349. [Air in motion] Wind — N. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus,

efflation†, eluvium†; 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†,

simoom; harmattan†, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise†,

tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen

blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia†, chinook, foehn, khamsin†,

norther, vendaval†, wuther†.

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†, aerodynamics; wind gauge, weathercock, vane, weather-

vane, wind sock; anemometer, anemoscope†.

sufflation†, insufflation†, perflation†, inflation, afflation†;

blowing, fanning &c v.; ventilation.

sneezing &c v.; errhine†; sternutative†, sternutatory†;

sternutation; hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.

Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.

air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator,

punkah†; branchiae†, gills, flabellum†, vertilabrum†.

whiffle ball.

V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c n.;

wuther†; 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].

350. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit — N. conduit,

channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito†,

aboideau†, aboiteau [Fr.], bito†; acequia†, acequiador†, acequiamadre†;

arroyo; adit†, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate†,

runner; lock-weir, tedge†; vena†; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain,

sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina†; pipe &c (tube)

260; funnel; tunnel &c (passage) 627; water pipe, waste pipe;

emunctory†, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage†,

ajutage†; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle†; 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†, blowhole, breathinghole†, venthole; shaft, flue,

chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand†, trachea;

bronchus, bronchia [Med.]; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle;

ventiduct†, ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe &c

(wind) 349; pipe &c (tube) 260; jhilmil†; 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†, glutinosity†, mucosity†; spissitude†, crassitude†;

lentor†; adhesiveness &c (cohesion) 46.

inspissation†, incrassation†; thickening.

jelly, mucilage, gelatin, gluten; carlock†, fish glue; ichthyocol†,

ichthycolla†; isinglass; mucus, phlegm, goo; pituite†, lava; glair†,

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†, incrassate†; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up.

sinter.

Adj. semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose†; half melted, half frozen;

milky, muddy &c n.; lacteal, lactean†, lacteous†, lactescent†,

lactiferous†; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous†.

gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; glutenous,

gelatin, mastic, amylaceous†, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous;

sticky, tacky, gooey; slab, slabby†; lentous†, pituitous†; mucid†,

muculent†, mucous; gummy.

353. [Mixture of air and water.] Bubble [Cloud.] — N. bubble, foam,

froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm†, spindrift.

cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger,

rack, nimbus; cumulus, woolpack†, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus,

cumulostratus; cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl

cloud; frost smoke; thunderhead.

[Science of clouds] nephelognosy†; nephograph†, nephology†.

effervescence, fermentation; bubbling &c v.. nebula; cloudliness

&c (opacity) 426 [Obs.]; nebulosity &c (dimness) 422.

V. bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle†, gurgle;

effervesce, ferment, fizzle.

Adj. bubbling &c v.; frothy, nappy†, effervescent, sparkling, mousseux

[Fr.], frothy [Fr.Tr.], up.

cloudy &c n.; thunderheaded†; 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†.

mush, oatmeal, baby food.

Adj. pulpy &c n.; pultaceous†, grumous†; baccate†.

355. Unctuousness — N. unctuousness &c adj.; unctuosity†, lubricity;

ointment &c (oil) 356; anointment; lubrication &c 332.

V. oil &c (lubricate) 332.

Adj. unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous†; fat,

fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous†, pinguid,

lardaceous†; slippery.

356. Oil — N. oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard,

dripping exunge†, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine [Chem], oleagine†;

soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere†;

petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil;

vegetable oil, colza oil†, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed

oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil;

ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite†, amole†, Barbados tar†; fusel oil,

grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate of amyl, ghee†; heating oil, #2

oil, No.

2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline,

naphtha; stearin.

356a. Resin — N. resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber,

ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish,

copal†, mastic, magilp†, lacquer, japan.

artificial resin, polymer; ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange

resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, Amberlite†, Dowex [Chem],

Diaion.

V. varnish &c (overlay) 223.

Adj. resiny†, resinous; bituminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic,

asphaltite.

SECTION III.

ORGANIC MATTER

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 [Obs.]; antherozoid†, bioplasm†,

biotaxy†, chromosome, dysmeromorph†; ecology, oecology; erythroblast

[Physio.], gametangium†, gamete, germinal matter, invagination [Biol.];

isogamy†, oogamy†; karyaster†; macrogamete†, microgamete†; metabolism,

anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm†, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation,

phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary†, spermatozoon,

trophoplasm†, vacuole, vertebration†, zoogloea†, zygote.

Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism.

morphology, taxonomy.

Adj. organic, organized; karyoplasmic†, unsegmentic†, vacuolar,

zoogloeic†, zoogloeoid†.

358. Inorganization — N. mineral world, mineral kingdom; unorganized

matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter.

[Science of the mineral kingdom] mineralogy, geology, geognosy†,

geoscopy†; metallurgy, metallography†; lithology; oryctology†,

oryctography†.

V. turn to dust; mineralize, fossilize.

Adj. inorganic, inanimate, inorganized†; lithoidal†; 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†; 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 [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.],

archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.].

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†; 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†; lively &c (active) 682; all alive and kicking; tenacious of

life; full of life, yeasty.

vital, vitalic†; vivifying, vivified, &c v.; viable, zoetic†;

Promethean.

Adv. vivendi causa [Lat.].

Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Lat.] [Seneca]; non est vivere sed

valere vita [Lat.] [Marial].

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†, inanimate; out of the world, taken off,

released; departed this life &c v.; dead and gone; dead as a doornail,

dead as a doorpost†, 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.

361. [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing — N. killing &c v.;

homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation†, iccusion†;

effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage,

butchery; battue†.

massacre; fusillade, noyade†; thuggery, Thuggism†.

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†; guet-a-pens; gallows,

executioner &c (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache†, hatchet man [U.S.],

highbinder [U.S.].

regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide,

foeticide†, uxoricide†, vaticide†.

suicide, felo de se†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath†; immolation,

auto da fe, holocaust.

suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging &c v.; lapidation†.

deadly weapon &c (arms) 727; Aceldama†.

[Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics†; 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†; 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†; 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†;

blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody, bloody

minded; ensanguined†, gory; thuggish.

mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous†, lethiferous†;

unhealthy &c 657; internecine; suicidal.

sporting; piscatorial, piscatory†.

Adv. in at the death.

Phr. assassination has never changed the history of the world

[Disraeli].

362. Corpse — N. corpse, corse†, 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†.

363. Interment — N. interment, burial, sepulture†; inhumation†;

obsequies, exequies†; 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†, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement.

coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque,

cinerary urn†.

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†; burning ghat†; crematorium, crematory;

dokhma†, mastaba†, potter's field, stupa†, Tower of Silence.

sexton, gravedigger.

monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone;

memento mori [Lat.]; hatchment†, stone; obelisk, pyramid.

exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem

examination [Lat.]; zoothapsis†.

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†.

exhume, disinter, unearth.

Adj. burried &c v.; burial, funereal, funebrial†; mortuary, sepulchral,

cinerary†; elegiac; necroscopic†.

Adv. in memoriam; post obit, post mortem [Lat.]; beneath the sod.

Phr. hic jacet [Lat.], 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].

2. Special Vitality

364. Animality — N. animal life; animation, animality†, animalization†;

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†.

V. vegetate, grow roots, put down roots.

Adj. rank, lush; vegetable, vegetal, vegetive†.

366. Animal — N. animal, animal kingdom; fauna; brute creation.

beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; 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†.

[amphibians] frog, toad.

[fishes] trout, bass, tuna, muskelunge, sailfish, sardine,

mackerel.

[insects] ant, mosquito, bee, honeybee.

[arthropods] tardigrade, spider.

[classification by number of feet] biped, quadruped; [web-footed

animal] webfoot.

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†, duck, grouse,

plover, rail, snipe.

[domesticated mammals] horse &c (beast of burden) 271; cattle,

kine†, ox; bull, bullock; cow, milch cow, calf, heifer, shorthorn;

sheep; lamb, lambkin†; ewe, ram, tup; pig, swine, boar, hog, sow; steer,

stot†; tag, teg†; 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†; gib cat, tom

cat.

[wild mammals] fox, Reynard, vixen, stag, deer, hart, buck, doe,

roe; caribou, coyote, elk, moose, musk ox, sambar†.

[birds] bird; poultry, fowl, cock, hen, chicken, chanticleer,

partlet†, rooster, dunghill cock, barn door fowl; feathered tribes,

feathered songster; singing bird, dicky bird; canary, warbler; finch;

aberdevine†, cushat†, cygnet, ringdove†, siskin, swan, wood pigeon.

[undesirable animals] vermin, varmint [U.S.], pest.

Adj. animal, zoological equine, bovine, vaccine, canine, feline, fishy;

piscatory†, piscatorial; molluscous†, vermicular; gallinaceous,

rasorial†, solidungulate†, soliped†.

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†, frith†, holt,

weald†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage†,

tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood;

scrub; boscage, bosk†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum &c

371.

bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze,

gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary†; sedge, rush,

weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva†, mold;

growth; alfalfa, alfilaria†, banyan; blow, blowth†; floret†, petiole; pin

grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

foliage, branch, bough, ramage†, stem, tigella†; spray &c 51; leaf.

flower, blossom, bine†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree;

pulse, legume.

Adj. vegetable, vegetal, vegetive†, vegitous†; herbaceous, herbal;

botanic†; sylvan, silvan†; arborary†, arboreous†, arborescent†,

arborical†; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous†,

ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky†, cespitose†, turf-like, turfy;

endogenous, exogenous.

Phr. green-robed senators of mighty woods [Keats]; this is the forest

primeval [Longfellow].

368. [The science of animals.] Zoology — N. zoology, zoonomy†,

zoography†, zootomy†; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal physiology,

comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy.

anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology†,

malacology†, helminthology [Med.], entomology, oryctology†,

paleontology, mastology†, vermeology†; ornithotomy†, ichthyotomy†, &c;

taxidermy.

zoologist &c

Adj. zoological &c n..

369. [The science of plants.] Botany — N. botany; physiological

botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography†, phytology†,

phytotomy†; vegetable physiology, herborization†, dendrology, mycology,

fungology†, algology†; flora, romona; botanic garden &c (garden) 371

[Obs.]; hortus siccus [Lat.], herbarium, herbal.

botanist &c; herbist†, herbarist†, herbalist, herborist†,

herbarian†.

V. botanize, herborize†.

Adj. botanical &c n.; botanic†.

370. [The economy or management of animals.] Husbandry — N. husbandry,

taming &c v.; circuration†, zoohygiantics†; domestication, domesticity;

manege [Fr.], veterinary art; farriery†; breeding, pisciculture.

menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary,

alveary†, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.

phthisozoics &c (killing) 361 [Obs.] [Destruction of animals];

euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction.

neatherd†, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper†; trainer,

breeder; apiarian†, 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†, bird cage, cauf†; 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†;

tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture,

arboriculture†, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.

husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor†,

agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil,

woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron†, viticulturist;

Triptolemus.

field, meadow, garden; botanic garden†, winter garden, ornamental

garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden;

nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot;

grassplot†, grassplat†, lawn; park &c (pleasure ground) 840; parterre,

shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery†, pinetum†, orchard;

vineyard, vinery; orangery†; 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 [U.S.].

Adj. agricultural, agrarian, agrestic†.

arable, predial†, 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†, anthropography†,

anthroposophy†; 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].

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†, tomcat; he goat, Billy goat;

ram, tup; bull, bullock; capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot†.

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.] [Martial]; 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†, muliebrity†; 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†; Frau

[G.], frow†, Vrouw [Du.], rani; good woman, good wife; squaw; wife &c

(marriage) 903; matronage, matronhood†.

bachelor girl, new woman, feminist, suffragette, suffragist.

nymph, wench, grisette†; girl &c (youth) 129.

[Effeminacy] sissy, betty, cot betty [U.S.], cotquean†, henhussy†,

mollycoddle, muff, old woman.

