; a reculons[Fr],
- a rebours[Fr].
- Phr. revenons a nos moutons[Fr], as you were.
-
- #284. [Motion given to an object situated in front.] Propulsion. -- N.
- propulsion, projection; propelment[obs3]; vis a tergo[Lat: force from
- behind]; push, shove &c. (impulse) 276; ejaculate; ejection &c. 297; throw,
- fling, toss, shot, discharge, shy; launch, release.
- [Science of propulsion] projectiles, ballistics, archery.
- [devices to give propulsion] propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine,
- jet engine.
- [objects propelled] missile, projectile, ball, discus, quoit,
- brickbat, shot;
- [weapons which propel] arrow, gun, ballista &c. (arms) 727[obs3].
- [preparation for propulsion] countdown, windup.
- shooter; shot; archer, toxophilite[obs3]; bowman, rifleman, marksman;
- good shot, crack shot; sharpshooter &c. (combatant) 726.
- V. propel, project, throw, fling, cast, pitch, chuck, toss, jerk,
- heave, shy, hurl; flirt, fillip.
- dart, lance, tilt; ejaculate, jaculate[obs3]; fulminate, bolt, drive,
- sling, pitchfork.
- send; send off, let off, fire off; discharge, shoot; launch, release,
- send forth, let fly; put in orbit, send into orbit, launch into orbit dash.
- put in motion, set in motion; set agoing[obs3], start; give a start,
- give an impulse to; impel &c. 276; trundle &c. (set in rotation) 312; expel
- &c. 297.
- carry one off one's legs; put to flight.
- Adj. propelled &c. v.; propelling &c. v..; propulsive, projectile.
-
- #285. [Motion given to an object situated behind.] Traction. -- N.
- traction; drawing &c. v.; draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong
- pull and a pull all together"; towage[obs3], haulage.
- V. draw, pull, haul, lug, rake, drag, tug, tow, trail, train; take in
- tow.
- wrench, jerk, twitch, touse|; yank [U.S.].
- Adj. drawing &c. v.; tractile[obs3], tractive.
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- #286. [Motion towards.] Approach. -- N. approach, approximation,
- appropinquation[obs3]; access; appulse[obs3]; afflux[obs3],
- affluxion[obs3]; advent &c. (approach of time) 121; pursuit &c. 622.
- V. approach, approximate, appropinquate[obs3]; near; get near, go
- near, draw near; come to close quarters, come near; move towards, set in
- towards; drift; make up to; gain upon; pursue &c. 622; tread on the heels
- of; bear up; make the land; hug the shore, hug the land.
- Adj. approaching &c. v.; approximative[obs3]; affluent; impending,
- imminent &c. (destined) 152.
- Adv. on the road.
- Int. come hither! approach! here! come! come near! forward!
-
- #287. [Motion from.] Recession. -- N. recession, retirement,
- withdrawal; retreat; retrocession &c. 283[obs3]; departure, &c. 293; recoil
- &c. 277; flight &c. (avoidance) 623.
- V. recede, go, move back, move from, retire; withdraw, shrink, back
- off; come away, move away, back away, go away, get away, drift away; depart
- &c. 293; retreat &c. 283; move off, stand off, sheer off; fall back, stand
- aside; run away &c. (avoid) 623.
- remove, shunt, distance.
- Adj. receding &c. v.
- Phr. distance oneself from a person.
-
- #288. [Motion towards, actively; force causing to draw closer.]
- Attraction. -- N. attraction, attractiveness; attractivity[obs3]; drawing
- to, pulling towards, adduction[obs3].
- electrical attraction, electricity, static electricity, static, static
- cling; magnetism, magnetic attraction; gravity, attraction of gravitation.
- [objects which attract by physical force] lodestone, loadstone,
- lodestar, loadstar[obs3]; magnet, permanent magnet, siderite, magnetite;
- electromagnet; magnetic coil, voice coil; magnetic dipole; motor coil,
- rotor, stator.
- electrical charge; positive charge, negative charge.
- magnetic pole; north pole, south pole; magnetic monopole.
- V. attract, draw; draw towards, pull towards, drag towards; adduce.
- Adj. attracting &c. v.; attrahent[obs3], attractive, adducent[obs3],
- adductive[obs3].
- centrifugal.
- Phr. ubi mel ibi apes [Latin][Plautus].
-
- #289. [Motion from, actively; force driving apart.] Repulsion. -- N.
- repulsion; driving from &c. v.; repulse, abduction.
- magnetic repulsion, magnetic levitation; antigravity.
- V. repel, push from, drive apart, drive from &c. 276; chase, dispel;
- retrude[obs3]; abduce[obs3], abduct; send away; repulse.
- keep at arm's length, turn one's back upon, give the cold shoulder;
- send off, send away with a flea in one's ear.
- Adj. repelling &c. v.; repellent, repulsive; abducent[obs3],
- abductive[obs3].
- centripetal
- Phr. like charges repel; opposite charges attract; like poles repel,
- opposite poles attract.
-
- #290. [Motion nearer to.] Convergence. -- N. convergence, confluence,
- concourse, conflux[obs3], congress, concurrence, concentration;
- convergency; appulse[obs3], meeting; corradiation[obs3].
- assemblage &c. 72; resort &c. (focus) 74; asymptote.
- V. converge, concur, come together, unite, meet, fall in with; close
- with, close in upon; center round, center in; enter in; pour in.
- gather together, unite, concentrate, bring into a focus.
- Adj. converging &c. v.; convergent, confluent, concurrent;
- centripetal; asymptotical, asymptotic; confluxible[obs3].
-
- #291. [Motion further off.] Divergence. -- N. divergence,
- divergency[obs3]; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation;
- separation &c. (disjunction) 44; dispersion &c. 73; deviation &c. 279;
- aberration.
- V. diverge, divaricate, radiate; ramify; branch off, glance off, file
- off; fly off, fly off at a tangent; spread, scatter, disperse &c. 73;
- deviate &c. 279; part &c. (separate) 44.
- Adj. diverging &c. v.; divergent, radiant, centrifugal; aberrant.
-
- #292. [Terminal motion at.] Arrival. -- N. arrival, advent; landing;
- debarkation, disembarkation; reception, welcome, vin d'honneur[Fr].
- home, goal, goalpost; landing place, landing stage; bunder[obs3];
- resting place; destination, harbor, haven, port, airport, spaceport;
- terminus, halting place, halting ground, landing strip, runway, terminal;
- journey's end; anchorage &c. (refuge) 666.
- return, remigration[obs3]; meeting; rencounter[obs3], encounter.
- completion &c. 729.
- recursion[Math, Comp].
- V. arrive; get to, come to; come; reach, attain; come up with, come up
- to; overtake, make, fetch; complete &c. 729; join, rejoin.
- light, alight, dismount; land, go ashore; debark, disembark; put in,
- put into; visit, cast anchor, pitch one's tent; sit down &c. (be located)
- 184; get to one's journey's end; make the land; be in at the death; come
- back, get back, come home, get home; return; come in &c. (ingress) 294;
- make one's appearance &c. (appear) 446; drop in; detrain, deplane; outspan;
- de-orbit.
- come to hand; come at, come across; hit; come upon, light upon, pop
- upon, bounce upon, plump upon, burst upon, pitch upon; meet; encounter,
- rencounter[obs3]; come in contact.
- Adj. arriving &c. v.; homeward bound.
- Adv. here, hither.
- Int. welcome! hail! all Hail! good-day, good morrow!
- Phr. any port in a storm.
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- #293. [Initial motion from.] Departure. -- N. departure,
- decession[obs3], decampment; embarkation; outset, start; removal; exit &c.
- (egress) 295; exodus, hejira, flight.
- leave taking, valediction, adieu, farewell, goodbye, auf
- wiedersehen[Ger], sayonara, dosvidanya[Russ], ciao, aloha, hasta la
- vista[Sp]; stirrup cup; valedictorian.
- starting point, starting post; point of departure, point of
- embarkation, place of departure, place of embarkation; port of embarkation;
- airport, take-off point, taxiing runway, runway, launching pad, spaceport.
- V. depart; go away; take one's departure, set out; set off, march off,
- put off, start off, be off, move off, get off, whip off, pack off, go off,
- take oneself off; start, issue, march out, debouch; go forth, sally forth;
- sally, set forward; be gone; hail from.
- leave a place, quit, vacate, evacuate, abandon; go off the stage, make
- one's exit; retire, withdraw, remove; vamoose*, vamose* [obs3][U.S.]; go
- one's way, go along, go from home; take flight, take wing; spring, fly,
- flit, wing one's flight; fly away, whip away; embark; go on board, go
- aboard; set sail' put to sea, go to sea; sail, take ship; hoist blue Peter;
- get under way, weigh anchor; strike tents, decamp; walk one's chalks, cut
- one's stick; take leave; say good bye, bid goodbye &c. n.; disappear &c.
- 449; abscond &c. (avoid) 623; entrain; inspan[obs3].
- Adj. departing &c. v.; valedictory; outward bound.
- Adv. whence, hence, thence; with a foot in the stirrup; on the wing,
- on the move.
- Int. begone! &c. (ejection) 297; farewell! adieu! goodbye! good day!
- au revoir[Fr]! fare you well! God bless you! God speed! all aboard! auf
- wiedersehen[Ger]! au plaisir de vous revoir[Fr]! bon voyage! gluckliche
- Reise[Ger]! vive valeque[Fr]!
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- #294 [Motion into.] Ingress. -- N. ingress; entrance, entry;
- introgression; influx, intrusion, inroad, incursion, invasion, irruption;
- ingression; penetration, interpenetration; illapse[obs3], import,
- infiltration; immigration; admission &c. (reception) 296; insinuation &c.
- (interjacence) 228[obs3]; insertion &c. 300.
- inlet; way in; mouth, door, &c. (opening) 260; barway[obs3]; path &c.
- (way) 627; conduit &c. 350; immigrant.
- V. have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour
- into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip
- in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot
- on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate
- itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle
- into, worm oneself into.
- give entrance to &c. (receive) 296; insert &c. 300.
- Adj. incoming.
-
- #295. [Motion out of.] Egress. -- N. egress, exit, issue; emersion,
- emergence; outbreak, outburst; eruption, proruption[obs3]; emanation;
- egression; evacuation; exudation, transudation; extravasation[Med],
- perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing; gush
- &c. (water in motion) 348; outpour, outpouring; effluence, effusion;
- effluxion[obs3], drain; dribbling &c. v.; defluxion[obs3]; drainage;
- outcome, output; discharge &c. (excretion) 299.
- export, expatriation; emigration, remigration[obs3]; debouch,
- debouche; emunctory[obs3]; exodus &c. (departure) 293; emigrant.
- outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate; pore; vomitory,
- outgate[obs3], sally port; way out; mouth, door &c. (opening) 260; path &c.
- (way) 627; conduit &c. 350; airpipe &c. 351[obs3].
- V. emerge, emanate, issue; egress; go out of, come out of, move out
- of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of; pass out of, evacuate.
- exude, transude; leak, run through, out through; percolate,
- transcolate|; egurgitate[obs3]; strain, distill; perspire, sweat, drain,
- ooze; filter, filtrate; dribble, gush, spout, flow out; well, well out;
- pour, trickle, &c. (water in motion) 348; effuse, extravasate[Med],
- disembogue[obs3], discharge itself, debouch; come forth, break forth; burst
- out, burst through; find vent; escape &c. 671.
- Adj. effused &c. v.; outgoing.
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- #296. [Motion into, actively.] Reception. -- N. reception; admission,
- admittance, entree, importation; introduction, intromission;
- immission[obs3], ingestion, imbibation[obs3], introception[obs3],
- absorption, ingurgitation[obs3], inhalation; suction, sucking; eating,
- drinking &c. (food) 298; insertion &c. 300; interjection &c. 228; introit.
- V. give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce,
- intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw
- in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in,
- draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate[obs3];
- engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink &c. (food) 298.
- Adj. admitting &c. v., admitted &c. v.; admissable; absorbent.
-
- #297. [Motion out of, actively] Ejection. -- N. ejection, emission,
- effusion, rejection, expulsion,exportation, eviction, extrusion,
- trajection[obs3]; discharge.
- emesis, vomiting, vomition[obs3].
- egestion[obs3], evacuation; ructation[obs3], eructation; bloodletting,
- venesection[Med], phlebotomy, paracentesis[obs3]; expuition, exspuition;
- tapping, drainage; clearance, clearage[obs3].
- deportation; banishment &c. (punishment ) 972; rouge's march;
- relegation, extradition; dislodgment.
- bouncer [U.S.], chucker-out*[obs3].
- [material vomited] vomit, vomitus[Med], puke, barf[coll].
- V. give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out,
- send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern|, excrete; embogue[obs3];
- secrete, secern[obs3]; extravasate[Med], shed, void, evacuation; emit; open
- the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude[obs3];
- effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt[obs3], spurt, spill, slop;
- perspire &c. (exude) 295; breathe, blow &c. (wind) 349.
- tap, draw off; bale out, lade out; let blood, broach.
- eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott;
- chasser[Fr]; banish &c. (punish) 972; bounce * [U.S.]; fire *, fire out *;
- throw &c. 284 throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push
- &c. 276 throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel
- away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away,
- turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn
- adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack
- to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about;
- strike off the roll &c. (abrogate) 756; turn out neck and heels, turn out
- head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea
- in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.
- turn out of doors, turn out of house and home; evict, oust; unhouse,
- unkennel; dislodge; unpeople[obs3], dispeople[obs3]; depopulate; relegate,
- deport.
- empty; drain to the dregs; sweep off; clear off, clear out, clear
- away; suck, draw off; clean out, make a clean sweep of, clear decks, purge.
- embowel[obs3], disbowel[obs3], disembowel; eviscerate, gut; unearth,
- root out, root up; averuncate|; weed out, get out; eliminate, get rid of,
- do away with, shake off; exenterate[obs3].
- vomit, throw up, regurgitate, spew, puke, keck[obs3], retch, heave,
- upchuck, chuck up, barf; belch out; cast up, bring up, be sick, get sick,
- worship the porcelain god.
- disgorge; expectorate, clear the throat, hawk, spit, sputter,
- splutter, slobber, drivel, slaver, slabber[obs3]; eructate; drool.
- unpack, unlade, unload, unship, offload; break bulk; dump.
- be let out.
- spew forth, erupt, ooze &c. (emerge) 295.
- Adj. emitting, emitted, &c. v.
- Int. begone! get you gone! get away, go away, get along, go along, get
- along with you, go along with you! go your way! away with! off with you!
- get the hell out of here![vulg.], go about your business! be off!
- avaunt[obs3]! aroynt[obs3]! allez-vous-en[Fr]! jao[obs3]! va-t'en[Fr]!
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- #298. [Eating.] Food. -- N. eating &c. v.; deglutition, gulp,
- epulation[obs3], mastication, manducation[obs3], rumination; gluttony &c.
- 957.
- [eating specific foods] hippophagy[obs3], ichthyophagy[obs3].
- [CAUSEDBY:appetite &c. 865].
- mouth, jaws, mandible, mazard[obs3], chops.
- drinking &c. v.; potation, draught, libation; carousal &c. (amusement)
- 840; drunkenness &c. 959.
- food, pabulum; aliment, nourishment, nutriment; sustenance,
- sustentation, sustention; nurture, subsistence, provender, corn, feed,
- fodder, provision, ration, keep, commons, board; commissariat &c.
- (provision) 637; prey, forage, pasture, pasturage; fare, cheer; diet,
- dietary; regimen; belly timber, staff of life; bread, bread and cheese.
- comestibles, eatables, victuals, edibles, ingesta; grub, grubstake,
- prog[obs3], meat; bread, bread stuffs; cerealia[obs3]; cereals; viands,
- cates[obs3], delicacy, dainty, creature comforts, contents of the larder,
- fleshpots; festal board; ambrosia; good cheer, good living.
- beef, bisquit[obs3], bun; cornstarch [U.S.]; cookie, cooky [U.S.];
- cracker, doughnut; fatling[obs3]; hardtack, hoecake [U.S.], hominy [U.S.];
- mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti[obs3], rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint,
- piece de resistance[Fr], roast and boiled; remove, entremet[obs3], ;
- releve[Fr], hash, rechauffe[Fr], stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage,
- potage[obs3], broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat[obs3]; pie, pasty,
- volauvent[obs3]; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets &c. 296; kickshaws[obs3];
- condiment &c. 393.
- appetizer, hors d'oeuvre[Fr].
- main course, entree.
- alligator pear, apple &c., apple slump; artichoke; ashcake[obs3],
- griddlecake, pancake, flapjack; atole[obs3], avocado, banana, beche de
- mer[Fr], barbecue, beefsteak; beet root; blackberry, blancmange, bloater,
- bouilli[obs3], bouillon, breadfruit, chop suey [U.S.]; chowder,
- chupatty[obs3], clam, compote, damper, fish, , frumenty[obs3], grapes,
- hasty pudding, ice cream, lettuce, mango, mangosteen, mince pie, oatmeal,
- oyster, pineapple, porridge, porterhouse steak, salmis[obs3], sauerkraut,
- sea slug, sturgeon ("Albany beef"), succotash [U.S.], supawn [obs3][U.S.],
- trepang[obs3], vanilla, waffle, walnut.
- table, cuisine, bill of fare, menu, table d'hote[Fr], ordinary,
- entree.
- meal, repast, feed, spread; mess; dish, plate, course; regale;
- regalement[obs3], refreshment, entertainment; refection, collation, picnic,
- feast, banquet, junket; breakfast; lunch, luncheon; dejeuner[Fr],
- bever[obs3], tiffin[obs3], dinner, supper, snack, junk food, fast food,
- whet, bait, dessert; potluck, table d'hote[Fr], dejeuner a la
- fourchette[Fr]; hearty meal, square meal, substantial meal, full meal;
- blowout*; light refreshment; bara[obs3], chotahazri[obs3]; bara
- khana[obs3].
- mouthful, bolus, gobbet[obs3], morsel, sop, sippet[obs3].
- drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench,
- swill*; nip, sip, sup, gulp.
- wine, spirits, liqueur, beer, ale, malt liquor, Sir John Barleycorn,
- stingo[obs3], heavy wet; grog, toddy, flip, purl, punch, negus[obs3], cup,
- bishop, wassail; gin &c. (intoxicating liquor) 959; coffee, chocolate,
- cocoa, tea, the cup that cheers but not inebriates; bock beer, lager beer,
- Pilsener beer, schenck beer[obs3]; Brazil tea, cider, claret, ice water,
- mate, mint julep [U.S.]; near beer, 3.2 beer, non-alcoholic beverage.
- eating house &c. 189.
- [person who eats] diner; hippophage; glutton &c. 957.
- V. eat, feed, fare, devour, swallow, take; gulp, bolt, snap; fall to;
- despatch, dispatch; discuss; take down, get down, gulp down; lay in, tuck
- in*; lick, pick, peck; gormandize &c. 957; bite, champ, munch,
- cranch[obs3], craunch[obs3], crunch, chew, masticate, nibble, gnaw, mumble.
- live on; feed upon, batten upon, fatten upon, feast upon; browse,
- graze, crop, regale; carouse &c. (make merry) 840; eat heartily, do
- justice to, play a good knife and fork, banquet.
- break bread, break one's fast; breakfast ,lunch, dine, take tea, sup.
- drink in, drink up, drink one's fill; quaff, sip, sup; suck, suck up;
- lap; swig; swill*, chugalug[slang], tipple &c. (be drunken) 959; empty
- one's glass, drain the cup; toss off, toss one's glass; wash down, crack a
- bottle, wet one's whistle.
- purvey &c. 637.
- Adj. eatable, edible, esculent[obs3], comestible, alimentary; cereal,
- cibarious[obs3]; dietetic; culinary; nutritive, nutritious; gastric;
- succulent; potable, potulent|; bibulous.
- omnivorous, carnivorous, herbivorous, granivorous[obs3],
- graminivorous, phytivorous[obs3]; ichthyivorous[obs3]; omophagic[obs3],
- omophagous[obs3]; pantophagous[obs3], phytophagous[obs3], xylophagous
- Phr[Biol]. "across the walnuts and the wine" [Tennyson]; "blessed
- hour of our dinners!" [O. Meredith]; "now good digestion wait on appetite,
- and health on both!" [Macbeth]; "who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite?"
-
- [Richard II]<-- p. 90 -->
-
- #299 Excretion -- N. excretion, discharge, emanation; exhalation,
- exudation, extrusion, secretion, effusion, extravasation[Med],
- ecchymosis[Med]; evacuation, dejection, faeces, excrement,shit, stools,
- crap[vulg.]; bloody flux; cacation[obs3]; coeliac-flux, coeliac-passion;
- dysentery; perspiration, sweat; subation[obs3], exudation; diaphoresis;
- sewage; eccrinology[Med].
- saliva, spittle, rheum; ptyalism[obs3], salivation, catarrh;
- diarrhoea; ejecta, egesta[Biol], sputa; excreta; lava; exuviae &c.
- (uncleanness) 653[Lat].
- hemorrhage, bleeding; outpouring &c. (egress) 295.
- V. excrete &c. (eject) 297; emanate &c. (come out) 295.
-
- #300. [Forcible ingress.] Insertion. -- N. insertion, implantation,
- introduction; insinuation &c. (intervention) 228; planting, &c. v.;
- injection, inoculation, importation, infusion; forcible ingress &c. 294;
- immersion; submersion, submergence, dip, plunge; bath &c. (water), 337;
- interment &c. 363.
- clyster[Med], enema, glyster[obs3], lavage, lavement[obs3].
- V. insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject;
- interject &c. 298; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.
- graft, ingraft[obs3], bud, plant, implant; dovetail.
- obtrude; thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in,
- drive in, pop in , whip in, drop in, put in; impact; empierce| &c. (make a
- hole) 260[obs3].
- imbed; immerse, immerge, merge; bathe, soak &c. (water) 337; dip,
- plunge &c. 310.
- bury &c. (inter) 363.
- insert &c itself; plunge in medias res.
- Adj. inserted &c. v.
-
- #301. [Forcible egress.] Extraction. -- N. extraction; extracting &c.
- v.; removal, elimination, extrication, eradication, evolution.
- evulsion[obs3], avulsion[obs3]; wrench; expression, squeezing;
- extirpation, extermination; ejection &c. 297; export &c. (egress) 295.
- extractor, corkscrew, forceps, pliers.
- V. extract, draw; take out, draw out, pull out, tear out, pluck out,
- pick out, get out; wring from, wrench; extort; root up, weed up, grub up,
- rake up, root out, weed out, grub out, rake out; eradicate; pull up by the
- roots, pluck up by the roots; averruncate|; unroot[obs3]; uproot, pull up,
- extirpate, dredge.
- remove; educe, elicit; evolve, extricate; eliminate &c. (eject) 297;
- eviscerate &c. 297.
- express, squeeze out, press out.
- Adj. extracted &c. v.
-
-
- #302. [Motion through.] Passage. -- N. passage, transmission;
- permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration;
- endosmose exosmose[obs3]; endosmosis[Chem]; intercurrence[obs3]; ingress
- &c. 294; egress &c. 295; path &c. 627; conduit &c. 350; opening &c. 260;
- journey &c. 266; voyage &c. 267.
- V. pass, pass through; perforate &c. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate,
- thread, thrid[obs3], enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over;
- cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread
- one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage;
- cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way,
- clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.
- Adj. passing &c. v.; intercurrent[obs3]; endosmosmic[obs3],
- endosmotic[Chem].
- Adv. en passant &c. (transit) 270[Fr].
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-
- #303 [Motion beyond] Transcursion -- N. transcursion|,
- transiliency[obs3], transgression; trespass; encroachment, infringement;
- extravagation|, transcendence; redundancy &c. 641.
- V. transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to
- the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon.
- overstep, overpass, overreach, overgo[obs3], override, overleap,
- overjump[obs3], overskip[obs3], overlap, overshoot the mark; outstrip,
- outleap, outjump, outgo, outstep[obs3], outrun, outride, outrival, outdo;
- beat, beat hollow; distance; leave in the lurch, leave in the rear; throw
- into the shade; exceed, transcend, surmount; soar &c. (rise) 305.
- encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, entrench on, intrench
- on[obs3]; strain; stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.
- Adj. surpassing &c. v.
- Adv. beyond the mark, ahead.
-
- #304 [motion short of] Shortcoming -- N. shortcoming, failure;
- falling short &c v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.
- incompleteness &c. 53; imperfection &c. 651; insufficiency &c. 640;
- noncompletion &c. 730; failure &c. 732.
- V. 303, come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short , fall
- short , stop short ; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the
- mark, keep within the compass.
- break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out [U.S.], come to
- nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the
- mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.
- Adj. unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth;
- perfunctory &c. (neglect) 460.
- Adv. within the mark, within the compass, within the bounds;
- behindhand; re infecta[Lat]; to no purpose; for from it.
- Phr. the bubble burst.
-
- #305. [Motion upwards] Ascent. -- N. ascent, ascension; rising &c.
- 309; acclivity, hill &c. 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
- rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
- V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way
- up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; float up; bubble up; aspire.
- climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade[obs3], surmount; shin,
- shinny, shinney; scale, scale the heights.
- [cause to go up] raise, elevate &c. 307.
- go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off; spring up, pop up, jump
- up, catapult upwards, explode upwards; hover, spire, plane, swim, float,
- surge; leap &c. 309.
- Adj. rising &c. v. scandent|, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant|;
- excelsior.
- Adv. uphill.
-
- #306. [Motion downwards] Descent. -- N. descent, descension[obs3],
- declension, declination; fall; falling &c. v.: slump; drop, plunge,
- plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip,
- tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute[obs3]; titubation[obs3], stumble; fate
- of Icarus.
- avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.
- declivity, dip, hill.
- [equipment for descending by rappeling] rappel.
- V. descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop,
- slip, slide, rappel, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink,
- droop, come down a peg; slump.
- dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop &c. 308; fall
- prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall &c. 308.
- tumble, trip, stumble, titubate[obs3], lurch, pitch, swag, topple,
- topple over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump
- down, come down a cropper.
- Adj. descending &c. v.; descendent; decurrent[obs3], decursive[obs3];
- labent[obs3], deciduous; nodding to its fall.
- Adv. downhill, downwards.
- Phr. the bottom fell out.
-
- #307. Elevation. -- N. elevation; raising &c. v.; erection, lift;
- sublevation[obs3], upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c.
- (convexity) 250.
- lever &c. 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge,
- dredger, dredging machine.
- dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.
- V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up,
- perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear,
- upbear[obs3], upcast[obs3], uphoist[obs3], upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give
- a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.
- [ref] escalate (increase) 35, 102, 194.
- take up, drag up, fish up; dredge.
- stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold
- oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
- Adj. elevated &c. v.; stilted, attollent[obs3], rampant.
- Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind
- legs.
-
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-
- #308. Depression. -- N. lowering &c. v.; depression; dip &c.
- (concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion[obs3]; reduction.
- overthrow, overset[obs3], overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,
- precipitation.
- bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion[obs3], genuflection, kowtow,
- obeisance, salaam.
- V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a
- peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce,
- detrude[obs3], pitch, precipitate.
- overthrow, overturn, overset[obs3]; upset, subvert, prostate, level,
- fell; cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down,
- cut down, knock down, hew down; raze, raze to the ground, rase to the
- ground[obs3]; trample in the dust, pull about one's ears.
- sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy,
- curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head,
- bow the head; cower; recline &c. (be horizontal) 213.
- Adj. depressed &c. v.; at a low ebb; prostrate &c. (horizontal) 213;
- detrusive[obs3].
- Phr. facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lat][Lucan].
-
- #309. Leap. -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault,
- saltation[obs3].
- ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade|, gambado|; capriole,
- demivolt[obs3]; buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade[obs3].
- kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea;
- buckjumper[obs3]; wallaby.
- V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp,
- cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole;
- foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk &c. (amusement) 840; jump about
- &c. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light
- fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
- Adj. leaping &c. v.; saltatory[obs3], frisky.
- Adv. on the light fantastic toe.
- Phr. di salto in salto[It].
-
- #310. Plunge -- N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c. v.; diver.
- V. plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a
- header; make a plunge; bathe &c.(water) 337.
- submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.
- get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop
- like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.
-
-
- #311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition. -- N. circuition[obs3],
- circulation; turn, curvet; excursion, circumvention, circumnavigation,
- circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit &c. 629.
- turning &c. v.; wrench; evolution; coil, corkscrew.
- V. turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right
- about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle,
- make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go
- through 180x, go through 360x, pass through 180x, pass through 360x.
- circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; "put a girdle round about
- the earth" [M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.
- wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist &c. (convolution) 248;
- make a detour &c. (circuit) 629.
- Adj. turning &c. v.; circuitous; circumforaneous[obs3],
- circumfluent[obs3].
- Adv. round about.
-
- #312. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation. -- N. rotation,
- revolution, spinning, gyration, turning about an axis, turning aound an
- axis, circulation, roll; circumrotation[obs3], circumvolution,
- circumgyration[obs3]; volutation[obs3], circination|, turbination[obs3],
- pirouette, convolution.
- verticity|, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge[obs3];
- countercurrent; Maelstrom, Charybdis; Ixion.
- [rotating air] cyclone; tornado, whirlwind; dust devil.
- [rotation of an automobile] spin-out.
- axis, axis of rotation, swivel, pivot, pivot point; axle, spindle,
- pin, hinge, pole, arbor, bobbin, mandrel; axle shaft; gymbal; hub, hub of
- rotation.
- [rotation and translation together] helix, helical motion.
- [measure of rotation] angular momentum, angular velocity; revolutions
- per minute, RPM.
- [result of rotation] centrifugal force; surge; vertigo, dizzy round;
- coriolus force.
- [things that go around] carousel, merry-go-round; Ferris wheel; top,
- dreidel,teetotum[obs3]; gyroscope; turntable, lazy suzan; screw, whirligig,
- rollingstone[obs3], water wheel, windmill; wheel, pulley wheel, roulette
- wheel, potter's wheel, pinwheel, gear; roller; flywheel; jack; caster;
- centrifuge, ultracentrifuge, bench centrifuge, refrigerated centrifuge, gas
- centrifuge, microfuge; drill, augur, oil rig; wagon wheel, wheel, tire,
- tyre[Brit][Brit].
- [Science of rotary motion] trochilics[obs3].
- [person who rotates] whirling dervish.
- V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve[obs3];
- circulate; gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, pirouette; twirl, trundle, troll,
- bowl.
- roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin
- like a teetotum|!.
- [of an automobile] spin out.
- Adj. rotating &c.v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory[obs3],
- trochilic[obs3], vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose[obs3].
- Adv. head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.
-
- <-- most of this should go under change (make a 146a)... develop not in
- change section!!
- revolution, evolution . revolution = change = #146-->
- #313. [Motion in the reverse circle.] Evolution. -- N. evolution,
- unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion &c. (inversion)
- 218.
- V. evolve; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine,
- unravel; untangle, disentangle; develop.
- Adj. evolving &c. v.; evolved &c. v.
-
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-
- #314. [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro.] Oscillation. -- N.
- oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation;
- undulation; pulsation; pulse.
- alternation; coming and going &c. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux,
- ups and down.
- fluctuation; vacillation &c. (irresolution) 605.
- wave, vibratiuncle[obs3], swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance,
- lurch, dodge; logan[obs3], loggan[obs3], rocking-stone, vibroscope[obs3].
- V. oscillate; vibrate, librate[obs3]; alternate, undulate, wave; rock,
- swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play;
- wamble[obs3], wabble[obs3]; dangle, swag.
- fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker;
- wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down,
- bob up and down &c. Adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go;
- vacillate &c. 605; teeter [U.S.].
- brandish, shake, flourish.
- Adj. oscillating &c. v.; oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory[obs3],
- libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile[obs3]; pendulous.
- Adv. to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon,
- seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble[obs3], in and out, from side to side, like
- buckets in a well.
-
- #315. [Irregular motion] Agitation. -- N. agitation, stir, tremor,
- shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion[obs3], trepidation,
- quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation|, quassation|; shuffling 7c. v.;
- twitter, flicker, flutter.
- turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult,
- tumultuation|; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus[obs3],
- staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology[obs3], chorea,
- floccillation[obs3], the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus[obs3].
- spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion.
- disturbance, chaos &c. (disorder) 59; restlessness &c.
- (changeableness) 149.
- ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly,
- cahotage[obs3]; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpool, vortex
- &c. 312; whirlwind &c. (wind) 349.
- V. be agitated &c.; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf;
- quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire[obs3], writhe, toss, shuffle,
- tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an
- eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet,
- prance, cavort [U.S.]; squirm.
- throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter,
- flicker, bicker; bustle.
- ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.
- toss about, jump about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen
- leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the
- winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to
- pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar
- to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.
- agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap,
- flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle,
- disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate[obs3].
- Adj. shaking &c. v.; agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory|;
- saltatoric[obs3]; quasative[obs3]; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory[obs3],
- convulsive, unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.
- Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily| &c. adj[obs3].; per
- saltum[Lat]; hop skip and jump; in convulsions, in fits.
- Phr. tempete dans un verre d'eau[Fr].
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-
- %
- CLASS III
- Words Relating to MATTER
- Section 1. MATTER IN GENERAL
-
- %
- #316. MATERIALITY. -- N. materiality, materialness; corporeity[obs3],
- corporality[obs3]; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood,
- plenum; physical condition.
- matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle,
- parenchyma[Biol], material, substratum, hyle[obs3], corpus, pabulum; frame.
- object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones;
- materials &c. 635.
- [Science of matter] physics; somatology[obs3], somatics; natural
- philosophy, experimental philosophy; physicism[obs3]; physical science,
- philosophie positive[Fr], materialism; materialist; physicist;
- somatism[obs3], somatist[obs3].
- Adj. material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic,
- somatoscopic[obs3]; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.
- objective, impersonal, nonsubjective[obs3], neuter, unspiritual,
- materialistic.
-
- #317. Immateriality. -- N. immateriality, immaterialness;
- incorporeity[obs3], spirituality; inextension[obs3]; astral plane.
- personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit &c. (soul) 450; astral body;
- immaterialism[obs3]; spiritualism, spiritualist.
- V. disembody, spiritualize.
- Adj. immaterial, immateriate[obs3]; incorporeal, incorporal[obs3];
- incorporate, unfleshly[obs3]; supersensible[obs3]; asomatous[obs3],
- unextended[obs3]; unembodied[obs3], disembodied; extramundane, unearthly;
- pneumatoscopic[obs3]; spiritual &c. (psychical) 450[obs3].
- personal, subjective, nonobjective.
-
- #318. World. -- N. world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe,
- wide world; cosmos; kosmos[obs3]; terraqueous globe[obs3], sphere;
- macrocosm, megacosm[obs3]; music of the spheres.
- heavens, sky, welkin|, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry
- host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions[obs3]; varuna; vault of
- heaven, canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.
- heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way,
- galactic circle, via lactea[Lat], ame no kawa [Jap.].
- sun, orb of day, Apollo[obs3], Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere;
- solar system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night,
- Diana, silver-footed queen; aerolite[obs3], meteor; planetary ring; falling
- star, shooting star; meteorite, uranolite[obs3].
- constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big
- Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt,
- Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.
- colures[obs3], equator, ecliptic, orbit.
- [Science of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranography, uranology[obs3];
- cosmology, cosmography[obs3], cosmogony; eidouranion[obs3], orrery; geodesy
- &c. (measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer[obs3]; astronomer;
- observatory; planetarium.
- Adj. cosmic, cosmical[obs3]; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious|,
- terraqueous[obs3], terrene, terreous|, telluric, earthly, geotic[obs3],
- under the sun; sublunary[obs3], subastral[obs3].
- solar, heliacal[obs3]; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery[obs3];
- starry, stellar; sidereal, sideral[obs3]; astral; nebular; uranic.
- Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the
- sun.
- Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht[Ger]; "earth is but the
- frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]; "green calm below, blue
- quietness above" [Whittier]; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"
- [Paradise Lost]; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]; "silently
- as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]; "some touch of nature's genial glow"
- [Scott]; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]; "through
- knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].
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- #319. Gravity. -- N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c. adj.;
- specific gravity; pondorosity[obs3], pressure, load; burden, burthen[obs3];
- ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
- lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
- weighing, ponderation[obs3], trutination|; weights; avoirdupois
- weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma[obs3],
- ounce, pound, lb, arroba[obs3], load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long
- ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod[obs3].
- [metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram;
- nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
- [Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam,
- weighbridge[obs3]; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical
- balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.
- [Science of gravity] statics.
- V. be heavy &c. adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
- [Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
- Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable;
- lumpish[obs3], lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
- incumbent, superincumbent[obs3].
-
- #320. Levity. -- N. levity; lightness &c. adj.; imponderability,
- buoyancy, volatility.
- feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer,
- straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
- leaven, ferment, barm[obs3], yeast.
- lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air
- balloon.
- convection, thermal draft, thermal.
- V. be light &c. adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up.
- render light &c. adj.; lighten, leaven.
- Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous[obs3], imponderable;
- astatic[obs3], weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose[obs3],
- suberous[obs3]; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c. v.; portable.
- light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than
- air; rise like a balloon, float like a balloon
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- 1. Solid Matter
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- #321. Density.. -- N. density, solidity; solidness &c. adj.;
- impenetrability, impermeability; incompressibility; imporosity[obs3];
- cohesion &c. 46; constipation, consistence, spissitude|.
- specific gravity; hydrometer, areometer[obs3].
- condensation; caseation[obs3]; solidation[obs3], solidification;
- consolidation; concretion, coagulation; petrification &c. (hardening) 323;
- crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation[obs3];
- gelation, thickening &c. v.
- indivisibility, indiscerptibility[obs3], insolubility,
- indissolvableness.
- solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete,
- conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage;
- casein, crassamentum|; legumin[obs3].
- superdense matter, condensed states of matter; dwarf star, neutron
- star.
- V. be dense &c. adj.; become solid, render solid &c. adj.; solidify,
- solidate[obs3]; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate;
- curd, curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere,
- crystallize; petrify &c. (harden) 323.
- condense, thicken, gel, inspissate[obs3], incrassate[obs3]; compress,
- squeeze, ram down, constipate.
- Adj. dense, solid; solidified &c. v.; caseous; pukka[obs3]; coherent,
- cohesive &c. 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive,
- lumpish[obs3]; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous[obs3];
- incompressible; constipated; concrete &c. (hard) 323; knotted, knotty;
- gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous|, stuffy.
- undissolved, unmelted[obs3], unliquefied[obs3], unthawed[obs3].
- indivisible, indiscerptible[obs3], infrangible[obs3],
- indissolvable[obs3], indissoluble, insoluble, infusible.
-
- #322. Rarity. -- N. rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity &c. 321;
- subtility[obs3]; subtilty[obs3], subtlety; sponginess, compressibility.
- rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization[obs3].
- vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification[obs3].
- ether &c. (gas) 334.
- V. rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize[obs3].
- Adj. rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight;
- light &c. 320; cavernous, spongy &c. (hollow) 252.
- rarefied &c. v.;; unsubstantial; uncompact[obs3], incompressed[obs3];
- rarefiable[obs3].
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- #323. Hardness. -- N. hardness &c. adj.; rigidity; renitence[obs3],
- renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity [obs3].
- induration, petrifaction; lapidification[obs3], lapidescence[obs3];
- vitrification, ossification; crystallization.
- stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz,
- granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board,
- deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail;
- brick, concrete; cement.
- V. render hard &c. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper,
- ossify, vitrify; accrust[obs3].
- Adj. hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark,
- unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated;
- gritty, proof.
- adamant, adamantine, adamantean[obs3]; concrete, stony, granitic,
- calculous, lithic[obs3], vitreous; horny, corneous[obs3]; bony; osseous,
- ossific[obs3]; cartilaginous; hard as a rock &c. n.; stiff as buckram,
- stiff as a poker; stiff as starch, stiff as as board.
-
- #324. Softness. -- N. softness, pliableness &c. adj.; flexibility;
- pliancy, pliability; sequacity[obs3], malleability; ductility,
- tractility[obs3]; extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity,
- flaccidity, laxity.
- penetrability.
- clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow,
- feather bed, down, padding, wadding;foam.
- mollification; softening &c.v.
- V. render -soft &c. adj.; soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper;
- mash, knead, squash.
- bend, yield, relent, relax, give.
- plasticize'.
- Adj. soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe,
- lithesome; lissom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile[obs3], tractable;
- malleable, extensile, sequacious[obs3], inelastic; aluminous[obs3];
- remollient[obs3].
- yielding &c. v.; flabby, limp, flimsy.
- doughy, spongy, penetrable, foamy, cushiony[obs3].'
- flaccid, flocculent, downy; edematous, oedematous[obs3],
- medullary[Anat], argillaceous, mellow.
- soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as
- chicken.
-
- #325. Elasticity. -- N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience,
- renitency, buoyancy.
- rubber, India(n) rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic,
- baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic.
- flexibility, Young's modulus.
- V. stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic &c. adj.; bounce, spring
- back &c. (recoil) 277.
- Adj. elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant;
- ductile, stretchable, extendable.
- Phr. the stress is proportional to the strain.
-
- #326. Inelasticity. -- N. want of elasticity, absence of elasticity
- &c. 325; inelasticity &c. (softness) 324,
- Adj. unyielding, inelastic, inflexible &c. (soft) 324;
- irresilient[obs3].
-
- #327. Tenacity. -- N. {ant. 328} tenacity, toughness, strength;
- (cohesion) 46; grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion) 46; sequacity[obs3];
- stubbornness &c. (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness[obs3],
- sequaciousness[obs3], viscidity, (semiliquidity) 352.
- leather; white leather, whitleather[obs3]; gristle, cartilage.
- unbreakability, tensile strength.
- V. be tenacious &c. adj.; resist fracture.
- grip, grasp, stick (cohesion) 46.
- Adj. tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious[obs3], stringy,
- gristly cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous[obs3], tough as
- whitleather[obs3]; stubborn &c. (obstinate) 606.
- unbreakable, indivisible; atomic.
-
- #328. Brittleness. -- N. {ant. 327} brittleness &c. adj.; fragility,
- friability, frangibility, fissibility[obs3]; house of cards, house of
- glass.
- V. be brittle &c. adj.; live in a glass house.
- break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short,
- burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.
- Adj. brittle, brash [U.S.], breakable, weak, frangible, fragile,
- frail, gimcrack|, shivery, fissile; splitting &c. v.; lacerable[obs3],
- splintery, crisp, crimp, short, brittle as glass.
-
- #329. [Structure.] Texture. -- N. structure (form) 240, organization,
- anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction; framework, carcass,
- architecture; stratification, cleavage.
- substance, stuff, compages[obs3], parenchyma[Biol]; constitution,
- staple, organism.
- [Science of structures] organography[obs3], osteology, myology,
- splanchnology[obs3], neurology, angiography[obs3], adeology[obs3];
- angiography[obs3], adenography[obs3].
- texture, surface texture; intertexture[obs3], contexture[obs3];
- tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap &c.
- (roughness) 256; flatness (smoothness) 255; fineness of grain; coarseness
- of grain, dry goods.
- silk, satin; muslin, burlap.
- [Science of textures] histology.
- Adj. structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical.
- textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate,
- subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun.
- rough, gritty; smooth.
- smooth as silk, smooth as satin.
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- #330. Pulverulence. -- N. powderiness[obs3][State of powder.],
- pulverulence[obs3]; sandiness &c. adj.; efflorescence; friability.
- powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina,
- rice, paddy, spore, sporule[obs3]; crumb, seed, grain; particle &c.
- (smallness) 32; limature|, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus
- slope, scobs[obs3], magistery[obs3], fine powder; flocculi[Lat].
- smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke,
- volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm.
- [Reduction to powder] pulverization, comminution[obs3], attenuation,
- granulation, disintegration, subaction[obs3], contusion, trituration[Chem],
- levigation[obs3], abrasion, detrition, multure[obs3]; limitation;
- tripsis[obs3]; filing &c.v..
- [Instruments for pulverization] mill, arrastra[obs3], gristmill,
- grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder,
- grindstone, kern[obs3], quern[obs3], koniology[obs3].
- V. come to dust; be disintegrated, be reduced to powder &c.
- reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate,
- triturate, levigate[obs3]; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate,
- rasp, pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund[obs3]; beat, crush,
- cranch[obs3], craunch[obs3], crunch, scranch[obs3], crumble, disintegrate;
- attenuate &c. 195.
- Adj. powdery, pulverulent[obs3], granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous,
- branny[obs3], furfuraceous[obs3], flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous[obs3],
- psammous[obs3]; arenose[obs3], arenarious[obs3], arenaceous[obs3]; gritty,
- efflorescent, impalpable; lentiginous[obs3], lepidote[obs3],
- sabuline[obs3]; sporaceous[obs3], sporous[obs3].
- pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized &c. v.;
- attrite[obs3]; in pieces.
-
- #331. Friction. -- N. friction, attrition; rubbing, abrasion, scraping
- &c. v.; confrication|, detrition, contrition|, affriction[obs3], abrasion,
- arrosion|, limature|, frication[obs3], rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage;
- roughness &c. 256.
- rolling friction, sliding friction, starting friction.
- V. rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry,
- scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind &c. (reduce to powder)
- 330.
- set one's teeth on edge; rosin.
- Adj. anatriptic[obs3]; attrite[obs3].
-
- #332. [Absence of friction. Prevention of friction.] Lubrication. --
- N. smoothness &c. 255; unctuousness &c. 355.
- lubrication, lubrification[obs3]; anointment; oiling &c. v.
- synovia[Anat]; glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease &c. 356;
- saliva; lather.
- teflon.
- V. lubricate, lubricitate|; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax.
- Adj. lubricated &c. v.; lubricous.
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- 1. Fluids in General
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- %
- #333. Fluidity. -- N. fluidity, liquidity; liquidness &c. adj[obs3].;
- gaseity &c. 334[obs3].
- fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap,
- serum, blood, serosity[obs3], gravy, rheum, ichor[obs3], sanies[obs3];
- chyle[Med].
- solubility, solubleness[obs3].
- [Science of liquids at rest] hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics.
- V. be fluid &c. adj.; flow &c. (water in motion) 348; liquefy, melt,
- condense &c. 335.
- Adj. liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous[obs3];
- fluent &c. (flowing) 348.
- liquefied &c. 335; uncongealed; soluble.
-
- #334. Gaseity. -- N. gaseity[obs3]; vaporousness &c. adj.; flatulence,
- flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerification.
- elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek,
- effluvium, flatus; cloud &c. 353; ammonia, ammoniacal gas[obs3]; volatile
- alkali; vacuum, partial vacuum.
- [Science of elastic fluids] pneumatics, pneumatostatics[obs3];
- aerostatics[obs3], aerodynamics.
- gasmeter[obs3], gasometer[obs3]; air bladder, swimming bladder, sound
- (of a fish).
- V. vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor &c. 336; diffuse.
- Adj. gaseous, aeriform[obs3], ethereal, aerial, airy, vaporous,
- volatile, evaporable[obs3], flatulent.
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- #335. Liquefaction. -N. liquefaction; liquescence[obs3],
- liquescency[obs3]; melting &c. (heat) 384; colliquation|, colliquefaction|;
- thaw; liquation|, deliquation|, deliquescence; lixiviation[obs3],
- dissolution.
- solution, apozem[obs3], lixivium[obs3], infusion, flux.
- solvent, menstruum, alkahest[obs3].
- V. render liquid &c. 333; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt &c. (heat)
- 384; solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate|; hold in solution; condense,
- precipitate, rain.
- Adj. liquefied &c. v., liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble,
- colliquative[obs3].
-
- #336. Vaporization. -- N. vaporization, volatilization; gasification,
- evaporation, vaporation[obs3]; distillation, cupellation[Chem], cohobation,
- sublimination[obs3], exhalation; volatility.
- vaporizer, still, retort; fumigation, steaming; bay salt, chloride of
- sodium|!.
- mister, spray.
- bubble, effervescence.'
- V. render -gaseous &c. 334; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime;
- evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam,
- fumigate; cohobate[obs3]; finestill[obs3].
- bubble, sparge, effervesce, boil.
- Adj. volatilized &c. v.; reeking &c. v.; volatile; evaporable[obs3],
- vaporizable.
- bubbly, effervescent, boiling.
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- 2. Specific Fluids
- %
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- #337. Water. -- N. water; serum, serosity[obs3]; lymph; rheum;
- diluent; agua[Sp], aqua, pani[obs3].
- dilution, maceration, lotion; washing &c. v.; immersion|,
- humectation[obs3], infiltration, spargefaction|, affusion[obs3],
- irrigation, douche, balneation[obs3], bath.
- deluge &c. (water in motion) 348; high water, flood tide.
- V. be watery &c. adj.; reek.
- add water, water, wet; moisten &c. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge;
- immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate,
- pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse[obs3], splash, swash, douse,
- drench; dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject,
- gargle.
- Adj. watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal[obs3],
- diluent; drenching &c. v.; diluted &c. v.; weak; wet &c. (moist) 339.
- Phr. the waters are out.
-
- #338. Air. -- N. air &c. (gas) 334; common air, atmospheric air;
- atmosphere; aerosphere[obs3].
- open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud &c. 353.
- weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar.
- [Science of air] aerology, aerometry[obs3], aeroscopy[obs3],
- aeroscopy[obs3], aerography[obs3]; meteorology, climatology; pneumatics;
- eudioscope[obs3], baroscope[obs3], aeroscope[obs3], eudiometer[obs3],
- barometer, aerometer[obs3]; aneroid, baroscope[obs3]; weather gauge,
- weather glass, weather cock.
- exposure to the air, exposure to the weather; ventilation;
- aerostation[obs3], aeronautics, aeronaut.
- V. air, ventilate, fan &c. (wind) 349.
- Adj. containing air, flatulent, effervescent; windy &c. 349.
- atmospheric, airy; aerial, aeriform[obs3]; meteorological;
- weatherwise[obs3].
- Adv. in the open air, a la belle etoile[Fr], al fresco; sub jove
- dio[Lat].
-
- #339. Moisture. -- N. moisture; moistness &c. adj.; humidity,
- humectation[obs3]; madefaction|, dew; serein[obs3]; marsh &c. 345;
- hygrometry, hygrometer.
- V. moisten, wet; humect[obs3], humectate[obs3]; sponge, damp, bedew;
- imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench &c. (water) 337.
- be moist &c. adj.; not have a dry thread; perspire &c. (exude) 295.
- Adj. moist, damp; watery &c. 337; madid[obs3], roric[obs3];
- undried[obs3], humid, sultry, wet, dank, luggy[obs3], dewy; roral|, rorid|;
- roscid[obs3]; juicy.
- wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated &c. v.
- swashy[obs3], soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden,
- sloppy, muddy; swampy &c. (marshy) 345; irriguous[obs3].
-
- #340. Dryness. -- N. dryness &c. adj.; siccity[obs3], aridity,
- drought, ebb tide, low water.
- exsiccation|, desiccation; arefaction|, dephlegmation|, drainage;
- drier.
- [CHEMSUB which renders dry] desiccative, dessicator.
- [device to render dry] dessicator; hair drier, clothes drier, gas
- drier, electric drier; vacuum oven, drying oven, kiln; lyophilizer.
- clothesline.
- V. be dry &c. adj..
- [transitive] render dry &c. adj.; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge, swab,
- wipe; drain.
- desiccate, dehydrate, exsiccate[obs3]; parch.
- kiln dry; vacuum dry, blow dry, oven dry; hang out to dry.
- mummify.
- be fine, hold up.
- Adj. dry, anhydrous, arid; adust[obs3], arescent|; dried &c. v.;
- undamped; juiceless[obs3], sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain,
- fine; dry as a bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a
- biscuit.
- water proof, water tight.
- dehydrated, dessicated.
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- #341. Ocean -- N. sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves,
- billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, "vasty deep"; wave,
- tide, &c. (water in motion) 348.
- hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad,
- Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin.
- Adj. oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing;
- hydrographic; bathybic[obs3], cotidal[obs3].
- Adv. at sea, on sea; afloat.
-
- #342. Land. -- N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma.
- continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese[Fr], delta; tongue of land,
- neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory &c. (projection) 250; highland &c.
- (height) 206.
- coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard,
- seaside, seabank[obs3], seacoast, seabeach[obs3]; ironbound coast; loom of
- the land; derelict; innings; alluvium , alluvion[obs3]; ancon.
- riverbank, river bank, levee.
- soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge[obs3], chalk, gravel, mold,
- subsoil, clod, clot; rock, crag.
- acres; real estate &c. (property) 780; landsman[obs3].
- V. land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land;
- come ashore, go ashore, debark.
- Adj. earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian,;
- alluvial; terrene &c. (world) 318; landed, predial[obs3], territorial;
- geophilous[obs3]; ripicolous.
- Adv. ashore; on shore, on land.
-
- #343. Gulf. Lake -- N. land covered with water, gulf, gulph[obs3],
- bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou [U.S.], fiord, armlet;
- frith[obs3], firth, ostiary|, mouth; lagune[obs3], lagoon; indraught[obs3];
- cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt,
- gut, kyles[obs3]; continental slope, continental shelf.
- lake, loch, lough[obs3], mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool,
- lin[obs3], puddle, slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water,
- sheet of water; fish pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir &c.
- (store) 636; alberca[obs3], barachois[obs3], hog wallow [U.S.].
- Adj. lacustrine[obs3].
-
- #344. Plain. -- N. plain, table-land, face of the country; open
- country, champaign country[obs3]; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert,
- wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold[obs3], veldt;
- moor, moorland; bush; plateau &c. (level) 213; campagna[obs3]; alkali flat,
- llano; mesa, mesilla [obs3][U.S.], playa; shaking prairie, trembling
- prairie; vega[Sp].
- meadow, mead, haugh[obs3], pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat,
- plot, grassplat[obs3], greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley,
- lay; grounds; maidan[obs3], agostadero[obs3].
- Adj. champaign[obs3], alluvial; campestral[obs3], campestrial[obs3],
- campestrian[obs3], campestrine[obs3].
-
- #345. Marsh. -- N. marsh, swamp, morass, marish[obs3], moss, fen, bog,
- quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall [obs3][U.S.],
- cienaga[obs3], jhil[obs3], vlei[obs3].
- Adj. marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy[obs3], poachy[obs3],
- quaggy[obs3], soft; muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal[obs3]; moorish, moory;
- fenny.
-
- #346. Island. -- N. island, isle, islet, eyot[obs3], ait[obs3],
- holf[obs3], reef, atoll, breaker; archipelago; islander.
- Adj. insular, seagirt; archipelagic[obs3].
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- 3. Fluids in Motion
- %
- #347. [Fluid in motion.] Stream. -- N. stream &c. (of water) 348, (of
- air) 349.
- flowmeter.
- V. flow &c. 348; blow &c. 349.
-
- #348. [Water in motion.] River. -- N. running water.
- jet, spirt[obs3], spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet
- d'eau[Fr]; sluice.
- water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss[obs3]; lin[obs3],
- linn[obs3]; ghyll[obs3], Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe|,
- cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout.
- rain, rainfall; serein[obs3]; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain,
- drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology[obs3], hyetography[obs3];
- predominance of Aquarius[obs3], reign of St. Swithin; mizzle[obs3],
- drizzle, stillicidum[obs3], plash; dropping &c. v.; falling weather;
- northeaster, hurricane, typhoon.
- stream, course, flux, flow, profluence[obs3]; effluence &c. (egress)
- 295; defluxion[obs3]; flowing &c. v.; current, tide, race, coulee.
- spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet,
- rillet[obs3]; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike[obs3], burn,
- beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.
- geyser, spout, waterspout.
- body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high
- tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre[obs3], hygre[obs3]; fresh,
- freshet; indraught[obs3], reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge[obs3],
- whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation|.
- wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; <gr/anerythmon
- gelasma/gr>[obs3][Grk]; beach comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell,
- surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas,
- cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea.
- [Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics,
- hydraulicostatics[obs3]; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology[obs3].
- irrigation &c. (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart;
- hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti[obs3], mussuk[obs3].
- V. flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue;
- drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle[obs3], trill, trickle, distill,
- percolate; stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash;
- guggle[obs3], murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray,
- regurgitate; ooze, flow out &c. (egress) 295.
- rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour
- with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle[obs3].
- flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself,
- disembogue[obs3].
- [Cause a flow] pour; pour out &c. (discharge) 297; shower down,
- irrigate, drench &c. (wet) 337; spill, splash.
- [Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up &c. (close) 261; obstruct &c. 706.
- Adj. fluent; diffluent[obs3], profluent[obs3], affluent; tidal;
- flowing &c. v.; meandering, meandry[obs3], meandrous[obs3]; fluvial,
- fluviatile; streamy[obs3], showery,rainy, pluvial, stillicidous|;
- stillatitious[obs3].
- Phr. "for men may come and men may go but I go on forever" [Tennyson];
- "that old man river, he just keeps rolling along" [Showboat].
-
- #349. [Air in motion] Wind. -- N.. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus,
- efflation[obs3], eluvium[obs3]; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff,
- zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream;
- undercurrent.
- gust, blast, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest, hurricane,
- whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon; simoon[obs3],
- simoom; harmattan[obs3], monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise[obs3],
- tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen
- blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia[obs3], chinook, foehn,
- khamsin[obs3], norther, vendaval[obs3], wuther[obs3].
- windiness &c.adj.; ventosity|; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly
- weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black
- squall, white squall.
- anemography[obs3], aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane,
- weather-vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope[obs3].
- sufflation[obs3], insufflation[obs3], perflation[obs3], inflation,
- afflation[obs3]; blowing, fanning &c. v.; ventilation.
- sneezing &c.v.: errhine[obs3]; sternutative[obs3], sternutatory[obs3];
- sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.
- Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.
- air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator,
- punkah[obs3]; branchiae[obs3], gills, flabellum[obs3], vertilabrum[obs3].
- whiffle ball.
- V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c. n.;
- wuther[obs3]; stream, issue.
- respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle;
- sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.
- fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate|; blow up.
- Adj. blowing &c. v.; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy,
- tempestuous, blustering; boisterous &c. (violent) 173.
- pulmonic[Med], pulmonary.
- Phr. "lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on
- the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air"
- [Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged with red
- lightning and tempestuous rage" [Paradise Lost].
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- #350. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit. -- N. conduit,
- channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito[obs3],
- aboideau[obs3], aboiteau[Fr], bito[obs3]; acequia[obs3], acequiador[obs3],
- acequiamadre[obs3]; arroyo; adit[obs3], aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter,
- pantile; flume, ingate[obs3], runner; lock-weir, tedge[obs3]; vena[obs3];
- dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough,
- kennel, siphon; piscina[obs3]; pipe &c. (tube) 260; funnel; tunnel &c.
- (passage) 627; water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory[obs3], gully hole, artery,
- aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage[obs3], ajutage[obs3]; hose; gargoyle;
- gurgoyle[obs3]; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock,
- valve; rose; waterworks.
- pipeline.
- Adj. vascular &c. (with holes) 260.
-
- #351. [Channel for the passage of air.] Airpipe. -- N. air pipe, air
- tube; airhole[obs3], blowhole, breathinghole[obs3], venthole; shaft, flue,
- chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand[obs3], trachea;
- bronchus, bronchia[Med]; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle;
- ventiduct[obs3], ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe
- &c. (wind) 349; pipe &c. (tube) 260; jhilmil[obs3]; smokestack.
- screen, window screen.'
- artificial lung, iron lung, heart and lung machine.
-
- 3. IMPERFECT FLUIDS
-
- #352. Semiliquidity. -- N. semiliquidity; stickiness &c. adj.;
- viscidity, viscosity; gummosity[obs3], glutinosity[obs3], mucosity[obs3];
- spissitude[obs3], crassitude[obs3]; lentor[obs3]; adhesiveness &c.
- (cohesion) 46.
- inspissation[obs3], incrassation[obs3]; thickening.
- jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock[obs3], fish glue;
- ichthyocol[obs3], ichthycolla[obs3]; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo;
- pituite[obs3], lava; glair[obs3], starch, gluten, albumen, milk, cream,
- protein|!; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity) 327; wax, beeswax.
- emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture &c. 339;
- marsh &c. 345.
- V. inspissate[obs3], incrassate[obs3]; thicken, mash, squash, churn,
- beat up.
- sinter.
- Adj. semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose[obs3]; half melted, half
- frozen; milky, muddy &c. n.; lacteal, lactean[obs3], lacteous[obs3],
- lactescent[obs3], lactiferous[obs3]; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent,
- uliginous[obs3].
- gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous, gelatin,
- mastic, amylaceous[obs3], ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky,
- tacky, gooey; slab, slabby[obs3]; lentous|, pituitous[obs3]; mucid[obs3],
- muculent[obs3], mucous; gummy.
-
- #353. [Mixture of air and water.] Bubble. [Cloud.] -- N. bubble, foam,
- froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm[obs3],
- spindrift.
- cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack,
- nimbus; cumulus, woolpack[obs3], cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus,
- cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl
- cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.
- [Science of clouds] nephelognosy[obs3]; nephograph[obs3],
- nephology[obs3].
- effervescence, fermentation; bubbling &c. v.
- nebula; cloudliness &c. (opacity) 426[obs3]; nebulosity &c. (dimness)
- 422.
- V. bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle[obs3], gurgle;
- effervesce, ferment, fizzle.
- Adj. bubbling &c. v.; frothy, nappy[obs3], effervescent, sparkling,
- mousseux[French: frothy], up.
- cloudy &c. n.; thunderheaded[obs3]; vaporous, nebulous, overcast.
- Phr. "the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened landscip" [Paradise
- Lost].
-
- #354. Pulpiness. -- N. pulpiness &c. adj.; pulp, taste, dough, curd,
- pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume[obs3].
- mush, oatmeal, baby food.
- Adj. pulpy &c. n.; pultaceous[obs3], grumous[obs3]; baccate[obs3].
-
- #355. Unctuousness. -- N. unctuousness &c. adj.; unctuosity[obs3],
- lubricity; ointment &c. (oil) 356; anointment; lubrication &c. 332.
- V. oil &c. (lubricate) 332.
- Adj. unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous[obs3];
- fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous[obs3], pinguid,
- lardaceous[obs3]; slippery.
-
- #356. Oil. -- N. oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard,
- dripping exunge|, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine[Chem], oleagine[obs3];
- soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere[obs3];
- petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable
- oil, colza oil[obs3], olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil,
- soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment,
- unguent, liniment; aceite[obs3], amole[obs3], Barbados tar[obs3]; fusel
- oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate of amyl, ghee[obs3]; heating
- oil, "#2 oil", No. 2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel,
- gasoline, naphtha; stearin.
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- #356a. Resin. -- N. resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber,
- ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish,
- copal[obs3], mastic, magilp[obs3], lacquer, japan.
- artificial resin, polymer; ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin,
- anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite[obs3], Dowex[Chem], Diaion.
- V. varnish &c. (overlay) 223.
- Adj. resiny[obs3], resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic,
- asphaltite.
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- SECTION III. ORGANIC MATTER
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- 1. VITALITY
-
- 1. Vitality in general
- %
- #357. Organization. -- N. organized world, organized nature; living
- nature, animated nature; living beings; organic remains, fossils.
- protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure &c. 329;
- organization, organism.
- [Science of living beings] biology; natural history, organic
- chemistry, anatomy, physiology; zoology &c. 368; botany; microbiology,
- virology, bacteriology, mycology &c. 369; naturalist.
- archegenesis &c. (production) 161[obs3]; antherozoid[obs3],
- bioplasm[obs3], biotaxy[obs3], chromosome, dysmeromorph[obs3]; ecology,
- oecology; erythroblast[Physiol], gametangium[obs3], gamete, germinal
- matter, invagination[Biol]; isogamy[obs3], oogamy[obs3]; karyaster[obs3];
- macrogamete[obs3], microgamete[obs3]; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism;
- metaplasm[obs3], ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism,
- protozoa, spermary[obs3], spermatozoon, trophoplasm[obs3], vacuole,
- vertebration[obs3], zoogloea[obs3], zygote.
- Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism.
- morphology, taxonomy.
- Adj. organic, organized; karyoplasmic[obs3], unsegmentic[obs3],
- vacuolar, zoogloeic[obs3], zoogloeoid[obs3].
-
- #358. Inorganization. -- N. mineral world,mineral kingdom;
- unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter.
- [Science of the mineral kingdom] mineralogy, geology, geognosy[obs3],
- geoscopy[obs3]; metallurgy, metallography[obs3]; lithology; oryctology|,
- oryctography|.
- V. turn to dust; mineralize, fossilize.
- Adj. inorganic, inanimate, inorganized[obs3]; lithoidal[obs3]; azoic;
- mineral.
-
- #359. Life. -- N. life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark,
- vital flame, soul, spirit.
- respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; oxygen,
- air.
- [devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator,
- heart and lung machine, iron lung; medical devices &c. 662.
- lifeblood; Archeus[obs3]; existence &c. 1.
- vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification &c. 163;
- Prometheus; life to come &c. (destiny) 152.
- [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.
- nourishment, staff of life &c. (food) 298.
- genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection,
- reproduction (production) 161.
- microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe,
- obligate anaerobe, halophile[Microbiol], methanogen[Microbiol],
- archaebacteria[Microb], microaerophile[Microbiol].
- animal &c. 366; vegetable &c. 367.
- artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.
- [vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse,
- temperature.
- preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662.
- V. be alive &c. adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist &c. (exist) 1;
- walk the earth "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be
- spared.
- see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw
- breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive;
- come to life.
- give birth to &c. (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life,
- vitalize; vivify, vivificate[obs3]; reanimate &c. (restore) 660; keep
- alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support
- life.
- hive nine lives like a cat.
- Adj. living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living;
- on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated;
- animative[obs3]; lively &c. (active) 682; all alive and kicking; tenacious
- of life; full of life, yeasty.
- vital, vitalic[obs3]; vivifying, vivified, &c. v.; viable,
- zoetic[obs3]; Promethean.
- Adv. vivendi causa[Lat].
- Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Lat][Seneca]; non est vivere sed
- valere vita [Lat][Marial].
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-
- #360. Death. -- N. death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure,
- obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality,
- morbidity.
- end of life &c. 67, cessation of life &c. 142, loss of life,
- extinction of life, ebb of life &c. 359.
- death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death,
- agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of
- death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying
- agonies; chant du cygne[Fr]; rigor mortis[Lat]; Stygian shore.
- King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c. (necessity) 601; "Hell's
- grim Tyrant" [Pope].
- euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay;
- sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature;
- suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease &c. (disease) 655; death blow &c.
- (killing) 361.
- necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c. (lamentation)
- 839.
- V. die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away,
- be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being,
- resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly
- career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this
- life; be no more &c. adj.; go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay
- down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the
- grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall
- down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up
- the ghost; be all over with one.
- pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last
- sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks,
- hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the greater number,
- join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry,
- cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy
- Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's
- will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle;
- come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the
- bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death
- &c. (be killed) 361.
- Adj. dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct;
- late, gone, no more; exanimate[obs3], inanimate; out of the world, taken
- off, released; departed this life &c. v.; dead and gone; dead as a
- doornail, dead as a doorpost[obs3], dead as a mutton, dead as a herring,
- dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to
- meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered
- with the dead.
- dying &c. v.; moribund, morient|; hippocratic; in articulo, in
- extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux
- abois[Fr]; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death,
- at death's door,, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked;
- with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.
- stillborn; mortuary; deadly &c. (killing) 361.
- Adv. post obit, post mortem[Lat].
- Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are
- numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed;
- Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out
- of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Lat][Vergil]; de
- mortuis nil nisi bonum[Lat]; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
- [Lat][Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Lat][Tacitus]; "in
- adamantine chains shall death be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est
- [Lat][Girace];; ominia mors aequat [Lat][Claudianus]; "Spake the grisly
- Terror" [Paradise Lost]; "the lone couch of this everlasting sleep"
- [Shelley]; nothing is certain but death and taxes.
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-
-
- #361. [Destruction of live; violent death.] Killing. -- N. killing &c.
- v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation|, iccusion|;
- effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery;
- battue[obs3].
- massacre; fusillade, noyade[obs3]; thuggery, Thuggism[obs3].
- deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution &c.
- (capital punishment) 972; judicial murder; martyrdom.
- butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat,
- garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur[obs3]; guet-a-pens;
- gallows, executioner &c. (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache[obs3], hatchet
- man [U.S.], highbinder [obs3][U.S.].
- regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide,
- foeticide[obs3], uxoricide[obs3], vaticide[obs3].
- suicide, felo de se[obs3], hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath[obs3];
- immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.
- suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging &c. v.; lapidation[obs3].
- deadly weapon &c. (arms) 727; Aceldama[obs3].
- [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics[obs3]; sport,
- sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-
- sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse,
- meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.
- fatal accident, violent death, casualty.
- V. kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher,
- slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life;
- make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.
- strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the
- breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
- saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate[obs3]; stab,
- run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the
- edge of the sword.
- shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone,
- lapidate[obs3]; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a
- coupe de grace.
- behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas &c. (execute) 972.
- hunt, shoot &c. n.
- cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last
- account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.
- give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade
- knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.
- die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains,
- blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with
- oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
- Adj. killing &c. v.; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary,
- sanguinolent[obs3]; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed;
- bloody, bloody minded; ensanguined[obs3], gory; thuggish.
- mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous|, lethiferous[obs3];
- unhealthy &c. 657; internecine; suicidal.
- sporting; piscatorial, piscatory[obs3].
- Adv. in at the death.
- Phr. "assassination has never changed the history of the world"
- [Disraeli].
-
- #362. Corpse. -- N. corpse, corse[obs3], carcass, cadaver, bones,
- skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae[Lat], remains, mortal
- remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for
- fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.
- shade, ghost, manes.
- organic remains, fossils.
- Adj. cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied &c. 363;
- sapromyiophyllous[obs3].
-
- #363. Interment. -- N. interment, burial, sepulture[obs3];
- inhumation|; obsequies, exequies[obs3]; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile;
- cremation.
- funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell,
- tolling; dirge &c. (lamentation) 839; cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled
- drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral
- sermon; epitaph.
- graveclothes[obs3], shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement.
- coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque,
- cinerary urn[obs3].
- grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum,
- Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place,
- burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow,
- tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue;
- lich gate[obs3]; burning ghat[obs3]; crematorium, crematory; dokhma[obs3],
- mastaba[obs3], potter's field, stupa[obs3], Tower of Silence.
- sexton, gravedigger.
- monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone;
- memento mori[Lat]; hatchment[obs3], stone; obelisk, pyramid.
- exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem
- examination[Lat]; zoothapsis[obs3].
- V. inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the
- tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify;
- toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn[obs3].
- exhume, disinter, unearth.
- Adj. burried &c. v.; burial, funereal, funebrial[obs3]; mortuary,
- sepulchral, cinerary[obs3]; elegiac; necroscopic[obs3].
- Adv. in memoriam; post obit, post mortem[Lat]; beneath the sod.
- Phr. hic jacet[Lat][obs3], ci-git[Fr]; RIP; requiescat in pace[Lat];
- "the lone couch of his everlasting sleep" [Shelley]; "without a grave-
- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown" [Byron]; "in the dark union of
- insensate dust" [Byron]; "the deep cold shadow of the tomb" [Moore].
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- 2. Special Vitality
- %
- #364. Animality. -- N. animal life; animation, animality[obs3],
- animalization[obs3]; animalness, corporeal nature, human system; breath.
- flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength &c. 159.
- Adj. fleshly,human, corporeal.
-
- #365. Vegetability|. -- N. vegetable life; vegetation, vegetability|;
- vegetality[obs3].
- V. vegetate, grow roots, put down roots.
- Adj. rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive[obs3].
-
- #366. Animal. -- N. animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.
- beast, brute, creature, critter [US dialect], wight, created being;
- creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.
- [major divisions of animals] mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish,
- crustacean, shellfish, mollusk, worm, insect, arthropod, microbe.
- [microscopic animals] microbe, animalcule &c. 193.
- [reptiles] alligator, crocodile; saurian; dinosaur [extinct]; snake,
- serpent, viper, eft; asp, aspick[obs3].
- [amphibians] frog, toad.
- [fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine, mackerel.
- [insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.
- [arthropods] tardigrade, spider.
- [classificatiopn by number of feet] biped, quadruped.
- flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game,
- ferae naturae[Lat]; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the
- sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock[obs3], duck, grouse, plover, rail,
- snipe.
- [domesticated mammals] horse &c. (beast of burden) 271; cattle,
- kine[obs3], ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn;
- sheep; lamb, lambkin[obs3]; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow;
- steer, stot[obs3]; tag, teg[obs3]; bison, buffalo, yak, zebu, dog, cat.
- [dogs] dog, hound; pup, puppy; whelp, cur, mongrel; house dog, watch
- dog, sheep dog, shepherd's dog, sporting dog, fancy dog, lap dog, toy dog,
- bull dog, badger dog; mastiff; blood hound, grey hound, stag hound, deer
- hound, fox hound, otter hound; harrier, beagle, spaniel, pointer, setter,
- retriever; Newfoundland; water dog, water spaniel; pug, poodle; turnspit;
- terrier; fox terrier, Skye terrier; Dandie Dinmont; collie.
- [cats][generally] feline, puss, pussy; grimalkin[obs3]; gib cat, tom
- cat.
- [wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe, roe;
- caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar[obs3].
- bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer, partlet[obs3],
- rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes, feathered
- songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch;
- aberdevine[obs3], cushat[obs3], cygnet, ringdove[obs3], siskin, swan, wood
- pigeon.
- [undesirable animals] vermin, varmint[Western US], pest.
- Adj. animal, zoological
- equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy; piscatory[obs3],
- piscatorial; molluscous[obs3], vermicular; gallinaceous, rasorial[obs3],
- solidungulate[obs3], soliped[obs3].
-
- #367. Vegetable. -- N. vegetable, vegetable kingdom; flora, verdure.
- plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.
- annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.
- timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst[obs3], frith[obs3],
- holt, weald[obs3], park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice,
- bocage[obs3], tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood,
- brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk[obs3], ceja[Sp], chaparal, motte
- [obs3][U.S.].; arboretum &c. 371.
- bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse,
- whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary[obs3]; sedge, rush, weed;
- fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva[obs3], mold; growth;
- alfalfa, alfilaria[obs3], banyan; blow, blowth[obs3]; floret[obs3],
- petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.
- foliage, branch, bough, ramage[obs3], stem, tigella[obs3]; spray &c.
- 51; leaf.
- flower, blossom, bine[obs3]; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree;
- pulse, legume.
- Adj. vegetable, vegetal, vegetive[obs3], vegitous|; herbaceous,
- herbal; botanic[obs3]; sylvan, silvan[obs3]; arborary[obs3],
- arboreous[obs3], arborescent[obs3], arborical|; woody, grassy; verdant,
- verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous[obs3], ligneous; wooden, leguminous;
- vosky[obs3], cespitose[obs3], turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.
- Phr. "green-robed senators of mighty woods" [Keats]; "this is the
- forest primeval" [Longfellow].
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- #368. [The science of animals.] Zoology. -- N. zoology, zoonomy[obs3],
- zoography[obs3], zootomy[obs3]; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal
- physiology, comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy.
- anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology[obs3],
- malacology[obs3], helminthology[Med], entomology, oryctology[obs3],
- paleontology, mastology[obs3], vermeology[obs3]; ichthy &c.
- ichthyotomy[obs3]; taxidermy.
- zoologist &c.
- Adj. zoological &c. n.
-
- #369. [The science of plants.] Botany. -- N. botany; physiological
- botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography[obs3],
- phytology[obs3], phytotomy[obs3]; vegetable physiology,
- herborization[obs3], dendrology, mycology, fungology[obs3], algology[obs3];
- flora, romona; botanic garden &c. (garden) 371[obs3]; hortus siccus[Lat],
- herbarium, herbal.
- botanist &c.; herbist[obs3], herbarist[obs3], herbalist,
- herborist[obs3], herbarian[obs3].
- V. botanize, herborize[obs3].
- Adj. botanical &c. n.; botanic[obs3].
-
- #370. [The economy or management of animals.] Husbandry. -- N.
- husbandry, taming &c. v.; circuration[obs3], zoohygiantics[obs3];
- domestication, domesticity; manege[Fr], veterinary art; farriery[obs3];
- breeding, pisciculture.
- menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary,
- alveary[obs3], beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.
- phthisozoics &c. (killing) 361[obs3][Destruction of animals];
- euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction.
- neatherd[obs3], cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper[obs3];
- trainer, breeder; apiarian[obs3], apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy,
- cow puncher [U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero,
- veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon.
- cage &c. (prison) 752; hencoop[obs3], bird cage, cauf[obs3]; range,
- sheepfold, &c. (inclosure) 232.
- V. tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage,
- bridle, &c. (restrain) 751.
- Adj. pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.
-
- #371. [The economy or management of plants.] Agriculture. -- N.
- agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics[obs3];
- tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture,
- arboriculture[obs3], floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.
- husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor[obs3],
- agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter,
- backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron[obs3], viticulturist; Triptolemus.
- field, meadow, garden; botanic garden[obs3], winter garden, ornamental
- garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery;
- green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot;
- grassplot[obs3], grassplat[obs3], lawn; park &c. (pleasure ground) 840;
- parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery[obs3],
- pinetum[obs3], orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery[obs3]; farm &c. (abode)
- 189.
- V. cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut;
- manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow,
- rake, weed, lop and top; backset [obs3][U.S.].
- Adj. agricultural, agrarian, agrestic[obs3].
- arable, predial[obs3], rural, rustic, country; horticultural.
-
- #372. Mankind. -- N. man, mankind; human race, human species, human
- kind, human nature; humanity, mortality, flesh, generation.
- [Science of man] anthropology, anthropogeny[obs3],
- anthropography[obs3], anthroposophy[obs3]; ethnology, ethnography;
- humanitarian.
- human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature,
- mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul;
- earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae[Lat]; quidam[Lat].
- people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at
- large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal,
- commonwealth; republic, body politic; million &c. (commonalty) 876;
- population &c. (inhabitant) 188.
- tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11.
- cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.
- Adj. human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public,
- social; cosmopolitan; anthropoid.
- Phr. "am I not a man and a brother?" [Wedgwood].
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- #373 Man. -- N. man, male, he, him; manhood &c. (adolescence) 131;
- gentleman, sir, master; sahib; yeoman, wight|!, swain, fellow, blade, beau,
- elf, chap, gaffer, good man; husband &c. (married man) 903; Mr., mister;
- boy &c. (youth) 129.
- [Male animal] cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse,
- entire horse, stallion; gibcat[obs3], tomcat; he goat, Billy goat; ram,
- tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot[obs3].
- androgen.
- homosexual, gay, queen[slang].
- V. masculinize
- Adj. male, he-, masculine; manly, virile; unwomanly, unfeminine.
- Pron. he, him, his.
- Phr. hominem pagina nostra sapit [Lat][Mar.]; homo homini aut deus
- aut lupus [Lat][Erasmus]; homo vitae commodatus non donatus est
- [Lat][Syrus].
-
- #374. Woman. -- N. woman, she, her, female, petticoat.
- feminality[obs3], muliebrity[obs3]; womanhood &c. (adolescence) 131.
- womankind; the sex, the fair; fair sex, softer sex; weaker vessel.
- dame, madam, madame, mistress, Mrs. lady, donna belle[Sp], matron,
- dowager, goody, gammer[obs3]; Frau[Ger], frow[obs3], Vrouw[Dutch], rani;
- good woman, good wife; squaw; wife &c. (marriage) 903; matronage,
- matronhood[obs3].
- bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.
- nymph, wench, grisette[obs3]; girl &c. (youth) 129.
- [Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean[obs3],
- henhussy[obs3], mollycoddle, muff, old woman.
- [Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny goat,
- tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.
- gynecaeum[obs3].
- estrogen, oestrogen.
- consanguinity &c. 166[female relatives], paternity &c. 11.
- lesbian, dyke[slang].
- V. feminize.
- Adj. female, she-; feminine, womanly, ladylike, matronly, maidenly,
- wifely; womanish, effeminate, unmanly; gynecic[obs3], gynaecic[obs3].
- Pron. she, her, hers.'
- Phr. "a perfect woman nobly planned" [Wordsworth]; "a lovely lady
- garmented in white" [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan
- [Ger][Goethe]; "earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected" [Lowell]; es de
- vidrio la mujer[Sp]; "she moves a goddess and she looks a queen" [Pope];
- "the beauty of a lovely woman is like music" [G. Eliot]; varium et mutabile
- semper femina [Lat][Vergil]; "woman is the lesser man" [Tennyson].
-
- #374a. Sexuality [human] -- N. sex, sexuality, gender; male,
- masculinity, maleness &c. 373; female, femininity &c. 374.
- sexual intercourse, copulation, mating, coitus, sex; lovemaking,
- marital relations, sexual union; sleeping together, carnal knowledge.
- sex instinct, sex drive, libido, lust, concupiscence;.hots, horns
- [coll]; arousal, heat, rut, estrus, oestrus; tumescence; erection, hard-on,
- boner.
- masturbation, self-gratification, autoeroticism, onanism, self-abuse.
- orgasm, climax, ejaculation.
- sexiness, attractiveness; sensuality, voluptuousness.
- [sexual intercourse outside of marriage] fornication, adultery.
- [person who is sexy] sex symbol, sex goddess; stud, hunk.
- one-night stand.
- pornography, porn, porno; hardcore pornography, softcore pornography;
- pin-up, cheesecake; beefcake; Playboy[magazines with sexual photos],
- Esquire, Hustler.
- [unorthodox sexual activity] perversion, deviation, sexual
- abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality;
- sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism. masochism, sado-masochism; incest.
- V. mate, copulate; make love, have intercourse, fornicate, have sex,
- do it, sleep together, fuck[vulg.]; sleep around, play the field..
- masturbate, jerk off[coll.], jack off[coll.], play with oneself.
- have the hots[coll]; become aroused, get hot; have an erection, get it
- up.
- come, climax, ejaculate.
- Adj. sexy, erotic, sexual, carnal, sensual.
- hot, horny, randy, rutting; passionate, lusty, hot-blooded,
- libidinous; up, in the mood.
- homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual.
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- 2. SENSATION
- 1. Sensation in general
- %
- #375. Physical Sensibility. -- N. sensibility; sensitiveness &c. adj.;
- physical sensibility, feeling, impressibility, perceptivity, aesthetics;
- moral sensibility &c. 822.
- sensation, impression; consciousness &c. (knowledge) 490.
- external senses.
- V. be sensible of &c. adj. ; feel, perceive.
- render sensible &c. adj.; sharpen, cultivate, tutor.
- cause sensation, impress; excite an impression, produce an impression.
- Adj. sensible, sensitive, sensuous; aesthetic, perceptive, sentient;
- conscious &c. (aware) 490.
- acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned.
- Adv. to the quick.
- Phr. "the touch'd needle trembles to the pole" [Pope].
-
- #376. Physical Insensibility. -- N. insensibility, physical
- insensibility; obtuseness &c. adj.; palsy, paralysis, paraesthesia[Med],
- anaesthesia; sleep &c. 823; hemiplegia[obs3], motor paralysis; vegetable
- state; coma.
- anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide,
- laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen[ISA:chemsubcfs];
- refrigeration.
- V. be insensible &c. adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide.
- render insensible &c. adj.; anaesthetize[obs3], blunt, pall,
- obtund[obs3], benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c.
- n.; stupefy, stun.
- Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient[obs3], callous,
- thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof,
- obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.
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- #377. Physical Pleasure. -- N. pleasure; physical pleasure, sensual
- pleasure, sensuous pleasure; bodily enjoyment, animal gratification,
- hedonism, sensuality; luxuriousness &c. adj.; dissipation, round of
- pleasure, titillation, gusto, creature comforts, comfort, ease; pillow &c.
- (support) 215; luxury, lap of luxury; purple and fine linen; bed of downs,
- bed of roses; velvet, clover; cup of Circe &c. (intemperance) 954.
- treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice[Fr]; dainty &c. 394; bonne
- bouche[Fr].
- source of pleasure &c. 829; happiness &c. (mental enjoyment) 827.
- V. feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive pleasure; enjoy,
- relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim in, drink up, eat
- up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack the lips.
- live on the fat of the land, live in comfort &c. adv.; bask in the
- sunshine, faire ses choux gras[Fr]..
- give pleasure &c. 829.
- Adj. enjoying &c. v.; luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable,
- cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease.
- pleasant, agreeable &c. 829.
- Adv. in comfort &c. n.; on a bed of roses &c. n.; at one's ease.
- Phr. ride si sapis [Lat][Martial]; voluptales commendat rarior usus
- [Lat][Juvenal].
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- #378. Physical Pain. -- N. pain; suffering, sufferance,
- suffrance[obs3]; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical
- suffering, body pain; mental suffering &c. 828; dolour, ache; aching &c.
- v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache,
- heartburn, angina, angina pectoris[Lat]; hurt, cut; sore, soreness;
- discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia[Med], earache, gout, ischiagra[obs3],
- lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia[obs3], otalgia[obs3], podagra[obs3],
- rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux[Fr], toothache, tormina[obs3],
- torticollis[obs3].
- spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes[obs3]; crick, stitch; thrill,
- convulsion, throe; throb &c. (agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink.
- sharp pain, piercing pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting,
- gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain.
- anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation[obs3], crucifixion;
- martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.
- V. feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain &c. n.;
- suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch, lancinate[obs3];
- writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.
- give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite,
- gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring,
- convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate[obs3],
- excruciate|; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog &c. (punish) 972;
- grate on the ear &c. (harsh sound) 410.
- Adj. in pain &c. n., in a state of pain; pained &c. v.; gouty,
- podagric[obs3], torminous[obs3].
- painful; aching &c. v.; sore, raw.
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- (1) Touch
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- #379. [Sensation of pressure] Touch. -- N. touch; tact, taction[obs3],
- tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation[obs3];
- manipulation; massage.
- [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler,
- antenna; palpus[obs3].
- V. touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble;
- twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate,
- wield; throw out a feeler.
- Adj. tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent.
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- #380. Sensations of Touch. -- N. itching, pruritis &c. v[Med].;
- titillation, formication[obs3], aura; stereognosis[obs3].
- V. itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,
- titillate.
- Adj. itching &c. v.; stereognostic[obs3], titillative.
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- #381. [insensibility to touch.] Numbness. -- N. numbness &c. (physical
- insensibility) 376; anaesthesia; pins and needles.
- V. benumb &c. 376.
- Adj. numb; benumbed &c. v.; deadened; intangible, impalpable.
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- (2) Heat
- %
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- #382. Heat. -- N. heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor,
- calidity[obs3]; incalescence[obs3], incandescence; glow, flush; fever,
- hectic.
- phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire;
- firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny[obs3]; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent
- flame; devouring element; adiathermancy[obs3]; recalescence[Phys].
- summer, dog days; canicular days[obs3]; baking &c. 384 heat, white
- heat, tropical heat, Afric heat[obs3], Bengal heat[obs3], summer heat,
- blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming &c. 384.
- sun &c. (luminary) 423.
- [Science of heat] pyrology[obs3]; thermology[obs3], thermotics[obs3],
- thermodynamics; thermometer &c. 389.
- [thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small calorie; kilocalorie,
- kilogram calorie, large calorie; British Thermal Unit, B.T.U.; therm,
- quad.
- [units of temperature] degrees Kelvin, kelvins, degrees centigrade,
- degrees Celsius; degrees Fahrenheit.
- V. be hot &c. adj.; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek,
- stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder;
- parch, fume, pant.
- heat &c. (make hot) 384; recalesce[obs3]; thaw, give.
- Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal,
- thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.
- sunny, torrid, tropical, estival|!, canicular[obs3], steamy; close,
- sultry, stifling, stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c. v.; baking
- &c. 384.
- red hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning &c. v. hot, piping hot; like
- a furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough to
- roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg.
- fiery; incandescent, incalescent[obs3]; candent[obs3], ebullient,
- glowing, smoking; live; on fire; dazzling &c. v.; in flames, blazing, in a
- blaze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished[obs3]; smoldering;
- in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat;
- sudorific[obs3]; sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a
- toast, warm as wool.
- volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal|!, isothermic|!, isotheral|!.
- Phr. not a breath of air;," whirlwinds of tempestuous fire " [Paradise
- Lost].
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- #383. Cold. -- N. cold, coldness &c. adj.; frigidity, inclemency,
- fresco.
- winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla; wind-chill
- factor.
- [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow
- drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost, white frost, hard
- frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly [obs3][N. Am.]; icicle,
- thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe berg;
- glacier; neve, serac[obs3]; pruina[obs3].
- [cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid
- helium.
- [Sensation of cold] chilliness &c. adj.; chill; shivering &c. v.;
- goose skin, horripilation[obs3]; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness,
- frostbite.
- V. be cold &c. adj[intrans.].; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble,
- shudder, didder[obs3], quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.
- [transitive] chill, freeze &c. (render cold) 385; horripilate[obs3],
- make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh.
- Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid[obs3];
- fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous[obs3], cutting,
- nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c. (made cold) 385; ,
- chilled to the bone, shivering &c. v.; aguish, transi de froid[Fr];
- frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.
- cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a
- frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as
- custard.
- icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose[obs3], wintry, brumal[obs3],
- hibernal[obs3], boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal[obs3]; hyperborean,
- hyperboreal[obs3]; icebound; frozen out.
- unwarmed[obs3], unthawed[obs3]; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal[obs3],
- isocheimenal[obs3], isocheimic[obs3].
- frozen, numb, frost-bitten.
- Adv. coldly, bitterly &c. adj.; pierre fendre[Fr];
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- #384. Calefaction. -- N. increase of temperature; heating &c. v.;
- calefaction[obs3], tepefaction[obs3], torrefaction[obs3]; melting, fusion;
- liquefaction &c. 335; burning &c. v.; ambustion[obs3], combustion;
- incension|, accension[obs3]; concremation[obs3], cremation;
- scorification[obs3]; cautery, cauterization; ustulation[obs3], calcination;
- cracking, refining; incineration, cineration[obs3]; carbonization;
- cupellation[Chem].
- ignition, inflammation, adustion[obs3], flagration| [obs3];
- deflagration, conflagration; empyrosis[obs3], incendiarism; arson; auto
- dafe[Fr].
- boiling &c. v.; coction[obs3], ebullition, estuation[obs3],
- elixation|, decoction; ebullioscope[obs3]; geyser; distillation
- (vaporization) 336.
- furnace &c. 386; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding &c. (lining) 224;
- clothing &c. 225.
- still; refinery; fractionating column, fractionating tower, cracking
- tower.
- match &c. (fuel) 388; incendiary; petroleuse[Fr];
- [biological effects resembling the effects of heat][substances causing
- a burning sensation and damage on skin or tissue] cauterizer[obs3];
- caustic, lunar caustic, alkali, apozem[obs3], moxa[obs3]; acid, aqua
- fortis[Lat], aqua regia; catheretic[obs3], nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric
- acid[ISA:CHEMSUB], nitromuriatic acid[ISA:CHEMSUBPREFIX]; radioactivity,
- gamma rays, alpha particles, beta rays, X-rays, radiation, cosmic
- radiation, background radiation, radioactive isotopes, tritium, uranium,
- plutonium, radon, radium.
- sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr]; insolation.
- [artifacts requiring heat in their manufacture] pottery, ceramics,
- crockery, porcelain, china; earthenware, stoneware; pot, mug, terra
- cotta[Sp], brick, clinker.
- [products of combustion] cinder, ash, scoriae, embers, soot; slag.
- [products of heating organic materials] coke, carbon, charcoal; wood
- alcohol, turpentine, tea tree oil; gasoline, kerosene, naptha[ISA:CHEMSUB],
- fuel oil (fuel) 388; wax, paraffin; residue, tar.
- inflammability, combustibility.
- [Transmission of heat] diathermancy[obs3], transcalency[obs3],
- conduction; convection; radiation, radiant heat; heat conductivity,
- conductivity.
- [effects of heat 2.] thermal expansion; coefficient of expansion.
- V. heat, warm, chafe, stive[obs3], foment; make hot &c. 382; sun
- oneself, sunbathe.
- go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame) 382.
- fire; set fire to, set on fire; kindle, enkindle, light, ignite,
- strike a light; apply the match to, apply the torch to; rekindle,
- relume[obs3]; fan the flame, add fuel to the flame; poke the fire, stir the
- fire, blow the fire; make a bonfire of.
- melt, thaw, fuse; liquefy &c. 335.
- burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake,
- torrefy[obs3], scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char,
- calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify[obs3]; reduce to ashes; burn to a
- cinder; commit to the flames, consign to the flames.
- boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer; do to rags.
- take fire, catch fire; blaze &c. (flame) 382.
- Adj. heated &c. v.; molten, sodden; rchauff; heating &c. v.;
- adust[obs3].
- inflammable, combustible; diathermal[obs3], diathermanous[obs3]; burnt
- &c. v.; volcanic, radioactive.
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- #385. Refrigeration. -- N. refrigeration, infrigidation[obs3],
- reduction of temperature; cooling &c. v.; congelation[obs3], conglaciation|
- [obs3]; ice &c. 383; solidification &c. (density) 321; ice box
- (refrigerator) 385..
- extincteur[Fr]; fire annihilator; amianth[obs3], amianthus[obs3];
- earth-flax, mountain-flax; flexible asbestos; fireman, fire brigade
- (incombustibility) 388a.
- incombustibility, incombustibleness &c. adj[obs3]. (insulation) 388a.
- air conditioning[residential cooling], central air conditioning; air
- conditioner; fan, attic fan; dehumidifier.
- V. cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate;
- benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate[obs3],
- nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,
- damp, slack quench; put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out
- (incombustibility) 388a..
- Adj. cooled &c. v.; frozen out; cooling &c. v.; frigorific[obs3].
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- #386. Furnace. -- N. furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth,
- focus, combustion chamber; athanor[obs3], hypocaust[obs3], reverberatory;
- volcano; forge, fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier[obs3],
- salamander, heater, warming pan; boiler, caldron, seething caldron, pot;
- urn, kettle; chafing-dish; retort, crucible, alembic, still; waffle irons;
- muffle furnace, induction furnace; electric heater, electric furnace,
- electric resistance heat.
- [steel-making furnace] open-hearth furnace.
- fireplace, gas fireplace; coal fire, wood fire; fire-dog, fire-irons;
- grate, range, kitchener; caboose, camboose[obs3]; poker, tongs, shovel,
- ashpan, hob, trivet; andiron, gridiron; ashdrop; frying-pan, stew-pan,
- backlog.
- [area near a fireplace] hearth, inglenook.
- [residential heating methods] oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove,
- pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot
- water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat,
- convective heat.
- hothouse, bakehouse[obs3], washhouse[obs3]; laundry; conservatory;
- sudatory[obs3]; Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath,
- sauna, warm bath; vaporarium[obs3].
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- #387. Refrigerator. -- N. refrigerator, refrigeratory[obs3];
- frigidarium[obs3]; cold storage, cold room, cold laboratory; icehouse,
- icepail, icebag, icebox; cooler, damper, polyurethane cooler; wine cooler.
- freezer, deep freeze, dry ice freezer, liquid nitrogen freezer,
- refigerator-freezer.
- freezing mixture[refrigerating substances], ice, ice cubes, blocks of
- ice, chipped ice; liquid nitrogen, dry ice, dry ice-acetone, liquid
- helium.
-
- #388. Fuel. -- N. fuel, firing, combustible.
- [solid fuels] coal, wallsend[obs3], anthracite, culm[obs3], coke,
- carbon, charcoal, bituminous coal, tar shale; turf, peat, firewood,
- bobbing, faggot, log; cinder &c. (products of combustion) 384; ingle,
- tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel,
- fireball, brand; amadou[obs3], bavin[obs3]; blind coal, glance coal; German
- tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U. S.]; solid fueled rocket.
- [fuels for candles and lamps] wax, paraffin wax, paraffin oil; lamp
- oil, whale oil.
- [liquid fuels] oil, petroleum, gasoline, high octane gasoline,
- nitromethane[ISA:CHEMSUB@fuel], petrol, gas, juice [coll.], gasohol,
- alcohol, ethanol, methanol, fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel, heating oil,
- number 2 oil, number 4 oil, naphtha; rocket fuel, high specific impulse
- fuel, liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, lox.
- [gaseous fuels] natural gas, synthetic gas, synthesis gas, propane,
- butane, hydrogen.
- brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer,
- congreve[obs3], vesuvian, vesta[obs3], fusee, locofoco[obs3];
- linstock[obs3].
- candle &c. (luminary) 423; oil &c. (grease) 356.
- Adj. carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable; high octane, high
- specific impulse; heat of combustion,.
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- #388a Insulation, Fire extinction. {ant. of 388} insulation,
- incombustible material, noncombustible material; fire retardant, flame
- retardant; fire wall, fire door.
- incombustibility, incombustibleness &c. adj.
- extincteur[Fr]; fire annihilator; amianth[obs3], amianthus[obs3];
- earth-flax, mountain-flax; asbestos; fireman, fire fighter, fire eater,
- fire department, fire brigade, engine company; pumper, fire truck, hook and
- ladder, aerial ladder, bucket; fire hose, fire hydrant.
- [forest fires] backfire, firebreak, trench; aerial water bombardment.
- wet blanket; fire extinguisher, soda and acid extinguisher, dry
- chemical extinguisher, CO-two extinguisher, carbon tetrachloride, foam;
- sprinklers, automatic sprinkler system; fire bucket, sand bucket.
- [warning of fire] fire alarm, evacuation alarm,
- [laws to prevent fire] fire code, fire regulations, fire; fire
- inspector; code violation, citation.
- V. go out, die out, burn out; fizzle.
- extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse,
- snuff, snuff out, blow out.
- fireproof, flameproof.
- Adj. incombustible; nonflammable, uninflammable,
- unflammable[obs3]; fireproof.
- Phr. fight fire with fire
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- #389. Thermometer. -- N. thermometer, thermometrograph[obs3], mercury
- thermometer, alcohol thermometer, clinical thermometer, dry-bulb
- thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer, Anschutz thermometer[Ger], gas
- thermometer, telethermometer; color-changing temperature indicator;
- thermopile, thermoscope[obs3]; pyrometer, calorimeter, bomb calorimeter;
- thermistor, thermocouple.
- [temperature-control devices] thermostat, thermoregulator.
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- #390. Taste. -- N. taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish;
- sapor|, sapidity[obs3]; twang, smack, smatch| [obs3]; aftertaste, tang.
- tasting; degustation, gustation.
- palate, tongue, tooth, stomach.
- V. taste, savor, smatch[obs3], smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate
- &c. (savory) 394; smack the lips.
- Adj. sapid, saporific[obs3]; gustable|, gustatory; gustful[obs3];
- strong, gamy; palatable &c. 394.
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- #391. Insipidity. -- N. insipidity, blandness; tastelessness &c. adj.
- V. be tasteless &c. adj.
- Adj. bland, void of taste &c. 390; insipid; tasteless, gustless|,
- savorless; ingustible|, mawkish, milk and water, weak, stale, flat, vapid,
- fade, wishy-washy, mild; untasted[obs3].
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- #392. Pungency. -- N. pungency, piquance, piquancy, poignancy haut-
- gout, strong taste, twang, race.
- sharpness &c. adj.; acrimony; roughness &c. (sour) 392; unsavoriness
- &c. 395.
- mustard, cayenne, caviare; seasoning &c. (condiment) 393; niter,
- saltpeter, brine (saltiness) 392a; carbonate of ammonia; sal
- ammoniac[obs3], sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) 401a.
- dram, cordial, nip.
- nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar[obs3]; cigar, cigarette;
- weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid[obs3], negro head, old
- soldier, rappee[obs3], stogy[obs3].
- V. be pungent &c. adj.; bite the tongue.
- render -pungent &c. adj.; season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine,
- devil. smoke, chew, take snuff.
- Adj. pungent, strong; high-, full-flavored; high-tasted, high-
- seasoned; gamy, sharp, stinging, rough, piquant, racy; biting, mordant;
- spicy; seasoned &c. v.; hot, hot as pepper; peppery, vellicating[obs3],
- escharotic[obs3], meracious|; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough &c. (sour)
- 397; unsavory &c. 395.
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- #392a Saltiness. -- N. saltiness.
- niter, saltpeter, brine.
- Adj. salty, salt, saline, brackish, briny; salty as brine, salty as a
- herring, salty as Lot's wife.
- salty, racy (indecent) 961.
- Phr. take it with a grain of salt.
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- #392b Bitterness -- N. bitterness, acridness[obs3], acridity,
- acrimony; caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent
- bitters.
- [additive for alcoholic beverages]Angostura aromatic bitters.
- sourness &c. 397; pungency &c. 392.
- [bitter substances] alkaloids; turmeric.
- Adj. bitter, bitterish, acrid, acerb, acerbic.
- Phr. bitter as gall; bitter pill to take; sugar coating on a bitter
- pill.
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- #393. Condiment. -- N. condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish,
- appetizer.
- [exlist] salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black pepper,
- white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante[Fr]; caviare, onion,
- garlic, pickle; achar[obs3], allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper, green
- pepper; chutney; cubeb[obs3], pimento.
- [capsicum peppers] capsicum, red pepper, chili peppers, cayenne.
- nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, oregano, cloves, fennel.
- [herbs] pot herbs, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, bay leaves,
- marjoram.
- [fragrant woods and gums] frankincense, balm, myrrh.
- [from pods] paprika.
- [from flower stigmas] saffron.
- [from roots] ginger, turmeric.
- V. season, spice, flavor, spice up &c. (render pungent) 392.
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- #394. Savoriness. -- N. savoriness &c. adj.; good taste,
- deliciousness, delectability.
- relish, zest; appetizer.
- tidbit, titbit[obs3], dainty, delicacy, tasty morsel; appetizer, hors
- d'ouvres[Fr.]; ambrosia, nectar, bonne-bouche[Fr]; game, turtle, venison;
- delicatessen.
- V. be savory &c. adj.; tickle the palate, tickle the appetite; flatter
- the palate.
- render palatable &c. adj.
- relish, like, smack the lips.
- Adj. savory, delicious, tasty, well-tasted, to one's taste, good,
- palatable, nice, dainty, delectable; toothful[obs3], toothsome;
- gustful[obs3], appetizing, lickerish[obs3], delicate, exquisite, rich,
- luscious, ambrosial, scrumptious, delightful.
- Adv. per amusare la bocca
- Phr[It]. cela se laisse manger[Fr].
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- #395. Unsavoriness. -- N. unsavoriness &c. adj.; amaritude[obs3];
- acrimony, acridity (bitterness) 392b; roughness &c. (sour) 397; acerbity,
- austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia[obs3], aloes; marah[obs3];
- sickener[obs3].
- V. be unpalatable &c. adj.; sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the
- stomach.
- Adj. unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet[obs3]; ill-flavored;
- bitter, bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.
- offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening &c. v.; nauseous; loathsome,
- fulsome; unpleasant &c. 830.
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- #396. Sweetness. -- N. sweetness, dulcitude[obs3].
- sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection,
- confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture[obs3], jam,
- julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop,
- bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson, glucose;
- maple sirup[obs3], maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai[obs3], sorghum, taffy.
- nectar; hydromel[obs3], mead, meade[obs3], metheglin[obs3],
- honeysuckle, liqueur, sweet wine, aperitif.
- [sources of sugar] sugar cane, sugar beets.
- [sweet foods] desert, pastry, pie, cake, candy, ice cream, tart, puff,
- pudding (food) 298.
- dulcification|, dulcoration|.
- sweetener, corn syrup, cane sugar, refined sugar, beet sugar,
- dextrose; artificial sweetener, saccharin, cyclamate, aspartame, Sweet'N
- Low.
- V. be sweet &c. adj.
- render sweet &c. adj.; sweeten; edulcorate[obs3]; dulcorate|,
- dulcify|; candy; mull. Adj. sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous[obs3];
- dulcet, candied, honied[obs3], luscious, lush, nectarious[obs3],
- melliferous[obs3]; sweetened &c. v.
- sweet as a nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey.
- sickly sweet.
- Phr. eau sucre[Fr]; " sweets to the sweet " [Hamlet].
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- #397. Sourness. -- N. sourness &c. adj.; acid, acidity, low pH;
- acetous fermentation, lactic fermentation.
- vinegar, verjuice[obs3], crab, alum; acetic acid, lactic acid.
- V. be sour; sour, turn sour &c. adj.; set the teeth on edge.
- render sour &c. adj.; acidify, acidulate.
- Adj. sour; acid, acidulous, acidulated; tart, crabbed; acetous,
- acetose[obs3]; acerb, acetic; sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent[obs3],
- subacid[Chem]; styptic, hard, rough.
- Phr. sour as a lemon.
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- #398. Odor. -- N. odor, smell, odorament|, scent, effluvium;
- emanation, exhalation; fume, essence, trail, nidor|, redolence.
- sense of smell; scent; act of smelling &c. v.; olfaction,
- olfactories[obs3].
- [pleasant odor] fragrance &c. 400.
- odorant.
- [animal with acute sense of smell] bloodhound, hound.
- [smell detected by a hound] spoor.
- V. have an odor &c. n.; smell, smell of, smell strong of; exhale; give
- out a smell &c. n.; reek, reek of; scent.
- smell, scent; snuff, snuff up; sniff, nose, inhale.
- Adj. odorous, odoriferous; smelling, reeking, foul-smelling, strong-
- scented; redolent, graveolent[obs3], nidorous[obs3], pungent; putrid,
- foul.
- [Relating to the sense of smell] olfactory, quick-scented.
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- #399. Inodorousness.-- N. inodorousness[obs3]; absence of smell, want
- of smell.
- deodorant, deodorization, deodorizer.
- V. be inodorous &c. adj[obs3].; not smell.
- deodorize.
- Adj. inodorous[obs3], onodorate; scentless; without smell, wanting
- smell &c. 398.
- deodorized, deodorizing.
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- #400. Fragrance. -- N. fragrance, aroma, redolence, perfume, bouquet,
- essence, scent; sweet smell, aromatic perfume.
- agalloch[obs3], agallochium[obs3]; aloes wood; bay rum;
- calambac[obs3], calambour[obs3]; champak[obs3], horehound[ISA:plant@mint],
- lign-aloes[obs3], marrubium[obs3], mint, muskrat, napha water[obs3],
- olibanum[obs3], spirit of myrcia[obs3].
- essential oil.
- incense; musk, frankincense; pastil[obs3], pastille; myrrh, perfumes
- of Arabia[obs3]; otto[obs3], ottar[obs3], attar; bergamot, balm, civet,
- potpourri, pulvil|; nosegay; scentbag[obs3]; sachet, smelling bottle,
- vinaigrette; eau de Cologne[Fr], toilet water, lotion, after-shave lotion;
- thurification[obs3].
- perfumer.
- [fragrant wood oils] eucalyptus oil, pinene.
- V. be fragrant &c. adj.; have a perfume &c. n.; smell sweet.
- scent[render fragrant], perfume, embalm.
- Adj. fragrant, aromatic, redolent, spicy, savory, balmy, scented,
- sweet-smelling, sweet-scented; perfumed, perfumatory[obs3]; thuriferous;
- fragrant as a rose, muscadine[obs3], ambrosial.
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- #401. Fetor. -- N. fetor[obs3]; bad &c. adj. smell, bad odor; stench,
- stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma[obs3]; mustiness &c. adj.; rancidity;
- foulness &c. (uncleanness) 653.
- stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida[obs3]; fungus, garlic; stinkpot;
- fitchet[obs3], fitchew[obs3], fourmart[obs3], peccary.
- acridity &c. 401a.
- V. have a bad smell &c. n.; smell; stink, stink in the nostrils, stink
- like a polecat; smell strong &c. adj., smell offensively.
- Adj. fetid; strong-smelling; high, bad, strong, fulsome, offensive,
- noisome, rank, rancid, reasty[obs3], tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy[obs3];
- olid[obs3], olidous|; nidorous[obs3]; smelling, stinking; putrid &c. 653;
- suffocating, mephitic; empyreumatic[obs3].
-
- #401a Acridity -- N. acridity, astringency, bite.
- [acrid substances] tear gas; smoke, acrid fumes.
- Adj. acrid, biting, astringent, sharp, harsh; bitter &c. 392b.
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- #402. Sound. -- N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation,
- tone; cadence; sonorousness &c. adj.; audibility; resonance &c. 408; voice
- &c. 580; aspirate; ideophone[obs3]; rough breathing.
- [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology,
- phonography[obs3]; diacoustics[obs3], diaphonics[obs3]; phonetism[obs3].
- V. produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound;
- resound &c. 408.
- Adj. sounding; soniferous[obs3]; sonorous, sonorific[obs3]; resonant,
- audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic[obs3].
- Phr. "a thousand trills and quivering sounds " [Addison]; forensis
- strepitus[Lat].
-
-
- #403. Silence. -- N. silence; stillness &c. (quiet) 265; peace, hush,
- lull; muteness &c. 581; solemn silence, awful silence, dead silence,
- deathlike silence.
- V. be silent &c. adj.; hold one's tongue &c. (not speak) 585.
- render silent &c. adj.; silence, still, hush; stifle, muffle, stop;
- muzzle, put to silence &c. (render mute) 581.
- Adj. silent; still, stilly; noiseless, soundless; hushed &c. v.; mute
- &c. 581.
- soft, solemn, awful, deathlike, silent as the grave; inaudible &c.
- (faint) 405.
- Adv. silently &c. adj.; sub silentio[Lat].
- Int. hush! silence! soft! whist! tush! chut[obs3]! tut! pax[Lat]! be
- quiet! be silent! be still! shut up![rude]; chup[obs3]! chup rao[obs3]!
- tace[It]!
- Phr. one might hear a feather drop, one might hear a pin drop, so
- quiet you could hear a pin drop; grosse Seelen dulden still [German]; le
- silence est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sages [French]; le silence est
- le parti le plus sar de celui se dfie de soi-meme[French]; "silence more
- musical than any song " [C. G. Rossetti]; tacent satis laudant[Latin];
- better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all
- doubt.
-
-
- #404. Loudness.-- N. loudness, power; loud noise, din; blare; clang,
- clangor; clatter, noise, bombilation[obs3], roar, uproar, racket, hubbub,
- bobbery[obs3], fracas, charivari[obs3], trumpet blast, flourish of
- trumpets, fanfare, tintamarre[obs3], peal, swell, blast, larum[obs3], boom;
- bang (explosion) 406; resonance &c. 408.
- vociferation, hullabaloo, &c. 411; lungs; Stentor.
- artillery, cannon; thunder.
- V. be loud &c. adj.; peal, swell, clang, boom, thunder, blare,
- fulminate, roar; resound &c. 408. speak up, shout &c. (vociferate) 411;
- bellow &c. (cry as an animal) 412.
- rend the air, rend the skies; fill the air; din in the ear, ring in
- the ear, thunder in the ear; pierce the ears, split the ears, rend the
- ears, split the head; deafen, stun; faire le diable a quatre[Fr]; make
- one's windows shake, rattle the windows; awaken the echoes, startle the
- echoes; wake the dead.
- Adj. loud, sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; deep, full,
- powerful, noisy, blatant, clangorous, multisonous[obs3]; thundering,
- deafening &c. v; trumpet-tongued; ear-splitting, ear-rending, ear-
- deafening; piercing; obstreperous, rackety, uproarious; enough to wake the
- dead, enough to wake seven sleepers.
- shrill &c. 410 clamorous &c. (vociferous) 411 stentorian,
- stentorophonic|.
- Adv. loudly &c. adj. aloud; at the top of one's voice, at the top of
- one's lungs, lustily, in full cry.
- Phr. the air rings with; "the deep dread-bolted thunder" [Lear].
-
- #405. Faintness. -- N. faintness &c. adj.; faint sound, whisper,
- breath; undertone, underbreath[obs3]; murmur, hum, susurration; tinkle; "
- still small voice."
- hoarseness &c. adj.; raucity[obs3].
- V. whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow;
- tinkle; mutter &c. (speak imperfectly) 583; susurrate[obs3].
- steal on the ear; melt in the air, float on the air.
- Adj. inaudible; scarcely audible, just audible; low, dull; stifled,
- muffled; hoarse, husky; gentle, soft, faint; floating; purling, flowing &c.
- v.; whispered &c. v.; liquid; soothing; dulcet &c. (melodious) 413;
- susurrant[obs3], susurrous[obs3].
- Adv. in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce[Lat], between the
- teeth, aside; piano, pianissimo; d la sourdine[obs3]; out of earshot
- inaudibly &c. adj.
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- #406. [Sudden and violent sounds.] Snap. -- N. snap &c. v.; rapping
- &c. v.; decrepitation, crepitation; report, thud; burst, explosion, blast,
- boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley.
- squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M80, gun, cap, cap gun,
- popgun.
- implosion.
- bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms) 727.
- [explosive substances] gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton,
- nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, TNT, cordite,
- trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms) 727.
- whack, wham, pow.
- V. rap, snap, tap, knock, ping; click; clash; crack, crackle; crash;
- pop; slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham;
- brustle[obs3]; burst on the ear; crepitate, rump.
- blow up, blow; detonate.
- Adj. rapping &c. v.
- Int. kaboom! whamo! Heewhack! pow!
-
-
- #407. [Repeated and protracted sounds.] Roll. -- N. roll &c. v.;
- drumming &c. v.; berloque[obs3], bombination[obs3], rumbling; tattoo,
- drumroll; dingdong; tantara[obs3]; rataplan[obs3]; whirr; ratatat, ratatat-
- tat; rubadub; pitapat; quaver, clutter, charivari[obs3], racket; cuckoo;
- repetition &c. 104; peal of bells, devil's tattoo; reverberation &c. 408.
- [sound of railroad train rolling on rails] clickety-clack.
- hum, purr.
- [animals that hum] hummingbird.
- [animals that purr] cat, kitten (animal sounds) 412.
- V. roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack;
- bombinate[obs3].
- hum, trill, shake; chime, peal, toll; tick, beat.
- drum in the ear, din in the ear.
- Adj. rolling &c. v.; monotonous &c. (repeated) 104; like a bee in a
- bottle.
-
- <-- resonance here covers 3 sound qualities; echo, low note, and ringing.
- They should be separated. The physical science meanings must also be
- listed separately -->
-
- #408. Resonance. -- N. resonance; ring &c. v.; ringing,
- tintinabulation &c. v.; reflexion[Brit], reflection, reverberation; echo,
- reecho; zap, zot[coll.]; buzz (hiss) 409.
- low note, base note, bass note, flat note, grave note, deep note;
- bass; basso, basso profondo[It]; baritone, barytone[obs3]; contralto.
- [device to cause resonance] echo chamber, resonator.
- [ringing in the ears] tinnitus[Med].
- [devices which make a resonating sound] bell, doorbell, buzzer; gong,
- cymbals (musical instruments) 417.
- [physical resonance] sympathetic vibrations; natural frequency,
- coupled vibration frequency; overtone; resonating cavity; sounding board,
- tuning fork.
- [electrical resonance] tuning, squelch, frequency selection;
- resonator, resonator circuit; radio &c. @2.3.1.6.8.
- [chemical resonance] resonant structure, aromaticity, alternating
- double bonds, non-bonded resonance; pi clouds, unsaturation, double bond
- (valence) @2.3.2.2.
- V. resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate; ring, jingle, gingle[obs3],
- chink, clink; tink[obs3], tinkle; chime; gurgle &c. 405 plash, goggle,
- echo, ring in the ear.
- Adj. resounding &c. v.; resonant, reverberant, tinnient|,
- tintinnabulary; sonorous, booming, deep-toned, deep-sounding, deep-mouthed,
- vibrant; hollow, sepulchral; gruff &c. (harsh) 410.
- Phr. " sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh " [Hamlet]; echoing
- down the mountain and through the dell.
-
-
- #408a. Nonresonance[obs3]. -- N. thud, thump, dead sound;
- nonresonance[obs3]; muffled drums, cracked bell; damper; silencer.
- V. sound dead; stop the sound, damp the sound, deaden the sound,
- deaden the reverberations, dampen the reverberations.
- Adj. nonresonant[obs3], dead; dampened, muffled.
-
-
- <-- "sibilation" includes hissing and buzzing -->
- #409. [Hissing sounds.] Sibilation. -- N. sibilance, sibilation; zip;
- hiss &c. v.; sternutation; high note &c. 410.
- [animals that hiss] goose, serpent, snake (animal sounds) 412.
- [animals that buzz] insect, bug; bee, mosquito, wasp, fly.
- [inanimate things that hiss] tea kettle, pressure cooker; air valve,
- pressure release valve, safety valve, tires, air escaping from tires,
- punctured tire; escaping steam, steam, steam radiator, steam release valve.
- V. hiss, buzz, whiz, rustle; fizz, fizzle; wheeze, whistle, snuffle;
- squash; sneeze; sizzle, swish.
- Adj. sibilant; hissing &c. v.; wheezy; sternutative[obs3].
-
- #410. [Harsh sounds.] Stridor. -- N. creak &c. v.; creaking &c. v.;
- discord, &c. 414; stridor; roughness, sharpness, &c. adj.; cacophony;
- cacoepy[obs3].
- acute note, high note; soprano, treble, tenor, alto, falsetto, penny
- trumpet, voce di testa[It].
- V. creak, grate, jar, burr, pipe, twang, jangle, clank, clink; scream
- &c. (cry) 411; yelp &c. (animal sound) 412; buzz &c. (hiss) 409.
- set the teeth on edge, corcher les oreilles[Fr]; pierce the ears,
- split the ears, split the head; offend the ear, grate upon the ear, jar
- upon the ear.
- Adj. creaking &c. v.; stridulous[obs3], harsh, coarse, hoarse,
- horrisonous|, rough, gruff, grum[obs3], sepulchral, hollow.
- sharp, high, acute, shrill; trumpet-toned; piercing, ear-piercing,
- high-pitched, high-toned; cracked; discordant &c. 414; cacophonous.
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- #411. Cry. -- N. cry &c. v.; voice &c. (human) 580; hubbub; bark &c.
- (animal) 412.
- vociferation, outcry, hullabaloo, chorus, clamor, hue and cry, plaint;
- lungs; stentor.
- V. cry, roar, shout, bawl, brawl, halloo, halloa, hoop, whoop, yell,
- bellow, howl, scream, screech, screak[obs3], shriek, shrill, squeak,
- squeal, squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup[obs3].
- cheer; hoot; grumble, moan, groan.
- snore, snort; grunt &c. (animal sounds) 412.
- vociferate; raise up the voice, lift up the voice; call out, sing out,
- cry out; exclaim; rend the air; thunder at the top of one's voice, shout at
- the top of one's voice, shout at the pitch of one's breath, thunder at the
- pitch of one's breath; s'gosiller; strain the throat, strain the voice,
- strain the lungs; give a cry &c.
- Adj. crying &c. v.; clamant[obs3], clamorous; vociferous; stentorian
- &c. (loud) 404; open-mouthed.
-
-
- #412. [Animal sounds.] Ululation. -- N. cry &c. v.; crying &c. v.;
- bowwow, ululation, latration[obs3], belling; reboation[obs3]; wood-note;
- insect cry, fritiniancy|, drone; screech owl; cuckoo.
- wailing (lamentation) 839.
- V. cry, roar, bellow, blare, rebellow[obs3]; growl, snarl.
- [specific animal sounds] bark [dog, seal]; bow-wow, yelp [dog]; bay,
- bay at the moon [dog, wolf]; yap, yip, yipe, growl, yarr|, yawl, snarl,
- howl [dog, wolf]; grunt, gruntle[obs3]; snort [pig, hog, swine, horse]; ,
- squeak [swine, mouse]; neigh, whinny [horse]; bray [donkey, mule, hinny,
- ass]; mew, mewl [kitten]; meow [cat]; purr [cat]; caterwaul, pule [cats];
- baa[obs3], bleat [lamb]; low, moo [cow, cattle]; troat[obs3], croak, peep
- [frog]; coo [dove, pigeon]; gobble [turkeys]; quack [duck]; honk, gaggle,
- guggle [obs3][goose]; crow, caw, squawk, screech, [crow]; cackle, cluck,
- clack [hen, rooster, poultry]; chuck, chuckle; hoot, hoo [owl]; chirp,
- cheep, chirrup, twitter, cuckoo, warble, trill, tweet, pipe, whistle [small
- birds]; hum [insects, hummingbird]; buzz [flying insects, bugs]; hiss
- [snakes, geese]; blatter[obs3]; ratatat [woodpecker].
- Adj. crying &c. v.; blatant, latrant[obs3], remugient[obs3],
- mugient[obs3]; deep-mouthed, full-mouthed; rebellowing[obs3],
- reboant[obs3].
- Adv. in full cry.
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-
- #413. Melody. Concord. -- N. melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme
- &c.(poetry) 597.
- pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.
- scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale[obs3], enharmonic
- scale[obs3]; key, clef, chords.
- modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation,
- suspension, resolution.
- staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato[obs3],
- appoggiatura[obs3]; acciaccatura[obs3].
- note, musical note, notes of a scale; sharp, flat, natural; high note
- &c.(shrillness) 410; low note &c. 408; interval; semitone; second, third,
- fourth &c.; diatessaron[obs3].
- breve, semibreve[Mus], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver,
- demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.
- tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic[obs3],
- mediant[obs3], dominant; submediant[obs3], subdominant[obs3]; octave,
- tetrachord[obs3]; major key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major
- mode, minor mode; passage, phrase.
- concord, harmony; emmeleia[obs3]; unison, unisonance[obs3]; chime,
- homophony; euphony, euphonism[obs3]; tonality; consonance; consent; part.
- [Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass, fundamental-
- bass; counterpoint; faburden[obs3].
- piece of music &c. 415[Fr]; composer, harmonist[obs3], contrapuntist
- (musician) 416.
- V. be harmonious &c. adj.; harmonize, chime, symphonize[obs3],
- transpose; put in tune, tune, accord, string.
- Adj. harmonious, harmonical[obs3]; in concord &c. n., in tune, in
- concert; unisonant[obs3], concentual[obs3], symphonizing[obs3], isotonic,
- homophonous[obs3], assonant; ariose[obs3], consonant.
- measured, rhythmical, diatonic[obs3], chromatic, enharmonic[obs3].
- melodious, musical; melic[obs3]; tuneful, tunable; sweet, dulcet,
- canorous[obs3]; mellow, mellifluous; soft, clear, clear as a bell; silvery;
- euphonious, euphonic, euphonical[obs3]; symphonious; enchanting &c.
- (pleasure-giving) 829; fine-toned, full-toned, silver-toned.
- Adv. harmoniously, in harmony; as one &c. adj.
- Phr. " the hidden soul of harmony " [Milton].
-
-
- #414. Discord. -- N. discord , discordance; dissonance, cacophony,
- want of harmony, caterwauling; harshness &c. 410. Babel[Confused
- sounds]; Dutch concert, cat's concert; marrowbones and cleavers.
- V. be discordant &c. adj. .; jar &c. (sound harshly) 410.
- Adj. discordant; dissonant, absonant[obs3]; out of tune, tuneless;
- unmusical, untunable[obs3]; unmelodious, immelodious[obs3];
- unharmonious[obs3], inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh &c. 410;
- jarring.
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- #415. Music. -- N. music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody &c. 413;
- aria, arietta[obs3]; piece of music[Fr], work, number, opus; sonata; rondo,
- rondeau[Fr]; pastorale, cavatina[obs3], roulade[obs3], fantasia, concerto,
- overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon, quodlibet,
- serenade, notturno [Italian], dithyramb; opera, operetta; oratorio;
- composition, movement; stave; passamezzo [obs3][Italian], toccata, Vorspiel
- [German].
- instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and tweedledee,
- band, orchestra; concerted piece[Fr], potpourri, capriccio.
- vocal music, vocalism[obs3]; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn;
- song &c. (poem) 597; canticle, canzonet[obs3], cantata, bravura, lay,
- ballad, ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo[obs3],
- solfeggio[obs3].
- Lydian measures; slow music, slow movement; adagio &c. adv.; minuet;
- siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge &c. (lament) 839;
- pibroch[obs3]; martial music, march; dance music; waltz &c. (dance) 840.
- solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett[obs3]; septett[obs3]; part
- song, descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale;
- antiphon[obs3], antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score;
- bourdon[obs3], drone, morceau[obs3], terzetto[obs3].
- composer &c. 413; musician &c. 416.
- V. compose, perform &c. 416; attune.
- Adj. musical; instrumental, vocal, choral, lyric, operatic; harmonious
- &c. 413; Wagnerian.
- Adv. adagio; largo, larghetto, andante, andantino[obs3]; alla
- capella[It][obs3]; maestoso[obs3], moderato; allegro, allegretto;
- spiritoso[obs3], vivace[obs3], veloce[obs3]; presto, prestissimo[obs3]; con
- brio; capriccioso[obs3]; scherzo, scherzando[obs3]; legato, staccato,
- crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando[obs3], affettuoso[obs3]; obbligato;
- pizzicato; desto[obs3].
- Phr. " in notes by distance made more sweet " [Collins]; " like the
- faint exquisite music of a dream " [Moore]; " music arose with its
- voluptuous swell " [Byron]; " music is the universal language of mankind "
- [Longfellow]; " music's golden tongue " [Keats]; " the speech of angels "
- [Carlyle]; " will sing the savageness out of a bear " [Othello]; music hath
- charms to soothe the savage beast.
-
- #416. Musician. [Performance of Music.] -- N. musician, artiste,
- performer, player, minstrel; bard &c. (poet) 597;
- [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist,
- instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler,
- fifer[obs3], trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.
- band, orchestral waits.
- vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter[obs3],
- chauntress[obs3], songstress; cantatrice[obs3].
- choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel[Ger].
- nightingale, philomel[obs3], thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides;
- sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo[obs3], the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore;
- tuneful nine, tuneful quire.
- composer &c. 413.
- performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization[obs3].
- V. play, pipe, strike up, sweep the chords, tweedle, fiddle; strike
- the lyre, beat the drum; blow the horn, sound the horn, wind the horn;
- doodle; grind the organ; touch the guitar &c. (instruments) 417; thrum,
- strum, beat time.
- execute, perform; accompany; sing a second, play a second; compose,
- set to music, arrange.
- sing, chaunt, chant, hum, warble, carol, chirp, chirrup, lilt, purl,
- quaver, trill, shake, twitter, whistle; sol-fa[obs3]; intone.
- have an ear for music, have a musical ear, have a correct ear.
- Adj. playing &c. v.; musical.
- Adv. adagio, andante &c. (music) 415.
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- #417. Musical Instruments. -- N. musical instruments; band; string-
- band, brass-band; orchestra; orchestrina[obs3].
- monochord[obs3][Stringed instruments], polychord[obs3]; harp, lyre,
- lute, archlute[obs3]; mandola[obs3], mandolin, mandoline[obs3]; guitar;
- zither; cither[obs3], cithern[obs3]; gittern[obs3], rebeck[obs3],
- bandurria[obs3], bandura, banjo; bina[obs3], vina[obs3]; xanorphica[obs3].
- viol, violin; fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore[Fr], viola di
- gamba[It]; tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass; bass viol, base viol;
- theorbo[obs3], double base, contrabasso[obs3], violone[obs3], *psaltery;
- bow, fiddlestick[obs3].
- piano, pianoforte; harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord[obs3],
- manichord[obs3]; clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy,
- vielle[obs3], pianino[obs3], Eolian harp. .
- organ[Wind instruments]; harmonium, harmoniphon[obs3]; American
- organ[obs3], barrel organ, hand organ; accordion, seraphina[obs3],
- concertina; humming top.
- flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet; clarinet, claronet[obs3]; basset
- horn, corno di bassetto[obs3], oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais[Fr], corno
- Inglese[obs3], bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto[obs3], serpent, bass
- clarinet; bagpipes, union pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed
- instrument; sirene[obs3], pipe, pitch-pipe; sourdet[obs3]; whistle,
- catcall; doodlesack[obs3], harmoniphone[obs3].
- horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean|, clarion, trumpet,
- trombone, ophicleide[obs3]; French horn, saxophone, sax [informal],
- buglehorn[obs3], saxhorn, flugelhorn[obs3], althorn[obs3],
- helicanhorn[obs3], posthorn[obs3]; sackbut, euphonium, bombardon
- tuba[obs3].
- [Vibrating surfaces] cymbal, bell, gong; tambour|!, tambourine,
- tamborine[obs3]; drum, tom-tom; tabor, tabret[obs3], tabourine[obs3],
- taborin[obs3]; side drum, kettle drum; timpani, tympani[obs3];
- tymbal[obs3], timbrel[obs3], castanet, bones; musical glasses, musical
- stones; harmonica, sounding-board, rattle; tam-tam, zambomba[obs3].
- [Vibrating bars] reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box,
- harmonicon[obs3], xylophone.
- sordine[obs3], sordet[obs3]; sourdine[obs3], sourdet[obs3]; mute.
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- #418. [Sense of sound.] Hearing. -- N. hearing &c. v.; audition,
- auscultation; eavesdropping; audibility.
- acute ear, nice ear, delicate ear, quick ear, sharp ear, correct ear,
- musical ear; ear for music.
- ear, auricle, lug, acoustic organs, auditory apparatus; eardrum,
- tympanum, tympanic membrane.
- [devices to aid human hearing by amplifying sound] ear trumpet,
- speaking trumpet, hearing aid, stethoscope.
- [distance within which direct hearing is possible] earshot, hearing
- distance, hearing, hearing range, sound, carrying distance.
- [devices for talking beyond hearing distance] telephone[exlist],
- phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone, radiophone,
- wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio, police radio,
- two-way radio, walkie-talkie[military], handie-talkie, citizen's band, CB,
- amateur radio, ham radio, short-wave radio, police band, ship-to-shore
- radio, airplane radio, control tower communication; (communication) 525,
- 527, 529, 531, 532; electronic devices (POINFO @.2.2.3.1.3.5.3).
- [devices for recording and reproducing recorded sound] phonograph,
- gramophone, megaphone, phonorganon[obs3].
- [device to convert sound to electrical signals] microphone,directional
- microphone, mike, hand mike, lapel microphone.
- [devices to convert recorded sound to electronic signals] phonograph
- needle, stylus, diamond stylus, pickup; reading head (electronic devices).
- hearer, auditor, listener, eavesdropper, listener-in.
- auditory, audience.
- [science of hearing] otology, otorhinolaryngology.
- [physicians specializing in hearing] otologist, otorhinolaryngologist.
- V. hear, overhear; hark, harken; list, listen, pay attention, take
- heed; give an ear, lend an ear, bend an ear; catch, catch a sound, prick up
- one's ears; give ear, give a hearing, give audience to.
- hang upon the lips of, be all ears, listen with both ears.
- become audible; meet the ear, fall upon the ear, catch the ear,
- reach the ear; be heard; ring in the ear &c. (resound) 4O8.
- Adj. hearing &c. v.; auditory, auricular, acoustic; phonic.
- Adv. arrectis auribus[Lat].
- Int. hark, hark ye! hear! list, listen! O yes! Oyez!
- listen up [coll.]; listen here! hear ye! attention! achtung [German].
-
- #419. Deafness. -- N. deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity|;
- inaudibility, inaudibleness[obs3].
- V. be deaf &c. adj.; have no ear; shut one's ears, stop one's ears,
- close one's ears; turn a deaf ear to.
- render deaf, stun, deafen.
- Adj. deaf, earless[obs3], surd; hard of hearing, dull of hearing;
- deaf-mute, stunned, deafened; stone deaf; deaf as a post, deaf as an
- adder, deaf as a beetle, deaf as a trunkmaker[obs3].
- inaudible, out of hearing.
- Phr. hear no evil.
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- #420. Light.-- N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil;
- sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.
- day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight, starlight,
- sun &c. (luminary) 432 light; daylight, broad daylight, noontide light;
- noontide, noonday, noonday sun.
- glow &c. v.; glimmering &c. v.; glint; play of light, flood of light;
- phosphorescence, lambent flame.
- flush, halo, glory, nimbus, aureola.
- spark, scintilla; facula; sparkling &c. v.; emication|, scintillation,
- flash, blaze, coruscation, fulguration[obs3]; flame &c. (fire) 382;
- lightning, levin[obs3], ignis fatuus[Lat], &c. (luminary) 423.
- luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion[Brit], reflection; gloss, tinsel,
- spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence, refulgence;
- fulgor[obs3], fulgidity[obs3]; dazzlement[obs3], resplendence,
- transplendency[obs3]; luminousness &c. adj.; luminosity; lucidity;
- renitency|, nitency[obs3]; radiance,, radiation; irradiation, illumination.
- actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography, heliography;
- photometer &c. 445.
- [Science of light] optics; photology[obs3], photometry;
- dioptrics[obs3], catoptrics[obs3].
- [Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur[obs3], clear obscure,
- breadth, light and shade, black and white, tonality.
- reflection, refraction, dispersion; refractivity.
- V. shine, glow, glitter; glister, glisten; twinkle, gleam; flare,
- flare up; glare, beam, shimmer, glimmer, flicker, sparkle, scintillate,
- coruscate, flash, blaze; be bright &c. adj.; reflect light, daze, dazzle,
- bedazzle, radiate, shoot out beams; fulgurate.
- clear up, brighten.
- lighten, enlighten; levin[obs3]; light, light up; irradiate, shine
- upon; give out a light, hang out a light; cast light upon, cast light in,
- throw light upon, throw light in, shed light upon, shed luster upon;
- illume[obs3], illumine, illuminate; relume[obs3], strike a light; kindle
- &c. (set fire to) 384.
- Adj. shining &c. v.; luminous, luminiferous[obs3]; lucid, lucent,
- luculent[obs3], lucific[obs3], luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid,
- splendent[obs3], nitid[obs3], lustrous, shiny, beamy[obs3],
- scintillant[obs3], radiant, lambent; sheen, sheeny; glossy, burnished,
- glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday, tide; cloudless, clear;
- unclouded, unobscured[obs3].
- gairish[obs3], garish; resplendent, transplendent[obs3]; refulgent,
- effulgent; fulgid[obs3], fulgent[obs3]; relucent[obs3], splendid, blazing,
- in a blaze, ablaze, rutilant[obs3], meteoric, phosphorescent; aglow. bright
- as silver; light as day, bright as day, light as noonday, bright as
- noonday, bright as the sun at noonday. actinic; photogenic[obs2],
- graphic; heliographic; heliophagous[obs3].
- Phr. " a day for gods to stoop and men to soar " [Tennyson]; "dark
- with excessive bright" [Milton].
-
-
- #421. Darkness. -- N. darkness &c. adj., absence of light; blackness
- &c. (dark color) 431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk &c. (dimness) 422.
- Cimmerian darkness[obs3], Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night;
- midnight; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night;
- blind man's holiday; darkness visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable
- obscure; Erebus[Lat]; "the jaws of darkness " [Midsummer Night's Dream];
- "sablevested night " [Milton].
- shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy[obs3].
- obscuration; occultation, adumbration, obumbration[obs3];
- obtenebration[obs3], offuscation|, caligation|; extinction; eclipse, total
- eclipse; gathering of the clouds.
- shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro &c. (light) 420.
- noctivagation[obs3].
- [perfectly black objects] black body; hohlraum[Phys]; black hole; dark
- star; dark matter, cold dark matter.
- V. be dark &c. adj.
- darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow;
- eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate|; obumbrate[obs3], adumbrate; cast into the
- shade becloud, bedim[obs3], bedarken[obs3]; cast a shade, throw a shade,
- spread a shade, cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a
- shadow, cast gloom, throw gloom, spread gloom.
- extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.
- turn out the lights, douse the lights, dim the lights, turn off the
- lights, switch off the lights.
- Adj. dark, darksome[obs3], darkling; obscure, tenebrious[obs3],
- sombrous[obs3], pitch dark, pitchy, pitch black; caliginous[obs3]; black
- &c. (in color) 431.
- sunless, lightless &c. (see sun[obs3], light, &c. 423); somber, dusky;
- unilluminated &c. (see illuminate &c. 420)[obs3]; nocturnal; dingy, lurid,
- gloomy; murky, murksome[obs3]; shady, umbrageous; overcast &c. (dim) 422;
- cloudy &c. (opaque) 426; darkened; &c. v.
- dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus[Lat].
- benighted; noctivagant!|, noctivagous!|.
- Adv. in the dark, in the shade.
- Phr. " brief as the lightning in the collied night " [M. N. D.]; "
- eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature " [P. L.]; " the blackness of
- the noonday night " [Longfellow]; " the prayer of Ajax was for light "
- [Longfellow].
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- #422. Dimness. -- N. dimness &c. adj.; darkness &c. 421; paleness &c.
- (light color) 429.
- half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a
- shade; glimmer, gliming[obs3]; nebulosity; cloud &c. 353; eclipse.
- aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time|;
- break of day, daybreak, dawn.
- moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade[obs3], moonshine; starlight, owl's
- light, candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.
- V. be dim, grow dim &c. adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower;
- fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet].
- render dim &c. adj.; dim, bedim[obs3], obscure; darken, tone down.
- Adj. dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark
- 421.
- faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty &c. (opaque) 426; blear;
- muggy|, fuliginous[obs3]; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated[obs3], overcast,
- crepuscular, muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c. v.
- pale &c. (colorless) 429; confused &c. (invisible) 447.
-
- #423. [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary. -- N. luminary;
- light &c. 420; flame &c. (fire) 382.
- spark, scintilla; phosphorescence, fluorescence.
- sun, orb of day, Phoebus, Apollo[obs3], Aurora; star, orb; meteor,
- falling star, shooting star; blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula,
- Aldebaran[obs3]; constellation, galaxy; zodiacal light; anthelion[obs3];
- day star, morning star; Lucifer; mock sun, parhelion; phosphor, phosphorus;
- sun dog|!; Venus.
- aurora, polar lights; northern lights, aurora borealis; southern
- lights, aurora australis.
- lightning; chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer
- lightning; ball lightning, kugelblitz [German];
- [chemical substances giving off light without burning] phosphorus,
- yellow phosphorus; scintillator, phosphor; firefly luminescence.
- ignis fatuus[Lat]; Jack o'lantern, Friar's lantern; will-o'-the-wisp,
- firedrake[obs3], Fata Morgana[Lat]; Saint Elmo's fire.
- [luminous insects] glowworm, firefly, June bug, lightning bug.
- [luminous fish] anglerfish.
- [Artificial light] gas; gas light, lime light, lantern,
- lanthorn[obs3]; dark lantern, bull's-eye; candle, bougie[Fr], taper,
- rushlight; oil &c. (grease) 356; wick, burner; Argand[obs3], moderator,
- duplex; torch, flambeau, link, brand; gaselier[obs3], chandelier,
- electrolier[obs3], candelabrum, candelabra, girandole[obs3], sconce,
- luster, candlestick.
- [non-combustion based light sources] lamp, light; incandescent lamp,
- tungsten bulb, light bulb; flashlight, torch[Brit]; arc light ;laser; maser
- [microwave radiation]; neon bulb, neon sign; fluorescent lamp.
- [parts of a light bulb] filament; socket; contacts; filler gas.
- firework, fizgig[obs3]; pyrotechnics; rocket, lighthouse &c. (signal)
- 550.
- V. illuminate &c. (light) 420.
- Adj. self-luminous, glowing; phosphoric|!, phosphorescent,
- fluorescent; incandescent; luminescent, chemiluminescent; radiant &c.
- (light) 420.
- Phr. " blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels "
- [Longfellow]; " the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky " [Campbell];
- " the planets in their station list'ning stood " [Paradise Lost]; " the
- Scriptures of the skies " [Bailey]; " that orbed continent, the fire that
- severs day from night " [Twelfth Night].
-
-
- #424. Shade. -- N. shade; awning &c. (cover) 223; parasol, sunshade,
- umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil,
- chador, mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds.
- umbrage, glade; shadow &c. 421.
- beach umbrella, folding umbrella.
- V. draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil &c. v.;
- cast a shadow &c. (darken) 421.
- Adj. shady, umbrageous.
- Phr. " welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail " [Thomson].
-
-
- #425. Transparency. -- N. transparence, transparency; clarity;
- translucence, translucency; diaphaneity[obs3]; lucidity, pellucidity[obs3],
- limpidity; fluorescence; transillumination, translumination[obs3].
- transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite[obs3], water.
- V. be transparent &c. adj.; transmit light.
- Adj. transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent,
- tralucent|, relucent[obs3]; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as
- crystal, vitreous, transpicuous[obs3], glassy, hyaline; hyaloid[Med],
- vitreform[obs3].
-
- #426. Opacity.-- N. opacity; opaqueness &c. adj.
- film; cloud &c. 353.
- V. be opaque &c. adj.; obstruct the passage of light; obfuscate,
- offuscate|.
- Adj. opaque, impervious to light; adiaphanous[obs3]; dim &c. 422;
- turbid, thick, muddy, opacous|, obfuscated, fuliginous[obs3], cloud, hazy,
- misty, foggy, vaporous, nubiferous[obs3], muggy|| (turbidity) 426a.
- smoky, fumid[obs3], murky, dirty.
-
- #426a Turbidity -- N. turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness,
- haziness, obscurity.
- nephelometer[instrument to measure turbidity].
- Adj. turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous[obs3], hazy, misty,
- foggy, vaporous, nubiferous[obs3]; cloudy (cloud) 353.
- smoky, fumid[obs3], murky, dirty.
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- #427. Semitransparency. -- N. semitransparency, translucency,
- semiopacity; opalescence, milkiness, pearliness[obs3]; gauze, muslin; film;
- mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre; mist &c. (cloud) 353.
- [opalescent jewel] opal.
- turbidity &c. 426a.
- Adj. semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid[obs3],
- semidiaphanous[obs3], semiopacous[obs3], semiopaque; opalescent,
- opaline[obs3]; pearly, milky; frosted, nacreous.
- V. opalesce.
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- #428. Color. -- N. color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade,
- tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key.
- pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary
- color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color,
- secondary color, tertiary color. local color, coloring, keeping, tone,
- value, aerial perspective.
- [Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy;
- chromatism[obs3], chromatography||, chromatology[obs3].
- [instruments to measure color] prism, spectroscope, spectrograph,
- spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments) 445.
- pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium;
- mordant; oil paint &c. painting 556.
- V. color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct[obs3], paint, wash, ingrain,
- grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint &c. (fine art) 556.
- Adj. colored &c. v.; colorific[obs3], tingent[obs3], tinctorial[obs3];
- chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-
- dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous[obs3]; tingible[obs3].
- bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded[obs3]; rich, gorgeous;
- gay.
- gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy,
- flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.
- mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.
-
-
- #429. [Absence of color.] Achromatism. -- N. achromatism[obs3];
- decoloration[obs3], discoloration; pallor, pallidness, pallidity[obs3];
- paleness &c. adj.; etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.
- V. lose color &c. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless &c. adj.; turn
- pale, pale.
- deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch,
- etiolate, wash out, tone down.
- Adj. uncolored &c. (see color &c. 428); colorless, achromatic,
- aplanatic[obs3]; etiolate, etiolated; hueless[obs3], pale, pallid;
- palefaced[obs3], tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan,
- sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster;
- discolored &c. v.
- light-colored, fair, blond; white &c. 430.
- pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale
- as a corpse, white as a corpse.
-
-
- #430. Whiteness. -- N. whiteness &c. adj.; argent.
- albification[obs3], etiolation; lactescence[obs3].
- snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata[obs3],
- eburin[obs3], German silver, white metal, barium sulphate[Chem], titanium
- oxide, blanc fixe[Fr], ceruse[obs3], pearl white; white lead, carbonate of
- lead.
- V. be white &c. adj.
- render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash,
- silver.
- Adj. white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous[obs3], candid,
- chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent[obs3],
- cretaceous, lactescent[obs3].
- whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched &c. v.; high in tone,
- light.
- white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as
- silver; like ivory &c. n.
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- #431. Blackness. -- N. blackness &c. adj.; darkness &c. (want of
- light). 421; swartliness[obs3], lividity, dark color, tone, color;
- chiaroscuro &c. 420.
- nigrification[obs3], infuscation[obs3].
- jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow.
- [derogatory terms for black-skinned people] negro, blackamoor, man of
- color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, nigger [U. S.]; coon [U. S.],
- sambo.
- [Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing
- ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink.
- V. be black &c. adj.; render -black &c. adj.
- blacken, infuscate[obs3], denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch[obs3];
- smirch; darken &c. 421.
- black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon,
- atramentous[obs3], jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous[obs3], pitchy,
- sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the
- deepest dye.
- black as jet &c. n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a
- tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight;
- nocturnal &c. (dark) 421; nigrescent[obs3]; gray &c. 432; obscure &c. 421.
- Adv. in mourning.
-
- #432. Gray. -- N. gray &c. adj.; neutral tint, silver, pepper and
- salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille[Fr].
- [Pigments] Payne's gray; black &c. 431.
- Adj. gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber,
- sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous[obs3]; silver,
- silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous[obs3], cineritious[obs3];
- grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-
- colored; cool.
-
- #433. Brown. -- N. brown &c. adj. bister[obs3][Pigments], ocher,
- sepia, Vandyke brown.
- V. render brown &c. adj.; tan, embrown[obs3], bronze.
- Adj. brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous[obs3], chestnut, nut-
- brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous[obs3], chocolate, maroon, foxy,
- tan, brunette, whitey brown[obs3]; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-
- colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves;
- khaki.
- sun-burnt; tanned &c. v.
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- #434. Redness. -- N. red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink,
- lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose[Fr], rose du Barry[obs3]; magenta,
- damask, purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color;
- warmth; gules[Heraldry].
- ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold.
- [Dyes and pigments] cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine[obs3]; ruddle[obs3],
- madder; Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto[obs3];
- annatto[obs3], realgar[ISA:mineral], minium[obs3], red lead.
- redness &c. adj.; rubescence[obs3], rubicundity, rubification[obs3];
- erubescence[obs3], blush.
- V. be red, become red &c.adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden.
- render red &c. adj.; redden, rouge; rubify[obs3], rubricate;
- incarnadine.; ruddle[obs3].
- Adj. red &c. n., reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine,
- sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed[obs3]; burnt; rubicund,
- rubiform[obs3]; lurid, stammell blood red[obs3]; russet buff,
- murrey[obs3], carroty[obs3], sorrel, lateritious[obs3]; rubineous[obs3],
- rubricate, rubricose[obs3], rufulous[obs3].
- rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame-
- colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored,
- brick-colored, dust-colored.
- blushing &c. v.; erubescent[obs3]; reddened &c. v.
- red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red
- as a lobster; warm, hot; foxy.
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- %
- #435. Greenness. -- N. green &c. adj.; blue and yellow; vert
- [heraldry].
- emerald, verd antique[Fr], verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine;
- absinthe, crme de menthe[Fr].
- [Pigments] terre verte[Fr], verditer[obs3], verdine[obs3], copperas.
- greenness, verdure; viridity[obs3], viridescence[obs3];
- verditure[obs3].
- [disease of eyes with green tint] glaucoma, [Jap: rokunaisho].
- Adj. green, verdant; glaucous, olive, olive green; green as grass;
- verdurous.
- emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive
- green, bottle green, coke bottle green.
- greenish; virent[obs3], virescent[obs3].
- green (learner) 541[new, inexperienced, novice], (unskillful) 699.
- green [ill, sick].
- Phr. green with envy; the green grass of Ireland; the wearing of the
- green.
-
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- The author's classification of colors has been retained, though it
- does not entirely accord with the theories of modern science.
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-
- #436. Yellowness. -- N. yellow &c. adj.; or.
- [Pigments] gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow
- king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment[obs3], yellow ocher, Claude tint,
- aureolin[obs3]; xanthein[Chemsub], xanthin[obs3]; zaofulvin[obs3]. crocu
- s, saffron, topaz; xanthite[obs3]; yolk.
- jaundice; London fog|!; yellowness &c. adj.; icterus[obs3]; xantho-
- cyanopia|!, xanthopsia[Med].
- Adj. yellow, aureate, golden, flavous|, citrine, fallow;
- fulvous[obs3], fulvid[obs3]; sallow, luteous[obs3], tawny, creamy, sandy;
- xanthic[obs3], xanthous[obs3]; jaundiced- auricomous[obs3].
- gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, lemon
- yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored,
- creamcolored; xanthocarpous[obs3], xanthochroid[obs3], xanthopous[obs3].
- yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot.
- warm, advancing.
