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A DICTIONARY

OF

ENGLISH SYNONYMES

AND

SYNONYMOUS OR PARALLEL EXPRESSIONS

DESIGNED AS A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO APTNESS AND VARIETY OF PHRASEOLOGY

By RICHARD SOULE

The exertion of clothing a thought in a completely new set of words increases both clearness of thought and mastery over words. It is the test of a solid thought that it will bear a change of clothing.—J. R. Seeley.

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1871



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by

RICHARD SOULE,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.


CAMBRIDGE:
PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

Transcriber's note:
Definitions which are synonyms in alphabetic order in the text (e.g. Afterward, Afterwards) are shown as connected by braces followed by the common description(s). In this text they have been separated and duplicated. Minor typos and numbering errors of descriptions have been corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation has been retained.

PREFACE.

The main design of this Dictionary is to provide a ready means of assistance when one is at a loss for a word or an expression that best suits a particular turn of thought or mood of the mind, or that may obviate an ungraceful repetition. Even practised and skilful writers are sometimes embarrassed in the endeavor to make a sentence more clear, simple, terse, or rhythmical, by the substitution of one form of diction for another. It is presumed that they, as well as novices in composition, will find the present work useful in overcoming difficulties of this sort.

As to the method of using it: Whenever a doubt arises in regard to the fitness of any word, and a better one is not readily suggested, let the writer turn to this word in its alphabetical place. Under it will be found the words and phrases, or some clew to the words and phrases, which, in any connection, have the same meaning as itself, or a meaning very nearly the same. That one of them, which comes nearest to expressing the exact shade of thought in the writer's mind, will be likely to arrest the attention and determine the choice.

In most cases, all the words that belong to any group will be found in that group. But in some instances, as when the same word falls into two or more groups that are near to each other, or when there are so many synonymes for a word that a repetition of every one of them under each in its alphabetical place would seem to be too formal and prolix, the inquirer is referred to some prominent word among them for a view of the whole. Under the word Blockhead, for example, reference is made to the word DUNCE,—printed, for this purpose, in small capitals, as here,—under which will be found all the words that are synonymous with it. This example is given because it is the most marked one in our language of a multiplicity of terms for the same idea.

Many nouns ending in ness, and adverbs ending in ly, have been omitted in their alphabetical places, for the reason that their synonymes are sufficiently indicated by the corresponding adjectives.

The aim has been to present at a single glance the words or modes of speech which denote the same object, or which express the same general idea, with only slight shades of difference. There has been no attempt at elaborate discussion of the nice distinctions that obtain between words apparently synonymous; but hints of such distinctions have been given whenever it was practicable to give them briefly in a parenthetical remark.

In preparing this Dictionary, free use has been made of the following works: Roget's Thesaurus of Words and Phrases; the Quarto Dictionaries of Webster and of Worcester; Crabb's Synonymes; Graham's Synonymes; Whately's Synonymes; Platt's Synonymes; the Dictionaries of Synonymes by Fenby, Sherer, Mackenzie, and Smith; the Medical Dictionaries of Dunglison and of Thomas; and the United States Dispensatory by Wood and Bache. It contains much, however, that has been gathered from a wide field of miscellaneous reading during a long series of years.

The author is under special obligations to his friends Mr. Justin Winsor, Mr. William A. Wheeler, and Mr. Loomis J. Campbell for the interest they have manifested in the progress of the work, and for their valuable suggestions and criticisms.

Brookline , January 2d, 1871.

A DICTIONARY

OF

ENGLISH SYNONYMES.

EXPLANATORY TABLE.

Small Capitals in the printing of a word or a phrase, indicate a reference to that word in its alphabetical place, where additional synonymes, or some information in regard to it, may be found.

When a word has more than one signification, the separate groups of synonymes, corresponding to the several meanings, are designated by figures.

SYNONYMES

A

Aback, ad.   Backwards, rearwards, regressively.

Abaft, prep.   (Naut.) Behind, back of, in the rear of.

Abaft, ad.   (Naut.) Aft, behind, astern, rearward, back, in the rear.

Abalienate, v. a.   (Law.) Alienate, transfer, convey, demise, make over, deliver over.

Abalienation, n.   (Law.) Alienation, transfer, demise, conveyance.

Abandon, v. a.   1. Leave, relinquish, quit, forsake, desert, evacuate, drop, abjure, forswear, give over, cast off, retire from, withdraw from.

2. Surrender, cede, yield, resign, forego, renounce, waive, vacate, ABDICATE, deliver up, give up, part with, let go, lay down.

Abandoned, a.   1. Relinquished, deserted, forsaken, cast away, rejected, discarded, given up, given over, cast off.

2. Depraved, corrupted, corrupt, profligate, vicious, sinful, wicked, dissolute, reprobate, graceless, shameless, unprincipled, lost, obdurate, hardened, impenitent, incorrigible, irreclaimable, demoralized, lost to shame, dead to honor.

Abandonment, n.   1. Abandoning, relinquishment, desertion, dereliction.

2. Renunciation, surrender, cession, resignation, abnegation, abjuration, rejection, ABDICATION.

Abarticulation, n.   (Med.) Diarthrosis.

Abase, v. a.   1. Depress, lower, reduce, drop, sink, stoop, cast down, let down, let fall.

2. Degrade, humble, disgrace, dishonor, humiliate, debase, bring low, take down.

Abasement, n.   1. Depression, detrusion, reduction, lowering, fall, deterioration, degradation, debasement, degeneracy, vitiation, perversion, depravation.

2. Abjectness, abjection, vileness, baseness, contemptibleness, despicableness.

3. Humiliation, condescension, submission, submissiveness, resignation, humility, meekness, humbleness, lowliness, self-abasement.

Abash, v. a.   Shame, mortify, confuse, confound, disconcert, discompose, DISCOUNTENANCE, humiliate, humble, snub, put to shame, make ashamed, put down, put out of countenance, take down, send away with a flea in one's ear.

Abashment, n.   Confusion, shame, mortification, embarrassment.

Abate, v. a.   1. Lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, lower, relax, slacken.

2. Remit, allow, bate, rebate, deduct.

3. Moderate, assuage, mitigate, soothe, soften, qualify, alleviate, mollify, allay, appease, pacify, compose, tranquillize, temper, attempor, quiet, quell, calm, dull, blunt.

4. (Law.) Remove, suppress, terminate, put an end to.

Abate, v. a.   1. Decrease, diminish, lessen, subside, wane, ebb, intermit, slacken.

2. (Law.) Be defeated, frustrated, or overthrown.

Abatement, n.   1. Diminution, decrease, lessening, mitigation, assuagement, decrement, extenuation, remission.

2. Subsidence, wane, ebb.

3. Discount, allowance, rebate, deduction, reduction, drawback.

Abbey, n.   Monastery, convent, cloister, priory, nunnery.

Abbreviate, v. a.   Shorten (by cutting off), curtail, reduce, contract, retrench, abridge, condense, compress, epitomize, cut short, cut down.

Abbreviation, n.   Shortening (by cutting off), curtailment, contraction, ABRIDGMENT, reduction, condensation, compression.

Abdicate, v. a.   Resign (an office or dignity), surrender (a right), cede, forego, renounce, relinquish, abandon, quit, vacate, give up, part with, lay down, renounce all claim to.

Abdicate, v. n.   Resign, relinquish office (especially that of a king), vacate the throne.

Abdication, n.   Abdicating, resignation, surrender, renunciation, abandonment.

Abdomen, n.   Belly, paunch.

Abdominal, a.   Ventral.

Abdominous, a.   Large-bellied, great-bellied, big-bellied, pot-bellied, tun-bellied.

Abduce, v. a.   (Anat.) Withdraw, draw away, pull back.

Abduct, v. a.   Kidnap, carry off, run away with, run off with.

Abduction, n.   1. Withdrawing, withdrawal, withdrawment, drawing away.

2. Kidnapping.

Aberdevine, n.   Siskin (Carduelis spinus).

Aberrance, n.   Deviation, departure.

Aberrant, a.   1. Deviating, wandering, rambling, diverging, divergent, devious, erratic, out of the way.

2. Irregular, abnormal, unnatural, unusual, singular, peculiar, anomalous, unconformable, exceptional, strange, anomalistic, eccentric, monstrous, preternatural.

Aberration, n.   1. Deviation, divergence, wandering, rambling, departure.

2. Irregularity, eccentricity, singularity, peculiarity, strangeness, unconformity, anomaly, abnormity, monstrosity.

3. Illusion, delusion, hallucination, monomania, self-deception.

Abet, v. a.   1. Aid, assist, help, support, succor, second, sustain, uphold, back, co-operate with, take part with, give support to.

2. Favor, encourage, sanction, countenance, advocate, connive at.

3. (Law.) Instigate (to commit a crime), stimulate, incite, foment.

Abettor, n.   1. Assistant, helper, aider, coadjutor, co-operator, ally, auxiliary.

2. Advocate, adviser, promoter, instigator.

3. Confederate, accomplice, accessory, PARTICEPS CRIMINIS, SOCIUS CRIMINIS.

Abeyance, n.   1. (Law.) Expectation, prospect, expectancy, waiting, anticipation, calculation, contemplation.

2. Suspense, reservation, intermission, remission, dormancy, quiescence.

Abhor, v. a.   Hate, abominate, detest, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from, shudder at, view with horror.

Abhorrence, n.   Abomination, horror, detestation, hatred, loathing, disgust, antipathy, aversion.

Abhorrent, a.   1. Hating, detesting, abominating, loathing.

2. Odious, offensive, shocking, repugnant, hateful, loathsome.

Abide, v. n.   1. Stay, sojourn, tarry, lodge, rest, keep, take up one's quarters, pitch one's tent.

2. Dwell, reside, live, inhabit, settle, plant one's self, get a footing, get a foothold.

3. Remain, continue, persist, persevere, SUBSIST, go on, keep on, be steadfast, be constant.

4. Endure, bear.

Abide, v. a.   1. Await, attend, wait for, be in readiness for, be in store for.

2. Endure, tolerate, bear, brook, suffer, bear with, put up with.

Abide by. Act up to, conform to, persist in.

Abiding, a.   Permanent, lasting, durable, constant, continuing, stable.

Ability, n.   1. Power (to execute any thing), ableness, force, potency, might, efficiency, efficacy, strength, energy, skill, skilfulness, dexterity, address, cleverness, ingenuity, talent, aptitude, aptness, knack, expertness, facility, quickness, readiness.

2. Qualification, competency, sufficiency.

3. Capacity, capability, capableness, faculty, gift, parts, genius, endowment, calibre, forte, turn.

Abject, a.   Base, vile, mean, low, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, paltry, dirty, squalid, grovelling, pitiful, ignoble, degraded, worthless, poor, servile, slavish, menial, sneaking, sordid, shabby, scurvy, miserable, wretched, low-minded, base-minded, earth-born, earth-bred.

Abjection, n.   1. [Rare.] Humbling, humiliation.

2. Abasement, ABJECTNESS.

Abjectness, n.   Meanness, servility, vileness, baseness, abasement, abjection, contemptibleness.

Abjuration, 1. Renunciation (upon oath), relinquishment, rejection, abandonment, abnegation.

2. Recantation, retraction, revocation, repeal, reversal, recall.

Abjure, v. a.   1. Renounce (upon oath), relinquish, forego, reject, forswear, abandon, ABNEGATE, give up, cast off.

2. Retract, revoke, recant, recall, withdraw, disavow, take back.

Able, a.   1. Clever, accomplished, talented, adroit, ingenious, expert, dexterous, apt, quick, skilful, efficient, proficient, good, versed, practical, AU FAIT.

2. Qualified, fitted, competent.

3. Capable, gifted, powerful, strong, mighty, highly endowed.

4. Masterly, effective, telling.

Ableness, n.   Ability.

Ablution, n.   Washing (especially of the body, as a religious rite), lavation, bathing, wash.

Abnegate, v. a.   [Rare.] Deny, reject, renounce, abjure.

Abnegation, n.   Denial, renunciation, rejection, abandonment, abjuration, surrender.

Abnormal, a.   Irregular, anomalous, anomalistic, unusual, unnatural, singular, peculiar, unconformable, exceptional, heteroclite, aberrant, eccentric, erratic, strange, monstrous, preternatural.

Abnormity, n.   Irregularity, unconformity, anomaly, peculiarity, singularity, monstrosity.

Aboard, ad.   On board, in the ship, in the vessel.

Abode, n.   1. Habitation, dwelling, lodging, domicile, home, house, seat, place, quarters, head-quarters, place of residence.

2. [Rare.] Continuance (in a place), stay, residence.

Abolish, v. a.   1. Abrogate, annul, disannul, repeal, rescind, revoke, cancel, nullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, set aside, make void.

2. Destroy, overthrow, subvert, obliterate, extirpate, eradicate, annihilate, extinguish, suppress, DISESTABLISH, do away, put an end to.