[Female animal] hen, bitch, sow, doe, roe, mare; she goat, Nanny

goat, tabita; ewe, cow; lioness, tigress; vixen.

gynecaeum†.

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†, gynaecic†.

Pron.

she, her, hers.'

Phr. a perfect woman nobly planned [Wordsworth]; a lovely lady

garmented in white [Shelley]; das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan

[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; [magazines with sexual

photos], Playboy, 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.

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†, motor paralysis;

vegetable state; coma.

anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous

oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen;

refrigeration.

V. be insensible &c adj.; have a thick skin, have a rhinoceros hide.

render insensible &c adj.; anaesthetize†, blunt, pall, obtund†,

benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c n.; stupefy,

stun.

Adj. insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient†, callous, thick-

skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse,

dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

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].

378. Physical Pain — N. pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance†; 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†, lumbago,

neuralgia, odontalgia†, otalgia†, podagra†, rheumatism, sciatica; tic

douloureux [Fr.], toothache, tormina†, torticollis†.

spasm, cramp; nightmare, ephialtes†; 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†, 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†; 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†,

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†,

torminous†.

painful; aching &c v.; sore, raw.

2. Special Sensation

(1) Touch

379. [Sensation of pressure] Touch — N. touch; tact, taction†,

tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation†;

manipulation; massage.

[Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler,

antenna; palpus†.

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.

380. Sensations of Touch — N. itching, pruritis [Med.] &c v.;

titillation, formication†, aura; stereognosis†.

V. itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,

titillate.

Adj. itching &c v.; stereognostic†, titillative.

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.

(2) Heat

382. Heat — N. heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor, calidity†;

incalescence†, incandescence; glow, flush; fever, hectic.

phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze;

bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny†; wildfire; sheet of fire,

lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy†; recalescence [Phys.].

summer, dog days; canicular days†; baking &c 384; heat, white heat,

tropical heat, Afric heat†, Bengal heat†, summer heat, blood heat;

sirocco, simoom; broiling sun; insolation; warming &c 384.

sun &c (luminary) 423.

[Science of heat] pyrology†; thermology†, thermotics†,

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†; thaw, give.

Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal,

thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow.

sunny, torrid, tropical, estival†, canicular†, 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†; candent†, ebullient, glowing,

smoking; live; on fire; dazzling &c v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze;

alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished†; smoldering; in a

heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific†;

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].

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 [U.S.]; icicle,

thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall; iceberg, icefloe; floe

berg; glacier; nevée, serac†; pruina†.

[cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen,

liquid helium.

[Sensation of cold] chilliness &c adj.; chill; shivering &c v.;

goose skin, horripilation†; rigor; chattering of teeth; numbness,

frostbite.

V. be cold &c adj.; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder,

didder†, quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.

freeze &c (render cold) 385; horripilate†, make the skin crawl,

give one goose flesh.

Adj. cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid†; fresh, keen,

bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous†, 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†, wintry, brumal†,

hibernal†, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal†; hyperborean, hyperboreal†;

icebound; frozen out.

unwarmed†, unthawed†; lukewarm, tepid; isocheimal†, isocheimenal†,

isocheimic†.

frozen, numb, frost-bitten.

Adv. coldly, bitterly &c adj.; pierre fendre [Fr.];

384. Calefaction — N. increase of temperature; heating &c v.;

calefaction†, tepefaction†, torrefaction†; melting, fusion; liquefaction

&c 335; burning &c v.; ambustion†, combustion; incension†, accension†;

concremation†, cremation; scorification†; cautery, cauterization;

ustulation†, calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration†;

carbonization; cupellation [Chem].

ignition, inflammation, adustion†, flagration†; deflagration,

conflagration; empyrosis†, incendiarism; arson; auto dafe [Fr.].

boiling &c v.; coction†, ebullition, estuation†, elixation†,

decoction; ebullioscope†; 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†; caustic, lunar

caustic, alkali, apozem†, moxa†; acid, aqua fortis [Lat.], aqua regia;

catheretic†, nitric acid, nitrochloro-hydric acid, nitromuriatic acid;

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,

fuel oil (fuel) 388; wax, paraffin; residue, tar.

inflammability, combustibility.

[Transmission of heat] diathermancy†, transcalency†, conduction;

convection; radiation, radiant heat; heat conductivity, conductivity.

[effects of heat 2] thermal expansion; coefficient of expansion.

V. heat, warm, chafe, stive†, 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†; 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†, scorch; brand, cauterize, sear, burn in; corrode, char,

calcine, incinerate; smelt, scorify†; 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; réchauffé; heating &c v.; adust†.

inflammable, combustible; diathermal†, diathermanous†; burnt &c v.;

volcanic, radioactive.

385. Refrigeration — N. refrigeration, infrigidation†, reduction of

temperature; cooling &c v.; congelation†, conglaciation†; ice &c 383;

solidification &c (density) 321; ice box (refrigerator) 385.

extincteur [Fr.]; fire annihilator; amianth†, amianthus†; earth-

flax, mountain-flax; flexible asbestos; fireman, fire brigade

(incombustibility) 388.1.

incombustibility, incombustibleness &c adj.†. (insulation) 388.1.

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†,

nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, damp, slack quench;

put out, stamp out; extinguish; go out, burn out (incombustibility)

388.1.

Adj. cooled &c v.; frozen out; cooling &c v.; frigorific†.

386. Furnace — N. furnace, stove, kiln, oven; cracker; hearth, focus,

combustion chamber; athanor†, hypocaust†, reverberatory; volcano; forge,

fiery furnace; limekiln; Dutch oven; tuyere, brasier†, 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†; 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†, washhouse†; laundry; conservatory; sudatory†;

Turkish bath, Russian bath, vapor bath, steam bath, sauna, warm bath;

vaporarium†.

387. Refrigerator — N. refrigerator, refrigeratory†; frigidarium†; 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†, anthracite, culm†, 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†, bavin†; 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, 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†,

vesuvian, vesta†, fusee, locofoco†; linstock†.

candle &c (luminary) 423; oil &c (grease) 356.