-
-
- #437. Purple. -- N. purple &c. adj.; blue and red, bishop's purple;
- aniline dyes, gridelin[obs3], amethyst; purpure[Heraldry]; heliotrope.
- lividness, lividity.
- V. empurple[obs3].
- Adj. purple, violet, ultraviolet; plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce,
- mauve; livid.
-
-
-
- #438. Blueness. -- N. blue &c. adj.; garter-blue; watchet|.
- [Pigments] ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen[Chemsub]; Prussian
- blue, syenite blue[obs3]; bice[obs3], indigo; zaffer[obs3].
- lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite[obs3].
- blueness, bluishness; bloom.
- Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed;
- cerulescent[obs3]; powder blue, bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.
-
-
- #439. Orange. -- N. orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame &c. color,
- adj.
- [Pigments] ocher, Mars'orange[obs3], cadmium.
- cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia[a
- flowering plant].
- V. gild, warm.
- Adj. orange; ochreous[obs3]; orange-colored, gold-colored,
- flame-colored, copper-colored, brass-colored, apricot-colored; warm, hot,
- glowing.
-
- #440. Variegation. -- N. variegation; colors, dichroism, trichroism;
- iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae.
- spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly,
- tortoise shell; mackerel, mackerel sky; zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre,
- ocelot, ophite[obs3], mother-of-pearl, opal, marble.
- check, plaid, tartan, patchwork; marquetry-, parquetry; mosaic,
- tesserae[obs3], strigae[obs3]; chessboard, checkers, chequers; harlequin;
- Joseph's coat; tricolor.
- V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker,
- chequer; bespeckle[obs3], speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate,
- dot, bespot[obs3]; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
- Adj. variegated &c. v.; many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored,
- party-colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor[obs3], tricolor,
- versicolor[obs3]; of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of
- colors; kaleidoscopic.
- iridescent; opaline[obs3], opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly,
- shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant[obs3]; irisated[obs3], pavonine[obs3].
- pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned,
- dappled, clouded, cymophanous[obs3].
- mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell &c. n.
- spotted, spotty; punctated[obs3], powdered; speckled &c. v.; freckled,
- flea-bitten, studded; flecked, fleckered[obs3]; striated, barred, veined;
- brinded[obs3], brindled; tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered &c.
- v.; daedal[obs3]; naevose[obs3], stipiform[obs3]; strigose[obs3],
- striolate[obs3].
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- %
- (iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT
- %
- #441. Vision. - N. vision, sight, optics, eyesight.
- view, look, espial[obs3], glance, ken, coup d'oeil[Fr]; glimpse,
- glint, peep; gaze, stare, leer; perlustration[obs3], contemplation;
- conspection|, conspectuity|; regard, survey;introspection; reconnaissance,
- speculation, watch, espionage, espionnage[Fr], autopsy; ocular inspection,
- ocular demonstration; sight-seeing.
- point of view; gazebo, loophole, belvedere, watchtower.
- field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon;
- commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope.
- visual organ, organ of vision; eye; naked eye, unassisted eye; retina,
- pupil, iris, cornea, white; optics, orbs; saucer eyes, goggle eyes,
- gooseberry eyes.
- short sight &c. 443; clear sight, sharp sight, quick sight, eagle
- sight, piercing sight, penetrating sight, clear glance, sharp glance,
- quick glance, eagle glance, piercing glance, penetrating glance, clear eye,
- sharp eye, quick eye, eagle eye, piercing eye, penetrating eye;
- perspicacity, discernment; catopsis[obs3].
- eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus[obs3].
- evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice [Mythical].
- V. see, behold, discern, perceive, have in sight, descry, sight, make
- out, discover, distinguish, recognize, spy, espy, ken; get a sight of, have
- a sight of, catch a sight of, get a glimpse of, have a glimpse of, catch a
- glimpse of; command a view of; witness, contemplate, speculate; cast the
- eyes on, set the eyes on; be a spectator &c. 444 of; look on &c. (be
- present) 186; see sights &c. (curiosity) 455; see at a glance &c.
- (intelligence) 498.
- look, view, eye; lift up the eyes, open one's eye; look at, look on,
- look upon, look over, look about one, look round; survey, scan, inspect;
- run the eye over, run the eye through; reconnoiter, glance round, glance
- on, glance over turn one's looks upon, bend one's looks upon; direct the
- eyes to, turn the eyes on, cast a glance.
- observe &c. (attend to) 457; watch &c. (care) 459; see with one's own
- eyes; watch for &c. (expect) 507; peep, peer, pry, take a peep; play at
- bopeep[obs3].
- look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's
- eyes; fix the eyes upon, rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat
- on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the eye, squint, gloat, look askance.
- Adj. seeing &c. v.; visual, ocular; optic, optical; ophthalmic.
- clear-eyesighted &c. n.; eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-eyed,
- Argus-eyed.
- visible &c. 446.
- Adv. visibly &c. 446; in sight of, with one's eyes open at sight,
- at first sight, at a glance, at the first blush; prima facie[Lat].
- Int. look! &c. (attention) 457.
- Phr. the scales falling from one's eyes; " an eye like Mars to
- threaten or command " [Hamlet]; " her eyes are homes of silent prayer "
- [Tennyson]; " looking before and after " [Hamlet]; "thy rapt soul sitting
- in thine eyes " [Milton].
-
- #442. Blindness. - N. blindness, cecity[obs3], excecation|,
- amaurosis[obs3], cataract, ablepsy|, ablepsia[obs3], prestriction|; dim-
- sightedness &c. 443; Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena (" drop serene
- "), noctograph[obs3], teichopsia[obs3].
- V. be blind &c. adj.; not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged;
- grope in the dark.
- not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert
- the eyes; look another way; wink &c. (limited vision) 443; shut the eyes
- to, be blind to, wink at, blink at.
- render blind &c. adj.; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's
- eyes out; throw dust into one's eyes, pull the wool over one's eyes; jeter
- de la poudre aux yeux[Fr]; screen from sight &c. (hide) 528.
- Adj. blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-
- blind, stark-blind; undiscerning[obs3]; dimsighted &c. 443.
- blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a
- mole, blind as an owl; wall-eyed.
- blinded &c. v.
- Adv. blindly, blindfold, blindfolded; darkly.
- Phr. " O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton].
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- #443. [Imperfect vision.] Dimsightedness. [Fallacies of vision.] -- N.
- dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight,
- double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c.;
- purblindness, lippitude[obs3]; myopia, presbyopia[obs3]; confusion of
- vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato-pseudo-blepsis[obs3],
- Daltonism; nyctalopia[obs3]; strabismus, strabism[obs3], squint;
- blearedness[obs3], day blindness, hemeralopia[obs3], nystagmus;
- xanthocyanopia[obs3], xanthopsia[Med]; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-
- eyes; obliquity of vision.
- winking &c. v.; nictitation; blinkard[obs3], albino.
- dizziness, swimming, scotomy[obs3]; cataract; ophthalmia.
- [Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c. (hider) 530.
- [Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus[Lat]; refraction, distortion,
- illusion, false light, anamorphosis[obs3], virtual image, spectrum, mirage,
- looming, phasma|; phantasm, phantasma[obs3], phantom; vision; specter,
- apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423 specter of the Brocken
- magic mirror[Lat]; magic lantern &c. (show) 448; mirror lens &c.
- (instrument) 445.
- V. be dimsighted &c. n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a
- mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see
- through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant[obs3],
- askant askance[obs3]; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate[obs3].
- dazzle, loom.
- Adj. dim-sighted &c. n.; myopic, presbyopic[obs3]; astigmatic moon-
- eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind
- of one eye, monoculous[obs3]; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed,
- mole-eyed; dichroic.
- blind as a bat &c. (blind) 442; winking &c. v.
-
-
- #444. Spectator. -- N. spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on,
- onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by; sightseer; rubberneck
- , rubbernecker * [U. S.].
- spy; sentinel &c. (warning) 668.
- V. witness, behold &c. (see) 441; look on &c. (be present) 186; gawk,
- rubber *, rubberneck *[U.S.].
-
-
- #445. Optical Instruments. -- N. optical instruments; lens, meniscus,
- magnifier, sunglass, magnifying glass, hand lens; microscope,
- megascope[obs3], tienoscope[obs3].
- spectacles, specs [coll.],glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass,
- pince-nez, monocle, reading glasses, bifocals; contact lenses, soft lenses,
- hard lenses; sunglasses, shades[coll.].
- periscopic lens[obs3]; telescope, glass, lorgnette; spyglass, opera
- glass, binocular, binoculars, field glass; burning glass, convex lens,
- concave lens, convexo-concave lens[obs3], coated lens, multiple lens,
- compound lens, lens system, telephoto lens, wide-angle lens, fish-eye lens,
- zoom lens; optical bench.
- astronomical telescope, reflecting telescope, reflector, refracting
- telescope, refractor, Newtonian telescope, folded-path telescope, finder
- telescope, chromatoscope; X-ray telescope; radiotelescope, phased-array
- telescope, Very Large Array radiotelescope; ultraviolet telescope; infrared
- telescope; star spectroscope; space telescope.
- [telescope mounts] altazimuth mount, equatorial mount.
- refractometer, circular dichroism spectrometer.
- interferometer.
- phase-contrast microscope, fluorescence microscope, dissecting
- microscope; electron microscope, transmission electron microscope; scanning
- electron microscope, SEM; scanning tunneling electron microscope.
- [microscope components] objective lens, eyepiece, barrel, platform,
- focusing knob; slide, slide glass, cover glass, counting chamber;
- illuminator, light source, polarizer,
- [component parts of telescopes] reticle, cross-hairs.
- light pipe, fiber optics
- mirror, reflector, speculum; looking-glass, pier-glass, cheval-glass,
- rear-view mirror, hand mirror, one-way mirror, magnifying mirror.
- [room with distorting mirrors] fun house.
- prism, diffraction grating; beam splitter, half-wave plate, quarter-
- wave plate.
- camera lucida[Lat], camera obscura[Lat]; magic lantern &c. (show) 448;
- stereopticon; chromatrope[obs3], thaumatrope[obs3]; stereoscope,
- pseudoscope[obs3], polyscope[obs3], kaleidoscope.
- photometer, eriometer[obs3], actinometer[obs3], lucimeter[obs3],
- radiometer; ligth detector, photodiode, photomultiplier, photodiode array,
- photocell.
- X-ray diffractometer, goniometer.
- spectrometer, monochrometer, UV spectrometer, visible spectrometer,
- Infrared spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, recording
- spectrometer; densitometer, scanning densitometer, two-dimensional
- densitometer.
- abdominoscope[obs3], gastroscope[Med], helioscope[obs3],
- polariscope[obs3], polemoscope[obs3], spectroscope.
- abdominoscopy[obs3]; gastroscopy[Med]; microscopy, microscopist.
-
- #446. Visibility. -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness,
- distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity[obs3], conspicuousness; appearance &c.
- 448; bassetting[obs3]; exposure; manifestation &c. 525; ocular proof,
- ocular evidence, ocular demonstration; field of view &c. (vision) 441;
- periscopism[obs3].
- V. be become visible &c. adj.; appear, open to the view; meet the eye,
- catch the eye; basset; present itself, show manifest itself, produce
- itself, discover itself, reveal itself , expose itself, betray itself;
- stand forth, stand out; materialize; show; arise; peep out, peer out, crop
- out; start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up; glimmer, loom; glare;
- burst forth; burst upon the view, burst upon the sight; heave in sight;
- come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward; see the
- light of day; break through the clouds; make its appearance, show its face,
- appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for
- itself &c. (manifest) 525; attract the attention &c. 457; reappear; live in
- a glass house.
- expose to view &c. 525.
- Adj. visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent; in
- view, in full view, in sight; exposed to view, en vidence; unclouded,
- unobscured[obs3], in the foreground.
- obvious &c. (manifest) 525; plain, clear, distinct, definite; well
- defined, well marked; in focus; recognizable, palpable, autoptical[obs3];
- glaring, staring, conspicuous; stereoscopic; in bold, in strong relief.
- periscopic[obs3], panoramic.
- before one's eyes, under one's eyes; before one, vue d'oeil[Fr], in
- one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus[Lat].
- Adv. visibly &c. adj.; in sight of; before one's eyes &c. adj.; veluti
- in speculum[Lat].
-
- #447. Invisibility. -- N. invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance,
- imperceptibility; indistinctness &c. adj.; mystery, delitescence[obs3].
- concealment &c. 528; latency &c. 526.
- V. be invisible &c. adj.; be hidden &c. (hide) 528; lurk &c. (lie
- hidden) 526; escape notice.
- render invisible &c. adj.; conceal &c. 528; put out of sight.
- not see &c. (be blind) 442; lose sight of.
- Adj. invisible, imperceptible; undiscernible[obs3], indiscernible;
- unapparent, non-apparent; out of sight, not in sight; a perte de
- vue[French]; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; viewless, sightless;
- inconspicuous, unconspicuous[obs3]; unseen &c. (see see &c. 441); covert
- &c. (latent) 526; eclipsed, under an eclipse.
- dim &c. (faint) 422; mysterious, dark, obscure, confused; indistinct,
- indistinguishable; shadowy, indefinite, undefined; ill-defined, ill-marked;
- blurred, fuzzy, out of focus; misty &c. (opaque) 426; delitescent[obs3].
- hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed) 528.
- Phr. " full many a flower is born to blush unseen " [Gray].
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-
- #448. Appearance. -- N. appearance, phenomenon, sight, spectacle,
- show, premonstration|, scene, species, view, coup d'oeil[Fr]; lookout,
- outlook, prospect, vista, perspective, bird's-eye view, scenery, landscape,
- picture, tableau; display, exposure, mise en sc
- ne[Fr]; rising of the
- curtain.
- phantasm, phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443.
- pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres
- chinoises[Sp]; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views;
- biograph[obs3], cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama,
- cosmorama[obs3], georama[obs3]; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre[Fr];
- pageantry &c. (ostentation) 882; insignia &c. (indication) 550. aspect,
- angle, phase, phasis[obs3], seeming; shape &c. (form) 240; guise, look,
- complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor;
- presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing; point of view, light.
- lineament feature trait lines; outline, outside; contour, face,
- countenance, physiognomy, visage, phiz[obs3],. cast of countenance,
- profile, tournure[obs3], cut of one s jib, metoposcopy[obs3]; outside &c.
- 220.
- V. appear; be visible, become visible &c. 446; seem, look, show;
- present the appearance of, wear the appearance of, carry the appearance of,
- have the appearance of, bear the appearance of, exhibit the appearance of,
- take the appearance of, take on the appearance of, assume the appearance,
- present the semblance of, wear the semblance of, carry the semblance of,
- have the semblance of, bear the semblance of, exhibit the semblance of,
- take the semblance of, take on the semblance of, assume the semblance of;
- look like; cut a figure, figure; present to the view; show &c. (make
- manifest) 525.
- Adj. apparent, seeming, ostensible; on view.
- Adv. apparently; to all seeming, to all appearance; ostensibly,
- seemingly, as it seems, on the face of it, prima facie [Lat]; at the first
- blush, at first sight; in the eyes of; to the eye.
- Phr. editio princeps [Lat].
-
-
- #449. Disappearance. -- N. disappearance, evanescence, eclipse,
- occultation.
- departure &c. 293; exit; vanishing point; dissolving views.
- V. disappear, vanish, dissolve, fade, melt away, pass, go,
- avaunt[obs3], evaporate, vaporize; be gone &c. adj.; leave no trace, leave
- " not a rack behind " [Tempest]; go off the stage &c. (depart) 293; suffer
- an eclipse, undergo an eclipse; retire from sight; be lost to view, pass
- out of sight.
- lose sight of.
- efface &c. 552.
- Adj. disappearing &c. v.; evanescent; missing, lost; lost to sight,
- lost to view; gone.
- Int. vanish! disappear! avaunt[obs3]! get lost! get out of here &c.
- (ejection) 297.
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- %
- CLASS IV
- WORDS RELATING TO THE INTELLECTUAL FACULTIES
-
- DIVISION (I) FORMATION OF IDEAS
- Section I. OPERATIONS OF INTELLECT IN GENERAL
- %
-
- #450. Intellect. -- N. intellect, mind, understanding, reason,
- thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties,
- discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties;
- faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence,
- intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception,
- judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive
- powers, intellectual powers; wit &c. 498; ability &c. (skill) 698; wisdom
- &c. 498; Vernunft[Ger], Verstand[Ger].
- soul, spirit, ghost, inner man, heart, breast, bosom, penetralia
- mentis[Lat], divina particula aurae[Lat], heart's core; the Absolute,
- psyche, subliminal consciousness, supreme principle.
- brain, organ of thought, seat of thought; sensorium[obs3], sensory;
- head, headpiece; pate, noddle[obs3], noggin, skull, scull,
- pericranium[Med], cerebrum, cranium, brainpan[obs3], sconce, upper story.
- [in computers] central processing unit, CPU; arithmetic and logical
- unit, ALU.
- [Science of mind] metaphysics; psychics, psychology; ideology; mental
- philosophy, moral philosophy; philosophy of the mind; pneumatology[obs3],
- phrenology; craniology[Med], cranioscopy[Med].
- ideality, idealism; transcendentalism, spiritualism; immateriality &c.
- 317; universal concept, universal conception.
- metaphysician, psychologist &c.
- V. note, notice, mark; take notice of, take cognizance of be aware of,
- be conscious of; realize; appreciate; ruminate &c. (think) 451; fancy &c.
- (imagine) 515.
- Adj. intellectual[Relating to intellect], mental, rational,
- subjective, metaphysical, nooscopic[obs3], spiritual; ghostly;
- psychical[obs3], psychological; cerebral; animastic[obs3]; brainy;
- hyperphysical[obs3], superphysical[obs3]; subconscious, subliminal.
- immaterial &c. 317; endowed with reason.
- Adv. in petto.
- Phr. ens rationis [Lat]; frons est animi janua [Lat][Cicero]; locos y
- ninos dicen la verdad [Sp]; mens sola loco non exulat [Lat][Ovid]; " my
- mind is my kingdom " [Campbell]; " stern men with empires in their brains "
- [Lowell]; " the mind, the music breathing from her face " [Byron]; " thou
- living ray of intellectual Fire " [Falconer].
-
- <-- differentiate between instinct and intuition. Intuition is reserved
- for people. -->
- #450a. Absence or want of Intellect.-- N. absence of intellect, want
- of intellect &c. 450; imbecility &c. 499.: brutality, brute force.
- instinct, brute instinct, stimulus-response loop, conditioned
- response, instinctive reaction, Pavlovian response.
- mimicry, aping (imitation) 19.
- moron, imbecile, idiot; fool &c. 501; dumb animal; vegetable, brain-
- dead.
- Adj. unendowed with reason, void of reason; thoughtless; vegetative;
- moronic, idiotic, brainless [all pejorative].
- Adv. instinctively, like Pavlov's dog; vegetatively.
- V. mimic, ape (imitate) 19; respond instinctively.
-
- #451. Thought. -- N. thought; exercitation of the intellect[obs3],
- exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation,
- consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation,
- pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close
- study, application &c. (attention) 457.
- abstract thought, abstraction contemplation, musing; brown study &c.
- (inattention) 458; reverie, Platonism; depth of thought, workings of the
- mind, thoughts, inmost thoughts; self-counsel self-communing, self-
- consultation; philosophy of the Absolute, philosophy of the Academy,
- philosophy of the Garden, philosophy of the lyceum, philosophy of the
- Porch.
- association of thought, succession of thought, flow of thought, train
- of thought, current of thought, association of ideas, succession of ideas,
- flow of ideas, train of ideas, current of ideas.
- after thought, mature thought; reconsideration, second thoughts;
- retrospection &c. (memory) 505; excogitation[obs3]; examination &c.
- (inquiry) 461 invention &c. (imagination) 515.
- thoughtfulness &c. adj.
- V. think, reflect, cogitate, excogitate[obs3], consider, deliberate;
- bestow thought upon, bestow consideration upon; speculate, contemplate,
- meditate, ponder, muse, dream, ruminate; brood over, con over; animadvert,
- study; bend -, apply mind &c. (attend) 457; digest, discuss, hammer at,
- weigh, perpend; realize, appreciate; fancy &c. (imagine) 515; trow[obs3].
- take into consideration; take counsel &c. (be advised) 695; commune
- with oneself, bethink oneself; collect one's thoughts; revolve in the mind,
- turn over in the mind, run over in the mind; chew the cud upon, sleep upon;
- take counsel of one's pillow, advise with one's pillow.
- rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, crack one's brains, beat
- one's brains, cudgel one's brains; set one's brain to work, set one's wits
- to work.
- harbor an idea, entertain an idea, cherish an idea, nurture an idea
- &c. 453; take into one's head; bear in mind; reconsider.
- occur; present itself, suggest itself; come into one's head, get into
- one's head; strike one, flit across the view, come uppermost, run in one s
- head; enter the mind, pass in the mind, cross the mind, flash on the mind,
- flash across the mind, float in the mind, fasten itself on the mind, be
- uppermost in the mind, occupy the mind; have in one's mind.
- make an impression; sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind;
- engross the thoughts.
- Adj. thinking &c. v.; thoughtful, pensive, meditative, reflective,
- museful[obs3], wistful, contemplative, speculative, deliberative, studious,
- sedate, introspective, Platonic, philosophical.
- lost in thought &c. (inattentive) 458; deep musing &c. (intent) 457.
- in the mind, under consideration.
- Adv. all things considered.
- Phr. the mind being on the stretch; the mind turning upon, the head
- turning upon, the mind running upon; " divinely, bent to meditation "
- [Richard III]; en toute chose il faut considerer la fin[Fr][obs3]; " fresh-
- pluckt from bowers of never-failing thought " [O. Meredith]; " go speed the
- stars of Thought "[Emerson]; " in maiden meditation fancy-free " [M. N.
- D.]; " so sweet is zealous contemplation " [Richard III]; " the power of
- thought is the magic of the Mind " [Byron]; " those that think must govern
- those that toil " [Goldsmith]; " thought is parent of the deed " [Carlyle];
- " thoughts in attitudes imperious " [Longfellow]; " thoughts that breathe
- and words that burn " [Gray]; vivere est cogitare [Lat][Cicero]; Volk der
- Dichter und Denker [Ger].
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-
- #452. [Absence or want of thought.] Incogitancy. -- N.
- incogitancy[obs3], vacancy, inunderstanding[obs3]; fatuity &c. 499;
- thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458; vacuity.
- couch potato, vegetable.
- V. not think &c. 451; not think of; dismiss from the mind, dismiss
- from the thoughts &c. 451.
- indulge in reverie &c. (be inattentive) 458.
- put away thought; unbend the mind, relax the mind, divert the mind,
- veg out.
- Adj. vacant, unintellectual, unideal[obs3], unoccupied, unthinking,
- inconsiderate, thoughtless, mindless, no-brain, vacuous; absent &c.
- (inattentive) 458; diverted; irrational &c. 499; narrow-minded &c. 481.
- unthought of, undreamt 'of, unconsidered; off one's mind;
- incogitable[obs3], not to be thought of.
- Phr. absence d'esprit; pabulum pictura pascit inani[Lat][obs3].
-
-
- #453. [Object of thought.] Idea. -- N. idea, notion, conception,
- thought, apprehension, impression, perception, image, <gr/eidolon/gr>[Grk],
- sentiment, reflection, observation, consideration; abstract idea;
- archetype, formative notion; guiding conception, organizing conception;
- image in the mind, regulative principle.
- view &c. (opinion) 484; theory &c. 514; conceit, fancy; phantasy &c.
- (imagination) 515.point of view &c. (aspect) 448; field of view.
-
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-
- <-- recall distinction between objective reality and perception thereof:
- noumenon and phenomenon -->
-
- #454. [Subject of thought, <gr/noemata/gr>] Topic. -- N. subject of
- thought, material for thought; food for the mind, mental pabulum.
- subject, subject matter; matter, theme, <gr/noemata/gr>[Grk], topic,
- what it is about, thesis, text, business, affair, matter in hand, argument;
- motion, resolution; head, chapter; case, point; proposition, theorem; field
- of inquiry; moot point, problem &c. (question) 461.
- V. float in the mind , pass in the mind &c. 451.
- Adj. thought of; uppermost in the mind; in petto.
- Adv. under consideration; in question, in the mind; on foot, on the
- carpet, on the docket, on the tapis[obs3]; relative to &c. 9.
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- #455. [The desire of knowledge.] Curiosity. -- N. interest, thirst for
- knowledge, thirst for truth; curiosity, curiousness; inquiring mind;
- inquisitiveness.
- omnivorous intellect, devouring mind.
- [person who desires knowledge] inquirer; sightseer; quidnunc[Lat],
- newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip &c. (news) 532; rubberneck;
- intellectual; seeker[inquirer after religious knowledge], seeker after
- truth.
- V. be curious &c. adj.; take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the
- ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck*[U . S.].
- Adj. curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious;
- inquiring &c. 461; prying, snoopy, nosy, peering; prurient; inquisitorial,
- inquisitory[obs3]; curious as a cat; agape &c. (expectant) 507.
- Phr. what's the matter? what next? consumed with curiosity; curiosity
- killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. "curiouser and curiouser"
- [Alice in Wonderland].
-
- #456. [Absence of curiosity.] Incuriosity. -- N. incuriosity,
- incuriousness &c. adj.; insouciance &c. 866; indifference, lack of
- interest, disinterest.
- boredom, ennui (weariness) 841; satiety &c. 639; foreknowledge
- (foresight) 510;.
- V. be incurious &c. adj.; have no curiosity &c. 455; take no interest
- in &c. 823; mind one's own business.
- Adj. incurious, uninquisitive, indifferent; impassive &c. 823;
- uninterested, detached, aloof.
-
- #457. Attention. -- N. attention; mindfulness, presence of mind &c.
- adj.; intentness, intentiveness[obs3]; alertness; thought &c. 451;
- advertence, advertency[obs3]; observance, observation; consideration,
- reflection, perpension|; heed; heedfulness; particularity; notice, regard
- &c. v.; circumspection, diligence &c. (care) 459; study, scrutiny
- inspection, introspection; revision, revisal.
- active application, diligent application, exclusive application,
- minute application, close application, intense application, deep
- application, profound application, abstract application, labored
- application, deliberate application, active attention, diligent attention,
- exclusive attention, minute attention, close attention, intense attention,
- deep attention, profound attention, abstract attention, labored attention,
- deliberate attention, active thought, diligent thought, exclusive thought,
- minute thought, close thought, intense thought, deep thought, profound
- thought, abstract thought, labored thought, deliberate thought, active
- study, diligent study, exclusive study, minute study, close study, intense
- study, deep study, profound study, abstract study, labored study,
- deliberate study.
- minuteness, attention to detail.
- absorption of mind &c. (abstraction) 458.
- indication, calling attention to &c. v.
- V. be attentive &c. adj.; attend, advert to, observe, look, see, view,
- remark, notice, regard, take notice, mark; give attention to, pay attention
- to, pay heed to, give heed to; incline an ear to, lend an ear to; trouble
- one's head about; give a thought to, animadvert to; occupy oneself with;
- contemplate &c. (think of) 451; look at, look to, look after, look into,
- look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to,
- direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to,
- apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give the eye to, turn the attention
- to, bend the attention to, apply the attention to, direct the attention to,
- give the attention to; have an eye to, have in one's eye; bear in mind;
- take into account, take into consideration; keep in sight, keep in view;
- have regard to, heed, mind, take cognizance of entertain, recognize; make
- note of, take note of; note.
- examine cursorily; glance at, glance upon, glance over; cast the eyes
- over, pass the eyes over; run over, turn over the leaves, dip into,
- perstringe|; skim &c. (neglect) 460; take a cursory view of.
- examine, examine closely, examine intently; scan, scrutinize,
- consider; give one's mind to, bend one's mind to; overhaul, revise, pore
- over; inspect, review, pass under review; take stock of; fix the eye on,
- rivet attention on, fix attention on, devote the eye to, fix the mind on,
- devote the thoughts to; hear out, think out; mind one's business.
- revert to; watch &c. (expect) 507, (take care of) 459; hearken to,
- listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come
- to the point.
- meet with attention; fall under one's notice, fall under one's
- observation; be under consideration &c. (topic) 454.
- catch the eye, strike the eye; attract notice; catch the attention,
- awaken the attention, wake the attention, invite the attention, solicit the
- attention, attract the attention, claim the attention excite the attention,
- engage the attention, occupy the attention, strike the attention, arrest
- the attention, fix the attention, engross the attention, absorb the
- attention, rivet the attention, catch the mind, awaken the mind, wake the
- mind, invite the mind, solicit the mind, attract the mind, claim the mind
- excite the mind, engage the mind, occupy the mind, strike the mind, arrest
- the mind, fix the mind, engross the mind, absorb the mind, rivet the mind,
- catch the thoughts, awaken the thoughts, wake the thoughts, invite the
- thoughts, solicit the thoughts, attract the thoughts, claim the thoughts
- excite the thoughts, engage the thoughts, occupy the thoughts, strike the
- thoughts, arrest the thoughts, fix the thoughts, engross the thoughts,
- absorb the thoughts, rivet the thoughts; be present to the mind, be
- uppermost in the mind.
- bring under one's notice; point out, point to, point at, point the
- finger at; lay the finger on, indigitate|, indicate; direct attention to,
- call attention to; show; put a mark &c. (sign) 550 upon; call soldiers to "
- attention "; bring forward &c. (make manifest) 525.
- Adj. attentive, mindful, observant, regardful; alive to, awake to;
- observing &c. v.; alert, open-eyed; intent on, taken up with, occupied
- with, engaged in; engrossed in, wrapped in, absorbed, rapt, transfixed,
- riveted, mesmerized, hypnotized; glued to (the TV); breathless; preoccupied
- &c. (inattentive) 458; watchful &c. (careful) 459;. breathless,
- undistracted, upon the stretch; on the watch &c. (expectant) 507.
- steadfast.
- [compelling attention] interesting, engrossing, mesmerizing, riveting.
- Int. see! look, look here, look you, look to it! mark! lo! behold!
- soho[obs3]! hark, hark ye! mind! halloo! observe! lo and behold! attention!
- nota bene [Latin], "N.B.", note well; I'd have you to know; notice! O yes!
- Oyez! dekko[obs3]! ecco[obs3]! yoho!
- Phr. this is to give notice, these are to give notice; dictum sapienti
- sat est [Latin: a word to the wise is sufficient]; finem respice[Lat].
- Attention! Now hear this! Oyez!; Achtung[German];
- vnimanie[Russ][Russian]; chui[Japanese].
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- #458. Inattention. -- N. inattention, inconsideration;
- inconsiderateness &c. adj.; oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency,
- nonobservance, disregard.
- supineness &c. (inactivity) 683; etourderie[French], want of thought;
- heedlessness &c. (neglect) 460; insouciance &c. (indifference) 866.
- abstraction; absence of mind, absorption of mind; preoccupation,
- distraction, reverie, brown study, deep musing, fit of abstraction.
- V. be inattentive &c. adj.; overlook, disregard; pass by &c. (neglect)
- 460 not observe &c. 457; think little of.
- close one's eyes to, shut one's eyes to; pay no attention to; dismiss
- from one's thoughts, discard from one's thoughts, discharge from one's
- thoughts, dismiss from one's mind, discard from one's mind, discharge from
- one's mind; drop the subject, think no more of; set aside, turn aside, put
- aside; turn away from, turn one's attention from, turn a deaf ear to, turn
- one's back upon.
- abstract oneself, dream, indulge in reverie.
- escape notice, escape attention; come in at one ear and go out at the
- other; forget &c. (have no remembrance) 506.
- call off the attention, draw off the attention, call away the
- attention, divert the attention, distract the mind; put out of one's head;
- disconcert, discompose; put out, confuse, perplex, bewilder, moider[obs3],
- fluster, muddle, dazzle; throw a sop to Cerberus.
- Adj. inattentive; unobservant, unmindful, heedless, unthinking,
- unheeding, undiscerning[obs3]; inadvertent; mindless, regardless,
- respectless[obs3], listless &c. (indifferent) 866; blind, deaf; bird-
- witted; hand over head; cursory, percursory[obs3]; giddy-brained, scatter-
- brained, hare-brained; unreflective, unreflecting[obs3], ecervele [French];
- offhand; dizzy, muzzy[obs3], brainsick[obs3]; giddy, giddy as a goose;
- wild, harum-scarum, rantipole[obs3], highflying; heedless , careless &c.
- (neglectful) 460.
- inconsiderate, thoughtless.
- absent, abstracted, distrait; absentminded, lost; lost in thought,
- wrapped in thought; rapt, in the clouds, bemused; dreaming on other things,
- musing on other things; preoccupied, engrossed &c. (attentive) 457;
- daydreaming, in a reverie &c. n.; off one's guard &c. (inexpectant)
- 508[obs3]; napping; dreamy; caught napping.
- disconcerted, distracted, put out &c. v.
- Adv. inattentively, inadvertently, absent-mindedly &c. adj[obs3].; per
- incuriam[Lat], sub silentio[Lat].
- Int. stand at ease, stand easy!
- Phr. the attention wanders; one's wits gone a woolgathering, one's
- wits gone a bird's nesting; it never entered into one's head; the mind
- running on other things; one's thoughts being elsewhere; had it been a bear
- it would have bitten you.
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- #459. Care. [Vigilance.] -- N. care, solicitude, heed; heedfulness
- &c. adj.; scruple &c. (conscientiousness) 939.
- watchfulness &c. adj.; vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus[obs3],
- watch, vigil, look out, watch and ward, loeil du maitre[Fr].
- alertness &c. (activity) 682; attention &c. 457; prudence &c.,
- circumspection &c. (caution) 864; anxiety; forethought &c. 510; precaution
- &c. (preparation) 673; tidiness &c. (order) 58, (cleanliness) 652; accuracy
- &c. (exactness) 494; minuteness, attention to detail.
- V. be careful &c. adj.; reck[obs3]; take care &c. (be cautious) 864;
- pay attention to &c. 457; take care of; look to, look after, see to, see
- after; keep an eye on, keep a sharp eye on; chaperon, matronize[obs3], play
- gooseberry; keep watch, keep watch and ward; mount guard, set watch, watch;
- keep in sight, keep in view; mind, mind one's business.
- look sharp, look about one; look with one's own eyes; keep a good
- lookout, keep a sharp lookout; have all one's wits about one, have all
- one's eyes about one; watch for &c. (expect) 507; keep one's eyes open,
- have the eyes open, sleep with one's eye open.
- Adj. careful regardful, heedful; taking care &c. v.; particular;
- prudent &c. (cautious) 864; considerate; thoughtful &c. (deliberative) 451;
- provident &c. (prepared) 673; alert &c. (active) 682; sure-footed.
- guarded, on one's guard; on the qui vivre[Fr], on the alert, on watch,
- on the lookout; awake, broad awake, vigilant; watchful, wakeful, wistful;
- Argus-eyed; wide awake &c. (intelligent) 498; on the watch for (expectant)
- 507.
- tidy &c. (orderly) 58, (clean) 652; accurate &c. (exact) 494;
- scrupulous &c. (conscientious) 939; cavendo tutus &c. (safe) 664[Lat].
- Adv. carefully &c. adj.; with care, gingerly.
- Phr. quis custodiet istos custodes? [Latin: who will watch the
- watchers?]; "care will kill a cat" [Wither]; ni bebas agua que no veas
- [Sp]; "O polished perturbation! Golden care!" [Henry IV]; "the incessant
- care and labor of his mind" [Henry IV].
-
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- #460. Neglect. -- N. neglect; carelessness &c. adj.; trifling &c. v.;
- negligence; omission, oversight, laches[Law], default; supineness &c.
- (inactivity) 683; inattention &c. 458; nonchalance &c. (insensibility) 823;
- imprudence, recklessness &c. 863; slovenliness &c. (disorder) 59, (dirt)
- 653; improvidence &c. 674; noncompletion &c. 730; inexactness &c. (error)
- 495.
- paralipsis, paralepsis, paraleipsis [in rhetoric].
- trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber.
- V. be negligent &c. adj.; take no care of &c. (take care of &c. 459);
- neglect; let slip,let go; lay aside, set aside, cst aside, put aside; keep
- out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of.
- overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at,
- connive at;gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account
- of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller[Fr].
- scamp; trifle, fribble[obs3]; do by halves; cut; slight &c. (despise)
- 930; play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer [Fr];
- take a cursory view of &c. 457.
- slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit[obs3], miss,
- skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink;
- table [parliamentary]; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a
- deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to &c. 457, not
- mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble
- oneself with; forget &c. 506; be caught napping &c. (not expect) 508; leave
- a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.
- render neglectful &c. adj.; put off one's guard, throw off one's
- guard; distract, divert.
- Adj. neglecting &c. v.; unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless,
- careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss; feebleness &c. 575.
- inconsiderate; uncircumspect[obs3], incircumspect[obs3]; off one's
- guard; unwary, unwatchful[obs3], unguarded; offhand.
- supine &c. (inactive) 683; inattentive &c. 458; insouciant &c.
- (indifferent) 823; imprudent, reckless &c. 863; slovenly &c. (disorderly)
- 59, (dirty) 653; inexact &c. (erroneous) 495; improvident &c. 674.
- neglected &c. v.; unheeded, uncared-for, unperceived, unseen,
- unobserved, unnoticed, unnoted[obs3], unmarked, unattended to, unthought
- of, unregarded[obs3], unremarked, unmissed[obs3]; shunted, shelved.
- unexamined, unstudied, unsearched[obs3], unscanned[obs3],
- unweighed[obs3], unsifted, unexplored.
- abandoned; buried in a napkin, hid under a bushel.
- Adv. negligently &c. adj.; hand over head, anyhow; in an unguarded
- moment &c. (unexpectedly) 508; per incuriam[Lat].
- Int. never mind, no matter, let it pass.
- Phr. out of sight, out of mind.
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- #461 Inquiry [Subject of Inquiry. Question] -- N. inquiry; request
- &c. 765; search, research, quest, pursuit &c. 622.
- examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation|;
- perquisition[obs3], perscrutation[obs3], pervestigation|; inquest,
- inquisition; exploration; exploitation, ventilation.
- sifting; calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction;
- Baconian method[obs3].
- strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry;
- narrow search, strict search; study &c. (consideration) 451.
- scire facias[Lat], ad referendum; trial.
- questioning &c. v.; interrogation,
- interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination,
- catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy[obs3]; leading
- question; discussion &c. (reasoning) 476.
- reconnoitering, reconnaissance; prying &c. v.; espionage,
- espionnage[Fr]; domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain; lantern of
- Diogenes.
- question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved,
- porism[obs3]; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy;
- point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue;
- bone of contention &c. (discord) 713; plain question, fair question, open
- question; enigma &c. (secret) 533; knotty point &c. (difficulty) 704;
- quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry.
- [person who questions] inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector,
- querist[obs3], examiner, catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer[obs3];
- analyst; quidnunc &c. (curiosity) 455[Lat].
- V. make inquiry &c. n.; inquire, ask, seek, search.
- look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore,
- sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round; look over, go over, look
- through, go through; spy, overhaul.
- [transitive: object is a topic] ask about, inquire about.
- scratch the head, slap the forehead.
- look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry
- into every hole and corner; nose; trace up; search out, hunt down, hunt
- out, fish out, ferret out; unearth; leave no stone unturned.
- seek a clue, seek a clew; hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace;
- follow the trail, follow the scent; pursue &c. 662; beat up one's quarters;
- fish for; feel for &c. (experiment) 463.
- investigate; take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an
- inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry,
- carry out an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry &c. n.; look at, look into;
- preexamine; discuss, canvass, agitate.
- [inquire into a topic] examine, study, consider, calculate; dip into,
- dive into, delve into, go deep into; make sure of, probe, sound, fathom;
- probe to the bottom, probe to the quick; scrutinize, analyze, anatomize,
- dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow; view in all its phases, try in all
- its phases; thresh out.
- bring in question, bring into question, subject to examination; put to
- the proof &c. (experiment) 463; audit, tax, pass in review; take into
- consideration &c. (think over) 451; take counsel &c. 695.
- [intransitive] question, demand; put the question, pop the question,
- propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the
- question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put
- forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go
- into a question.
- question[transitive: human object], put to the question, interrogate,
- pump; subject to interrogation, subject to examination; cross-question,
- cross-examine; press for an answer; give the third degree; put to the
- inquisition; dodge|!.
- catechize.
- require an answer; pick the brains of, suck the brains of; feel the
- pulse.
- get the lay of the land; see how the wind is blowing; put one's ear to
- the ground.
- [intransitive] be in question &c. adj.; undergo examination.
- Adj. inquiry &c. v.; inquisitive &c. (curious) 455; requisitive|,
- requisitory[obs3]; catechetical[obs3], inquisitorial, analytic; in search
- of, in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic[obs3]; all
- searching.
- undetermined, untried, undecided; in question, in dispute, in issue,
- in course of inquiry; under discussion, under consideration, under
- investigation &c. n.; sub judice[Lat], moot, proposed; doubtful &c.
- (uncertain) 475.
- Adv. what? why? wherefore? whence? whither? where? quaere? how comes
- it[Lat], how happens it, how is it? what is the reason? what's the matter,
- what's in the wind? what on earth? when? who? nicht wahr?[Ger].
-
-
- #462. Answer. -- N. answer, response, reply, replication, riposte,
- rejoinder, surrejoinder[obs3], rebutter, surrebutter[obs3], retort,
- repartee; rescript, rescription[obs3]; antiphon[obs3], antiphony;
- acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement.
- discovery &c. 480a; solution &c. (explanation) 522; rationale &c.
- (cause) 153; clue &c. (indication) 550.
- Oedipus; oracle &c. 513; return &c. (record) 551.
- V. answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin; give for answer,
- return for answer; acknowledge, echo.
- explain &c. (interpret) 522; solve &c. (unriddle) 522; discover &c.
- 480a; fathom, hunt out &c. (inquire) 461; satisfy, set at rest, determine.
- Adj. answering &c. v.; responsive, respondent; conclusive.
- Adv. because &c. (cause) 153; on the scent, on the right scent.
- Int. eureka!
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- #463. Experiment. -- N. experiment; essay &c. (attempt) 675; analysis
- &c. (investigation) 461; screen; trial, tentative method, ttonnement.
- verification, probation, experimentum crucis[Lat], proof,
- (demonstration) 478; criterion, diagnostic, test, probe, crucial test, acid
- test, litmus test.
- crucible, reagent, check, touchstone, pix[obs3]; assay, ordeal; ring;
- litmus paper, curcuma paper[obs3], turmeric paper; test tube; analytical
- instruments &c. 633.
- empiricism, rule of thumb.
- feeler; trial balloon, pilot balloon, messenger balloon; pilot engine;
- scout; straw to show the wind.
- speculation, random shot, leap in the dark.
- analyzer, analyst, assayist[obs3]; adventurer; experimenter,
- experimentist[obs3], experimentalist; scientist, engineer, technician.
- subject, experimentee[obs3], guinea pig, experimental animal.
- [experimental method] protocol, experimental method, blind experiment,
- double-blind experiment, controlled experiment.
- poll, survey, opinion poll.
- epidemiological survey[Med], retrospective analysis, retrospective
- survey, prospective survey, prospective analysis; statistical analysis.
- literature search, library research.
- tryout, audition.
- [results of experiment] discovery &c 480; measurement &c. 466;
- evidence &c. 467.
- [reasoning about an experiment] deduction, induction, abduction.
- V. experiment; essay &c. (endeavor) 675; try, try out, assay; make an
- experiment, make a trial of; give a trial to; put on trial, subject to
- trial; experiment upon; rehearse; put to the test, bring to the test,
- submit to the test, submit to the proof; prove, verify, test, touch,
- practice upon, try one's strength; road-test, test drive, take for a spin;
- test fly.
- grope; feel one's way, grope for one's way; fumble, ttonner, aller
- ttons[Fr], put out a feeler, throw out a feeler; send up a trial balloon,
- send up a pilot balloon; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land,
- test the waters, feel out, sound out, take the pulse, see, check, check
- out[coll.], see how the wind blows; consult the barometer; feel the pulse;
- fish for, bob for; cast for, beat about for; angle, trawl, cast one's net,
- beat the bushes.
- try one's fortune &c. (adventure) 675; explore &c. (inquire) 461.
- Adj. experimental, empirical.
- probative, probatory[obs3], probationary, provisional; analytic,
- docimastic[obs3]; tentative;unverified, unproven, speculative, untested.
- Adv. on trial, under examination, on probation, under probation, on
- one's trial, on approval.
- Phr. check it out, give it a try, see how it goes; "Run it up the
- flagpole and see who salutes."
-
- #464. Comparison. -- N. comparison, collation, contrast;
- identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate, relativity.
- simile, similitude, analogy (similarity) 17; allegory &c. (metaphor)
- 521.
- matching, pattern-matching.
- [quantitative comparison] ratio, proportion (number) 84.
- [results of comparison] discrimination 465; indiscrimination
- 465a[obs3]; identification 465b.
- V. compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side,
- juxtapose &c. (near) 197; set against one another, pit against one another;
- contrast, balance.
- identify, draw a parallel, parallel.
- compare notes; institute a comparison; parva componere magnis[Lat]..
- Adj. comparative; metaphorical &c. 521.
- compared with &c. v.; comparable; judged by comparison.
- Adv. relatively &c. (relation) 9; as compared with &c. v.
- Phr. comparisons are odious; " comparisons are odorous " [Much Ado
- about Nothing].
-
- #464a Incomparability [Lack of comparison] -- N. incomparability;
- incommensurability; indistinguishablility &c. 465a.
- Adj. incommensurable, incommensurate; incomparable; different &c.15.
- Phr. like apples and oranges; no basis for comparison; no standard for
- comparison.
-
- #465. [results of comparison. 1] Discrimination. -- N. discrimination,
- distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism[obs3]; nice perception;
- perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation &c. 466;
- nicety, refinement; taste &c. 850; critique, judgment; tact; discernment
- &c. (intelligence) 498; acuteness, penetration; nuances.
- dope*, past performances.
- V. discriminate, distinguish, severalize[obs3]; recognize, match,
- identify; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat,
- winnow the chaff from the wheat; separate the men from the boys; split
- hairs, draw a fine line, nitpick, quibble.
- estimate &c. (measure) 466; know which is which, know what is what,
- know " a hawk from a handsaw" [Hamlet].
- take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow
- due weight to; weigh carefully.
- Adj. discriminating &c. v.; dioristic[obs3], discriminative,
- distinctive; nice.
- Phr. il y a fagots et fagots; rem acu tetigisti[Lat][obs3]; la
- critique est aisee et l'art est difficile [Fr]; miles apart; a distinction
- without a difference.
-
-
- #465a. [results of comparison. 2] Indiscrimination. -- N.
- indiscrimination[obs3], indistinguishability; indistinctness,
- indistinction[obs3]; uncertainty &c. (doubt) 475; incomparability &c. 464a.
- V. not discriminate &c. 465; overlook &c. (neglect) 460 a distinction:
- confound, confuse.
- Adj. indiscriminate; undistinguished|!, indistinguishable,
- undistinguishable[obs3]; unmeasured; promiscuous, undiscriminating.
- Phr. valeat quantum valere potest[Lat.].
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- #465b. [results of comparison. 3] Identification.-- N. identification,
- recognition, diagnosis, match; apperception, assimilation; dereplication;
- classification; memory &c. 505; interpretation &c. 522; cognizance
- (knowledge) 490.
- V. identify, recognize, match, match up; classify; recall, remember
- &c. (memory) 505; find similarity (similarity) 17; put in its proper place,
- put in its proper niche, place in order (arrangement) 60.
-
- #466. Measurement. -- N. measurement, admeasurement[obs3],
- mensuration, survey, valuation, appraisement, assessment, assize; estimate,
- estimation; dead reckoning, reckoning &c. (numeration) 85; gauging &c. v.;
- horse power.
- metrology, weights and measures, compound arithmetic.
- measure, yard measure, standard, rule, foot rule, compass, calipers;
- gage, gauge; meter, line, rod, check; dividers; velo[obs3].
- flood mark, high water mark; Plimsoll line; index &c. 550.
- scale; graduation, graduated scale; nonius[obs3]; vernier &c.
- (minuteness) 193.
- [instruments for measuring] bathometer, galvanometer, heliometer,
- interferometer, odometer, ombrometer[obs3], pantometer[obs3],
- pluviometer[obs3], pneumatometer[obs3], pneumometer[obs3], radiometer,
- refractometer, respirometer, rheometer, spirometer[obs3], telemeter,
- udometer[obs3], vacuometer[obs3], variometer[obs3], viameter[obs3],
- thermometer, thermistor (heat &c. 382), barometer (air &c. 338), anemometer
- (wind 349), dynamometer, goniometer (angle 244) meter; landmark &c. (limit)
- 233; balance, scale &c. (weight) 319; marigraph[obs3], pneumatograph[obs3],
- stethograph[obs3]; rain gauge, rain gage; voltmeter(volts) , ammeter(amps);
- spectrophotometer (light absorbance); mass spectrophotometer(molecular
- mass); geiger counter, scintillation counter(radioactivity); pycnometer
- (liquid density) ; graduated cylinder, volumetric flask (volume); radar gun
- (velocity); radar (distance); side-looking radar (shape, topography); sonar
- (depth in water); light meter (light intensity); clock, watch, stopwatch,
- chronometer (time); anemometer (wind velocity); densitometer (color
- intensity).
- measurability, computability, determinability[obs3].
- coordinates, ordinate and abscissa, polar coordinates, latitude and
- longitude, declination and right ascension, altitude and azimuth.
- geometry, stereometry[obs3], hypsometry[obs3]; metage[obs3];
- surveying, land surveying; geodesy, geodetics[obs3], geodesia[obs3];
- orthometry[obs3], altimetry[obs3]; cadastre[Fr].
- astrolabe, armillary sphere[obs3].
- land surveyor; geometer.
- V. measure, mete; determine, assay; evaluate, value, assess, rate,
- appraise, estimate, form an estimate, set a value on; appreciate;
- standardize.
- span, pace step; apply the compass &c. n.; gauge, plumb, probe, sound,
- fathom; heave the log, heave the lead; survey.
- weigh.
- take an average &c. 29; graduate.
- Adj. measuring &c. v.; metric , metrical;
- measurable, perceptible, noticeable, detectable, appreciable,
- ponderable, determinable, fathomable;
- geodetical, topographic, topographical, cartographic, cartographical.
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- #467. Evidence [On one side.] -- N. evidence; facts, premises, data,
- praecognita[Lat], grounds.
- indication &c. 550; criterion &c. (test) 463.
- testimony, testification[obs3], expert testimony; attestation;
- deposition &c. (affirmation) 535; examination.
- admission &c. (assent) 488; authority, warrant, credential, diploma,
- voucher, certificate, doquet[obs3], docket; testamur[obs3]; record &c. 551;
- document; pi
- ce justificative[obs3]; deed, warranty &c. (security) 771;
- signature, seal &c. (identification) 550; exhibit, material evidence,
- objective evidence.
- witness, indicator, hostile witness; eyewitness, earwitness, material
- witness, state's evidence; deponent; sponsor; cojuror[obs3].
- oral evidence, documentary evidence, hearsay evidence, external
- evidence, extrinsic evidence, internal evidence, intrinsic evidence,
- circumstantial evidence, cumulative evidence, ex parte evidence[Lat],
- presumptive evidence, collateral evidence, constructive evidence; proof &c.
- (demonstration) 478; evidence in chief.
- secondary evidence; confirmation, corroboration, support; ratification
- &c. (assent) 488; authentication; compurgation[obs3], wager of law,
- comprobation|.
- citation, reference; legal research, literature search (experiment)
- 463.
-
- V. be evidence &c. n.; evince, show, betoken, tell of; indicate &c.
- (denote) 550; imply, involve, argue, bespeak, breathe.
- have weight, carry weight; tell, speak volumes; speak for itself &c.
- (manifest) 525.
- rest upon, depend upon; repose on.
- bear witness &c. n.; give evidence &c. n.; testify, depose, witness,
- vouch for; sign, seal, undersign[obs3], set one's hand and seal, sign and
- seal, deliver as one's act and deed, certify, attest; acknowledge &c.
- (assent) 488.
- [provide conclusive evidence] make absolute, confirm, prove
- (demonstrate) 478.
- [add further evidence] indorse, countersign, corroborate, support,
- ratify, bear out, uphold, warrant.
- adduce, attest, cite, quote; refer to, appeal to; call, call to
- witness; bring forward, bring into court; allege, plead; produce witnesses,
- confront witnesses.
- place into evidence, mark into evidence.
- [obtain evidence] collect evidence, bring together evidence, rake up
- evidence; experiment &c. 463.
- have a case, make out a case; establish, authenticate, substantiate,
- verify, make good, quote chapter and verse; bring home to, bring to book.
- Adj. showing &c. v.; indicative, indicatory; deducible &c. 478;
- grounded on, founded on, based on; corroborative, confirmatory.
- Adv. by inference; according to, witness, a fortiori; still more,
- still less; raison de plus[Fr]; in corroboration &c. n. of; valeat
- quantum[Lat]; under seal, under one's hand and seal.
- Phr. dictum de dicto[Lat]; mise en evidence[Fr.].
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-
- #468. [Evidence on the other side, on the other hand.] Counter
- Evidence. - N. counter evidence; evidence on the other side, evidence on
- the other hand; conflicting evidence, contradictory evidence, opposing
- evidence; disproof, refutation &c. 479; negation &c. 536.
- plea &c. 617; vindication &c. 937 counter protest; "tu quoque"
- argument; other side of the shield, other side of the coin, reverse of the
- shield.
- V. countervail, oppose; mitigate against; rebut &c. (refute) 479;
- subvert &c. (destroy) 162; cheek, weaken; contravene; contradict &c. (deny)
- 536; tell the other side of the story, tell another story, turn the scale,
- alter the case; turn the tables; cut both ways; prove a negative.
- audire alteram partem[Lat].
- Adj. countervailing &c. v.; contradictory.
- unattested, unauthenticated, unsupported by evidence; supposititious.
- Adv. on the contrary, per contra.
-
- #469. Qualification. -- N. qualification, limitation, modification,
- coloring.
- allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating
- circumstances; mitigation.
- condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision,
- specification, sine qua non[Lat]; catch, string, strings attached;
- exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount &c.
- 813; restriction; fine print.
- V. qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new
- conditions, narrow, temper.
- waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475; equivocate
- (sophistry) 477.
- depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154.
- allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account;
- modulate.
- moderate, temper, season, leaven.
- take exception.
- Adj. qualifying &c. v.; qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged;
- conditional; exceptional &c. (unconformable) 83.
- hypothetical &c. (supposed) 514; contingent &c. (uncertain) 475.
- Adv. provided, provided that, provided always; if, unless, but, yet;
- according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of
- &c. (theoretically) 514; with the understanding, even, although, though,
- for all that, after all, at all events.
- approximately &c. 197, 17; in a limited degree (smallness) 32;
- somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree,
- in a sense, so to speak.
- with grains of allowance, cum grano salis[Latin: with a grain of
- salt]; exceptis excipiendis[Lat]; wind and weather permitting; if possible
- &c. 470.
- subject to, conditioned upon; with this proviso &c. n.
- Phr. "if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise"; catch-
- 22.
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- #470. Possibility. -- N. possibility, potentiality; what may be, what
- is possible &c. adj.; compatibility &c. (agreement) 23.
- practicability, feasibility; practicableness &c. adj.
- contingency, chance &c. 156.
- V. be possible &c. adj.; stand a chance; admit of, bear.
- render possible &c. adj.; put in the way of.
- Adj. possible; in the cards, on the dice; in posse, within the bounds
- of possibility, conceivable, credible; compatible &c. 23; likely.
- practicable, feasible, performable, achievable; within reach, within
- measurable distance; accessible, superable[obs3], surmountable; attainable,
- obtainable; contingent &c. (doubtful) 475, (effect) 154.
- barely possible, marginally possible, just possible; possible but
- improbably, (improbable) 473; theoretically possible.
- Adv. possibly, by possibility; perhaps, perchance, peradventure;
- maybe, may be, haply, mayhap.
- if possible, wind and weather permitting, God willing, Deo
- volente[Lat], D. V. ; as luck may have it.
- Phr. misericordia Domini inter pontem et fontent[Lat]; " the glories
- of the Possible are ours " [B. Taylor]; anything is possible; in theory
- possible, but in practise unlikely.
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- #471. Impossibility. -- N. impossibility &c. adj.; what cannot, what
- can never be; sour grapes; hopelessness &c. 859.
- V. be impossible &c. adj.; have no chance whatever.
- attempt impossibilities; square the circle, wash a blackamoor white;
- skin a flint; make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, make bricks without
- straw; have nothing to go upon; weave a rope of sand, build castles in the
- air, prendre la lune avec les dents[Fr], extract sunbeams from cucumbers,
- set the Thames on fire, milk a he-goat into a sieve, catch a weasel asleep,
- rompre l'anguille au genou[Fr], be in two places at once.
- Adj. impossible; not possible &c. 470; absurd, contrary to reason;
- unlikely; unreasonable &c. 477; incredible &c. 485; beyond the bounds of
- reason, beyond the bounds of possibility, beyond the realm of possibility;
- from which reason recoils; visionary; inconceivable &c. (improbable) 473;
- prodigious &c. (wonderful) 870; unimaginable, inimaginable[obs3];
- unthinkable.
- impracticable unachievable; unfeasible, infeasible; insuperable;
- unsurmountable[obs3], insurmountable; unattainable, unobtainable; out of
- reach, out of the question; not to be had, not to be thought of; beyond
- control; desperate &c. (hopeless) 859; incompatible &c. 24; inaccessible,
- uncomeatable[obs3], impassable, impervious, innavigable[obs3],
- inextricable; self-contradictory.
- out of one's power, beyond one's power, beyond one's depth, beyond
- one's reach, beyond one's grasp; too much for; ultra crepidam[Lat].
- Phr. the grapes are sour; non possumus[Lat]; non nostrum tantas
- componere lites [Lat][Vergil]; look for a needle in a haystack, chercher
- une aiguille dans une botte de foin [obs3][Fr.]; il a le mer boire[obs3].
-
- #472. Probability. -- N. probability, likelihood; credibleness[obs3];
- likeliness &c. adj.;
- vraisemblance[Fr], verisimilitude, plausibility; color, semblance,
- show of; presumption; presumptive evidence, circumstantial evidence;
- credibility.
- reasonable chance, fair chance, good chance, favorable chance,
- reasonable prospect, fair prospect, good prospect, favorable prospect;
- prospect, wellgrounded hope; chance &c. 156.
- V. be probable &c. adj.; give color to, lend color to; point to; imply
- &c. (evidence) 467; bid fair &c. (promise) 511; stand fair for; stand a
- good chance, run a good chance.
- think likely, dare say, flatter oneself; expect &c. 507; count upon
- &c. (believe) 484.
- Adj. probable, likely, hopeful, to be expected, in a fair way.
- plausible, specious, ostensible, colorable, ben trovato[It], well-
- founded, reasonable, credible, easy of belief, presumable, presumptive,
- apparent.
- Adv. probably &c. adj.; belike[obs3]; in all probability, in all
- likelihood; very likely, most likely; like enough; odds on, odds in favor,
- ten &c. to one; apparently, seemingly, according to every reasonable
- expectation; prim facie[Lat]; to all appearance &c. (to the eye) 448.
- Phr. the chances, the odds are; appearances are in favor of, chances
- are in favor of; there is reason to believe, there is reason to think,
- there is reason to expect; I dare say; all Lombard Street to a China
- orange.
-
-
- #473. Improbability. -- N. improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable
- chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor
- chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds;
- incredibility &c. 485.
- V. be improbable &c. adj.; have a small chance &c. n.
- Adj. improbable, unlikely, contrary to all reasonable expectation;
- wild, far out, out of sight, outtasight, heavy [all coll.].
- rare &c. (infrequent) 137; unheard of, inconceivable; unimaginable,
- inimaginable[obs3]; incredible &c. 485; more than doubtful; strange,
- bizarre (uncomformable) 83.
- Phr. the chances are against; aquila non capit muscas[Lat]; pedir
- peras pal olmo[Lat].
-
-
- #474. Certainty. -- N. certainty; necessity &c. 601; certitude,
- surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness &c.
- adj.; infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness,
- unquestionableness[obs3].
- gospel, scripture, church, pope, court of final appeal; res
- judicata[Lat], ultimatum positiveness; dogmatism, dogmatist, dogmatizer;
- doctrinaire, bigot, opinionist[obs3], Sir Oracle; ipse dixit[Lat].
- fact; positive fact, matter of fact; fait accompli[Fr].
- V. be certain &c. adj.; stand to reason.
- render certain &c. adj.; insure, ensure, assure; clinch, make sure;
- determine, decide, set at rest, " make assurance double sure " [Macbeth];
- know &c. (believe) 484.
- dogmatize, lay down the law.
- Adj. certain, sure, assured &c. v.; solid, well-founded.
- unqualified, absolute, positive, determinate, definite, clear,
- unequivocal, categorical, unmistakable, decisive, decided, ascertained.
- inevitable, unavoidable, avoidless[obs3]; ineluctable.
- unerring, infallible; unchangeable &c. 150; to be depended on,
- trustworthy, reliable, bound.
- unimpeachable, undeniable, unquestionable; indisputable,
- incontestable, incontrovertible, indubitable; irrefutable &c. (proven) 478;
- conclusive, without power of appeal.
- indubious[obs3]; without doubt, beyond a doubt, without a shade or
- shadow of doubt, without question, beyond question; past dispute; clear as
- day; beyond all question, beyond all dispute; undoubted, uncontested,
- unquestioned, undisputed; questionless[obs3], doubtless.
- authoritative, authentic, official.
- sure as fate, sure as death and taxes, sure as a gun.
- evident, self-evident, axiomatic; clear, clear as day, clear as the
- sun at noonday.
- Adv. certainly &c. adj.; for certain, certes[Lat], sure, no doubt,
- doubtless, and no mistake, flagrante delicto[Lat], sure enough, to be sure,
- of course, as a matter of course , a coup sur, to a certainty; in truth &c.
- (truly) 494; at any rate, at all events; without fail; coute que coute[Fr],
- coute qu'il coute[Fr]; whatever may happen, if the worst come to the worst;
- come what may, happen what may, come what will; sink or swim; rain or
- shine.
- Phr. cela va sans dire[Fr]; there is -no question, - not a shadow of
- doubt; the die is cast &c. (necessity) 601; " facts are stubborn things "
- [Smollett].
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- #475. Uncertainty. -- N. uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness
- &c. adj.; dubiety, dubitation[obs3], dubitancy|, dubitousness[obs3].
- hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma,
- bewilderment; timidity &c. (fear) 860; vacillation &c. 605;
- diaporesis[obs3], indetermination.
- vagueness &c. adj.; haze, fog; obscurity &c. (darkness) 421; ambiguity
- &c. (double meaning) 520; contingency, dependence, dependency, double
- contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question &c. (question)
- 461; onus probandi[Lat]; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark,
- something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving
- commission.
- precariousness &c. adj.; fallibility.
- V. be uncertain &c. adj.; wonder whether.
- lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way.
- not know what to make of &c. (unintelligibility) 519, not know which
- way to turn, not know whether one stands on one s head or one's heels;
- float in a sea of doubt,hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head;
- muddle one's brains.
- render uncertain &c. adj.; put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass;
- confuse, confound; bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the
- scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces[Lat]; keep in suspense.
- doubt &c. (disbelieve) 485; hang in the balance, tremble in the
- balance; depend.
- Adj. uncertain; casual; random &c. (aimless) 621; changeable &c. 149.
- doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in
- suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question &c. (inquiry)
- 461.
- vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined,
- undefinable; confused &c. (indistinct) 447; mystic, oracular; dazed.
- perplexing &c. v.; enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical,
- hypothetical; experimental &c. 463.
- unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519.
- fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable,
- disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy.
- contingent, contingent on, dependent on; subject to; dependent on
- circumstances; occasional; provisional.
- unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative; unascertained,
- unconfirmed; undemonstrated; untold, uncounted.
- in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze; bushed, off the
- track; ignorant.&c. 491; afraid to say; out of one's reckoning, astray,
- adrift; at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus;
- puzzled &c. v.; lost, abroad, dsorient; distracted, distraught.
- Adv. pendente lite[Lat]; sub spe rati[Lat].
- Phr. Heaven knows; who can tell? who shall decide when doctors
- disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces[Lat].
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- #476. Reasoning, -- N. {ant. 477} reasoning ratiocination rationalism;
- dialectics, induction, generalization.
- discussion, comment; ventilation; inquiry &c. 461.
- argumentation, controversy, debate; polemics, wrangling; contention
- &c. 720 logomachy[obs3]; disputation, disceptation[obs3]; paper war.
- art of reasoning, logic.
- process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning;
- deduction, induction, abduction; synthesis, analysis.
- argument; case, plaidoyer[obs3], opening; lemma, proposition, terms,
- premises, postulate, data, starting point, principle; inference &c.
- (judgment) 480.
- prosyllogism[obs3], syllogism; enthymeme[obs3], sorites[obs3],
- dilemma, perilepsis[obs3], a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns
- of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem [Lat.], comprehensive argument;
- empirema[obs3], epagoge[obs3].
- [person who reasons] reasoner, logician, dialectician; disputant;
- controversialist, controvertist[obs3]; wrangler, arguer, debater polemic,
- casuist, rationalist; scientist; eristic[obs3].
- logical sequence; good case; correct just reasoning, sound reasoning,
- valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning,
- persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning[obs3], consectary reasoning|,
- conclusive &c. 478 ; subtle reasoning; force of argument, strong point,
- strong argument, persuasive argument.
- arguments, reasons, pros and cons.
- V. reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy[obs3],
- bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an
- argument; controvert &c. (deny) 536; canvass; comment upon, moralize upon;
- spiritualize; consider &c. (examine) 461.
- open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at
- issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question,
- ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.
- contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer &c. 480.
- follow from &c. (demonstration) 478.
- Adj. reasoning &c. v.; rationalistic; argumentative, controversial,
- dialectic, polemical; discursory[obs3], discursive; disputatious;
- Aristotelian[obs3], eristic[obs3], eristical[obs3].
- debatable, controvertible.
- logical; relevant &c. 23.
- Adv. for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith[obs3], then
- thence so; for that reason, for this reason, for which reason; for as,
- inasmuch as; whereas, ex concesso[Lat], considering, in consideration of;
- therefore, wherefore; consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly; a fortiori.
- in conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt[Fr], on
- the whole, taking one thing with another.
- Phr. ab actu ad posse valet consecutio [Lat]; per troppo dibatter la
- verita si perde [It]; troppo disputare la verita fa errare [It].
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-
- #477. [The absence of reasoning.] Intuition. [False or vicious
- reasoning; show of reason.] Sophistry. -- N. intuition, instinct,
- association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb;
- superstition; astrology[obs3]; faith (supposition) 514.
- sophistry, paralogy[obs3], perversion, casuistry, jesuitry,
- equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet[obs3], quiddity;
- mystification; special pleading; speciousness &c. adj.; nonsense &c. 497;
- word sense, tongue sense.
- false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning; petitio
- principii[Lat], ignoratio elenchi[Lat]; post hoc ergo propter hoc[Lat]; non
- sequitur, ignotum per ignotius[Lat].
- misjudgment &c. 481; false teaching &c. 538.
- sophism, solecism, paralogism[obs3]; quibble, quirk, elenchus[obs3],
- elench[obs3], fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet[obs3];
- inconsistency, antilogy[obs3]; "a delusion, a mockery, and a snare"
- [Denman]; claptrap, cant, mere words; "lame and impotent conclusion"
- [Othello].
- meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry; flaw in an argument; weak
- point, bad case.
- overrefinement[obs3]; hairsplitting &c. v.
- V. judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard
- a guess, talk at random.
- reason ill, falsely &c. adj.; misjudge &c. 481; paralogize[obs3].
- take on faith, take as a given; assume (supposition) 514.
- pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over,
- varnish; misteach &c. 538[obs3]; mislead &c. (error) 495; cavil, refine,
- subtilize[obs3], split hairs; misrepresent &c. (lie) 544.
- beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the
- conclusion.
- cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose,
- play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is
- white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a
- travers[Fr][obs3], put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on.
- judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment)
- 481.
- Adj. intuitive, instinctive, impulsive; independent of reason,
- anterior to reason; gratuitous, hazarded; unconnected.
- unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid; unwarranted, not
- following; inconsequent, inconsequential; inconsistent; absonous|,
- absonant[obs3]; unscientific; untenable, inconclusive, incorrect;
- fallacious, fallible; groundless, unproved; non sequitur[Latin: it does not
- follow].
- deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical; illusive, illusory; specious,
- hollow, plausible, ad captandum[Lat], evasive; irrelevant &c. 10.
- weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.
- irrational; nonsensical &c. (absurd) 497.
- foolish &c. (imbecile) 499; frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling;
- finespun[obs3], overrefined[obs3].
- at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.
- Adv. intuitively &c. adj.; by intuition; illogically &c. adj.
- Phr. non constat[Lat]; that goes for nothing.
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-
- #478. Demonstration. -- N. {ant. 479} demonstration, proof, rigorous
- proof; conclusiveness &c. adj.; apodeixis[obs3], apodixis[obs3], probation,
- comprobation|.
- logic of facts &c. (evidence) 467; experimentum crucis &c. (test)
- 463[Lat]; argument &c. 476; rigorous establishment, absolute establishment.
- conviction, cogency, (persuasion) 484.
- V. demonstrate, prove, establish; make good; show, evince, manifest
- &c. (be evidence of) 467; confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify &c.
- 467 settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest.
- make out, make out a case; prove one's point, have the best of the
- argument; draw a conclusion &c. (judge) 480.
- follow, follow of course, follow as a matter of course, follow
- necessarily; stand to reason; hold good, hold water.
- convince, persuade (belief) 484.
- Adj. demonstrating &c. v., demonstrative, demonstrable; probative,
- unanswerable, conclusive; apodictic[obs3], apodeictic[obs3],
- apodeictical[obs3]; irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable; necessary.
- categorical, decisive, crucial.
- demonstrated &c. v.; proven; unconfuted[obs3], unanswered,
- unrefuted[obs3]; evident &c. 474.
- deducible, consequential, consectary[obs3], inferential, following.
- [demonstrated to one's satisfaction] convincing, cogent, persuasive
- (believable) 484.
- Adv. of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course;
- necessarily, of necessity.
- Phr. probatum est[Lat]; there is nothing more to be said; quod est
- demonstrandum[Lat], Q.E.D.; it must follow; exitus acta probat[Lat].
-
- #479. Confutation. -- N. {ant 478} confutation, refutation; answer,
- complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution[obs3], invalidation;
- exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock down
- argument, tu quoque argument[Lat]; sockdolager * [obs3][U. S.].
- correction &c. 527a; dissuasion &c. 616.
- V. confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut,
- confound, disconfirm, redargue[obs3], expose, show the fallacy of, defeat;
- demolish, break &c. (destroy) 162; overthrow, overturn scatter to the
- winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence;
- clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown[obs3], stop the
- mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.
- not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet.
- be confuted &c.; fail; expose one's weak point, show one's weak point.
- counter evidence &c. 468.
- Adj. confuting, confuted, &c. v.; capable of refutation; refutable,
- confutable[obs3], defeasible.
- contravene (counter evidence) 468.
- condemned on one's own showing,condemned out of one's own mouth.
- Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio[Lat], it does
- not hold water, " suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo" [Terence]; his argument was
- demolished by new evidence.
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- #480. Judgment. [Conclusion.] -- N. result, conclusion, upshot;
- deduction, inference, ergotism[Med]; illation; corollary, porism[obs3];
- moral.
- estimation, valuation, appreciation, judication[obs3];
- dijudication[obs3], adjudication; arbitrament, arbitrement[obs3],
- arbitration; assessment, ponderation[obs3]; valorization.
- award, estimate; review, criticism, critique, notice, report.
- decision, determination, judgment, finding, verdict, sentence, decree;
- findings of fact; findings of law; res judicata[Lat].
- plebiscite, voice, casting vote; vote &c. (choice) 609; opinion &c.
- (belief) 484; good judgment &c. (wisdom) 498.
- judge, umpire; arbiter, arbitrator; asessor, referee.
- censor, reviewer, critic; connoisseur; commentator &c. 524; inspector,
- inspecting officer.
- twenty-twenty hindsight[judgment after the fact]; armchair general,
- monday morning quarterback.
- V. judge, conclude; come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at
- a conclusion; ascertain, determine, make up one's mind.
- deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction,
- weet|, ween[obs3].
- form an estimate, estimate, appreciate, value, count, assess, rate,
- rank, account; regard, consider, think of; look upon &c. (believe) 484;
- review; size up *.
- settle; pass an opinion, give an opinion; decide, try, pronounce,
- rule; pass judgment, pass sentence; sentence, doom; find; give judgment,
- deliver judgment; adjudge, adjudicate; arbitrate, award, report; bring in a
- verdict; make absolute, set a question at rest; confirm &c. (assent) 488.
- comment, criticize, kibitz; pass under review &c. (examine) 457;
- investigate &c. (inquire) 461.
- hold the scales, sit in judgment; try judgment, hear a cause.
- Adj. judging &c. v.; judicious &c. (wise) 498; determinate,
- conclusive.
- Adv. on the whole, all things considered.
- Phr. "a Daniel come to judgment" [Merchant of Venice]; "and stand a
- critic, hated yet caress'd" [Byron]; "it is much easier to be critical than
- to be correct" [Disraeli]; la critique est aisee et l'art est
- difficile[Fr]; "nothing if not critical" [Othello]; "O most lame and
- impotent conclusion" [Othello].
-
- #480a. [Result of search or inquiry.] Discovery. -- N. discovery,
- detection, disenchantment; ascertainment[obs3], disclosure, find,
- revelation.
- trover &c.(recovery) 775[Law].
- V. discover, find, determine, evolve, learn &c. 539; fix upon; pick
- up; find out, trace out, make out, hunt out, fish out, worm out, ferret
- out, root out; fathom; bring out, draw out; educe, elicit, bring to light;
- dig out, grub up, fish up; unearth, disinter.
- solve, resolve, elucidate; unriddle, unravel, unlock, crack, crack
- open; pick up, open the lock; find a clue, find clew a to, find the key to
- the riddle; interpret &c. 522; disclose &c. 529.
- trace, get at; hit it, have it; lay one's finger, lay one's hands
- upon; spot; get at the truth, arrive at the truth &c. 494; put the saddle
- on the right horse, hit the right nail on the head.
- be near the truth, be warm, get warmer, burn; smoke, scent, sniff,
- catch a whiff of, smell a rat.