Abolition, n.   1. Abrogation, annulment, annulling, nullification, rescinding, revocation, cancelling, repeal, rescission.

2. Destruction, overthrow, subversion, obliteration, extirpation, eradication, annihilation, extinction, extinguishment, suppression, DISESTABLISHMENT.

Abominable, a.   1. Hateful, odious, detestable, horrid, horrible, execrable, nefarious, damnable, cursed, accursed, hellish.

2. Loathsome, offensive, obnoxious, foul, nauseous, nauseating, disgusting, sickening, repulsive, revolting, shocking.

3. Vile, wretched, sorry, scurvy, shabby, bad.

Abominate, v. a.   Abhor, detest, execrate, hate, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from, shudder at, view with horror.

Abomination, n.   1. Abhorrence, detestation, execration, hatred, loathing, disgust, antipathy.

2. Contamination, pollution, defilement, taint, uncleanness, impurity, foulness.

3. Nuisance, annoyance, plague, infliction, torment, curse, great evil, hateful thing.

Aboriginal, a.   Primitive, primeval, primordial, pristine, primary, prime, original, first, native, indigenous, autochthonal.

Abortion, n.   1. Miscarriage.

2. Failure, disappointment, want of success, vain effort or attempt.

Abortive, a.   1. Miscarrying, failing, untimely, immature.

2. Unavailing, vain, fruitless, useless, bootless, ineffectual, ineffective, inoperative, unsuccessful, profitless, futile, unprofitable, idle, nugatory, in vain, of no account.

Abound, v. n.   1. Teem, swarm, superabound, swell, flow, increase, multiply, be in great plenty, be numerous, be very prevalent.

2. Exuberate, luxuriate, revel, wanton, be well furnished, be well supplied.

About, prep.   1. Around, round, encircling, surrounding.

2. Near, near to, not far from.

3. Concerning, touching, respecting, relating to, relative to, with respect to, with reference to, in regard to, with regard to.

4. Through, over.

About, ad.   1. Around, here and there.

2. Nearly, near, approximately, not far from.

3. Ready, in a state of readiness, on the point.

Above, prep.   1. Higher than.

2. Over, exceeding, more than, greater than.

3. Beyond, superior to.

4. Too high for, too proud for.

Above, ad.   1. Overhead, aloft, on high, in a high place.

2. Before, in a former part.

3. Of a higher rank or order.

Above all. Chiefly, in the first place, before all other considerations.

Above-board, ad.   Openly, candidly, ingenuously, frankly, sincerely, fairly, in open sight, without artifice, without equivocation, without guile, without disguise.

Abrade, v. a.   Scrape, wear away, wear off, rub off.

Abrasion, n.   Friction, attrition, rubbing, disintegration, CONFRICATION, wearing away, wearing off, rubbing off.

Abreast, ad.   1. Alongside, side by side.

2. Against, off, on a line with, opposite to.

Abridge, v. a.   1. Shorten (by compression), epitomize, condense, compress, make an abstract of.

2. Diminish, reduce, contract, curtail, lessen, ABBREVIATE, retrench, cut down.

3. Deprive, dispossess, divest.

Abridger, n.   Epitomizer, writer of an epitome.

Abridgment, n.   1. Shortening (by compression), contraction, diminution, reduction, ABBREVIATION, curtailment, retrenchment.

2. Compendium, compend, epitome, summary, abstract, digest, synopsis, syllabus, breviary, brief, conspectus, outline, sum and substance.

3. Deprivation, dispossession.

Abroach, ad.   1. Broached, tapped, on tap.

2. A-going.

Abroad, ad.   1. Widely, at large.

2. Forth, out of the house, out of doors, in the open air.

3. Extensively, before the public.

4. Without (as opposed to within).

Abrogate, v. a.   Annul, disannul, repeal, revoke, rescind, cancel, abolish, nullify, quash, vacate, invalidate, overrule, set aside, do away, make void.

Abrogation, n.   Repeal, rescission, rescinding, abolition, annulment, annulling, revocation.

Abrupt, a.   1. Broken, cragged, craggy, rough, rugged.

2. Steep, precipitous.

3. Sudden, unexpected, unanticipated, precipitate, hasty, unseasonable, ill-timed, unlooked for.

4. Short, blunt, unceremonious, curt.

5. Inelegant (as style), stiff, cramped, harsh, disconnected, unconnected.

Abscess, n.   Sore, ulcer, fester, imposthume, pustule, gathering, boil.

Abscond, v. n.   1. Withdraw, flee, fly, decamp, escape, elope, retreat, bolt, make off, steal away, slink away, slip away, run away, run off, sneak off, pack off, effect one's escape.

2. Hide, secrete one's self.

Absence, n.   1. Non-attendance, non-appearance.

2. Inattention, abstraction, preoccupation, distraction, revery, musing, brown study, absence of mind.

3. Want, deficiency, lack, default.

4. Privation, negation.

Absent, a.   1. Away, gone, not present.

2. Abstracted, preoccupied, inattentive, dreaming, musing, lost, napping, absent-minded, in a brown study.

Absent-minded, a.   Abstracted, ABSENT.

Absent one's self, Be not present, stay away.

Absolute, a.   1. Independent, unrestricted, unqualified, unlimited, unconditional, unconditioned, complete, perfect.

2. Despotic, arbitrary, tyrannical, tyrannous, imperious, imperative, authoritative, autocratic, dictatorial, irresponsible.

3. Positive, actual, real, veritable, determinate, decided, genuine, categorical, unequivocal, certain.

Absolutely, ad.   1. Completely, unconditionally, without limit.

2. Truly, actually, positively, indeed, really, in fact, in reality, in truth.

Absoluteness, n.   1. Despotism, ABSOLUTISM.

2. Positiveness, reality, actuality.

Absolution, n.   Acquittal, remission, discharge, release, liberation, deliverance, clearance, forgiveness, pardon, INDULGENCE, JUSTIFICATION.

Absolutism, n.   Absoluteness, arbitrariness, despotism, tyranny, autocracy.

Absolutory, a.   Clearing, acquitting, releasing, pardoning, forgiving, absolvatory.

Absolvatory, a.   Absolutory.

Absolve, v. a.   Acquit, clear, release, liberate, free, discharge, loose, deliver, exculpate, exonerate, excuse, forgive, pardon, JUSTIFY, set free.

Absorb, v. a.   1. Imbibe, take in, take up, suck in, suck up, drink in.

2. Consume, exhaust, destroy, engorge, devour, engulf, swallow up.

3. Engross, engage, immerse, occupy, arrest, fix, rivet.

Absorbent, a.   Absorbing, imbibing.

Absorption, n.   1. Absorbing.

2. Engrossment, occupation, engagement, immersion.

Abstain, v. n.   Refrain, forbear, desist, deny one's self, hold or keep one's self back, stay one's hand, keep one's self from indulgence.

Abstemious, a.   Abstinent (by habit), sober, moderate, habitually temperate, sparing in diet.

Abstemiousness, n.   Temperance (as a habit), abstinence.

Abstergent, a.   (Med.) Cleansing, purifying, purgative, cathartic.

Abstinence, n.   1. Abstaining, refraining.

2. Abstemiousness, soberness, temperance, moderation.

Abstinent, a.   1. Abstaining, fasting.

2. Abstemious, sober, temperate.

Abstract, v. a.   1. Separate, disunite, disjoin, dissociate, isolate, detach, disengage.

2. Take, seize, appropriate, steal, purloin.

3. Abridge, abbreviate, epitomize, make an abstract of.

Abstract, a.   1. Separate, isolated, not concrete.

2. Occult, recondite, subtile, refined, abstracted, ABSTRUSE.

Abstract, n.   Abridgment, epitome, summary, conspectus, compend, compendium, synopsis, syllabus, outline, digest, brief, breviary, sum and substance, concise statement.

Abstracted, a.   1. Subtile, refined, abstract, abstruse.

2. Inattentive, preoccupied, lost, dreaming, musing, absent, absent-minded, in a revery, in a brown study.

Abstraction, n.   1. Separation, disconnection, disjunction, isolation.

2. Preoccupation, inattention, revery, musing, muse, absence, absence of mind, brown study.

3. Taking, abduction, seizure, appropriation, stealing, purloining, pilfering.

Abstruse, a.   Recondite, occult, profound, hidden, transcendental, obscure, difficult, dark, enigmatical, mysterious, mystic, mystical, high, abstract, abstracted, subtile, refined.

Absurd, a.   Unreasonable, irrational, foolish, nonsensical, ridiculous, incongruous, senseless, unwise, silly, stupid, preposterous, PARADOXICAL, ill-judged, ill-advised, contrary to reason, contrary to the dictates of common sense.

Absurdity, n.   1. Unreasonableness, irrationality, foolishness, folly, foolery, extravagance, absurdness.

2. Paradox, MARE'S NEST, CART BEFORE THE HORSE, absurd thing.

Absurdness, n.   Absurdity.

Absurd story, Cock-and-bull-story, fiddle-faddle, neither rhyme nor reason.

Abundance, n.   Flow, overflow, exuberance, luxuriance, fertility, copiousness, profusion, richness, largeness, ampleness, wealth, affluence, store, more than enough, great plenty.

Abundant, a.   Abounding, flowing, overflowing, plentiful, plenteous, copious, much, exuberant, luxuriant, replete, full, large, ample, good, liberal, bountiful, lavish, rich, teeming, thick.

Abuse, v. a.   1. Misuse, misemploy, misapply, pervert, prostitute, desecrate, profane, make an ill use of.

2. Maltreat, harm, injure, hurt, ill-treat, ill-use.

3. Revile, reproach, vilify, slander, traduce, defame, asperse, malign, blacken, disparage, berate, rate, upbraid, calumniate, lampoon, satirize, lash, PASQUINADE, VITUPERATE, rail at, sneer at, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise.

4. Violate, outrage, ravish, deflour.

Abuse, n.   1. Misapplication, misuse, misemployment, profanation, prostitution, desecration, perversion, ill-use.

2. Maltreatment, outrage, ill-treatment, bad treatment.

3. Corrupt practice.

4. Vituperation, railing, reviling, contumely, obloquy, opprobrium, insult, scurrility, ribaldry, JAW, foul invective, rude reproach.

Abusive, a.   Reproachful, opprobrious, scurrilous, ribald, contumelious, vituperative, condemnatory, damnatory, invective, calumnious, denunciatory, insulting, insolent.

Abut against, Meet (end to end or side to side), be contiguous.

Abut upon, Meet (end to end or side to side), be contiguous.

Abyss, n.   1. Gulf, gorge, great depth, bottomless gulf or pit.

2. Hell, limbo, purgatory.

Academic, a.   1. Scholastic, literary, lettered.

Academical, a.   1. Scholastic, literary, lettered.

2. Platonic, of Plato.

Academy, n.   School, seminary, institute, gymnasium, high school, college.

Acarpous, a.   (Bot.) Unfruitful, sterile, barren, fruitless, unproductive.

Accede, v. n.   Consent, agree, assent, acquiesce, comply, yield assent, give assent.

Accelerate, v. a.   Hasten, expedite, hurry, quicken, speed, precipitate, despatch, urge forward, push forward, push on, press on, urge on.

Acceleration, n.   Hastening, increase of velocity.

Accent, n.   1. Intonation, cadence, tone, modulation of voice.

2. Stress (on a certain syllable).

Accent, v. a.   Accentuate, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.

Accents, n. pl.   Language, words.

Accentuate, v. a.   1. Mark with accent, put the mark of accent upon.

2. Accent, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent.

Accept, v. a.   1. Take (what is offered), RECEIVE.

2. Admit, assent to, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.

3. Estimate, regard, value.

Acceptable, a.   Welcome, pleasing, pleasant, agreeable, grateful, gratifying.

Acceptance, n.   1. Accepting, taking, reception, receipt.

2. Favorable reception.

3. (Com.) Accepted bill (of exchange).

Acceptation, n.   Meaning, signification, significance, sense, import.

Access, n.   1. Avenue, approach, passage, way, passage-way, way of approach.

2. Admission, admittance, means of approach, liberty to approach.

Accessary, a.   Assisting, aiding, abetting, helping, accessory.

Accessary, n.   Confederate, accomplice, abettor, accessory, associate (in a crime), PARTICEPS CRIMINIS, SOCIUS CRIMINIS.

Accession, n.   1. Addition, increase, enlargement, augmentation, extension.

2. Coming into power (as a new dynasty).

Accessory, a.   Assisting, ACCESSARY.

Accessory, n.   1. Confederate, ACCESSARY.

2. Accompaniment, attendant, concomitant.

Accidence, n.   Grammar, rudiments or elements of grammar.

Accident, n.   1. Casualty, chance, fortuity, mischance, misadventure, calamity, mishap, hap, hazard, contingency, CONTRETEMPS, unforeseen or fortuitous event.