Adj. carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable; high octane, high specific

impulse; heat of combustion,

388a. Insulation [Fire extinction] {ant.

of 388} — N. insulation, incombustible material, noncombustible

material; fire retardant, flame retardant; fire wall, fire door.

incombustibility, incombustibleness &c adj.. extincteur [Fr.];

fire annihilator; amianth†, amianthus†; 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†;

fireproof.

Phr. fight fire with fire

389. Thermometer — N. thermometer, thermometrograph†, mercury

thermometer, alcohol thermometer, clinical thermometer, dry-bulb

thermometer, wet-bulb thermometer, Anschutz thermometer [G.], gas

thermometer, telethermometer; color-changing temperature indicator;

thermopile, thermoscope†; pyrometer, calorimeter, bomb calorimeter;

thermistor, thermocouple.

[temperature-control devices] thermostat, thermoregulator.

(3) Taste

390. Taste — N. taste, flavor, gust, gusto, savor; gout, relish;

sapor†, sapidity†; twang, smack, smatch†; aftertaste, tang.

tasting; degustation, gustation.

palate, tongue, tooth, stomach.

V. taste, savor, smatch†, smack, flavor, twang; tickle the palate &c

(savory) 394; smack the lips.

Adj. sapid, saporific†; gustable†, gustatory; gustful†; strong, gamy;

palatable &c 394.

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†.

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) 392.1; carbonate of ammonia; sal ammoniac†,

sal volatile, smelling salts; hartshorn (acridity) 401.1.

dram, cordial, nip.

nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar†; cigar, cigarette;

weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid†, negro head, old

soldier, rappee†, stogy†.

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†, escharotic†,

meracious†; acrid, acrimonious, bitter; rough &c (sour) 397; unsavory &c

395.

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.

392b. Bitterness — N. bitterness, acridness†, acridity, acrimony;

caustic, alkali; acerbity; gall, wormwood; bitters, astringent bitters.

Angostura [additive for alcoholic beverages], 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.

393. Condiment — N. condiment, seasoning, sauce, spice, relish,

appetizer.

[Condiments] salt; mustard, grey poupon mustard; pepper, black

pepper, white pepper, peppercorn, curry, sauce piquante [Fr.]; caviare,

onion, garlic, pickle; achar†, allspice; bell pepper, Jamaica pepper,

green pepper; chutney; cubeb†, 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.

394. Savoriness — N. savoriness &c adj.; good taste, deliciousness,

delectability.

relish, zest; appetizer.

tidbit, titbit†, 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†, toothsome; gustful†,

appetizing, lickerish†, delicate, exquisite, rich, luscious, ambrosial,

scrumptious, delightful.

Adv. per amusare la bocca [It]

Phr. cela se laisse manger [Fr.].

395. Unsavoriness — N. unsavoriness &c adj.; amaritude†; acrimony,

acridity (bitterness) 392.2; roughness &c (sour) 397; acerbity,

austerity; gall and wormwood, rue, quassia†, aloes; marah†; sickener†.

V. be unpalatable &c adj.; sicken, disgust, nauseate, pall, turn the

stomach.

Adj. unsavory, unpalatable, unsweetened, unsweet†; ill-flavored; bitter,

bitter as gall; acrid, acrimonious; rough.

offensive, repulsive, nasty; sickening &c v.; nauseous; loathsome,

fulsome; unpleasant &c 830.

396. Sweetness — N. sweetness, dulcitude†.

sugar, syrup, treacle, molasses, honey, manna; confection,

confectionary; sweets, grocery, conserve, preserve, confiture†, jam,

julep; sugar-candy, sugar-plum; licorice, marmalade, plum, lollipop,

bonbon, jujube, comfit, sweetmeat; apple butter, caramel, damson,

glucose; maple sirup†, maple syrup, maple sugar; mithai†, sorghum,

taffy.

nectar; hydromel†, mead, meade†, metheglin†, 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†;

dulcorate†, dulcify†; candy; mull.

Adj. sweet; saccharine, sacchariferous†; dulcet, candied, honied†,

luscious, lush, nectarious†, melliferous†; sweetened &c v.. sweet as a

nut, sweet as sugar, sweet as honey.

sickly sweet.

Phr. eau sucrée [Fr.]; sweets to the sweet [Hamlet].

397. Sourness — N. sourness &c adj.; acid, acidity, low pH; acetous

fermentation, lactic fermentation.

vinegar, verjuice†, 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†; acerb, acetic; sour as vinegar, sourish, acescent†, subacid

[Chem]; styptic, hard, rough.

Phr. sour as a lemon.

(4) Odor

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†.

[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†, nidorous†, pungent; putrid, foul.

[Relating to the sense of smell] olfactory, quick-scented.

399. Inodorousness — N. inodorousness†; absence of smell, want of

smell.

deodorant, deodorization, deodorizer.

V. be inodorous &c adj.†; not smell.

deodorize.

Adj. inodorous†, onodorate; scentless; without smell, wanting smell &c

398.

deodorized, deodorizing.

400. Fragrance — N. fragrance, aroma, redolence, perfume, bouquet,

essence, scent; sweet smell, aromatic perfume.

agalloch†, agallochium†; aloes wood; bay rum; calambac†, calambour†;

champak†, horehound, lign-aloes†, marrubium†, mint, muskrat, napha

water†, olibanum†, spirit of myrcia†.

essential oil.

incense; musk, frankincense; pastil†, pastille; myrrh, perfumes of

Arabia†; otto†, ottar†, attar; bergamot, balm, civet, potpourri, pulvil†;

nosegay; scentbag†; sachet, smelling bottle, vinaigrette; eau de Cologne

[Fr.], toilet water, lotion, after-shave lotion; thurification†.

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†; thuriferous;

fragrant as a rose, muscadine†, ambrosial.

401. Fetor — N. fetor†; bad &c adj.. smell, bad odor; stench, stink;

foul odor, malodor; empyreuma†; mustiness &c adj.; rancidity; foulness

&c (uncleanness) 653.

stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida†; fungus, garlic; stinkpot;

fitchet†, fitchew†, fourmart†, peccary.

acridity &c 401.1.