- open the eyes to; see through, see daylight, see in its true colors,
- see the cloven foot; detect; catch, catch tripping.
- pitch upon, fall upon, light upon, hit upon, stumble upon, pop upon;
- come across ,come onto; meet with, meet up with, fall in with.
- recognize, realize; verify, make certain of, identify.
- Int. eureka! aha[obs3]! I've got it!
-
-
- #481. Misjudgment. -- N. misjudgment, obliquity of judgment;
- miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception &c. (error) 495; hasty
- conclusion.
- [causes of misjudgment. 1] prejudgment, prejudication[obs3],
- prejudice; foregone conclusion; prenotion[obs3], prevention, preconception,
- predilection, prepossession, preapprehension[obs3], presumption,
- assumption, presentiment; fixed idea, preconceived idea; ide fixe; mentis
- gratissimus error[Lat]; fool's paradise.
- [causes of misjudgment.2] esprit de corps, party spirit, partisanship,
- clannishness, prestige.
- [causes of misjudgment. 3] bias, bigotry, warp, twist; hobby, fad,
- quirk, crotchet, partiality, infatuation, blind side, mote in the eye.
- [causes of misjudgment. 4] one-sided views, one-track mind, partial
- views, narrow views, confined views, superficial views, one-sided ideas,
- partial ideas, narrow ideas, confined ideas, superficial ideas, one-sided
- conceptions, partial conceptions, narrow conceptions, confined conceptions,
- superficial conceptions, one-sided notions, partial notions, narrow
- notions, confined notions, superficial notions; narrow mind; bigotry &c.
- (obstinacy) 606; odium theologicum[Lat]; pedantry; hypercriticism.
- doctrinaire &c. (positive) 474.
- [causes of misjudgment. 5] overestimation &c. 482; underestimation &c.
- 483.
- [causes of misjudgment. 6] ignorance &c. 491. erroneous
- assumptions, erroneous data, mistaken assumptions, incorrect assumptions
- (error) 495.
- V. misjudge, misestimate, misthink[obs3], misconjecture[obs3],
- misconceive &c. (error) 495; fly in the face of facts; miscalculate,
- misreckon, miscompute.
- overestimate &c. 482; underestimate &c. 483.
- prejudge, forejudge; presuppose, presume, prejudicate[obs3];
- dogmatize; have a bias &c. n.; have only one idea; jurare in verba
- magistri[Lat], run away with the notion; jump to a conclusion, rush to a
- conclusion, leap to a conclusion, judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump
- to conclusions; look only at one side of the shield; view with jaundiced
- eye, view through distorting spectacles; not see beyond one's nose; dare
- pondus fumo[Lat]; get the wrong sow by the ear &c. (blunder) 699.
- give a bias, give a twist; bias, warp, twist; prejudice, prepossess.
- Adj. misjudging &c. v.; ill-judging, wrong-headed; prejudiced &c. v.;
- jaundiced; shortsighted, purblind; partial, one-sided, superficial.
- narrow-minded, narrow-souled[obs3]; mean-spirited; confined,
- illiberal, intolerant, besotted, infatuated, fanatical, entete[Fr],
- positive, dogmatic, conceited; opinative, opiniative[obs3]; opinioned,
- opinionate, opinionative, opinionated; self-opinioned, wedded to an
- opinion, opinitre; bigoted &c. (obstinate) 606; crotchety, fussy,
- impracticable; unreasonable, stupid &c. 499; credulous &c 486; warped.
- misjudged &c. v.
- Adv. ex parte[Lat].
- Phr. nothing like leather; the wish the father to the thought; wishful
- thinking; unshakable conviction; "my mind is made up - don't bother me with
- the facts".
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- #482. Overestimation. -- N. overestimation &c. v.; exaggeration &c.
- 549; vanity &c. 880; optimism, pessimism, pessimist. much cry and little
- wool, much ado about nothing,; storm in a teacup, tempest in a teacup; fine
- talking.
- V. overestimate, overrate, overvalue, overprize, overweigh,
- overreckon[obs3], overstrain, overpraise; eulogize; estimate too highly,
- attach too much importance to, make mountains of molehills, catch at
- straws; strain, magnify; exaggerate &c. 549; set too high a value upon;
- think much of, make much of, think too much of, make too much of;
- outreckon[obs3]; panegyrize[obs3].
- extol, extol to the skies; make the most of, make the best of, make
- the worst of; make two bites of a cherry.
- have too high an opinion of oneself &c. (vanity) 880.
- Adj. overestimated &c. v.; oversensitive &c. (sensibility) 822.
- Phr. all his geese are swans; parturiunt montes[Lat].
-
-
- #483. Underestimation. -- N. underestimation; depreciation &c.
- (detraction) 934; pessimism, pessimist; undervaluing &c. v.; modesty &c.
- 881.
- V. underrate, underestimate, undervalue, underreckon[obs3];
- depreciate; disparage &c. (detract) 934; not do justice to; misprize,
- disprize; ridicule &c. 856; slight &c. (despise) 930; neglect &c. 460; slur
- over.
- make light of, make little of, make nothing of, make no account of;
- belittle; minimize, think nothing of; set no store by, set at naught; shake
- off as dewdrops from the lion's mane.
- Adj. depreciating, depreciated &c. v.; unvalued, unprized[obs3].
-
- #484. Belief. -- N. belief; credence; credit; assurance; faith, trust,
- troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation &c. (hope) 858;
- dependence on, reliance on.
- persuasion, conviction, convincement[obs3], plerophory[obs3], self-
- conviction; certainty &c. 474; opinion, mind, view; conception, thinking;
- impression &c. (idea) 453; surmise &c. 514; conclusion &c. (judgment) 480.
- tenet, dogma, principle, way of thinking; popular belief &c. (assent)
- 488.
- firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted
- belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate
- belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief,
- well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed
- rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast
- opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate
- opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion &c.; uberrima
- fides[Lat][obs3].
- system of opinions, school, doctrine, articles, canons; article of
- faith, declaration of faith, profession of faith; tenets, credenda[obs3],
- creed; thirty-nine articles &c. (orthodoxy) 983a; catechism; assent &c.
- 488; propaganda &c. (teaching) 537.
- credibility &c. (probability) 472.
- V. believe, credit; give faith to, give credit to, credence to; see,
- realize; assume, receive; set down for, take for; have it, take it;
- consider, esteem, presume.
- count upon, depend upon, calculate upon, pin one's faith upon, reckon
- upon, lean upon, build upon, rely upon, rest upon; lay one's account for;
- make sure of.
- make oneself easy about, on that score; take on trust, take on credit;
- take for granted, take for gospel; allow some weight to, attach some weight
- to.
- know, know for certain; have know, make no doubt; doubt not; be, rest
- assured &c. adj.; persuade oneself, assure oneself, satisfy oneself; make
- up one's mind.
- give one credit for; confide in, believe in, put one's trust in; place
- in, repose in, implicit confidence in; take one's word for, at one's word;
- place reliance on, rely upon, swear by, regard to.
- think, hold; take, take it; opine, be of opinion, conceive,
- trow[obs3], ween[obs3], fancy, apprehend; have it, hold a belief, possess,
- entertain a belief, adopt a belief, imbibe a belief, embrace a belief, get
- hold of a belief, hazard, foster, nurture a belief, cherish a belief, have
- an opinion, hold an opinion, possess, entertain an opinion, adopt an
- opinion, imbibe an opinion, embrace an opinion, get hold of an opinion,
- hazard an opinion, foster an opinion, nurture an opinion, cherish an
- opinion &c. n.
- view as, consider as, take as, hold as, conceive as, regard as, esteem
- as, deem as, look upon as, account as, set down as; surmise &c. 514.
- get it into one's head, take it into one's head; come round to an
- opinion; swallow &c. (credulity) 486.
- cause to be believed &c. v.; satisfy, persuade, have the ear of, gain
- the confidence of, assure; convince, convict|!, convert; wean, bring round;
- bring over, win over; indoctrinate &c. (teach) 537; cram down the throat;
- produce conviction, carry conviction; bring home to, drive home to.
- go down, find credence, pass current; be received &c. v., be current
- &c. adj.; possess, take hold of, take possession of the mind.
- Adj. believing &c. v.; certain, sure, assured, positive, cocksure,
- satisfied, confident, unhesitating, convinced, secure.
- under the impression; impressed with, imbued with, penetrated with.
- confiding, suspectless[obs3]; unsuspecting, unsuspicious; void of
- suspicion; credulous &c. 486; wedded to.
- believed &c. v.; accredited, putative; unsuspected.
- worthy of, deserving of, commanding belief; credible, reliable,
- trustworthy, to be depended on; satisfactory; probably &c. 472;
- fiducial[obs3], fiduciary; persuasive, impressive.
- relating to belief, doctrinal.
- Adv. in the opinion of, in the eyes of; me judice[Lat];
- meseems[obs3], methinks; to the best of one's belief; I dare say, I doubt
- not, I have no doubt, I am sure; sure enough &c. (certainty) 474; depend
- upon, rely upon it; be assured, rest assured; I'll warrant you &c.
- (affirmation) 535.
- Phr. experto crede [Lat][Vergil]; fata viam invenient [Lat]; Justitiae
- soror incorrupta Fides[Lat]; "live to explain thy doctrine by thy life"
- [Prior]; "stands not within the prospect of belief" [Macbeth]; tarde quae
- credita laedunt credimus [Lat][Ovid]; vide et crede [Lat].
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- #485. Unbelief. Doubt.-- N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit,
- miscreance[obs3]; infidelity &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3]; dissent &c. 489;
- change of opinion &c. 484; retraction &c. 607.
- doubt &c. (uncertainty) 475; skepticism, scepticism, misgiving,
- demure; distrust, mistrust, cynicism; misdoubt[obs3], suspicion, jealousy,
- scruple, qualm; onus probandi[Lat].
- incredibility, incredibleness; incredulity.
- [person who doubts] doubter, skeptic, cynic.; unbeliever &c. 487.
- V. disbelieve, discredit; not believe &c. 484; misbelieve[obs3];
- refuse to admit &c. (dissent) 489; refuse to believe &c. (incredulity) 487.
- doubt; be doubtful &c. (uncertain) 475; doubt the truth of; be
- skeptical as to &c. adj.; diffide|; distrust, mistrust; suspect, smoke,
- scent, smell a rat; have doubts, harbor doubts, entertain doubts,
- suspicions; have one's doubts.
- demure, stick at, pause, hesitate, scruple; stop to consider, waver.
- hang in suspense, hang in doubt.
- throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question;
- question, challenge, dispute; deny &c. 536; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a
- doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion;
- ergotize[obs3].
- startle, stagger; shake one's faith, shake one's belief, stagger one's
- faith, stagger one's belief.
- Adj. unbelieving; skeptical, sceptical.
- [transitive] incredulous as to, skeptical as to; distrustful as to,
- shy as to, suspicious of; doubting &c. v.
- doubtful &c. (uncertain) 475; disputable; unworthy of, undeserving of
- belief &c. 484; questionable; suspect, suspicious; open to suspicion, open
- to doubt; staggering, hard to believe, incredible, unbelievable, not to be
- believed, inconceivable; impossible &c. 471.
- fallible &c. (uncertain) 475; undemonstrable; controvertible &c.
- (untrue) 495.
- Adv. cum grano salis[Latin: with a grain of salt]; with grains of
- allowance.
- Phr. fronti nulla fides[Lat]; nimium ne crede colori [Lat][Vergil];
- "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes" [Latin: I fear the Greeks even when
- bearing gifts][Vergil], beware of Greeks bearing gifts; credat Judaeus
- Apella [Lat][Horace]; let those believe who may; ad tristem partem stenua
- est suspicio [Lat][Syrus].
-
- #486. Credulity. -- N. credulity, credulousness &c. adj.;
- cullibility|, gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion,
- self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c. (obstinacy)
- 606; hyperorthodoxy &c. 984[obs3]; misjudgment &c. 481.
- credulous person &c (dupe) 547.
- V. be credulous &c. adj.; jurare in verba magistri[Lat]; follow
- implicitly; swallow, gulp down; take on trust; take for granted, take for
- gospel; run away with a notion, run away with an idea; jump to a
- conclusion, rush to a conclusion; think the moon is made of green cheese;
- take for granted, grasp the shadow for the substance; catch at straws,
- grasp at straws.
- impose upon &c. (deceive) 545.
- Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c. 545; simple, green,
- soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over
- confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding &c.
- (believing) 484.
- Phr. the wish the father to the thought; credo quia impossibile
- [Lat][Tertullian]; all is not gold that glitters; no es oro todo lo que
- reluce[Sp]; omne ignotum pro magnifico[Lat].
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- #487. Incredulity.-- N. incredulousness[obs3], incredulity;
- skepticism, pyrrhonism|!; want of faith &c. (irreligion) 989[obs3].
- suspiciousness &c. adj.; scrupulosity; suspicion &c. (unbelief) 485.
- mistrust, cynicism.
- unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c.
- (heterodox) 984.
- V. be incredulous &c. adj.; distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485; refuse to
- believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold
- aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri[Lat].
- Adj. incredulous, skeptical, unbelieving, inconvincible[obs3]; hard of
- belief, shy of belief, disposed to doubt, indisposed to believe;
- suspicious, scrupulous, distrustful, cynical;.
-
- 1The word miscreant, which originally meant simply misbeliever, has now
- quite another meaning (949). See Trench, On the Study of Words, p. 71.
-
-
- #488. Assent. -- N. assent, assentment[obs3]; acquiescence, admission;
- nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c. 23; affirmance,
- affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.
- unanimity, common consent, consensus, acclamation, chorus, vox populi;
- popular belief, current belief, current opinion; public opinion;
- concurrence &c. (of causes) 178; cooperation &c. (voluntary) 709.
- ratification, confirmation, corroboration, approval, acceptance, visa;
- indorsement &c. (record) 551[obs3].
- consent &c. (compliance) 762.
- pressure to conform, herd instinct, peer pressure.
- V. assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree &c.
- 23; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent,
- coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with &c. adj.; go along with,
- chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views,
- agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to,
- conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
- acknowledge, own, admit, allow, avow, confess; concede &c. (yield)
- 762; come round to; abide by; permit &c. 760.
- arrive at an understanding, come to an understanding, come to terms,
- come to an agreement.
- confirm, affirm; ratify, appprove, indorse, countersign; corroborate
- &c. 467.
- go with the stream, swim with the stream, go with the flow, blow with
- the wind; be in fashion, join in the chorus, join the crowd, be one of the
- guys, be part of the group, go with the crowd, don't make waves; be in
- every mouth.
- Adj. assenting &c. v; of one accord, of one mind; of the same mind, at
- one with, agreed, acquiescent, content; willing &c. 602.
- uncontradicted, unchallenged, unquestioned, uncontroverted.
- carried, agreed, nem[abbr]. con. &c. adv[abbr: nemine contradicente].;
- unanimous; agreed on all hands, carried by acclamation.
- affirmative &c. 535.
- Adv. yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well
- and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said", you said
- it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed,
- certainly, you bet, certes[Lat], ex concesso[Lat]; of course,
- unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch.
- be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly &c. 602.
- affirmatively, in the affirmative.
- OK, all right, might as well, why not?
- with one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una
- voce, by common consent, in chorus, to a man; nem[abbr]. con.[abbr: nemine
- contradicente], nemine dissentiente[Lat]; without a dissentient voice; as
- one man, one and all, on all hands.
- Phr. avec plaisir[Fr]; chi tace accousente[It][obs3]; "the public mind
- is the creation of the Master-Writers" [Disraeli]; you bet your sweet ass
- it is; what are we waiting for? whenever you're ready; anytime you're
- ready.
-
- #489. Dissent.-- N. dissent; discordance &c. (disagreement) 24;
- difference diversity of opinion.
- nonconformity &c. (heterodoxy) 984; protestantism, recusancy, schism;
- disaffection; secession &c. 624; recantation &c. 607.
- dissension &c (discord) 713; discontent &c. 832; cavilling.
- protest; contradiction &c (denial) 536; noncompliance &c (rejection)
- 764.
- dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist;
- sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic.
- refusal &c. 764.
- V. dissent, demur; call in question &c. (doubt) 485; differ in
- opinion, disagree; say no &c. 536; refuse assent, refuse to admit; cavil,
- protest, raise one's voice against, repudiate; contradict &c. (deny) 536.
- have no notion of, differ toto caelo[Lat]; revolt at, revolt from the
- idea.
- shake the head, shrug the shoulders; look askance, look askant[obs3].
- secede; recant &c. 607.
- Adj. dissenting &c. v; negative &c. 536; dissident, dissentient;
- unconsenting &c. (refusing) 764; non-content, nonjuring[obs3]; protestant,
- recusant; unconvinced, unconverted.
- unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question.
- discontented &c. 832; unwilling &c. 603; extorted.
- sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.
- Adv. no &c. 536; at variance, at issue with; under protest.
- Int. God forbid! not for the world; I'll be hanged if; never tell me;
- your humble servant, pardon me.
- Phr. many men many minds; quot homines tot sententiae [Lat][Terence];
- tant s'en faut[Fr]; il s'en faut bien[Fr];no way; by no means; count me
- out.
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- #490. Knowledge.-- N. knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence|;
- acquaintance, experience, ken, privity[obs3], insight, familiarity;
- comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation &c. (judgment) 480;
- intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition;
- acroamatics|!.
- light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn;
- scent, suspicion; impression &c. (idea) 453; discovery &c. 480a.
- system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy,
- pansophy[obs3]; acroama|!; theory, aetiology[obs3], etiology; circle of the
- sciences; pandect[obs3], doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia,
- encyclopedia; school &c. (system of opinions) 484.
- tree of knowledge; republic of letters &c. (language) 560.
- erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature;
- book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania[obs3],
- bibliolatry[obs3]; information, general information; store of knowledge
- &c.; education &c. (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture[obs3],
- attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency;
- practical knowledge &c. (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism;
- rudiments &c (beginning) 66.
- deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate
- knowledge, acroatic knowledge[obs3], acroamatic knowledge[obs3], vast
- knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic
- learning; omniscience, pantology[obs3].
- march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance
- of learning; schoolmaster abroad.
- [person who knows much] scholar &c. 492.
- V. know, ken, scan, wot[obs3]; wot aware[obs3], be aware &c. adj.- of;
- ween[obs3], weet[obs3], trow[obs3], have, possess.
- conceive; apprehend, comprehend; take, realize, understand, savvy*
- [U.S.], appreciate; fathom, make out; recognize, discern, perceive, see,
- get a sight-of, experience.
- know full well; have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of; be
- au courant &c. adj.; have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends; know by
- heart, know by rote; be master of; connaitre le dessous des cartes[Fr],
- know what's what &c. 698.
- see one's way; discover &c. 480a.
- come to one's knowledge &c. (information) 527.
- Adj. knowing &c. v.; cognitive; acroamatic[obs3].
- aware of, cognizant of, conscious of; acquainted with, made acquainted
- with; privy to, no stranger to; au -fait, au courant; in the secret; up to,
- alive to; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; let into; apprized of,
- informed of; undeceived.
- proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at
- home in; conversant with, familiar with.
- erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated; well conned, well
- informed, well read, well grounded, well educated; enlightened, shrewd,
- savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-
- learned; accomplished &c (skillful) 698; omniscient; self-taught.
- known &c. v.; ascertained, well-known, recognized, received,
- notorious, noted; proverbial; familiar, familiar as household words,
- familiar to every schoolboy; hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace.
- cognoscible[obs3], cognizable.
- Adv. to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
- Phr. one's eyes being opened &c. (disclosure) 529; ompredre tout c'est
- tout pardonner[French: to know all is to pardon all]; empta dolore docet
- experientia[Lat];<gr/gnothi seauton/gr>[Grk]; "half our knowledge we must
- snatch not take" [Pope]; Jahre lehren mehr als Bucher[German: years teach
- more than books]; "knowledge comes but wisdom lingers"[Tennyson];
- "knowledge is power" [Bacon]; les affaires font les hommes [Fr]; nec scire
- fas est omnia [Lat][Horace]; "the amassed thought and experience of
- innumerable minds" [Emerson]; was ich nicht weiss macht mich nicht
- heiss[Ger].
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- #491. Ignorance. -- N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa[Lat], crass
- ignorance, ignorance crasse[Fr]; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance[obs3];
- unconsciousness &c. adj.; darkness, blindness; incomprehension,
- inexperience, simplicity.
- unknown quantities, x, y, z.
- sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark
- ages.
- [Imperfect knowledge] smattering, sciolism[obs3], glimmering,
- dilettantism; bewilderment &c. (uncertainty) 475; incapacity.
- [Affectation of knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism[obs3];
- Philister[obs3], Philistine.
- V. be ignorant &c. adj.; not know &c. 490; know not, know not what,
- know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have
- the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese.
- ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance &c. (conceal) 528.
- see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, have a
- glimmering &c. n.; wonder whether; not know what to make of &c.
- (unintelligibility) 519; not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self
- to say.
- Adj. ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised,
- unapprized[obs3], unwitting, unweeting|, unconscious; witless,
- weetless[obs3]; a stranger to; unconversant[obs3].
- uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught,
- uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine;
- behind the age.
- shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate;
- unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-
- headed ,dizzy, wooly-headed; pedantic;
- in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked;
- misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at
- sea &c. (uncertain) 475; caught tripping.
- unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained,
- uninvestigated[obs3], unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed &c.
- 528; novel.
- Adv. ignorantly &c. adj.; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows;
- not that one knows.
- Int. God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows.
- Phr. "ignorance never settles a question" [Disraeli]; quantum animis
- erroris inest[Lat]! [Ovid]; "small Latin and less Greek" [B. Jonson]; "that
- unlettered small-knowing soul" [Love's Labor's Lost]; "there is no darkness
- but ignorance" [Twelfth NIght].
-
- #492. Scholar.-- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit,
- schoolman[obs3], professor, graduate, wrangler; academician,
- academist[obs3]; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman;
- philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister[obs3];
- linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer[obs3]; lexicographer,
- glossographer; grammarian; litterateur[Fr], literati, dilettanti,
- illuminati, cogniscenti[It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah,
- munshi[obs3], Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue[obs3]; Mezzofanti[obs3],
- admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
- bookworm, helluo librorum[Lat]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac[obs3];
- bluestocking, bas-bleu[Fr]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium
- Baccalaureus[Lat][obs3], Artium Magister[Lat].
- learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum[Lat]; man of
- learning, man of letters, man of education, man of genius.
- antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.
- sage &c. (wise man) 500.
- pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr. Pangloss; pantologist[obs3],
- criminologist.
- schoolboy &c. (learner) 541.
- Adj. learned &c. 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.
- Phr. "he was a scholar and a ripe and good one" [Henry VIII]; "the
- manifold linguist" [All's Well That Ends Well].
-
- #493. Ignoramus.-- N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.
- [insulting terms for ignorant person: see also imbecility 499, folly
- 501] moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole [vulgar].
- [person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist[obs3],
- smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre.
- greenhorn, amateur &c (dupe) 547; novice, tyro &c (learner) 541;
- numskull.
- lubber &c (bungler) 701; fool &c. 501; pedant &c 492.
- Adj. bookless[obs3], shallow; ignorant &c. 491.
- Phr. "a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits" [Pope].
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- #494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth. -- N. fact, reality &c.
- (existence) 1; plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature &c. (principle) 5;
- truth, verity; gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth; orthodoxy &c.
- 983a; authenticity; veracity &c. 543; correctness, correctitude[obs3].
- accuracy, exactitude; exactness, preciseness &c. adj.; precision,
- delicacy; rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality; clockwork precision
- &c. (regularity) 80; conformity to rule; nicety.
- orthology[obs3]; ipsissima verba[Lat]; realism.
- plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth,
- unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth; nuda
- veritas[Lat]; the very thing; not an -illusion &c 495; real Simon Pure;
- unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth; the truth the whole truth and nothing
- but the truth; just the thing.
- V. be true &c. adj., be the case; sand the test; have the true ring;
- hold good, hold true, hold water.
- render true, prove true &c. adj.; substantiate &c. (evidence) 467.
- get at the truth &c. (discover) 480a.
- Adj. real, actual &c. (existing) 1; veritable, true; right, correct;
- certain &c. 474; substantially true, categorically true, definitively true
- &c; true to the letter, true as gospel; unimpeachable; veracious &c. 543;
- unreconfuted[obs3], unconfuted[obs3]; unideal[obs3], unimagined; realistic.
- exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so;
- strict, severe; close &c. (similar) 17; literal; rigid, rigorous;
- scrupulous &c. (conscientious) 939; religiously exact, punctual,
- mathematical, scientific; faithful, constant, unerring; curious,
- particular, nice, delicate, fine; clean-cut, clear-cut.
- verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated,
- proven (demonstrated) 478.
- rigorously true, unquestionably true.
- true by definition.
- genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox &c. 983a; official, ex
- officio.
- pure, natural, sound, sterling; unsophisticated, unadulterated,
- unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored; in its true colors; pukka[obs3].
- well-grounded, well founded; solid, substantial, tangible, valid;
- undistorted, undisguised; unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic,
- unflattering.
- Adv. truly &c. adj.; verily, indeed, really, in reality; with truth
- &c. (veracity) 543; certainly &c. (certain) 474; actually &c. (existence)
- 1; in effect &c (intrinsically) 5.
- exactly &c. adj.; ad amussim[Lat]; verbatim, verbatim et literatim
- [Lat]; word for word, literally, literatim[Lat], totidem vervis[Lat], sic,
- to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis[Lat]; ad unguem[Lat];
- to an inch; to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T; au pied
- de la lettre [Fr]; neither more nor less; in every respect, in all
- respects; sous tous les rapports[Fr]; at any rate, at all events; strictly
- speaking.
- Phr. the truth is, the fact is; rem acu tetigisti[obs3][Lat]; en
- suivant la verite [Fr]; ex facto jus oritur [Lat]; la verita e figlia del
- empo [It]; locos y ninos dicen la verdad [Spanish: crazy people and
- children tell the truth]; nihil est veritatis luce dulcius [Lat][Cicero];
- veritas nunquam perit [Lat][Seneca]; veritatem dies aperit [Lat][Seneca]; "
- the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth "; " just the facts,
- ma'am, just the facts." [Dragnet].
-
- #495. Error. -- N. error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension,
- misstanding[obs3], misunderstanding; inexactness &c. adj.; laxity;
- misconstruction &c. (misinterpretation) 523; miscomputation &c.
- (misjudgment) 481; non sequitur &c. 477; mis-statement, mis-report;
- mumpsimus[obs3].
- mistake; miss, fault, blunder, quiproquo, cross purposes, oversight,
- misprint, erratum, corrigendum, slip, blot, flaw, loose thread; trip,
- stumble &c. (failure) 732; botchery &c. (want of skill) 699[obs3]; slip of
- the tongue, slip of the lip, Freudian slip; slip of the pen; lapsus
- linguae[Lat], clerical error; bull &c. (absurdity) 497; haplography[obs3].
- illusion, delusion; snare; false impression, false idea; bubble; self-
- decit, self-deception; mists of error.
- heresy &c. (heterodoxy) 984; hallucination &c. (insanity) 503; false
- light &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream &c. (fancy) 515; fable &c.
- (untruth) 546; bias &c. (misjudgment) 481; misleading &c. v.
- V. be erroneous &c. adj.
- cause error; mislead, misguide; lead astray, lead into error; beguile,
- misinform &c. (misteach) 538[obs3]; delude; give a false impression, give a
- false idea; falsify, misstate; deceive &c. 545; lie &c. 544.
- err; be -in error &c. adj., be mistaken &c. v.; be deceived &c.
- (duped) 547; mistake, receive a false impression, deceive oneself; fall
- into error, lie under error, labor under an error &c. n.; be in the wrong,
- blunder; misapprehend, misconceive, misunderstand, misreckon, miscount,
- miscalculate &c. (misjudge) 481.
- play at cross purposes , be at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret) 523.
- trip, stumble; lose oneself &c. (uncertainty) 475; go astray; fail &c.
- 732; be in the wrong box; take the wrong sow by the ear &c. (mismanage)
- 699; put the saddle on the wrong horse; reckon without one's host; take the
- shadow for the substance &c (credulity) 486; dream &c (imagine) 515.
- Adj. erroneous, untrue, false, devoid of truth, fallacious,
- apocryphal, unreal, ungrounded, groundless; unsubstantial &c. 4; heretical
- &c. (heterodox) 984; unsound; illogical &c. 477.
- inexact, unexact inaccurate[obs3], incorrect; indefinite &c.
- (uncertain) 475.
- illusive, illusory; delusive; mock, ideal &c (imaginary) 515; spurious
- &c. 545; deceitful &c. 544; perverted.
- controvertible, unsustainable; unauthenticated, untrustworthy.
- exploded, refuted; discarded.
- in error, under an error &c. n.; mistaken &c. v.; tripping &c. v.;
- out, out in one's reckoning; aberrant; beside the mark, wide of the mark,
- wide of the truth, way off, far off; astray &c (at fault) 475; on a false
- scent, on the wrong scent; in the wrong box, outside the ballpark; at cross
- purposes, all in the wrong; all out.
- Adv. more or less.
- Phr. errare est humanum[Lat]; mentis gratissimus error [Lat][Horace];
- "on the dubious waves of error tost" [Cowper]; "to err is human, to forgive
- divine" [Pope]; "you lie -- under a mistake" [Shelley].
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- #496. Maxim.-- N. maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm[obs3];
- dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot[Fr], motto, word,
- byword, moral, phylactery, protasis[obs3].
- axiom, theorem, scholium[obs3], truism, postulate.
- first principles, a priori fact, assumption (supposition) 514.
- reflection &c (idea) 453; conclusion &c (judgment) 480; golden rule
- &c. (precept) 697; principle, principia[Lat]; profession of faith &c.
- (belief) 484; settled principle, accepted principle, formula.
- accepted fact.
- received truth, wise maxim, sage maxim, received maxim, admitted
- maxim, recognized maxim &c; true saying, common saying, hackneyed saying,
- trite saying, commonplace saying &c.
- Adj. aphoristic, proverbial, phylacteric[obs3]; axiomatic, gnomic.
- Adv. as the saying goes, as the saying is, as they say.
-
- #497. Absurdity. -- N. absurdity, absurdness &c. adj.; imbecility &c.
- 499; alogy|, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency;
- stultiloquy[obs3], stultiloquence[obs3]; nugacity[obs3].
- blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism|!, Hibernicism|!; slipslop[obs3];
- anticlimax, bathos; sophism &c. 477.
- farce, galimathias[obs3], amphigouri[obs3], rhapsody; farrago &c
- (disorder) 59; betise[Fr]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy[obs3].
- sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic[obs3].
- jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish &c (no meaning) 517; exaggeration
- &c 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.
- vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade[Fr],
- escapade.
- V. play the fool &c. 499; talk nonsense, parler a tort et a
- travess[Fr]; battre la campagne[Fr][obs3]; <gr/ hanemolia bazein/gr>; be -
- absurd &c. adj.
- Adj. absurd, nonsensical, preposterous, egregious, senseless,
- inconsistent, ridiculous, extravagant, quibbling; self-annulling, self-
- contradictory; macaronic[obs3], punning.
- foolish &c. 499; sophistical &c. 477; unmeaning &c. 517; without rhyme
- or reason; fantastic.
- Int. fiddlededee! pish! pho[obs3]! "in the name of the Prophet--figs!"
- [Horace Smith].
- Phr. credat Judaeus Apella [Lat][Horace]; tell it to the marines.
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- #498. Intelligence. Wisdom. -- N. intelligence, capacity,
- comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe * [obs3][U.S.], savvy *
- [U.S.]; intellect &c. 450; nous[Fr], parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit,
- esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness &c adj.;
- acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy[obs3], perspicacity; discernment,
- due sense of, good judgment; discrimination &c 465; cunning &c. 702;
- refinement &c (taste) 850.
- head, brains, headpiece, upper story, long head; eagle eye, eagle-
- glance; eye of a lynx, eye of a hawk.
- wisdom, sapience, sense; good sense, common sense, horse sense [U.S.],
- plain sense; rationality, reason; reasonableness &c. adj; judgment;
- solidity, depth, profundity, caliber; enlarged views; reach of thought,
- compass of thought; enlargement of mind.
- genius, inspiration, geist[Ger], fire of genius, heaven-born genius,
- soul; talent &c. (aptitude) 698.
- [Wisdom in action] prudence &c. 864; vigilance &c. 459; tact &c 698;
- foresight &c 510; sobriety, self-possession, aplomb, ballast.
- a bright thought, not a bad idea.
- Solomon-like wisdom.
- V. be -intelligent &c. adj.; have all one's wits about one; understand
- &c. (intelligible) 518; catch an idea, take in an idea; take a joke, take
- a hint.
- see through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see
- through a millstone; penetrate; discern &c (descry) 441; foresee &c 510.
- discriminate &c. 465; know what's what &c. 698; listen to reason.
- Adj. intelligent[Applied to persons], quick of apprehension, keen,
- acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen
- witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake;
- canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted &c 510; discerning,
- perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute[obs3]; quick-witted, nimble-
- witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to &c
- (cognizant) 490; clever &c. (apt) 698; arch &c (cunning) 702; pas si
- bete[Fr]; acute &c 682.
- wise, sage, sapient, sagacious, reasonable, rational, sound, in one's
- right mind, sensible, abnormis sapiens[Lat], judicious, strong-minded.
- unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted[obs3], unprepossessed[obs3];
- undazzled[obs3], unperplexed[obs3]; unwarped judgment[obs3], impartial,
- equitable, fair.
- cool; cool-headed, long-headed, hardheaded, strong-headed; long-
- sighted, calculating, thoughtful, reflecting; solid, deep, profound.
- oracular; heaven-directed, heaven-born.
- prudent &c (cautious) 864; sober, stand, solid; considerate, politic,
- wise in one's generation; watchful &c. 459; provident &c (prepared) 673; in
- advance of one' age; wise as a serpent, wise as Solomon, wise as Solon.
- [Applied to actions] wise, sensible, reasonable, judicious; well-
- thought-out, well-planned, well-judged, well-advised; prudent, politic;
- expedient &c. 646.
- Phr. aut regem aut fatuum nasci oportet[Lat]; "but with the morning
- cool reflection came" [Scott]; flosculi sententiarum[Lat]; les affaires
- font les hommes[Fr]; mas vale saber que haber[Sp]; mas vale ser necio que
- profiadol nemo solus sapit [Lat][Plautus]; nosce te[Lat]; <gr/gnothi
- seauton/gr>[Grk]; nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
- [Lat][Seneca, from Aristotle]; sapere aude [Lat][Horace]; victrix fortunae
- sapientia [Lat][Juvenal].
-
- #499. Imbecility. Folly -- N. want of -intelligence &c. 498, want of -
- intellect &c. 450; shadowness[obs3], silliness, foolishness &c. adj.;
- imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of
- intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity,
- stolidity; hebetude[obs3], dull understanding, meanest capacity,
- shortsightedness; incompetence &c (unskillfulness) 699.
- one's weak side, not one's strong point; bias &c 481; infatuation &c.
- (insanity) 503.
- simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility[obs3], second
- childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism[obs3]; driveling.
- folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity[obs3],
- inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry &c. 477; giddiness &c
- (inattention) 458; eccentricity &c. 503; extravagance &c (absurdity) 497;
- rashness &c. 863.
- act of folly &c. 699.
- b. be - imbecile &c adj.; have no -brains, have no sense &c. 498.
- trifle, drivel, radoter[obs3], dote; ramble &c (madness) 503; play the
- fool, play the monkey, monkey around, fool around; take leave of one's
- senses (insanity) 503; not see an inch beyond one's nose; stultify oneself
- &c. 699; talk nonsense &c. 497.
- Adj. unintelligent[Applied to persons], unintellectual, unreasoning;
- mindless, witless, reasoningless[obs3], brainless; halfbaked; having no
- head &c. 498; not -bright &c. 498; inapprehensible[obs3].
- weak headed, addle headed, puzzle headed, blunder headed, muddle
- headed, muddy headed, pig headed, beetle headed, buffle headed[obs3],
- chuckle headed, mutton headed, maggoty headed, grossheaded[obs3]; beef
- headed, fat witted, fat-headed.
- weak-minded, feeble-minded; dull minded, shallow minded, lack-brained;
- rattle-brained, rattle headed; half witted, lean witted, short witted, dull
- witted, blunt-witted, shallow-pated[obs3], clod-pated[obs3], addle-
- pated[obs3]; dim-sighted, short-sighted; thick-skulled; weak in the upper
- story.
- shallow, borne, weak, wanting, soft, sappy, spoony; dull, dull as a
- beetle; stupid, heavy, insulse[obs3], obtuse, blunt, stolid, doltish;
- asinine; inapt &c. 699; prosaic &c. 843; hebetudinous[obs3].
- childish, child-like; infantine[obs3], infantile, babyish,
- babish[obs3]; puerile, anile; simple &c. (credulous) 486; old-womanish.
- fatuous, idiotic, imbecile, driveling; blatant, babbling; vacant;
- sottish; bewildered &c.475.
- blockish[obs3], unteachable Boeotian, Boeotic; bovine; ungifted,
- undiscerning[obs3], unenlightened, unwise, unphilosophical[obs3]; apish;
- simious[obs3].
- foolish, silly, senseless, irrational, insensate, nonsensical, inept;
- maudlin.
- narrow-minded &c. 481; bigoted &c. (obstinate) 606; giddy &c.
- (thoughtless) 458; rash &c. 863; eccentric &c. (crazed) 503.
- [Applied to actions] foolish, unwise, injudicious, improper,
- unreasonable, without reason, ridiculous, absurd, idiotic, silly, stupid,
- asinine; ill-imagined, ill-advised, ill-judged, ill-devised; mal
- entendu[Fr]; inconsistent, irrational, unphilosophical[obs3]; extravagant
- &c (nonsensical) 497; sleeveless, idle; pointless, useless &c. 645;
- inexpedient &c. 647; frivolous &c. (trivial) 643.
- Phr. Davus sum non [Lat][Oedipus]; "a fool's bolt is soon shot"
- clitellae bovi sunt impositae [obs3][Henry V.][Lat][Cicero]; "fools rush
- in where angels fear to tread" [Pope]; il n' a ni bouche ni eperon [Fr];
- "the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read" [Pope]; "to varnish nonsense with
- the charms of sound" [Churchill].
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- #500. Sage -- N. sage, wise man; genius; master mind, master spirit of
- the age; longhead[obs3], thinker; intellectual, longhair.
- authority, oracle, luminary, shining light, esprit fort, magnus
- Apollo[Lat][obs3], Solon, Solomon, Nestor, Magi, "second Daniel."
- man of learning &c. 492; expert &c. 700; wizard &c. 994.
- [Ironically] wiseacre, bigwig, know-it-all; poor man's Einstein.
- Adj. venerable, reverenced, emeritus.
- Phr. barba tenus sapientes[Lat].
-
-
- #501. Fool. -- N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton,
- witling[obs3], dizzard[obs3], donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer[obs3];
- chowderhead[obs3], chucklehead[obs3]; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby[obs3],
- hoddy-doddy[obs3], noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy[obs3], owl; goose,
- goosecap[obs3]; imbecile; gaby[obs3]; radoteur[obs3], nincompoop,
- badaud[obs3], zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais[obs3].
- child, baby, infant, innocent, milksop, sop.
- oaf, lout, loon, lown[obs3], dullard, doodle, calf, colt, buzzard,
- block, put, stick, stock, numps[obs3], tony.
- bull head, dunderhead, addlehead[obs3], blockhead, dullhead[obs3],
- loggerhead, jolthead[obs3], jolterhead[obs3], beetlehead[obs3],
- beetlebrain, grosshead[obs3], muttonhead, noodlehead, giddyhead[obs3];
- numbskull, thickskull[obs3]; lackbrain[obs3], shallowbrain[obs3]; dimwit,
- halfwit, lackwit[obs3]; dunderpate[obs3]; lunkhead
- sawney[obs3][U.S.], gowk[obs3]; clod, clod-hopper; clod-poll, clot-
- poll, clot-pate; bull calf; gawk, Gothamite, lummox, rube [U.S.]; men of
- Boeotia, wise men of Gotham.
- un sot a triple etage[Fr], sot; jobbernowl[obs3], changeling,
- mooncalf, gobemouche[obs3].
- dotard, driveler; old fogey, old woman, crock; crone, grandmother;
- cotquean[obs3], henhussy[obs3].
- incompetent (insanity) 503.
- greenhorn &c (dupe) 547; dunce &c (ignoramus) 493; lubber &c (bungler)
- 701; madman &c 504.
- one who will not set the Thames on fire; one who did not invent
- gunpowder, qui n'a pas invente' la poudre [Fr]; no conjuror.
- Phr. fortuna favet fatuis[Lat]; les fous font les festinas et les
- sages les mangent [Fr]; nomina stultorum parietibus harrent [Lat];
- stultorum plena sunt omnia [Lat][Cicero].
-
-
- #502. Sanity. -- N. sanity; soundness &c. adj.; rationality, sobriety,
- lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind,
- mens sana[Lat].
- V. be sane &c. adj.; retain one's senses, retain one's reason.
- become sane &c. adj.; come to one's senses, sober down.
- render sane &c. adj; bring to one's senses, sober.
- Adj. sane, rational, reasonable, compos mentis, of sound mind; sound,
- sound-minded; lucid.
- self-possessed; sober, sober-minded.
- in one's sober senses, in one's right mind; in possession of one's
- faculties.
- Adv. sanely &c.adj.
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-
- #503. Insanity. -- N. disordered reason, disordered intellect;
- diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness;
- psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder[obs3].
- insanity, lunacy; madness &c. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental
- alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation[obs3],
- dementia, demency[obs3]; phrenitis[obs3], phrensy[obs3], frenzy, raving,
- incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain[obs3]; delusion,
- hallucination; lycanthropy[obs3]; brain storm|!.
- vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil[Fr],
- siriasis[obs3].
- fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania
- (caprice) 608; kleptodipsomania[obs3]; hypochondriasis &c. (low spirits)
- 837[Med]; melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression;
- hysteria; amentia[obs3].
- screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the
- upper story.
- dotage &c. (imbecility) 499.
- V. be insane &c. adj.
- become insane &c. adj; lose one's senses, lose one's reason, lose
- one's faculties, lose one's wits; go mad, run mad, lose one's marbles
- [coll.], go crazy, go bonkers [coll.], flip one's wig [coll.], flip one's
- lid[coll.], flip out[coll.], flip one's bush [coll.].
- rave, dote, ramble, wander; drivel &c. (be imbecile) 499; have a screw
- loose &c. n., have a devil; avoir le diable au corps[Fr]; lose one;s head
- &c. (be uncertain) 475.
- render mad, drive mad &c adj.; madden, dementate[obs3], addle the
- wits, addle the brain, derange the head, infatuate, befool[obs3]; turn the
- brain, turn one's head; drive one nuts [coll.].
- Adj. insane, mad, lunatic ,loony[coll.]; crazy, crazed, aliene[obs3],
- non compos mentis; not right, cracked, touched; bereft of reason; all
- possessed, unhinged, unsettled in one's mind; insensate, reasonless, beside
- oneself, demented, daft; phrenzied[obs3], frenzied, frenetic; possessed,
- possessed with a devil; deranged, maddened, moonstruck; shatterpated[obs3];
- mad-brained, scatter brained, shatter brained, crackbrained; touched,
- tetched [dialect]; off one's head.
- [behavior suggesting insanity] maniacal; delirious, lightheaded,
- incoherent, rambling, doting, wandering; frantic, raving, stark staring
- mad, stark raving mad, wild-eyed, berserk; delusional, hallucinatory.
- [behavior somewhat resembling insanity] corybantic[obs3], dithyrambic;
- rabid, giddy, vertiginous, wild; haggard, mazed; flighty; distracted,
- distraught; depressed; agitated, hyped up; bewildered &c. (uncertain) 475.
- mad as a March hare, mad as a hatter; of unsound mind &c. n.; touched
- in one's head, wrong in one's head, not right in one's head, not in one's
- right mind, not right in one's wits, upper story; out of one's mind, out of
- one's wits, out of one's skull [coll.], far gone, out of one's senses, out
- of one's wits; not in one's right mind.
- fanatical, infatuated, odd, eccentric; hypped[obs3], hyppish[obs3];
- spaced out [coll.].
- imbecile, silly, &c. 499.
- Adv. like one possessed.
- Phr. the mind having lost its balance; the reason under a cloud; tet
- exaltee[French], tet montee[French]; ira furor brevis est[Latin]; omnes
- stultos insanire [Latin][Horace].
-
- #504. Madman. -- N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite[obs3],
- candidate for Bedlam, raver[obs3], madcap, crazy; energumen[obs3];
- automaniac[obs3], monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c.
- (low spirits); crank, Tom o'Bedlam.
- dreamer &c. 515; rhapsodist, seer, highflier[obs3], enthusiast,
- fanatic, fanatico[Sp]; exalte[French]; knight errant, Don Quixote.
- idiot &c. 501.
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- %
- SECTION VI EXTENSION OF THOUGHT
-
- 1. To the Past
-
- %
- #505. Memory.-- N. memory, remembrance; retention, retentiveness;
- tenacity; veteris vestigia flammae[Lat]; tablets of the memory; readiness.
- reminiscence, recognition, recollection, rememoration[obs3];
- recurrence, flashback; retrospect, retrospection.
- afterthought, post script, PS.
- suggestion &c. (information) 527; prompting &c. v.; hint, reminder;
- remembrancer[obs3], flapper; memorial &c. (record) 551; commemoration &c.
- (celebration) 883.
- [written reminder] note, memo, memorandum;
- things to be remembered, token of remembrance, memento, souvenir,
- keepsake, relic, memorabilia.
- art of memory, artificial memory; memoria technica[Lat]; mnemonics,
- mnemotechnics[obs3]; phrenotypics[obs3]; Mnemosyne.
- prompt-book; crib sheet, cheat sheet.
- retentive memory, tenacious memory, photographic memory, green
- memory|!, trustworthy memory, capacious memory, faithful memory, correct
- memory, exact memory, ready memory, prompt memory, accurate recollection;
- perfect memory, total recall.
- celebrity, fame, renown, reputation &c. (repute) 873.
- V. remember, mind; retain the memory of, retain the remembrance of;
- keep in view.
- recognize, recollect, bethink oneself, recall, call up, retrace; look
- back, trace back, trace backwards; think back, look back upon; review; call
- upon, recall upon, bring to mind, bring to remembrance; carry one's
- thoughts back; rake up the past.
- have in the thoughts, hold in the thoughts, bear in the thoughts,
- carry in the thoughts, keep in the thoughts, retain in the thoughts, have
- in the memory, hold in the memory, bear in the memory, carry in the memory,
- keep in the memory, retain in the memory, have in the mind, hold in the
- mind, bear in the mind, carry in the mind, keep in the mind, retain in the
- mind, hold in remembrance; be in one's thoughts, live in one's thoughts,
- remain in one's thoughts, dwell in one's thoughts, haunt one's thoughts,
- impress one's thoughts, be in one's mind, live in one's mind, remain in
- one's mind, dwell in one's mind, haunt one's mind, impress one's mind,
- dwell in one's memory.
- sink in the mind; run in the head; not be able to get out of one's
- head; be deeply impressed with; rankle &c. (revenge) 919.
- recur to the mind; flash on the mind, flash across the memory.
- [cause to remember] remind; suggest &c. (inform ) 527; prompt; put in
- mind, keep in mind, bring to mind; fan the embers; call up, summon up, rip
- up; renew; infandum renovare dolorem [Lat]; jog the memory, flap the
- memory, refresh the memory, rub up the memory, awaken the memory; pull by
- the sleeve; bring back to the memory, put in remembrance, memorialize.
- task the memory, tax the memory.
- get at one's fingers' ends, have at one's fingers', learn at one's
- fingers', know one's lesson, say one's lesson, repeat by heart, repeat by
- rote; say one's lesson; repeat, repeat as a parrot; have at one's fingers'
- ends.
- [transitive] commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the
- memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory,
- stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in
- the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in
- the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory
- with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with.
- redeem from oblivion; keep the memory alive, keep the wound green,
- pour salt in the wound, reopen old wounds'; tangere ulcus[obs3][Lat]; keep
- up the memory of; commemorate &c. (celebrate) 883.
- make a note of, jot a note, pen a memorandum &c. (record) 551.
- Adj. remembering, remembered &c. v.; mindful, reminiscential[obs3];
- retained in the memory &c. v.; pent up in one's memory; fresh; green, green
- in remembrance; unforgotten, present to the mind; within one's memory &c.
- n.; indelible; uppermost in one's thoughts; memorable &c. (important) 642.
- Adv. by heart, by rote; without book, memoriter[obs3].
- in memory of; in memoriam; memoria in aeterna[Lat]; suggestive.
- Phr. manet alta mente repostum [Lat][Vergil]; forsan et haec olim
- meminisse juvabit [Lat][Vergil]; absens haeres non erit [Lat]; beatae
- memoriae [Lat]; "briefly thyself remember" [Lear]; mendacem memorem esse
- oportet [Lat][Quintilian]; "memory the warder of the brain" [Macbeth];
- parsque est meminisse doloris [Lat][Ovid]; "to live in hearts we leave
- behind is not to die" [Campbell]; vox audita peril littera scripta manet
- [Lat]; out of sight, out of mind.
-
-
- #506. Oblivion.-- N. oblivion, obliviousness, lethe; forgetfulness &c.
- adj.; amnesia; obliteration &c. 552 of , insensibility &c. 823 to the past.
- short memory, treacherous memory, poor memory, loose memory, slippery
- memory, failing memory; decay of memory, failure of memory, lapse of
- memory; waters of Lethe, waters of oblivion.
- amnesty, general pardon.
- [deliberate or unconscious forgetting] repressed memory.
- V. forget; be forgetful &c. adj.; fall into oblivion, sink into
- oblivion; have a short memory &c. n., have no head.
- forget one's own name, have on the tip of one's tongue, come in one
- ear and go out the other.
- slip memory, escape memory, fade from memory, die away from the
- memory; lose, lose sight of.
- fail to recall, not be able to recall.
- [cause oneself to forget: transitive] unlearn; efface &c. 552 ,
- discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the
- Capulets; think no more of &c. (turn the attention from) 458; cast behind
- one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones &c.(forgive)
- 918.
- Adj. forgotten &c. v.; unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of
- mind; buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten; gone out of
- one's head, gone out of one's recollection.
- forgetful, oblivious, mindless, Lethean; insensible &c. 823 to the
- past; heedless.
- Phr. non mi ricordo[It]; the memory failing, the memory deserting one,
- being at (or in) fault.
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-
- #507. Expectation. -- N. expectation, expectance, expectancy;
- anticipation, reckoning, calculation; foresight &c. 510.
- contemplation, prospection[obs3], lookout; prospect, perspective,
- horizon, vista; destiny &c. 152.
- suspense, waiting, abeyance; curiosity &c. 455; anxious expectation,
- ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine
- expectation; torment of Tantalus.
- hope &c. 858; trust &c. (belief) 484; auspices &c. (prediction) 511;
- assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance.
- V. expect; look for, look out for, look forward to; hope for;
- anticipate; have in prospect, have in contemplation; keep in view;
- contemplate, promise oneself; not wonder &c. 870 at, not wonder if.
- wait for, tarry for, lie in wait for, watch for, bargain for; keep a
- good lookout for, keep a sharp lookout for; await; stand at "attention,"
- abide, bide one's time, watch.
- foresee &c. 510; prepare for &c. 673; forestall &c. (be early) 132;
- count upon &c. (believe in) 484; think likely &c. (probability) 472.
- lead one to expect &c. (predict) 511; have in store for &c. (destiny)
- 152.
- prick up one's ears, hold one's breath.
- Adj. expectant; expecting &c. v.; in expectation &c. n.; on the watch
- &c. (vigilant) 459; open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation;
- agape, gaping, all agog; on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of
- expectation; aux aguets[obs3]; ready; curious &c. 455; looking forward to.
- expected &c. v.; long expected, foreseen; in prospect &c. n.;
- prospective; in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon,
- just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner; impending
- &c. (destiny) 152.
- Adv. on the watch &c. adj.; with breathless expectation &c. n.; with
- bated breath, with rapt anticipation; arrectis auribus[Lat].
- Phr. we shall see; nous verrons[Fr]; "expectation whirls me round"
- [Troilus and Cressida]; the light at the end of the tunnel.
-
- #508. Inexpectation. -- N. inexpectation[obs3], non-expectation; false
- expectation &c. (disappointment) 509; miscalculation &c. 481.
- surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start; bolt out of
- the blue; wonder &c. 870; eye opener.
- unpleasant surprise, pleasant surprise.
- V. not expect &c. 507; be taken by surprise; start; miscalculate &c.
- 481; not bargain for; come upon, fall upon.
- be unexpected &c. adj.; come unawares &c. adv.; turn up, pop, drop
- from the clouds; come upon one, burst upon one, flash upon one, bounce upon
- one, steal upon one, creep upon one; come like a thunder clap, burst like a
- thunderclap, thunder bolt; take by surprise, catch by surprise, catch
- unawares, catch napping; yach [obs3][S. Africa].
- pounce upon, spring a mine upon.
- surprise, startle, take aback, electrify, stun, stagger, take away
- one's breath, throw off one's guard; astonish, dumbfound &c. (strike with
- wonder) 870.
- Adj. nonexpectant[obs3]; surprised &c. v.; unwarned, unaware; off
- one's guard; inattentive 458.
- unexpected, unanticipated, unpredicted[obs3], unlooked for,
- unforeseen, unhoped for; dropped from the clouds; beyond expectation,
- contrary to expectation, against expectation, against all expectation; out
- of one's reckoning; unheard of &c. (exceptional) 83; startling, surprising;
- sudden &c. (instantaneous) 113.
- unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519.
- Adv. abruptly, unexpectedly, surprisingly; plump, pop, a
- l'improviste[Fr], unawares; without notice, without warning, without a "by
- your leave"; like a thief in the night, like a thunderbolt; in an unguarded
- moment; suddenly &c. (instantaneously) 113.
- Int. heydey[obs3]! &c. (wonder) 870.
- Phr. little did one think, little did one expect; nobody would ever
- suppose, nobody would ever think, nobody would ever expect; who would have
- thought? it beats the Dutch|!.
-
- #509. [Failure of expectation.] Disappointment.-- N. disappointment;
- blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip;
- nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment;
- trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation;
- miscalculation &c. 481; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.
- V. be disappointed; look blank, look blue; look aghast, stand aghast
- &c. (wonder) 870; find to one's cost; laugh on the wrong side of one's
- mouth; find one a false prophet.
- not realize one's hope, not realize one's expectation.
- [cause to be disappointed] disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush,
- defeat (failure) 732; crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope,
- disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's
- hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the
- cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder
- (astonish) 870.
- Adj. disappointed &c. v.; disconcerted, aghast; disgruntled; out of
- one's reckoning.
- Phr. the mountain labored and brought forth a mouse; parturiunt
- montes[Lat]; nascitur ridiculus mus [Lat][Horace]; diis aliter
- visum[Lat][obs3], the bubble burst; one's countenance falling.
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-
- #510. Foresight. -- N. foresight, prospicience[obs3], prevision, long-
- sightedness; anticipation; providence &c. (preparation) 673.
- forethought, forecast; predeliberation[obs3], presurmise[obs3];
- foregone conclusion &c. (prejudgment) 481; prudence &c. (caution) 864.
- foreknowledge; prognosis; precognition, prescience, prenotion[obs3],
- presentiment; second sight; sagacity &c. (intelligence) 498;
- antepast[obs3], prelibation[obs3], prophasis[obs3].
- prospect &c. (expectation) 507; foretaste; prospectus &c. (plan) 626.
- V. foresee; look forwards to, look ahead, look beyond; scent from
- afar; look into the future, pry into the future, peer into the future.
- see one's way; see how the land lies, get the lay of the land, see how
- the wind blows, test the waters, see how the cat jumps.
- anticipate; expect &c. 507; be beforehand &c. (early) 132; predict &c.
- 511; foreknow, forejudge, forecast; presurmise[obs3]; have an eye to the
- future, have an eye to the main chance; respicere finem[Lat]; keep a sharp
- lookout &c. (vigilance) 459; forewarn &c. 668.
- Adj. foreseeing &c. v.; prescient; farseeing, farsighted; sagacious
- &c. (intelligent) 498; weatherwise[obs3]; provident &c. (prepared) 673;
- prospective &c. 507.
- Adv. against the time when.
- Phr. cernit omnia Deus vindex[Lat]; mihi cura futuri[Lat]; run it up
- the flagpole and see who salutes.
-
-
- #511. Prediction.-- N. prediction, announcement; program, programme
- &c. (plan) 626[Brit]; premonition &c. (warning) 668; prognosis, prophecy,
- vaticination, mantology[obs3], prognostication, premonstration|; augury,
- auguration|; ariolation|, hariolation|; foreboding, aboding[obs3];
- bodement[obs3], abodement[obs3]; omniation|, omniousness[obs3]; auspices,
- forecast; omen &c. 512; horoscope, nativity; sooth[obs3], soothsaying;
- fortune telling, crystal gazing; divination; necromancy &c. 992.
- [Divination by the stars] astrology[obs3], horoscopy[obs3], judicial
- astrology1[obs3].
- [obs3] adytum[Place of prediction].
- prefiguration[obs3], prefigurement; prototype, type.
- [person who predicts] oracle &c. 513.
- V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell,
- soothsay, augurate[obs3], tell fortunes; cast a horoscope, cast a nativity;
- advise; forewarn &c. 668.
- presage, augur, bode; abode, forebode; foretoken, betoken; prefigure,
- preshow[obs3]; portend; foreshow[obs3], foreshadow; shadow forth, typify,
- pretypify[obs3], ominate[obs3], signify, point to.
- usher in, herald, premise, announce; lower.
- hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite
- hope; bid fair, promise, lead one to expect; be the precursor &c 64.
- [predict by mathematical or statistical means from past experience]
- extrapolate, project.
- Adj. predicting &cv.; predictive, prophetic; fatidic[obs3],
- fatidical[obs3]; vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent[obs3], haruspical,
- Sibylline; weatherwise[obs3].
- ominous, portentous, augurous[obs3], augurial, augural;
- auspicial[obs3], auspicious; prescious[obs3], monitory, extispicious[obs3],
- premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of.
- Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before" [Campbell]; dicamus
- bona verba[Lat]; "there buds the promise of celestial worth" [Young].
-
- [1] The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination,
- have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious
- illustration of bygone superstitions:-
- Divination by oracles, Theomancy[obs3]; by the Bible, Bibliomancy; by
- ghosts, Psychomancy[obs3]; by crystal gazing, Crystallomancy[obs3]; by
- shadows or manes, Sciomancy; by appearances in the air, Aeromancy[obs3],
- Chaomancy[obs3]; by the stars at birth, Genethliacs; by meteors,
- Meteoromancy[obs3]; by winds, Austromancy[obs3]; by sacrificial
- appearances, Aruspicy (or Haruspicy)[obs3], Hieromancy[obs3],
- Hieroscopy[obs3]; by the entrails of animals sacrificed, Extispicy[obs3],
- Hieromancy[obs3]; by the entrails of a human sacrifice,
- Anthropomancy[obs3]; by the entrails of fishes, Ichthyomancy[obs3]; by
- sacrificial fire, Pyromancy[obs3]; by red-hot iron, Sideromancy[obs3]; by
- smoke from the altar, Capnomancy[obs3]; by mice, Myomancy[obs3]; by birds,
- Orniscopy[obs3], Ornithomancy[obs3]; by a cock picking up grains,
- Alectryomancy (or Alectromancy)[obs3]; by fishes, Ophiomancy[obs3]; by
- herbs, Botanomancy[obs3]; by water, Hydromancy[obs3]; by fountains,
- Pegomancy[obs3]; by a wand, Rhabdomancy; by dough of cakes,
- Crithomancy[obs3]; by meal, Aleuromancy[obs3], Alphitomancy[obs3]; by salt,
- Halomancy[obs3]; by dice, Cleromancy[obs3]; by arrows, Belomancy[obs3]; by
- a balanced hatchet, Axinomancy[obs3]; by a balanced sieve,
- Coscinomancy[obs3]; by a suspended ring, Dactyliomancy[obs3]; by dots made
- at random on paper, Geomancy[obs3]; by precious stones, Lithomancy[obs3];
- by pebbles, Pessomancy[obs3]; by pebbles drawn from a heap,
- Psephomancy[obs3]; by mirrors, Catoptromancy[obs3]; by writings in ashes,
- Tephramancy[obs3]; by dreams, Oneiromancy[obs3]; by the hand, Palmistry,
- Chiromancy; by nails reflecting the sun's rays, Onychomancy[obs3]; by
- finger rings, Dactylomancy[obs3]; by numbers, Arithmancy[obs3]; by drawing
- lots, Sortilege[obs3]; by passages in books, Stichomancy[obs3]; by the
- letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy[obs3], Nomancy; by the
- features, Anthroposcopy[obs3]; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy[obs3]; by
- ventriloquism, Gastromancy[obs3]; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy[obs3];
- by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy[obs3]; by currents, Bletonism;
- by the color and peculiarities of wine, Oenomancy[obs3].
-
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-
- #512. Omen.-- N. omen, portent, presage, prognostic, augury, auspice;
- sign &c. (indication) 550; harbinger &c. (precursor) 64; yule candle|!.
- bird of ill omen; signs of the times; gathering clouds; warning &c.
- 668.
- prefigurement &c. 511.
- Adj. ill-boding.
- Phr. auspicium melioris aevi[Lat][obs3].
-
- #513. Oracle.-- N. oracle; prophet, prophesier, seer, soothsayer,
- augur, fortune teller, crystal gazer[obs3], witch, geomancer[obs3],
- aruspex[obs3]; aruspice[obs3], haruspice[obs3]; haruspex; astrologer, star
- gazer[obs3]; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness[obs3]; Pythia; Pythian oracle,
- Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra[obs3], Sibylline
- leaves; Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer &c. 994; interpreter &c. 524.
- [person who predicts by non-mystical (natural) means] predictor,
- prognosticator, forecaster; weather forecaster, weatherman.
- Phr. a prophet is without honor in his own country; "you don't need a
- weatherman to know which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan].
-
-
- SECTION VII. CREATIVE THOUGHT
-
- #514. Supposition.-- N. supposition, assumption, assumed position,
- postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis,
- postulate, postulatum[Lat], theory; thesis, theorem; data; proposition,
- position; proposal &c. (plan) 626; presumption &c. (belief) 484;
- divination.
- conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in
- the dark [coll.]; conjecturality[obs3]; surmise, suspicion, sneaking
- suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness) 197.
- inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare
- supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion.
- association of ideas, (analogy) 514a; metonym[Gram], metonymy[Gram],
- simile (metaphor) 521.
- conceit, idea, thought; original idea, invention (imagination) 515.
- V. suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine; theorize;
- presume, presurmise[obs3], presuppose; assume, fancy, wis[obs3], take it;
- give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take
- for granted; imagine &c. 515.
- put forth; propound, propose; start, put a case, submit, move, make a
- motion; hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put
- forward conjecture.
- allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head.
- suggest itself &c. (thought) 451; run in the head &c. (memory) 505;
- marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether.
- Adj. supposing &c. v.; given, mooted, postulatory[obs3]; assumed &c.
- v.; supposititious, suppositive[obs3], suppositious; gratuitous,
- speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable,
- presumptive, putative; suppositional.
- suggestive, allusive.
- Adv. if, if so be; an; on the supposition &c. n.;ex hypothesi[Lat]; in
- the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps &c. (by
- possibility) 470; for aught one knows.
-
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- <-- under creative thought we should include a separate section on analogy,
- metaphor, association etc. distinct from 521?? -->
- #514a Analogy -- N. analogy, association, association of ideas.
- metaphor &c. 521.
- analogical thinking; free association; train of thought, .
- Adj. analogical.
-
- #515. Imagination. -- N. imagination; originality; invention; fancy;
- inspiration; verve.
- warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine
- imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination,
- wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful
- imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy.
- "mind's eye"; "such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest].
- ideality, idealism; romanticism, utopianism, castle-building.
- dreaming; phrensy[obs3], frenzy; ecstasy, extasy[obs3]; calenture &c.
- (delirium) 503[obs3]; reverie, trance; day dream, golden dream;
- somnambulism.
- conception, Vorstellung[Ger], excogitation[obs3], "a fine frenzy";
- cloudland[obs3], dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming
- fancies" [Macbeth]; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery.
- conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera;
- phantasm, phantasy; fantasy, fancy; whim, whimsey[obs3], whimsy; vagary,
- rhapsody, romance, gest[obs3], geste[obs3], extravaganza; air drawn dagger,
- bugbear, nightmare.
- flying Dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the
- air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en Espagne[Fr]; Utopia,
- Atlantis[obs3], happy valley, millennium, fairyland; land of Prester John,
- kindgom of Micomicon; work of fiction &c. (novel) 594; Arabian
- nights[obs3]; le pot au lait[Fr]; dream of Alnashar &c. (hope) 858[obs3].
- illusion &c. (error) 495; phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata
- Morgana &c. (ignis fatuus) 423[Lat]; vapor &c. (cloud) 353; stretch of the
- imagination &c. (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis[obs3].
- idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus[obs3]; romancer, dreamer;
- somnambulist; rhapsodist &c. (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful
- projector.
- V. imagine, fancy, conceive; idealize, realize; dream, dream of, dream
- up; "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's
- Dream].
- create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike
- out something new.
- set one's wits to work; strain one's invention, crack one's invention;
- rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains;
- excogitate[obs3]; brainstorm.
- give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give
- fancy; indulge in reverie.
- visualize, envision, conjure up a vision; fancy oneself, represent
- oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself; vorstellen[Ger].
- float in the mind; suggest itself &c. (thought) 451.
- Adj. imagined &c. v.; ben trovato[It]; air drawn, airbuilt[obs3].
- imagining &cv. v, imaginative; original, inventive, creative, fertile.
- romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic,
- unrealistic, Utopian, Quixotic.
- ideal, unreal; in the clouds, in nubibus[Lat]; unsubsantial[obs3] &c.
- 4; illusory &c. (fallacious) 495.
- fabulous, legendary; mythical, mythic, mythological; chimerical;
- imaginary, visionary; notional; fancy, fanciful, fantastic,
- fantastical[obs3]; whimsical; fairy, fairy-like; gestic[obs3].
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron]; aegri somnia
- vana[Lat][obs3]; dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum
- [obs3][Latin][Horace]; "fancy light from fancy caught" [Tennyson];
- "imagination rules the world" [Napoleon]; l'imagination gallope[Fr], le
- jugement ne va que le pas[French]; musaeo contingens cuncta lepore
- [Latin][Lucretius]; tous songes sont mensonges[French]; Wahrheil und
- Dichtung[German].
-
-
- DIVISION (II) COMMUNICATION OF IDEAS
-
- SECTION I. NATURE OF IDEAS COMMUNICATED.
-
- #516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning. [Thing signified.] -- N.
- meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport;
- force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
- [important part of the meaning] substance; gist, essence, marrow,
- spirit &c. 5.
- matter; subject, subject matter; argument, text, sum and substance.
- general meaning, broad meaning, substantial meaning, colloquial
- meaning, literal meaning, plain meaning, simple meaning, natural meaning,
- unstrained meaning, true &c. (exact) 494 meaning, honest &c. 543 meaning,
- prima facie &c. (manifest) 525 meaning[Lat]; letter of the law.
- literally; after acceptation.
- synonym; implication, allusion &c. (latency) 526; suggestion &c.
- (information) 527; figure of speech &c. 521; acceptation &c.
- (interpretation) 522.
- V. mean, signify, express; import, purport; convey, imply, breathe,
- indicate, bespeak, bear a sense; tell of, speak of; touch on; point to,
- allude to; drive at; involve &c. (latency) 526; declare &c. (affirm) 535.
- understand by &c. (interpret) 522.
- Adj. meaning &c. v.; expressive, suggestive, allusive; significant,
- significative[obs3], significatory[obs3]; pithy; full of meaning, pregnant
- with meaning.
- declaratory &c. 535; intelligible &c. 518; literal; synonymous;
- tantamount &c. (equivalent) 27; implied &c. (latent) 526; explicit &c. 525.
- Adv. to that effect; that is to say &c. (being interpreted) 522.
-
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-
- #517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness. -- N. meaninglessness,
- unmeaningness &c. adj[obs3].; scrabble.
- empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil[Lat]; "a tale told by
- an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"; "sounding brass and
- a tinkling cymbal."
- nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words,
- hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery,
- verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin[obs3], platitude, niaiserie[obs3];
- inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae[Lat];
- twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff,
- stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle;
- absurdity &c. 497; vagueness &c. (unintelligibility) 519.
- [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp.
- legal] boilerplate.
- V. mean nothing; be unmeaning &c. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble.
- Adj. unmeaning; meaningless, senseless; nonsensical; void of sense &c.
- 516.
- inexpressive, unexpressive; vacant; not significant &c. 516;
- insignificant.
- trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling.
- unmeant, not expressed; tacit &c. (latent) 526.
- inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.
-
- #518. Intelligibility. -- N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness
- &c. adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain
- speaking &c. (manifestation) 525; precision &c. 494; <gr/phonanta
- synetoisy/gr>[Grk][Grk]; a word to the wise.
- V. be intelligible &c. adj.; speak for itself, speak volumes; tell its
- own tale, lie on the surface.
- render intelligible &c. adj.; popularize, simplify, clear up;
- elucidate &c. (explain) 522.
- understand, comprehend, take, take in; catch, grasp, follow, collect,
- master, make out; see with half an eye, see daylight, see one's way; enter
- into the ideas of; come to an understanding.
- Adj. intelligible; clear, clear as day, clear as noonday; lucid;
- perspicuous, transpicuous[obs3]; luminous, transparent.
- easily understood, easy to understand, for the million, intelligible
- to the meanest capacity, popularized.
- plain, distinct, explicit; positive; definite &c. (precise) 494.
- graphic; expressive &c. (meaning) 516; illustrative &c. (explanatory)
- 522.
- unambiguous, unequivocal, unmistakable &c. (manifest) 525; unconfused;
- legible, recognizable; obvious &c. 525.
- Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English.
- Phr. he that runs may read &c. (manifest) 525.
-
-
- #519. Unintelligibility.-- N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility,
- imperspicuity[obs3]; inconceivableness, vagueness &c. adj.; obscurity;
- ambiguity &c. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty &c. 475; perplexity &c.
- (confusion) 59; spinosity[obs3]; obscurum per obscurius[Lat]; mystification
- &c. (concealment) 528; latency &c. 526; transcendentalism.
- paradox, oxymoron; riddle, enigma, puzzle &c. (secret) 533; diagnus
- vindice nodus[Lat]; sealed book; steganography[obs3], freemasonry.
- pons asinorum[Lat], asses' bridge; high Dutch, Greek, Hebrew; jargon
- &c. (unmeaning) 517.
- V. be unintelligible &c. adj.; require explanation &c. 522; have a
- doubtful meaning, pass comprehension.
- render unintelligible &c. adj.; conceal &c 528; darken &c. 421;
- confuse &c. (derange) 61; perplex &c. (bewilder)
- 475.
- not understand &c. 518; lose, lose the clue; miss; not know what to
- make of, be able to make nothing of, give it up; not be able to account
- for, not be able to make either head or tail of; be at sea &c. (uncertain)
- 475; wonder &c. 870; see through a glass darkly &c. (ignorance) 491.
- not understand one another; play at cross purposes &c. (misinterpret)
- 523.
- Adj. unintelligible, unaccountable, undecipherable, undiscoverable,
- unknowable, unfathomable; incognizable[obs3], inexplicable, inscrutable;
- inapprehensible[obs3], incomprehensible; insolvable[obs3], insoluble;
- impenetrable.
- illegible, as Greek to one, unexplained, paradoxical; enigmatic,
- enigmatical, puzzling (secret) 533; indecipherable.
- obscure, dark, muddy, clear as mud, seen through a mist, dim,
- nebulous, shrouded in mystery; ; opaque, dense; undiscernible &c.
- (invisible) 447[obs3]; misty &c. (opaque) 426; hidden &c 528; latent &c
- 526.
- indefinite, garbled &c (indistinct) 447; perplexed &c. (confused) 59;
- undetermined, vague, loose, ambiguous; mysterious; mystic, mystical;
- acroamatic[obs3], acroamatical[obs3]; metempirical; transcendental; occult,
- recondite, abstruse, crabbed.
- inconceivable, inconceptible[obs3]; searchless[obs3]; above
- comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's
- depth; unconceived.
- inexpressible, undefinable, incommunicable.
- unpredictable, unforeseeable.
- Phr. it's Greek to me.
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-
- #520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness.-- N. equivocalness &c
- adj.; double meaning &c. 516; ambiguity, double entente, double
- entendre[Fr], pun, paragram[obs3], calembour[obs3], quibble, equivoque[Fr],
- anagram; conundrum &c (riddle) 533; play on words, word play &c. (wit) 842;
- homonym, homonymy[Gram]; amphiboly[obs3], amphibology[obs3];
- ambilogy[obs3], ambiloquy|.
- Sphinx, Delphic oracle.
- equivocation &c. (duplicity) 544; white lie, mental reservation &c.
- (concealment) 528; paltering.
- V. be -equivocal &c. adj.; have two meanings &c. 516; equivocate &c.
- (alter) 544.
- Adj. equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous[obs3], homonymous[obs3];
- double-tongued &c. (lying) 544; enigmatical, indeterminate.
- Phr. on the one hand, on the other hand.
-
- #521. Metaphor.-- N. figure of speech; facon de parler [French], way
- of speaking, colloquialism.
- phrase &c. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage[obs3],
- catachresis[obs3]; metonymy[Gram], synecdoche[Semant]; autonomasia|!,
- irony, figurativeness &c. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis[obs3], type,
- anagoge[obs3], simile, personification, prosopopoeia[obs3], allegory,
- apologue[obs3], parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.
- exaggeration , hyperbole &c. 549.
- association, association of ideas (analogy) 514a
- V. employ -metaphor &c. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow
- forth, apply, allude to.
- Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical[obs3], typical,
- tralatitious[obs3], parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical[obs3];
- ironical; colloquial; tropical.
- Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.
- Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat][Horace].
-
- #522. Interpretation. -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation,
- explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple
- interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c. 516.
- translation; rendering, rendition; redition[obs3]; literal
- translation, free translation; key; secret; clew &c. (indication) 550;
- clavis[obs3], crib, pony, trot [U.S.].
- exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary;
- inference &c. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss,
- annotation, scholium[obs3], note; elucidation, dilucidation|;
- eclaircissement[Fr], mot d'enigme[Fr].
- [methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology[Med], semiology,
- semeiology[obs3], semiotics; metoposcopy[obs3], physiognomy; paleography
- &c. (philology) 560; oneirology
- acception[obs3], acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection,
- construction, version.
- equivalent, equivalent meaning &c. 516; synonym; paraphrase,
- metaphrase[obs3]; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c. 562;
- polyglot.
- V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into,
- turn into; transfuse the sense of.
- find out &c. 480a the meaning &c. 516 of; read; spell out, make out;
- decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve;
- read between the lines.
- account for; find the cause, tell the cause &c. 153 of;
- throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light
- upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.
- illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate;
- popularize &c. (render intelligible) 518.
- take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive
- in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a
- construction on, be given to understand.
- Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory;
- exegetical[obs3]; construable.
- polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic[obs3];
- consignificative[obs3], synonymous; equivalent &c. 27.
- Adv. in explanation &c. n.; that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit,
- namely, in other words.
- literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer
- words, in plainer English; more simply.
-
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-
- #523. Misinterpretation. -- N. misinterpretation, misapprehension,
- misunderstanding, misacceptation|, misconstruction, misapplication;
- catachresis[obs3]; eisegesis[obs3]; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake
- &c. 495.
- misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration &c. 549; false coloring,
- false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification &c.
- (lying) 544.
- V. misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell,
- mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake &c. 495.
- misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble &c. (falsify)
- 544; distort, detort|; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain
- the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest
- the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false
- construction on; give a false coloring.
- be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes.
- Adj. misinterpreted &c. v.; untranslated, untranslatable.
-
-
- #524. Interpreter.-- N. interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent,
- explainer; demonstrator.
- scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast[obs3], paraphrast[obs3];
- glossarist[obs3], prolocutor.
- spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece.
- dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman;
- oneirocritic[obs3]; (Edipus; oracle &c. 513)
-
-
- SECTION II. MODES OF COMMUNICATION
-
- #525. Manifestation.-- N. {ant. 526} manifestation; plainness &c.
- adj.; plain speaking; expression; showing &c. v.; exposition,
- demonstration; exhibition, production; display, show; showing off;
- premonstration|. exhibit[Thing shown].
- indication &c. (calling attention to) 457. publicity &c. 531;
- disclosure &c. 529; openness &c. (honesty) 543, (artlessness) 703;
- panchement.
- evidence &c. 467.
- V. make manifest, render manifest &c. adj.; bring forth, bring
- forward, bring to the front, bring into view; give notice; express;
- represent, set forth, exhibit; show, show up ; expose; produce; hold up to
- view, expose to view; set before one, place before one, lay before one,
- one's eyes; tell to one's face; trot out, put through one's paces, bring to
- light, display, demonstrate, unroll; lay open; draw out, bring out; bring
- out in strong relief; call into notice, bring into notice; hold up the
- mirror; wear one's heart upon his sleeve; show one's face, show one's
- colors; manifest oneself; speak out; make no mystery, make no secret of;
- unfurl the flag; proclaim &c. (publish) 531.
- indicate &c. (direct attention to) 457; disclose &c. 529; elicit &c.
- 480a.
- be manifest &c. adj.; appear &c. (be visible) 446; transpire &c. (be
- disclosed) 529; speak for itself, stand to reason; stare one in the face,
- rear its head; give token, give sign, give indication of; tell its own tale
- &c. (intelligible) 518.
- Adj. manifest, apparent; salient, striking, demonstrative, prominent,
- in the foreground, notable, pronounced.
- flagrant; notorious &c. (public) 531; arrant; stark staring; unshaded,
- glaring.
- defined, definite.
- distinct, conspicuous &c. (visible) 446; obvious, evident,
- unmistakable, indubitable, not to be mistaken, palpable, self-evident,
- autoptical[obs3]; intelligible &c. 518.
- plain, clear, clear as day, clear as daylight, clear as noonday; plain
- as a pike staff, plain as the sun at noon-day, plain as the nose on one's
- face, plain as the way to parish church.
- explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day;
- naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric.
- unreserved, frank, plain-spoken &c. (artless) 703; candid (veracious)
- 543; barefaced.
- manifested &c. v.; disclosed &c. 529; capable of being shown,
- producible; inconcealable[obs3], unconcealable; no secret.
- Adv. manifestly, openly &c. adj.; before one's eyes, under one's nose,
- to one's face, face to face, above board, cartes sur table, on the stage,
- in open court, in the open streets; in market overt; in the face of day,
- face of heaven; in broad daylight, in open daylight; without reserve; at
- first blush, prima facie[Lat], on the face of; in set terms.
- Phr. cela saute aux yeux[French]; he that runs may read; you can see
- it with half an eye; it needs no ghost to tell us [Hamlet]; the meaning
- lies on the surface; cela va sans dire[Fr]; res ipsa loquitur[Lat];
- "clothing the palpable and familiar" [Coleridge]; fari quae sentiat[Lat];
- volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It]; "you don't need a weatherman to know
- which way the wind blows" [Bob Dylan].
-
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-
- #526. Latency. Implication. -- N. {ant. 525} latency,
- inexpression[obs3]; hidden meaning, occult meaning; occultness, mystery,
- cabala[obs3], anagoge[obs3]; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; concealment &c.
- 528; more than meets the eye, more than meets the ear; Delphic oracle; le
- dessous des cartes[Fr], undercurrent.
- implication, logical implication; logical consequence; entailment.
- allusion, insinuation; innuendo &c. 527; adumbration; "something
- rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet].
- snake in the grass &c. (pitfall) 667; secret &c. 533.
- darkness, invisibility, imperceptibility.
- V. be latent &c. adj.; lurk, smolder, underlie, make no sign; escape
- observation, escape detection, escape recognition; lie hid &c. 528.
- laugh in one's sleeve; keep back &c. (conceal) 528.
- involve, imply, understand, allude to, infer, leave an inference;
- entail; whisper &c. (conceal) 528.
- [understand the implication] read between the lines.
- Adj. latent; lurking &c.v.; secret &c. 528; occult; implied &c. v.;
- dormant; abeyant.
- unapparent, unknown, unseen &c. 441; in the background; invisible &c.
- 447; indiscoverable[obs3], dark; impenetrable &c. (unintelligible) 519;
- unspied[obs3], unsuspected.
- unsaid, unwritten, unpublished, unbreathed[obs3], untalked of[obs3],
- untold &c. 527, unsung, unexposed, unproclaimed[obs3], undisclosed &c. 529,
- unexpressed; not expressed, tacit.
- undeveloped, solved, unexplained, untraced[obs3], undiscovered &c.
- 480a, untracked, unexplored, uninvented[obs3].
- indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication;
- implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic[obs3];
- understood, underhand, underground; delitescent[obs3], concealed &c. 528.
- Adv. by a side wind; sub silentio[Lat]; in the background; behind the
- scenes, behind one's back; on the tip of one's tongue; secretly &c. 528;
- between the lines.
- Phr. "thereby hangs a tale" [As You Like It]; tacitum vivit sub
- pectore vulnus [Lat][Vergil]; where there's smoke, there's fire.
-
- #527. Information.-- N. information, enlightenment, acquaintance,
- knowledge &c. 490; publicity &c. 531; data &c. 467.
- communication, intimation; notice, notification; enunciation,
- annunciation; announcement; communiqu; representation, round robin,
- presentment.
- case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition; news &c. 532;
- return &c. (record) 551; account &c. (description) 594; statement &c.
- (affirmation) 535.
- mention; acquainting &c. v; instruction &c. (teaching) 537;
- outpouring; intercommunication, communicativeness.
- informant, authority, teller, intelligencer[obs3], reporter, exponent,
- mouthpiece;
- informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective; sleuth; mouchard[obs3],
- spy, newsmonger; messenger &c. 534; amicus curiae[Lat].
- valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide; guidebook, handbook; vade
- mecum[Latin]; manual; map, plan, chart, gazetteer; itinerary &c. (journey)
- 266.
- hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in
- the ear, subaudition[obs3], cue, byplay; gesture &c. (indication) 550;
- gentle hint, broad hint; verbum sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise];
- insinuation &c. (latency) 526.
- information theory.
- [units of information] bit, byte, word, doubleword[Comp], quad word,
- paragraph, segment.
- [information storage media] magnetic media, paper medium, optical
- media; random access memory, RAM; read-only memory, ROM; write once read
- mostly memory, WORM.
- V. tell; inform, inform of; acquaint, acquaint with; impart, impart
- to; make acquaintance with, apprise, advise, enlighten, awaken; transmit.
- let fall, mention, express, intimate, represent, communicate, make
- known; publish &c. 531; notify, signify, specify, convey the knowledge of.
- let one know, have one to know; give one to understand; give notice;
- set before, lay before, put before; point out, put into one's head; put one
- in possession of; instruct &c. (teach) 537; direct the attention to &c.
- 457.
- announce, annunciate; report, report progress; bringword[obs3], send
- word, leave word, write word; telegraph, telephone; wire; retail, render an
- account; give an account &c. (describe) 594; state &c (affirm) 535.
- [disclose inadvertently or reluctantly] let slip, blurt out, spill the
- beans, unburden oneself of, let off one's chest; disclose &c. 529.
- show cause; explain &c. (interpret) 522.
- hint; given an inkling of; give a hint, drop a hint, throw out a hint;
- insinuate; allude to, make allusion to; glance at; tip the wink &c.
- (indicate) 550; suggest, prompt, give the cue, breathe; whisper, whisper in
- the ear.
- give a bit of one's mind; tell one plainly, tell once for all; speak
- volumes.
- undeceive[obs3], unbeguile[obs3]; set right, correct, open the eyes
- of, disabuse, disillusion one of.
- be informed of &c.; know &c 490; learn &c. 539; get scent of, get wind
- of, gather from; awaken to, open one's eyes to; become alive, become awake
- to; hear, overhear, understand.
- come to one's ears, come to one's knowledge; reach one's ears.
- Adj. informed &c. v.; communique; reported &c. v.; published &c. 531.
- expressive &c. 516; explicit &c. (open) 525, (clear) 518; plain spoken
- &c, (artless) 703.
- nuncupative, nuncupatory|; declaratory, expository; enunciative[obs3];
- communicative, communicatory[obs3].
- Adv. from information received.
- Phr. a little bird told me; I heard it through the grapevine.
-
- #527a. Correction. [Correct an error of information; distinguish from
- correcting a flaw or misbehavior] -- N. correction.
- disillusionment &c. 616.
- V. correct, set right, set straight, put straight; undeceive[obs3];
- enlighten.
- show one one's error; point out an error, point out a fallacy; pick
- out an error, pick out the fallacy; open one's eyes.
- pick apart an argument, confutation &c. 479; reasoning &c. 476.
- Adj. corrective.
- Phr. I stand corrected.
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- #528. Concealment.-- N. concealment; hiding &c. v.; occultation,
- mystification.
- seal of secrecy; screen &c. 530; disguise &c. 530; masquerade; masked
- battery; hiding place &c. 530; cryptography, steganography[obs3];
- freemasonry.
- stealth, stealthiness, sneakiness; obreption|; slyness &c. (cunning)
- 702.
- latitancy[obs3], latitation[obs3]; seclusion &c. 893; privacy,
- secrecy, secretness[obs3]; incognita.
- reticence; reserve; mental reserve, reservation; arriere pensee[Fr],
- suppression, evasion, white lie, misprision; silence &c. (taciturnity) 585;
- suppression of truth &c. 544; underhand dealing; closeness, secretiveness
- &c. adj.; mystery.
- latency &c. 526; snake in the grass; secret &c. 533; stowaway.
- V. conceal, hide, secrete, put out of sight; lock up, seal up, bottle
- up.
- encrypt, encode, cipher.
- cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from
- sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close
- the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask;
- mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.
- keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep
- secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view,
- keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into
- background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a
- question; ignore &c. 460.
- keep a secret, keep one's own counsel; hold one's tongue &c. (silence)
- 585; make no sign, not let it go further; not breathe a word, not breathe a
- syllable about; not let the right hand know what the left is doing; hide
- one's light under a bushel, bury one's talent in a napkin.
- keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind,
- blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle &c. (render uncertain)
- 475; bamboozle &c. (deceive) 545.
- be concealed &c. v.; suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide
- oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu[Fr], lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush)
- 530; seclude oneself &c. 893; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into,
- steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep[obs3], play at hide and
- seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.
- Adj. concealed &c. v.; hidden; secret, recondite, mystic, cabalistic,
- occult, dark; cryptic, cryptical[obs3]; private, privy, in petto,
- auricular, clandestine, close, inviolate; tortuous.
- behind a screen &c. 530; undercover, under an eclipse; in ambush, in
- hiding, in disguise; in a cloud, in a fog, in a mist, in a haze, in a dark
- corner; in the shade, in the dark; clouded, wrapped in clouds, wrapt in
- clouds[obs3]; invisible &c.447; buried, underground, perdu[Fr]; secluded
- &c. 893.
- undisclosed &c. 529, untold &c. 527; covert &c. (latent) 526;
- untraceable; mysterious &c. (unintelligible) 519.
- irrevealable[obs3], inviolable; confidential; esoteric; not to be
- spoken of; unmentionable.
- obreptitious[obs3], furtive, stealthy, feline; skulking &c. v.;
- surreptitious, underhand, hole and corner; sly &c. (cunning). 702;
- secretive, evasive; reserved, reticent, uncommunicative, buttoned up;
- close, close as wax; taciturn &c. 585.
- Adv. secretly &c. adj.; in secret, in private, in one's sleeve, in
- holes and corners; in the dark &c. adj.
- januis clausis[Lat], with closed doors, a huis clos[Fr]; hugger
- mugger, a la derobee[Fr]; under the cloak of, under the rose, under the
- table; sub rosa[Lat], en tapinois[Fr], in the background, aside, on the
- sly, with bated breath, sotto voce[Lat], in a whisper, without beat of
- drum, a la sourdine[obs3].
- behind the veil; beyond mortal ken, beyond the grave, beyond the veil;
- hid from mortal vision; into the eternal secret, into the realms
- supersensible[obs3], into the supreme mystery.
- in confidence, in strict confidence, in strictest confidence;
- confidentially &c. adj.; between ourselves, between you and me; between you
- and me and the bedpost; entre nous[Fr], inter nos, under the seal of
- secrecy; a couvert[Fr].
- underhand, by stealth, like a thief in the night; stealthily &c. adj.;
- behind the scenes, behind the curtain, behind one's back, behind a screen
- &c. 530; incognito; in camera.
- Phr. it must go no further, it will go no further; don't tell a
- soul;"tell it not in Gath," nobody the wiser; alitur vitium vivitque
- tegendo[Lat][obs3]; "let it be tenable in your silence still"[Hamlet].
- [confidential disclosure to news reporters] background information,
- deep background information, deep background; background session,
- backgrounder; not for attribution
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- #529. Disclosure -- N. disclosure; retection|; unveiling &c.v.;
- deterration[obs3], revealment, revelation; exposition, exposure; expose;
- whole truth; telltale &c (news) 532.
- acknowledgment, avowal; confession, confessional; shrift.
- bursting of a bubble; denouement.
- [person who discloses a secret] tattletale, snitch, fink, stool
- pigeon, canary.
- V. disclose, discover, dismask|; draw the veil, draw aside the veil,
- lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear
- aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal,
- unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose;
- open, open up; bare, bring to light.
- divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch [all coll.];
- let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell &c
- (inform) 527; breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop,
- let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales,
- come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the
- lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out &c (make manifest) 525;
- make public &c 531; unriddle &c (find out) 480a; split.
- acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess,
- avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show
- one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind,
- disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay
- bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind[Fr]; unbosom oneself, own to
- the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or
- Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn* [U.S.].
- raise the mask, drop the mask, lift the mask, remove the mask, throw
- off the mask; expose; lay open; undeceive[obs3], unbeguile[obs3]; disabuse,
- set right, correct, open the eyes of; dsillusionner.
- be disclosed &c.; transpire, come to light; come in sight &c. (be
- visible) 446; become known, escape the lips; come out, ooze out, creep out,
- leak out, peep out, crop-out; show its face, show its colors; discover &c.
- itself; break through the clouds, flash on the mind.
- Adj. disclosed &c.v.; open, public &c. 525.
- Int.out with it!
- Phr. the murder is out; a light breaks in upon one; the scales fall
- from one's eyes; the eyes are opened.
-
- #530. Ambush [Means of concealment]. -- N. camouflage; mimicry; hiding
- place; secret place, secret drawer; recess, hold, holes and corners;
- closet, crypt, adytum[obs3], abditory[obs3], oubliette.
- ambush, ambuscade; stalking horse; lurking hole, lurking place; secret
- path, back stairs; retreat &c. (refuge) 666.
- screen, cover, shade, blinker; veil, curtain, blind, cloak, cloud.
- mask, visor, vizor[obs3], disguise, masquerade dress, domino.
- pitfall &c. (source of danger) 667; trap &c. (snare) 545.
- V. blend in, blend into the background.
- lie in ambush &c (hide oneself) 528; lie in wait for, lurk; set a trap
- for &c (deceive) 545; ambuscade, ambush.
- [transitive] camouflage.
- Adj. camouflaged, hidden, concealed.
- Adv. aux aguets[obs3].
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- #531. Publication.-- N. publication; public announcement &c 527;
- promulgation, propagation, proclamation, pronunziamento [Italian];
- circulation, indiction[obs3], edition; hue and cry.
- publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype; vox
- populi; report &c (news) 532.
- the Press, public press, newspaper, journal, gazette, daily;
- telegraphy; publisher &c v.; imprint.
- circular, circular letter; manifesto, advertisement, ad., placard,
- bill, affiche[obs3], broadside, poster; notice &c. 527.
- V. publish; make public, make known &c (information) 527; speak of,
- talk of; broach, utter; put forward; circulate, propagate, promulgate;
- spread, spread abroad; rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate; put forth,
- give forth, send forth; emit, edit, get out; issue; bring before the
- public, lay before the public, drag before the public; give out, give to
- the world; put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about,
- bruit about, blaze about; drag into the open day; voice.
- proclaim, herald, blazon; blaze abroad, noise abroad; sound a trumpet;
- trumpet forth, thunder forth; give tongue; announce with beat of drum,
- announce with flourish of trumpets; proclaim from the housetops, proclaim
- at Charing Cross.
- advertise, placard; post, post up afficher[obs3], publish in the
- Gazette, send round the crier.
- raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report; set news afloat.
- be published &c; be public, become public &c adj.; come out; go about,
- fly about, buzz about, blow about; get about, get abroad, get afloat, get
- wind; find vent; see the light; go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass
- current; go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the
- length and breadth of the land; virum volitare per ora[Lat]; pass from
- mouth to mouth; spread; run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.
- Adj. published &c.v.; current &c. (news) 532; in circulation, public;
- notorious; flagrant, arrant; open &c 525; trumpet-tongued; encyclical,
- encyclic[obs3], promulgatory[obs3]; exoteric.
- Adv. publicly &c. adj.; in open court, with open doors.
- Int. Oyez! O yes! notice!
- Phr. notice is hereby given; this is to give, these are to give
- notice; nomina stultorum parietibus haerent[Lat]; semel emissum volat
- irrevocabile verbum[Lat]..
-
- #532. News.-- N. news; information &c 527; piece of news[Fr], budget
- of news, budget of information; intelligence, tidings.
- word, advice, aviso[Sp], message; dispatch, despatch; telegram, cable,
- marconigram[obs3], wire, communication, errand, embassy.
- report, rumor, hearsay, on dit[Fr], flying rumor, news stirring, cry,
- buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire[Fr], scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle,
- table talk; tittle tattle; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.
- bulletin, fresh news, stirring news; glad tidings; flash, news just
- in; on-the-spot coverage; live coverage.
- old story, old news, stale news, stale story; chestnut*.
- narrator &c (describe) 594; newsmonger, scandalmonger; talebearer,
- telltale, gossip, tattler.
- [study of news reporting] journalism.
- [methods of conveying news] media, news media, the press, the
- information industry; newspaper, magazine, tract, journal, gazette,
- publication &c. 531; radio, television, ticker (electronic information
- transmission) .
- [organizations producing news reports] United Press International,
- UPI; Associated Press, AP; The Dow Jones News Service, DJ; The New York
- Times News Service, NYT[abbr]; Reuters [England]; TASS [Soviet Union]; The
- Nikkei [Japan].
- [person reporting news as a profession] newscaster, newsman,
- newswoman, reporter, journalist, correspondent, foreign correspondent,
- special correspondent, war correspondent, news team, news department;
- anchorman, anchorwoman[obs3]; sportscaster; weatherman.
- [officials providing news for an organization] press secretary, public
- relations department, public relations man.
- V. transpire &c (be disclosed) 529; rumor &c (publish) 531.
- Adj. many-tongued; rumored; publicly rumored, currently rumored,
- currently reported; rife, current, floating, afloat, going about, in
- circulation, in every one's mouth, all over the town.
- in progress; live; on the spot; in person.
- Adv. as the story goes, as the story runs; as they say, it is said; by
- telegraph, by wireless.
- Phr. "airy tongues that syllable men's names" [Milton]; what's up?;
- what's the latest?; what's new?; what's the latest poop?.
-
- #533. Secret.-- N. secret; dead secret, profound secret;
- arcanum[obs3], mystery; latency &c 526; Asian mystery[obs3]; sealed book,
- secrets of the prison house; le desous des cartes [Fr].
- enigma, riddle, puzzle, nut to crack, conundrum, charade, rebus,
- logogriph[obs3]; monogram, anagram; Sphinx; crux criticorum[Lat].
- maze, labyrinth, Hyrcynian wood; intricacy, meander.
- problem &c (question) 461; paradox &c (difficulty) 704;
- unintelligibility &c. 519; terra incognita &c. (ignorance) 491.
- Adj. secret &c. (concealed) 528; involved &c, 248; labyrinthine,
- labyrinthian[obs3], mazy.
- confidential; top secret.
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- #534. Messenger.-- N. messenger, envoy, emissary, legate; nuncio,
- internuncio[obs3]; ambassador &c (diplomatist) 758.
- marshal, flag bearer, herald, crier, trumpeter, bellman[obs3],
- pursuivant[obs3], parlementaire[Fr], apparitor[obs3].
- courier, runner; dak[obs3], estafette[obs3]; Mercury, Iris,
- Ariel[obs3].
- commissionaire[Fr]; errand boy, chore boy; newsboy.
- mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery; post, post
- office; letter bag; delivery service; United Parcel Service, UPS; Federal
- Express, Fedex.
- telegraph, telephone; cable, wire (electronic information
- transmission); carrier pigeon.
- [person reporting news: see news &c. 532] reporter, gentleman of the
- press, representative of the press; penny-a-liner; special correspondent,
- own correspondent; spy, scout; informer &c. 527.
-
- #535. Affirmation.-- N. affirmance, affirmation; statement,
- allegation, assertion, predication, declaration, word, averment;
- confirmation.
- asseveration, adjuration, swearing, oath, affidavit; deposition &c
- (record) 551; avouchment; assurance; protest, protestation; profession;
- acknowledgment &c. (assent) 488; legal pledge, pronouncement; solemn
- averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration.
- remark, observation; position &c. (proposition) 514, saying, dictum,
- sentence, ipse dixit[Lat].
- emphasis; weight; dogmatism &c. (certainty) 474; dogmatics &c 887.
- V. assert; make an assertion &c n.; have one's say; say, affirm,
- predicate, declare, state; protest, profess.
- put forth, put forward; advance, allege, propose, propound, enunciate,
- broach, set forth, hold out, maintain, contend, pronounce, pretend.
- depose, depone, aver, avow, avouch, asseverate, swear; make oath, take
- one's oath; make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit;
- take one's Bible oath, kiss the book, vow, vitam impendere vero[Lat]; swear
- till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear
- till all's blue; be sworn, call Heaven to witness; vouch, warrant, certify,
- assure, swear by bell book and candle.
- swear by &c (believe) 484; insist upon, take one's stand upon;
- emphasize, lay stress on; assert roundly, assert positively; lay down, lay
- down the law; raise one's voice, dogmatize, have the last word; rap out;
- repeat; reassert, reaffirm.
- announce &c (information) 527; acknowledge &c (assent) 488; attest &c
- (evidence) 467; adjure &c (put to one's oath) 768.
- Adj. asserting &c.v.; declaratory, predicatory[obs3],
- pronunciative[obs3], affirmative, soi-disant[Fr]; positive; certain &c 474;
- express, explicit &c (patent) 525; absolute, emphatic, flat, broad, round,
- pointed, marked, distinct, decided, confident, trenchant, dogmatic,
- definitive, formal, solemn, categorical, peremptory; unretracted[obs3];
- predicable.
- Adv. affirmatively &c adj.; in the affirmative.
- with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction.
- as God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you,
- why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know;
- upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by
- Jove, by George, &c.; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober
- sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy[obs3], in all
- conscience, upon oath; be assured &c (belief) 484; yes &c (assent) 488;
- I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be
- bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking
- apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter.
- Phr. quoth he; dixi[Lat].
-
- #536. Negation. -- N. negation, abnegation; denial; disavowal,
- disclaimer; abjuration; contradiction, contravention;
- recusation[obs3][Law], protest; recusancy &c (dissent) 489; flat
- contradiction, emphatic contradiction, emphatic denial, dementi[Lat].
- qualification &c 469; repudiation &c 610; retraction &c 607;
- confutation &c 479; refusal &c 764; prohibition &c 761.
- V. deny; contradict, contravene; controvert, give denial to, gainsay,
- negative, shake the head.
- disown, disaffirm, disclaim, disavow; recant &c 607; revoke &c
- (abrogate) 756.
- dispute; impugn, traverse, rebut, join issue upon; bring in question,
- call in question &c. (doubt) 485; give (one) the lie in his throat.
- deny flatly, deny peremptorily, deny emphatically, deny absolutely,
- deny wholly, deny entirely; give the lie to, belie.
- repudiate &c 610; set aside, ignore &c 460; rebut &c. (confute) 479;
- qualify &c 469; refuse &c 764.
- recuse[Law].
- Adj. denying &c.v.; denied &c.v.; contradictory; negative, negatory;
- recusant &c (dissenting) 489; at issue upon.
- Adv. no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at
- all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way [coll.];
- no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the
- contrary, tout au contraire[Fr], far from it; tant s'en faut[Fr]; on no
- account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively.
- [negative with respect to time] never, never in a million years; at no
- time.
- Phr. there never was a greater mistake; I know better; non haec in
- faedera[Lat]; a thousand times no.
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- #537. Teaching.-- N. teaching &c.v.; instruction; edification;
- education; tuition; tutorage, tutelage; direction, guidance;
- opsimathy[obs3].
- qualification, preparation; training, schooling &c. v.; discipline;
- excitation.
- drill, practice; book exercise.
- persuasion, proselytism, propagandism[obs3], propaganda;
- indoctrination, inculcation, inoculation; advise &c. 695.
- explanation &c (interpretation) 522; lesson, lecture, sermon;
- apologue[obs3], parable; discourse, prolection[obs3], preachment; chalk
- talk; Chautauqua [U.S.].
- exercise, task; curriculum; course, course of study; grammar, three
- R's, initiation, A.B.C. &c (beginning) 66.
- elementary education, primary education, secondary education,
- technical education, college education, collegiate education, military
- education, university education, liberal education, classical education,
- religious education, denominational education, moral education, secular
- education; propaedeutics[obs3], moral tuition.
- gymnastics, calisthenics; physical drill, physical education;
- sloyd[obs3].
- [methods of teaching] phonics; rote, rote memorization, brute memory;
- cooperative learning; Montessori method, ungraded classes.
- [measuring degree of learning of pupils] test, examination, exam;
- final exam, mid-term exam grade[result of measurement of learning], score,
- marks; A,B,C,D,E,F; gentleman's C; pass, fail, incomplete.
- homework; take-home lesson; exercise for the student; theme, project.
- V. teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor; cram, prime, coach;
- enlighten &c (inform) 527.
- inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix,
- ingraft[obs3], infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds
- of, disseminate.
- given an idea of; put up to, put in the way of; set right.
- sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind; give new ideas, open the eyes,
- bring forward, "teach the young idea how to shoot" [Thomson]; improve &c.
- 658.
- expound &c (interpret) 522; lecture; read a lesson, give a lesson,
- give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse; incept[obs3]; hold forth,
- preach; sermonize, moralize; point a moral.
- train, discipline; bring up, bring up to; form, ground, prepare,
- qualify; drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture,
- drynurse[obs3], breed, rear, take in hand; break, break in; tame;
- preinstruct[obs3]; initiate; inure &c (habituate) 613.
- put to nurse, send to school.
- direct, guide; direct attention to &c. (attention) 457; impress upon
- the mind, impress upon the memory; beat into, beat into the head; convince
- &c (belief) 484.
- [instructional materials] book, workbook, exercise book.
- [unnecessary teaching] preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to
- suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs; preach to the converted.
- Adj. teaching &c.v; taught &c.v.; educational; scholastic, academic,
- doctrinal; disciplinal[obs3]; instructive, instructional, didactic;
- propaedeutic[obs3], propaedeutical[obs3].
- Phr. the schoolmaster abroad; a bovi majori disscit arare minor[Lat];
- adeo in teneris consuecere multum est [Lat][Vergil]; docendo discimus[Lat];
- quaenocent docent[Lat]; qui docet discit[Latin]; "sermons in stones and
- good in everything" [As You Like It].
-
- #538. Misteaching.-- N. misteaching[obs3], misinformaton,
- misintelligence[obs3], misguidance, misdirection, mispersuasion[obs3],
- misinstruction[obs3], misleading &c.v.; perversion, false teaching;
- sophistry &c 477; college of Laputa; the blind leading the blind.
- [misteaching by government agents] propaganda, disinformation,
- agitprop; indoctrination.
- V. misinform, misteach[obs3], misdescribe[obs3], misinstruct[obs3],
- miscorrect[obs3]; misdirect, misguide; pervert; put on a false scent, throw
- off the scent, throw off the trail; deceive &c 545; mislead &c (error) 495;
- misrepresent; lie &c 544; ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces [Lat][Vergil].
- propagandize, disinform.
- render unintelligible &c 519; bewilder &c (uncertainty) 475; mystify
- &c. (conceal) 528; unteach.
- [person or government agent who misteaches] propagandist.
- Adj. misteaching &c.v[obs3]; unedifying.
- Phr. piscem natare doces [Lat]; the blind leading the blind.
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-
- #539. Learning -- N. learning; acquisition of knowledge &c 490,
- acquisition of skill &c 698; acquirement, attainment; edification,
- scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self-
- instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry &c 451.
- apprenticeship, prenticeship[obs3]; pupilage, pupilarity[obs3];
- tutelage, novitiate, matriculation.
- docility &c (willingness) 602; aptitude &c 698.
- V. learn; acquire knowledge, gain knowledge, receive knowledge, take
- in knowledge, drink in knowledge, imbibe knowledge, pick up knowledge,
- gather knowledge, get knowledge, obtain knowledge, collect knowledge, glean
- knowledge, glean information, glean learning.
- acquaint oneself with, master; make oneself master of, make oneself
- acquainted with; grind, cram; get up, coach up; learn by heart, learn by
- rote.
- read, spell, peruse; con over, pore over, thumb over; wade through;
- dip into; run the eye over, run the eye through; turn over the leaves.
- study; be studious &c adj.
- [study intensely] burn the midnight oil, consume the midnight oil,
- mind one's book; cram.
- go to school, go to college, go to the university; matriculate; serve
- an (or one's) apprenticeship, serve one's time; learn one's trade; be
- informed &c 527; be taught &c 537.
- [stop going to school volunarily (intransitive)] drop out, leave
- school, quit school; graduate; transfer; take a leave.
- [cause to stop going to school (transitive)] dismiss, expel, kick out
- of school.
- [stop going to school involuntarily] flunk out; be dismissed &c.
- Adj. studious; scholastic, scholarly; teachable; docile &c (willing)
- 602; apt &c 698, industrious &c 682.
- Adv. at one's books; in statu pupillari &c (learner) 541[Lat].
- Phr. "a lumber-house of books in every head" [Pope]; ancora
- imparo[Lat][obs3]! "hold high converse with the mighty dead" [Thomson];
- "lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod" [Gay].
-
- #540. Teacher. -- N. teacher, trainer, instructor, institutor, master,
- tutor, director, Corypheus, dry nurse, coach, grinder, crammer, don;
- governor, bear leader; governess, duenna[Sp]; disciplinarian.
- professor, lecturer, reader, prelector[obs3], prolocutor, preacher;
- chalk talker, khoja[obs3]; pastor &c (clergy) 996; schoolmaster,
- dominie[Fr], usher, pedagogue, abecedarian; schoolmistress, dame, monitor,
- pupil teacher.
- expositor &c 524; preceptor, guide; guru; mentor &c (adviser) 695;
- pioneer, apostle, missionary, propagandist, munshi[obs3], example &c (model
- for imitation) 22.
- professorship &c (school) 542.
- tutelage &c (teaching) 537.
- Adj. professorial.
- Phr. qui doet discet[Lat].
-
- #541. Learner.-- N. learner, scholar, student, pupil; apprentice,
- prentice[obs3], journeyman; articled clerk; beginner, tyro, amateur, rank
- amateur; abecedarian, alphabetarian[obs3]; alumnus, eleve[Fr].
- recruit, raw recruit, novice, neophyte, inceptor[obs3], catechumen,
- probationer; seminarian, chela, fellow-commoner; debutant.
- [apprentice medical doctors] intern; resident.
- schoolboy; fresh, freshman, frosh; junior soph[obs3], junior; senior
- soph[obs3], senior; sophister[obs3], sophomore; questionist[obs3].
- [college and university students] undergraduate; graduate student; law
- student; medical student; pre-med; post-doctoral student, post-doc;
- matriculated student; part-time student, night student, auditor.
- [group of learners] class, grade, seminar, form, remove; pupilage &c
- (learning) 539.
- disciple, follower, apostle, proselyte; fellow-student,
- condisciple[obs3].
- [place of learning] school &c. 542.
- V. learn; practise.
- Adj. in statu pupillari[Lat], in leading strings.
- Phr. practise makes perfect.
-
- #542. School.-- N. school, academy, university, alma mater, college,
- seminary, Lyceum; institute, institution; palaestra, Gymnasium, class,
- seminar.
- day school, boarding school, preparatory school, primary school,
- infant school, dame's school, grammar school, middle class school, Board
- school, denominational school, National school, British and Foreign school,
- collegiate school, art school, continuation school, convent school, County
- Council school, government school, grant-in-aid school, high school, higher
- grade school, military school, missionary school, naval school, naval
- academy, state-aided school, technical school, voluntary school, school;
- school of art; kindergarten, nursery, creche, reformatory.
- pulpit, lectern, soap box desk, reading desk, ambo[obs3], lecture
- room, theater, auditorium, amphitheater, forum, state, rostrum, platform,
- hustings, tribune.
- school book, horn book, text book; grammar, primer, abecedary[obs3],
- rudiments, manual, vade mecum; encyclopedia, cyclopedia; Lindley Murray,
- Cocker; dictionary, lexicon.
- professorship, lectureship, readership, fellowship, tutorship; chair.
- School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of
- Studies, Prefect of Studies; Textbook Committee; propaganda.
- Adj. scholastic, academic, collegiate; educational.
- Adv. ex cathedra[Lat].
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- #543. Veracity.-- N. veracity; truthfulness, frankness, &c. adj.;
- truth, sincerity, candor, unreserve|!, honesty, fidelity; plain dealing,
- bona fides[Lat]; love of truth; probity &c. 939; ingenuousness &c
- (artlessness) 703.
- the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth; honest truth,
- sober truth &c (fact) 494; unvarnished tale; light of truth.
- V. speak the truth, tell the truth; speak by the card; paint in its
- true colors, show oneself in one's true colors; make a clean breast &c
- (disclose) 529; speak one's mind &c. (be blunt) 703; not lie &c 544, not
- deceive &c. 545.
- Adj. truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous &c (honorable)
- 939; sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open
- hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling
- &c (dissemble &c 544)[obs3]; guileless, pure; truth-loving;
- unperjured[obs3]; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned,
- bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous &c (artless) 703; undisguised &c (real)
- 494.
- uncontrived.
- Adv. truly &c (really) 494; in plain words &c 703; in truth, with
- truth, of a truth, in good truth; as the dial to the sun, as the needle to
- the pole; honor bright; troth; in good sooth[obs3], in good earnest;
- unfeignedly, with no nonsense, in sooth[obs3], sooth to say[obs3], bona
- fide, in foro conscientiae[Lat]; without equivocation; cartes sur table,
- from the bottom of one's heart; by my troth &c (affirmation) 535.
- Phr. di il vero a affronterai il diavolo[It][obs3]; Dichtung und
- Wahrheit[Ger]; esto quod esse videris[Lat]; magna est veritas et
- praevalet[Lat]; "that golden key that opes the palace of eternity"
- [Milton]; veritas odium parit[Lat]; veritatis simplex oratio est[Lat];
- verite sans peur[Fr].
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- false) and untruth in communication (lie, deception) -->
- #544. Falsehood. -- N. falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification;
- deception &c. 545; untruth &c 546; guile; lying &c. 454; untruth &c 546;
- guile; lying &c. v. misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing;
- forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption[obs3]; covin[obs3].
- perversion of truth, suppression of truth; suppressio veri[Lat];
- perversion, distortion, false coloring; exaggeration &c 549; prevarication,
- equivocation, shuffling, fencing, evasion, fraud; suggestio falsi &c (lie)
- 546[Lat]; mystification &c (concealment) 528; simulation &c (imitation) 19;
- dissimulation, dissembling; deceit; blague[obs3].
- sham; pretense, pretending, malingering.
- lip homage, lip service; mouth honor; hollowness; mere show, mere
- outside; duplicity, double dealing, insincerity, hypocrisy, cant, humbug;
- jesuitism, jesuitry; pharisaism; Machiavelism, "organized hypocrisy";
- crocodile tears, mealy-mouthedness[obs3], quackery; charlatanism[obs3],
- charlatanry; gammon; bun-kum[obs3], bumcombe, flam; bam*[obs3], flimflam,
- cajolery, flattery; Judas kiss; perfidy &c (bad faith) 940; il volto
- sciolto i pensieri stretti[It].
- unfairness &c (dishonesty) 940; artfulness &c (cunning) 702;
- misstatement &c (error) 495.
- V. be false &c adj., be a liar &c 548; speak falsely &c adv.; tell a
- lie &c. 546; lie, fib; lie like a trooper; swear false, forswear, perjure
- oneself, bear false witness.
- misstate, misquote, miscite[obs3], misreport, misrepresent; belie,
- falsify, pervert, distort; put a false construction upon &c. (misinterpret)
- prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding;
- repondre en Normand[Fr]; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about
- the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.
- garble, gloss over, disguise, give a color to; give a gloss, put a
- gloss, put false coloring upon; color, varnish, cook, dress up, embroider;
- varnish right and puzzle wrong; exaggerate &c 549; blague[obs3].
- invent, fabricate; trump up, get up; force, fake, hatch, concoct;
- romance &c (imagine) 515; cry "wolf!'
- dissemble, dissimulate; feign, assume, put on, pretend, make believe;
- play possum; play false, play a double game; coquet; act a part, play a
- part; affect &c. 855; simulate, pass off for; counterfeit, sham, make a
- show of; malinger; say the grapes are sour.
- cant, play the hypocrite, sham Abraham, faire pattes de velours, put
- on the mask, clean the outside of the platter, lie like a conjuror; hand
- out false colors, hold out false colors, sail under false colors; "commend
- the poisoned chalice to the lips" [Macbeth]; ambiguas in vulgum spargere
- voces [Lat]; deceive &c 545.
- Adj. false, deceitful, mendacious, unveracious, fraudulent, dishonest,
- faithless, truthless, trothless; unfair, uncandid; hollow-hearted; evasive;
- uningenuous, disingenuous; hollow, sincere, Parthis mendacior; forsworn.
- artificial, contrived; canting; hypocritical, jesuitical, pharisaical;
- tartuffish; Machiavelian; double, double tongued, double faced, double
- handed, double minded, double hearted, double dealing; Janus faced; smooth-
- faced, smooth spoken, smooth tongued; plausible; mealy-mouthed; affected &c
- 855.
- collusive, collusory; artful &c. (cunning) 702; perfidious &c 940;
- spurious &c (deceptive) 545; untrue &c 546; falsified &c v.; covinous.
- Adv. falsely &c adj.; a la tartufe, with a double tongue; silly &c
- (cunning) 702.
- Phr. blandae mendacia lingua[Lat]; falsus in uno falsus in
- omnibus[Lat]; "I give him joy that's awkward at a lie" [Young]; la mentira
- tiene las piernas cortas [Sp]; "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath"
- [Merchant of Venice].
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-
- #545. Deception. -- N. deception; falseness &c 544; untruth &c 546;
- imposition, imposture; fraud, deceit, guile; fraudulence,
- fraudulency[obs3]; covin[obs3]; knavery &c. (cunning) 702;
- misrepresentation &c (falsehood) 544; bluff; straw-bail, straw bid [U.S.];
- spoof*.
- delusion, gullery[obs3]; juggling, jugglery[obs3]; slight of hand,
- legerdemain; prestigiation|, prestidigitation; magic &c 992; conjuring,
- conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie[obs3], jockeyship[obs3]; trickery,
- coggery|, chicanery; supercherie[obs3], cozenage[obs3], circumvention,
- ingannation|, collusion; treachery &c 940; practical joke.
- trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch,
- chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded
- dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the
- bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem
- &c (artifice) 702; confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft &c. 791; ballot-box
- stuffing barney*[obs3][U.S.], brace* game, bunko game, drop* game, gum*
- game, panel game[U.S.]; shell game, thimblerig; skin* game [U.S.].
- snare, trap, pitfall, decoy, gin; springe[obs3], springle|; noose,
- hoot; bait, decoy-duck, tub to the whale, baited trap, guet-a-pens; cobweb,
- net, meshes, toils, mouse trap, birdlime; dionaea[obs3], Venus's
- flytrap[obs3]; ambush &c 530; trapdoor, sliding panel, false bottom;
- spring-net, spring net, spring gun, mask, masked battery; mine;
- flytrap[obs3]; green goods [U.S.]; panel house.
- Cornish hug; wolf in sheep's clothing &c (deceiver) 548; disguise,
- disguisement[obs3]; false colors, masquerade, mummery, borrowed plumes;
- pattes de velours[Fr].
- mockery &c (imitation) 19; copy &c 21; counterfeit, sham, make-
- believe, forgery, fraud; lie &c 546; "a delusion a mockery and a snare"
- [Denman], hollow mockery.
- whited sepulcher, painted sepulcher; tinsel; paste, junk jewelry,
- costume jewelry, false jewelry, synthetic jewels; scagliola[obs3], ormolu,
- German silver, albata[obs3], paktong[obs3], white metal, Britannia metal,
- paint; veneer; jerry building; man of straw.
- illusion &c (error) 495; ignis fatuus &c 423[Lat]; mirage &c 443.
- V. deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab,
- chouse, play one false, bilk, cully[obs3], jilt, bite, pluck, swindle,
- victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw
- dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool[obs3], bamboozle,
- flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.
- impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm
- upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush*,
- gum* [U.S.], spoof*, stuff (a ballot box) [U.S.].
- circumvent, overreach; outreach, out wit, out maneuver; steal a march
- upon, give the go-by, to leave in the lurch
- decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap[obs3],
- ensnare; nick, springe[obs3]; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait
- the hook, forelay[obs3], spread the toils, lime; trapan[obs3], trepan;
- kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle[obs3], nousel[obs3]; blind a trail; enmesh,
- immesh[obs3]; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle,
- illaqueate[obs3], hocus, escamoter[obs3], practice on one's credulity; hum,
- humbug; gammon, stuff up*, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical
- joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up,
- throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's
- errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of[obs3], make an ass
- of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over &c. (influence) 615; gild the
- pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble &c
- 544.
- cog, cog the dice, load the dice, stack the deck; live by one's wits,
- play at hide and seek; obtain money under false pretenses &c (steal) 791;
- conjure, juggle, practice chicanery; deacon [U.S.].
- play off, palm off, foist off, fob- off.
- lie &c 544; misinform &c 538; mislead &c (error) 495; betray &c 940;
- be deceived &c 547.
- Adj. deceived &c v.; deceiving &c; cunning &c 702; prestigious|,
- prestigiatory|; deceptive, deceptious[obs3]; deceitful, covinous[obs3];
- delusive, delusory; illusive, illusory; elusive, insidious, ad captandum
- vulgus[Lat].
- untrue &c 546; mock, sham, make-believe, counterfeit, snide*, pseudo,
- spurious, supposititious, so-called, pretended, feigned, trumped up, bogus,
- scamped, fraudulent, tricky, factitious;bastard; surreptitious,
- illegitimate, contraband, adulterated, sophisticated; unsound, rotten at
- the core; colorable; disguised; meretricious, tinsel, pinchbeck, plated;
- catchpenny; Brummagem.
- artificial, synthetic, ersatz[&German]; simulated &c 544.
- Adv. under false colors, under the garb of, under cover of; over the
- left.
- Phr. "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope"
- [Macbeth]; fronti nulla fides[Lat]; "ah that deceit should steal such
- gentle shapes" [Richard III]; "a quicksand of deceit" [Henry VI]; decipimur
- specie recti [Lat][Horace]; falsi crimen[Lat]; fraus est celare
- fraudem[Lat]; lupus in fabula[Lat]; "so smooth, he daubed his vice with
- show of virtue" [Richard III].
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-
- #546. Untruth.-- N. untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not,
- fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle[obs3], whopper; jhuth[obs3].
- forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation;
- perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi[Lat]; exaggeration &c
- 549.
- invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance &c
- (imagination) 515; absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up
- story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave,
- sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy
- tale, fake; claptrap.
- press agent's yarn; puff, puffery (exaggeration) 549.
- myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest,
- farce.
- irony; half truth, white lie, pious fraud; mental reservation &c
- (concealment) 528.
- pretense, pretext; false plea &c 617; subterfuge, evasion, shift,
- shuffle, make-believe; sham &c (deception) 545.
- profession, empty words; Judas kiss &c (hypocrisy) 544; disguise &c
- (mask) 530.
- V. have a false meaning.
- Adj. untrue, false, phony, trumped up; void of foundation, without-
- foundation; fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths; unfounded,
- ben trovato[It], invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged; fictitious,
- factitious, supposititious, surreptitious; elusory[obs3], illusory;
- ironical; soi-disant &c (misnamed) 565[Fr].
- Phr. se non e vero e ben trovato[It]; "where none is meant that meets
- the ear"[Milton].
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-
- #547. Dupe.-- N. dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche[obs3], cull*,
- cully[obs3], victim, pigeon, April fool[obs3]; jay*, sucker*; laughingstock
- &c 857; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool &c 501; puppet, cat's
- paw.
- V. be deceived &c 545, be the dupe of; fall into a trap; swallow the
- bait, nibble at the bait; bite, catch a Tartar.
- Adj. credulous &c 486; mistaken &c. (error) 495.
-
- #548. Deceiver.-- N. deceiver &c (deceive &c 545); dissembler,
- hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm[obs3], Pecksniff, Joseph
- Surface, Tartufe[obs3], Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, cockatrice,
- Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler|!, stool pigeon.
- liar &c (lie &c 544); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a
- triple etage[Fr], Scapin[obs3]; bunko steerer* [U.S.], carpetbagger*
- [U.S.], capper* [U.S.], faker, fraud, four flusher*, horse coper[obs3],
- ringer*, spieler[obs3], straw bidder [U.S.].
- imposter, pretender, soi-disant[Fr], humbug; adventurer; Cagliostro,
- Fernam Mendez Pinto; ass in lion's skin &c (bungler) 701; actor &c (stage
- player) 599.
- quack, charlatan, mountebank, saltimbanco[obs3], saltimbanque[obs3],
- empiric, quacksalver, medicaster[obs3], Rosicrucian, gypsy; man of straw.
- conjuror, juggler, trickster, prestidigitator, jockey; crimp, decoy,
- decoy duck; rogue, knave, cheat; swindler &c (thief) 792; jobber.
- Phr. "saint abroad and a devil at home" [Bunyan].
-
- #549. Exaggeration.-- N. exaggeration,; expansion &c 194; hyperbole,
- stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura[obs3];
- extravagance &c. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn,
- fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry*
- storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing &c (overestimation) 482;
- puff, puffery &c (boasting) 884; rant &c (turgescence) 577[obs3].
- figure of speech, facon de parler[Fr]; stretch of fancy, stretch of
- the imagination; flight of fancy &c (imagination) 515.
- false coloring &c (falsehood) 544; aggravation &c. 835.
- V. exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify &c (expand) 194;
- overestimate &c 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay,
- overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain,
- strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a
- long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the
- marvelous.
- out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.
- heighten, overcolor[obs3]; color highly, color too highly;
- broder[obs3]; flourish; color &c. (misrepresent) 544; puff &c (boast) 884.
- Adj. exaggerated &c. v.; overwrought; bombastic &c. (grandiloquent)
- 577; hyperbolical[obs3], on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous,
- egregious, outre[Fr], highflying[obs3].
- Adv. hyperbolically &c adj.
- Phr. excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat][Cicero].
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- %
- Section III. MEANS OF COMMUNICATING IDEAS
- 1. Natural Means
- %
- <-- recognition of something by its features must be broken out into a
- separate entry. Include the terms recognition, identification,
- dereplication, classification; note memory 505, identification (comparison,
- 464, discovery 480a)
- distinguish recognition and recall in technical sense -->
-
- #550. Indication -- N. indication; symbolism, symbolization;
- semiology, semiotics, semeiology[obs3], semeiotics[obs3]; Zeitgeist.
- [means of recognition: property] characteristic, diagnostic;
- lineament, feature, trait; fingerprint, voiceprint, footprint, noseprint
- [for animals]; cloven hoof; footfall; recognition (memory) 505.
- [means of recognition: tool] diagnostic, divining rod; detector.
- sign, symbol; index, indice|, indicator; point, pointer; exponent,
- note, token, symptom; dollar sign, dollar mark.
- type, figure, emblem, cipher, device; representation &c. 554;
- epigraph, motto, posy.
- gesture, gesticulation; pantomime; wink, glance, leer; nod, shrug,
- beck; touch, nudge; dactylology[obs3], dactylonomy[obs3]; freemasonry,
- telegraphy, chirology[Med], byplay, dumb show; cue; hint &c. 527; clue,
- clew, key, scent.
- signal, signal post; rocket, blue light; watch fire, watch tower;
- telegraph, semaphore, flagstaff; cresset[obs3], fiery cross; calumet;
- heliograph; guidon; headlight.
- [sign (evidence) on physobj of contact with another physobj] mark,
- scratch, line, stroke, dash, score, stripe, streak, tick, dot, point,
- notch, nick.
- print; imprint, impress, impression.
- [symbols accompanying written text to signify modified interpretation]
- keyboard symbols, printing symbols; red letter[for emphasis], italics,
- sublineation[obs3], underlining, bold font; jotting; note, annotation,
- reference; blaze, cedilla, guillemets[obs3], hachure[Topography], ;
- quotation marks, double quotes,"", parentheses, brackets, braces, curly
- brackets, arrows, slashes; left parenthesis[list], "("; right parenthesis,
- ")"; opening bracket, "["; closing bracket, "]"; left curly brace, "{";
- right curly brace, "}"; left arrow, "<"; right arrow, ">"; forward slash,
- "/"; backward slash, "\"; exclamation point, "!"; commercial at, "@"; pound
- sign, "#"; percent sign, "%"; carat, "^"; ampersand, "&"; asterisk, "*";
- hyphen, "-"; dash, "-", "_"; em dash, "--"; plus sign, "+", equals sign,
- "="; question mark, "?"; period, "."; semicolon, ";", colon, ":"; comma,
- ","; apostrophe, "'"; single quote, "'"; tilde, "~".
- [For identification: general] badge, criterion; countercheck[obs3],
- countermark[obs3], countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label,
- ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib[obs3]; totem;
- tessera[obs3], card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher[Fr]; trade mark,
- Hall mark.
- [For identification of people, on a document] signature, mark,
- autograph, autography; attestation; hand, hand writing, sign manual;
- cipher; seal, sigil[Lat], signet, hand and seal [Law]; paraph[obs3],
- brand; superscription; indorsement[obs3], endorsement.
- [For identification of people, to gain access to restricted (locations
- or information)] password, watchword, catchword; security card, pass,
- passkey; credentials &c. (evidence) 467; open sesame; timbrology[obs3];
- mot de passe[Fr], mot du guet[Fr]; pass-parole; shibboleth.
- title, heading, docket.
- address card, visiting card; carte de visite[Fr].
- insignia; banner, banneret[obs3], bannerol[obs3]; bandrol[obs3]; flag,
- colors, streamer, standard, eagle, labarum[obs3], oriflamb[obs3],
- oriflamme; figurehead; ensign; pennon, pennant, pendant; burgee[obs3], blue
- Peter, jack, ancient, gonfalon, union jack; banderole, " old glory "
- [U.S.], quarantine flag; vexillum[obs3]; yellow-flag, yellow jack;
- tricolor, stars and stripes; bunting.
- heraldry, crest; coat of arms, arms; armorial bearings,
- hatchment[obs3]; escutcheon, scutcheon; shield, supporters; livery,
- uniform; cockade, epaulet, chevron; garland, love knot, favor.
- [Of locality] beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer,
- vane, cock, weathercock; guidepost, handpost[obs3], fingerpost[obs3],
- directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon-
- fire; l'etoile du Nord[Fr]; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize[obs3];
- polestar, loadstar[obs3], lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction,
- name; sign, signboard.
- [Of the future] warning &c. 668; omen &c. 512; prefigurement &c. 511.
- trace[Of the past], record &c. 551. warning &c. 668[Of danger]; alarm &c.
- 669. scepter &c. 747[Of authority]. trophy &c. 733[Of triumph]. gauge
- &c. 466[Of quantity]. milestone[Of distance], milepost. brand[Of
- disgrace], fool's cap. check[For detection], telltale; test &c.
- (experiment) 463; mileage ticket; milliary[obs3].
- notification &c. (information) 527; advertisement &c. (publication)
- 531.
- word of command, call; bugle call, trumpet call; bell, alarum, cry;
- battle cry, rallying cry; angelus[obs3]; reveille; sacring bell[obs3],
- sanctus bell[Lat].
- exposition &c. (explanation) 522, proof &c. (evidence) 463; pattern
- &c. (prototype) 22.
- V. indicate; be the sign &c. n. of; denote, betoken; argue, testify
- &c. (evidence) 467; bear the impress &c. n. of; connote, connotate[obs3].
- represent, stand for; typify &c. (prefigure) 511; symbolize.
- put an indication, put a mark &c. n.; note, mark, stamp, earmark;
- blaze; label, ticket, docket; dot, spot, score, dash, trace, chalk; print;
- imprint, impress; engrave, stereotype.
- make a sign &c. n. signalize; underscore; give a signal, hang out a
- signal; beckon; nod; wink, glance, leer, nudge, shrug, tip the wink;
- gesticulate; raise the finger , hold up the finger, raise the hand, hold up
- the hand; saw the air, "suit the action to the word" [Hamlet].
- wave a banner, unfurl a banner, hoist a banner, hang out a banner &c.
- n.; wave the hand, wave a kerchief; give the cue &c. (inform) 527; show
- one's colors; give an alarm, sound an alarm; beat the drum, sound the
- trumpets, raise a cry.
- sign, seal, attest &c. (evidence) 467; underline &c. (give importance
- to) 642; call attention to &c. (attention) 457; give notice &c. (inform)
- 527.
- Adj. indicating &c. v., indicative, indicatory; denotative,
- connotative; diacritical, representative, typical, symbolic, pantomimic,
- pathognomonic[obs3], symptomatic, characteristic, demonstrative,
- diagnostic, exponential, emblematic, armorial; individual &c. (special) 79.
- known by, recognizable by; indicated &c. v.; pointed, marked.
- [Capable of being denoted] denotable[obs3]; indelible.
- Adv. in token of; symbolically &c. adj.; in dumb show.
- Phr. ecce signum[Lat]; ex ungue leonem[Lat], ex pede Herculem[Lat];
- vide ut supra; vultus ariete fortior[Lat][obs3].
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- #551. Record. -- N. trace, vestige, relic, remains; scar, cicatrix;
- footstep, footmark[obs3], footprint; pug; track mark, wake, trail, scent,
- piste[obs3].
- monument, hatchment[obs3], slab, tablet, trophy, achievement; obelisk,
- pillar, column, monolith; memorial; memento &c. (memory) 505; testimonial,
- medal; commemoration &c. (celebration) 883.
- record, note, minute; register, registry; roll &c. (list) 86;
- cartulary, diptych, Domesday book; catalogue raisonne[Fr]; entry,
- memorandum, indorsement[obs3], inscription, copy, duplicate, docket; notch
- &c. (mark) 550; muniment[obs3], deed &c. (security) 771; document;
- deposition, proces verbal[Fr]; affidavit; certificate &c. (evidence) 467.
- notebook, memorandum book, memo book, pocketbook, commonplace book;
- portfolio; pigeonholes, excerpta[obs3], adversaria[Lat], jottings,
- dottings[obs3].
- gazette, gazetteer; newspaper, daily, magazine; almanac,
- almanack[obs3]; calendar, ephemeris, diary, log, journal, daybook, ledger;
- cashbook[obs3], petty cashbook[obs3]; professional journal, scientific
- literature, the literature, primary literature, secondary literature,
- article, review article.
- archive, scroll, state paper, return, blue book; statistics &c. 86;
- compte rendu[Fr]; Acts of, Transactions of, Proceedings of; Hansard's
- Debates; chronicle,annals, legend; history, biography &c. 594;
- Congressional Records.
- registration; registry; enrollment, inrollment[obs3]; tabulation;
- entry, booking; signature &c (identification) 550; recorder &c. 553;
- journalism.
- [analog recording media] recording, tape recording, videotape.
- [digital recording media] compact disk; floppy disk, diskette; hard
- disk, Winchester disk; read-only memory, ROM; write once read mostly
- memory, WORM.
- V. record; put on record, place on record; chronicle, calendar, hand
- down to posterity; keep up the memory &c. (remember) 505; commemorate &c.
- (celebrate) 883; report &c. (inform) 527; write, commit to writing, reduce
- to writing; put in writing, set down in writing, writing in black and
- white; put down, jot down, take down, write down, note down, set down;
- note, minute, put on paper; take note, make a note, take minute, take
- memorandum; make a return.
- mark &c. (indicate) 550; sign &c. (attest) 467.
- enter, book; post, post up, insert, make an entry of; mark off, tick
- off; register, enroll, inscroll[obs3]; file &c. (store) 636.
- burn into memory; carve in stone.
- Adv. on record.
- Phr. exegi monumentum aere perennium [Lat][obs3][Horace]; "read their
- history in a nation's eyes" [Gray]; " records that defy the tooth of time
- " [Young].
-
- #552. [Suppression of sign.] Obliteration. -- N. obliteration;
- erasure, rasure[obs3]; cancel, cancellation; circumduction[obs3]; deletion,
- blot; tabula rasa[Lat]; effacement, extinction.
- V. efface, obliterate, erase, raze|!, rase[obs3], expunge, cancel;
- blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out,
- sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw
- the pen through, apply the sponge.
- be effaced &c.; leave no trace &c. 550; "leave not a rack behind."
- Adj. obliterated &c. v.; out of print; printless[obs3]; leaving no
- trace; intestate; unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten.
- Int. dele; out with it!
- Phr. delenda est Carthago [Lat][Cato].
-
- #553. Recorder. -- N. recorder, notary, clerk; registrar,
- registrary[obs3], register; prothonotary[Law]; amanuensis, secretary,
- scribe, babu[obs3], remembrancer[obs3], bookkeeper, custos rotulorum[Lat],
- Master of the Rolls.
- annalist; historian, historiographer; chronicler, journalist;
- biographer &c. (narrator) 594; antiquary &c. (antiquity) 122;
- memorialist[obs3]; interviewer.
-
- #554. Representation. -- N. representation, representment[obs3];
- imitation &c. 19; illustration, delineation, depictment[obs3]; imagery,
- portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting &c.
- 556; sculpture &c. 557; engraving &c. 558; photography, cinematography;
- radiography, autoradiography[Bioch], fluorography[Chem], sciagraphy[obs3].
- personation, personification; impersonation; drama &c. 599.
- picture, photo, photograph, daguerreotype, snapshot; X-ray photo;
- movie film, movie; tracing, scan, TV image, video image, image file,
- graphics, computer graphics, televideo, closed-circuit TV.
- copy &c. 21; drawing, sketch, drought, draft; plot, chart, figure,
- scheme.
- image, likeness, icon, portrait , striking likeness, speaking
- likeness; very image; effigy, facsimile.
- figure , figure head; puppet, doll, figurine, aglet[obs3], manikin,
- lay-figure, model, mammet[obs3], marionette, fantoccini[obs3], waxwork,
- bust; statue, statuette.
- ideograph, hieroglyphic, anaglyph [obs3],kanji[Jap]; diagram,
- monogram.
- map, plan, chart, ground plan, projection, elevation (plan) 626.
- ichnography[obs3], cartography; atlas; outline, scheme; view &c.
- (painting) 556; radiograph, scotograph[obs3], sciagraph[obs3]; spectrogram,
- heliogram[obs3].
- V. represent, delineate; depict, depicture[obs3]; portray; take a
- likeness, catch a likeness &c. n.; hit off, photograph, daguerreotype;
- snapshot; figure, shadow forth, shadow out; adumbrate; body forth; describe
- &c. 594; trace, copy; mold.
- dress up; illustrate, symbolize.
- paint &c. 556; carve &c. 557; engrave &c. 558.
- personate, personify; impersonate; assume a character; pose as; act;
- play &c. (drama) 599; mimic &c. (imitate) 19; hold the mirror up to nature.
- Adj. represent, representing &c. v., representative; *illustrative;
- represented &c. v.; imitative, figurative; iconic.
- like &c. 17; graphic &c. (descriptive) 594; cinquecento
- quattrocento[Fr][obs3], trecento[obs3].
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-
- #555. Misrepresentation. -- N. misrepresentation, distortion,
- caricatura|, exaggeration; daubing &c. v.; bad likeness, daub, sign
- painting; scratch, caricature; anamorphosis[obs3]; burlesque,
- falsification, misstatement; parody, lampoon, take-off, travesty.
- V. misrepresent, distort, overdraw, exaggerate, caricature, daub;
- burlesque, parody, travesty.
- Adj. misrepresented &c. v.
-
-
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-
- #556. Painting. -- N. painting; depicting; drawing &c. v.; design;
- perspective, sciagraphy[obs3], skiagraphy[obs3]; chiaroscuro &c. (light)
- 420 composition; treatment.
- historical painting, portrait painting, miniature painting; landscape
- painting, marine painting; still life, flower painting, scene painting;
- scenography[obs3].
- school, style; the grand style, high art, genre, portraiture;
- ornamental art &c. 847.
- monochrome, polychrome; grisaille[Fr].
- pallet, palette; easel; brush, pencil, stump; black lead, charcoal,
- crayons, chalk, pastel; paint &c. (coloring matter) 428; watercolor, body
- color, oil color; oils, oil paint; varnish &c. 356a, priming; gouache,
- tempera, distemper, fresco, water glass; enamel; encaustic painting;
- mosaic; tapestry.
- photography, heliography, color photography; sun painting; graphics,
- computer graphics.
- picture, painting, piece[Fr], tableau, canvas; oil painting &c.;
- fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil &c.
- drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch,
- outline, study.
- photograph, color photograph, black-and-white photograph, holograph,
- heliograph; daguerreotype, talbotype[obs3], calotype[obs3],
- heliotype[obs3]; negative, positive; print, glossy print, matte print;
- enlargement, reduction, life-size print; instant photo, Polaroid photo.
- technicolor, Kodachrome, Ektachrome; Polaroid.
- portrait &c. (representation) 554; whole length, full length, half
- length; kitcat, head; miniature; shade, silhouette; profile.
- landscape, seapiece[obs3]; view, scene, prospect; panorama, diorama;
- still life.
- picture gallery, exhibit; studio, atelier; pinacotheca[obs3].
- V. paint, design, limn draw, sketch, pencil, scratch, shade, stipple,
- hatch, dash off, chalk out, square up; color, dead color, wash, varnish;
- draw in pencil &c. n.; paint in oils &c. n.; stencil; depict &c.
- (represent) 554.
- Adj. painted &c. v.; pictorial, graphic, picturesque.
- pencil, oil &c. n.
- Adv. in pencil &c. n.
- Phr. fecit[Lat], delineavit[Lat]; mutum est pictura poema[Lat].
-
- #557. Sculpture. -- N. sculpture, insculpture| [obs3]; carving &c. v.;
- statuary.
- high relief, low relief, bas relief[Fr]; relief; relieve;
- bassorilievo[obs3], altorilievo[obs3], mezzorilievo[obs3]; intaglio,
- anaglyph[obs3]; medal, medallion; cameo.
- marble, bronze, terra cotta[Sp], papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery,
- porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon,
- satsuma.
- statue.&c. (image) 554; cast &c (copy) 21; glyptotheca[obs3].
- V. sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; *cast.
- Adj. sculptured &c, v. in relief, anaglyptic[obs3], ceroplastic[obs3],
- ceramic; parian[obs3]; marble &c. n.; xanthian[obs3].
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-
- #558. Engraving. -- N. engraving, chalcography[obs3]; line engraving,
- mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur;
- etching, aquatinta[obs3]; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate
- engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography[obs3],
- glyptography[obs3], cerography[obs3], lithography, chromolithography[obs3],
- photolithography, zincography[obs3], glyphography, xylograph,
- lignograph[obs3], glyptograph[obs3], cerograph[obs3], lithograph,
- chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph[obs3], glyphograph[obs3],
- holograph.
- impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching;
- mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint[obs3]; cut, woodcut; stereotype,
- graphotype[obs3], autotype[obs3], heliotype[obs3].
- graver, burin[obs3], etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block,
- negative; die, punch, stamp.
- printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic
- printing[obs3], color printing, lithographic printing; type printing &c.
- 591; three-color process.
- illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial
- letter, cul de lampe[Fr], tailpiece.
- [person who inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian.
- V. engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph
- &c., n.; print.
- Adj. insculptured[obs3]; engraved &c. v..
- [of inscriptions on stone] lapidary.
- Phr. sculpsit[Lat], imprimit[Lat].
-
- #559. Artist. -- N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher,
- designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist,
- dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist.
- historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter,
- portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign
- painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles[obs3]; sculptor, carver, chaser,
- modeler, figuriste[obs3], statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician.
- photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician,
- camera buff; wildlife photographer.
- Phr. photo safari; "with gun and camera"
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- . Language generally
- %
- #560. Language. -- N. language; phraseology &c. 569; speech &c. 582;
- tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue;
- household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c. 563.
- confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie[obs3]; pantomime &c. (signs)
- 550; onomatopoeia; betacism[obs3], mimmation, myatism[obs3],
- nunnation[obs3]; pasigraphy[obs3].
- lexicology, philology, glossology[obs3], glottology[obs3];
- linguistics, chrestomathy[obs3]; paleology[obs3], paleography; comparative
- grammar.
- literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres[Fr], muses,
- humanities, literae humaniores[Lat], republic of letters, dead languages,
- classics; genius of language; scholarship &c. (scholar) 492.
- V. express by words &c. 566.
- Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual;
- diglot[obs3], hexaglot[obs3], polyglot; literary.
- Phr. "syllables govern the world" [Selden].
-
- #561. Letter. -- N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c. (writing) 590;
- type &c. (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph;
- majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC[obs3],
- abecedary[obs3], christcross-row.
- consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong[Gram]; mute, liquid, labial,
- dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable[obs3], polysyllable;
- affix, suffix.
- spelling, orthograph[obs3]; phonography[obs3], phonetic spelling;
- anagrammatism[obs3], metagrammatism[obs3]. cipher, monogram, anagram;
- doubleacrostic[obs3].
- V. spell.
- Adj. literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular[obs3],
- minuscular[obs3]; uncial &c. (writing) 590.
-
- #562. Word. -- N. word, term, vocable; name &c. 564; phrase &c. 566;
- root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c. (grammar) 567;
- ideophone[obs3].
- dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance;
- thesaurus; gradus[Lat], delectus[Lat].
- etymology, derivation; glossology[obs3], terminology orismology[obs3];
- paleology &c. (philology) 560[obs3].
- lexicography; glossographer &c. (scholar) 492; lexicologist,
- verbarian[obs3].
- Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal. conjugate[Similarly derived],
- paronymous[obs3]; derivative.
- Adv. verbally &c. adj.; verbatim &c. (exactly) 494.
- Phr. " the artillery of words" [Swift].
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-
- #563. Neologism. -- N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression,
- nonce expression; back-formation; caconym[obs3]; barbarism.
- archaism, black letter, monkish Latin.
- corruption, missaying[obs3], malapropism, antiphrasis[obs3].
- pun, paranomasia[obs3], play upon words; word play &c. (wit) 842;
- double-entendre &c. (ambiguity) 520[Fr]; palindrome, paragram[obs3],
- anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms.
- dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism,
- localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism,
- Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism[obs3]; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin,
- pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani,
- kitchen Kaffir.
- dog Latin, macaronics[obs3], gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel;
- babu English[obs3], chi-chi.
- figure of speech &c. (metaphor) 521; byword.
- colloquialism, informal speech, informal language.
- substandard language, vernacular.
- vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity.
- jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St.
- Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate,
- Wall Street slang.
- pseudology[obs3].
- pseudonym &c. (misnomer) 565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em[obs3],
- whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy[obs3], thingumbob; je ne sais
- quoi[Fr].
- neologist[obs3], coiner of words.
- V. coin words, coin a term; backform; ; Americanize, Anglicize.
- Adj. neologic[obs3], neological[obs3]; archaic; obsolete &c. (old)
- 124; colloquial; Anglice[obs3].
-
- #564. Nomenclature. -- N. nomenclature; naming &c. v.; nuncupation|,
- nomination, baptism; orismology[obs3]; onomatopoeia; antonomasia[obs3].
- name; appelation[obs3], appelative[obs3]; designation, title; heading,
- rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet.
- style, proper name; praenomen[Lat], agnomen[obs3], cognomen;
- patronymic, surname; cognomination[obs3]; eponym; compellation[obs3],
- description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name;
- namesake.
- term, expression, noun;.byword; convertible terms &c. 522; technical
- term; cant &c. 563.
- V. name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle,
- clepe[obs3], dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define,
- distinguish by the name of; label &c. (mark) 550.
- be -called &c v.; take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of,
- be known by the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of,
- rejoice in the name of.
- Adj. named &c. v.; hight[obs3], ycleped, known as; what one may well,
- call fairly, call properly, call fitly.
- nuncupatory[obs3], nuncupative; cognominal[obs3], titular, nominal,
- orismological[obs3].
- Phr. "beggar'd all description" [Antony and Cleopatra].
-
- #565. Misnomer. -- N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo[Lat];; Mrs.
- Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563[obs3]; Hoosier.
- nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom
- de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre[Fr], nom de plume; pseudonym,
- pseudonymy.
- V. misname, miscall, misterm[obs3]; nickname; assume a name.
- Adj. misnamed &c. v.; pseudonymous; soi-disant[Fr]; self called, self
- styled, self christened; so-called.
- nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed;
- unacknowledged.
- Adv. in no sense.
-
- #566. Phrase. -- N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence,
- paragraph; figure of speech &c. 521; idiom, idiotism[obs3]; turn of
- expression; style.
- paraphrase &c. (synonym) 522; periphrase &c. (circumlocution) 573
- motto &c. (proverb) 496[obs3].
- phraseology &c. 569.
- V. express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to;
- voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words;
- couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate,
- designate, dub.
- Adj. expressed &c. v.; idiomatic.
- Adv. in round terms, in set terms, in good set terms, set terms; in
- set phrases.
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-
- #567. Grammar. -- N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation;
- parts of speech; jussive[obs3]; syllabication; inflection, case,
- declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi[Lat]; Lindley Murray &c.
- (schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c. (language) 560.
- V. parse, punctuate, syllabicate[obs3].
-
- #568. Solecism. -- N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty
- grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae[Lat];
- slipslop[obs3]; bull; barbarism, impropriety.
- V. use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize[obs3], commit a
- solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break
- Priscian's head.
- Adj. ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper,
- incongruous; solecistic, solecistical[obs3].
-
- #569. Style. -- N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner,
- strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech,
- literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language &c.
- (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire[Fr]..
- V. express by words &c. 566; write.
- Phr. le style c'est de l'homme [Fr][Buffon]; "style is the dress of
- thoughts " [Chesterfield].
-
- Various Qualities of Style
-
- #570. Perspicuity. -- N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c.
- (intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c. (manifestation) 525;
- definiteness, definition; exactness &c. 494; explicitness, lucidness.
- Adj. lucid &c. (intelligible) 518; explicit &c. (manifest) 525; exact
- &c. 494.
-
- #571. Obscurity. -- N. obscurity &c. (unintelligibility) 519;
- involution; hard words; ambiguity &c. 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness
- &c. 475, inexactness &c. 495; what d'ye call 'em &c. (neologism) 563[obs3];
- darkness of meaning.
- Adj. obscure &c. n.; crabbed, involved, confused.
-
- #572. Conciseness. -- N. conciseness &c. adj.; brevity, " the soul of
- wit", laconism[obs3]; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c.
- (shortening) 201; compression &c. 195; epitome &c. 596; monostich[obs3];
- brunch word, portmanteau word.
- V. be concise &c. adj.; condense &c. 195; abridge &c. 201; abstract
- &c. 596; come to the point.
- Adj. concise, brief, short, terse,close; to the point, exact; neat,
- compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant,
- summary; pregnant; compendious &c. (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical,
- epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious.
- Adv. concisely &c. adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a
- word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a
- long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this,
- the long and the short of it is.
- Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Lat][Horace].
-
- #573. Diffuseness. -- N. diffuseness &c. adj.; amplification &c. v.;
- dilating &c. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum[Lat];
- flow of words &c. (loquacity) 584; looseness.
- Polylogy[obs3], tautology, battology[obs3], perissology|; pleonasm,
- exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution,
- ambages [obs3]; periphrase[obs3], periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode;
- expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c. 577.