2. Property, quality, modification, affection, mode.

Accidental, a.   1. Casual, fortuitous, contingent, that happens by chance, not designed, not planned.

2. Incidental, adventitious, non-essential.

Accidentalness, n.   Contingency, fortuity.

Accipitres, n. pl.   [L.] (Ornith.) Raptors, RAPTORES, raptorials, rapacious birds, birds of prey.

Acclaim, n.   [Poetical.] Acclamation.

Acclamation, n.   Applause, plaudit, shouting, cheer, cry, outcry, eclat, ACCLAIM, shout of applause.

Acclimate, v. a.   Acclimatize, inure or habituate to a climate.

Acclimatize, v. a.   Acclimate.

Acclivity, n.   Ascent, slope (upwards), rising ground.

Accommodate, v. a.   1. Oblige, serve, supply, furnish, do a service for, supply the wants of, minister to the convenience of.

2. Fit, suit, adapt, make conform, make conformable.

3. Reconcile, adjust, settle, compose.

Accommodate with, Furnish, supply, afford, spare, give.

Accommodation, n.   1. Advantage, privilege, convenience, EASEMENT, supply of wants, provision of conveniences.

2. Agreement, adaptation, fitness, suitableness, conformity.

3. Reconciliation, adjustment, pacification, settlement.

Accompaniment, n.   Appendage, concomitant, attendant, adjunct, attachment, appurtenance.

Accompany, v. a.   Attend, escort, convoy, follow, wait on, be associated with, keep company with, go with, go along with, go hand in hand with.

Accomplice, n.   Confederate, accessary, abettor, associate (in a crime), PARTICEPS CRIMINIS, SOCIUS CRIMINIS.

Accomplish, v. a.   1. Complete, achieve, effect, execute, perform, do, consummate, compass, carry, carry in to effect, carry through, carry out, get through, bring about, work out, turn out, turn off.

2. Finish, end, conclude, terminate.

3. Fulfil, realize, effectuate, bring to pass.

4. Equip, furnish, supply.

Accomplished, a.   1. Instructed, educated, practised, experienced, finished, consummate, ripe, thorough-bred, versed, qualified, proficient, able, clever, apt, adroit, expert, talented, skilful.

2. Polished, refined, polite, elegant, fashionable, fine.

Accomplishment, n.   1. Completion, performance, execution, achievement, consummation, fulfilment.

2. Acquirement, attainment, proficiency, stock of knowledge, mental resources.

Accord, v. a.   Grant, concede, vouchsafe, deign.

Accord, v. n.   Harmonize, correspond, agree, tally, quadrate, be in unison, be harmonious, square.

Accord, n.   Agreement, ACCORDANCE.

Accordance, n.   Accord, concord, agreement, concurrence, concordance, conformity, conformation, harmony, unison, unanimity.

Accordant, a.   Agreeable, agreeing, suitable, consonant, congruous, symphonious.

Accordingly, ad.   1. Agreeably, suitably, conformably.

2. Consequently, as a natural consequence, as proper to the circumstances or the occasion.

According to. By, in accordance with, conformably to, agreeably to.

Accost, v. a.   Address, salute, greet, speak to, MAKE UP TO.

Accouchement, n.   [Fr.] Child-birth, delivery, parturition, labor, travail.

Accoucheur, n.   [Fr.] Man midwife, obstetrician.

Accoucheuse, n.   [Fr.] Midwife.

Account, n.   1. Record, register, inventory, score.

2. Bill, charge, registry of debt and credit.

3. Beckoning, computation, calculation, enumeration, tale, count.

4. Description, statement, narration, recital, rehearsal, relation, narrative, chronicle, history, delineation, representation, portrayal, detail, word, tidings, report.

5. Consideration, regard, motive, reason, ground, sake.

6. Consequence, importance, worth, distinction, dignity, repute, reputation, note.

7. Profit, advantage, benefit.

Account, v. a.   Esteem, regard, deem, think, hold, consider, view, reckon, rate, estimate, look upon.

Account, v. n.   1. Render an account, answer in judgment.

2. Explain, give a reason, show the reason, render a reason, assign the cause, make explanation.

Accountability, n.   Accountableness, responsibility, liability, obligation, bond of duty.

Accountable, a.   Responsible, answerable, amenable, liable.

Accountableness, n.   Accountability.

Accountant, n.   Book-keeper, expert in accounts.

Accoutre, v. a.   [Written also Accouter.] Dress, equip, furnish, fit out, arm and equip.

Accoutrements, n. pl.   [Written also Accouterments.] Dress, equipage, equipments, trappings, gear, TOGGERY.

Accredit, v. a.   Credit, give trust or confidence to, give credit or honor to, receive as an envoy, receive as commissioned, empowered, or authorized.

Accretion, n.   1. Growth (by accession of parts).

2. (Med.) Growing together.

3. (Law.) Gradual accumulation (of soil, as at the mouth of a river).

Accrue, v. n.   Result, proceed, come, arise, issue, follow, flow, ensue, be added, be derived, be gained, be got, come in.

Accumbent, a.   Leaning, reclining.

Accumulate, v. a.   1. Pile, amass, aggregate, collect, collect together, gather up, pile up, heap up, bring together, heap together, scrape together.

2. Store, garner, husband, HOARD, treasure up, garner up, lay up, lay by, lay in, set by.

Accumulate, v. n.   Increase, grow, be accumulated, be heaped up.

Accumulation, n.   Collection, pile, heap, aggregation, mass.

Accuracy, n.   Exactness, exactitude, correctness, precision, niceness, nicety, truth, accurateness, fidelity.

Accurate, n.   Exact, correct, precise, true, truthful, faithful, strict, close, rigorous, severe, just, nice, exquisite, unerring.

Accurateness, n.   Accuracy.

Accursed, a.   1. Cursed, unsanctified, unholy.

2. Detestable, execrable, hateful, abominable, odious, horrid, horrible, damnable.

Accusation, n.   Crimination, impeachment, arraignment, indictment, charge.

Accuse, v. a.   Charge, impeach, arraign, indict, criminate, inculpate, incriminate, tax, inform against, call to account, take to task.

Accuser, n.   Informer, informant, plaintiff, prosecutor.

Accustom, v. a.   Habituate, inure, use, harden, familiarize, ADDICT, train, discipline, drill, break in.

Accustomed, a.   Usual, habitual, wonted, customary, familiar, common, frequent, regular, ordinary, every day.

Ace, n.   1. Single point (in cards or in dice).

2. Particle, atom, jot, iota, bit, tittle, whit, grain, scrap, mite, corpuscle, scintilla.

Acephalous, a.   Headless.

Acerbity, n.   1. Roughness, astringency, sourness, acidity, acidness, tartness.

2. Acrimony, severity, harshness, sternness, asperity, bitterness, venom, rancor, crabbedness, churlishness, moroseness, sullenness, ill temper, bad blood.

Acetic acid, Vinegar.

Ache, n.   Aching, pain, continued pain.

Ache, v. n.   1. Be in pain, feel or suffer pain.

2. Be painful, give pain.

Achieve, v. a.   1. Accomplish, perform, execute, do, complete, finish, compass, consummate, effect, realize, bring about, bring to pass, carry through, carry out, work out, bring to a close, bring to conclusion.

2. Obtain, acquire, procure, gain, win, get.

Achievement, n.   1. Performance, accomplishment, completion, attainment, realization, consummation.

2. Exploit, feat, deed, work.

3. Escutcheon, shield, ensign armorial.

Aching, n.   Pain, ache, continued pain.

Achromatic, a.   Colorless, uncolored, untinged, hueless, free from color.

Achromatism, n.   Absence of color, want of color.

Achromatize, v. a.   Deprive of color.

Acicular, a.   (Bot.) Aciculate, aciform, needle-shaped.

Aciculate, a.   (Bot.) Acicular.

Acid, a.   Sour, tart, sharp, pricked.

Acidity, n.   Sourness, tartness, acidness, sharpness.

Acidness, n.   Acidity.

Acidulous, a.   Sourish, somewhat acid, slightly acid, subacid, somewhat sour.

Aciform, a.   (Bot.) Acicular.

Acinaciform, a.   (Bot.) Cimeter-shaped.

Acknowledge, v. a.   1. Recognize, take cognizance of, be aware of, hold in remembrance.

2. Admit, grant, concede, allow, accept, indorse, subscribe to, agree to.

3. Confess, own, avow, profess.

4. Express gratitude for, give thanks for.

5. Own or admit the validity of.

Acknowledgment, n.   1. Recognition, recognizance.

2. Admission, avowal, concession, allowance, acceptance, indorsement.

3. Expression of thanks or gratitude.

Acme, n.   Summit, top, apex, zenith, pinnacle, utmost height, highest point, culminating point, climax.

Aconite, n.   wolfsbane, monks-hood.

Acquaint, v. a.   1. Familiarize, make familiar.

2. Inform, apprise, tell, notify, make aware, make known to, mention to, communicate to, signify to, give notice to, send word to, write word to.

Acquaintance, n.   1. Familiarity, familiar knowledge.

2. Friend (with whom one is not intimate).

Acquainted with, 1. Familiar with, versed in, AU FAIT at.

2. A friend of (without being intimate with).

Acquiesce, v. n.   1. Yield, comply, submit, bow, rest, resign one's self, be reconciled, be resigned, be satisfied, rest satisfied.

2. Assent, consent, agree, accede, concur, yield assent, give consent, fall in, go with the stream, go with the current.

Acquiescence, n.   1. Compliance, submission, resignation.

2. Assent, consent, agreement, concurrence.

Acquiescent, a.   Complying, yielding, submitting.

Acquire, v. a.   1. Gain, obtain, achieve, attain, procure, earn, win, get, secure, have, make, PURCHASE, get possession of, get into one's hands.

2. Master, learn thoroughly, make one's self master of.

Acquirement, n.   1. Acquiring, gathering, gaining, mastery.

2. Accomplishment, attainment, acquisition, stock of knowledge, mental resources.

Acquisition, n.   Acquirement.

Acquisitive, n.   Acquiring, disposed to acquire.

Acquisitiveness, n.   Love of acquiring, desire to acquire.

Acquit, v. a.   Discharge (from an accusation), clear, release, absolve, exonerate, exculpate, excuse, pardon, forgive, quit, set free.

Acquit one's self, Act, behave, conduct one's self, bear one's self, demean one's self.

Acquittal, n.   Discharge, release, deliverance, liberation, exoneration, clearance, absolution, acquittance.

Acquittance, n.   1. Discharge, ACQUITTAL.

2. Receipt, receipt in full.

Acrid, a.   1. Sharp, biting, pungent, hot, burning, poignant, caustic, corrosive.

2. Severe, harsh, ACRIMONIOUS.

Acridity, n.   Acridness.

Acridness, n.   1. Sharpness, pungency, poignancy, acridity.

2. Severity, harshness, hardness.

Acrimonious, a.   [Rare.] 1. Corrosive, caustic, sharp.

2. Severe, harsh, hard, acrid, sarcastic, bitter, virulent, malignant, censorious, crabbed, snarling, snappish, testy, pettish, petulant, cross, sour, tart, splenetic, peevish, ill-tempered, ill-natured.

Acrimony, n.   1. Sharpness, corrosiveness, causticity.

2. Severity, harshness, sourness, tartness, asperity, virulence, bitterness, acerbity, rancor, venom, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill-temper, bad blood.

Acroamatic, a.   Esoteric, esoterical, secret, private, acroatic.

Acroamatical, a.   Esoteric, esoterical, secret, private, acroatic.

Acroatic, a.   Esoteric, ACROAMATIC.

Acrobat, n.   Rope-dancer.

Acrospire, n.   Shoot, sprout, plumule.

Across, prep.   Athwart, over, from one side of to the other.

Act, v. n.   1. Work, move, carry any thing into effect, execute a purpose, be in action.

2. Behave, conduct one's self, demean one's self, acquit one's self.

3. Operate, have influence.

Act, v. a.   1. Do, perform, execute, carry into execution.

2. Personate, play, simulate, enact, play the part of, take the part of.

Act, n.   1. Deed (viewed as a single exertion of power), ACTION, performance, proceeding, thing, exploit, feat, achievement, turn.

2. Statute, enactment, ordinance, edict, decree, law, bill.

3. Fact, reality, actuality, real existence.

Acting, n.   1. Deed, performance, ACTION.

2. Personation, representation, simulation.

Action, n.   1. Activity, exercise, motion, movement, play.

2. Deed (viewed as requiring a continued exertion of power), performance, exploit, achievement, procedure, proceeding, acting, turn, ACT.

3. Agency, operation, force, influence, instrumentality, process.

4. Battle, engagement, conflict, contest, combat, rencontre, encounter, skirmish, brush, affair.

5. Gesticulation, gesture.

6. Subject, fable, plot, series of events.

7. (Law.) Suit, process, case, prosecution.