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†, tainted, musty, fusty, frouzy†; olid†,

olidous†; nidorous†; smelling, stinking; putrid &c 653; suffocating,

mephitic; empyreumatic†.

401a. Acridity — N. acridity, astringency, bite.

[acrid substances] tear gas; smoke, acrid fumes.

Adj. acrid, biting, astringent, sharp, harsh; bitter &c 392.2.

(5) Sound

(i) SOUND IN GENERAL

402. Sound — N. sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone;

cadence; sonorousness &c adj.; audibility; resonance &c 408; voice &c

580; aspirate; ideophone†; rough breathing.

[Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology,

phonography†; diacoustics†, diaphonics†; phonetism†.

V. produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound;

resound &c 408.

Adj. sounding; soniferous†; sonorous, sonorific†; resonant, audible,

distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic†.

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!†, tut!, pax! [Lat.],

be quiet!, be silent!, be still!, shut up! [Slang]; chup!†, chup rao!†,

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 [G.]; le silence

est la vertu de ceux qui ne sont pas sages [Fr.]; le silence est le

parti le plus sar de celui se défie de soi-meme [Fr.]; silence more

musical than any song [C.G.

Rossetti]; tacent satis laudant [Lat.]; 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†, roar, uproar, racket, hubbub,

bobbery†, fracas, charivari†, trumpet blast, flourish of trumpets,

fanfare, tintamarre†, peal, swell, blast, larum†, 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†; 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†; murmur, hum, susurration; tinkle; still small

voice.

hoarseness &c adj.; raucity†.

V. whisper, breathe, murmur, purl, hum, gurgle, ripple, babble, flow;

tinkle; mutter &c (speak imperfectly) 583; susurrate†.

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†, susurrous†.

Adv. in a whisper, with bated breath, sotto voce [Lat.], between the

teeth, aside; piano, pianissimo; d la sourdine†; out of earshot

inaudibly &c adj..

(ii) SPECIFIC SOUNDS

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†;

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†, bombination†, rumbling; tattoo, drumroll; dingdong;

tantara†; rataplan†; whirr; ratatat, ratatat-tat; rubadub; pitapat;

quaver, clutter, charivari†, 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†.

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.

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†; 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 [chemical resonance] resonant

structure, aromaticity, alternating double bonds, non-bonded resonance;

pi clouds, unsaturation, double bond, (valence).

V. resound, reverberate, reecho, resonate; ring, jingle, gingle†, chink,

clink; tink†, 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† — N. thud, thump, dead sound; nonresonance†;

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†, dead; dampened, muffled.

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†.

410. [Harsh sounds.] Stridor — N. creak &c v.; creaking &c v.;

discord, &c 414; stridor; roughness, sharpness, &c adj.; cacophony;

cacoepy†.

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†, harsh, coarse, hoarse, horrisonous†,

rough, gruff, grum†, sepulchral, hollow.

sharp, high, acute, shrill; trumpet-toned; piercing, ear-piercing,

high-pitched, high-toned; cracked; discordant &c 414; cacophonous.

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†, shriek, shrill, squeak, squeal,

squall, whine, pule, pipe, yaup†.

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'égosiller; strain the throat,

strain the voice, strain the lungs; give a cry &c

Adj. crying &c v.; clamant†, clamorous; vociferous; stentorian &c (loud)

404; open-mouthed.

412. [Animal sounds.] Ululation — N. cry &c v.; crying &c v.; bowwow,

ululation, latration†, belling; reboation†; wood-note; insect cry,

fritiniancy†, drone; screech owl; cuckoo.

wailing (lamentation) 839.

V. cry, roar, bellow, blare, rebellow†; 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†; 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†, bleat [lamb]; low, moo [cow, cattle];

troat†, croak, peep [frog]; coo [dove, pigeon]; gobble [turkeys]; quack

[duck]; honk, gaggle, guggle [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†; ratatat

[woodpecker].

Adj. crying &c v.; blatant, latrant†, remugient†, mugient†; deep-mouthed,

full-mouthed; rebellowing†, reboant†.

Adv. in full cry.

(iii) MUSICAL SOUNDS

413. Melody. Concord — N. melody, rhythm, measure; rhyme &c (poetry)

597.

pitch, timbre, intonation, tone.

scale, gamut; diapason; diatonic chromatic scale†, enharmonic

scale†; key, clef, chords.

modulation, temperament, syncope, syncopation, preparation,

suspension, resolution.

staff, stave, line, space, brace; bar, rest; appoggiato†,

appoggiatura†; acciaccatura†.

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†.

breve, semibreve [Mus.], minim, crotchet, quaver; semiquaver,

demisemiquaver, hemidemisemiquaver; sustained note, drone, burden.

tonic; key note, leading note, fundamental note; supertonic†,

mediant†, dominant; submediant†, subdominant†; octave, tetrachord†; major

key, minor key, major scale, minor scale, major mode, minor mode;

passage, phrase.

concord, harmony; emmeleia†; unison, unisonance†; chime, homophony;

euphony, euphonism†; tonality; consonance; consent; part.

[Science of harmony] harmony, harmonics; thorough-bass,

fundamental-bass; counterpoint; faburden†.

piece of music &c 415 [Fr.]; composer, harmonist†, contrapuntist

(musician) 416.

V. be harmonious &c adj.; harmonize, chime, symphonize†, transpose; put

in tune, tune, accord, string.

Adj. harmonious, harmonical†; in concord &c n., in tune, in concert;

unisonant†, concentual†, symphonizing†, isotonic, homophonous†, assonant;

ariose†, consonant.

measured, rhythmical, diatonic†, chromatic, enharmonic†.

melodious, musical; melic†; tuneful, tunable; sweet, dulcet,

canorous†; mellow, mellifluous; soft, clear, clear as a bell; silvery;

euphonious, euphonic, euphonical†; 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.

[Confused sounds], Babel, Dutch concert, cat's concert;

marrowbones and cleavers.

V. be discordant &c adj.; jar &c (sound harshly) 410.

Adj. discordant; dissonant, absonant†; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical,

untunable†; unmelodious, immelodious†; unharmonious†, inharmonious;

singsong; cacophonous; harsh &c 410; jarring.