- V. be diffuse &c. adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge,
- dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant.
- maunder, prose; harp upon &c. (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon.
- digress, ramble, battre la campagne[Fr][obs3], beat about the bush,
- perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out;
- battologize[obs3].
- Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent|, copious,
- exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome[obs3], long-winded,
- longspun[obs3], long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing,
- maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious[obs3], roundabout;
- digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent,
- frothy.
- Adv. diffusely &c. adj.; at large, in extenso[Lat]; about it and about
- it.
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- #574. Vigor. -- N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c. adj.;
- intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve,
- glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation,
- loftiness, sublimity.
- eloquence; command of words, command of language.
- Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive,
- impressive; sensational.
- spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent,
- piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious.
- lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned;
- poetic.
- Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms.
- Phr. "thoughts that breath and words that burn" [Gray].
-
- #575. Feebleness. -- N. feebleness &c. adj.
- Adj. feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy,
- lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated;
- proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy-washy;
- sketchy, slight.
- careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent) 460; slipshod,
- slipslop[obs3]; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling &c.
- (diffuse) 573.
-
- #576. Plainness. -- N. plainness &c. adj.; simplicity, severity; plain
- terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words
- V. call a spade "a spade"; plunge in medias res; come to the point.
- Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely,
- homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of-fact,
- natural, prosaic.
- dry, unvaried,monotonous &c. 575.
- Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common
- parlance; point-blank.
-
- #577. Ornament. -- N. ornament; floridness c[obs3]. adj. turgidity,
- turgescence[obs3]; altiloquence &c. adj[obs3].; declamation, teratology|!;
- well-rounded periods; elegance &c. 578; orotundity.
- inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness &c.
- (metaphor) 521.
- flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style,
- euphuism[obs3], euphemism.
- big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology[obs3],
- sesquipedalia verba[Lat], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant,
- bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality[obs3];
- Minerva press.
- phrasemonger; euphuist[obs3], euphemist.
- V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.
- Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich,
- flowery; euphuistic[obs3], euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-
- sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous,
- stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical,
- declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent[obs3];
- sesquipedal[obs3], sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian;
- frothy, flashy, flaming.
- antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c. 521; artificial &c.
- (inelegant) 579.
- Adv. ore rutundo[Lat].
-
- #578. Elegance. -- N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness,
- readiness &c. adj.; concinnity[obs3], euphony, numerosity[obs3];
- Atticism[obs3], classicalism[obs3], classicism.
- well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right
- word in the right place; antithesis &c. 577.
- *purist.
- V. point an antithesis, round a period.
- Adj. elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian,
- artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical[obs3].
- graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected,
- natural, unlabored[obs3]; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic;
- numerose|, rhythmical.
- felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly
- expressed
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- #579. Inelegance. -- N. inelegance; stiffness &c. adj.; "unlettered
- Muse" [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c. 563; solecism &c. 568; mannerism &c.
- (affectation) 855; euphuism[obs3]; fustian &c. 577; cacophony; words that
- break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism[obs3].
- V. be inelegant &c. adj.
- Adj. inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff,
- cramped, formal, guinde[Fr]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered,
- ponderous; awkward, uncourtly[obs3], unpolished; turgid &c. 577; affected,
- euphuistic[obs3]; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting;
- offensive to ears polite.
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- #580. Voice. -- N. voice; vocality[obs3]; organ, lungs, bellows; good
- voice, fine voice, powerful voice &c. (loud) 404;, musical voice &c. 413;
- intonation; tone of voice &c. (sound) 402 .
- vocalization; cry &c. 411; strain, utterance, prolation[obs3];
- exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis[obs3]; enunciation,
- articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation;
- stage whisper; delivery.
- accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent,
- pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation.
- [Word similarly pronounced] homonym.
- orthoepy[obs3]; cacoepy[obs3]; euphony &c. (melody) 413.
- gastriloquism[obs3], ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism[obs3],
- polyphonist[obs3].
- [Science of voice] phonology &c. (sound) 402.
- V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c. (shout) 411;
- ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate|, articulate, enunciate, pronounce,
- accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear.
- Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct,
- stertorous; euphonious &c. (melodious) 413.
- Phr. "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman" [Massinger]; "the
- organ of the soul" [Longfellow]; "thy voice is a celestial melody"
- [Longfellow].
-
- #581. Aphony. -- N. aphony[obs3], aphonia[obs3]; dumbness &c. adj.;
- obmutescence[obs3]; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony[obs3];
- cacoepy[obs3]; silence &c. (taciturnity) 585; raucity[obs3]; harsh voice
- &c. 410 , unmusical voice &c. 414 ; falsetto, "childish treble mute";
- dummy.
- V. keep silence &c. 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper &c.
- (faintness) 405.
- silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress,
- smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence,
- stop one's mouth, cut one short.
- stick in the throat.
- Adj. aphonous[obs3], dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-
- tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a
- fish, mute as a stockfish[obs3], mute as a mackerel; silent &c. (taciturn)
- 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible.
- croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a
- raven; rough.
- Adv. with bated breath, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce[Lat];
- in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice.
- Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Lat][Vergil].
-
- #582. Speech. -- N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk,
- parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation[obs3], oral communication, word of
- mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion.
- oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon,
- tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c. 589;
- allocution &c. 586; conversation &c. 588; salutatory : screed: valedictory
- [U.S.][U.S.].
- oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence,
- multiloquence[obs3]; burst of eloquence; facundity[obs3]; flow of words,
- command of words, command of language; copia verborum[Lat]; power of
- speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi[Lat].
- speaker &c. v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece,
- Hermes; orator, oratrix[obs3], oratress[obs3]; Demosthenes, Cicero;
- rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer[obs3],
- improvisatore[obs3].
- V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter
- forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out
- have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of
- one's tongue.
- break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice,
- raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak[obs3];
- put in a word or two.
- hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech &c. n.; speechify,
- harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse,
- be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent
- one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate &c. (speak at length) 573; speak
- one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U. S.].
- soliloquize &c. 589; tell &c. (inform) 527; speak to &c. 586; talk
- together &c. 588.
- be eloquent &c. adj; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the
- gab &c. n.
- pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the
- mouth.
- Adj. speaking &c., spoken &c. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not
- written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical,
- rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c. 577; talkative &c. 584;
- Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
- Adv. orally &c. adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
- Phr. quoth he, said he &c.; "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; "pour
- the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]; "she speaks poignards and every
- word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "speech is but broken light upon the
- depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time
- [Antony and Cleopatra].
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-
- #583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering. -- N. inarticulateness;
- stammering &c. v.; hesitation &c. v.; impediment in one's speech;
- titubancy[obs3], traulism|; whisper &c. (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl,
- tardiloquence[obs3]; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c. (want of
- voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences.
- brogue &c. 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae [Lat].
- V. stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate|,
- balbucinate|, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together.
- mumble, mutter; maud|, mauder[obs3]; whisper &c. 405; mince, lisp;
- jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump[obs3]; drawl, mouth; croak;
- speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the
- language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English;
- mispronounce, missay[obs3].
- Adj. stammering &c. v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous;
- affected.
- Adv. sotto voce &c. (faintly) 405[Lat].
-
- #584. Loquacity. -- N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c.
- adj.; garrulity; multiloquence[obs3], much speaking.
- jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle,
- twattle, rattle; caquet[obs3], caquetterie[Fr]; blabber, bavardage[obs3],
- bibble-babble[obs3], gibble-gabble[obs3]; small talk &c. (converse) 588.
- fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words;.flux
- de bouche[Fr], flux de mots[Fr]; copia verborum[Lat], cacoethes
- loquendi[Lat]; furor loquendi[Lat]; verbosity &c. (diffuseness) 573; gift
- of the gab &c. (eloquence) 582.
- talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler &c. v.; rattle; ranter;
- sermonizer, proser[obs3], driveler; blatherskite [U. S.]; gossip &c.
- (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles[Fr]..
- V. be loquacious &c. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate,
- palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather,
- blatter[obs3], blether[obs3]; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble,
- gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate
- &c. (speak at length) 573; gossip &c. (converse) 588; din in the ears &c.
- (repeat) 104; talk at random, talk nonsense &c. 497; be hoarse with
- talking.
- Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious|,
- multiloquous[obs3]; largiloquent|; chattering &c. v.; chatty &c. (sociable)
- 892; declamatory &c. 582; open-mouthed.
- fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded &c.
- (diffuse) 573.
- Adv. trippingly on the tongue; glibly &c. adj.; off the reel.
- Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue
- running on wheels; all talk and no cider; "foul whisperings are abroad"
- [Macbeth]; "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!" [Tempest].
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- #585. Taciturnity. -- N. silence, muteness, obmutescence[obs3];
- taciturnity, pauciloquy[obs3], costiveness|, curtness; reserve, reticence
- &c. (concealment) 528.
- man of few words.
- V. be silent &c. adj .; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue,
- hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak. &c. 582; say nothing, keep
- one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the
- lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle
- on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth;
- make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret &c. 528; not have a
- word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on
- the lips; render mute &c. 581.
- stick in one's throat.
- Adj. silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as
- the grave &c. (still) 403; dumb &c. 581; unconversable[obs3].
- taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive|, inconversable|,
- curt; reserved; reticent &c. (concealing) 528.
- Int. shush! tush! silence! mum! hush! chut[obs3]! hist! tut!
- chup[obs3]! mum's the word; keep your mouth shut![vulgar].
- Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui[Lat]; volto sciolto i pensieri
- stretti[It].
-
- #586. Allocution. -- N. allocution, alloquy|, address; speech &c. 582;
- apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the
- ear.
- [Feigned dialogue] dialogism[obs3].
- platform &c. 542; plank; audience &c. (interview) 588.
- V. speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to,
- invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo.
- take aside, take by the button; talk to in private.
- lecture &c. (make a speech) 582.
- Int. soho[obs3]! halloo! hey! hist!
-
- #587. Response -- N. &c., see Answer 462.
-
- #588. Conversation. -- N. conversation, interlocution;
- collocution[obs3], colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse,
- verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue,
- trialogue.
- causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk[obs3],
- town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble,
- babblement[obs3]; tripotage[obs3], cackle, prittle-prattle[obs3], cancan,
- on dit[Fr]; talk of the town, talk of the village.
- conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete;
- reception, conversazione[It]; congress &c. (council) 696; powwow [U. S.].
- hall of audience, durbar[obs3].
- palaver, debate, logomachy[obs3], war of words.
- gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c. (loquacity) 584;
- interlocutor &c. (spokesman) 582; conversationist[obs3], dialogist[obs3].
- "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]; mollia tempora
- fandi[Lat][obs3].
- V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry
- on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in
- a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip,
- tattle; prate &c. (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.]..
- discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold
- converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted
- with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete.
- Adj. conversing &c. v.; interlocutory; conversational,
- conversable[obs3]; discursive, discoursive[obs3]; chatty &c. (sociable)
- 892; colloquial.
- Phr. "with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost].
-
- #589. Soliloquy. -- N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe;
- monology[obs3].
- V. Soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think
- aloud, apostrophize.
- Adj. soliloquizing &c. v.
- Adv. aside.
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- #590. Writing. -- N. writing &c. v.; chirography, stelography[obs3],
- cerography[obs3]; penmanship, craftmanship[obs3]; quill driving;
- typewriting.
- writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae[Lat]; these presents.
- stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline;
- pen and ink.
- letter &c. 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham,
- Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi[obs3], Devanagari, Nagari; script.
- shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy[obs3], tachygraphy[obs3]; secret
- writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography[obs3],
- pasigraphy[obs3], Polygraphy[obs3], logography[obs3].
- copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting;
- signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist.
- calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand,
- legible hand, bold hand.
- cacography[obs3], griffonage[obs3], barbouillage[obs3]; bad hand,
- cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c. v.; pattes de
- mouche[Fr]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers.
- stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap,
- parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table;
- blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter.
- transcription &c. (copy) 21; inscription &c. (record) 551;
- superscription &c. (indication) 550; graphology.
- composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi[Lat]; graphoidea[obs3],
- graphomania[obs3]; phrenoia[obs3].
- writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman,
- copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist;
- writer for the press &c. (author) 593.
- V. write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe;
- scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down &c.
- (record) 551; sign &c. (attest) 467; enface[obs3].
- compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw
- on paper, dash off; manifold.
- take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in
- ink.
- Adj. writing &c. v.; written &c. v.; in writing, in black and white;
- under one's hand.
- uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical[obs3].
- Adv. currente calamo[Sp]; pen in hand.
- Phr. audacter et sincere[Lat]; le style est l'homme meme [Fr];
- "nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill" [Byron]; scribendi recte
- sapere et principium et fons [Lat][Horace]; "that mighty instrument of
- little men" [Byron]; "the pen became a clarion" [Longfellow].
-
- #591. Printing. -- N. printing; block printing, type- printing; plate
- printing &c. 558[engraving]; the press &c. (publication) 531; composition.
- print, letterpress, text; context, note, page, column.
- typography; stereotype, electrotype, aprotype[obs3]; type, black
- letter, font, fount; pi, pie; capitals &c. (letters) 561; brevier[obs3],
- bourgeois, pica &c.
- boldface, capitals, caps., catchword; composing-frame, composing room,
- composing rule, composing stand, composing stick; italics, justification,
- linotype, live matter, logotype; lower case, upper case; make-up, matrix,
- matter, monotype[obs3], point system: 4-1/2, 5, 5-1/2, 6, 7, 8 point, etc.;
- press room, press work; reglet[obs3], roman; running head, running title;
- scale, serif, shank, sheet work, shoulder, signature, slug, underlay.
- folio &c. (book) 593; copy, impression, pull, proof, revise; author's
- proof, galley proof, press proof; press revise.
- printer, compositor, reader; printer's devil copyholder.
- V. print; compose; put to press, go to press; pass through the press,
- see through the press; publish &c. 531; bring out; appear in print, rush
- into print; distribute, makeup, mortise, offset, overrun, rout.
- Adj. printed &c. v.; in type; typographical &c. n.; solid in galleys.
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-
- #592. Correspondence. -- N. correspondence, letter, epistle, note,
- billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit,
- chitty[obs3], letter card, picture post card; postal [U.S.], card;
- despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription[obs3];
- post &c. (messenger) 534.
- V. correspond with; write to, send a letter to; keep up a
- correspondence.
- Adj. epistolary.
- Phr. furor scribendi[Lat].
-
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-
- #593. Book. -- N. booklet; writing, work, volume, tome,
- opuscule[obs3]; tract, tractate[obs3]; livret[obs3]; brochure, libretto,
- handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion[obs3], circular,
- publication; chap book.
- part, issue, number livraison[Fr]; album, portfolio; periodical,
- serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal.
- paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet[obs3]; leaf, leaflet; fly leaf, page;
- quire, ream
- [subdivisions of a book] chapter, section, head, article, paragraph,
- passage, clause; endpapers, frontispiece; cover, binding.
- folio, quarto, octavo; duodecimo[obs3], sextodecimo[obs3],
- octodecimo[obs3].
- encyclopedia; encompilation[obs3].
- [collection of books] library, bibliotheca[obs3].
- press &c. (publication) 531.
- [complete description] definitive work, treatise, comprehensive
- treatise (dissertation) 595.
- [person who writes a book] writer, author, litterateur[Fr], essayist,
- journalism; pen, scribbler, the scribbling race; literary hack, Grub-street
- writer; writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the
- press; adjective jerker[obs3], diaskeaust[obs3], ghost, hack writer, ink
- slinger; publicist; reporter, penny a liner; editor, subeditor[obs3];
- playwright &c. 599; poet &c. 597.
- bookseller, publisher; bibliopole[obs3], bibliopolist[obs3];
- librarian; bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop.
- knowledge of books, bibliography; book learning &c. (knowledge) 490.
- Phr. "among the giant fossils of my past" [E. B. Browning]; craignez
- tout d'un auteur en courroux[Fr]; "for authors nobler palms remain" [Pope];
- "I lived to write and wrote to live" [Rogers]; "look in thy heart and
- write" [Sidney]; "there is no Past so long as Books shall live" [Bulwer
- Lytton]; "the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writers"
- [Disraeli]; "volumes that I prize above my dukedom" [Tempest].
-
- #594. Description. -- N. description, account, statement, report;
- expose &c. (disclosure) 529 specification, particulars; state of facts,
- summary of facts; brief &c. (abstract) 596; return &c. (record) 551;
- catalogue raisonne &c. (list) 86[Fr]; guidebook &c. (information) 527.
- delineation &c (representation) 554; sketch; monograph; minute
- account, detailed particular account, circumstantial account, graphic
- account; narration, recital, rehearsal, relation.
- historiography[obs3], chronography[obs3]; historic Muse, Clio;
- history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary.
- narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c. (chronicle) 551;
- saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette[obs3]; personal
- narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions;
- anecdote, ana[obs3], trait.
- work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery
- tale; fable, parable, apologue[obs3]; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling
- shocker
- relator &c. v.; raconteur, historian &c. (recorder) 553; biographer,
- fabulist[obs3], novelist.
- V. describe; set forth &c. (state) 535; draw a picture, picture;
- portray &c. (represent) 554; characterize, particularize; narrate, relate,
- recite, recount, sum up, run over, recapitulate, rehearse, fight one's
- battles over again.
- unfold a tale &c. (disclose) 529 ; tell; give an account of, render an
- account of; report, make a report, draw up a statement.
- detail; enter into particulars, enter into details, descend to
- particulars , descend to details,; itemize.
- Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn;
- historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic[obs3], storied;
- described &c. v.
- Phr. furor scribendi[Lat].
-
- #595. Dissertation. -- N. dissertation, treatise, essay; thesis,
- theme; monograph, tract, tractate[obs3], tractation[obs3]; discourse,
- memoir, disquisition, lecture, sermon, homily, pandect[obs3]; excursus.
- commentary, review, critique, criticism, article; leader, leading
- article; editorial; running commentary.
- investigation &c. (inquiry) 461; study &c. (consideration) 451;
- discussion &c. (reasoning) 476; exposition &c. (explanation) 522.
- commentator, critic, essayist, pamphleteer.
- V. expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject[obs3], descant upon
- a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject,
- treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject,
- ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a
- subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject,
- do justice to a subject.
- hold forth[oral dissertation], discourse, delve into.
- Adj. discursive, discoursive[obs3]; disquisitionary[obs3]; expository.
-
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-
- #596. Compendium. -- N. compend, compendium; abstract, precis,
- epitome, multum in parvo[Lat], analysis, pandect[obs3], digest, sum and
- substance, brief, abridgment, summary, apercu, draft, minute, note;
- excerpt; synopsis, textbook, conspectus, outlines, syllabus, contents,
- heads, prospectus.
- album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book;
- extracts, excerpta[obs3], cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing;
- spicilegium[obs3], flowers, anthology, collectanea[obs3], analecta[obs3];
- compilation.
- recapitulation, resume, review.
- abbreviation, abbreviature[obs3]; contraction; shortening &c. 201;
- compression &c. 195.
- V. abridge, abstract, epitomize, summarize; make an abstract, prepare
- an abstract, draw an abstract, compile an abstract &c. n.
- recapitulate, review, skim, run over, sum up.
- abbreviate &c. (shorten) 201; condense &c. (compress) 195; compile &c.
- (collect) 72.
- Adj. compendious, synoptic, analectic[obs3]; abrege[Fr], abridged &c.
- v.; variorum[obs3].
- Adv. in short, in epitome, in substance, in few words.
- Phr. it lies in a nutshell.
-
- #597. Poetry. -- N. poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful
- Nine, Parnassus, Helicon[obs3], Pierides, Pierian spring.
- versification, rhyming, making verses; prosody, orthometry[obs3].
- poem; epic, epic poem; epopee[obs3], epopoea, ode, epode[obs3], idyl,
- lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic[obs3], sonnet,
- roundelay, rondeau[Fr], rondo, madrigal, canzonet[obs3], cento[obs3],
- *monody, elegy; amoebaeum, ghazal[obs3], palinode.
- dramatic poetry, lyric poetry; opera; posy, anthology; disjecta membra
- poetae
- song[Lat], ballad, lay; love song, drinking song, war song, sea song;
- lullaby; music &c. 415; nursery rhymes.
- [Bad poetry] doggerel, Hudibrastic verse[obs3], prose run mad;
- macaronics[obs3]; macaronic verse[obs3], leonine verse; runes.
- canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain;
- strophe, antistrophe[obs3].
- verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo[obs3], meter, measure, foot, numbers,
- strain, rhythm; accentuation &c. (voice) 580; dactyl, spondee, trochee,
- anapest &c.; hexameter, pentameter; Alexandrine; anacrusis[obs3],
- antispast[obs3], blank verse, ictus.
- elegiacs &c. adj.; elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry.
- poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist[obs3], scald, skald[obs3],
- troubadour, trouvere[Fr]; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger[Ger];
- improvisatore[obs3]; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist[obs3],
- rhymester; ballad monger, runer[obs3]; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum
- [Latin].
- V. poetize, sing, versify, make verses, rhyme, scan.
- Adj. poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic &c.
- n.; metrical; a catalectin[obs3]; elegiac, iambic, trochaic,
- anapestic[obs3]; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic[obs3]; Ionic, Sapphic,
- Alcaic[obs3], Pindaric.
- Phr. "a poem round and perfect as a star" [Alex. Smith]; Dichtung und
- Wahrheit [Ger]; furor poeticus[Lat]; "his virtues formed the magic of his
- song" [Hayley]; "I do but sing because I must" [Tennyson]; "I learnt life
- from the poets" [de Stael]; licentia vatum[Lat]; mutum est pictura
- poema[Lat]; "O for a muse of fire!" [Henry V]; "sweet food of sweetly
- uttered knowledge" [Sidney]; "the true poem is the poet's mind" [Emerson];
- Volk der Dichter und Denker[Ger]; "wisdom married to immortal verse"
- [Wordsworth].
-
- #598. Prose. -- N. prose, prose writer. prosaicism[obs3],
- prosaism[obs3], prosaist[obs3], proser[obs3].
- V. prose.
- write prose, write in prose.
- Adj. prosal[obs3],prosy, prosaic; unpoetic, unpoetical[obs3].
- rhymeless[obs3], unrhymed, in prose, not in verse.
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-
- #599. The Drama. -- N. the drama, the stage, the theater, the play;
- film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography;
- theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus[obs3],
- Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.
- play, drama, stage play, piece[Fr], five-act play, tragedy, comedy,
- opera, vaudeville, comedietta[obs3], lever de rideau[Fr], interlude,
- afterpiece[obs3], exode[obs3], farce, divertissement, extravaganza,
- burletta[obs3], harlequinade[obs3], pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe[Fr],
- ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame[Fr]; melodrama,
- melodrame[obs3]; comidie larmoyante[Fr], sensation drama; tragicomedy,
- farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue[obs3];duologue trilogy; charade,
- proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.
- [movies] western, horse opera; flick [coll.]; spy film, love story,
- adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin
- flick, X-rated film.
- act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue;
- libretto.
- performance, representation, mise en scene[French], stagery[obs3], jeu
- de theatre[French]; acting; gesture &c. 550; impersonation &c. 554; stage
- business, gag, buffoonery.
- light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy.
- theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater,
- circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini[obs3];
- marionettes, Punch and Judy.
- auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery,
- parquet; greenroom, coulisses[Fr].
- flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation
- scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium.
- stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies;
- floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.
- theatrical costume, theatrical properties.
- movie studio, back lot, on location.
- part, role, character, dramatis personae[Lat]; repertoire.
- actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player;
- stager, performer; mime, mimer[obs3]; artists; comedian, tragedian;
- tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen,
- superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham,
- hamfatter *[obs3]; masker[obs3]. pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo[obs3],
- buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello[obs3];
- pulcinello[obs3], pulcinella[obs3]; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo
- appearance; mute, figurante[obs3], general utility; super, supernumerary.
- company; first tragedian, prima donna[Sp], protagonist; jeune
- premier[French]; debutant, debutante[French]; light comedian, genteel
- comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso[obs3], heavy father,
- ingenue[French], jeune veuve[French].
- mummer, guiser[obs3], guisard[obs3], gysart |, masque.
- mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat;
- contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee
- danseuse[Fr].
- property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager;
- director, stage manager, acting manager.
- producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel[fig].
- dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist,
- mimographer[obs3].
- V. act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate &c. 554; mimic &c.
- (imitate) 19; enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a
- part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage";
- tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.
- Adj. dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic,
- tragic, buskined[obs3], farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic;
- stagy.
- Adv. on the stage, on the boards; on film; before the floats, before
- an audience; behind the scenes.
- Phr. fere totus mundus exercet histrionem [Lat][Petronius Arbiter];
- "suit the action to the word, the word to the action" [Hamlet]; "the play's
- the thing" [Hamlet]; "to wake the soul by tender strokes of art" [Pope].
-
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- %
- CLASS V
- WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS(1)
-
- Division (1) INDIVIDUAL VOLITION
-
- Section I. VOLITION IN GENERAL
-
- 1. Acts of Volition
- %
-
- #600. Will. -- N. will, volition, conation[obs3], velleity; liberum
- arbitrium[Lat]; will and pleasure, free will; freedom &c. 748; discretion;
- option &c. (choice) 609; voluntariness[obs3]; spontaneity, spontaneousness;
- originality.
- pleasure, wish, mind; desire; frame of mind &c. (inclination) 602;
- intention &c. 620; predetermination &c. 611; selfcontrol &c. determination
- &c. (resolution) 604; force of will.
- V. will, list; see fit, think fit; determine &c. (resolve) 604;
- enjoin; settle &c. (choose) 609; volunteer.
- have a will of one's own; do what one chooses &c. (freedom) 748; have
- it all.one's own way; have one's will, have one's own way.
- use one's discretion, exercise one's discretion; take upon oneself, take
- one's own course, take the law into one's own hands; do of one's own
- accord, do upon one;s own authority; originate &c. (cause) 153.
- Adj. voluntary, volitional, willful; free &c. 748; optional;
- discretional, discretionary; volitient[obs3], volitive[obs3].
- minded &c. (willing) 602; prepense &c. (predetermined) 611[obs3];
- intended &c. 620; autocratic; unbidden &c. (bid &c. 741); spontaneous;
- original &c. (casual) 153; unconstrained.
- Adv. voluntarily &c. adj.; at will, at pleasure; a volonte[Fr], a
- discretion; al piacere[It]; ad libitum, ad arbitrium[Lat]; as one thinks
- proper, as it seems good to; a beneplacito[It].
- of one's won accord, of one's own free will; proprio motu[Lat], suo
- motu[Lat], ex meromotu[Lat]; out of one's won head; by choice &c. 609;
- purposely &c. (intentionally) 620; deliberately &c. 611.
- Phr. stet pro ratione voluntas[Lat]; sic volo sic jubeo[Lat]; a vostro
- beneplacito[It]; beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere[Lat]; Deus
- vult[Lat]; was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden[Ger].
-
-
- #601. Necessity. -- N. involuntariness; instinct, blind impulse;
- inborn proclivity, innate proclivity; native tendency, natural tendency;
- natural impulse, predetermination.
- necessity, necessitation; obligation; compulsion &c. 744; subjection
- &c. 749; stern necessity, hard necessity, dire necessity, imperious
- necessity, inexorable necessity, iron necessity, adverse necessity; fate;
- what must be.
- destiny, destination; fatality, fate, kismet, doom, foredoom,
- election, predestination; preordination, foreordination; lot fortune;
- fatalism; inevitableness &c. adj.; spell &c. 993.
- star, stars; planet, planets; astral influence; sky, Fates, Parcae,
- Sisters three, book of fate; God's will, will of Heaven; wheel of Fortune,
- Ides of March, Hobson's choice.
- last shift, last resort; dernier ressort[Fr]; pis aller &c.
- (substitute) 147[Fr]; necessaries &c. (requirement) 630.
- necessarian[obs3], necessitarian[obs3]; fatalist; automaton.
- V. lie under a necessity; befated[obs3], be doomed, be destined &c. in
- for, under the necessity of; have no choice, have no alternative; be one's
- fate &c. n. to be pushed to the wall to be driven into a corner, to be
- unable to help.
- destine, doom, foredoom, devote; predestine, preordain; cast a spell
- &c. 992; necessitate; compel &c. 744.
- Adj. necessary, needful &c (requisite) 630.
- fated; destined &c. v.; elect; spellbound
- compulsory &c. (compel) 744; uncontrollable, inevitable, unavoidable,
- irresistible, irrevocable, inexorable; avoidless[obs3], resistless.
- involuntary, instinctive, automatic, blind, mechanical; unconscious,
- unwitting, unthinking; unintentional &c. (undesigned) 621; impulsive &c.
- 612.
- Adv. necessarily &c. adv.; of necessity, of course; ex necessitate
- rei[Lat]; needs must; perforce &c. 744; nolens volens[Lat]; will he nil he,
- willy nilly, bon gre mal gre[Fr], willing or unwilling, coute que
- coute[Fr].
- faute de mieux[Fr]; by stress of; if need be.
- Phr. it cannot be helped; there is no help for, there is no helping
- it; it will be, it must be, it needs to be, it must be so, it will have its
- way; the die is cast; jacta est alea[obs3][Lat]; che sara sara[French]; "it
- is written"; one's days are numbered, one's fate is sealed; Fata
- obstant[Latin]; diis aliter visum[obs3][Latin]; actum me invito
- factus[Latin], non est meus actus[Latin]; aujord'hui roi demain
- rien[French]; quisque suos patimur manes [Latin][Vergil];"The moving
- finger writes and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety and wit can
- bring it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of
- it."[Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam].
-
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-
- #602. Willingness. -- N. willingness, voluntariness &c. adj[obs3].;
- willing mind, heart.
- disposition, inclination, leaning, animus; frame of mind, humor, mood,
- vein; bent &c. (turn of mind) 820; penchant &c. (desire) 865; aptitude &c.
- 698.
- docility, docibleness[obs3]; persuasibleness[obs3],
- persuasibility[obs3]; pliability &c. (softness) 324.
- geniality, cordiality; goodwill; alacrity, readiness, earnestness,
- forwardness; eagerness &c. (desire) 865.
- asset &c. 488; compliance &c. 762; pleasure &c. (will) 600; gratuitous
- service.
- labor of love; volunteer, volunteering.
- V. be willing &c. adj.; incline, lean to, mind, propend; had as lief;
- lend a willing ear, give a willing ear, turn a willing ear; have a half a
- mind to, have a great mind to; hold to, cling to; desire &c. 865.
- see fit, think good, think proper; acquiesce &c (assent) 488; comply
- with &c. 762.
- swallow the bait, nibble at the bait; gorge the hook; have no scruple
- of, make no scruple of; make no bones of; jump at, catch at; meet halfway;
- volunteer.
- Adj. willing, minded, fain, disposed, inclined, favorable; favorably-
- minded, favorably inclined, favorably disposed; nothing loth; in the vein,
- in the mood, in the humor, in the mind.
- ready, forward, earnest, eager; bent upon &c. (desirous) 865;
- predisposed, propense[obs3].
- docile; persuadable, persuasible; suasible[obs3], easily persuaded,
- facile, easy-going; tractable &c. (pliant) 324; genial, gracious, cordial,
- cheering, hearty; content &c. (assenting) 488.
- voluntary, gratuitous, spontaneous; unasked &c. (ask &c. 765);
- unforced &c. (free) 748.
- Adv. willingly &c. adj.; fain, freely, as lief, heart and soul; with
- pleasure, with all one's heart, with open arms; with good will, with right
- will; de bonne volonte[Fr], ex animo[Lat]; con amore[It], heart in hand,
- nothing loth, without reluctance, of one's own accord, graciously, with a
- good grace.
- a la bonne heure[Fr]; by all means, by all manner of means; to one's
- heart's content; yes &c. (assent) 488.
-
- #603. Unwillingness. -- N. unwillingness &c. adj.; indisposition,
- indisposedness[obs3]; disinclination, aversation[obs3]; nolleity[obs3],
- nolition[obs3]; renitence[obs3], renitency; reluctance; indifference &c.
- 866; backwardness &c. adj.; slowness &c. 275; want of alacrity,want of
- readiness; indocility &c. (obstinacy) 606[obs3].
- scrupulousness, scrupulosity; qualms of conscience, twinge of
- conscience; delicacy, demur, scruple, qualm, shrinking, recoil; hesitation
- &c. (irresolution) 605; fastidiousness &c. 868.
- averseness &c. (dislike) 867[obs3]; dissent &c. 489; refusal &c. 764.
- V. be unwilling &c. adj.; nill; dislike &c. 867; grudge, begrudge; not
- be able to find it in one's heart to, not have the stomach to.
- demur, stick at, scruple, stickle; hang fire, run rusty; recoil,
- shrink, swerve; hesitate &c. 605; avoid &c. 623.
- oppose &c. 708; dissent &c. 489; refuse &c. 764.
- Adj. unwilling; not in the vein, loth, loath, shy of, disinclined,
- indisposed, averse, reluctant, not content; adverse &c. (opposed) 708;
- laggard, backward, remiss, slack, slow to; indifferent &c. 866; scrupulous;
- squeamish &c. (fastidious) 868; repugnant &c. (dislike) 867; restiff|,
- restive; demurring &c. v.; unconsenting &c. (refusing) 764; involuntary &c.
- 601.
- Adv. unwillingly &c. adj.; grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad,
- with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the
- grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against
- one's grain; invita Minerva[Lat]; a contre caeur[Fr]; malgre soi[Fr]; in
- spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens &c. (necessity)
- 601[Lat]; perforce &c. 744; under protest; no &c. 536; not for the world,
- far be it from me.
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-
- #604. Resolution. -- N. determination, will; iron will, unconquerable
- will; will of one's own, decision, resolution; backbone; clear grit, true
- grit, grit [U. S. &can.]; sand, strength of mind, strength of will; resolve
- &c. (intent) 620; firmness &c. (stability) 150; energy, manliness, vigor;
- game, pluck; resoluteness &c. (courage) 861; zeal &c. 682; aplomb;
- desperation; devotion, devotedness.
- mastery over self; self control, self command, self possession, self
- reliance, self government, self restraint, self conquest, self denial;
- moral courage, moral strength; perseverance &c. 604a; tenacity; obstinacy
- &c. 606; bulldog; British lion.
- V. have determination &c. n.; know one's own mind; be resolved &c.
- adj.; make up one's mind, will, resolve, determine; decide &c. (judgment)
- 480; form a determination, come to a determination, come to a resolution,
- come to a resolve; conclude, fix, seal, determine once for all, bring to a
- crisis, drive matters to an extremity; take a decisive step &c. (choice)
- 609; take upon oneself &c. (undertake) 676.
- devote oneself to, give oneself up to; throw away the scabbard, kick
- down the ladder, nail one's colors to the mast, set one's back against the
- wall, set one's teeth, put one's foot down, take one's stand; stand firm
- &c. (stability) 150; steel oneself; stand no nonsense, not listen to the
- voice of the charmer.
- buckle to; buckle oneself put one's shoulder to the wheel, lay one's
- shoulder to the wheel, set one's shoulder to the wheel; put one's heart
- into; run the gauntlet, make a dash at, take the bull by the horns; rush in
- medias res, plunge in medias res; go in for; insist upon, make a point of;
- set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon.
- stick at nothing, stop at nothing; make short work of &c. (activity)
- 682; not stick at trifles; go all lengths, go the limit *, go the whole
- hog; persist &c. (persevere) 604a,; go through fire and water, ride the
- tiger, ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.
- Adj. resolved &c. v.; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded;
- resolute &c. (brave) 861; self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory,
- tranchant[obs3]; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking[obs3]; firm, iron,
- gritty [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless,
- not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi[Lat]; inflexible &c.
- (hard) 323; obstinate &c. 606; steady &c. (persevering) 604a.
- earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon.
- steel against, proof against; in utrumque paratus[Lat].
- Adv. resolutely &c. adj.; in earnest, in good earnest; seriously,
- joking apart, earnestly, heart and soul; on one's mettle; manfully, like a
- man, with a high hand; with a strong hand &c. (exertion) 686.
- at any rate, at any risk, at any hazard at any price, at any cost, at
- any sacrifice; at all hazards, at all risks, at all events; a bis ou a
- blanc[Fr][obs3]; cost what it may; coute[Fr]; a tort et a travers[obs3];
- once for all; neck or nothing; rain or shine.
- Phr. spes sibi quisque[Lat]; celui qui veut celui-la peut[Fr]; chi non
- s'arrischia non guadagna[Fr][obs3]; frangas non flectes[Lat]; manu
- forti[Lat]; tentanda via est[Lat].
-
- #604a. Perseverance. -- N. perseverance; continuance &c. (inaction)
- 143; permanence &c. (absence of change) 141; firmness &c. (stability) 150.
- constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose;
- persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity &c. (industry) 682; pertinacy|,
- pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration &c. 104
- bottom, game, pluck, stamina, backbone, grit; indefatigability,
- indefatigableness; bulldog courage.
- V. persevere, persist; hold on, hold out; die in the last ditch, be in
- at the death; stick to, cling to, adhere to; stick to one's text, keep on;
- keep to one's course, keep to one's ground, maintain one's course, maintain
- one's ground; go all lengths, go through fire and water; bear up, keep up,
- hold up; plod; stick to work &c. (work) 686; continue &c. 143; follow up;
- die in harness, die at one's post.
- Adj. persevering, constant; steady, steadfast; undeviating,
- unwavering, unfaltering, unswerving, unflinching, unsleeping[obs3],
- unflagging, undrooping[obs3]; steady as time; unrelenting,
- unintermitting[obs3], unremitting; plodding; industrious &c. 682; strenuous
- &c. 686; pertinacious; persisting, persistent.
- solid, sturdy, staunch, stanch, true to oneself; unchangeable &c. 150;
- unconquerable &c. (strong) 159; indomitable, game to the last,
- indefatigable, untiring, unwearied, never tiring.
- Adv. through evil report and good report, through thick and thin,
- through fire and water; per fas et nefas[Lat]; without fail, sink or swim,
- at any price, vogue la galere[Fr]..
- Phr. never say die; give it the old college try; vestigia nulla
- retrorsum[Lat]; aut vincer aut mori[Lat]; la garde meurt et ne se rend
- pas[Fr]; tout vient a temps pour qui sait attendre[Fr].
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- #605. Irresolution. -- N. irresolution, infirmity of purpose,
- indecision; indetermination, undetermination|!; unsettlement; uncertainty
- &c. 475; demur, suspense; hesitating &c. v., hesitation, hesitancy;
- vacillation; changeableness &c. 149; fluctuation; alternation &c.
- (oscillation) 314; caprice &c. 608.
- fickleness, levity, legerete[Fr]; pliancy &c. (softness) 324;
- weakness; timidity &c. 860; cowardice &c. 862; half measures.
- waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp;
- doughface [obs3][U. S.].
- V. be irresolute &c. adj.; hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave
- "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle &c. (inactivity) 683;
- remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker[obs3], hum and
- haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet
- with; will and will not, chaser-balancer[obs3]; go halfway, compromise,
- make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man;
- be afraid &c. 860; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" [Macbeth]; falter,
- waver
- vacillate &c. 149; change &c. 140; retract &c. 607; fluctuate;
- pendulate[obs3]; alternate &c. (oscillate) 314; keep off and on, play fast
- and loose; blow hot and cold &c. (caprice) 608.
- shuffle, palter, blink; trim.
- Adj. irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted;
- undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous;
- hesitating &c. v.; off one's balance; at a loss &c. (uncertain) 475.
- vacillating &c. v.; unsteady &c. (changeable) 149; unsteadfast[obs3],
- fickle, without ballast; capricious &c. 608; volatile, frothy; light,
- lightsome, light-minded; giddy; fast and loose.
- weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy &c. 860; cowardly
- &c. 862; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant &c. (soft) 324; unable to say
- "no", easy-going
- revocable, reversible.
- Adv. irresolutely &c. adj.; irresolved[obs3], irresolvedly[obs3]; in
- faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw &c. 314.
- Int. "how happy could I be with either!" [Gay].
-
- #606. Obstinacy. -- N. obstinateness &c. adj.; obstinacy, tenacity;
- cussedness [U. S.]; perseverance &c. 604a; immovability; old school;
- inflexibility &c. (hardness) 323; obduracy, obduration[obs3]; dogged
- resolution; resolution &c. 604; ruling passion; blind side.
- self-will, contumacy, perversity; pervicacy|, pervicacity[obs3];
- indocility[obs3].
- bigotry, intolerance, dogmatism; opiniatry|, opiniativeness; fixed
- idea &c. (prejudgment) 481; fanaticism, zealotry, infatuation, monomania;
- opinionatedness opinionativeness[obs3].
- mule; opinionist|, opinionatist[obs3], opiniator|, opinator|;
- stickler, dogmatist; bigot; zealot, enthusiast, fanatic.
- V. be obstinate &c. adj.; stickle, take no denial, fly in the face of
- facts; opinionate, be wedded to an opinion, hug a belief; have one's own
- way &c. (will) 600; persist &c. (persevere) 604a; have the last word,
- insist on having the last word.
- die hard, fight against destiny, not yield an inch, stand out.
- Adj. obstinate, tenacious, stubborn, obdurate, casehardened;
- inflexible &c. (hard) 323; balky; immovable, unshakable, not to be moved;
- inert &c. 172; unchangeable &c. 150; inexorable &c. (determined) 604;
- mulish, obstinate as a mule, pig-headed.
- dogged; sullen, sulky; unmoved, uninfluenced unaffected.
- willful, self-willed, perverse; resty[obs3], restive, restiff|;
- pervicacious[obs3], wayward, refractory, unruly; heady, headstrong;
- entete[Fr]; contumacious; crossgrained[obs3].
- arbitrary, dogmatic, positive, bigoted; prejudiced &c. 481; creed-
- bound; prepossessed, infatuated; stiff-backed, stiff necked, stiff hearted;
- hard-mouthed, hidebound; unyielding; impervious, impracticable,
- inpersuasible[obs3]; unpersuadable; intractable, untractable[obs3];
- incorrigible, deaf to advice, impervious to reason; crotchety &c. 608.
- Adv. obstinately &c. adj.
- Phr. non possumus[Lat]; no surrender; ils n'ont rien appris ne rien
- oublie[Fr].
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- #607. Tergiversation. -- N. change of mind, change of intention,
- change of purpose; afterthought.
- tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody[obs3]; renunciation;
- abjuration,abjurement[obs3]; defection &c. (relinquishment) 624; going over
- &c. v.; apostasy; retraction, retractation[obs3]; withdrawal; disavowal &c.
- (negation) 536; revocation, revokement[obs3]; reversal; repentance &c. 950-
- redintegratio amoris[Lat].
- coquetry; vacillation &c. 605; backsliding; volte-face[Fr].
- turn coat, turn tippet|; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert;
- proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U. S.], scab*, mugwump
- [U. S.], recidivist.
- time server, time pleaser[obs3]; timist|, Vicar of Bray, trimmer,
- ambidexter[obs3]; weathercock &c. (changeable) 149; Janus.
- V. change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose,
- change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from &c. (relinquish) 624;
- waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go
- over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from
- one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout;
- box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack.
- apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke;
- rescind &c. (abrogate) 756; recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round
- to an opinion; crawfish *[U. S.], crawl* [U. S.].
- draw in one's horns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek;
- swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come
- back return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf &c. (repent) 950.
- trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on
- the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager
- entre deux eaux[Fr]; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the
- wind blows.
- Adj. changeful &c. 149; irresolute &c. 605; ductile, slippery as an
- eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving[obs3];. coquetting &c. v.
- revocatory[obs3], reactionary.
- Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream" [Byron].
-
- #608. Caprice. -- N. caprice, fancy, humor; whim, whimsy,
- whimsey[obs3], whimwham[obs3]; crotchet, capriccio, quirk, freak, maggot,
- fad, vagary, prank, fit, flimflam, escapade, boutade[Fr], wild-goose chase;
- capriciousness &c. adj.; kink.
- V. be capricious &c. adj.; have a maggot in the brain; take it into
- one's head, strain at a gnat and swallow a camel; blow hot and cold; play
- fast and loose, play fantastic tricks; tourner casaque[Fr].
- Adj. capricious; erratic, eccentric, fitful, hysterical; full of whims
- &c. n.; maggoty; inconsistent, fanciful, fantastic, whimsical, crotchety,
- kinky [U. S.], particular, humorsome[obs3], freakish, skittish, wanton,
- wayward; contrary; captious; arbitrary; unconformable &c. 83; penny wise
- and pound foolish; fickle &c. (irresolute) 605; frivolous, sleeveless,
- giddy, volatile.
- Adv. by fits and starts, without rhyme or reason.
- Phr. nil fuit unquain sic inipar sibi[Lat]; the deuce is in him.
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- #609. Choice. -- N. choice, option;. discretion &c. (volition) 600;
- preoption[obs3]; alternative; dilemma, embarras de choix[Fr]; adoption,
- cooptation[obs3]; novation[obs3]; decision &c. (judgment) 480.
- election; political election (politics) 737a.
- selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism; excerpta[obs3],
- gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste; pick &c. (best) 650.
- preference, prelation[obs3], opinion poll, survey; predilection &c.
- (desire) 865.
- V. offers one's choice, set before; hold out the alternative, present
- the alternative, offer the alternative; put to the vote.
- use option, use discretion, exercise option, exercise discretion,
- one's option; adopt, take up, embrace, espouse; choose, elect, opt for;
- take one's choice, make one's choice; make choice of, fix upon.
- vote, poll, hold up one's hand; divide.
- settle; decide &c. (adjudge) 480; list &c. (will) 600; make up one's
- mind &c. (resolve) 604.
- select; pick and choose; pick out, single out; cull, glean, winnow;
- sift the chaff from the wheat, separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow
- the chaff from the wheat; pick up, pitch upon; pick one's way; indulge
- one;s fancy.
- set apart, mark out for; mark &c. 550.
- prefer; have rather, have as lief; fancy &c. (desire) 865; be
- persuaded &c. 615.
- take a decided step, take a decisive step; commit oneself to a course;
- pass the Rubicon, cross the Rubicon; cast in one's lot with; take for
- better or for worse.
- Adj. optional; discretional &c. (voluntary) 600.
- eclectic; choosing &c. v.; preferential; chosen &c. v.; choice &c.
- (good) 648.
- Adv. optionally &c. adj.; at pleasure &c. (will) 600; either the one
- or the other; or at the option of; whether or not; once and for all; for
- one's money.
- by choice, by preference; in preference; rather, before.
-
- #609a. Absence of Choice. -- N. no choice, Hobson's choice; first come
- first served, random selection; necessity &c. 601; not a pin to choose &c.
- (equality) 27; any, the first that comes; that or nothing.
- neutrality, indifference; indecision &c. (irresolution) 605;
- arbitrariness.
- coercion (compulsion) 744.
- V. be neutral &c. adj.; have no choice, have no election; waive, not
- vote; abstain from voting, refrain from voting; leave undecided; "make a
- virtue of necessity" [Two Gentlemen].
- Adj. neutral, neuter; indifferent, uninterested; undecided &c.
- (irresolute) 605.
- Adv. either &c. (choice) 609.
- Phr. who cares? what difference does it make? "There's not a dime's
- worth of difference between them." [George Wallace].
-
- #610. Rejection. -- N. rejection, repudiation, exclusion; refusal &c.
- 764; declination
- V. reject; set aside, lay aside; give up; decline &c. (refuse) 764;
- exclude, except; pluck, spin; cast.
- repudiate, scout, set at naught; fling to the winds, fling to the
- dogs, fling overboard, fling away, cast to the winds, cast to the dogs,
- cast overboard, cast away, throw to the winds, throw to the dogs, throw
- overboard, throw away, toss to the winds, toss to the dogs, toss overboard,
- toss away; send to the right about; disclaim &c. (deny) 536; discard &c.
- (eject) 297, (have done with) 678.
- Adj. rejected &c. v.; reject, rejectaneous|, rejectious|; not chosen
- &c. 609, to be thought of, out of the question
- Adv. neither, neither the one nor the other; no &c 536.
- Phr. non haec in faedera[Lat].
-
- #611. Predetermination. -- N. predestination, preordination,
- premeditation, predeliberation[obs3], predetermination; foregone
- conclusion, fait accompli[Fr]; parti pris[Fr]; resolve, propendency|;
- intention &c. 620; project &c. 626; fate, foredoom, necessity.
- V. predestine, preordain, predetermine, premeditate, resolve, concert;
- resolve beforehand, predesignate.
- Adj. prepense[obs3], premeditated &c. v., predesignated,
- predesigned[obs3]; advised, studied, designed, calculated; aforethought;
- intended &c. 620; foregone.
- well-laid, well-devised, well-weighed; maturely considered; cunning.
- Adv. advisedly &c. adj.; with premeditation, deliberately, all things
- considered, with eyes open, in cold blood; intentionally &c. 620.
-
- #612. Impulse. -- N. impulse, sudden thought; impromptu,
- improvisation; inspiration, flash, spurt.
- improvisatore[obs3]; creature of impulse.
- V. flash on the mind.
- say what comes uppermost; improvise, extemporize.
- Adj. extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate[obs3]; snap; improvised,
- improvisate[obs3], improvisatory[obs3]; unpremeditated, unmeditated;
- improvise; unprompted, unguided; natural, unguarded; spontaneous &c.
- (voluntary) 600; instinctive &c. 601.
- Adv. extempore, extemporaneously; offhand, impromptu, a
- limproviste[Fr]; improviso[obs3]; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of
- the occasion.
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- #613. Habit. [includes commonness due to frequency of occurrence] --
- N. habit, habitude; assuetude|, assuefaction|, wont; run, way.
- common state of things, general state of things, natural state of
- things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run
- of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground.
- prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice;
- prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion,
- vogue; etiquette &c. (gentility) 852; order of the day, cry; conformity &c.
- 82; consuetude,.dustoor[obs3].
- one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae[Lat]; laudator
- temporis acti[Lat].
- rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism[obs3];
- pipe clay; rut, groove.
- cacoethes[Lat]; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit,
- intrinsic habit &c.; addiction, trick.
- training &c. (education) 537; seasoning, second nature,
- acclimatization; knack &c.
- V. be wont &c. adj.
- fall into a rut, fall into a custom &c. (conform to) 82; tread the
- beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the
- beaten; stare super antiquas vias[Lat][obs3]; move in a rut, run on in a
- groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way.
- habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize;
- naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train &c. (educate) 537.
- get into the way, get into the knack of; learn &c. 539; cling to,
- adhere to; repeat &c. 104; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a
- habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself
- to, take to, get into.
- be habitual &c. adj.; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take
- root; gain upon one, grow upon one.
- Adj. habitual; accustomary[obs3]; prescriptive, accustomed &c. v.; of
- daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; consuetudinary[obs3]; wonted,
- usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, garden
- variety, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite,
- commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped;
- prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized,
- accredited; of course, admitted, understood.
- conformable. &c. 82; according to use, according to custom, according
- to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable &c. (genteel)
- 852.
- wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated &c. v.;
- in the habit of; habitue; at home in &c. (skillful) 698; seasoned; imbued
- with; devoted to, wedded to.
- hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted[obs3], permanent,
- inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained &c. (intrinsic) 5.
- Adv. habitually &c. adj.; always &c. (uniformly) 16.
- as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the
- sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito[Lat]; ex more.
- as a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically &c. adj.;
- most often, most frequently.
- Phr. cela s'entend[Fr]; abeunt studia in mores[Lat]; adeo in teneris
- consuescere multum est[Lat]; consuetudo quasi altera natura [Lat][Cicero];
- hoc erat in more majorum[Lat]; "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Two
- Gentlemen]; magna est vis consuetudinis[Lat]; morent fecerat usus
- [Lat][Ovid].
-
- #614. Desuetude. -- N. desuetude, disusage[obs3]; obsolescence, disuse
- &c. 678; want of habit, want of practice; inusitation[obs3]; newness to;
- new brooms.
- infraction of usage &c. (unconformity) 83; nonprevalence[obs3]; "a
- custom more honored in the breach than the observance" [Hamlet].
- V. be -unaccustomed &c. adj.; leave off a habit, cast off a habit,
- break off a habit, wean oneself of a habit, violate a habit, break through
- a habit, infringe a habit, leave off a custom, cast off a custom, break off
- a custom, wean oneself of a custom, violate a custom, break through a
- custom, infringe a custom, leave off a usage, cast off a usage, break off a
- usage, wean oneself of a usage, violate a usage, break through a usage,
- infringe a usage; disuse &c. 678; wear off.
- Adj. unaccustomed, unused, unwonted, unseasoned, uninured[obs3],
- unhabituated[obs3], untrained; new; green &c. (unskilled) 699; unhackneyed.
- unusual &c. (unconformable) 83; nonobservant[obs3]; disused &c. 678.
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- #615. Motive. -- N. motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action.
- reason, ground, call, principle; by end, by purpose; mainspring,
- primum mobile[Lat], keystone; the why and the wherefore; pro and con,
- reason why; secret motive, arriere pensee[Fr]; intention &c. 620.
- inducement, consideration; attraction; loadstone; magnet, magnetism,
- magnetic force; allectation|, allective|; temptation, enticement,
- agacerie[obs3], allurement, witchery; bewitchment, bewitchery; charm; spell
- &c. 993; fascination, blandishment, cajolery; seduction, seducement;
- honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit,
- golden apple.
- persuasibility[obs3], persuasibleness[obs3]; attractability[obs3];
- impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness;
- tantalization[obs3]. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse,
- impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation &c.
- (excitation of feeling) 824; inspiration; persuasion, suasion;
- encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice &c. 695; solicitation &c.
- (request) 765; lobbyism; pull*.
- incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus[obs3], rowel,
- provocative, whet, dram.
- bribe, lure; decoy, decoy duck; bait, trail of a red herring; bribery
- and corruption; sop, sop for Cerberus.
- prompter, tempter; seducer, seductor[obs3]; instigator, firebrand,
- incendiary; Siren, Circe; agent provocateur; lobbyist.
- V. induce, move; draw, draw on; bring in its train, give an impulse
- &c. n.; to; inspire; put up to, prompt, call up; attract, beckon.
- stimulate &c. (excite) 824; spirit up, inspirit; rouse, arouse;
- animate, incite, foment, provoke, instigate, set on, actuate;.act upon,
- work upon, operate upon; encourage; pat on the back, pat on the shoulder,
- clap on the back, clap on the shoulder.
- influence, weigh with, bias, sway, incline, dispose, predispose, turn
- the scale, inoculate; lead by the nose; have influence with, have influence
- over, have influence upon, exercise influence with, exercise influence
- over, exercise influence upon; go round, come round one; turn the head,
- magnetize; lobby.
- persuade; prevail with, prevail upon; overcome, carry; bring round to
- one's senses, bring to one's senses; draw over, win over, gain over, come
- over, talk over; procure, enlist, engage; invite, court.
- tempt, seduce, overpersuade[obs3], entice, allure, captivate,
- fascinate, bewitch, carry away, charm, conciliate, wheedle, coax, lure;
- inveigle; tantalize; cajole &c. (deceive) 545.
- tamper with, bribe, suborn, grease the palm, bait with a silver hook,
- gild the pill, make things pleasant, put a sop into the pan, throw a sop
- to, bait the hook.
- enforce, force; impel &c. (push) 276; propel &c. 284; whip, lash,
- goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound , hurry on; drag &c. 285; exhort;
- advise &c. 695; call upon &c. press &c. (request) 765; advocate.
- set an example, set the fashion; keep in countenance.
- be persuaded &c.; yield to temptation, come round; concede &c.
- (consent) 762; obey a call; follow advice, follow the bent,.follow the
- dictates of; act on principle.
- Adj. impulsive, motive; suasive, suasory[obs3], persuasive,
- persuasory[obs3], hortative, hortatory; protreptical|; inviting, tempting,
- &c. v.; suasive, suasory[obs3]; seductive, attractive; fascinating &c.
- (pleasing) 829; provocative &c. (exciting) 824.
- induced &c. v.; disposed; persuadable &c. (docile) 602; spellbound;
- instinct with, smitten with, infatuated; inspired &c. v.; by.
- Adv. because, therefore &c. (cause) 155; from this motive, from that
- motive; for this reason, for that reason; for; by reason of, for the sake
- of, count of; out of, from, as, forasmuch as.
- for all the world; on principle.
- Phr. fax mentis incendium gloriae[Lat]; "temptation hath a music for
- all ears" "to beguile many and be beguiled by one" [Willis][Othello].
-
- #615a. Absence of Motive. -- N. absence of motive, aimlessness;
- caprice &c. 608; chance &c. (absence of design) 621.
- V. have no motive; scruple &c. (be unwilling) 603.
- Adj. without rhyme or reason; aimless, capricious, whimsical &c.
- (chance) 621.
- Adv. out of mere caprice.
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- #616. Dissuasion. -- N. dissuasion, dehortation[obs3], expostulation,
- remonstrance; deprecation &c. 766.
- discouragement, damper, wet blanket; disillusionment, disenchantment.
- cohibition &c. (restraint) 751[obs3]; curb &c. (means of restraint)
- 752; check &c. (hindrance) 706.
- reluctance &c. (unwillingness) 603; contraindication.
- V. dissuade, dehort[obs3], cry out against, remonstrate, expostulate,
- warn, contraindicate.
- disincline, indispose, shake, stagger; dispirit; discourage,
- dishearten; deter; repress, hold back, keep back &c. (restrain) 751; render
- averse &c. 603; repel; turn aside &c. (deviation) 279; wean from; act as a
- drag &c. (hinder) 706; throw cold water on, damp, cool, chill, blunt, calm,
- quiet, quench; deprecate &c. 766.
- disenchant, ,disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon,
- prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) 527a.
- Adj. dissuading &c. v.; dissuasive; dehortatory[obs3],
- expostulatory[obs3]; monitive|, monitory.
- dissuaded &c. v.; admonitory; uninduced &c. (induce &c. 615);
- unpersuadable &c. (obstinate) 606; averse &c. (unwilling) 603; repugnant
- &c. (dislike) 867.
- repressed.
-
- #617. [Ostensible motive, ground, or reason assigned.] Pretext. -- N.
- pretext, pretense, pretension, plea|; allegation, advocation; ostensible
- motive, ostensible ground, ostensible reason, phony reason; excuse &c.
- (vindication) 937; subterfuge; color; gloss, guise, cover.
- loop hole, starting hole; how to creep out of, salvo, come off; way of
- escape.
- handle, peg to hang on, room locus standi[Lat]; stalking-horse, cheval
- de bataille[Fr], cue.
- pretense &c. (untruth) 546; put off, dust thrown in the eyes; blind;
- moonshine; mere pretext, shallow pretext; lame excuse, lame apology; tub to
- a whale; false plea, sour grapes; makeshift, shift, white lie; special
- pleading &c. (sophistry) 477; soft sawder &c. (flattery) 933[obs3].
- V. pretend, plead, allege; shelter oneself under the plea of; excuse
- &c. (vindicate) 937; lend a color to; furnish a handle &c. n.; make a
- pretext of, make a handle of; use as a plea &c. n.; take one's stand upon,
- make capital out of , pretend &c. (lie) 544.
- Adj. ostensibly &c. (manifest) 525; alleged, apologetic; pretended &c.
- 545.
- Adv. ostensibly; under color; under the plea, under the pretense of,
- under the guise of.
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-
- #618. Good. -- N. good, benefit, advantage; improvement &c. 658;
- greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main
- chance, summum bonum[Lat], common weal; "consummation devoutly to be
- wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest.
- boon &c. (gift) 784; good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good
- luck[Fr], piece of good fortune[Fr]; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif,
- treasure-trove.
- good fortune &c. (prosperity) 734; happiness &c. 827.
- [Source of good] goodness &c. 648; utility &c. 644; remedy &c. 662;
- pleasure giving &c. 829.
- Adj. commendable &c. 931; useful &c. 644; good &c., beneficial &c.
- 648.
- Adv. well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis[Fr]; all for
- the best; to one's advantage &c. n.; in one's favor, in one's interest &c.
- n.
- Phr. so far so good; magnum bonum[Lat].
-
- #619. Evil. -- N. evil, ill, harm, hurt., mischief, nuisance;
- machinations of the devil, Pandora's box, ills that flesh is heir to.
- blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal
- blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus[Lat]; damage, loss &c. (deterioration)
- 659.
- disadvantage, prejudice, drawback.
- disaster, accident, casualty; mishap &c. (misfortune) 735; bad job,
- devil to pay; calamity, bale, catastrophe, tragedy; ruin &c. (destruction)
- 162; adversity &c. 735.
- mental suffering &c. 828. * demon &v[Evil spirit]. 980. bane &c.
- 663[Cause of evil]. badness &c. 649[Production of evil]; painfulness &c.
- 830; evil doer &c. 913.
- outrage, wrong, injury, foul play; bad turn, ill turn; disservice,
- spoliation &c. 791; grievance, crying evil.
- V. be in trouble &c. (adversity) 735.
- Adj. disastrous, bad &c. 649; awry, out of joint; disadvantageous.
- Adv. amis[Fr], wrong, ill, to one's cost
- Phr. "moving accidents by flood and field" [Othello].
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- #620. Intention. -- N. intent, intention, intentionality; purpose; quo
- animo[Lat]; project &c. 626; undertaking &c. 676; predetermination &c. 611;
- design, ambition.
- contemplation, mind, animus, view, purview, proposal; study; look out.
- final cause; raison d'etre[Fr]; cui bono[Lat]; object, aim, end; "the
- be all and the end all"; drift &c. (meaning) 516; tendency &c. 176;
- destination, mark, point, butt, goal, target, bull's-eye,
- quintain[obs3][medeival]; prey, quarry, game.
- decision, determination, resolve; fixed set purpose, settled purpose;
- ultimatum; resolution &c. 604; wish &c. 865; arriere pensee[Fr]; motive &c.
- 615.
- [Study of final causes] teleology.
- V. intend, purpose, design, mean; have to; propose to oneself; harbor
- a design; have in view, have in contemplation, have in one's eye, have in-
- petto; have an eye to.
- bid for, labor for; be after, aspire after, endeavor after; be at, aim
- at, drive at, point at, level at, aspire at; take aim; set before oneself;
- study to.
- take upon oneself &c. (undertake) 676; take into one's head; meditate,
- contemplate of, think of, dream of, talk of; premeditate &c. 611; compass,
- calculate; destine, destinate[obs3]; propose.
- project &c. (plan) 626; have a mind to &c. (be willing) 602; desire
- &c. 865; pursue &c. 622.
- Adj. intended &c. v.; intentional, advised, express, determinate;
- prepense &c. 611[obs3]; bound for; intending &c. v.; minded; bent upon &c.
- (earnest) 604; at stake; on the anvil, on the tapis[obs3]; in view, in
- prospect, in the breast of; in petto; teleological
- Adv. intentionally &c. adj.; advisedly, wittingly, knowingly,
- designedly, purposely, on purpose, by design, studiously, pointedly; with
- intent &c. n.; deliberately &c. (with premeditation) 611; with one's eyes
- open, in cold blood.
- for; with a view, with an eye to; in order to, in order that; to the
- end that, with the intent that; for the purpose of, with the view of, in
- contemplation of, on account of.
- in pursuance of, pursuant to; quo animo[Lat]; to all intents and
- purposes.
- Phr. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" [Johnson];
- sublimi feriam sidera vertice [Lat][Horace].
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- #621. [Absence of purpose in the succession of events] Chance. 2 -- N.
- chance &c. 156; lot, fate &c. (necessity) 601; luck; good luck &c. (good)
- 618; mascot.
- speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot;
- blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke &c. (uncertainty) 475;
- fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer*; limit.
- uncertainty; uncertainty principle, Heisenberg's uncertainty
- principle.
- drawing lots; sortilegy[obs3], sortition|; sortes[obs3], sortes
- Virgilianae[obs3]; rouge et noir[Fr], hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo
- [obs3][U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup
- tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting;
- gambling; the turf.
- gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling
- joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.
- [person who takes chances] gambler, gamester; man of the turf;
- adventurer; dicer|!.
- V. chance &c. (hap) 156; stand a chance &c. (be possible) 470.
- toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave
- to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt
- fortune; chance it, take one's chance, take a shot at it (attempt) 675; run
- the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the
- risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die.
- speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery,
- buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards.
- risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet,
- wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
- Adj. fortuitous &c. 156; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not
- meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated &c. 612; unforeseen,
- uncontemplated, never thought of.
- random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless,
- driftless[obs3], designless[obs3], purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
- possible &c. 470.
- unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey.
- Adv. randomly, by chance, fortuitously; unpredictably, unforeseeably;
- casually &c. 156; unintentionally &c. adj.; unwittingly.
- en passant[Fr], by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random,
- at a venture, at haphazard.
- Phr. acierta errando[Lat]; dextro tempore[Lat]; "fearful concatenation
- of circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances"
- [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir[Fr]; "the
- happy combination of fortuitous circumstances" [Scott]; "the fortuitous or
- casual concourse of atoms" [Bentley]; "God does not play dice with the
- universe" [A. Einstein].
-
- #622. [Purpose in action.] Pursuit -- N. pursuit; pursuing &c. v.;
- prosecution; pursuance; enterprise &c. (undertaking) 676; business &c. 625;
- adventure &c. (essay) 675; quest &c. (search) 461; scramble, hue and cry,
- game; hobby; still-hunt.
- chase, hunt, battue[obs3], race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing;
- venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing,
- hawking; shikar[Geogloc:India].
- pursuer; hunter, huntsman; shikari[Geogloc:India], sportsman, Nimrod;
- hound &c. 366.
- V. pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt
- after, prowl after; shadow; carry on &c. (do) 680; engage in &c.
- (undertake) 676; set about &c. (begin) 66; endeavor &c. 675; court &c.
- (request) 765 seek &c. (search) 461; aim at &c. (intention) 620; follow the
- trail &c. (trace) 461; fish for &c. (experiment) 463; press on &c. (haste)
- 684; run a race &c. (velocity) 274.
- chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound; tread on the heels,
- follow on the heels of, &c. (sequence) 281.
- rush upon; rush headlong &c. (violence) 173 ride full tilt at, run
- full tilt at; make a leap at, jump at, snatch at run down; start game.
- tread a path; take a course, hold- a course; shape one's steps, direct
- one's steps, bend one's steps, course; play a game; fight one's way, elbow
- one's way; follow up; take to, take up; go in for; ride one's hobby.
- Adj. pursuing &c. v.; in quest of &c. (inquiry) 461 in pursuit, in
- full cry, in hot pursuit; on the scent.
- Adv. in pursuance of &c. (intention) 620; after.
- Int. tallyho! yoicks! soho[obs3]!
-
- #623. .[Absence of pursuit.] Avoidance. -- N. abstention, abstinence;
- for bearance[obs3]; refraining &c. v.; inaction &c. 681; neutrality.
- avoidance, evasion, elusion; seclusion &c. 893.
- avolation|, flight; escape &c. 671; retreat &c. 287; recoil &c. 277;
- departure &c. 293; rejection &c. 610.
- shirker &c. v.; truant; fugitive, refugee; runaway, runagate; maroon.
- V. abstain, refrain, spare, not attempt; not do &c. 681; maintain the
- even tenor of one's way.
- eschew, keep from, let alone, have nothing to do with; keep aloof keep
- off, stand aloof, stand off, hold aloof, hold off; take no part in, have no
- hand in.
- avoid, shun; steer clear of, keep clear of; fight shy of; keep one's
- distance, keep at a respectful distance; keep out of the way, get out of
- the way; evade, elude, turn away from; set one's face against &c. (oppose)
- 708; deny oneself.
- shrink back; hang back, hold back, draw back; recoil &c. 277; retire
- &c. (recede) 287; flinch, blink, blench, shy, shirk, dodge, parry, make way
- for, give place to.
- beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels;
- runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee;
- fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert,
- elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break
- away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from,
- scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from;
- slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give
- one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt,
- abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate [obs3][U.S.], cut one's stick,
- walk one's chalks, show a light pair of heels, make oneself scarce; escape
- &c. 671; go away &c. (depart) 293; abandon &c. 624; reject &c. 610.
- lead one a dance, lead one a pretty dance; throw off the scent, play
- at hide and seek.
- Adj. unsought, unattempted; avoiding &c. v.; neutral, shy of &c.
- (unwilling) 603; elusive, evasive; fugitive, runaway; shy, wild.
- Adj. lest, in order to avoid.
- Int. forbear! keep off, hands off! sauve qui peut[Fr]! [French: every
- man for himself]; devil take the hindmost!
- Phr. "things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" [Paradise Lost].
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- #624. Relinquishment. -- N. relinquishment, abandonment; desertion,
- defection, secession, withdrawal; cave of Adullam[obs3]; nolle
- prosequi[Lat].
- discontinuance &c. (cessation) 142; renunciation &c. (recantation)
- 607; abrogation &c. 756; resignation &c. (retirement) 757; desuetude &c.
- 614; cession &c. (of property) 782.
- V. relinquish, give up, abandon, desert, forsake, leave in the lurch;
- go back on; depart from, secede from, withdraw from; back out of; leave,
- quit, take leave of, bid a long farewell; vacate &c. (resign) 757.
- renounce &c (abjure) 607; forego, have done with, drop; disuse &c.
- 678; discard &c. 782; wash one's hands of; drop all idea of.
- break off, leave off; desist; stop &c. (cease) 142; hold one's hand,
- stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop.
- throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the
- argument; pass to the order of the day, move to the previous question.
- Adj. unpursued[obs3]; relinquished &c. v.; relinquishing &c. v.
- Int. avast! &c. (stop) 142.
- Phr. aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben[Ger]; entbehre gern was du
- nicht hast[Ger].
-
- #625. Business. -- N. business, occupation, employment; pursuit &c.
- 622; what one is doing, what one is about; affair, concern, matter, case.
- matter in hand, irons in the fire; thing to do, agendum, task, work,
- job, chore [U.S.], errand, commission, mission, charge, care; duty &c. 926.
- part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity,
- sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race,
- career.
- office, place, post, chargeship[obs3], incumbency, living; situation,
- berth, employ; service &c. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c.
- 676.
- vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty; industry, art;
- industrial arts; craft, mystery, handicraft; trade &c. (commerce) 794.
- exercise; work &c. (action) 680; avocation; press of business &c.
- (activity) 682.
- V. pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in;
- employ oneself in, employ oneself upon; occupy oneself with, concern
- oneself with; make it one's business &c. n.; undertake &c. 676; enter a
- profession; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to; have to do with &c. (do)
- 680.
- office, place, post, chargeship[obs3], incumbency, living; situation,
- berth, employ; service &c. (servitude) 749; engagement; undertaking &c.
- 676.
- drive a trade; carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry
- on business, do business, transact business &c. n.; keep a shop; ply one's
- task, ply one's trade; labor in one's vocation; pursue the even tenor of
- one's way; attend to business, attend to one's work.
- officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve
- the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the
- duties of, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a
- place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation.
- be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with,
- be at work on; have one's hands in, have in hand; have on one's hands, have
- on one's shoulders; bear the burden; have one's hands full &c. (activity)
- 682.
- be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil; pass through
- one's hands.
- Adj. businesslike; workaday; professional; official, functional; busy
- &c. (actively employed) 682; on hand, in hand, in one's hands; afoot; on
- foot, on the anvil; going on; acting.
- Adv. in the course of business, all in one's day's work;
- professionally &c. Adj.
- Phr. "a business with an income at its heels" [Cowper]; amoto
- quaeramus seria ludo [Lat][Horace]; par negotiis neque supra
- [Lat][Tacitus].
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- #626. Plan. -- N. plan, scheme, design, project; proposal,
- proposition, suggestion; resolution, motion; precaution &c. (provision)
- 673; deep-laid plan &c. (premeditated) 611;
- system &c. (order) 58; organization &c. (arrangement) 60; germ &c.
- (cause) 153.
- sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche[Fr], brouillon[Fr];
- rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.
- drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart
- (representation) 554.
- forecast, program(me), prospectus; carte du pays[Fr]; card; bill,
- protocol; order of the day, list of agenda; bill of fare &c. (food) 298;
- base of operations; platform, plank, slate [U. S.], ticket [U. S.].
- role; policy &c. (line of conduct) 692.
- contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device;
- pipelaying [U. S.]; stratagem &c. (cunning) 702; trick &c. (deception) 545;
- alternative, loophole; shift &c. (substitute) 147; last shift &c.
- (necessity) 601.
- measure, step; stroke, stroke of policy; master stroke; trump card,
- court card; cheval de bataille[Fr], great gun; coup, coup d'etat[Fr];
- clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke; bright
- thought, bright idea.
- intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot[obs3], machination;
- subplot, underplot[obs3], counterplot.
- schemer, schemist[obs3], schematist|; strategist, machinator;
- projector, artist, promoter, designer &c. v.; conspirator; intrigant &c.
- (cunning) 702[obs3].
- V. plan,,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch;
- devise, invent &c. (imagine) 515; set one's wits to work &c. 515; spring a
- project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map
- out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine
- &c. 611; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare &c. 673; hatch, hatch a
- plot concoct; take steps, take measures.
- cast, recast, systematize, organize; arrange &c. 60; digest, mature.
- plot; counter-plot, counter-mine; dig a mine; lay a train; intrigue
- &c. (cunning) 702.
- Adj. planned &c. v.; strategic, strategical; planning &c. v.;
- prepared, in course of preparation &c. 673; under consideration; on the
- tapis[obs3], on the carpet, on the floor.
-
- #627. Method. [Path.] -- N. method, way, manner, wise, gait, form,
- mode, fashion, tone, guise; , modus operandi, MO; procedure &c. (line of
- conduct) 692.
- path, road, route, course; line of way, line of road; trajectory,
- orbit, track, beat, tack.
- steps; stair, staircase; flight of stairs, ladder, stile;
- perron[obs3].
- bridge, footbridge, viaduct, pontoon, steppingstone, plank, gangway;
- drawbridge; pass, ford, ferry, tunnel; pipe &c. 260.
- door; gateway &c. (opening) 260; channel, passage, avenue, means of
- access, approach, adit[obs3]; artery, lane, alley, aisle, lobby, corridor;
- back-door, back-stairs; secret passage; covert way; vennel[obs3].