Actinolite, n.   Strahlstein, ray-stone.

Active, a.   1. Practical, operative, living, vigorous, in action, in operation.

2. Busy, diligent, assiduous, industrious, indefatigable, unremitting, laborious, sedulous, notable, at work, hard at work, diligently employed, busily engaged.

3. Alert, nimble, agile, supple, brisk, dapper, stirring, SPRY, smart, quick, prompt, ready, lively, sprightly, spirited.

4. Enterprising, energetic, strong, efficient, in earnest.

5. Drastic (as medicine), powerful, efficacious.

6. (Gram.) Transitive.

Activity, n.   1. Action, exercise.

2. Alertness, agility, nimbleness, smartness, briskness, sprightliness, spryness.

3. Intensity, energy, strength, force, power, vigor.

4. Enterprise, efficiency.

Actor, n.   1. Doer, operator, agent.

2. Player, performer, comedian, tragedian, stage-player.

Actual, a.   1. Real, veritable, true, substantial, determinate, decided, categorical, positive, absolute, certain, genuine, very, not ideal, not imagined, not imaginary, not supposed or fancied, not fictitious, that exists in fact, DE FACTO, BONA FIDE.

2. Present, now existing, now in being.

Actually, ad.   Really, truly, absolutely, positively, verily, indeed, in fact, in reality, as a matter of fact, in truth.

Actuate, v. a.   Induce, impel, move, prompt, instigate, persuade, incite, act upon, prevail upon, work upon.

Act upon, 1. Influence, effect, have influence upon.

2. Induce, ACTUATE.

Act up to. Abide by, conform to, persist in.

Acumen, n.   Acuteness, shrewdness, sagacity, astuteness, sharpness, ingenuity, perspicacity, discernment, penetration, mother-wit, quick parts.

Acuminate, a.   (Bot.) Sharp, acute, pointed, cuspidate, cuspidated.

Acuminated, a.   (Bot.) Sharp, acute, pointed, cuspidate, cuspidated.

Acute, a.   1. Sharp, pointed, ACUMINATED, CUSPIDATED.

2. Keen, shrewd, discerning, knowing, quick, sharp, smart, bright, sage, sapient, sagacious, intelligent, astute, ingenious, subtle, penetrating, piercing, clear-sighted, sharp-witted, long-headed, UP TO SNUFF.

3. Severe, violent, intense, poignant, exquisite, pungent.

4. High, shrill, high-toned.

Acuteness, n.   1. Sharpness.

2. Acumen, shrewdness, penetration, sagacity, sagaciousness, astuteness, sharpness, brightness, perspicacity, discernment, ingenuity, mother-wit, quick parts.

3. Severity, intensity, poignancy, violence.

4. Highness, shrillness.

Adage, n.   Proverb, saying, saw, dictum, aphorism, apothegm, maxim, by-word, sententious precept.

Adamant, n.   Diamond, crystallized carbon.

Adamantean, a.   Adamantine, hard as adamant, very hard.

Adamantine, a.   1. Made of adamant.

2. Adamantean, very hard, hard as adamant.

Adam's-needle, n.   Yucca, bear-grass, Spanish bayonet.

Adapt, v. a.   Adjust, accommodate, suit, proportion, qualify, prepare, fit, temper, fashion, match, make, conform, make conformable or suitable.

Adaptability, n.   Adaptableness, suitableness, ADAPTATION.

Adaptation, n.   Fitness, suitableness, appropriateness, aptness, adaptability, accommodation, harmony.

Add, v. a.   1. Join, subjoin, annex, affix, append, superadd, tag, tack.

2. Sum, sum up, cast up, add together.

Add to. Increase, augment, make greater.

Addendum, n.   Addition, appendix, appendage, adjunct, appurtenance, attachment.

Addict, v. a.   Accustom (commonly in a bad sense), habituate, dedicate, devote, apply (habitually), give, give up.

Addiction, n.   [Rare.] Addictedness.

Addition, n.   1. Adding.

2. Accession, increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension.

3. Appendage, adjunct, appendix, addendum.

Additional, a.   Superadded, adscititious, supplemental, supplementary, extra, more.

Additive, a.   To be added.

Addle, a.   1. Putrid, corrupt, spoiled (as eggs).

2. Barren, unfruitful, fruitless, abortive, unproductive, unprolific, unfertile, sterile, infecund, addled.

Addled, a.   Addle.

Addle-head, n.   Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

Addle-headed, a.   Foolish, stupid, dull, doltish, brainless, shallow, soft, sappy, witless, blockish, weak-headed, weak-minded, feeble-minded, half-witted, short-witted, shallow-brained, dull-witted, thick-skulled, addle-pated.

Addle-pated, a.   Addle-headed.

Address, n.   1. Appeal, invocation, petition, entreaty, request, imploration, application, solicitation, suit.

2. Discourse, speech, oration, harangue.

3. Skill, art, adroitness, readiness, dexterity, expertness, cleverness, ingenuity, ability, tact, GUMPTION.

4. Superscription, direction.

5. Manner (in speaking to another).

Addresses, n. pl.   Courtship, suit.

Address one's self to, Direct one's speech or discourse to, speak to.

Adduce, v. a.   1. Advance, ofter, present, allege, assign, give, bring forward.

2. Name, cite, quote, introduce.

Adept, n.   Master, proficient, genius, doctor, veteran, expert, dab, DABSTER, good hand, master hand, capital hand, nice hand.

Adept, a.   Skilled, versed, experienced, practised, proficient, good, at home, AU FAIT.

Adequacy, n.   Sufficiency, competence, competency, enough, adequateness.

Adequate, a.   Sufficient, commensurate, proportionate, correspondent, equal, suitable, fit, competent, adapted.

Adequateness, n.   Adequacy.

Adhere, v. n.   1. Stick, cling, cleave, hold, cohere, take hold, be firmly fixed.

2. Be faithful, be devoted, be attached, stand by, be true.

Adherence, n.   1. Tenacity, fixedness.

2. Attachment, constancy, fidelity, devotion, adhesion.

Adherent, a.   Adhering, sticking, clinging.

Adherent, n.   Follower, partisan, disciple, sectary, retainer, votary, supporter, dependant, vassal.

Adhesion, n.   1. Adhering, sticking, clinging, tendency to adhere.

2. Attachment, ADHERENCE.

Adhesive, a.   1. Sticking, clinging, tending to adhere.

2. Sticky, tenacious, tough, viscous, glutinous, smeary, dauby, stringy, ropy, gummy, clammy.

Adieu, ad.   Farewell, good-by, fare-you-well, God bless you.

Adieu, n.   Farewell, valediction, leave-taking.

Adipose, a.   Fat, fatty, unctuous, oily, sebaceous, greasy.

Adjacence, n.   Nearness, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, proximity, contiguity.

Adjacency, n.   Nearness, vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, proximity, contiguity.

Adjacent, a.   Adjoining, conterminous, neighboring, near, close, bordering, contiguous, in proximity.

Adjective, n.   [Technical term of the grammarian.] Epithet, qualifying word or term.

Adjoin, v. a.   Be contiguous to, lie near to, lie close to, border upon, be adjacent to.

Adjoin, v. n.   [Rare.] Border, lie near, lie close, be contiguous, be adjacent.

Adjourn, v. a.   1. Postpone, defer, delay, procrastinate, put off.

2. Prorogue.

Adjournment, n.   1. Postponement, delay, putting off.

2. Prorogation.

Adjudge, v. a.   1. Award (judicially).

2. Determine, settle, decide, decree (by judicial authority), adjudicate.

Adjudicate, v. a.   Determine, ADJUDGE.

Adjudicate, v. n.   Judge, decide, determine, arbitrate, give judgment, pass judgment.

Adjudication, n.   Sentence, decision, determination, decree, award, arbitrament.

Adjunct, n.   Addition, appendage, appurtenance, dependency, attachment, addendum, something added.

Adjuration, n.   Entreaty (as if to one bound by oath), solemn charge.

Adjure, v. a.   Entreat (as if under oath), conjure, obtest, beseech, pray, supplicate, beg, conjure, implore, invoke, enjoin solemnly.

Adjust, v. a.   1. Arrange, dispose, rectify, trim, put or set in order, put or set to rights, put in tune, put in good trim.

2. Regulate, set.

3. Settle, compose, reconcile, make up.

4. Fit, adapt, suit, proportion, accommodate, measure, make conform, make conformable.

Adjustment, n.   1. Arrangement, adjusting, putting in order, putting in good trim, setting to rights.

2. Regulation, setting, putting right.

3. Settlement, reconciliation, pacification.

4. Fitting, adapting, accommodation, making suitable or conformable.

Adjutant, n.   (Mil.) Assistant (of a superior officer).

Admeasurement, n.   Measurement.

Administer, v. a. 1. Dispense, give, distribute, supply, contribute, deal out, give out.

2. Direct, manage, conduct, control, superintend, preside over.

3. Tender, offer, proffer.

Administer, v. n.   1. Contribute, conduce, be helpful.

2. (Law.) Act as administrator.

Administration, n.   1. Dispensation, distribution.

2. Management, conduct, direction, control, superintendence.

3. Executive department (of a government), President (or other chief magistrate) and cabinet.

4. (Law.) Management of an estate (of an intestate).

Admirable, a.   1. [Rare.] Wonderful, surprising, striking, astonishing.

2. Excellent, incomparable, inimitable, fine, rare, transcendent, matchless, perfect, first-rate, worthy of admiration.

Admiration, n.   1. [Rare.] Wonder, surprise, astonishment, amazement.

2. Liking, love, high regard, high opinion.

Admire, v. a.   1. [Rare.] Wonder at, be surprised at, be astonished or amazed at.

2. Like much, think highly of, have a high opinion of, prize or value highly.

Admire, v. n.   [Rare.] Wonder, marvel, be surprised or astonished.

Admirer, n.   Lover, gallant, suitor, sweetheart, beau, CICISBEO.

Admissible, a.   Permissible, allowable, lawful, proper, justifiable, warrantable.

Admission, n.   1. Admittance, introduction, access, entrance, initiation, ENTRÉE.

2. Allowance, avowal, concession, acknowledgment, assent.

Admit, v. a.   1. Receive, grant entrance to, let in, take in, open the door to.

2. Concede, accept, grant, acknowledge, own, confess, take for granted, agree to, accede to, acquiesce in.

3. Permit, allow, bear, admit of, be capable of.

Admit of, Admit, permit, allow, bear, be capable of.

Admittance, n.   1. Admission, introduction, ENTRÉE.

2. Access, means of approach, liberty to approach.

Admixture, n.   1. Mixture.

2. Spice, dash, infusion, sprinkling, touch, seasoning, smack, taste, tincture, tinge.

Admonish, v. a.   1. Reprove (gently), censure, warn of a fault.

2. Advise, counsel, caution, forewarn, enjoin.

3. Instruct, inform, teach, apprise, acquaint, notify, make acquainted, make aware.

Admonition, n.   1. Hint of a fault, gentle reproof.

2. Advice, counsel, caution, warning, monition.

Admonitory, a.   Admonishing, monitory.

Ado, n.   1. Trouble, difficulty, labor, pains.

2. Bustle, stir, flurry, fuss, noise, tumult, turmoil, pother, confusion, commotion, TO-DO.

Adolescence, n.   Youth, juvenility, minority, juniority, nonage, teens, prime of life, flower of life, bloom of life.

Adolescent, a.   Youthful, juvenile, young.

Adopt, v. a.   1. Appropriate, take to one's self, take or select as one's own.

2. Approve, espouse, support, maintain.

3. Affiliate, father, treat as one's own child.

Adoption, n.   1. Appropriation.

2. Approval, espousal, support, maintenance.

3. Affiliation, adopting, fathering.

Adorable, a.   1. Divine, to be adored, worthy of adoration.

2. Estimable, venerable, worthy of love or honor.

Adoration, n.   1. Worship, devotion.

2. Homage, reverence, veneration.

Adore, v. a.   1. Worship.

2. Revere, venerate, idolize, honor, pay homage to.

Adorer, n.   1. Worshipper.

2. Idolater, great admirer.

Adorn, v. a.   Embellish, decorate, beautify, ornament, deck, bedeck, emblazon, gild, trim, grace, crown, varnish, array, set out, set off, TRICK OUT.

Adroit, a.   Dexterous, expert, skilful, apt, handy, ready, quick, clever, able, masterly.

Adscititious, a.   Additional, supplemental, supplementary, superadded.

Adulation, n.   Flattery, flummery, excessive praise, extravagant compliment.

Adulatory, a.   Flattering, smooth, oily, full of compliments, servile in compliment.

Adult, a.   Mature, grown up, full grown, of age, of mature age.

Adult, n.   Person of mature age, grown up person.