415. Music — N. music; concert; strain, tune, air; melody &c 413;

aria, arietta†; piece of music [Fr.], work, number, opus; sonata; rondo,

rondeau [Fr.]; pastorale, cavatina†, roulade†, fantasia, concerto,

overture, symphony, variations, cadenza; cadence; fugue, canon,

quodlibet, serenade, notturno [It], dithyramb; opera, operetta;

oratorio; composition, movement; stave; passamezzo [It], toccata,

Vorspiel [G.].

instrumental music; full score; minstrelsy, tweedledum and

tweedledee, band, orchestra; concerted piece [Fr.], potpourri,

capriccio.

vocal music, vocalism†; chaunt, chant; psalm, psalmody; hymn; song

&c (poem) 597; canticle, canzonet†, cantata, bravura, lay, ballad,

ditty, carol, pastoral, recitative, recitativo†, solfeggio†.

Lydian measures; slow music, slow movement; adagio &c adv.;

minuet; siren strains, soft music, lullaby; dump; dirge &c (lament)

839; pibroch†; martial music, march; dance music; waltz &c (dance) 840.

solo, duet, duo, trio; quartet, quartett†; septett†; part song,

descant, glee, madrigal, catch, round, chorus, chorale; antiphon†,

antiphony; accompaniment, second, bass; score; bourdon†, drone,

morceau†, terzetto†.

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†; alla capella [It];

maestoso†, moderato; allegro, allegretto; spiritoso†, vivace†, veloce†;

presto, prestissimo†; con brio; capriccioso†; scherzo, scherzando†;

legato, staccato, crescendo, diminuendo, rallentando†, affettuoso†;

obbligato; pizzicato; desto†.

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†, trumpeter, piper,

drummer; catgut scraper.

band, orchestral waits.

vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter†,

chauntress†, songstress; cantatrice†.

choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].

nightingale, philomel†, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides;

sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo†, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore;

tuneful nine, tuneful quire.

composer &c 413.

performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization†.

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†; 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.

417. Musical Instruments — N. musical instruments; band; string-band,

brass-band; orchestra; orchestrina†.

[Stringed instruments], monochord†, polychord†; harp, lyre, lute,

archlute†; mandola†, mandolin, mandoline†; guitar; zither; cither†,

cithern†; gittern†, rebeck†, bandurria†, bandura, banjo; bina†, vina†;

xanorphica†.

viol, violin, fiddle, kit; viola, viola d'amore [Fr.], viola di

gamba [It]; tenor, cremona, violoncello, bass; bass viol, base viol;

theorbo†, double base, contrabasso†, violone†, psaltery [Slang]; bow,

fiddlestick†.

piano, pianoforte; harpsichord, clavichord, clarichord†,

manichord†; clavier, spinet, virginals, dulcimer, hurdy-gurdy, vielle†,

pianino†, Eolian harp.

[Wind instruments]; organ, harmonium, harmoniphon†; American

organ†, barrel organ, hand organ; accordion, seraphina†, concertina;

humming top.

flute, fife, piccolo, flageolet; clarinet, claronet†; basset horn,

corno di bassetto [It], oboe, hautboy, cor Anglais [Fr.], corno

Inglese†, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto†, serpent, bass

clarinet; bagpipes, union pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed

instrument; sirene†, pipe, pitch-pipe; sourdet†; whistle, catcall;

doodlesack†, harmoniphone†.

horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean†, clarion,

trumpet, trombone, ophicleide†; French horn, saxophone, sax [Slang],

buglehorn†, saxhorn, flugelhorn†, althorn†, helicanhorn†, posthorn†;

sackbut, euphonium, bombardon tuba†.

[Vibrating surfaces] cymbal, bell, gong; tambour†, tambourine,

tamborine†; drum, tom-tom; tabor, tabret†, tabourine†, taborin†; side

drum, kettle drum; timpani, tympani†; tymbal†, timbrel†, castanet, bones;

musical glasses, musical stones; harmonica, sounding-board, rattle;

tam-tam, zambomba†.

[Vibrating bars] reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical

box, harmonicon†, xylophone.

sordine†, sordet†; sourdine†, sourdet†; mute.

(iv) PERCEPTION OF SOUND

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: list] telephone,

phone, telephone booth, intercom, house phone, radiotelephone,

radiophone, wireless, wireless telephone, mobile telephone, car radio,

police radio, two-way radio, walkie-talkie [Mil.], 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 [devices

for recording and reproducing recorded sound], phonograph, gramophone,

megaphone, phonorganon†.

[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) 408.

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 [G.].

419. Deafness — N. deafness, hardness of hearing, surdity†;

inaudibility, inaudibleness†.

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†, 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†.

inaudible, out of hearing.

Phr. hear no evil.

(6) Light

(i) LIGHT IN GENERAL

420. Light — N. light, ray, beam, stream, gleam, streak, pencil;

sunbeam, moonbeam; aurora.

day; sunshine; light of day, light of heaven; moonlight,

starlight, sunlight &c (luminary) 432; 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†; flame &c (fire)

382; lightning, levin†, ignis fatuus [Lat.], &c (luminary) 423.

luster, sheen, shimmer, reflexion [Brit.], reflection; gloss,

tinsel, spangle, brightness, brilliancy, splendor; effulgence,

refulgence; fulgor†, fulgidity†; dazzlement†, resplendence,

transplendency†; luminousness &c adj.; luminosity; lucidity; renitency†,

nitency†; radiance, radiation; irradiation, illumination.

actinic rays, actinism; Roentgen-ray, Xray; photography,

heliography; photometer &c 445.

[Science of light] optics; photology†, photometry; dioptrics†,

catoptrics†.

[Distribution of light] chiaroscuro, clairobscur†, 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†; 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†, illumine, illuminate; relume†, strike a light; kindle &c (set

fire to) 384.