- roadway, pathway, stairway; express; thoroughfare; highway; turnpike ,
- freeway, royal road, coach road; broad highway, King's highway, Queen's
- highway; beaten track, beaten path; horse road, bridle road, bridle track,
- bridle path; walk, trottoir[obs3], footpath, pavement, flags, sidewalk;
- crossroad, byroad, bypath, byway; cut; short cut &c. (mid-course) 628;
- carrefour[obs3]; private road, occupation road; highways and byways;
- railroad, railway, tram road, tramway; towpath; causeway; canal &c.
- (conduit) 350; street &c. (abode) 189; speedway.
- adv. how; in what way, in what manner; by what mode; so, in this way, after
- this fashion.
- one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other &c. (instrumentality)
- 631; by way of; via; in transitu &c. 270[Lat]; on the high road to.
- Phr. hae tibi erunt artes[Lat].
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- #628. Mid-course. -- N. middle course, midcourse; mean &c. 29 middle
- &c. 68; juste milieu[Fr], mezzo termine[It], golden mean,
- <gr/ariston metron/gr>[obs3][Grk], aurea mediocritas[Lat].
- straight &c. (direct) 278 straight course, straight path; short cut,
- cross cut; great circle sailing.
- neutrality; half measure, half and half measures; compromise.
- V. keep in a middle course, preserve a middle course, preserve an even
- course, go straight &c. (direct) 278.
- go halfway, compromise, make a compromise.
- Adj. straight &c. (direct) 278.
- Phr. medium tenuere beati[Lat].
-
- #629. Circuit. -- N. circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour,
- circumbendibus, ambages[obs3], loop; winding &c. (circuition) 311[obs3];
- zigzag &c. (deviation) 279.
- V. perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a
- detour; meander &c. (deviate) 279.
- lead a pretty dance; beat about the bush; make two bites of a cherry.
- Adj. circuitous, indirect, roundabout; zigzag &c. (deviating) 279;
- backhanded.
- Adv. by a side wind, by an indirect course; in a roundabout way; from
- pillar to post.
-
-
- #630. Requirement. -- N. requirement, need, wants, necessities;
- necessaries, necessaries of life; stress, exigency,pinch, sine qua non,
- matter of necessity; case of need, case of life or death.
- needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency.
- requisition &c. (request) 765, (exaction) 741; run upon; demand, call
- for.
- charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept.
- desideratum &c. (desire) 865; want &c. (deficiency) 640.
- V. require, need, want, have occasion for; not be able to do without,
- not be able to dispense with; prerequire[obs3].
- render necessary, necessitate, create a, necessity for, call for, put
- in requisition; make a requisition &c. (ask for) 765, (demand) 741.
- stand in need of; lack &c. 640; desiderate[obs3]; desire &c. 865; be
- necessary &c. Adj.
- Adj. required &c. v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative,
- essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request.
- urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing.
- in want of; destitute of &c. 640.
- Adv. ex necessitate rei &c. (necessarily) 601[Lat]; of necessity.
- Phr. there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be
- dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Lat][Quintilian]; necessitas
- non habet legem[Lat]; nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te [Lat][Martial].
-
- 2. Subservience to Ends
-
- 1. Actual Subservience
-
- #631. Instrumentality. -- N. instrumentality; aid &c. 707;
- subservience, subserviency; mediation, intervention, medium,
- intermedium[obs3], vehicle, hand; agency &c. 170.
- minister, handmaid; midwife, accoucheur[Fr], accoucheuse[Fr],
- obstetrician; gobetween; cat's-paw; stepping-stone.
- opener &c. 260; key; master key, passkey, latchkey; " open sesame ";
- passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password.
- instrument &c. 633; expedient &c. (plan) 626; means &c. 632.
- V. subserve, minister, mediate, intervene; be instrumental &c. adj.;
- pander to; officiate; tend.
- Adj. instrumental; useful &c. 644; ministerial, subservient,
- mediatorial[obs3]; intermediate, intervening; conducive.
- Adv. through, by, per; whereby, thereby, hereby; by the agency of &c.
- 170; by dint of; by virtue of, in virtue of; through the medium of &c. n.;
- along with; on the shoulders of; by means of &c. 632; by the aid of, with
- the aid of &c. (assistance) 707.
-
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-
- per fas et nefas[Lat], by fair means or foul; somehow, somehow or
- other; by hook or by crook.
-
- #632. Means. -- N. means, resources, wherewithal, ways and means;
- capital &c. (money) 800; revenue; stock in trade &c. 636; provision &c.
- 637; a shot in the locker; appliances &c. (machinery) 633; means and
- appliances; conveniences; cards to play; expedients &c. (measures) 626; two
- strings to one's bow; sheet anchor &c. (safety) 666; aid &c. 707; medium
- &c. 631.
- V. find means, have means, possess means &c. n.
- Adj. instrumental &c. 631; mechanical &c. 633.
- Adv. by means of, with; by what means, by all means, by any means, by
- some means; wherewith, herewith, therewith; wherewithal.
- how &c. (in what manner) 627; through &c. (by the instrumentality of)
- 631; with the aid of, by the aid of &c. (assistance) 707; by the agency of
- &c. 170
-
- #633. Instrument. -- N. machinery, mechanism, engineering.
- instrument, organ, tool, implement, utensil, machine, engine, lathe,
- gin, mill; air engine, caloric engine, heat engine.
- gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant,
- materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde[obs3];
- equipment, equipmentage[obs3]; appointments, furniture, upholstery;
- chattels; paraphernalia &c. (belongings) 780.
- mechanical powers; lever, leverage; mechanical advantage; crow,
- crowbar; handspike[obs3], gavelock[obs3], jemmy[obs3], jimmy, arm, limb,
- wing; oar, paddle; pulley; wheel and axle; wheelwork, clockwork; wheels
- within wheels; pinion, crank, winch; cam; pedal; capstan &c. (lift) 307;
- wheel &c. (rotation) 312; inclined plane; wedge; screw; spring, mainspring;
- can hook, glut, heald[obs3], heddle[obs3], jenny, parbuckle[obs3],
- sprag[obs3], water wheel.
- handle, hilt, haft, shaft, heft, shank, blade, trigger, tiller, helm,
- treadle, key; turnscrew, screwdriver; knocker.
- hammer &c. (impulse) 276; edge tool &c. (cut) 253; borer &c. 262;
- vice, teeth, &c. (hold) 781; nail, rope &c. (join) 45; peg &c. (hang) 214;
- support &c. 215; spoon &c. (vehicle) 272; arms &c. 727; oar &c.
- (navigation) 267; cardiograph, recapper[obs3], snowplow, tenpenny[obs3],
- votograph[obs3].
- Adj. instrumental &c. 631; mechanical, machinal[obs3]; brachial[Med].
-
- #634. Substitute. -- N. substitute &c. 147; deputy &c. 759;
- badli[obs3].
-
- #635. Materials. -- N. material, raw material, stuff, stock, staple;
- adobe, brown stone; chinking; clapboard; daubing; puncheon; shake; shingle,
- bricks and mortar; metal; stone; clay, brick crockery &c. 384; compo,
- composition; concrete; reinforced concrete, cement; wood, ore, timber.
- materials; supplies, munition, fuel, grist, household stuff pabulum
- &c. (food) 298; ammunition &c. (arms) 727; contingents; relay,
- reinforcement, reenforcement[obs3]; baggage &c. (personal property) 780;
- means &c. 632; calico, cambric, cashmere.
- Adj. raw &c. (unprepared) 674; wooden &c. n.; adobe.
-
- #636. Store. -- N. stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring;
- fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.
- stock in trade, supply; heap &c. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve,
- corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche[Fr].
- crop, harvest, mow, vintage.
- store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay &c. (provision)
- 637.
- storehouse, storeroom, storecloset[obs3]; depository, depot, cache,
- repository, reservatory[obs3], repertory; repertorium[obs3];
- promptuary[obs3], warehouse, entrepot[Fr], magazine; buttery, larder,
- spence[obs3]; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault,
- stillroom[obs3]; thesaurus; bank &c. (treasury) 802; armory; arsenal; dock;
- gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery[obs3], menagerie.
-
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-
- reservoir, cistern, aljibar[obs3], tank, pond, mill pond;
- gasometer[obs3].
- budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer &c. (receptacle) 191.
- conservation; storing &c. v.; storage.
- V. store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart;
- store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save
- up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.
- reserve; keep back, hold back; husband, husband one's resources.
- deposit; stow, stack, load; harvest; heap, collect &c. 72; lay in
- store &c.
- Adj.; keep, file [papers]; lay in &c. (provide) 637; preserve &c. 670.
- Adj. stored &c. v. ; in store, in reserve, in ordinary; spare,
- supernumerary.
- Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit[Lat].
-
- #637. Provision. -- N. provision, supply; grist, grist for the mill;
- subvention &c. (aid) 707; resources &c. (means) 632; groceries, grocery.
- providing &c. v.; purveyance; reinforcement, reenforcement[obs3];
- commissariat.
- provender &c. (food) 298; ensilage; viaticum.
- caterer, purveyor, commissary, quartermaster, manciple[obs3], feeder,
- batman, victualer, grocer, comprador[Sp], restaurateur; jackal, pelican;
- sutler &c. (merchant) 797[obs3].
- grocery shop [U. S.], grocery store.
- V. provide; make provision, make due provision for; lay in, lay in a
- stock, lay in a store.
- supply, suppeditate|; furnish; find, find one in; arm.
- cater, victual, provision, purvey, forage; beat up for; stock, stock
- with; make good, replenish; fill, fill up; recruit, feed.
- have in store, have in reserve; keep, keep by one, keep on foot, keep
- on hand; have to fall back upon; store &c. 636; provide against a rainy day
- &c. (economy) 817.
-
-
- #638. Waste. -- N. consumption, expenditure, exhaustion; dispersion
- &c. 73; ebb; leakage &c. (exudation) 295; loss &c. 776; wear and tear;
- waste; prodigality &c. 818; misuse &c. 679; wasting &c. v.; rubbish &c.
- (useless) 645. mountain in labor.
- V. spend, expend, use, consume, swallow up, exhaust; impoverish;
- spill, drain, empty; disperse &c. 73.
- cast away, fool away, muddle away, throw away, fling away, fritter
- away,; burn the candle at both ends, waste; squander &c. 818.
- " waste its sweetness on the desert air " [Gray]; cast one's bread
- upon the waters, cast pearls before swine; employ a steam engine to crack a
- nut, waste powder and shot, break a butterfly on a wheel; labor in vain &c.
- (useless) 645; cut blocks with a razor, pour water into a sieve.
- leak &c. (run out) 295; run to waste; ebb; melt away, run dry, dry up.
- Adj. wasted &c. v.; at a low ebb.
- wasteful &c. (prodigal) 818; penny wise and pound foolish.
- Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas[Lat]; le jeu ne vaut pas la
- chandelle[Fr]; " idly busy rolls their world away " [Goldsmith].
-
-
- #639. Sufficiency. -- N. sufficiency, adequacy, enough, withal,
- satisfaction, competence; no less; quantum sufficit[Lat], Q.S..
- mediocrity &c. (average) 29.
- fill; fullness &c. (completeness) 52; plenitude, plenty; abundance;
- copiousness &c. Adj.; amplitude, galore, lots, profusion; full measure; "
- good measure pressed down and running, over." luxuriance &c. (fertility)
- 168; affluence &c. (wealth) 803; fat of the land; "a land flowing with milk
- and honey"; cornucopia; horn of plenty, horn of Amalthaea; mine &c.
- (stock) 636.
- outpouring; flood &c. (great quantity) 31; tide &c. (river) 348;
- repletion &c. (redundancy) 641; satiety &c. 869.
- V. be sufficient &c. Adj.; suffice, do, just do, satisfy, pass muster;
- have enough &c. n.; eat. one's fill, drink one's fill, have one's fill;
- roll in, swim in; wallow in &c. (superabundance) 641 ; wanton.
- abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour
- in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.
- render sufficient &c. Adj.; replenish &c .(fill) 52.
- Adj. sufficient, enough, adequate, up to the mark, commensurate,
- competent, satisfactory, valid, tangible.
- measured; moderate &c. (temperate) 953.
- full.&c. (complete) 52; ample; plenty, plentiful, plenteous; plenty as
- blackberries; copious, abundant; abounding &c. v.; replete, enough and to
- spare, flush; choke-full, chock-full; well-stocked, well-provided; liberal;
- unstinted, unstinting; stintless[obs3]; without stint; unsparing,
- unmeasured; lavish &c. 641; wholesale.
- rich; luxuriant &c. (fertile) 168; affluent &c. (wealthy) 803;
- wantless[obs3]; big with &c. (pregnant) 161.
- unexhausted[obs3], unwasted[obs3]; exhaustless, inexhaustible.
- Adv. sufficiently, amply &c. Adj.; full; in abundance &c. n. with no
- sparing hand; to one's heart's content, ad libitum, without stint.
- Phr. " cut and come again " [Crabbe]; das Beste ist gut genug[Ger].
-
-
- #640. Insufficiency. -- N. insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness;
- incompetence &c. (impotence) 158; deficiency &c. (incompleteness) 53;
- imperfection &c. 651; shortcoming &c. 304; paucity; stint; scantiness &c.
- (smallness) 32; none to spare, bare subsistence.
- scarcity, dearth; want, need, lack, poverty, exigency; inanition,
- starvation, famine, drought.
- dole, mite, pittance; short allowance, short commons; half rations;
- banyan day.
- emptiness, poorness &c. Adj.; depletion, vacancy, flaccidity; ebb
- tide; low water; " a beggarly account of empty boxes " [Romeo and Jul.];
- indigence &c. 804; insolvency &c. (nonpayment) 808.
- V. be insufficient &c. Adj.; not suffice &c. 639; come short of &c.
- 304 run dry.
- want, lack, need, require; caret; be in want &c. (poor) 804, live from
- hand to mouth.
- render insufficient &c. Adj.; drain of resources, impoverish &c.
- (waste) 638; stint &c. (begrudge) 819; put on short allowance.
- do insufficiently &c. adv.; scotch the snake.
- Adj. insufficient, inadequate; too little &c. 32; not enough &c. 639;
- unequal to; incompetent &c. (impotent) 158; " weighed in the balance and
- found wanting "; perfunctory &c. (neglect) 460; deficient &c. (incomplete)
- 53; wanting, &c. v.; imperfect &c. 651; ill-furnished, ill-provided, ill-
- stored, ill-off.
- slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, destitute
- of, devoid of , bereft of &c. 789; denuded of; dry, drained.
- unprovided, unsupplied[obs3], unfurnished; unreplenished, unfed[obs3];
- unstored[obs3], untreasured[obs3]; empty-handed.
- meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved,
- starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.
- scant &c. (small) 32; scarce; not to be had, not to be had for love or
- money, not to be had at any price; scurvy; stingy &c. 819; at the end of
- one's tether; without resources &c. 632; in want &c. (poor) 804; in debt
- &c. 806.
- Adv. insufficiently &c. Adj.; in default of, for want of; failing.
- Phr. semper avarus eget [Lat][Horace].
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-
-
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-
- #641. Redundancy. -- N. redundancy, redundance[obs3]; too much, too
- many; superabundance, superfluity, superfluence|, saturation;
- nimiety[obs3], transcendency, exuberance, profuseness; profusion &c.
- (plenty) 639; repletion, enough in all conscience, satis superque[Lat],
- lion's share; more than enough &c. 639; plethora, engorgement, congestion,
- load, surfeit, sickener[obs3]; turgescence &c. (expansion) 194[obs3];
- overdose, overmeasure[obs3], oversupply, overflow; inundation &c. (water)
- 348; avalanche.
- accumulation &c. (store) 636; heap &c. 72; drug, drug in the market;
- glut; crowd; burden.
- excess; surplus, overplus[obs3]; epact[obs3]; margin; remainder &c.
- 40; duplicate; surplusage[obs3], expletive; work of supererogation; bonus,
- bonanza.
- luxury; intemperance &c. 954; extravagance &c. (prodigality) 818;
- exorbitance, lavishment[obs3].
- pleonasm &c. (diffuseness) 573; too many irons in the fire; embarras
- de richesses[Fr].
- V. superabound, overabound[obs3]; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at
- every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow
- over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay,
- overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm,
- overshoot the mark &c. (go beyond) 303; surcharge, supersaturate, gorge,
- glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market;
- hepatize[obs3].
-
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-
- choke, cloy, accloy[obs3], suffocate; pile up, lay on thick;
- impregnate with; lavish &c. (squander) 818.
- send coals to Newcastle, carry coals to Newcastle, carry owls to
- Athens[obs3]; teach one's grandmother to suck eggs; pisces natare
- docere[Lat];.kill the slain, " gild refined gold", "gild the lily", butter
- one's bread on both sides, put butter upon bacon; employ a steam engine to
- crack a nut &c. (waste) 638.
- exaggerate &c. 549; wallow in roll in &c. (plenty) 639 remain on one's
- hands, hang heavy on hand, go a begging.
- Adj. redundant; too much, too many; exuberant, inordinate,
- superabundant, excessive, overmuch, replete, profuse, lavish; prodigal &c.
- 818; exorbitant; overweening; extravagant; overcharged &c. v.;
- supersaturated, drenched, overflowing; running over, running to waste,
- running down.
- crammed to overflowing, filled to overflowing; gorged, ready to burst;
- dropsical, turgid, plethoric; obese &c. 194.
- superfluous, unnecessary, needless, supervacaneous|, uncalled for, to
- spare, in excess; over and above &c. (remainder) 40; de trop[Fr];
- adscititious &c. (additional) 37; supernumerary &c. (reserve) 636; on one's
- hands, spare, duplicate, supererogatory, expletive; un peu fort[Fr].
- Adv. over, too, over and above; overmuch, too much; too far; without
- measure, beyond measure, out of measure; with . . . to spare; over head and
- ears; up to one's eyes, up to one's ears; extra; beyond the mark &c.
- (transcursion) 303; acervatim [Lat].
- Phr. it never rains but it pours; fortuna multis dat nimium nulli
- satis [Lat].
-
-
- #642. Importance. -- N. importance, consequence, moment, prominence,
- consideration, mark, materialness.
- import, significance, concern; emphasis, interest.
- greatness &c. 31; superiority &c. 33; notability &c. (repute) 873;
- weight &c. (influence) 175; value &c. (goodness) 648; usefulness &c. 644.
- gravity, seriousness, solemnity; no joke, no laughing matter;
- pressure, urgency, stress; matter of life and death.
- memorabilia, notabilia[obs3], great doings; red-letter day.
- great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "
- [Macbeth]; cardinal point; substance, gist &c. (essence) 5; sum and
- substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part,
- prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of
- one's nostrils &c. (life) 359;cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus;
- keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card &c. (device) 626; salient
- points.
- top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna[Sp], chief; triton among the
- minnows; " it" [U.S.].
- V. be important &c. adj., be somebody, be something; import, signify,
- matter, boot, be an object; carry weight &c. (influence) 175; make a figure
- &c. (repute) 873; be in the ascendant, come to the front, lead the way,
- take the lead, play first fiddle, throw all else into the shade; lie at the
- root of; deserve notice, merit notice, be worthy of notice, be worthy of
- regard, be worthy of consideration.
- attach importance to, ascribe importance to, give importance to &c.
- n.; value, care for, set store upon, set store by; mark &c. 550; mark with
- a white stone, underline; write in italics, put in italics, print in
- italics, print in capitals,print in large letters, put in large type, put
- in letters. of gold; accentuate, emphasize, lay stress on.
- make a fuss about, make a fuss over, make a stir about, make a piece
- of work about[Fr], make much ado about; make much ado of,make much of.
- Adj. important; of importance &c. n.; momentous, material; to the
- point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at;
- egregious; weighty &c. (influential) 175; of note &c. (repute) 873;
- notable, prominent, salient, signal; memorable, remarkable; unforgettable;
- worthy of remark, worthy of notice; never to be forgotten; stirring,
- eventful.
- grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding,
- imposing.
- urgent, pressing, critical, instant.
- paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief,
- main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of
- vital &c. importance.
- in the front rank, first-rate; superior &c. 33; considerable &c.
- (great) 31; marked &c. v.; rare &c. 137.
- significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant; tanti[Lat].
- Adv. materially &c. adj.; in the main; above all, <gr/kat'
- exochin/gr>, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all.
- Phr. expende Hannibalem![Lat] [Juvenal].
-
-
-
-
- #643. Unimportance. -- N. unimportance, insignificance, nothingness,
- immateriality.
- triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness &c. Adj.; poverty; smallness
- &c. 32; vanity &c. (uselessness) 645; matter of indifference &c. 866; no
- object.
- nothing, nothing to signify,, nothing worth speaking of, nothing
- particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no
- great matter, trifling matter &c. Adj.; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly
- anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great
- shakes, peu de chose[Fr]; child's play, kinderspiel.
- toy, plaything, popgun, paper pellet, gimcrack, gewgaw, bauble,
- trinket, bagatelle, Rickshaw, knickknack, whim-wham, trifle, " trifles
- light as air "; yankee notions [U. S.].
- trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras[obs3], frippery; " leather or
- prunello "; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse &c.
- (inutility) 645; scum &c. (dirt) 653.
- joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge &c. (unmeaning) 517;
- fiddlestick[obs3], fiddlestick end[obs3]; pack of nonsense, mere farce.
- straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing,
- brass farthing, doit[obs3], peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son,;
- cent, mill, picayune, pistareen[obs3], red cent [U.S.].
-
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-
- minutiae, details, minor details, small fry; dust in the balance,
- feather in the scale, drop in the ocean, flea-bite, molehill.
- nine days' wonder, ridiculus mus[Lat]; flash in the pan &c.
- (impotence) 158; much ado about nothing &c. (overestimation) 482.
- V. be unimportant &c. Adj.; not matter &c. 642; go for nothing, matter
- nothing, signify nothing, matter little, matter little or nothing; not
- matter a straw &c. n.
- make light of &c. (underestimate) 483; catch at straws &c.
- (overestimate) 482.
- Adj. unimportant; of little account, of small account, of no account,
- of little importance, of no importance &c. 642; immaterial; unessential,
- nonessential; indifferent.
- subordinate &c. (inferior) 34; mediocre &c. (average) 29; passable,
- fair, respectable, tolerable, commonplace; uneventful, mere, common;
- ordinary &c. (habitual) 613; inconsiderable, so-so, insignificant,
- inappreciable.
- trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle;
- puerile &c. (foolish) 499; airy, shallow; weak &c. 160; powerless &c. 158;
- frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble[obs3], inane,
- ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin[obs3]; fiddle-faddle, fingle-
- fangle[obs3], namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.
- poor, paltry, pitiful; contemptible &c. (contempt) 930; sorry, mean,
- meager, shabby, miserable, wretched, vile, scrubby, scrannel[obs3], weedy,
- niggardly, scurvy, putid[obs3], beggarly, worthless, twopennyhalfpenny,
- cheap, trashy, catchpenny, gimcrack, trumpery; one-horse [U. S.]. not worth
- the pains, not worth while, not worth mentioning, not worth speaking of,
- not worth a thought, not worth a curse, not worth a straw &c. n.;1 beneath
- notice, unworthy of notice, beneath regard, unworthy of regard, beneath
- consideration, unworthy of consideration; de lana caprina[It][obs3]; vain
- &c. (useless) 645.
-
- Adv. slightly &c. adj.; rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for
- aught one cares.
- Int. no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge!
- bosh! humbug! fiddlestick[obs3], fiddlestick end[obs3]! fiddlededee! never
- mind! n'importe[Fr]! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of
- that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff!
- nonsense!
- Phr. magno conatu magnas nugas[Lat]; le jeu ne vaut pas la
- chandelle[Fr]; it matters not, it does not signify; it is of no
- consequence, it is of no importance; elephantus non capit murem[Lat];
- tempete dans un verre d'eau[Fr].
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-
- #644. Utility. -- N. utility; usefulness &c. adj.; efficacy,
- efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help &c. (aid) 707;
- applicability &c. adj.; subservience &c. (instrumentality) 631; function
- &c. (business) 625; value; worth &c. (goodness) 648; money's worth;
- productiveness &c. 168; cui bono &c. (intention) 620[Lat]; utilization &c.
- (use) 677 step in the right direction.
- common weal; commonwealth public good, public interest; utilitarianism
- &c. (philanthropy) 910.
- V. be useful &c. adj.; avail, serve; subserve &c. (be instrumental to)
- 631; conduce &c. (tend) 176; answer , serve one's turn, answer a purpose,
- serve a purpose.
- act a part &c. (action) 680; perform a function, discharge a function
- &c.; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service;
- bestead[obs3], stand one in good stead be the making of; help &c. 707.
- bear fruit &c. (produce) 161; bring grist to the mill; profit,
- remunerate; benefit &c. (do good) 648.
- find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of
- &c. (be better for) 658. render useful &c. (use) 677.
- Adj. useful; of use &c. n.; serviceable, proficuous|, good for;
- subservient &c. (instrumental) 631.; conducive &c. (tending) 176;
- subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
- advantageous &c. (beneficial) 648; profitable, gainful, remunerative,
- worth one's salt; valuable; prolific &c. (productive) 168.
- adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient &c.
- 646.
- applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious,
- adaptable; of all work.
- Adv. usefully &c. adj.; pro bono publico[Lat].
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- #645. Inutility. -- N. inutility; uselessness &c. adj.;
- inefficacy[obs3], futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience[obs3];
- inadequacy &c. (insufficiency) 640; inefficiency.&c. (incompetence) 158;
- unskillfulness &c. 699; disservice; unfruitfulness &c.(unproductiveness).
- 169; labor in vain, labor lost, labor of Sisyphus; lost trouble, lost
- labor; work of Penelope; sleeveless errand, wild goose chase, mere farce.
- tautology &c. (repetition) 104; supererogation &c. (redundancy) 641.
- vanitas vanitatum[Lat], vanity, inanity, worthlessness,
- nugacity[obs3]; triviality &c. (unimportance) 643.
- caput mortuum[Lat][obs3], waste paper, dead letter; blunt tool.
- litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button
- top; shoddy; rags, orts[obs3], trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings,
- offscourings[obs3], waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings;
- broken meat; dregs &c. (dirt) 653; weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole;
- rudera[obs3], deads[obs3].
- fruges consumere natus &c. (drone) 683[Lat][Horace].
- V. be useless &c. Adj.; go a begging &c. (redundant) 641; fail &c.
- 732.
- seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain
- efforts, labor in vain, roll the stone of Sisyphus, beat the air, lash the
- waves, battre l'eau avec un baton[Fr], donner un coup d'epee dans
- l'eau[Fr], fish in the air, milk the ram, drop a bucket into an empty well,
- sow the sand; bay the moon; preach to the winds, speak to the winds;
- whistle jigs to a milestone; kick against the pricks, se battre contre des
- moulins[Fr]; lock the stable door when the steed is stolen, lock the barn
- door after the horse is stolen &c. (too late) 135; hold a farthing candle
- to the sun; cast pearls before swine &c. (waste) 638; carry coals to
- Newcastle &c. (redundancy) 641; wash a blackamoor white &c. (impossible)
- 471.
- render useless &c. adj.; dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify,
- disable; unrig; cripple, lame &c. (injure) 659; spike guns, clip the wings;
- put out of gear.
- Adj. useless, inutile, inefficacious, futile, unavailing, bootless;
- inoperative &c. 158; inadequate &c. (insufficient) 640; inservient|,
- unsubservient; inept, inefficient &c. (impotent) 158; of no avail &c. (use)
- 644; ineffectual &c. (failure) 732; incompetent &c. (unskillful) 699; "
- stale, flat and unprofitable"; superfluous &c. (redundant) 641;
- dispensable; thrown away &c. (wasted) 638; abortive &c. (immature) 674.
- worthless, valueless, priceless; unsalable; not worth a straw &c.
- (trifling) 643 dear at any price.
- vain, empty, inane; gainless[obs3], profitless, fruitless;
- unserviceable, unprofitable; ill-spent; unproductive &c. 169; hors de
- combat[Fr]; effete, past work &c. (impaired) 659; obsolete &c. (old) 124;
- fit for the dust hole; good for nothing; of no earthly use; not worth
- having, not worth powder and shot; leading to no end, uncalled for;
- unnecessary, unneeded.
- Adv. uselessly &c. adj.; to little purpose, to no purpose, to little
- or no purpose.
- Int. cui bono?[Lat]; what's the good!
- Phr. actum ne agas[Lat][obs3]; chercher une aiguille dans une botte de
- foin[obs3][Fr]; tanto buon che val niente[It].
-
- #646. [Specific subservience.] Expedience. -- N. expedience,
- expediency; desirableness, desirability &c. adj.; fitness &c. (agreement)
- 23; utility &c. 644; propriety; opportunism; advantage.
- high time &c. (occasion) 134.
- V. be expedient &c. Adj.; suit &c. (agree) 23; befit; suit the time,
- befit the time, suit the season, befit the season, suit the occasion,
- befit the occasion.
- conform &c. 82.
- Adj. expedient; desirable, advisable, acceptable; convenient; worth
- while, meet; fit, fitting; due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming;
- befitting &c. v.; opportune &c. (in season) 134; in loco; suitable &c.
- (accordant) 23; applicable &c. (useful) 644.
- Adv. in the right place; conveniently &c. adj.
- Phr. operae pretium est[Lat].
-
-
-
- #647. Inexpedience. -- N. inexpedience, inexpediency; undesirableness,
- undesirability &c. Adj.; discommodity[obs3], impropriety; unfitness &c.
- (disagreement) 24; inutility &c. 645; disadvantage.
- V. be inexpedient &c. Adj.; come amiss &c. (disagree) 24; embarrass
- &c. (hinder) 706; put to inconvenience; pay too dear for one's whistle.
- Adj. inexpedient, undesirable; unadvisable, inadvisable;
- objectionable; inapt, ineligible, inadmissible, inconvenient; incommodious,
- discommodious[obs3]; disadvantageous; inappropriate, unfit &c.
- (inconsonant) 24.
- ill-contrived, ill-advised; unsatisfactory; unprofitable &c.,
- unsubservient &c. (useless) 645; inopportune &c. (unseasonable) 135; out of
- place, in the wrong place; improper, unseemly.
- clumsy, awkward; cumbrous, cumbersome; lumbering, unwieldy,
- hulky[obs3]; unmanageable &c. (impracticable) 704; impedient &c. (in the
- way) 706[obs3].
- unnecessary &c. (redundant) 641.
- Phr. it will never do.
-
-
- #648. [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness. -- N.
- goodness &c. adj.; excellence, merit; virtue &c. 944; value, worth, price.
- super-excellence, supereminence; superiority &c. 33; perfection &c.
- 650; coup de maitre[Fr]; masterpiece, chef d'ouvre[Fr], prime, flower,
- cream, elite, pick, A1, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of
- the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth; champion; prodigy.
- tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel,
- pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis[Lat], one
- in a thousand.
- beneficence &c. 906; good man &c. 948.
- V. be beneficial &c. Adj.; produce good, do good &c. 618; profit &c.
- (be of use) 644; benefit; confer a benefit &c. 618.
- be the making of, do a world of good, make a man of.
- produce a good effect; do a good turn, confer an obligation; improve
- &c. 658.
- do no harm, break no bones.
- be good &c. adj.; excel, transcend &c. (be superior) 33; bear away the
- bell.
- stand the proof, stand the test; pass muster, pass an examination.
- challenge comparison, vie, emulate, rival.
- Adj. harmless, hurtless[obs3]; unobnoxious[obs3], innocuous, innocent,
- inoffensive.
- beneficial, valuable, of value; serviceable &c. (useful) 644;
- advantageous, edifying, profitable; salutary &c. (healthful) 656.
- favorable; propitious &c. (hope-giving) 858; fair.
- good, good as gold; excellent; better; superior &c. 33; above par;
- nice, fine; genuine &c. (true) 494.
- best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless;
- unparagoned[obs3], unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superlatively &c. 33;
- good; bully* , crackajack*[obs3], giltedged; superfine,
- superexcellent[obs3]; of the first water; first-rate, first-class; high-
- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal;
- standard &c. (perfect) 650; inimitable.
- admirable, estimable; praiseworthy &c. (approve) 931; pleasing &c.
- 829; couleur de rose[Fr], precious, of great price; costly &c. (dear) 814;
- worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable,
- inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye.
- tolerable &c. (not very good) 651; up to the mark, unexceptionable,
- unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy.
- in good condition, in fair condition; fresh; sound &c. (perfect) 650.
- Adv. beneficially &c. adj.; well &c. 618.
- Phr. " Jewels five words long " [Tennyson]; " long may such goodness
- live! " [Rogers]; "the luxury of doing good " [Goldsmith].
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- #649. [Capability of producing evil. Bad qualities.] Badness. -- N.
- hurtfulness &c. Adj[obs3].; virulence.
- evil doer &c. 913; bane &c. 663; plague spot &c. (insalubrity) 657;
- evil star, ill wind; hoodoo; Jonah; snake in the grass, skeleton in the
- closet; amari aliquid[Lat][obs3], thorn in the side.
- malignity; malevolence &c. 907; tender mercies [ironically].
- ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution,
- outrage; misusage &c. 679; injury &c. (damage) 659; knockout drops [U. S.].
- badness &c. adj.; peccancy[obs3], abomination; painfulness &c. 830;
- pestilence &c. (disease) 655; guilt &c. 947; depravity &c. 945.
- V. be hurtful &c. adj.; cause evil, produce evil, inflict evil, work
- evil, do evil &c. 619; damnify[obs3], endamage[obs3], hurt, harm; injure
- &c. (damage) 659; pain &c. 830.
- wrong, aggrieve, oppress, persecute; trample upon, tread upon, bear
- hard upon, put upon; overburden; weigh down, weigh heavy on; victimize; run
- down; molest &c. 830.
- maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul;
- smite &c. (scourge) 972; do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce,
- outrage.
- do mischief, make mischief; bring into trouble.
- destroy &c. 162.
- Adj. hurtful, harmful, scathful[obs3], baneful, baleful; injurious,
- deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of
- mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome;
- prejudicial; disserviceable[obs3], disadvantageous; wide-wasting.
- unlucky, sinister; obnoxious; untoward, disastrous.
- oppressive, burdensome, onerous; malign &c. (malevolent) 907.
- corrupting &c. (corrupt &c. 659); virulent, venomous, envenomed,
- corrosive; poisonous &c. (morbific) 657[obs3]; deadly &c. (killing) 361;
- destructive &c. (destroying) 162; inauspicious &c. 859.
- bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful; horrid, horrible;
- dire; rank, peccant, foul, fulsome; rotten, rotten at the core.
- vile, base, villainous; mean &c. (paltry) 643; injured &c.
- deteriorated &c. 659; unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent; below par
- &c. (imperfect) 651; illcontrived, ill-conditioned; wretched, sad,
- grievous, deplorable, lamentable; pitiful, pitiable, woeful &c. (painful)
- 830.
- evil, wrong; depraved &c. 945; shocking; reprehensible &c.
- (disapprove) 932. hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable,
- execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal;
- diabolic &c. (malevolent) 907.
- unadvisable &c. (inexpedient) 647; unprofitable &c. (useless) 645;
- incompetent &c. (unskillful) 699; irremediable &c. (hopeless) 859.
-
-
- Adv. badly &c. Adj. ; wrong, ill; to one's cost; where the shoe
- pinches.
- Phr. bad is the best: the worst come to the worst; herba mala presto
- cresco [Lat]; "wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged " [Wordsworth].
-
- #650. Perfection. -- N. perfection; perfectness &c. adj.;
- indefectibility[obs3]; impeccancy[obs3], impeccability.
- pink, beau ideal, phenix, paragon; pink of perfection, acme of
- perfection; ne plus ultra[Lat]; summit &c. 210.
- cygne noir[Fr]; philosopher's stone; chrysolite, Koh-i-noor.
- model, standard, pattern, mirror, admirable Crichton; trump, very
- prince of.
- masterpiece, superexcellence &c. (goodness) 648[obs3]; transcendence
- &c. (superiority) 33.
- V. be perfect &c. adj.; transcend &c. (be supreme) 33.
- bring to perfection, perfect, ripen, mature; complete &,,c. 729; put
- in trim &c. (prepare) 673; maturate.
- Adj. perfect, faultless; indefective[obs3], indeficient[obs3],
- indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection &c.
- 651; unblemished, uninjured &c. 659; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect
- condition; scathless[obs3], intact, harmless; seaworthy &c. (safe) 644;
- right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus [Lat][Horace];
- consummate &c. (complete) 52; finished &c. 729.
- best &c. (good) 648; model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned[obs3],
- unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superhuman, divine; beyond all praise &c.
- (approbation) 931; sans peur et sans reproche[Fr].
- adv. to perfection; perfectly &c. adj.; ad unguem[Lat]; clean, - as a
- whistle.
- phr. " let us go on unto perfection " [ Hebrews vi, 1]; " the
- perfection of art is to conceal art " [Quintilian].
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- #651. Imperfection. -- N. imperfection; imperfectness &c. Adj.;
- deficiency; inadequacy &c. (insufficiency) 640; peccancy &c. (badness)
- 649[obs3]; immaturity &c. 674.
- fault, defect, weak point; screw loose; flaw &c. (break) 70; gap &c.
- 198; twist &c. 243; taint, attainder; bar sinister, hole in one's coat;
- blemish &c. 848; weakness &c. 160; half blood; shortcoming &c. 304;
- drawback; seamy side.
- mediocrity; no great shakes, no great catch; not much to boast of;
- one-horse shay.
- V. be imperfect &c. adj.; have a defect &c. n.; lie under a
- disadvantage; spring a leak.
- not pass muster, barely pass muster; fall short &c. 304.
- Adj. imperfect; not perfect &c. 650; deficient, defective; faulty,
- unsound, tainted; out of order, out of tune; cracked, leaky; sprung; warped
- &c. (distort) 243; lame; injured &c. (deteriorated) 659; peccant &c. (bad)
- 649; frail &c. (weak) 160; inadequate &c. (insufficient) 640; crude &c.
- (unprepared) 674; incomplete &c. 53; found wanting,; below par; short-
- handed; below its full strength, under its full strength, below its full
- complement.
- indifferent, middling, ordinary, mediocre; average &c. 29; so-so;
- coucicouci, milk and water; tolerable, fair, passable; pretty well, pretty
- good; rather good, moderately good; good; good enough, well enough,
- adequate; decent; not bad, not amiss; inobjectionable[obs3],
- unobjectionable, admissible, bearable, only better than nothing.
- secondary, inferior; second-rate, second-best; one-horse [U.S.].
- Adv. almost &c.; to a limited extent, rather &c. 32; pretty,
- moderately, passing; only, considering, all things considered, enough.
- Phr. surgit amari aliquid[Lat].
-
- #652. Cleanness. -- N. cleanness, cleanliness &c. adj.; purity;
- cleaning &c. v.; purification, defecation &c. v.; purgation,
- lustration[obs3]; detersion[obs3], abstersion[obs3]; epuration[obs3],
- mundation|; ablution, lavation[obs3], colature|; disinfection &c. v.;
- drainage, sewerage.
- lavatory, laundry, washhouse[obs3]; washerwoman, laundress,
- dhobi[obs3], laundryman, washerman[obs3]; scavenger, dustman[obs3], sweep;
- white wings
- brush[Local U. S.]; broom, besom[obs3], mop, rake, shovel, sieve,
- riddle, screen, filter; blotter.
- napkin, cloth, maukin|, malkin|, handkerchief, towel, sudary[obs3];
- doyley[obs3], doily, duster, sponge, mop, swab.
- cover, drugget[obs3].
- wash, lotion, detergent, cathartic, purgative; purifier &c. v.;
- disinfectant; aperient[obs3]; benzene, benzine benzol, benolin[obs3];
- bleaching powder, chloride of lime, dentifrice, deobstruent[obs3],
- laxative.
- V. be clean, render clean &c. Adj.
- clean, cleanse; mundify|, rinse, wring, flush, full, wipe, mop,
- sponge, scour, swab, scrub, brush up.
- wash, lave, launder, buck; absterge|, deterge[obs3]; decrassify[obs3];
- clear, purify; depurate[obs3], despumate[obs3], defecate; purge, expurgate,
- elutriate[Chem], lixiviate[obs3], edulcorate[obs3], clarify, refine, rack;
- filter, filtrate; drain, strain.
- disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate,
- emasculate.
- sift, winnow, pick, weed, comb, rake, brush, sweep.
- rout out, clear out, sweep out &c.; make a clean sweep of.
- Adj. clean, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless;
- trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied,
- untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut.
- neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in
- pattens; cleaned &c. v.; kempt[obs3].
- abstergent[obs3], cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
- Adv. neatly &c. adj.; clean as a whistle.
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- #653. Uncleanness. -- N. uncleanness &c. Adj.; impurity;
- immundity[obs3], immundicity[obs3]; impurity &c. 961[of mind].
- defilement, contamination &c. v.; defoedation|; soilure[obs3],
- soiliness|; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture|; fetor &c. 401[obs3].
- decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot,
- mucor, rubigo|.
- slovenry[obs3]; slovenliness &c. Adj. squalor.
- dowdy, drab, slut, malkin[obs3], slattern, sloven, slammerkin|,
- slammock[obs3], slummock[obs3], scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark[obs3], dust-
- man, sweep; beast.
- dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge,
- smut, grit, grime, raff[obs3]; sossle[obs3], sozzle[obs3].
- sordes[obs3], dregs, grounds, lees; argol[obs3]; sediment, settlement
- heeltap[obs3]; dross, drossiness[obs3]; mother|, precipitate, scoriae,
- ashes, cinders. recrement[obs3], slag; scum, froth.
- hogwash; ditchwater[obs3], dishwater, bilgewater[obs3]; rinsings,
- cheeseparings; sweepings &c. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings[obs3],
- outscourings[obs3]; off scum; caput mortuum[Lat][obs3], residuum, sprue,
- fecula[Lat], clinker, draff[obs3]; scurf, scurfiness[obs3]; exuviae[Lat],
- morphea; fur, furfur[obs3]; dandruff, tartar.
- riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch[obs3].
- mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh,
- sposh [obs3][U. S.].
- spawn, offal, gurry [obs3][U. S.]; lientery[obs3]; garbage, carrion;
- excreta &c. 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration,
- lienteria[obs3]; faeces, feces, , excrement, ordure, dung, crap[vulgar],
- shit[vulgar]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost.
- dunghill, colluvies[obs3], mixen[obs3], midden, bog, laystall[obs3],
- sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess[obs3], cesspool; sump, sough,
- cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.
- sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable[obs3], sink of corruption; slum,
- rookery.
- V. be unclean, become unclean &c. Adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester,
- rankle, reek; stink &c. 401; mold, molder; go bad &c. adj.
- render unclean &c. adj.; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge,
- smutch[obs3], soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch;
- begrease[obs3];.dabble, drabble[obs3], draggle, daggle[obs3]; spatter,
- slubber; besmear &c., bemire, beslime[obs3], begrime, befoul; splash,
- stain, distain[obs3], maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase,
- contaminate, taint, leaven;, corrupt &c. (injure) 659; cover with dust &c.
- n.; drabble in the mud[obs3]; roil.
- wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber[obs3].
- Adj. dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled &c. v.; not to be
- handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy[obs3], smutty, sooty, smoky; thick,
- turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.].
- slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly.
- [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed.
- unscoured[obs3], unswept[obs3], unwiped[obs3], unwashed, unstrained,
- unpurified[obs3]; squalid; lutose[obs3], slammocky[obs3], slummocky[obs3],
- sozzly[obs3].
- nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky,
- reechy[obs3]; fetid &c. 401.
- [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty,
- moth-eaten, mucid[obs3], rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral[obs3],
- lentiginous[obs3], touched, fusty, effete, reasty[obs3], rotten, corrupt,
- tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent,
- putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous[obs3]; purulent, carious, peccant;
- fecal, feculent; stercoraceous[obs3], excrementitious[obs3]; scurfy,
- scurvy, impetiginous[obs3]; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as a pear,
- rotten as cheese.
- crapulous &c. (intemperate) 954[obs3]; gross &c. (impure in mind) 961;
- fimetarious[obs3], fimicolous[obs3].
- Phr. " they that touch pitch will be defiled " [Much Ado About
- Nothing].
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- #654. Health. -- N. health, sanity; soundness &c. adj.; vigor; good
- health, perfect health, excellent health, rude health, robust health;
- bloom. mens sana in corpore sano[Lat]; Hygeia[obs3]; incorruption,
- incorruptibility; good state of health, clean bill of health;
- eupepsia[obs3]; euphoria, euphory[obs3]; St. Anthony's fire[obs3].
- V. be in health &c. adj. bloom, flourish.
- keep body and soul together, keep on one's legs; enjoy good health,
- enjoy a good state of health; have a clean bill of health.
- return to health; recover &c. 660; get better &c. (improve) 658; take
- a new lease of life, fresh lease of life; recruit; restore to health; cure
- &c. (restore) 660; tinker.
- Adj. healthy, healthful; in health &c. n.; well, sound, hearty, hale,
- fresh, green, whole; florid, flush, hardy, stanch, staunch, brave, robust,
- vigorous, weatherproof.
- unscathed, uninjured, unmaimed[obs3], unmarred, untainted; sound of
- wind and limb, safe and sound.
- on one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy,
- fresh as a rose, fresh as April[obs3]; hearty as a buck; in fine feather,
- in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish[obs3],
- tolerably well, as well as can be expected.
- sanitary &c. (health-giving) 656; sanatory &c. (remedial) 662[obs3].
- Phr. " health that snuffs the morning air" [Grainger]; non est vivere
- sed valere vita [Lat][Martial].
-
-
- #655. Disease. -- N. disease; illness, sickness &c. adj.; ailing &c. "
- all the ills that flesh is heir to " [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity|;
- infirmity, ailment, indisposition; complaint, disorder, malady; distemper,
- distemperature[obs3].
- visitation, attack, seizure, stroke, fit.
- delicacy, loss of health, invalidation, cachexy[obs3]; cachexia[Med],
- atrophy, marasmus[obs3]; indigestion, dyspepsia; decay &c. (deterioration)
- 659; decline, consumption, palsy, paralysis, prostration.
- taint, pollution, infection, sepsis, septicity[obs3], infestation;
- epidemic, pandemic, endemic, epizootic; murrain, plague, pestilence, pox.
- sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen &c. (swelling) 250;
- carbuncle, gathering, imposthume[obs3], peccant humor, issue; rot, canker,
- cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease,
- malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene,
- sphacelus[obs3], sphacelation[obs3], leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.
- fever, temperature, calenture[obs3]; inflammation.
- ague, angina pectoris[Lat], appendicitis; Asiatic cholera[obs3],
- spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic
- plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia[obs3], blennorrhoea[obs3]; blood
- poisoning, bloodstroke[obs3], bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever[obs3],
- dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest,
- cardiomyopathy[Med]; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis,
- atherosclerosis; bronchocele[Med], canker rash, cardialgia[Med],
- carditis[Med], endocarditis[Med]; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea,
- cynanche[obs3], dartre[Fr]; enanthem[obs3], enanthema[obs3]; erysipelas;
- exanthem[obs3], exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness;
- grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture,
- hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles,
- mumps[obs3], polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis[obs3], pneumonia,
- psora[obs3], pyaemia[obs3], pyrosis[Med], quinsy, rachitis[obs3], ringworm,
- rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula,
- seasickness, struma[obs3], syntexis[obs3], tetanus, tetter[obs3],
- tonsillitis, tonsilitis[obs3], tracheocele[Med], trachoma, trismus[Med],
- varicella[Med], varicosis[Med], variola[Med], water qualm, whooping cough;
- yellow fever, yellow jack.
- fatal disease &c. (hopeless) 859; dangerous illness, galloping
- consumption, churchyard cough; general breaking up, break up of the system.
- [Disease of mind] idiocy &c. 499; insanity &c. 503.
- martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind";
- valetudinary[obs3], valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-
- chamber.
- [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology[obs3].
- [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter[obs3]; cattle
- plague, glanders[obs3], mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline
- leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.
- [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria.
- [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus.
- [RNA viruses] rhinovirus; rhabdovirus; picornavirus.
- [DNA viruses] herpesvirus; cytomegalovirus, CMV; human
- immunodefficiency virus, HIV.
- V. be ill &c. adj.; ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with,
- complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.
- keep one's bed; feign sickness &c. (falsehood) 544.
- lay by, lay up; take a disease, catch a disease &c. n., catch an
- infection; break out.
- Adj. diseased; ailing &c. v.; ill, ill of; taken ill, seized with;
- indisposed, unwell, sick, squeamish, poorly, seedy; affected with illness,
- afflicted with illness; laid up, confined, bedridden, invalided, in
- hospital, on the sick list; out of health, out of sorts; under the weather
- [U. S.]; valetudinary[obs3].
- unsound, unhealthy; sickly, morbid, morbose[obs3], healthless[obs3],
- infirm, chlorotic[Med], unbraced[obs3]. drooping, flagging, lame, crippled,
- halting.
- morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned,
- tabid[obs3], mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten
- at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic[obs3],
- pneumonic, pulmonic[Med], phthisic[obs3], rachitic; syntectic[obs3],
- syntectical[obs3]; tabetic[obs3], varicose.
- touched in the wind, broken-winded, spavined, gasping; hors de combat
- &c. (useless) 645[Fr].
- weakly, weakened &c. (weak) 160; decrepit; decayed &c. (deteriorated)
- 659; incurable &c. (hopeless) 859; in declining health; cranky; in a bad
- way, in danger, prostrate; moribund &c. (death) 360.
- morbific &c. 657[obs3]; epidemic, endemic; zymotic[obs3].
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- #656. Salubrity. -- N. salubrity; healthiness &c. Adj.
- fine air, fine climate; eudiometer[obs3].
- [Preservation of health] hygiene; valetudinarian, valetudinarianism;
- sanitarian; sanitarium, sanitOrium.
- V. be salubrious &c. Adj.; agree with; assimilate &c. 23.
- Adj. salubrious, salutary, salutiferous[obs3]; wholesome; healthy,
- healthful; sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating,
- good for, nutritious; hygeian[obs3], hygienic.
- innoxious[obs3], innocuous, innocent; harmless, uninjurious,
- uninfectious.
- sanative &c. (remedial) 662; restorative &c. (reinstate) 660; useful
- &c. 644.
-
- #657. Insalubrity. -- N. insalubrity; unhealthiness &c. Adj.;
- nonnaturals[obs3]; plague spot; malaria &c. (poison) 663; death in the pot,
- contagion; toxicity.
- Adj. insalubrious; unhealthy, unwholesome; noxious, noisome;
- morbific[obs3], morbiferous[obs3]; mephitic, septic, azotic[obs3],
- deleterious; pestilent, pestiferous, pestilential; virulent, venomous,
- envenomed; poisonous, toxic, toxiferous[obs3], teratogenic; narcotic.
- contagious, infectious, catching, taking, epidemic, zymotic[obs3];
- epizootic.
- innutritious[obs3], indigestible, ungenial; uncongenial &c.
- (disagreeing) 24.
- deadly &c. (killing) 361.
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- #658. Improvement. -- N. improvement; amelioration, melioration;
- betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending &c. v.; advancement;
- advance &c. (progress) 282; ascent &c. 305; promotion, preferment;
- elevation &c. 307; increase &c. 35; cultivation, civilization; culture,
- march of intellect; menticulture[obs3]; race-culture, eugenics.
- reform, reformation; revision, radical reform; second thoughts,
- correction, limoe labor[Lat], refinement, elaboration; purification &c.
- 652; oxidation; repair &c. (restoration) 660; recovery &c. 660.
- revise, new edition.
- reformer, radical.
- V. improve; be better, become better, get better; mend, amend.
- advance &c. (progress) 282; ascend &c. 305; increase &c. 35; fructify,
- ripen, mature; pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn; turn over
- a new leaf, turn the corner; raise one's head, sow one's wild oats; recover
- &c. 660.
- be better &c. adj., be improved by; turn to right account, turn to
- good account, turn to best account; profit by, reap the benefit of; make
- good use of, make capital out of; place to good account.
- render better, improve, mend, amend, better; ameliorate, meliorate;
- correct; decrassify[obs3].
- improve upon, refine upon; rectify; enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten.
- promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance; bring forward, bring
- on; foster &c. 707; invigorate &c. (strengthen) 159.
- touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten
- up, warm up; polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage; prune;
- repair &c. (restore) 660; put in order &c. (arrange) 60.
- review, revise; make -corrections,make improvements &c. n.; doctor &c.
- (remedy) 662; purify,&c. 652.
- relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.
- reform, remodel, reorganize; new model.
- view in a new light, think better of, appeal from Philip drunk to
- Philip sober.
- palliate, mitigate; lessen an evil &c. 36 .
- Adj. improving &c. v.; progressive, improved &c. v.; better, better
- off, better for; all the better for; better advised.
- reformatory, emendatory[obs3]; reparatory &c. (restorative) 660[obs3];
- remedial &c. 662.
- corrigible, improvable; accultural[obs3].
- adv. on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on
- better advice; ad melius inquirendum[Lat].
- phr. urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit[Lat].
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- #659. Deterioration. -- N. deterioration, debasement; wane, ebb;
- recession &c. 287; retrogradation &c. 283[obs3]; decrease &c. 36.
- degeneracy, degeneration, degenerateness; degradation; depravation,
- depravement; devolution; depravity &c. 945; demoralization, retrogression;
- masochism.
- impairment, inquination|, injury, damage, loss, detriment,
- delaceration|, outrage, havoc, inroad, ravage, scath[obs3]; perversion,
- prostitution, vitiation, discoloration, oxidation, pollution, defoedation|,
- poisoning, venenation|, leaven, contamination, canker, corruption,
- adulteration, alloy.
- decline, declension, declination; decadence, decadency[obs3]; falling
- off &c. v.; caducity[obs3], decrepitude.
- decay, dilapidation, ravages of time, wear and tear; corrosion,
- erosion; moldiness, rottenness; moth and rust, dry rot, blight,
- marasmus[obs3], atrophy, collapse; disorganization; delabrement &c.
- (destruction)[Fr]. 162; aphid, Aphis, plant louse, puceron[obs3];
- vinefretter[obs3], vinegrub[obs3].
- wreck, mere wreck, honeycomb, magni nominis umbra[Lat]; jade, plug,
- rackabones [obs3][U. S.], skate [U. S.]; tackey[obs3], tacky [U. S.].
- V. be worse, be deteriorated, become worse, become deteriorated &c.
- Adj.; have seen better days, deteriorate, degenerate, fall off; wane &c.
- (decrease) 36; ebb; retrograde &c. 283- decline, droop; go down &c. (sink)
- 306; go downhill, go from bad to worse, go farther and fare worse; jump out
- of the frying pan into the fire.
- run to seed, go to seed, run to waste swale|, sweal|; lapse, be the
- worse for; sphacelate: break[obs3], break down; spring a leak, crack,
- start; shrivel &c. (contract) 195; fade, go off, wither, molder, rot,
- rankle, decay, go bad; go to decay, fall into decay; " fall into the sear
- and yellow leaf", rust, crumble, shake; totter, totter to its fall; perish
- &c. 162; die &c. 360.
- [Render less good] deteriorate; weaken &c. 160; put back, set back;
- taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison[obs3], envenom, canker,
- corrupt, exulcerate|, pollute, vitiate, inquinate|; debase, embase|;
- denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave,
- degrade; ulcerate; stain &c. (dirt) 653; discolor; alloy, adulterate,
- sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
- pervert, prostitute, demoralize, brutalize; render vicious &c. 945.
- embitter, acerbate, exacerbate, aggravate.
- injure, impair, labefy[obs3], damage, harm, hurt, shend|, scath|,
- scathe, spoil, mar, despoil, dilapidate, waste; overrun; ravage; pillage
- &c. 791.
- wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate|, cripple, hough[obs3],
- hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure,
- blemish, deface, warp.
- blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the
- root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up;
- disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy &c. 162.
- damnify &c. (aggrieve) 649[obs3]; do one's worst; knock down; deal a
- blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play
- the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc
- among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil
- among; decimate.
- Adj. unimproved &c. (improve &c. 658); deteriorated &c. v.; altered,
- altered for the worse; injured &c. v.; sprung; withering, spoiling &c. v.;
- on the wane, on the decline; tabid[obs3]; degenerate; marescent[obs3];
- worse; the worse for, all the worse for; out of repair, out of tune;
- imperfect &c. 651; the worse for wear; battered; weathered, weather-beaten;
- stale, passe, shaken, dilapidated, frayed, faded, wilted, shabby,
- secondhand, threadbare; worn, worn to a thread, worn to a shadow, worn to
- the stump, worn to rags; reduced, reduced to a skeleton; far gone; tacky
- [U. S.*].
- decayed &c. v.; moth-eaten, worm-eaten; mildewed, rusty, moldy,
- spotted, seedy, time-worn, moss-grown; discolored; effete, wasted,
- crumbling, moldering, rotten, cankered, blighted, tainted; depraved &c.
- (vicious) 945; decrepid[obs3], decrepit; broke, busted, broken, out of
- commission, hors de combat[Fr], out of action, broken down; done, done for,
- done up; worn out, used up, finished; beyond saving, fit for the dust hole,
- fit for the wastepaper basket, past work &c. (useless) 645.
- at a low ebb, in a bad way, on one's last legs; undermined, deciduous;
- nodding to its fall &c. (destruction) 162; tottering &c,. (dangerous) 665:
- past cure &c. (hopeless) 859; fatigued &c. 688; retrograde &c.
- (retrogressive) 283; deleterious &c. 649.
- Phr. out of the frying pan into the fire; agrescit medendo[Latin];
- "what a falling off was there! " [Hamlet].
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- #660. Restoration. -- N. restoration, restoral; reinstatement,
- replacement, rehabilitation, reestablishment, reconstitution,
- reconstruction; reproduction &c. 163; renovation, renewal; revival,
- revivessence[obs3], reviviscence[obs3]; refreshment &c. 689; resuscitation,
- reanimation, revivification, reviction|; Phenix; reorganization.
- renaissance, second youth, rejuvenescence[obs3],. new birth;
- regeneration, regeneracy[obs3], regenerateness[obs3]; palingenesis[obs3],
- reconversion.
- redress, retrieval, reclamation, recovery; convalescence; resumption,
- resumption; sanativeness[obs3].
- recurrence &c. (repetition) 104; rechauffe[Fr], rifacimento[It].
- cure, recure|, sanation|; healing &c. v.; redintegration[obs3];
- rectification; instauration[obs3].
- repair, reparation, remanufacture; recruiting &c. v.; cicatrization;
- disinfection; tinkering.
- reaction; redemption &c. (deliverance) 672; restitution &c. 790;
- relief &c. 834.
- tinker, cobbler; vis medicatrix &c. (remedy) 662[obs3]. curableness.
- V. return to the original state; recover, rally, revive; come come to,
- come round, come to oneself; pull through, weather the storm, be oneself
- again; get well,get round, get the better of, get over, get about; rise
- from one's ashes, rise from the grave; survive &c. (outlive) 110; resume,
- reappear; come to, come to life again; live again, rise again.
- heal, skin over, cicatrize; right itself.
- restore, put back, place in statu quo[Lat]; reinstate, replace,
- reseat, rehabilitate, reestablish, reestate[obs3], reinstall.
- reconstruct, rebuild, reorganize, reconstitute; reconvert; renew,
- renovate; regenerate; rejuvenate.
- redeem, reclaim, recover, retrieve; rescue &c. (deliver) 672.
- redress, recure[obs3]; cure, heal, remedy, doctor, physic, medicate;
- break of; bring round, set on one's legs.
- resuscitate, revive, reanimate, revivify, recall to life; reproduce
- &c. 163; warm up; reinvigorate, refresh &c. 689.
- make whole, redintegrate[obs3]; recoup &c. 790; make good, make all
- square; rectify, correct; put right, put to rights, set right, set to
- rights, set straight; set up; put in order &c. (arrange) 60; refit,
- recruit; fill up, fill up the ranks; reinforce.
- repair; put in repair, remanufacture, put in thorough repair, put in
- complete repair; retouch, refashion, botch|, vamp, tinker, cobble; do up,
- patch up, touch up, plaster up, vamp up; darn, finedraw[obs3],
- heelpiece[obs3]; stop a gap, stanch, staunch, caulk, calk, careen, splice,
- bind up wounds.
- Adj. restored &c. v.; redivivus[Lat], convalescent; in a fair way;
- none the worse; rejuvenated.
- restoring &c. v.; restorative, recuperative; sanative, reparative,
- sanatory[obs3], reparatory[obs3]; curative, remedial.
- restorable, recoverable, sanable[obs3], remediable, retrievable,
- curable.
- Adv. in statu quo[Lat]; as you were.
- phr. revenons a nos moutons[Fr]; medecin[Fr], gueris-toi toi-meme[Fr];
- vestigia nulla retrorsum [Lat][Horace].
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- #661. Relapse. -- N. relapse, lapse; falling back &c. v.;
- retrogradation &c. (retrogression) 283[obs3]; deterioration &c. 659.
- [Return to, or recurrence of a bad state] backsliding, recidivation |;
- recidivism, recidivity[obs3]; recrudescence.
- V. relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return;
- retrograde &c. 283; recidivate; fall off again &c. 659 .
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- #662. Remedy. -- N. remedy, help, cure, redress; medicine, medicament;
- diagnosis, medical examination; medical treatment; surgery; preventive
- medicine.
- [medical devices] clinical thermometer, stethoscope, X-ray machine.
- anthelmintic[Med]; antidote, antifebrile[Med], antipoison[obs3],
- counterpoison[obs3], antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer, faith cure, placebo;
- helminthagogue[obs3], lithagogue[obs3], pick-meup, stimulant, tonic;
- vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative &c. 174;
- palliative; febrifuge; alterant[obs3], alterative; specific; antiseptic,
- emetic, analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive[Med], antiinflammatory[Med],
- antibiotic, antiviral[Med], antifungal[Med], carminative; Nepenthe,
- Mithridate.
- cure, treatment, regimen; radical cure, perfect cure, certain cure;
- sovereign remedy.
- examination, diagnosis, diagnostics; analysis, urinalysis, biopsy,
- radiology.
- medicine, physic, Galenicals[obs3], simples, drug, pharmaceutical,
- prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion,
- drip, suppository, electuary[obs3]; linctus[obs3], lincture[obs3];
- medicament; pharmacon[obs3].
- nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon[obs3], panacea,
- elixir, elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial,
- theriac[obs3], ptisan[obs3].
- agueweed[obs3], arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset[obs3],
- calomel, catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts[Chem];
- feverroot[obs3], feverwort; friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac,
- ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine,
- quinquina[obs3]; sassafras, yarrow.
- salve, ointment, cerate, oil, lenitive, lotion, cosmetic; plaster;
- epithem[obs3], embrocation[obs3], liniment, cataplasm[obs3],
- sinapism[obs3], arquebusade[obs3], traumatic, vulnerary, pepastic[obs3],
- poultice, collyrium[obs3], depilatory; emplastrum[obs3]; eyewater[obs3],
- vesicant, vesicatory[Med].
- compress, pledget[obs3]; bandage &c. (support) 215.
- treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis
- medicatrix[obs3], vis medicatrix naturae[Lat][obs3]; medecine
- expectante[Fr]; bloodletting, bleeding, venesection[Med], phlebotomy,
- cupping, sanguisae, leeches; operation, surgical operation; transfusion,
- infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter, feeding tube;
- prevention, preventative medicine, immunization, inoculation,
- vaccination, vaccine, shot, booster, gamma globulin.
- pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutics; pharmacopoeia, formulary;
- acology[obs3], Materia Medica[Lat], therapeutics, posology[obs3];
- homeopathy, allopathy[obs3], heteropathy[Med], osteopathy, hydropathy[Med];
- cold water cure; dietetics; surgery, chirurgery[Med], chirurgy[obs3];
- healing art, leechcraft[obs3];
- orthopedics, orthopedy[obs3], orthopraxy[obs3]; pediatrics;
- dentistry, midwifery, obstetrics, gynecology; tocology[obs3];
- sarcology[obs3].
- hospital, infirmary; pesthouse[obs3], lazarhouse[obs3]; lazaretto;
- lock hospital; maison de sante[Fr]; ambulance.
- dispensary; dispensatory[obs3], drug store, pharmacy, apothecary,
- druggist, chemist.
- Hotel des Invalides; sanatorium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red
- Cross.
- doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general
- practitioner, specialist ; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech;
- osteopath, osteopathist[obs3]; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist,
- oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist[Med], public health
- specialist; dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer,
- quack, exorcist; Aesculapius[obs3], Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur[Fr],
- accoucheuse[Fr], midwife, oculist, aurist[obs3]; operator; nurse,
- registered nurse, practical nurse, monthly nurse, sister; nurse's aide,
- candystriper; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist[obs3], pharmacist,
- druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist[obs3].
- V. apply a remedy &c. n.; doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to,
- attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent &c. 706; relieve &c. 834;
- palliate &c. 658; restore &c. 660; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let
- blood; manicure.
- operate, excise, cut out; incise.
- Adj. remedial; restorative &c. 660; corrective, palliative, healing;
- sanatory[obs3], sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing;
- salutiferous &c. (salutary) 656[obs3]; medical, medicinal; therapeutic,
- chirurgical[Med], epulotic|, paregoric, tonic, corroborant,
- analeptic[obs3], balsamic, anodyne, hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative,
- lenitive, demulcent|, emollient; depuratory[obs3]; detersive[obs3],
- detergent; abstersive[obs3], disinfectant, febrifugal[obs3], alterative;
- traumatic, vulnerary.
- allopathic[obs3], heteropathic[obs3], homeopathic, hydropathic[Med];
- anthelmintic[Med]; antifebrile[Med], antiluetic[obs3]; aperient[obs3],
- chalybeate[obs3], deobstruent[obs3], depurative[obs3], laxative,
- roborant[obs3].
- dietetic, alimentary; nutritious, nutritive; peptic;
- alexipharmic[obs3], alexiteric[obs3]; remediable, curable.
- phr. aux grands maux les grands remedes[Fr]; Dios que da la llaga da
- la medicina[Sp]; para todo hay remedio sino para la muerte[Sp]; temporis
- ars medicina fere est [Lat][Ovid]; " the remedy is worse than the disease "
- [Dryden]; " throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it " [Macbeth].
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- #663. Bane. -- N. bane, curse; evil &c. 619; hurtfulness &c. (badness)
- 649[obs3]; painfulness &c. (cause of pain) 830; scourge &c. (punishment)
- 975; damnosa hereditas[Lat]; white elephant.
- sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle.
- poison, toxin; teratogen; leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony,
- tartar emetic; strychnine, nicotine; miasma, miasm[obs3], mephitis[obs3],
- malaria, azote[obs3], sewer gas; pest.
- [poisonous substances, examples] Albany hemp[obs3], arsenious oxide,
- arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury; carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke
- damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp; hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic
- acid[ISA:chemsubcfp], hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux vomica[Lat],
- ratsbane[obs3].
- [poisonous plants] hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna,
- henbane, aconite; banewort[obs3], bhang, ganja[obs3], hashish; Upas tree.
- [list of poisonous substances(on-line)] Toxline.
- rust, worm, helminth[Med], moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry
- rot; canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper &c. (evil doer) 913; demon
- &c. 980.
- [Science of poisons] toxicology.
- Adj. baneful &c. (bad) 649; poisonous &c. (unwholesome) 657.
- phr. bibere venenum in auro[Lat].
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- #664. Safety. -- N. safety, security, surety, impregnability;
- invulnerability, invulnerableness &c. Adj.; danger past, danger over;
- storm blown over; coast clear; escape &c. 671; means of escape; blow valve,
- safety valve, release valve, sniffing valve; safeguard, palladium.
- guardianship, wardship, wardenship; tutelage, custody, safekeeping;
- preservation &c. 670; protection, auspices.
- safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield &c. (defense) 717;
- guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci.
- protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna[Sp],
- chaperon, third person.
- watchdog, bandog[obs3]; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop,
- dick, fuzz, smokey, peeler|, zarp|[all slang]; sentinel, sentry, scout &c.
- (warning) 668; garrison; guardship[obs3].
- [Means of safety] refuge &c. anchor &c. 666; precaution &c.
- (preparation) 673; quarantine, cordon sanitaire[Fr]. confidence &c.
- 858[Sense of security].
- V. be safe &c. Adj.; keep one's head above water, tide over, save
- one's bacon; ride out the storm, weather the storm; light upon one's feet,
- land on one's feet; bear a charmed life; escape &c. 671.
- make safe , render safe &c. Adj.; protect; take care of &c. (care)
- 459; preserve &c. 670; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard
- &c. (defend) 717; secure &c. (restrain) 751; entrench, intrench[obs3],
- fence round &c. (circumscribe) 229; house, nestle, ensconce; take charge
- of.
- escort, convoy; garrison; watch, mount guard, patrol.
- make assurance doubly sure &c. (caution) 864; take up a loose thread;
- take precautions &c. (prepare for) 673; double reef topsails.
- seek safety; take shelter, find shelter &c. 666.
- Adj. safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side;
- under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the
- shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out
- of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on
- sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened[obs3],
- unmolested; protected &c. v.; cavendo tutus[Lat]; panoplied &c. (defended)
- 717[obs3].
- snug, seaworthy; weatherproof, waterproof, fireproof.
- defensible, tenable, proof against, invulnerable; unassailable,
- unattackable, impenetrable; impregnable, imperdible|; inexpugnable;
- Achillean[obs3].
- safe and sound &c. (preserved) 670;scathless &c. (perfect) 650[obs3];
- unhazarded[obs3]; not dangerous &c. 665.
- unthreatening, harmless; friendly (cooperative) 709.
- protecting, protective &c. v.; guardian, tutelary; preservative &c.
- 670; trustworthy &c 939.
- adv. ex abundanti cautela[Lat][obs3]; with impunity.
- phr. all's well; salva res est[Lat]; suave mari magno[Lat]; a
- couvert[Fr]; e terra alterius spectare laborem [Lat][Lucretius]; Dieu vous
- garde[Fr].
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- #665. Danger. -- N. danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard,
- venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability &c. 149; defenselessness
- &c. Adj. exposure &c. (liability) 177; vulnerability; vulnerable point,
- heel of Achilles[obs3]; forlorn hope &c. (hopelessness) 859.
- [Dangerous course] leap in the dark &c. (rashness) 863; road to ruin,
- faciles descensus Averni [Lat][Vergil], hairbreadth escape.
- cause for alarm; source of danger &c. 667. rock ahead[Approach of
- danger], breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds
- gathering; warning &c. 668; alarm &c. 669.
- [Sense of danger] apprehension &c. 860.
- V. be in danger &c. Adj.; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur
- danger, encounter danger &c. n.; run a risk; lay oneself open to &c.
- (liability) 177; lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the
- ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against
- one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be
- between a rock and a hard place.
- hang by a thread, totter; sleep on a volcano, stand on a volcano; sit
- on a barrel of gunpowder, live in a glass house.
- bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger , place in jeopardy,
- put in jeopardy &c. n.; endanger, expose to danger, imperil; jeopard[obs3],
- jeopardize; compromise; sail too near the wind &c. (rash) 863.
- adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard; run the
- gauntlet &c. (dare) 861; engage in a forlorn hope.
- threaten danger &c. 909; run one hard; lay a trap for &c. (deceive)
- 545.
- Adj. in danger &c. n.; endangered &c. v.; fraught with danger;
- dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous|; unsafe, unprotected
- &c. (safe, protect &c. 664);insecure, . untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on
- a sandy basis; wildcat.
- defenseless, fenceless, guardless[obs3], harborless; unshielded;
- vulnerable, expugnable[obs3], exposed; open to &c. (liable) 177.
- aux abois[Fr], at bay; on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore,
- on the rocks.
- at stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery,
- slippy; hanging by a thread &c. v.; with a halter round one's neck; between
- the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and
- a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires;
- on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a
- precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground,
- under fire; not out of the wood.
- unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, unprepared &c. 674; off one's guard
- &c. (inexpectant) 508[obs3].
- tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown,
- ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless[obs3]; in a bad
- way; reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the
- balance; nodding to its fall &c. (destruction) 162. threatening &c. 909;
- ominous, illomened; alarming &c. (fear) 860; explosive.
- adventurous &c. (rash) 863, (bold) 861.
- Phr. incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim[Lat]; nam tua res
- agitur paries dum proximus ardet[Lat].
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- #666. [Means of safety.] Refuge. -- N. refuge, sanctuary, retreat,
- fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison &c. 752; asylum, ark,
- home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse[obs3]; hiding place &c. (ambush)
- 530; sanctum sanctorum &c. (privacy) 893[Lat].
- roadstead, anchorage; breakwater, mole, port, haven; harbor, harbor of
- refuge; seaport; pier, jetty, embankment, quay.
- covert, cover, shelter, screen, lee wall, wing, shield, umbrella;
- barrier; dashboard, dasher [U.S.].
- wall &c. (inclosure) 232; fort &c. (defense) 717.
- anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick[obs3];
- mainstay; support &c. 215; cheek &c. 706; ballast.
- jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning
- rod, lightning conductor; safety belt, airbag, seat belt; antilock brakes,
- antiskid tires, snow tires.
- means of escape &c. (escape) 671 lifeboat, lifejacket, life buoy,
- swimming belt, cork jacket; parachute, plank, steppingstone; emergency
- landing.
- safeguard &c. (protection) 664.
- V. seek refuge, take refuge, find refuge &c. n.; seek safety, find
- safety &c. 664; throw oneself into the arms of; break for taller timber [U.
- S.].
- create a diversion.
- Phr. any port in a storm; bibere venenum in auro[Lat]; valet anchora
- virtus[obs3].
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- #667. [Source of danger.] Pitfall. -- N. rocks, reefs, coral reef,
- sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt|, syrtis|; Goodwin sands,
- sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf,
- flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead.
- precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush &c. 530; pitfall, trapdoor; trap
- &c. (snare) 545.
- sword of Damocles; wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the
- pot; latency &c. 526.
- ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort[Fr]; firebrand,
- hornet's nest.
- Phr. latet anquis in herba [Lat][Vergil]; proximus ardet Ucalegon
- [Lat][Vergil].
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- #668. Warning. -- N. warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice
- &c. (information) 527; premonition, premonishment[obs3]; prediction &c.
- 511; contraindication, lesson, dehortation[obs3]; admonition, monition;
- alarm &c. 669.
- handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow
- flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra[obs3],
- signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens[obs3], stormy petrel, bird of
- ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.
- watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse &c. (indication of
- locality) 550. sentinel, sentry,; watch, watchman; watch and ward;
- watchdog, bandog[obs3], housedog[obs3]; patrol, patrolman, vedette[obs3],
- picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial|; undercover agent, mole,
- plainclothesman; advanced guard, rear guard; lookout.