Adulterate, v. a.   Debase, corrupt, vitiate, sophisticate, alloy, dash, deteriorate, make impure.

Adulteration, n.   Debasement, corruption, deterioration, sophistication.

Adulterous, a.   Unchaste, rakish, dissolute.

Adultery, n.   Violation of the marriage-bed.

Adumbrate, v. a.   1. Shadow, foreshadow, shadow out, shadow forth.

2. Typify, represent, symbolize, show, denote, stand for.

Adumbration, n.   1. Shadowing forth, faint sketch, faint representation, indistinct image.

2. Type, image, shadow, symbol.

Aduncous, a.   Crooked, hooked, bent, curved.

Advance, v. a.   1. Promote, aggrandize, exalt, elevate, dignify, raise to preferment, raise to higher rank.

2. Forward, further, promote, improve, strengthen, make better, encourage the progress of.

3. Allege, adduce, propose, offer, assign, propound, bring forward, lay down.

4. Pay beforehand, supply beforehand, furnish on credit.

5. Increase (as price), enhance, augment, make greater, make higher.

Advance, v. n.   1. Proceed, progress, make progress, make way, get forward, go forward, get on, go on, get along, come on, gain ground.

2. Improve, grow, thrive, make improvement.

Advance, n.   1. Progress, progression, march, way, moving forward.

2. Improvement, growth, advancement.

3. Payment beforehand, anticipated payment.

4. Tender, offer, proposal, proposition.

5. Increase (of price), enhancement.

Advance-guard, n.   Vanguard.

Advancement, n.   1. Progress, progression, proficiency.

2. Promotion, preferment, elevation, exaltation, aggrandizement.

3. Improvement, advance, growth.

Advantage, n.   1. Favorable opportunity, vantage-ground, superior situation or condition, best estate, best plight.

2. Superiority, ascendency, pre-eminence, upper-hand.

3. Benefit, avail, profit, gain, emolument, return, utility, expediency, good, weal, service, blessing.

4. Behalf, behoof, account, interest.

5. Privilege, prerogative, convenience, accommodation, EASEMENT.

Advantage, v. a.   Benefit, profit, serve, help, avail, advance the interest of, be of advantage to.

Advantageous, a.   Beneficial, profitable, helpful, useful, convenient, serviceable, salutary, favorable, expedient, good, well, for one's advantage, for one's interest, for one's good.

Advent, n.   1. Arrival, coming, approach.

2. Coming of Christ.

Adventitious, a.   Accidental, incidental, extrinsic, extraneous, foreign, non-essential.

Adventure, n.   1. Chance, hazard, fortuity, contingency, risk, venture, stake.

2. Hazardous enterprise, bold undertaking.

3. Event, incident, occurrence, transaction, passage, contingency.

4. (Com.) Speculation.

Adventure, v. a.   Hazard, venture, risk, peril, imperil, put to hazard, put at risk, put in danger.

Adventure, v. n.   Dare, venture, take the risk, run the risk, incur the hazard.

Adventurous, a.   1. Bold, daring, courageous, venturesome, venturous, chivalrous, doughty, enterprising.

2. Rash, reckless, precipitate, headlong, foolhardy, full of hazard.

Adversaria, n. pl.   Notes, memoranda, remarks, note-book, journal, commonplace-book.

Adversary, n.   1. Enemy, foe, antagonist, opponent, adverse party.

2. [With The prefixed.] Devil, Satan.

Adverse, a.   1. Contrary, opposing, unpropitious, counteracting, conflicting, HEAD, not propitious.

2. Hostile, inimical, antagonistic.

3. Unprosperous, untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous.

Adversity, n.   Misfortune, calamity, affliction, trouble, suffering, woe, disaster, distress, misery, ill-luck, bad luck, broken fortunes, hard life, frowns of fortune.

Advert to, 1. Observe, remark, regard, heed, consider, notice, mark, view, give heed to, take notice of, pay attention to, attend to, look to, see to, give heed to, have an eye to, give a thought to, look after.

2. Refer to, allude to.

Advertence, n.   Attention, heed, regard, observance, observation, notice, consideration, heedfulness, mindfulness.

Advertency, n.   Attention, heed, regard, observance, observation, notice, consideration, heedfulness, mindfulness.

Advertise, v. a.   1. Announce, publish, declare, promulgate, trumpet, proclaim, make known, spread abroad, noise abroad, give notice of, lay before the public, bring to the notice of the public, make proclamation of.

2. Offer for sale.

Advertisement, n.   Announcement, notification, information, notice, proclamation, promulgation, trumpeting.

Advice, n.   1. Counsel, suggestion, instruction, recommendation, admonition, warning, caution, exhortation.

2. Intelligence, information, notice, notification, tidings, word.

Advisability, n.   Expediency, advisableness.

Advisable, a.   Expedient, proper, fit, prudent, desirable, fit to be advised.

Advise, v. a.   1. Counsel, admonish, suggest, recommend to, give counsel to, give advice to.

2. Inform, acquaint, apprise, make known to, give notice to, send word to, write word to.

Advise, v. n.   Confer, consult, deliberate, take counsel, hold a conference.

Advisedly, ad.   Deliberately, heedfully, purposely, by design, with consideration.

Advisement, n.   Consultation, deliberation.

Adviser, n.   Counsellor, instructor, guide, director, mentor, monitor.

Advocacy, n.   Defence, vindication, support, countenance.

Advocate, v. a.   Defend, support, vindicate, justify, countenance, uphold, favor, plead in favor of, stand up for.

Advocate, n.   1. Counsellor, counsel, barrister, lawyer, attorney, solicitor, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.

2. Defender, vindicator, supporter, favorer, apologist, friend, patron.

3. Intercessor, comforter, paraclete, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth.

4. [With The prefixed.] Christ.

Ægis, n.   1. Shield, buckler.

2. Defence, protection, safeguard.

Aerial, a.   1. Atmospheric.

2. Aeriform, gaseous, vaporous, ethereal, airy, empyreal, light.

3. High, lofty.

Aerie, n.   1. Nest (of a bird of prey).

2. Brood (of birds of prey).

Aeriform, a.   Gaseous, ethereal, vaporous, airy, aerial.

Aerolite, n.   Meteoric stone.

Aeronaut, n.   Balloonist, aerial navigator.

Aeronautics, n.   Aerostation, ballooning.

Aerostation, n.   Aeronautics.

Æsthetics, n.   [Sometimes written Esthetics.] Philosophy of the fine arts, theory or philosophy of taste, science of the beautiful.

Afar, ad.   Far off, long way off, afar off, wide away, a great way off, at a distance, to or from a distance.

Affability, n.   1. Sociability, sociableness.

2. Courtesy, courteousness, complaisance, condescension, civility, politeness, urbanity, comity, amenity, suavity, amiability, good manners, good breeding, obliging manner.

Affable, a.   1. Conversable, communicative, free, unreserved, open, sociable, social.

2. Courteous, complaisant, civil, polite, obliging, urbane, debonair, familiar, easy, gracious, mild, condescending, well-bred.

Affair, n.   1. Business, concern, matter, circumstance, question, subject.

2. Event, occurrence, incident, transaction, proceeding, performance.

3. Battle, engagement, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush.

Affair of honor, Duel.

Affect, v. a.   1. Influence, act upon, work upon.

2. Concern, interest, regard, relate to, bear upon.

3. Touch, move, impress, melt, subdue, overcome, pierce.

4. Crave, yearn for, aspire to, aim at.

5. Assume, feign, arrogate, put on, make a show of, pretend to.

Affectation, n.   Pretension, airs, affectedness, mannerism, assumed manners, affected manner.

Affected, a.   1. Assumed, feigned, unnatural, artificial, insincere, canting.

2. Assuming, pretending, pretentious, conceited, vain, coxcomical, priggish.

Affectedness, n.   Affectation.

Affecting, a.   Moving, touching, pathetic, impressive.

Affection, n.   1. Feeling, passion, inclination, propensity, bent, bias, turn of mind, cast or frame of mind.

2. Attribute, quality, property, accident, modification, mode.

3. Love, heart, attachment, kindness, partiality, fondness, liking, tenderness, endearment, regard, good-will, tender passion.

4. (Med.) Disorder, malady, disease.

Affectionate, a.   Loving, fond, attached, devoted, warm, tender, kind, sympathetic, tender-hearted, warm-hearted.

Affiance, v. a.   Betroth, engage.

Affidavit, n.   Testimony (in writing, signed and sworn to before a magistrate, but given without cross-examination), evidence, DEPOSITION.

Affiliate, v. a.   1. Adopt, treat as one's own child.

2. Connect, associate, unite, join, bring into close relation.

Affinity, n.   1. Relationship (by marriage), KIN, CONSANGUINITY, propinquity.

2. Resemblance, likeness, relation, correlation, analogy, connection, similarity, similitude, parallelism, correspondence, parity, sympathy.

3. (Chem.) Attraction.

Affirm, v. a.   1. Declare, aver, assert, maintain, asseverate, avouch, vouch, allege, say, profess, protest, pronounce, predicate.

2. Confirm, ratify, approve, establish.

Affirm, v. n.   Assert, declare, aver, say, state, SWEAR, testify, depose, bear witness.

Affirmable, a.   Predicable.

Affirmation, n.   Assertion, declaration, asseveration, word, averment, protestation, avowal, predication, testimony, deposition.

Affirmative, a.   1. That affirms.

2. Indicative.

3. (Alg.) Positive, not negative.

Affix, v. a.   Join, subjoin, annex, attach, connect, set to, unite to the end.

Affix, n.   Postfix, suffix.

Afflatus, n.   Inspiration, supernatural influence.

Afflict, v. a.   Grieve, distress, trouble, torment, agonize, plague, pain, hurt, harass, wound, exercise, grind, persecute, smite, make sorrowful.

Afflicting, a.   Grievous, painful, distressing, calamitous, disastrous, afflictive, sad, unhappy, unfortunate, unlucky, wretched, dire, deplorable, sore, woful, severe, hard, trying, hard to bear.

Affliction, n.   1. Calamity, adversity, misfortune, disaster, visitation, stroke, reverse, reverse of fortune.

2. Grief, sorrow, distress, woe, tribulation, trial, plague, scourge, trouble, heartache, bitterness, misery, wretchedness, gripe, griping, broken heart, heavy heart.

Afflictive, a.   Afflicting.

Affluence, n.   Wealth, riches, opulence, fortune, plenty, abundance, exuberance, ample store, ample means.

Affluent, a.   1. Abundant, exuberant.

2. Opulent, wealthy, rich, moneyed.

Afford, v. a.   1. Supply, furnish, yield, produce.

2. Confer, impart, grant, bestow, offer, lend, give, communicate, spare.

3. Bear the cost or expense of.

Affray, n.   Brawl (in a public place), quarrel, feud, squabble, wrangle, contest, altercation, strife, row, fray, broil, fight, MÉLÉE, tumult, disturbance, outbreak, RUMPUS, breach of the peace.

Affright, v. a.   Frighten, terrify, alarm, scare, daunt, appall, dismay, fright, intimidate, startle, overawe, put in fear.

Affright, n.   Terror, fear, fright, alarm, dismay, consternation, panic.

Affront, v. a.   1. Insult, abuse, outrage.

2. Offend, displease, irritate, provoke, chafe, fret, vex, annoy, pique, nettle, anger, gall, MIFF, give offence to, make angry.

Affront, n.   1. Insult, abuse, contumely, indignity, outrage, injury, wrong, ill-treatment, ill-turn.

2. Provocation, offence.

Affusion, n.   Sprinkling.

Afoot, ad.   1. On foot.

2. Preparing, forthcoming, in preparation, in course of preparation, on the carpet, ON THE TAPIS, on the anvil.

Aforementioned, a.   Aforesaid.

Aforesaid, a.   Said before, aforementioned, before-mentioned, fore-named, above-mentioned, above-named.

Aforethought, a.   Premeditated, prepense.

A fortiori, [L.] With stronger reason, for a still stronger reason.

Afraid, a.   Fearful, haunted with fear.

Afresh, ad.   Anew, newly, again, over again, DE NOVO.

Aft, ad.   (Naut.) Abaft, astern, behind, back, rearward, in the rear.

After, prep.   1. Subsequent to, later than.

2. Following, behind.

3. About, in relation to.

4. In imitation of.

After, ad.   Afterward.

After, a.   1. Succeeding, subsequent, following, later.

2. Hind, hinder, posterior, rear, back.

After-ages, Posterity, descendants, succeeding times, succeeding generations.

After all, Eventually, ultimately, upon the whole, when all has been considered, at last, in the end.

After-birth, n.   Secundines, placenta.

After-math, n.   Rowen, eddish.

Aftermost, a.   Hindmost.

Afterpiece, n.   Farce, low comedy.

After-thought, n.   After-wit.

Afterward, ad.   Subsequently, after, later, thereafter, in the sequel.