Adj. shining &c v.; luminous, luminiferous†; lucid, lucent, luculent†,

lucific†, luciferous; light, lightsome; bright, vivid, splendent†,

nitid†, lustrous, shiny, beamy†, scintillant†, radiant, lambent; sheen,

sheeny; glossy, burnished, glassy, sunny, orient, meridian; noonday,

tide; cloudless, clear; unclouded, unobscured†.

gairish†, garish; resplendent, transplendent†; refulgent,

effulgent; fulgid†, fulgent†; relucent†, splendid, blazing, in a blaze,

ablaze, rutilant†, 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, graphic; heliographic; heliophagous†.

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†, 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†.

obscuration; occultation, adumbration, obumbration†;

obtenebration†, offuscation†, caligation†; extinction; eclipse, total

eclipse; gathering of the clouds.

shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro &c (light) 420.

noctivagation†.

[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†,

adumbrate; cast into the shade becloud, bedim†, bedarken†; 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†, darkling; obscure, tenebrious†, sombrous†, pitch

dark, pitchy, pitch black; caliginous†; black &c (in color) 431.

sunless, lightless &c (sun) (light), &c 423; somber, dusky;

unilluminated &c (illuminate) &c 420 [Obs.]; nocturnal; dingy, lurid,

gloomy; murky, murksome†; 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 [Paradise Lost];

the blackness of the noonday night [Longfellow]; the prayer of Ajax was

for light [Longfellow].

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†; nebulosity; cloud &c 353; eclipse.

aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut

time†; break of day, daybreak, dawn.

moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade†, 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†, 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†; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated†, 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†, Aurora; star, orb; meteor,

falling star, shooting star; blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula,

Aldebaran†; constellation, galaxy; zodiacal light; anthelion†; 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 [G.]; [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†, 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†;

dark lantern, bull's-eye; candle, bougie [Fr.], taper, rushlight; oil

&c (grease) 356; wick, burner; Argand†, moderator, duplex; torch,

flambeau, link, brand; gaselier†, chandelier, electrolier†, candelabrum,

candelabra, girandole†, sconce, luster, candlestick.

[non-combustion based light sources] lamp, light; incandescent

lamp, tungsten bulb, light bulb; flashlight, torch [Brit.]; arc light;

laser; [microwave radiation]; maser neon bulb, neon sign; fluorescent

lamp.

[parts of a light bulb] filament; socket; contacts; filler gas.

firework, fizgig†; 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†; lucidity, pellucidity†,

limpidity; fluorescence; transillumination, translumination†.

transparent medium, glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite†, water.

V. be transparent &c adj.; transmit light.

Adj. transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent, tralucent†,

relucent†; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal,

vitreous, transpicuous†, glassy, hyaline; hyaloid [Med.], vitreform†.

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†; dim &c 422; turbid,

thick, muddy, opacous†, obfuscated, fuliginous†, cloud, hazy, misty,

foggy, vaporous, nubiferous†, muggy† &c (turbidity) 426.1.

smoky, fumid†, murky, dirty.

426a. Turbidity — N. turbidity, cloudiness, fog, haze, muddiness,

haziness, obscurity.

nephelometer [instrument to measure turbidity].

Adj. turbid, thick, muddy, obfuscated, fuliginous†, hazy, misty, foggy,

vaporous, nubiferous†; cloudy (cloud) 353.

smoky, fumid†, murky, dirty.

427. Semitransparency — N. semitransparency, translucency,

semiopacity; opalescence, milkiness, pearliness†; gauze, muslin; film;

mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre; mist &c (cloud) 353.

[opalescent jewel] opal.

turbidity &c 426.1.

Adj. semitransparent, translucent, semipellucid†, semidiaphanous†,

semiopacous†, semiopaque; opalescent, opaline†; pearly, milky; frosted,

nacreous.

V. opalesce.

(ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT

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†, chromatography†, chromatology†.

[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†, paint, wash, ingrain, grain,

illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint &c (fine art) 556.

Adj. colored &c v.; colorific†, tingent†, tinctorial†; chromatic,

prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed;

polychromatic; chromatogenous†; tingible†.

bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded†; 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†; decoloration†,

discoloration; pallor, pallidness, pallidity†; 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 (color) &c 428; colorless, achromatic, aplanatic†;

etiolate, etiolated; hueless†, pale, pallid; palefaced†, 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†, etiolation; lactescence†.

snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata†, eburin†,

German silver, white metal, barium sulphate [Chem], titanium oxide,

blanc fixe [Fr.], ceruse†, 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†, candid, chalky;

hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent†, cretaceous,

lactescent†.

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..

431. Blackness — N. blackness, &c adj.; darkness, &c (want of light)..

421; swartliness†, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro &c

420.

nigrification†, infuscation†.

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†,

denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch†; smirch; darken &c 421.

black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon,

atramentous†, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous†, 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†; 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†; silver,

silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous†, cineritious†; grizzly,

grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored;

cool.

433. Brown — N. brown &c adj.. [Pigments],, bister ocher, sepia,

Vandyke brown.

V. render brown &c adj.; tan, embrown†, bronze.

Adj. brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous†, chestnut, nut-brown,

cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous†, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan,

brunette, whitey brown†; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored;

brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki.

sun-burnt; tanned &c v..

Primitive Colors

434. Redness — N. red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink,

lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose [Fr.], rose du Barry†; magenta,

damask, purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high

color; warmth; gules [Heral.].

ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold.

[Dyes and pigments] cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine†; ruddle†,

madder; Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto†;

annatto†, realgar, minium†, red lead.

redness &c adj.; rubescence†, rubicundity, rubification†;

erubescence†, blush.

V. be red, become red &c adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden.

render red &c adj.; redden, rouge; rubify†, rubricate;

incarnadine.; ruddle†.

Adj. red &c n., reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine, sanguine;

rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed†; burnt; rubicund, rubiform†; lurid,

stammell blood red†; russet buff, murrey†, carroty†, sorrel,

lateritious†; rubineous†, rubricate, rubricose†, rufulous†.

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†; reddened &c v.. red as fire, red as

blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red as a lobster; warm,

hot; foxy.