- cautiousness &c. 864.
- monitor, guard camera,
- radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the-sky, U2 plane, spy plane.
- V. warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn[obs3]; admonish, premonish[obs3];
- give notice, give warning, dehort[obs3]; menace &c. (threaten) 909; put on
- one's guard; sound the alarm &c. 669; croak.
- beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and
- ward &c. (care) 459.
- Adj. warning &c. v.; premonitory, monitory, cautionary; admonitory,
- admonitive[obs3]; sematic[Biol].
- warned, forewarned &c. v.; on one's guard &c. (careful) 459,
- (cautious) 864.
- Adv. in terrorem[Lat] &c. (threat) 909.
- Int. beware! ware! take care! look out! fore![golf], mind what you are
- about!, take care what you are about! mind!
- Phr. ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort [French: don't wake a sleeping
- cat]; foenum habet in cornu[Lat]; caveat actor; le silence du people est la
- legon des rois[Fr]; verbum sat sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise is
- sufficient]; un averti en vaut deux[Fr].
-
- #669. [Indication of danger.] Alarm. -- N. alarm; alarum, larum[obs3],
- alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm,
- hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-
- whoop; warning &c. 668; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red
- light, red flag; fire bell; police whistle.
- false alarm, cry of wolf; bug-bear, bugaboo.
- V. give the alarm, raise the alarm, sound the alarm, turn in the
- alarm, beat the alarm, give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm, turn
- in an alarm, beat an alarm &c. n.; alarm; warn &c. 668; ring the tocsin;
- battre la generale[Fr]; cry wolf.
- Adj. alarming &c. v.
- Int. sauve qui peut[Fr]! [French: every man for himself]; qui vive?
- [Fr].
-
- #670. Preservation. -- N. preservation; safe-keeping; conservation &c.
- (storage) 636; maintenance, support, susteritation[obs3], conservatism; vis
- conservatrix[obs3]; salvation &c. (deliverance) 672.
- [Means of preservation] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative,
- additive; antibiotics, antifungals[Med], biocide; hygiastics[obs3],
- hygiantics[obs3]; cover, drugget[obs3]; cordon sanitaire[Fr]; canning;
- ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods.
- [Superstitious remedies] snake oil, spider webs, cure-all; laetrile;
- charm &c. 993.
- V. preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep
- alive; refrigerate, keep on ice;not willingly let die; bank up; nurse;
- save, rescue; be safe, make safe &c. 664; take care of &c. (care) 459;
- guard &c. (defend) 717.
- stare super antiquas vias [Lat][Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's
- ground, stand one's ground &c. (resist) 719.
- embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize|, bottle, pot, tin, can;
- sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize[Chem], freeze-dry,
- concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband &c.
- (store) 636.
- Adj. preserving &c. v.; conservative; prophylactic;
- preservatory[obs3], preservative; hygienic.
- preserved &c. v.; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt,
- unsinged[obs3], unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
- Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari[Lat][obs3].
-
- #671. Escape. -- N.escape, scape; avolation|, elopement, flight;
- evasion &c. (avoidance) 623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape;
- close call; come off, impunity.
- [Means of escape] loophole &c. (opening) 260; path &c. 627; refuse &c.
- 666; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.
- reprieve &c. (deliverance) 672; liberation &c. 750. refugee &c.
- (fugitive) 623.
- V. escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good
- one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper
- belle[Fr], save one's bacon, save one's skin; weather the storm &c. (safe)
- 664; escape scot-free.
- elude &c., make off &c. (avoid) 623;. march off &c. (go away) 293;
- give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip
- the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose
- from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to
- creep out of.
- disappear, vanish.
- Adj..escaping, escaped &c. v. stolen away, fled.
- Phr. the bird has flown the coop.
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- #672. Deliverance. -- N. deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve,
- reprieval[obs3]; respite; liberation &c. 750; emancipation; redemption,
- salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness[obs3].
- V. deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring
- off,bring through; tirer d'affaire[Fr], get the wheel out of the rut,
- snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve &c.
- (restore) 660; be rid of, get rid of.
- Adj. saved &c. v. extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
- Int. to the rescue!
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- #673. Preparation. -- N. preparation; providing &c. v.; provision,
- providence; anticipation &c. (foresight) 510; precaution,
- preconcertation[obs3], predisposition; forecast &c. (plan) 626; rehearsal,
- note of preparation.
- [Putting in order] arrangement &c. 60; clearance; adjustment &c. 23;
- tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.
- ripening &c. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction,
- digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.
- groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold
- &c. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage[Fr].
- [Preparation of men] training &c. (education) 537; inurement &c.
- (habit) 613; novitiate; cooking[ Preparation of food], cookery; brewing,
- culinary art; tilling[ Preparation of the soil], plowing, sowing;
- semination[obs3], cultivation.
- [State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness,
- mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir[Fr].
- [Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-
- courrier[Fr], avant-coureur[Fr]; voortrekker[Afrikaans]; sappers and
- miners, pavior[obs3], navvy[obs3]; packer, stevedore; warming pan.
- V. prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle
- preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in
- order &c. (arrange) 60; forecast &c. (plan) 626 prepare the ground, plow
- the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil;
- predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix
- the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix
- the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first
- stone &c. (begin) 66.
- roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape &c.
- (form) 240.
- elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture
- &c. (aid) 707; hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue;
- infumate|; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress,
- garnish, betrim[obs3], accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish
- up, brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils,
- set, prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up;
- adjust &c. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working
- order, put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.
- train &c. (teach) 537; inure &c. (habituate) 613; breed; prepare &c.
- for; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take
- precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door
- to &c. (facilitate) 705.
- set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for
- action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards.
- prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship &c. (learn) 539; lay oneself
- out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor,
- reculer pour mieux sauter[Fr], prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam
- up, put the horses to.
- guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the
- evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's
- nest; lay in provisions &c. 637; make investments; keep on foot.
- be prepared, be ready &c. Adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one's
- powder dry; lie in wait for &c. (expect) 507; anticipate &c. (foresee) 510;
- principiis obstare[Lat]; veniente occurrere morbo[Lat].
-
- Adj. preparing &c. v.; in preparation, in course of preparation, in
- agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train; afoot, afloat; on foot, on the
- stocks, on the anvil; under consideration &c. (plan) 626; brewing,
- batching, forthcoming, brooding; in store for, in reserve.
- precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional,
- inchoate, under revision; preliminary &c. (precedent) 62.
- prepared &c. v.; in readiness; ready, ready to one's band, ready made,
- ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in
- working order,in working gear; snug; in practice.
- ripe, mature, mellow; pukka[obs3]; practiced &c. (skilled) 698;
- labored, elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.
- in full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in
- the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at
- all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted
- and spurred.
- in utrumque paratus[Lat], semper paratus[Lat]; on the alert &c.
- (vigilant) 459; at one's post.
- Adv. in preparation, in anticipation of; against, for; abroach[obs3].
- Phr. a bove majori discit arare minor[Lat]; "looking before and after
- " [Hamlet], si vis pacem para bellum[Lat].
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- #674. Nonpreparation. -- N. non-preparation, absence of preparation,
- want of preparation; inculture|, inconcoction|, improvidence.
- immaturity, crudity; rawness &c. Adj.; abortion; disqualification.
- [Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded
- garden; neglect &c. 460.
- rough copy &c. (plan) 626; germ &c. 153; raw material &c. 635.
- improvisation &c. (impulse) 612.
- V. be unprepared &c. Adj.; want preparation, lack preparation; lie
- fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits[Fr]; live from hand to mouth.
- [Render unprepared] dismantle &c. (render useless) 645; undress &c.
- 226. extemporize, improvise, ad lib.
- Adj. unprepared &c. [prepare &c. 673]; without preparation &c. 673;
- incomplete &c. 53; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe,
- kachcha[obs3], raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the
- rough; unhewn[obs3], unformed, unfashioned[obs3], unwrought,
- unlabored[obs3], unblown, uncooked, unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.
- unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured[obs3], unlicked[obs3], untaught,
- uneducated, uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised;
- deckle-edged[obs3]; precocious, premature; undigested, indigested[obs3];
- unmellowed[obs3], unseasoned, unleavened.
- unrehearsed, unscripted, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, ad
- lib, ad libitem [Latin].
- fallow; unsown, untilled; natural, in a state of nature; undressed; in
- dishabille, en deshabille[Fr].
- unqualified, disqualified; unfitted; ill-digested; unbegun, unready,
- unarranged[obs3], unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped,
- untrimmed; out of gear, out of order; dismantled &c. v.
- shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded;
- happy-go-lucky; caught napping &c. (inexpectant) 508[obs3]; unpremeditated
- &c. 612.
- Adv. extempore &c. 612.
-
-
- #675. Essay. -- N. essay, trial, endeavor, attempt; aim, struggle,
- venture, adventure, speculation, coup d'essai[Fr], debut; probation &c.
- (experiment) 463.
- V. try, essay; experiment &c. 463; endeavor, strive; tempt, attempt,
- make an attempt; venture, adventure, speculate, take one's chance, tempt
- fortune; try one's fortune, try one's luck, try one's hand; use one's
- endeavor; feel one's way, grope one's way, pick one's way.
- try hard, push, make a bold push, use one's best endeavor; do one's
- best &c. (exertion) 686.
- Adj. essaying &c. v.; experimental &c. 463; tentative, empirical,
- probationary.
- Adv. experimentally &c. Adj.; on trial, at a venture; by rule of
- thumb. if one may be so bold.
- Phr. aut non tentaris aut perfice [Lat][Ovid]; chi non s'arrischia non
- guadagna[Fr][obs3].
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- #676. Undertaking. -- N. undertaking; compact &c. 769; adventure,
- venture; engagement &c. (promise) 768; enterprise, emprise[obs3];
- pilgrimage; matter in hand &c. (business ) 625; move; first move &c.
- (beginning) 66.
- V. undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into;
- volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage &c. (promise) 768; contract &c.
- 769; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to &c.
- (determination) 604.
- take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to,
- set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set
- forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put
- one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin &c.
- 66; broach, institute &c. one's (originate) 153; put one's hand to the
- plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.
- have in hand &c. (business) 625; have many irons in the fire &c.
- (activity) 682.
- Adj. undertaking &c. v.; on the anvil &c. 625.
- Int. here goes!
-
- #677. Use. -- N. use; employ, employment; exercise,
- exercitation[obs3]; application, appliance; adhibition[obs3], disposal;
- consumption; agency &c. (physical) 170; usufruct; usefulness &c. 644;
- benefit; recourse, resort, avail.
- [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear.
- [Way of using] usage.
- V. use,.make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in
- operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work.
- ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise,
- practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur
- to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's
- hands on, try.
- render useful &c. 644; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to
- use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into
- requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the
- service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply,
- adhibit[obs3], dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.
- fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of.
- use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to
- task.
- Adj. in use; used &c. v.; well-worn, well-trodden.
- useful &c. 644; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631.
-
-
- #678. Disuse. -- N. forbearance, abstinence; disuse; relinquishment
- &c. 782; desuetude &c. (want of habit) 614; disusage[obs3].
- V. not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear,
- abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on
- the shelf, keep on the shelf,lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin;
- shelve; set aside, put aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with;
- supersede; discard &c. (eject) 297; dismiss, give warning.
- throw aside &c. (relinquish) 782; make away with &c. (destroy) 162;
- cast overboard , heave overboard , throw overboard; cast to the dogs, cast
- to the winds; dismantle &c. (Render useless) 645.
- lie unemployed , remain unemployed &c. Adj.
- Adj. not used &c. v.; unemployed, unapplied, undisposed of, unspent,
- unexercised, untouched, untrodden, unessayed[obs3], ungathered[obs3],
- unculled; uncalled for, not required.
- disused &c. v.; done with.
-
- #679. Misuse. -- N. misuse, misusage, misemployment[obs3],
- misapplication, misappropriation.
- abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste &c. 638.
- V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate.
- desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c. 638; overtask,
- overtax, overwork: squander &c. 818.
- cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch
- at a straw.
- Adj. misused &c. v.
- Phr. ludere cum sacris[Lat].
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- %
- Section Ill. VOLUNTARY ACTION
-
- 1. Simple voluntary Action
-
- %
- #680. Action. -- N. action, performance; doing, &c. v.; perpetration;
- exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor &c.
- (exertion) 686; praxis, execution; procedure &c. (conduct) 692; handicraft;
- business &c. 625; agency &c. (power at work) 170.
- deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction[obs3], job,
- doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move,
- stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat[Fr]; tour de force &c.
- (display) 882; feat, exploit; achievement &c. (completion) 729; handiwork,
- workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy &c. (plan) 626.
- actor &c. (doer) 690.
- V. do, perform, execute; achieve &c. (complete) 729; transact, enact;
- commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice,
- play.
- employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand &c. (business)
- 625; labor &c. 686; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course &c.
- (conduct) 692.
- act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger,
- stretch forth one's hand; take in hand &c. (undertake) 676; put oneself in
- motion; put in practice; carry into execution &c. (complete) 729; act upon.
- be an actor &c. 690; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in,
- perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the
- pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand,
- lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with &c. (meddle)
- 682.
- be in action; come into operation &c. (power at work) 170.
- Adj. doing &c. v.; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in
- operation &c. 170.
- Adv. in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in
- flagrante delicto[Lat]; while one's hand is in.
- Phr. "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than
- words; actum aiunt ne agas [obs3][Lat][Terence]; "awake, arise, or be
- forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost]; dii pia facta vident [Lat][Ovid]; faire
- sans dire[Fr]; fare fac[It]; fronte capillata post est occasio calva[Lat];
- " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great
- end of life is not knowledge but action " [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of
- act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir[Fr][obs3]; "we
- live in deeds not years" [Bailey].
-
-
- #681. Inaction. -- N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action;
- noninterference, nonintervention; Fabian policy, conservative policy;
- neglect &c. 460.
- inactivity &c. 683; rest &c. (repose) 687; quiescence &c. 265; want of
- occupation, inoccupation[obs3]; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands,
- dolce far niente[It]; sinecure, featherbed, featherbedding, cushy job, no-
- show job; soft snap, soft thing.
- V. not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive &c. 683; abstain from
- doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not
- lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave
- alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it
- have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non
- movere[Lat]; stare super antiquas vias[Lat][obs3]; rest and be thankful,
- live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller[Fr], faire[Fr];
- stand aloof; refrain &c. (avoid) 623 keep oneself from doing; remit one's
- efforts, relax one's efforts; desist &c. (relinquish) 624; stop &c. (cease)
- 142; pause &c. (be quiet) 265.
- wait, lie in wait, bide one's time, take time, tide it over.
- cool one's heels, kick one's heels; while away the time, while away
- tedious hours; pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time; talk
- against time; let the grass grow under one's feet; waste time &c.
- (inactive) 683.
- lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie
- fallow; keep quiet, slug; have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought.
- undo, do away with; take down, take to pieces; destroy &c. 162.
- Adj. not doing &c. v.; not done &c. v.; undone; passive; unoccupied,
- unemployed; out of employ, out of work; fallow; desaeuvre[Fr].
- Adv. re infecta[Lat], at a stand, les bras croisis[Fr], with folded
- arms; with the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back; pour
- passer le temps[Fr].
- Int. so let it be! stop! &c. 142; hands off!
- Phr. cunctando restituit rem "If it ain't broke don't fix it"
- [Lat][Bert Lance]; stare decisis [Latin: (Law) let the decision stand];.
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- #682. Activity. -- N. activity; briskness, liveliness &c. adj.;
- animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy; snap, vim.
- nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness &c. adj.; velocity, &c. 274;
- alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste &c. 684;
- punctuality &c. (early) 132.
- eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium[Lat][obs3],
- empressement[Fr], earnestness, intentness; abandon; vigor &c. (physical
- energy) 171; devotion &c. (resolution) 604; exertion &c. 686.
- industry, assiduity; assiduousness &c. adj.; sedulity; laboriousness;
- drudgery &c. (labor) 686; painstaking, diligence; perseverance &c. 604a;
- indefatigation|; habits of business.
- vigilance &c. 459; wakefulness; sleeplessness, restlessness; insomnia;
- pervigilium[obs3], insomnium[obs3]; racketing.
- movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget,
- fidgetiness; flurry &c. (haste) 684.
- officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition,
- intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue.
- press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire,
- great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action.
- housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee,
- enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody,
- pickthank[obs3]; hummer, hustler, live man [U.S.], rustler * [U. S.].
- V. be active &c. adj.; busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's
- stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about
- one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a
- fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's
- way; make progress &c. 282; toll &c. (labor) 686; plod, persist &c.
- (persevere) 604a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.
- look sharp; have all one's eyes about one &c. (vigilance) 459; rise,
- arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march,
- kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity &c. 134 lose no time,
- not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to
- grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash
- off; make haste &c. 684; do one's best take pains &c. (exert oneself)
- 686; do wonders, work wonders.
- have many irons in the fire, have one's hands full, have much on one's
- hands; have other things to do, have other fish to fry; be busy; not have a
- moment to spare, not have a moment that one can call one's own.
- have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing,
- run riot.
- outdo; overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark; make a toil of a
- pleasure.
- have a hand in &c. (act in) 680; take an active part, put in one's
- oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head
- about, intrigue; agitate.
- tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude;
- poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.
- Adj. active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated,
- vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring.
- nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed;
- featly[obs3], tripping.
- quick, prompt, yare[obs3], instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart;
- fast &c. (swift) 274; quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad
- awake; go-ahead, live wide-awake &c. (intelligent) 498[U.S.].
- forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute
- &c. 604.
- industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking;
- intent &c. (attention) 457; indefatigable &c. (persevering) 604a;
- unwearied; unsleeping[obs3], never tired; plodding, hard-working &c. 686;
- businesslike, workaday.
- bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering;
- busy, busy as hen with one chicken.
- working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at
- call; up and doing, up and stirring.
- busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of
- business, busy as a bee, busy as a one-armed paperhanger.
- meddling &c. v.; meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious[obs3],
- intrigant[obs3].
- astir, stirring; agoing[obs3], afoot; on foot; in full swing;
- eventful; on the alert, &c. (vigilant) 459.
- Adv. actively &c. adj.; with life and spirit, with might and main &c.
- 686,with haste &c. 684, with wings; full tilt, in mediis rebus[Lat].
- Int. be alive, look alive, look sharp! move on, push on! keep moving!
- go ahead! stir your stumps! age quod agis[Lat]! jaldi[obs3]! karo[obs3]!
- step lively!
- Phr. carpe diem &c. (opportunity) 134[Latin: seize the day]; nulla
- dies sine linea [Latin][Pliny]; nec mora nec requies [Latin][Vergil];
- the plot thickens; No sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; "veni vidi
- vici" [Lat][Suetonius]; catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule
- fleissig [obs3][German]; dictum ac factum [Lat][Terence]; schwere Arbeit in
- der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im Alter[German: hard work in youth means soft
- rest in age]; "the busy hum of men " [Milton].
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-
- #683. Inactivity. -- N. inactivity; inaction &c. 681; inertness &c.
- 172; obstinacy &c. 606.
- lull &c. (cessation) 142; quiescence &c. 265; rust, rustiness.
- idleness, remissness &c. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence[obs3];
- dawdling &c. v. ergophobia[obs3], otiosity[obs3].
- dullness &c. adj.; languor; segnity|, segnitude|; lentor[obs3];
- sluggishness &c. (slowness) 275; procrastination &c. (delay) 133; torpor,
- torpidity, torpescence[obs3]; stupor &c. (insensibility) 823; somnolence;
- drowsiness &c. adj.; nodding &c. v.; oscitation[obs3], oscitancy[obs3];
- pandiculation[obs3], hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness[obs3],
- heavy eyelids.
- sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus;
- Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis[obs3], dream, hibernation, nap, doze,
- snooze, siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology[obs3].
- dull work; pottering; relaxation &c. (loosening) 47; Castle of
- Indolence.
- [Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative, tranquilizer, hypnotic,
- sleeping pill, relaxant, anaesthetic, general anaesthetic &c. 174;
- torpedo.
- [person who is inactive] idler, drone, droil[obs3], dawdle,
- mopus[obs3]; do-little faineant[Fr], dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon
- farmer; truant &c. (runaway) 623: bummer|!, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker,
- lounger, lazzarone[It]; lubber, lubbard[obs3]; slow coach &c. (slow.) 275;
- opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag|!, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer,
- dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus[Lat].
- V. be inactive &c. adj.; do nothing &c. 681; move slowly &c. 275; let
- the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl,
- droil[obs3], lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop[obs3]; lounge, poke,
- loaf, loiter; go to sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une
- aile[Fr][obs3].
- take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate,
- swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury,
- loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose
- time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.
- idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time;
- spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder[obs3], dabble,
- faddle fribble[obs3], fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.
- sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top,
- sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze,
- drowze[obs3], snooze, nap; take a nap &c. n.; dream; snore one's best;
- settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall
- asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids;
- weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some
- z's, stack z's [coll.].
- languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.
- render idle &c. adj.; sluggardize[obs3]; mitigate &c. 174.
- Adj. inactive; motionless &c. 265; unoccupied &c. (doing nothing) 681
- unbusied[obs3].
- indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk[obs3], remiss, slack, inert,
- torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden,
- lumpish[obs3]; exanimate[obs3], soulless; listless; drony[obs3],
- dronish[obs3]; lazy as Ludlam's dog.
- dilatory, laggard; lagging &c. v.; slow &c. 275; rusty, flagging;
- lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering &c. v.;shilly-shally &c.
- (irresolute) 605.
- sleeping, &c. v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a
- sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in
- the lap of Morpheus.
- sleepy, sleepful[obs3]; dozy[obs3], drowsy, somnolent,
- torpescent[obs3], lethargic, lethargical[obs3]; somnifacient[obs3];
- statuvolent[obs3], statuvolic[obs3]; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping;
- somnific[obs3], somniferous; soporous[obs3], soporific, soporiferous[obs3];
- hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.
- sedative &c. 174.
- Adv. inactively &c. adj.; at leisure &c. 685.
- Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws; "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of
- ease" [Dryden]; " better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay"
- [Tennyson]; "idly busy rolls their world away " [Goldsmith]; "the mystery
- of folded sleep" [Tennyson]; "the timely dew of sleep" [Milton]; "thou
- driftest gently down the tides of sleep" [Longfellow]; "tired Nature's
- sweet restorer, balmy sleep" [Young].
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-
- #684. Haste. -- N. haste, urgency,; despatch, dispatch; acceleration,
- spurt, spirt[obs3], forced march, rush, dash; speed, velocity &c. 274;
- precipitancy, precipitation, precipitousness &c. adj.; impetuosity;
- brusquerie[obs3]; hurry, drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry,
- flutter, splutter.
- V. haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash &c. n.; hurry on, dash on,
- whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry[obs3], scuttle
- along, barrel along, bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble;
- plunge, plunge headlong; dash off; rush &c. (violence) 173; express.
- bestir oneself &c. (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment,
- lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make
- the best of one's way.
- be precipitate &c. adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry &c. n.;
- have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work
- against time.
- quicken &c. 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge,
- whip; railroad.
- Adj. hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate,
- headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy;
- pushing.
- in haste, in a hurry &c. n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless,
- pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.
- Adv. with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste &c.
- adj.; apace &c. (swiftly) 274; amain[obs3]; all at once &c.
- (instantaneously) 113; at short notice &c., immediately &c. (early) 132;
- posthaste; by cable, by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.
- hastily, precipitately &c. adj.; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry[obs3],
- holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head,
- head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu[Fr].
- by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.
- Phr. sauve qui peut[French: every man for himself][panic], devil take
- the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done &c. (early) 132;
- a word and a blow; haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto
- [Italian]; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German][Goethe's motto]; "stand not
- upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you
- dragons of the night" [Cymbeline].
-
- #685. Leisure. -- N. leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours,
- spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands;
- holiday, relaxation &c. (rest) 687; otium cum dignitate [Lat][obs3][Cic.],
- ease.
- no hurry; no big rush; no deadline.
- V. have leisure &c. n.; take one's time, take one's leisure, take
- one's ease; repose &c. 687; move slowly &c. 275; while away the time &c.
- (inaction) 681; be master of one's time, be an idle man.
- Adj. leisure, leisurely; slow &c. 275; deliberate, quiet, calm,
- undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at loose ends, at a loose end.
- Adv. unhurriedly, deliberately, without undue haste; anytime.
- Phr. time hanging heavy on one's hands; eile mit Weile[Ger].
-
- #686. Exertion. -- N. exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress,
- throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt[obs3]; stroke of work, stitch
- of work.
- "a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together"; dead lift; heft;
- gymnastics; exercise, exercitation[obs3]; wear and tear; ado; toil and
- trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.
- labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow,
- swink[obs3], drudgery, slavery, fagging[obs3], hammering; limae
- labor[Lat]; industry, industriousness, operoseness[obs3], operosity[obs3].
- trouble, pains, duty; resolution &c. 604; energy &c. (physical) 171.
- V. exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use
- exertion.
- labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened
- chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the
- oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar
- bestir oneself (be active) 682; take trouble, trouble oneself.
- work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm;
- fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel &c.
- (resolution) 604; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a
- galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and
- night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work
- double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to &c.
- (persevere) 604a; work one's way, fight one's way,; lay about one, hammer
- at.
- take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; give
- one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's
- power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's
- best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost;
- play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg
- foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into,
- strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go
- through fire and water &c. (resolution) 604; move heaven and earth, leave
- no stone unturned.
- Adj. laboring &c. v.
- laborious, operose[obs3], elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome,
- wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric[obs3].
- hard-working, painstaking; strenuous, energetic.
- hard at work, on the stretch.
- Adv. laboriously &c. adj.; lustily; pugnis et calcibus[Lat]; with
- might and main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge
- hammer, with much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus[Lat],
- vi et armis[Lat], manibus pedibusque[Lat], tooth and nail, unguibus et
- rostro[Lat], hammer and tongs, heart and soul; through thick and thin &c.
- (perseverance) 604a.
- by the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.
- Phr. aide-toi le ciel t'aidera[Fr];" and still be doing, never done"
- [Butler]; buen principio la mitad es hecha [Sp]; cosa ben fatta e' fatta
- due volie [It];" it is better to wear out than to rust out" [Bp. Hornel];
- labor omnia vincit "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven"
- [Lat][Vergil][Carlyle]; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit
- [Fr][fr]; manu forti[Lat]; ora et labora[Lat].
-
-
- #687. Repose. -- N. repose, rest, silken repose; sleep &c. 683.
- relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause &c. (cessation) 142;
- respite.
- day of rest, dies non, Sabbath, Lord's day, holiday, red-letter day,
- vacation, recess.
- V. repose; rest, rest and be thankful; take a rest, take one's ease,
- take it easy.
- relax, unbend, slacken; take breath &c. (refresh) 689; rest upon one's
- oars; pause &c. (cease) 142; stay one's hand.
- lie down; recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair;
- go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep &c. 683.
- take a holiday, shut up shop; lie fallow &c. (inaction) 681.
- Adj. reposing &c. v[of people].; relaxed &c. v.; unstrained.
- [of materials and people] unstressed.
- Adv. at rest.
- Phr."the best of men have ever loved repose" [Thompson]; "to repair
- our nature with comforting repose" [Henry VIII].
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- #688. Fatigue. -- N. fatigue; weariness &c. 841; yawning, drowsiness
- &c. 683; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation|, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea.
- anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration,
- swoon, fainting, deliquium[Lat], syncope, lipothymy[obs3]; goneness[obs3].
- V. be fatigued &c. adj.; yawn &c. (get sleepy) 683; droop, sink, flag;
- lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint,
- succumb.
- fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear
- out, prostrate.
- tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax,
- overstrain.
- Adj. fatigued, tired &c. v.; weary &c. 841; drowsy &c. 683; drooping
- &c. v.; haggard; toilworn[obs3], wayworn:, footsore, surbated|, weather-
- beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed * [U.S.]; exhausted,
- prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed[obs3],
- unrestored.
- worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.
- breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind;
- blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose[obs3]; broken winded,
- short-winded; dyspnaeal[obs3], dyspnaeic[obs3].
- ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off
- one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de
- combat[Fr].
- fatiguing &c v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.
-
- #689. Refreshment. -- N. bracing &c. v.; recovery of strength,
- recuperation &c. 159; restoration, revival &c. 660; repair, refection,
- refocillation|, refreshment, regalement[obs3], bait; relief &c. 834.
- break, spell.
- refreshment stand; refreshments; ice cream[list], cold soda, soda
- pop, hot dogs (food) .
- V. brace &c. (strengthen) 159; reinvigorate; air, freshen up,
- refresh, recruit; repair &c. (restore) 660; fan, refocillate|; refresh the
- inner man.
- breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather,
- take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath,
- take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's
- head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength
- &c. 159; perk up, get one's second wind.
- come to oneself &c. (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant
- refreshed.
- Adj. refreshing &c v.; recuperative &c. 660.
- refreshed &c. v.; untired[obs3], unwearied.
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- #690. Agent.-- N. doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator,
- operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager.
- bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of
- all work, factotum.
- workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative;
- working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water,
- laborer, navvy[obs3]; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack;
- mere tool &c. 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper[obs3], roustabout.
- maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder,
- mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer;
- blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.
- machinist, mechanician, engineer.
- sempstress[obs3], semstress[obs3], seamstress; needlewoman[obs3],
- workwoman; tailor, cordwainer[obs3].
- minister &c. (instrument) 631; servant &c. 746; representative &c.
- (commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759.
- coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis[Lat], dramatis
- personae[Lat]; personnel.
- Phr. quorum pars magna fui [Lat][Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae
- suae [Lat].
-
- #691. Workshop. -- N. workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of
- business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio;
- office, branch office bureau, atelier.
- hive[specific types of workplace: list], hive of industry; nursery;
- hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; , mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard;
- alveary[obs3]; armory; laboratory, lab, research institute; refinery;
- cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit,
- nailery[obs3], usine[obs3], slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery[obs3];
- furnace; vineyard.
- crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix.
- Adj. at work, at the office, at the shop; working.
- %
- 2. Complex Voluntary Action
- %
- #692. Conduct. -- N. conduct[actions of an individual agent];
- behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien[obs3], demeanor,
- guise, bearing, manner, observance.
- dealing, transaction &c. (action) 680; business &c. 625.
- tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship,
- seamanship; strategy, strategics[obs3]; plan &c. 626.
- management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage;
- regime; economy, economics; political economy; government &c. (direction)
- 693.
- execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course,
- walk, race, record.
- course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of
- proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO,
- method of operating; method &c., path &c. 627.
- V. transact[cause to occur], execute; despatch, dispatch; proceed
- with, discharge; carry on, carry through, carry out, carry into effect, put
- into effect; work out; go through, get through; enact; put into practice;
- do &c. 680; officiate &c. 625.
- bear oneself, behave oneself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry
- oneself, conduct oneself, acquit oneself.
- run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course;
- steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards,
- shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's own boat.
- conduct; manage, supervise &c. (direct) 693.
- participate &c. 680.
- deal with, have to do with; treat, handle a case; take steps, take
- measures.
- Adj. conducting &c. v. strategical, businesslike, practical,
- executive.
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- #693. Direction. -- N. direction; management, managery[obs3];
- government, gubernation[obs3], conduct, legislation, regulation, guidance;
- bossism [U.S.]; legislature; steerage, pilotage; reins, reins of
- government; helm, rudder, needle, compass; guiding star, load star, lode
- star, pole star; cynosure.
- supervision, superintendence; surveillance, oversight; eye of the
- master; control, charge; board of control &c. (council) 696; command &c.
- (authority) 737.
- premiership, senatorship; director &c. 694; chair, portfolio.
- statesmanship; statecraft, kingcraft[obs3], queencraft[obs3].
- ministry, ministration; administration; stewardship,
- proctorship[obs3]; agency.
- [person who directs] director &c. 694.
- V. direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work
- for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on;
- regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle
- [intransitive] take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle
- the reins, hold the reins, take the reins; drive, tool.
- superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after,
- see to, legislate for; administer, ministrate[obs3]; matronize[obs3]; have
- the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the
- direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule
- &c. (command) 737; have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio;
- preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the
- chair; pull the stroke oar.
- Adj. directing &c. v.; hegemonic.
- Adv. at the helm, at the head of.
-
- #694. Director. -- N. director, manager, governor, rector,
- comptroller.
- superintendent, supervisor, straw boss;.
- intendant; overseer, overlooker[obs3]; supercargo[obs3], husband,
- inspector, visitor, ranger, surveyor, aedile[obs3]; moderator, monitor,
- taskmaster; master &c. 745; leader, ringleader, demagogue, corypheus,
- conductor, fugleman[obs3], precentor[obs3], bellwether, agitator;
- caporal[obs3], choregus[obs3], collector, file leader, flugelman[obs3],
- linkboy[obs3].
- guiding star &c. (guidance) 693; adviser &c. 695; guide &c.
- (information) 527; pilot; helmsman; steersman, steermate[obs3]; wire-
- puller.
- driver, whip, Jehu, charioteer; coachman, carman, cabman; postilion,
- vetturino[obs3], muleteer, arriero[obs3], teamster; whipper in.
- head, head man, head center, boss; principal, president, speaker;
- chair, chairman, chairwoman, chairperson; captain &c. (master) 745;
- superior; mayor &c. (civil authority) 745; vice president, prime minister,
- premier, vizier, grand vizier, eparch[obs3].
- officer, functionary, minister, official, red-tapist[obs3],
- bureaucrat; man in office, Jack in office; office bearer; person in
- authority &c. 745.
- statesman, strategist, legislator, lawgiver, politician, statist|!,
- statemonger[obs3]; Minos, Draco; arbiter &c. (judge) 967; boss [U.S.],
- political dictator.
- board &c. (council) 696.
- secretary, secretary of state; Reis Effendi; vicar &c. (deputy) 759;
- steward, factor; agent &c. 758; bailiff, middleman; foreman, clerk of
- works; landreeve[obs3]; factotum, major-domo[obs3], seneschal, housekeeper,
- shepherd, croupier; proctor, procurator.
- Adv. ex officio.
-
- #695. Advice. -- N. advice, counsel, adhortation|; word to the wise;
- suggestion, submonition|, recommendation, advocacy; advisement.
- exhortation &c. (persuasion) 615; expostulation &c. (dissuasion) 616;
- admonition &c. (warning) 668; guidance &c. (direction) 693.
- instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation[obs3]; Governor's
- message, President's message; King's message, Queen's speech; message,
- speech from the throne.
- adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus
- Apollo[Lat][obs3], senator; teacher &c. 540.
- guide, manual, chart &c. (information) 527.
- physician, doctor, leech|!, archiater[obs3].
- arbiter &c. (judge) 967.
- reference, referment[obs3]; consultation, conference, pourparler.
- V. advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of
- advice[Fr]; suggest, prompt, submonish[obs3], recommend, prescribe,
- advocate; exhort &c. (persuade) 615.
- enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon &c. (request) 765;
- dictate.
- expostulate &c. (dissuade) 616; admonish &c. (warn) 668.
- advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold
- a council, deliberate, be closeted with.
- confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be
- advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.
- Adj. recommendatory; hortative &c. (persuasive) 615; dehortatory &c.
- (dissuasive) 616[obs3]; admonitory &c. (warning) 668.
- Int. go to!
- Phr. "give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; "I pray
- thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "my guide, philosopher,
- and friend" [Pope]; "'twas good advice and meant, my son be good" [Crabbe];
- verbum sat sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise is sufficient]; vive memor
- leti[Lat]; "we, ask advice but we mean approbation" [Colton].
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- #696. Council. -- N. council, committee, subcommittee, comitia[Lat],
- court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.
- senate, senatus[Lat], parliament, chamber of deputies, directory,
- reichsrath[Ger], rigsdag, cortes[Sp], storthing[obs3], witenagemote[obs3],
- junta, divan, musnud[obs3], sanhedrim; classis[obs3]; Amphictyonic
- council[obs3]; duma[Russ], house of representatives; legislative assembly,
- legislative council; riksdag[obs3], volksraad[Ger], witan[obs3],
- caput[obs3], consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal &c. (tribunal)
- 966; board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.
- audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber.
- cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress,
- convention, diet, states-general.
- [formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly, caucus,
- conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference,
- convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar[obs3], house;
- quorum; council fire [N.Am.], powwow [U.S.], primary [U.S.].
- meeting, assemblage &c. 72.
- [person who is member of a council] member; senator; member of
- parliament, M.P.; councilor, representative of the people; assemblyman,
- congressman; councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder.
- V. assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage) 72; confer, caucus,
- hold council; huddle [coll.].
- Adj. senatorial, curule[obs3]; congressional, parliamentary;
- legislative, law-making; regulatory; deliberative.
-
- #697. Precept. -- N. precept, direction, instruction, charge;
- prescript, prescription; recipe, receipt; golden rule; maxim &c. 496.
- rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris[Lat], lex scripta[Lat], act,
- statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation; form, formula, formulary;
- technicality; canon law; norm.
- order &c. (command) 741.
-
- #698. Skill. -- N. skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity,
- dexterousness; adroitness, expertness &c. adj.; proficiency, competence,
- technical competence, craft, callidity[obs3], facility, knack, trick,
- sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy[obs3]; ambidexterity,
- ambidextrousness[obs3]; sleight of hand &c. (deception) 545.
- seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship; rope-dancing.
- accomplishment, acquirement, attainment; art, science; technicality,
- technology; practical knowledge, technical knowledge.
- knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire[Fr]; tact; mother
- wit &c. (sagacity) 498; discretion &c. *(caution) 864; finesse; craftiness
- &c. (cunning) 702; management &c. (conduct) 692; self-help.
- cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents,
- faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence &c. 498;
- sharpness, readiness &c. (activity) 682; invention &c. 515; aptness,
- aptitude; turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa
- felicitas[Lat], qualification, habilitation.
- proficient &c. 700.
- masterpiece, coup de maitre[Fr], chef d'euvre[Fr], tour de force; good
- stroke &c. (plan) 626.
- V. be skillful &c. adj.; excel in, be master of; have a turn for &c.
- n.
- know what's what, know a hawk from a handsaw, know what one is about,
- know on which side one's bread is buttered, know what's o'clock; have cut
- one's eye teeth, have cut one's wisdom teeth.
- see one's way, see where the wind lies, see which way the wind blows;
- have all one's wits about one, have one's hand in; savoir vivre[Fr]; scire
- quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent[Lat][obs3].
- look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth;
- live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near
- the wind; stoop to conquer &c. (cunning) 702; play one's cards well, play
- one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the
- right horse.
- take advantage of, make the most of; profit by &e. (use) 677; make a
- hit &c. (succeed) 731; make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun
- shines &c. (occasion) 134.
- Adj. skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft,
- ready, gain; slick, smart &c. (active) 682; proficient, good at, up to, at
- home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack,
- accomplished; conversant &c. (knowing) 490.
- experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in
- practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted,
- fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished.
- clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed;
- inventive &c. 515; shrewd, sharp, on the ball &c. (intelligent) 498;
- cunning &c. 702; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff;
- discreet.
- neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-
- footed; cut out for, fitted for.
- technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian[obs3], shipshape; workman-
- like, business-like, statesman-like.
- Adv. skillfully &c. adj.; well &c. 618; artistically; with skill,
- with consummate skill; secundum artem[Lat], suo Marte; to the best of one's
- abilities &c. (exertion) 686.
- Phr. ars celare artem[Lat]; artes honorabit[Lat]; celui qui veut
- celui-la peut[Fr]; c'est une grande habilite que de savoir cacher
- sonhabilite[Fr]; expertus metuit [Lat][Horace]; es bildet ein Talent sich
- in der Stille sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt[Ger]; "heart to
- conceive the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute" [Junius]; if
- you have lemons, make lemonade.
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- #699. Unskillfulness. -- N. unskillfulness &c. adj.; want of skill &c.
- 698; incompetence, incompentency[obs3]; inability, infelicity,
- indexterity[obs3], inexperience; disqualification, unproficiency[obs3];
- quackery.
- folly, stupidity &c. 499; indiscretion &c. (rashness) 863;
- thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458 (neglect) 460; sabotage.
- mismanagement, misconduct; impolicy[obs3]; maladministration; misrule,
- misgovernment, misapplication, misdirection, misfeasance; petticoat
- government.
- absence of rule, rule of thumb; bungling &c. v.; failure &c. 732;
- screw loose: too many cooks.
- blunder &c. (mistake) 495; etourderie gaucherie[Fr], act of folly,
- balourdise[obs3]; botch, botchery[obs3]; bad job, sad work.
- sprat sent out to catch a whale, much ado about nothing, wild-goose
- chase.
- bungler &c. 701; fool &c. 501.
- V. be unskillful &c. adj.; not see an inch beyond one's nose; blunder,
- bungle, boggle, fumble, botch, bitch, flounder, stumble, trip; hobble &c.
- 275; put one's foot in it; make a mess of, make hash of, make sad work of;
- overshoot the mark.
- play tricks with, play Puck, mismanage, misconduct, misdirect,
- misapply, missend.
- stultify oneself, make a fool of oneself, commit oneself; act
- foolishly; play the fool; put oneself out of court; lose control, lose
- control of oneself, lose one's head, lose one's cunning.
- begin at the wrong end; do things by halves &c. (not complete) 730;
- make two bites of a cherry; play at cross purposes; strain at a gnat and
- swallow a camel &c. (caprice) 608; put the cart before the horse; lock the
- stable door when the horse is stolen &c. (too late) 135.
- not know what one is about, not know one's own interest, not know on
- which side one's bread is buttered; stand in one's own light, quarrel with
- one's bread and butter, throw a stone in one's own garden, kill the goose
- which lays the golden eggs, pay dear for one's whistle, cut one's own
- throat, bum one's fingers; knock one's head against a stone wall, beat
- one's head against a stone wall; fall into a trap, catch a Tartar, bring
- the house about one's ears; have too many eggs in one basket (imprudent)
- 863, have too many irons in the fire.
- mistake &c. 495; take the shadow for the substance &c. (credulity)
- 486; bark up the wrong tree; be in the wrong box, aim at a pigeon and kill
- a crow; take the wrong pig by the tail, get the wrong pig by the tail, get
- the wrong sow by the ear, get the dirty end of the stick; put the saddle on
- the wrong horse, put a square peg into a round hole, put new wine into old
- bottles.
- cut blocks with a razor; hold a farthing candle to the sun &c.
- (useless) 645; fight with a shadow, grasp at a shadow; catch at straws,
- lean on a broken reed, reckon without one's host, pursue a wild goose
- chase; go on a fool's goose chase, sleeveless errand; go further and fare
- worse; lose one's way, miss one's way; fail &c. 732.
- Adj. unskillful &c. 698; inexpert; bungling &c.v.; awkward, clumsy,
- unhandy, lubberly, gauche, maladroit; left-handed, heavy-handed; slovenly,
- slatternly; gawky.
- adrift, at fault.
- inapt, unapt; inhabile[Fr]; untractable[obs3], unteachable; giddy &c.
- (inattentive) 458; inconsiderate &c. (neglectful) 460; stupid &c. 499;
- inactive &c. 683; incompetent; unqualified, disqualified, ill-qualified;
- unfit; quackish; raw, green, inexperienced, rusty, out of practice.
- unaccustomed, unused, untrained &c. 537, uninitiated, unconversant &c.
- (ignorant) 491[obs3]; shiftless; unstatesmanlike.
- unadvised; ill-advised, misadvised; ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-
- judged, ill-contrived, ill-conducted; unguided, misguided; misconducted,
- foolish, wild; infelicitous; penny wise and pound foolish &c.
- (inconsistent) 608.
- Phr. one's fingers being all thumbs; the right hand forgets its
- cunning; il se noyerait dans une goutte d'eau[Fr]; incidit in Scyllam qui
- vult vitare Charybdim[Lat]; out of the frying pan into the fire; non omnia
- possumus omnes [Lat][Vergil].
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- #700. Proficient. -- N. proficient, expert, adept, dab; dabster[obs3],
- crackerjack; connoisseur &c. (scholar) 492; master, master hand; prima
- donna[Sp], first fiddle, top gun, chef de cuisine, top sawyer;
- protagonist;, past master; mahatma.
- picked man; medallist, prizeman[obs3].
- veteran; old stager, old campaigner, old soldier, old file, old hand;
- man of business, man of the world.
- nice hand, good hand, clean hand; practiced hand, experienced eye,
- experienced hand; marksman; good shot, dead shot, crack shot; ropedancer,
- funambulist[obs3], acrobat; cunning man; conjuror &c. (deceiver) 548;
- wizard &c. 994.
- genius; mastermind, master head, master spirit.
- cunning blade, sharp blade, sharp fellow; jobber; cracksman &c.
- (thief) 792[obs3]; politician, tactician, strategist.
- pantologist[obs3], admirable Crichton, Jack of all trades; prodigy of
- learning.
-
-
- #701. Bungler. -- N. bungler; blunderer, blunderhead[obs3]; marplot,
- fumbler, lubber, duffer, dauber, stick; bad hand, poor hand, poor shot;
- butterfingers[obs3].
- no conjurer, flat, muff, slow coach, looby[obs3], lubber, swab; clod,
- yokel, awkward squad, blanc-bec; galoot[obs3].
- land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine;
- fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack
- &c. (deceiver) 548; lord of misrule.
- sloven, slattern, trapes[obs3].
- amateur, novice, greenhorn (learner) 541.
- Phr. il n'a pas invente' la poudre[Fr]; he will never set the Thames
- on fire; acierta errando[Lat]; aliquis in omnibus nullus in
- singulis[Lat][obs3].
-
- #702. Cunning. -- N. cunning, craft; cunningness[obs3], craftiness &c.
- adj.; subtlety, artificiality; maneuvering &c. v.; temporization;
- circumvention.
- chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery[obs3];
- concealment &c. 528; guile, doubling, duplicity &c. (falsehood) 544; foul
- play.
- diplomacy, politics; Machiavelism; jobbery, backstairs influence.
- art, artifice; device, machination; plot &c. (plan) 626; maneuver,
- stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery &c.
- (deception) 545; ruse, ruse de guerre[Fr]; finesse, side blow, thin end of
- the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie &c (untruth) 546;
- juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers;
- espieglerie[Fr]; net, trap &c. 545.
- Ulysses, Machiavel, sly boots, fox, reynard; Scotchman; Jew, Yankee;
- intriguer, intrigant[obs3]; floater [U.S.], Indian giver [U.S.], keener
- [U.S.], repeater [U.S. politics].
- V. be cunning &c. adj.; have cut one's eyeteeth; contrive &c (plan)
- 626; live by one's wits; maneuver; intrigue, gerrymander, finesse, double,
- temporize, stoop to conquer, reculer pour mieux sauter[Fr], circumvent,
- steal a march upon; overreach &c. 545; throw off one's guard; surprise &c.
- 508; snatch a verdict; waylay, undermine, introduce the thin end of the
- wedge; play a deep game, play tricks with; ambiguas in vulgum spargere
- voces[Lat]; flatter, make things pleasant; have an ax to grind.
- dodge, sidestep, bob and weave.
- Adj. cunning, crafty, artful; skillful &c. 698; subtle, feline,
- vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound;
- designing, contriving; intriguing &c.v.; strategic, diplomatic, politic,
- Machiavelian, timeserving[obs3]; artificial; tricky, tricksy[obs3]; wily,
- sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand &c (hidden) 528; subdolous[obs3];
- deceitful &c. 545; slippery as an eel, evasive &c. 623; crooked; arch,
- pawky[obs3], shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle|!;
- canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be
- caught with chaff.
- tactful, diplomatic, politic; polite &c. 894.
- Adv. cunningly &c. adj.; slyly, slily[obs3], on the sly, by a side
- wind.
- Phr. diamond cut diamond; a' bis ou a blanc[Fr][obs3]; fin contre
- fin[Fr]; "something is rotten in the state of Denmark" [Hamlet].
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- #703. Artlessness. -- N. artlessness &c. adj; nature, simplicity;
- innocence &c. 946; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity;
- singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty &c. 939; plain
- speaking; epanchement[Fr].
- rough diamond, matter of fact man; le palais de verite[Fr]; enfant
- terrible[Fr].
- V. be artless &c. adj; look one in the face; wear one's heart upon his
- sleeves for daws to peck at[obs3]; think aloud; speak out, speak one's
- mind; be free with one, call a spade a spade.
- Adj. artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain,
- inartificial[obs3], untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu[obs3], unaffected,
- naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless;
- unsuspicious, honest &c. 939; innocent &c. 946; Arcadian[obs3];
- undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded,
- single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.
- free-spoken, plain-spoken, outspoken; blunt, downright, direct, matter
- of fact, unpoetical[obs3]; unflattering.
- Adv. in plain words, in plain English; without mincing the matter; not
- to mince the matter &c. (affirmation) 535.
- Phr. Davus sum non Oedipus [Terence]; liberavi animam meam[Lat]; "as
- frank as rain on cherry blossoms" [E.B. Browning].
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- Section IV. ANTAGONISM
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- 1. Conditional Antagonism
- %
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- #704. Difficulty. -- N. difficulty; hardness &c. adj.;
- impracticability &c. (impossibility) 471; tough work, hard work, uphill
- work; hard task, Herculean task, Augean task[obs3]; task of Sisyphus,
- Sisyphean labor, tough job, teaser, rasper[obs3], dead lift.
- dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity &c. (uncertainty) 475;
- intricacy; entanglement, complexity &c. 59; cross fire; awkwardness,
- delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice
- nodus[Lat], net, meshes, maze; coil &c. (convolution) 248; crooked path;
- involvement.
- nice point, delicate point, subtle point, knotty point; vexed
- question, vexata quaestio[Lat], poser; puzzle &c. (riddle) 533; paradox;
- hard nut to crack, nut to crack; bone to pick,
- crux, pons asinorum[Lat], where the shoe pinches.
- nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt;
- critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble.
- scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of
- troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio,
- mess, ado; false position.
- set fast, stand, standstill; deadlock, dead set.
- fix, horns of a dilemma, cul de sac[Fr]; hitch; stumbling block &c
- (hindrance) 706.
- [difficult person] crab; curmudgeon.
- V. be difficult &c. adj.; run one hard, go against the grain, try
- one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end;
- go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex &c. (uncertain) 475; bother,
- nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible &c. 471; be in the way
- of &c (hinder) 706.
- meet with difficulties; labor under difficulties; get into
- difficulties; plunge into difficulties; struggle with difficulties; contend
- with difficulties; grapple with difficulties; labor under a disadvantage;
- be in difficulty &c. adj.
- fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream,
- scud under bare poles.
- Have much ado with, have a hard time of it; come to the push, come to
- the pinch; bear the brunt.
- grope in the dark, lose one's way, weave a tangled web, walk among
- eggs.
- get into a scrape &c. n.; bring a hornet's nest about one's ears; be
- put to one's shifts; flounder, boggle, struggle; not know which way to turn
- &c. (uncertain) 475; perdre son Latin[Fr]; stick at, stick in the mud,
- stick fast; come to a stand, come to a standstill, come to a deadlock; hold
- the wolf by the ears, hold the tiger by the tail.
- render difficult &c. adj.; enmesh, encumber, embarrass, ravel,
- entangle; put a spoke in the wheel &c. (hinder) 706; lead a pretty dance.
- Adj. difficult, not easy, hard, tough; troublesome, toilsome, irksome;
- operose[obs3], laborious, onerous, arduous, Herculean, formidable; sooner
- said than done; more easily said than done, easier said than done.
- [pertaining to person's disposition sensu 802] difficult to deal with,
- hard to deal with; ill-conditioned, crabbed, crabby; not to be handled with
- kid gloves, not made with rose water.
- awkward, unwieldy, unmanageable; intractable, stubborn &c. (obstinate)
- 606; perverse, refractory, plaguy[obs3], trying, thorny, rugged; knotted,
- knotty; invious|; pathless, trackless; labyrinthine &c (convoluted) 248;
- intricate, complicated &c (tangled) 59; impracticable &c. (impossible) 471;
- not feasible &c. 470; desperate &c. (hopeless) 859.
- embarrassing, perplexing &c. (uncertain) 475; delicate, ticklish,
- critical; beset with difficulties, full of difficulties, surrounded by
- difficulties, entangled by difficulties, encompassed with difficulties.
- under a difficulty; in a box; in difficulty, in hot water, in the
- suds, in a cleft stick, in a fix, in the wrong box, in a scrape &c.n., in
- deep water, in a fine pickle; in extremis; between two stools, between
- Scylla and Charybdis; surrounded by shoals, surrounded by breakers,
- surrounded by quicksands; at cross purposes; not out of the wood.
- reduced to straits; hard pressed, sorely pressed; run hard; pinched,
- put to it, straitened; hard up, hard put to it, hard set; put to one's
- shifts; puzzled, at a loss, &c (uncertain) 475; at the end of one's tether,
- at the end of one's rope, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, at a
- standstill; graveled, nonplused, nonplussed, stranded, aground; stuck fast,
- set fast; up a tree, at bay, aux abois[Fr], driven into a corner, driven
- from pillar to post, driven to extremity, driven to one's wit's end, driven
- to the wall; au bout de son Latin; out of one's depth; thrown out.
- accomplished with difficulty; hard-fought, hard-earned.
- Adv. with difficulty, with much ado; barely, hardly &c. adj.; uphill;
- against the stream, against the grain; d rebours[Fr]; invita Minerva[Lat];
- in the teeth of; at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds, against long odds.
- Phr. "ay there's the rub" [Hamlet]; hic labor hoc opus [Lat][Vergil];
- things are come to a pretty pass, ab inconvenienti[Lat]; ad astra per
- aspera[Lat]; acun chemin de fleurs ne conduit a la gloire[Fr].
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- #705. Facility. -- N. facility, ease; easiness &c. adj.; capability;
- feasibility &c. (practicability) 470; flexibility, pliancy &c. 324;
- smoothness &c. 255.
- plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's play,
- holiday task; cinch [U.S.].
- smooth water, fair wind; smooth royal road; clear coast, clear stage;
- tabula rasa[Lat]; full play &c. (freedom) 748.
- disencumbrance[obs3], disentanglement; deoppilation|!; permission &c.
- 760.
- simplicity, lack of complication.
- V. be easy &c. adj.; go on smoothly, run smoothly; have full play &c.
- n.; go on all fours, run on all fours; obey the helm, work well.
- flow with the stream, swim with the stream, drift with the stream, go
- with the stream, flow with the tide, drift with the tide; see one's way;
- have all one's own way, have the game in one's own hands; walk over the
- course, win at a canter; make light of, make nothing of, make no bones of.
- be at home in, make it look easy, do it with one's eyes closed, do it
- in one's sleep &c. (skillful) 698.
- render easy &c. adj.; facilitate, smooth, ease; popularize; lighten,
- lighten the labor; free, clear; disencumber, disembarrass, disentangle,
- disengage; deobstruct[obs3], unclog, extricate, unravel; untie the knot,
- cut the knot; disburden, unload, exonerate, emancipate, free from,
- deoppilate|!; humor &c. (aid) 707; lubricate &c. 332; relieve &c. 834.
- leave a hole to creep out of, leave a loophole, leave the matter open;
- give the reins to, give full play, give full swing; make way for; open the
- door to, open the way, prepare the ground, smooth the ground, clear the
- ground, open the way, open the path, open the road; pave the way, bridge
- over; permit &c. 760.
- Adj. easy, facile; feasible &c (practicable) 470; easily managed,
- easily accomplished; within reach, accessible, easy of access, for the
- million, open to.
- manageable, wieldy; towardly[obs3], tractable; submissive; yielding,
- ductile; suant[obs3]; pliant &c. (soft) 324; glib, slippery; smooth &c.
- 255; on friction wheels, on velvet.
- unembarrassed, disburdened, unburdened, disencumbered, unencumbered,
- disembarrassed; exonerated; unloaded, unobstructed, untrammeled;
- unrestrained &c. (free) 748; at ease, light.
- [able to do easily] at home with; quite at home; in one's element, in
- smooth water; skillful &c. 698;accustomed &c. 613.
- Adv. easily &c. adj.; readily, smoothly, swimmingly, on easy terms,
- single-handed.
- Phr. touch and go.
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- #706. Hindrance. -- N. prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage;
- embolus, embolism [medical]; infarct [medical]; interruption,
- interception, interclusion|; hindrance, impedition|; retardment[obs3],
- retardation; embarrassment, oppilation|!; coarctation[obs3], stricture,
- restriction; restraint &c. 751; inhibition &c. 761; blockade &c. (closure)
- 261.
- interference, interposition; obtrusion; discouragement,
- discountenance.
- impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag[obs3]; check,
- hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.
- bar, stile, barrier;
- [barrier to vehicles] turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis.
- beaver dam; trocha[obs3]; barricade &c. (defense) 717; wall, dead
- wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne[obs3]; bulkhead, block, buffer;
- stopper &c. 263; boom, dam, weir, burrock[obs3].
- drawback, objection; stumbling-block, stumbling-stone; lion in the
- path, snag; snags and sawyers.
- encumbrance, incumbrance[obs3]; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag
- chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden,
- fardel[obs3], onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight;
- lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes[obs3], incubus, old man of the sea;
- remora.
- difficulty &c. 704; insuperable &c. 471; obstacle; estoppel [Law]; ill
- wind; head wind &c. (opposition) 708; trammel, tether &c. (means of
- restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.
- [person who hinders] damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy;
- party pooper[coll]; party crasher, interloper.
- trail of a red herring; opponent &c. 710.
- V. hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite[obs3], embarrass.
- keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert|; turn aside,
- draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let;
- counteract, countercheck[obs3]; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop[Law];
- inhibit &c. 761; shackle &c. (restrain) 751; restrict.
- obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off;
- belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay[obs3];
- dam up &c. (close) 261; put on the brake &c. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the
- wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to &c. 142; traverse,
- contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose &c. 708; hedge in, hedge round;
- cut off; inerclude|.
- interpose, interfere, intermeddle &c. 682.
- cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber;
- handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel,
- tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose;
- hustle, corner, drive into a corner.
- run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.
- thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze[obs3], feeze
- [obs3][U.S.]; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat &c. 731; spike
- guns &c. (render useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple &c.
- (injure) 659; put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten &c (dissuade) 616;
- discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw
- a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's
- sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag;
- hang like a millstone round one's neck.
- Adj. hindering &c. v.; obstructive, obstruent[obs3]; impeditive[obs3],
- impedient[obs3]; intercipient|; prophylactic &c. (remedial) 662;
- impedimentary.
- in the way of, unfavorable; onerous, burdensome; cumbrous, cumbersome;
- obtrusive.
- hindered &c v.; windbound[obs3], waterlogged, heavy laden; hard
- pressed.
- unassisted &c. (see assist &c. 707); single-handed, alone; deserted
- &c. 624.
- Phr. occurrent nubes[Lat].
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- #707. Aid. -- N. aid, aidance[obs3]; assistance, help, opitulation|,
- succor; support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy &c.
- (cooperation) 709[obs3].
- patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy.
- sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment;
- eutrophy; manna in the wilderness; food &c. 298; means &c. 632.
- ministry, ministration; subministration[obs3]; accommodation.
- relief, rescue; help at a dead lift; supernatural aid; deus ex
- machina[Lat].
- supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements[obs3], succors, contingents,
- recruits; support &c. (physical) 215; adjunct, ally &c. (helper) 711.
- V. aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid &c. n.
- of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid,
- supply aid &c. n.; give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping
- hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping
- hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand,
- take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.
- relieve, rescue; set up, set agoing[obs3], set on one's legs; bear
- through, pull through; give new life to, be the making of; reinforce,
- reenforce, recruit; set forward, put forward, push forward; give a lift,
- give a shove, give an impulse to; promote, further, forward, advance
- expedite, speed, quicken, hasten.
- support, sustain, uphold, prop, hold up, bolster.
- cradle, nourish; nurture, nurse, dry nurse, suckle, put out to nurse;
- manure, cultivate, force; foster, cherish, foment; feed the flame, fan the
- flame.
- serve; do service to, tender to, pander to; administer to, subminister
- to[obs3], minister to; tend, attend, wait on; take care of &c. 459;
- entertain; smooth the bed of death.
- oblige, accommodate, consult the wishes of; humor, cheer, encourage.
- second, stand by; back, back up; pay the piper, abet; work for, make
- interest for, stick up for, take up the cudgels for; take up the cause of,
- espouse the cause of, adopt the cause of; advocate, beat up for recruits,
- press into the service; squire, give moral support to, keep in countenance,
- countenance, patronize; lend oneself to, lend one's countenance to; smile
- upon, shine upon; favor, befriend, take in hand, enlist under the banners
- of; side with &c. (cooperate) 709.
- be of use to; subserve &c. (instrument) 631; benefit &c. 648; render a
- service &c. (utility) 644; conduce &c. (tend) 176.
- Adj. aiding &c. v.; auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful; coadjuvant &c.
- 709[obs3]; subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary.
- at one's beck, at one's beck and call; friendly, amicable, favorable,
- propitious, well-disposed; neighborly; obliging &c. (benevolent) 906.
- Adv. with the aid, by the aid &c. of; on behalf of, in behalf of; in
- aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of;
- on account of; for the sake of, on the part of; non obstante[Lat].
- Int. help! save us! to the rescue!
- Phr. alterum alterius auxilio eget [Lat][Sallust]; "God befriend us as
- our cause is just" [Henry IV]; at your service.
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- #708. Opposition. -- N.. opposition, antagonism; oppugnancy[obs3],
- oppugnation[obs3]; impugnation|!; contrariety; contravention; counteraction
- &c. 179; counterplot.
- cross fire, undercurrent, head wind.
- clashing, collision, conflict.
- competition, two of a trade, rivalry, emulation, race.
- absence of aid &c. 708; resistance &c. 719; restraint &c. 751;
- hindrance &c. 706.
- V. oppose, counteract, run counter to; withstand &c. (resist) 719;
- control &c. (restrain) 751; hinder &c. 706; antagonize, oppugn, fly in the
- face of, go dead against, kick against, fall afoul of, run afoul of; set
- against, pit against; face, confront, cope with; make a stand, make a dead
- set against; set oneself against, set one's face against; protest against,
- vote against, raise one;s voice against; disfavor, turn one's back upon;
- set at naught, slap in the face, slam the door in one's face.
- be at cross purposes; play at cross purposes; counterwork[obs3],
- countermine; thwart, overthwart[obs3]; work against, undermine.
- stem, breast, encounter; stem the tide, breast the tide, stem the
- current, stem the flood; buffet the waves; beat up against, make head
- against; grapple with; kick against the pricks &c. (resist) 719; contend
- &c. 720; do battle &c. (warfare) 722 -with, do battle against.
- contradict, contravene; belie; go against, run against, beat against,
- militate against; come in conflict with.
- emulate &c. (compete) 720; rival, spoil one's trade.
- Adj. opposing, opposed &c.v.; adverse, antagonistic; contrary &c. 14;
- at variance &c. 24; at issue, at war with.
- unfavorable, unfriendly; hostile, inimical, cross, unpropitious.
- in hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers
- drawn; up in arms; resistant &c. 719.
- competitive, emulous.
- Adv. against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes.
- against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against
- the wind, against the tide; with a headwind; with the wind ahead, with the
- wind in one's teeth.
- in spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the
- face of; across; athwart, overthwart[obs3]; where the shoe pinches; in
- spite of one's teeth.
- though &c. 30; even; quand meme[Fr]; per contra.
- Phr. nitor in adversum[Lat].
-
- #709. Cooperation. -- N. cooperation; coadjuvancy[obs3],
- coadjutancy[obs3]; coagency[obs3], coefficiency[obs3]; concert,
- concurrence, complicity, participation; union &c. 43; additivity,
- combination &c. 48; collusion.
- association, alliance, colleagueship[obs3],
- joint stock, copartnership[obs3]; cartel; confederation &c. (party)
- 712; coalition, fusion; a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together;
- logrolling, freemasonry.
- unanimity &c. (assent) 488; esprit de corps, party spirit;
- clanship[obs3], partisanship; concord &c 714.
- synergy, coaction[obs3].
- V. cooperate, concur; coact[obs3], synergize.
- conduce &c. 178; combine, unite one;s efforts; keep together, draw
- together, pull together, club together, hand together, hold together,
- league together, band together, be banded together; pool; stand shoulder to
- shoulder, put shoulder to shoulder; act in concert, join forces,
- fraternize, cling to one another, conspire, concert, lay one;s heads
- together; confederate, be in league with; collude, understand one another,
- play into the hands of, hunt in couples.
- side with, take side with, go along with, go hand in hand with, join
- hands with, make common cause with, strike in with, unite with, join with,
- mix oneself up with, take part with, cast in one's lot with; join
- partnership, enter into partnership with; rally round, follow the lead of;
- come to, pass over to, come into the views of; be in the same boat, row in
- the same boat; sail in the same boat; sail on the same tack.
- be a party to, lend oneself to; chip in; participate; have a hand in,
- have a finger in the pie; take part in, bear part in; second &c. (aid) 707;
- take the part of, play the game of; espouse a cause, espouse a quarrel.
- Adj. cooperating &c. v.; in cooperation &c.n., in league &c. (party)
- 712; coadjuvant[obs3], coadjutant[obs3]; dyed in the wool; cooperative;
- additive; participative; coactive[obs3], synergetic, synergistic.
- favorable &c. 707 to; unopposed &c. 708.
- Adv. as one &c. (unanimously) 488; shoulder to shoulder;
- synergistically; cooperatively.
- Phr. due teste valgono piu che una sola [It].
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- #710. Opponent. -- N. opponent, antagonist, adversary; adverse party,
- opposition; enemy &c. 891; the other side; assailant.
- oppositionist, obstructive; brawler, wrangler, brangler[obs3],
- disputant; filibuster [U.S.], obstructionist.
- malcontent; Jacobin, Fenian; demagogue, reactionist[obs3].
- rival, competitor.
- bete noir[Fr].
-
- #711. Auxiliary. -- N. auxiliary; recruit; assistant; adjuvant,
- adjutant; ayudante[obs3], coaid[obs3]; adjunct; help, helper, help mate,
- helping hand; midwife; colleague, partner, mate, confrere, cooperator;
- coadjutor, coadjutrix[obs3]; collaborator.
- ally; friend &c. 890, confidant, fidus Achates[Lat][obs3], pal, buddy,
- alter ego.
- [criminal law] confederate; accomplice; complice; accessory, accessory
- after the fact; particeps criminis[Lat]; socius criminis[Lat].
- aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-
- hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder,
- bottle-holder; handmaid; servant &c. 746; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal|!.
- tool, dupe, stooge, ame damnee[Fr]; satellite, adherent.
- votary; sectarian, secretary; seconder, backer, upholder, abettor,
- advocate, partisan, champion, patron, friend at court, mediator; angel
- [theater, entertainment].
- friend in need, Jack at a pinch, deus ex machina[Lat], guardian angel,
- tutelary genius.
-
- #712. Party. -- N. party, faction, side, denomination, communion, set,
- crew, band. horde, posse, phalanx; family, clan, &c. 166; team; tong.
- council &c. 696.
- community, body, fellowship, sodality, solidarity; confraternity;
- familistere[obs3], familistery[obs3]; brotherhood, sisterhood.
- knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie,
- club, casino|!; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall [U.S.].
- corporation, corporate body, guild; establishment, company;
- copartnership[obs3], partnership; firm, house; joint concern, joint-stock
- company; cahoot, combine [U.S.], trust.
- society, association; institute, institution; union; trades union;
- league, syndicate, alliance, Verein[Ger], Bund[Ger], Zollverein[Ger],
- combination; Turnverein[Ger]; league offensive and defensive, alliance
- offensive and defensive; coalition; federation; confederation, confederacy;
- junto, cabal, camarilla[obs3], camorra[obs3], brigue|; freemasonry; party
- spirit &c. (cooperation) 709.
- Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals,
- Freemason, Knight Templar; Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, KKK; Liberals, Luddites,
- Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs &c.
- staff; dramatis personae[Lat].
- V. unite, join; club together &c. (cooperate) 709; cement a party,
- form a party &c. n.; associate &c. (assemble) 72; enleague[obs3],
- federalize, go cahoots .
- Adj. in league, in partnership, in alliance &c. n.
- bonded together, banded together, linked &c. (joined) 43- together;
- embattled; confederated, federative, joint.
- Adv. hand in hand, side by side, shoulder to shoulder, en masse,in the
- same boat.
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- #713. Discord. -- N. disagreement &c. 24; discord, disaccord[obs3],
- dissidence, dissonance; jar, clash, shock; jarring, jostling &c. v.; screw
- loose.
- variance, difference, dissension, misunderstanding, cross purposes,
- odds, brouillerie[Fr]; division, split, rupture, disruption, division in
- the camp, house divided against itself, disunion, breach; schism &c.
- (dissent) 489; feud, faction.
- quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie[obs3], squabble, altercation,
- barney *[obs3], demel, snarl, spat, towrow[obs3], words, high words;
- wrangling &c. v.; jangle, brabble[obs3], cross questions and crooked
- answers, snip-snap; family jars.
- polemics; litigation; strife &c. (contention) 720; warfare &c. 722;
- outbreak, open rupture, declaration of war.
- broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation|; embroilment,
- embranglement[obs3], imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of
- work[Fr], scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance &c
- (disorder) 59; commotion &c. (agitation) 315; bear garden, Donnybrook,
- Donnybrook Fair.
- subject of dispute, ground of quarrel, battle ground, disputed point;
- bone of contention, bone to pick; apple of discord, casus belli[Lat];
- question at issue &c. (subject of inquiry) 461; vexed question, vexata
- quaestio[Lat], brand of discord.
- troublous times[obs3]; cat-and-dog life; contentiousness &c. adj.;
- enmity &c. 889; hate &c. 898; Kilkenny cats; disputant &c. 710; strange
- bedfellows.
- V. be discordant &c. adj.; disagree, come amiss &c. 24; clash, jar,
- jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand
- one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent &c. 489; have a bone to
- pick, have a crow to pluck with.
- fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert &c. (deny) 536;
- squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle[obs3], bicker, nag; spar &c. (contend)
- 720; have words &c. n. with; fall foul of.
- split; break with, break squares with, part company with; declare war,
- try conclusions; join issue, put in issue; pick a quarrel, fasten a quarrel
- on; sow dissension, stir up dissension &c. n.; embroil, entangle, disunite,
- widen the breach; set at odds, set together by the ears; set against, pit
- against.
- get into hot water, fish in troubled waters, brawl; kick up a row,
- kick up a dust; turn the house out of window.
- Adj. discordant; disagreeing &c. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms,
- dissentient &c. 489; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious &c. 720.
- quarrelsome, unpacific[obs3]; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic,
- disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
- at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at
- cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms,
- together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.
- torn, disunited.
- Phr. quot homines tot sententiae [Lat][Terence]; no love lost between
- them, non nostrum tantas componere lites [Lat][Vergil]; Mars gravior sub
- pace latet [Lat][Claudius].
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- #714. Concord. -- N. concord, accord, harmony, symphony; homologue;
- agreement &c. 23; sympathy, empathy &c. (love) 897; response; union,
- unison, unity; bonds of harmony; peace &c. 721; unanimity &c. (assent) 488;
- league &c. 712; happy family.
- rapprochement; reunion; amity &c. (friendship) 888; alliance, entente
- cordiale[Fr], good understanding, conciliation, peacemaker; intercessor,
- mediator.
- V. agree &c. 23; accord, harmonize with; fraternize; be -concordant
- &c. adj.; go hand in hand; run parallel &c. (concur) 178; understand one
- another, pull together &c. (cooperate) 709; put up one's horses together,
- sing in chorus.
- side with, sympathize with, go with, chime in with, fall in with; come
- round; be pacified &c. 723; assent &c. 488; empathize with, enter into the
- ideas of, enter into the feelings of; reciprocate.
- hurler avec les loups[Fr]; go with the stream, swim with the stream.
- keep in good humor, render accordant, put in tune; come to an
- understanding, meet halfway; keep the peace, remain at peace.
- Adj. concordant, congenial; agreeing &c.v.; in accord &c. n.;
- harmonious, united, cemented; banded together &c. 712; allied; friendly &c.
- 888; fraternal; conciliatory; at one with; of one mind &c. (assent) 488.
- at peace, in still water; tranquil &c. (pacific) 721.
- Adv. with one voice &c. (assent) 488; in concert with, hand in hand;
- on one's side.
- Phr. commune periculum concordiam parit[Lat][obs3].
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-
- #715. Defiance. -- N. defiance; daring &. v. ; dare; challenge,
- cartel|!; threat &c. 909; war cry, war whoop.
- chest-beating, chest-thumping; saber rattling.
- V. defy, dare, beard; brave &c. (courage) 861; bid defiance to; set at
- defiance, set at naught; hurl defiance at; dance the war dance, beat the
- war drums; snap the fingers at, laugh to scorn; disobey &c. 742.
- show fight, show one's teeth, show a bold front; bluster, look big,
- stand akimbo, beat one's chest; double the fist, shake the fist; threaten
- &c. 909.
- challenge, call out; throw down the gauntlet, fling down the gauntlet,
- fling down the gage, fling down the glove, throw down the glove.
- Adj. defiant; defying &c. v.;"with arms akimbo".
- Adv. in defiance of, in the teeth of; under one's very nose.
- Int. do your worst! come if you dare! come on! marry come up! hoity
- toity|!
- Phr. noli me tangere[Lat]; nemo me impune lacessit[Lat]; don't tread
- on me; don't you dare; don't even think of it; "Go ahead, make my day!"
- [Dirty Harry].
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- #716. Attack. -- N. attack; assault, assault and battery; onset,
- onslaught, charge.
- aggression, offense; incursion, inroad, invasion; irruption; outbreak;
- estrapade[obs3], ruade[obs3]; coupe de main, sally, sortie, camisade[obs3],
- raid, foray; run at, run against; dead set at.
- storm, storming; boarding, escalade[obs3]; siege, investment,
- obsession|!, bombardment, cannonade.
- fire, volley; platoon fire, file fire; fusillade; sharpshooting,
- broadside; raking fire, cross fire; volley of grapeshot, whiff of the
- grape, feu d'enfer [Fr].
- cut, thrust, lunge, pass, passado[obs3], carte and tierce[Fr][obs3],
- home thrust; coupe de bec[Fr]; kick, punch &c. (imp