Afterwards, ad.   Subsequently, after, later, thereafter, in the sequel.

After-wit, n.   After-thought.

Again, ad.   Afresh, anew, once more, another time, DE NOVO.

Again and again, Repeatedly, often, frequently, over and over, with frequent repetitions.

Against, prep.   1. Opposed to, in opposition to, contrary to, adverse to.

2. Facing, fronting, off, opposite to, over against.

3. In provision for, in expectation of, in preparation for, in anticipation of.

Against the grain, 1. Against the fibres (of wood).

2. Against the natural disposition, against one's inclination.

Agalloch, n.   Lign-aloes, aloes wood.

Agallochum, n.   Lign-aloes, aloes wood.

Agapæ, n. pl.   [L.] Love-feasts.

Agape, ad.   Wondering, gazing eagerly, staring with open mouth.

Agaric, n.   1. Mushroom.

2. Touchwood, spunk, punk.

Age, n.   1. Duration of existence.

2. Period, date, epoch, time.

3. Century, a hundred years.

4. Old age, decline of life, vale of years.

5. Maturity, mature years, years of discretion.

Aged, a.   1. Old, elderly, stricken in years, advanced in life, with one foot in the grave.

2. Having lived, of the age of.

Agency, n.   1. Intervention, instrumentality, mediation, action, operation, force, influence, procurement.

2. Charge, direction, management, superintendence, supervision.

Agent, n.   1. Actor, doer, operator, performer, executor.

2. Deputy, attorney, factor, representative, substitute, proxy, go-between, procurator, middleman, commissioner, vicegerent.

3. Hand, employé.

Agglomerate, v. a.   Gather in a ball or mass, gather together, lump together, heap up, pile up.

Agglomeration, n.   Conglomeration, accumulation, lump, heap, pile, mass, aggregation.

Agglutinate, v. a.   Unite, glue, cement, conglutinate.

Agglutination, n.   Cohesion, union, sticking together.

Aggrandize, v. a.   Exalt, dignify, honor, elevate, promote, make great, raise to higher rank.

Aggrandizement, n.   Exaltation, elevation, promotion, advancement, preferment.

Aggravate, v. a.   1. Heighten (in evil), increase, make worse.

2. Exaggerate, overstate, magnify.

3. [Of questionable propriety.] Provoke, irritate, exasperate, enrage.

Aggravation, n.   1. A heightening (of something evil).

2. Exaggeration.

3. [Of questionable propriety.] Provocation, irritation.

Aggregate, v. a.   Amass, collect, accumulate, pile, bring together, gather up, pile up, heap up, scrape together, keep together.

Aggregate, a.   Collected.

Aggregate, n.   Whole, total, totality, gross, lump, sum, amount, body, mass, gross amount, sum total.

Aggregation, n.   Collection, mass, pile, heap, accumulation.

Aggress, v. n.   Make the first attack, be the first to attack, be the aggressor.

Aggression, n.   Attack, assault, invasion, hostile encroachment.

Aggressive, a.   Attacking, assaulting, assailing, assailant, invading, offensive.

Aggressor, n.   Assailant, assaulter, attacker, assailer, invader.

Aggrieve, v. a.   1. Pain, grieve, afflict, wound the feelings of.

2. Wrong, injure, oppress, maltreat, abuse, bear hard upon, ill treat, ill use.

Aghast, a.   1. Awe-struck, horror-struck, dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, struck with horror.

2. Amazed, astounded, startled, astonished, dumfoundered, thunderstruck.

Agile, a.   Lively, nimble, brisk, smart, active, quick, ready, prompt, alert, sprightly, lively, supple, SPRY, winged.

Agility, n.   Liveliness, nimbleness, briskness, smartness, activity, quickness, readiness, alertness, sprightliness, suppleness.

Agio, n.   (Com.) Premium.

Agiotage, n.   (Com.) Stock-jobbing.

Agitate, v. a.   1. Shake, jar, toss, rock, trouble (by brisk motion), convulse.

2. Excite, ruffle, rouse, ferment, stir up, work up.

3. Fluster, flurry, hurry, confuse, disconcert.

4. Discuss, controvert, canvass, debate, dispute, ventilate.

Agitation, n.   1. Agitating, shaking, shake, concussion.

2. Disturbance, jarring, commotion, convulsion, ferment, storm, tumult, turmoil.

3. Excitement, emotion, perturbation, trepidation, discomposure, distraction, PUCKER, ruffle, flutter, hurry, tremor, fever, fret.

4. Discussion, disputation, debate, controversy, canvassing, ventilation.

Agitator, n.   Incendiary, firebrand.

Ago, ad.   Past, gone, since.

Agog, a.   Eager, impatient, excited, wrought up, worked up, on tiptoe, with open mouth.

A-going, ad.   Abroach.

Agonize, v. a.   Torment, torture, rack, distress, pain severely, put in great pain.

Agonize, v. n.   Be tormented, be tortured, suffer great pain.

Agony, n.   Anguish (especially of the body), pang, torture, torment, distress, rack, throe, severe pain, extreme suffering.

Agree, v. n.   1. Accord, harmonize, concur, unite, be in unison, be of one mind.

2. Assent, consent, accede, acquiesce, comply, subscribe, yield assent, give consent, fall in.

3. Stipulate, bargain, promise, engage, undertake, contract, be sworn, be bound, make an agreement, plight one's word, pass one's word, pledge one's word, give assurance, take upon one's self, bind one's self.

4. Compromise, compound, come to an understanding, come to an agreement.

5. Suit, match, tally, correspond, quadrate, coincide, cohere, comport, conform, square.

Agreeable, a.   1. Suitable, fitting, fit, proper, meet, appropriate, befitting, conformable, correspondent, accordant, concordant, consonant.

2. Pleasing, pleasant, pleasurable, grateful, gratifying, acceptable, welcome, good, goodly, delightful, charming, delectable, delicious, dulcet, sweet, to one's taste, to one's mind, after one's fancy.

Agreeable to, 1. Conformable to, suitable to, accordant with, consonant with, tallying with, squaring with, consistent with, that falls in with.

2. Pleasing to, grateful to, gratifying to, acceptable to.

Agreeably to, According to, conformably to, in accordance with.

Agree with, 1. Chime in with, fall in with.

2. Make a bargain with, strike hands with.

Agriculture, n.   Tillage, husbandry, farming, culture, cultivation, geoponics.

Agriculturist, n.   Husbandman, farmer, tiller of the ground, cultivator of the soil.

Aground, ad.   1. Ashore, not afloat.

2. Stranded, wrecked, cast away.

Ague, n.   1. Chilliness, cold, chill.

2. Intermittent fever, fever and ague.

Ague-weed, n.   Thoroughwort, boneset, fever-root, Indian sage, (Eupatorium perfoliatum).

Ahead, ad.   1. Onward, forward, in advance, in front.

2. (Naut.) In opposition (said of the wind), against us, in our teeth.

Ai, n.   Three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus).

Aid, v. a.   1. Assist, help, support, serve, speed, second, back, befriend, prosper, abet, co-operate with, take part with, give support to, minister to.

2. Succor, relieve, SPELL.

Aid, n.   1. Assistance, help, LIFT, furtherance, co-operation, patronage, support, helping hand, good offices.

2. Succor, relief.

3. Aide-de-camp.

Aide-de-camp, [Fr.] (Mil.) Aid.

Aider, n.   Helper, assistant, coadjutor, co-operator, ally, auxiliary, abettor.

Ail, v. a.   Pain, trouble, afflict, be the matter with.

Ail, v. n.   Suffer, be in pain, feel pain, be ill.

Ail, n.   Disease, AILMENT.

Ailing, a.   Sickly, sick, ill, indisposed, unwell, diseased, feeble, languishing, unhealthy.

Ailment, n.   Disease, ail, illness, sickness, ailing, indisposition, malady, distemper, disorder, complaint.

Aim, v. a.   Direct, level, point.

Aim, n.   1. Direction, course, bearing, tendency, bent, proclivity.

2. Intention, intent, purpose, design, reason, view, object, end, scope, drift, goal, point, final cause.

Aim at, 1. Take aim at, point at, level at, direct towards.

2. Intend, purpose, design, mean.

3. Crave, affect, yearn for, aspire at, aspire after, endeavor after, be at, drive at, propose to one's self, have in view, have in one's eye, have an eye to, strive for, attempt to reach.

Aimless, a.   Purposeless, objectless, without aim or end.

Air, n.   1. Atmosphere, atmospheric air, common air.

2. Gas, aeriform fluid.

3. Breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, breath of air.

4. Weather, open air, open atmosphere.

5. Appearance, aspect, mien, manner, look, cast, demeanor, conduct, carriage, bearing, deportment, behavior, port.

6. Tune, melody.

Air, v. a.   1. Expose to air.

2. Ventilate, change the air of.

Air-bladder, n.   Sound (of a fish).

Air-bubble, n.   Bleb.

Air-engine, n.   Caloric engine.

Airiness, n.   1. Openness, exposure to air.

2. Gayety, levity, sprightliness, vivacity, liveliness.

Airing, n.   1. Ride, drive, walk, promenade, stroll, excursion.

2. Exposure to air, admission of air.

Air-pipe, n.   Vent, spiracle, blow-hole, air-tube.

Airs, n. pl.   Affectation, pretension, mannerism, affectedness, affected manner, assumed manner.

Air-tight, a.   Hermetic, hermetical.

Air-tube, n.   Air-pipe.

Airy, a.   1. Unsubstantial, aerial, ethereal, aeriform, thin, rare.

2. Light, subtile, sublimated.

3. Sprightly, buoyant, vivacious, wanton, volatile, jocund, jolly, jovial, lively, gay, blithe, light, light-hearted, light of heart, in spirits, in good spirits, of good cheer.

4. Showy, gaudy, flaunting, jaunty, gairish, fine.

5. Windy, empty.

Aisle, n.   Passage, walk.

Aitchbone, n.   Edgebone, natchbone.

Ajar, ad.   Partly open (as a door).

Ajutage, n.   Spout (of a fountain).

Akin, a.   Kin, related, allied, kindred, cognate, congenial, homogeneous, analogous, similar, parallel, of a piece.

Alack, interj.   Alas, lackaday.

Alacrity, n.   1. Readiness, promptitude, alertness, agility, activity, quickness, eagerness.

2. Sprightliness, gayety, cheerfulness, hilarity, vivacity, liveliness, high spirits, good spirits.

À la mode, [Fr.] a.   Fashionable, in the fashion, in vogue.

À la mode, [Fr.] ad.   Fashionably.

Alarm, n.   1. Alarum, larum, tocsin, summons to arms, alarm-bell, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, notice of danger, signal of distress.

2. Fear, apprehension, terror, fright, affright, consternation, dismay.

Alarm, v. a.   1. Call to arms, summon to arms.

2. Terrify, frighten, affright, startle, scare, daunt, appall, put in fear.

Alarm-bell, n.   Tocsin, ALARM.

Alarum, n.   Alarm.

Alas, interj.   Alack, lackaday.

Alate, a.   (Bot. and Anat.) Winged.

Albeit, ad.   Although, notwithstanding.

Albicore, n.   Bonito, horse-mackerel (Thynnus pelamys).

Alcohol, n.   Spirits of wine, pure spirit, highly rectified spirit.

Alcove, n.   Recess.

Alehoof, n.   Gill, ground-ivy (Glechoma hederacea).

Alert, a.   1. Watchful, vigilant, circumspect, wary, heedful, on the alert, on one's guard, on the watch, on the lookout.

2. Active, brisk, nimble, agile, smart, lively, sprightly, spirited, supple, quick, spry, ready, prompt.

Alertness, n.   1. Watchfulness, vigilance, circumspection, wariness.

2. Activity, agility, nimbleness, briskness, smartness, sprightliness, quickness, spryness, promptness, readiness.

Algebra, n.   Analysis (by means of letters and other symbols), calculus, fluxions.

Alias, ad.   Otherwise.

Alias, n.   Assumed name.

Alien, a.   1. Foreign, not native.

2. Estranged, differing, remote, unallied, separated, unconnected.

Alien, n.   Foreigner, stranger.

Alienate, v. a.   1. Abalienate, transfer, demise, consign, assign, convey, devolve, make over, deliver over.

2. Estrange, disaffect, wean, withdraw the affections of, make unfriendly.

Alienation, n.   1. Abalienation, transfer, demise, conveyance.

2. Estrangement, disaffection, variance, division, rupture, breach.

Alienation of mind, insanity, derangement, lunacy, madness, frenzy, craziness, delirium, mania.

Alight, v. n.   1. Stop or rest (after flight).

2. Dismount, descend, get down.

Alight from, Get off.

Alike, a.   Similar, like, resembling, analogous, allied, equal, of a piece.

Alike, ad.   Equally, in the same manner, form, or degree.