Complementary Colors

435. Greenness — N. green &c adj.; blue and yellow; vert [Heral.].

emerald, verd antique [Fr.], verdigris, malachite, beryl,

aquamarine; absinthe, crême de menthe [Fr.].

[Pigments] terre verte [Fr.], verditer†, verdine†, copperas.

greenness, verdure; viridity†, viridescence†; verditure†.

[disease of eyes with green tint] glaucoma, rokunaisho [Jap.Tr.].

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†, virescent†.

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.

436. Yellowness — N. yellow &c adj.; or.

[Pigments] gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow

king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment†, yellow ocher, Claude tint,

aureolin†; xanthein [Chem], xanthin†; zaofulvin†.

crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite†; yolk.

jaundice; London fog†; yellowness &c adj.; icterus†; xantho-

cyanopia†, xanthopsia [Med.].

Adj. yellow, aureate, golden, flavous†, citrine, fallow; fulvous†,

fulvid†; sallow, luteous†, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic†, xanthous†;

jaundiced†, auricomous†.

gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored,

lemon yellow, sulphur-colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-

colored, creamcolored; xanthocarpous†, xanthochroid†, xanthopous†.

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†, amethyst; purpure [Heral.]; heliotrope.

lividness, lividity.

V. empurple†.

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 [Chem]; Prussian

blue, syenite blue†; bice†, indigo; zaffer†.

lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite†.

blueness, bluishness; bloom.

Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed;

cerulescent†; powder blue, bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.

439. Orange — N. orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame color &c

adj.. [Pigments] ocher, Mars'orange†, cadmium.

cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal

lobelia (a flowering plant).

V. gild, warm.

Adj. orange; ochreous†; 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†, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble.

check, plaid, tartan, patchwork; marquetry-, parquetry; mosaic,

tesserae†, strigae†; chessboard, checkers, chequers; harlequin; Joseph's

coat; tricolor.

V. be variegated &c adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer;

bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot,

bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.

Adj. variegated &c v.; many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored, party-

colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor†, tricolor, versicolor†; of

all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors; kaleidoscopic.

iridescent; opaline†, opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly,

shot, gorge de pigeon, chatoyant†; irisated†, pavonine†.

pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned,

dappled, clouded, cymophanous†.

mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell &c n.. spotted, spotty;

punctated†, powdered; speckled &c v.; freckled, flea-bitten, studded;

flecked, fleckered†; striated, barred, veined; brinded†, brindled;

tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered &c v.; daedal†; naevose†,

stipiform†; strigose†, striolate†.

(iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT

441. Vision — N. vision, sight, optics, eyesight.

view, look, espial†, glance, ken [Scot.], coup d'oeil [Fr.];

glimpse, glint, peep; gaze, stare, leer; perlustration†, 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†.

eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus†.

evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice [Myth.].

V. see, behold, discern, perceive, have in sight, descry, sight, make

out, discover, distinguish, recognize, spy, espy, ken [Scot.]; 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 of &c 444; 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†.

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†, excecation†, amaurosis†,

cataract, ablepsy†, ablepsia†, prestriction†; dim-sightedness &c 443;

Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena (drop serene), noctograph†,

teichopsia†.

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†; 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].

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†; myopia, presbyopia†; confusion of vision;

astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis†, Daltonism;

nyctalopia†; strabismus, strabism†, squint; blearedness†, day blindness,

hemeralopia†, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia†, xanthopsia [Med.]; cast in the

eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity of vision.

winking &c v.; nictitation; blinkard†, albino.

dizziness, swimming, scotomy†; cataract; ophthalmia.

[Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c (hider) 530.

[Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus [Lat.]; refraction,

distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis†, virtual image,

spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma†; phantasm, phantasma†, phantom;

vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus [Lat.] &c (luminary)

423; specter of the Brocken; magic mirror; 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†,

askant askance†; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate†.

dazzle, loom.

Adj. dim-sighted &c n.; myopic, presbyopic†; astigmatic, moon-eyed,

mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of

one eye, monoculous†; 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 [Slang], rubberneck [U.S.].

445. Optical Instruments — N. optical instruments; lens, meniscus,

magnifier, sunglass, magnifying glass, hand lens; microscope,

megascope†, tienoscope†.

spectacles, specs [Coll.], glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass,

pince-nez, monocle, reading glasses, bifocals; contact lenses, soft

lenses, hard lenses; sunglasses, shades [Coll.].

periscopic lens†; telescope, glass, lorgnette; spyglass, opera

glass, binocular, binoculars, field glass; burning glass, convex lens,

concave lens, convexo-concave lens†, 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†, thaumatrope†; stereoscope,

pseudoscope†, polyscope†, kaleidoscope.

photometer, eriometer†, actinometer†, lucimeter†, 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†, gastroscope [Med.], helioscope†, polariscope†,

polemoscope†, spectroscope.

abdominoscopy†; gastroscopy [Med.]; microscopy, microscopist.

446. Visibility — N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness,

distinctness &c adj.; conspicuity†, conspicuousness; appearance &c 448;

bassetting†; exposure; manifestation &c 525; ocular proof, ocular

evidence, ocular demonstration; field of view &c (vision) 441;

periscopism†.

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†, in the foreground.

obvious &c (manifest) 525; plain, clear, distinct, definite; well

defined, well marked; in focus; recognizable, palpable, autoptical†;

glaring, staring, conspicuous; stereoscopic; in bold, in strong relief.

periscopic†, panoramic.

before one's eyes, under one's eyes; before one, à 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†.

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†, indiscernible;

unapparent, non-apparent; out of sight, not in sight; a perte de vue

[Fr.]; behind the scenes, behind the curtain; viewless, sightless;

inconspicuous, unconspicuous†; unseen &c (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†.

hidden, obscured, covered, veiled (concealed) 528.

Phr. full many a flower is born to blush unseen [Gray].

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†, cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama,

cosmorama†, georama†; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre [Fr.]; pageantry

&c (ostentation) 882; insignia &c (indication) 550.

aspect, angle, phase, phasis†, 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., cast of countenance, profile,

tournure†, cut of one s jib, metoposcopy†; 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.].