Aliment, n.   Nourishment, nutriment, food, sustenance, subsistence, provision, fare, diet, regimen, victuals, meat, viands, cheer, pabulum, rations, FEED, PROVENDER, FODDER, FORAGE, PROG.

Alimentary, a.   Nourishing, edible, esculent, nutritious.

Alimentation, n.   Nutrition, nourishment.

Aliped, a.   Wing-footed, swift of foot.

Alive, a.   1. Living, breathing, live, not dead, in life, above ground.

2. Sensitive, susceptible, with keen perceptions.

3. Active, in force, in existence.

4. Cheerful, sprightly, lively, joyous.

All, a.   The whole of, every one of, every part of.

All, ad.   Altogether, entirely, completely, wholly, quite.

All, n.   Whole, total, totality, aggregate, every thing.

All at once, Instantaneously, suddenly, in an instant, without warning.

Allay, v. a.   1. Repress, restrain, check, subdue, lay, silence, appease, pacify, calm, quiet, still, lull, hush, tranquillize, smooth.

2. Assuage, alleviate, soothe, soften, mitigate, solace, moderate, mollify, temper, attemper, lessen, abate, qualify, relieve, ease, dull, blunt, palliate.

All-devouring, a.   Omnivorous.

Allegation, n.   1. Declaration, affirmation, averment.

2. Excuse, plea.

Allege, v. a.   1. Declare, affirm, assert, aver, predicate, profess, asseverate, maintain, say.

2. Adduce, assign, advance, plead, produce, cite, quote, bring forward, lay down.

Allegiance, n.   Fealty, fidelity, loyalty.

Allegorical, a.   Figurative, typical.

Allegory, n.   Fable (in which what is stated as a fact is figuratively applied), PARABLE, APOLOGUE, story, tale, myth.

Alleviate, v. a.   Lighten, mitigate, assuage, moderate, soothe, soften, mollify, allay, quiet, still, quell, abate, lessen, diminish, relieve, palliate, ease, dull, blunt.

Alleviation, n.   Mitigation, palliation, relief.

Alley, n.   1. Walk, passage.

2. Lane, SLUM, narrow street.

3. Taw, large marble.

All-hallow, n.   All-saints day, the first of November.

All-hallows, n.   All-saints day, the first of November.

All-hollow, [Colloquial.] Entirely, completely, wholly, utterly, thoroughly.

Alliance, n.   1. Connection, relation, relationship, affinity, family connection.

2. Union, combination, coalition, federation, copartnership, CONFEDERACY, league, compact, federal compact.

Allied, a.   1. Related, alike, similar, analogous, cognate, akin, kindred, of a piece.

2. United, confederated, co-operating, in league, in co-operation.

All-knowing, a.   Omniscient, all-wise, all-seeing.

All manner of ways, 1. In many ways.

2. In all directions, hither and thither.

Allodial, a.   Independent, freehold, not feudal, free of rent or service.

Allodium, n.   (Law.) Freehold estate.

All one, Indifferent, equal, just the same, quite the same, the same.

Allonge, n.   Pass, thrust, lunge, longe, tilt, stab.

Allonge, v. n.   Pass, lunge, make a pass or thrust.

Allopathic, a.   Heteropathic.

Allopathy, n.   Heteropathy.

Allot, v. a.   1. Distribute, divide, measure, apportion, deal, dispense, parcel out, deal out, give out, mete out, portion out.

2. Assign, appoint, grant, give.

Allotment, n.   1. Apportionment, distribution, partition, dole.

2. Assignment, appointment, grant, gift.

3. Share, part, portion, lot, quota, contingent.

Allow, v. a.   1. Admit, acknowledge, confess, own, concede, take for granted.

2. Permit, let, authorize, grant leave to, give permission to.

3. Suffer, tolerate, endure, bear, put up with, bear with.

4. Grant, give, yield, relinquish, spare.

5. Approve, sanction, justify.

6. Remit, abate, bate, deduct.

Allow, v. n.   Make allowance or provision.

Allowable, a.   Permissible, admissible, lawful, proper, justifiable, warrantable.

Allowance, n.   1. Permission, leave, license, permit, authorization, connivance, sanction, authority, approbation, sufferance.

2. Admission, acknowledgment, concession, assent.

3. Stipend, salary, pay, hire, wages, remuneration, recompense, commission, EXHIBITION, PITTANCE.

4. Qualification, modification, extenuation, limitation, exception.

5. Ration, stated quantity (of food or drink).

Allowance, v. a.   Put upon allowance, limit in the supply of food.

Alloy, n.   1. Combination (of metals) by fusion.

2. Baser metal (mixed with finer).

3. Baser element or ingredient.

All-powerful, a.   Almighty, omnipotent, all-sufficient.

All-saints day, n.   All-hallow, the first of November.

All-seeing, a.   All-knowing, omniscient, all-wise.

Allspice, n.   Pimento, Jamaica pepper.

All-sufficient, a.   Almighty, all-powerful.

All the better, So much the better.

Allude to, Intimate, suggest, insinuate, hint, imply, refer to, glance at, make allusion to.

Allure, v. a.   Entice, tempt, seduce, decoy, lead, solicit, invite, attract, troll, lure, drib, engage, persuade, ensnare, coax, inveigle, TWEEDLE, toll, over-persuade, prevail upon, draw on, bring over, win over.

Allurement, n.   1. Enticement, temptation, seduction, seducement, solicitation, attraction, witchery.

2. Lure, decoy, bait.

Allusion, n.   Reference, hint, intimation, indirect mention.

Allusive, a.   Hinting, suggestive, emblematic, typical, symbolical, figurative.

Allusively, ad.   By implication, by indirect reference, by way of allusion.

Alluvium, n.   Sediment, deposit, silt.

Alluvial land, Dale, valley, bottom.

All-wise, a.   Omniscient, all-knowing, all-seeing.

Ally, v. a.   1. Unite, join, league, confederate, connect, combine.

2. Make similar, make analogous.

Ally, n.   1. Coadjutor, co-operator, assistant, helper, aider, auxiliary, associate, friend, colleague, partner.

2. Abettor, confederate, accomplice, accessary.

Almanac, n.   Calendar, ephemeris, register of the year.

Almighty, a.   Omnipotent, all-powerful, all-sufficient.

Almighty, n.   [With The prefixed.] God.

Almonds, n. pl.   Tonsils.

Almost, ad.   Nearly, toward, towards, well-nigh, all but, for the most part, not quite, within a little.

Alms, n.   Charity, benefaction, gift, charitable donation, eleemosynary aid.

Almshouse, n.   Poorhouse.

Aloft, ad.   Above, overhead, on high.

Alone, a.   1. Single, solitary, only, lone, lonely, isolated, unaccompanied, by one's self, by itself, without company, without another.

2. Of one's self, of one's own power, without help.

Along, ad.   1. Lengthwise, longitudinally, in a line.

2. Onward, forward.

Along, prep.   By or over.

Along-side, ad.   (Naut.) By the side of, side by side.

Aloud, ad.   Loudly, at the top of one's voice.

Alpine, a.   Mountainous, high, elevated.

Already, ad.   1. Even now.

2. Before that time.

Also, ad.   Likewise, too, besides, furthermore, moreover, in addition, in like manner.

Altar, n.   1. Sacrificial structure.

2. Shrine, sacred place, place of worship.

3. Communion-table.

Alter, v. a.   Change (partially), vary, modify, shift, turn, transmute, metamorphose, transform, convert, make some change in.

Alter, v. n.   Vary, change, be changeable.

Alterable, a.   Changeable, variable, mutable.

Alterant, n.   (Med.) Alterative.

Alteration, n.   Change, variation, mutation, vicissitude, modification, deviation, variance, turn.

Alterative, n.   (Med.) Alterant.

Altercation, n.   Dispute, controversy, contention, strife, difference, jangling, jangle, jarring, rupture, quarrel, sparring, bickering, wrangle, wrangling, dissension, war of words.

Alternate, a.   1. Reciprocal, one after another (by turns).

2. (Bot.) On different sides successively.

Alternate, v. n.   Reciprocate, act interchangeably.

Alternate, v. a.   Perform reciprocally or by turns.

Alternation, n.   Reciprocation, interchange.

Alternative, n.   Choice (between two things).

Although, conj.   Though, albeit, notwithstanding, grant that, for all that, be it so, even if.

Altitude, n.   Height, elevation.

Alto, n.   (Mus.) Counter, counter-tenor.

Altogether, ad.   1. Wholly, completely, entirely, totally, utterly, thoroughly, throughout, fully, perfectly, IN TOTO, out and out, to the full.

2. Conjointly, in a body, in a mass, EN MASSE.

Alumina, n.   Oxide of aluminum, argillaceous earth, argil.

Aluminous, a.   Clayey, argillaceous.

Alumnus, n.   [L. pl. Alumni.] Disciple, pupil, foster-child.

Alveary, n.   Beehive.

Alveolate, a.   Cellular, favose, honey-combed.

Alveole, n.   Socket, cell, cavity, alveolus.

Alveolus, n.   [L.] Alveole.

Always, ad.   Ever, evermore, perpetually, continually, eternally, unceasingly, everlastingly, for ever, AYE, FOR AYE, at all times, to the end of time, through all ages.

Amadou, n.   Punk, spunk, German tinder.

Amain, ad.   1. Violently, forcibly, with force, with might and main.

2. (Naut.) Suddenly, all at once.

Amalgamate, v. a.   1. Combine with mercury.

2. Mix, commix, commingle, unite, combine, blend, incorporate, compound.

Amalgamation, n.   1. Combination with mercury.

2. Mixture, combination, compound, commixture.

3. Miscegenation.

Amanuensis, n.   Scribe, copyist, transcriber, writer.

Amaranthine, a.   Unfading, imperishable, undecaying, undying, immortal, perennial, ever-blooming, ever-vernal.

Amass, v. a.   Accumulate, gather, aggregate, pile up, heap up, scrape together, collect together, rake up, gather into a heap or pile.

Amateur, n.   Virtuoso, CONNOISSEUR, DILETTANTE, critic, man of taste.

Amatory, a.   Amorous, erotic, tender, passionate, Anacreontic.

Amaurosis, n.   (Med.) Drop serene, GUTTA SERENA.

Amaze, v. a.   Astonish, astound, confound, stagger, stupefy, dumfound, dumfounder, surprise, take by surprise, strike with wonder, strike with astonishment, petrify with wonder.

Amazement, n.   Astonishment, wonder, surprise.

Amazing, a.   Astonishing, astounding, stupendous, wonderful, surprising, marvellous, miraculous, strange, very extraordinary.

Amazon, n.   Virago.

Ambages, n. pl.   1. Windings, turnings.

2. Circumlocution, periphrasis, verbosity, verbiage, wordiness, diffuseness, circuit of words.

Ambassador, n.   Minister (of the highest rank), plenipotentiary, envoy, legate, deputy.

Ambassadors, n. pl.   Embassy, legation.

Ambient, a.   Surrounding, encompassing, encircling, circling, circumjacent, circumambient.

Ambiguity, n.   1. Doubtfulness, dubiousness, doubt, uncertainty or equivocalness (as respects the meaning of a single term), AMPHIBOLOGY, indefiniteness, vagueness, obscurity.

2. Clinch, pun, ambiguous expression, double meaning.

Ambiguous, a.   Doubtful, dubious, uncertain or equivocal, enigmatical, indefinite, indistinct, vague, indeterminate, not plain, not clear, susceptible of more than one meaning.

Ambition, n.   1. Desire of superiority, desire of distinction.

2. Longing, yearning, aspiration.

Ambitious, a.   1. Aspiring, eager for superiority, eager for distinction or fame.

2. Showy, pretentious.

Ambitious of, Eager for, emulous of, very desirous of.

Amble, v. n.   Pace, move or go at an easy pace.

Amble, n.   Pacing, pace.

Ambrosial, a.   1. Delicious, luscious, savory, palatable, nice.

2. Fragrant, balmy, odorous, aromatic, odoriferous, sweet-scented.

Ambulatory, a.   Walking, moving.

Ambuscade, n.   Ambush, cover, retreat, hiding-place, lurking-place.

Ambush, n.   Ambuscade.

Ameliorate, v. a.   Improve, amend, mend, emend, better, meliorate, make better.

Amelioration, n.   Improvement, amendment, melioration, bettering.

Amen, ad.   So be it, be it so, let it be so.

Amenability, n.   Accountability, liability, responsibility, answerableness, amenableness.

Amenable, a.   Accountable, liable, responsible, answerable.

Amenableness, n.   Amenability.

Amend, v. a.   Improve, mend, emend, correct, rectify, reform, AMELIORATE.

Amend, v. n.   Improve, mend, become better.

Amende honorable, [Fr.] Apology (for improper treatment or language), reparation.

Amendment, n.   1. Improvement, emendation, reformation, change for the better.

2. Correction, alteration.

Amends, n.   Compensation (for loss or injury), recompense, indemnification, indemnity, reparation, restitution, redress, atonement, satisfaction.

Amenity, n.   1. Pleasantness, agreeableness.

2. Suavity, affability, gentleness, civility, comity, courtesy, politeness, urbanity, complaisance, amiability, obliging manner, good manners, good breeding.

Ament, n.   Catkin, AMENTUM.

Amentum, n.   [L.] (Bot.) Ament.

Amerce, v. a.   Fine, mulct, impose a fine upon.

Amercement, n.   Fine, mulct, forfeiture, pecuniary penalty.

Amiability, n.   Loveliness, benignity, kindliness, kindness, amiableness, benignity, amenity, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good feeling, good humor, good temper, sweet temper, sweetness of disposition.

Amiable, a.   Lovable, lovely, sweet, engaging, charming, winning, facile, benignant, benign, sweet-tempered, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, worthy of love.

Amiableness, n.   Amiability.

Amianth, n.   Amianthus.

Amianthus, n.   Amianth, earth-flax (species of asbestos).

Amicable, a.   Friendly, brotherly, fraternal, harmonious, cordial, neighborly, peaceable, kind.

Amicableness, n.   Amity, friendliness, friendship, cordiality, fraternal or friendly feeling, good understanding, good-will.

Amid, ad.   Among (without being part of), amongst, in the midst of, in the middle of, surrounded by.

Amidst, ad.   Among (without being part of), amongst, in the midst of, in the middle of, surrounded by.

Amidships, ad.   (Naut.) Midships.

Amiss, ad.   Wrong, wrongly, improperly, faultily, erroneously.

Amiss, a.   Wrong, improper, faulty, erroneous.

Amity, n.   Friendliness, AMICABLENESS.

Ammonia, n.   Volatile alkali, ammoniacal gas.

Ammonite, n.   Snake-stone.

Ammunition, n.   1. Munition, military stores.

2. Powder and shot.

Amnesty, n.   Forgiveness (granted to whole classes of persons), general pardon (by proclamation), act of oblivion, freedom from penalty.

Among, ad.   Amid (while making part of), amidst, in the midst of, mixed or mingled with.

Amongst, ad.   Amid (while making part of), amidst, in the midst of, mixed or mingled with.

Amorous, a.   1. Loving, fond, enamored.

2. Amatory, erotic, tender, passionate, Anacreontic.

Amorphous, a.   Irregular, shapeless, formless, unshapen.

Amount, n.   1. Aggregate, sum total.

2. Effect, substance, purport, result.

Amount to, Come to, be in the aggregate, be in the whole.

2. Be equivalent to.

Amour, n.   Affair of gallantry, love intrigue, love affair.

Amphibology, n.   Doubtfulness, uncertainty or equivocalness (as respects the meaning of a sentence), AMBIGUITY, indefiniteness.

Ample, a.   1. Large, great, capacious, wide, extended, extensive, spacious, broad, roomy.

2. Plentiful, plenteous, abundant, abounding, overflowing, copious, full, liberal, rich, exuberant, luxurious, lavish, bountiful, handsome.

3. Diffusive, unrestricted, not contracted.

Amplification, n.   1. Enlargement, extension, dilation, expansion, development.

2. Diffuseness, prolixity, diffuse narrative, copious discourse.

Amplify, v. a.   1. Enlarge, extend, augment, magnify, dilate, expand, develop.

2. Make copious or diffuse.

Amplitude, n.   1. Bulk, size, bulkiness, largeness, bigness, greatness, volume, dimensions, mass.

2. Range, reach, sweep, compass, extent.

3. (Astron.) Angular distance (from the east or the west point).

Amputate, v. a.   Sever, separate, cut off.

Amulet, n.   Talisman, charm, phylactery, protection, safeguard.

Amuse, v. a.   1. Entertain, divert, please, cheer, enliven, solace, beguile, relax, disport.

2. Deceive (by inspiring false hopes), delude, cheat, inveigle, mislead, impose upon.

Amusement, n.   Entertainment, diversion, sport, DISPORT, play, fun, frolic, recreation, relaxation, pastime, game.

Amusing, a.   Entertaining, diverting, laughable, ridiculous, comical, funny, farcical, risible.

An, art. 1. One, any, some.

2. Each, every.

Anachronism, n.   Misdate.

Anacreontic, a.   Amatory, amorous, erotic.

Anæsthesia, n.   (Med.) Insensibility (as that produced by the inhalation of sulphuric ether, chloroform, &c.).

Anæsthesis, n.   (Med.) Insensibility (as that produced by the inhalation of sulphuric ether, chloroform, &c.).

Analects, n. pl.   Selections, selected pieces, select pieces, collection of literary fragments.

Analeptic, a.   Restorative, strengthening, invigorating, comforting.

Analeptic, n.   Restorative.

Analogous, a.   Similar (in relations or uses), resembling, alike, like, cognate, parallel, corresponding, allied, of a piece.

Analogy, n.   Similarity (in relations or uses), resemblance, likeness, parallelism, similitude, parity, correspondence.

Analysis, n.   1. Resolution, decomposition, dissection, separation (of elements).

2. Algebra, fluxions, calculus.

3. Parsing.

Analyze, v. a.   Decompose, decompound, dissect, resolve.

Anarchist, n.   Jacobin, turbulent demagogue.

Anarchy, n.   Disorder, misrule, confusion, want of government.

Anastomose, v. n.   (Bot. and Anat.) Inosculate, unite at the end.

Anastomosis, n.   (Bot. and Anat.) Inosculation.

Anathema, n.   Curse, malediction, denunciation, imprecation, fulmination, ban, execration, proscription, excommunication.

Anathematize, v. a.   Curse, denounce, execrate, excommunicate.

Anatomize, v. a.   1. Dissect.

2. Scrutinize, analyze, sift, probe, examine, lay open.

Anatomy, n.   1. Dissection.

2. Science of bodily structure.

Ancestor, n.   Forefather, progenitor, father.

Ancestral, a.   Hereditary, patrimonial.

Ancestry, n.   1. Lineage, family, race, house, line of ancestors.

2. Pedigree, stock, genealogy, descent.

Anchorage, n.   Roadstead, road, port, resting-place.

Anchoret, n.   Hermit, ANCHORITE.

Anchor-ice, n.   Ground-ice.

Anchorite, n.   Hermit, recluse, solitary, SOLITAIRE, anchoret, EREMITE.

Ancient, a.   1. Old, primitive, pristine, OLDEN, of old time, not modern.

2. Of great age, of long duration.

3. Antiquated, antique, archaic, obsolete, by-gone, old-fashioned, out of fashion, out of date, gone by.

Anciently, ad.   Formerly, of old, in the olden time, In ancient times, in days of yore, long ago, a long while ago, in days long-gone.

Ancillary, a.   1. Helping, helpful, auxiliary, instrumental.

2. Subservient, subordinate.

Anecdote, n.   Story (of private life), biographical incident.

Anemone, n.   Wind-flower.

Anemoscope, n.   Weathercock, vane.

Anew, ad.   Newly, afresh, again, over again, DE NOVO.

Anfractuous, a.   Winding, meandering, crooked, serpentine.

Angel, n.   Spirit, supernatural being.

Angel, a.   [Poetical.] Angelic.

Angel-fish, n.   Monk-fish (Squatina angelus).

Angelic, a.   Seraphic, cherubic, heavenly, celestial, ANGEL.

Angelical, a.   Seraphic, cherubic, heavenly, celestial, ANGEL.

Anger, n.   Wrath, rage, fury, resentment, indignation, exasperation, choler, bile, spleen, TEMPER, dudgeon, passion, displeasure, vexation, irritation, offence.

Anger, v. a.   Irritate, provoke, exasperate, chafe, vex, nettle, incense, enrage, inflame, madden, infuriate, make angry.

Angle, n.   1. (Geom.) Difference of direction (of two lines).

2. Corner, bend, elbow, knee, crotch, cusp, point (where two lines meet).

Angle, v. n.   Fish (with a rod), BOB.

Angle for, Fish for, scheme for, plot for, try to get by artifice.

Angler, n.   Fisherman, fisher.

Anglican, a.   English (said of the Church).

Anglice, ad.   [L.] In English.

Anglicism, n.   English idiom.

Anglicize, v. a.   Give an English form to, introduce into English.

Angling, n.   Fishing (with a rod).

Angry, a.   Provoked, exasperated, irritated, incensed, piqued, indignant, moody, sulky, STUFFY, irate, ireful, wroth, wrathful, storming, infuriate, mad, in a passion, out of humor, out of temper, out of tune.

Anguilliform, a.   Eel-shaped.

Anguish, n.   Agony (especially of the mind), torment, torture, rack, pang, severe pain, extreme suffering, acute distress.

Angular, a.   Pointed, with angles, with corners.

Angular distance, Apparent distance, distance as measured by an angle.

Anile, a.   Aged, imbecile, senile, doting, decrepit, superannuated, old-womanish.

Anility, n.   Imbecility, dotage, senility, decrepitude, superannuation, weakness.

Animadversion, n.   Reproof, stricture, censure, blame, condemnation, reprobation, reprehension, severe criticism.

Animadvert upon, Censure, disapprove, find fault with, object to, take exception to, protest against, criticise severely.

Animal, n.   1. Creature, living being, created being.

2. Beast, BRUTE, irrational creature, dumb creature, beast of the field, fowl of the air, denizen of the deep.

Animalcula, n. pl.   [L.] Animalcules, microscopic animals.

Animalcule, n.   Microscopic animal, very minute animal.

Animal magnetism, Mesmerism.

Animal spirits, 1. Nervous fluid.

2. Energy, vigor, life, spirit, spiritedness, ANIMATION.

Animate, v. a.   1. Quicken, inform, make alive, give life to, vivify.

2. Invigorate, fortify, revive, give vigor or energy to.

3. Stimulate, waken, rouse, whet, incite, impel, excite, fire, heat, urge, provoke, warm, goad, kindle, prompt, work up, set on.

4. Encourage, inspire, inspirit, embolden, enhearten, hearten, exhilarate, gladden, elate, elevate, flush, ERECT.

Animated, a.   Lively, vigorous, sprightly, vivacious, buoyant, spirited, jocund, blithe, gay, elated, full of life, full of spirit.

Animating, a.   Cheering, inspiring, enlivening, encouraging, spirit-stirring, heart-stirring.

Animation, n.   1. Life, existence, vitality, breath, vital power, vital spark, breath of life.

2. Liveliness, spirit, spiritedness, vivacity, sprightliness, buoyancy, elasticity, airiness, vigor, ardor, force, strength, energy, exhilaration, cheerfulness, gayety, cheer, animal spirits, high spirits, good spirits.

Animosity, n.   Malignity, virulence, bitterness, rancor, hostility, hatred, hate, enmity, grudge, rankling, spleen, ill-will, heart-burning.

Annals, n. pl.   Records (in the order of years), chronicles, registers, rolls, archives, historical accounts.

Anneal, v. a.   Temper (as glass, by slow cooling).

Annex, v. a.   1. Affix, attach, subjoin, add, superadd, append, tag, tack.

2. Join, unite, connect.

Annexation, n.   1. Affixing, attaching, adding, appending.

2. Junction, joining, connection, conjunction, union.

Annihilate, v. a.   Destroy, extinguish, quench, kill, exterminate, raze, blast, ruin, nullify, annul, put an end to.

Anniversary, a.   Yearly (in the sense of returning with the year), annual.

Anno Domini, [L.] In the year of our Lord.

Annotate, v. n.   Comment, make notes, make comments or remarks.

Annotation, n.   Note, comment, commentary, remark, observation, gloss, scholium, explanation.

Announce, v. a.   Publish, proclaim, advertise, communicate, promulgate, declare, report, trumpet, placard, ENOUNCE, enunciate, blaze abroad, spread abroad, give notice of, make proclamation of, lay before the public, bring to the notice of the public.

Announcement, n.   Advertisement, notice, notification, proclamation, declaration, promulgation, annunciation, pronunciamento, manifesto.

Annoy, v. a.   Molest, trouble, vex, tease, plague, worry, harry, irritate, badger, harass, fret, gall, chafe, hector, bore, incommode, offend, disturb, disquiet, pester, bother, infest, embarrass, pain, wound.

Annoyance, n.   Trouble, vexation, molestation, discomfort, plague, nuisance, bore, torment, curse, infliction, abomination, scourge, thorn, bitter pill, gall and wormwood.

Annual, a.   Yearly, ANNIVERSARY.

Annually, ad.   Yearly, by the year, year by year, PER ANNUM.

Annul, v. a.   Cancel, abrogate, repeal, revoke, recall, recant, countermand, reverse, rescind, abolish, disannul, vacate, quash, nullify, supersede, invalidate, overrule, make void, set aside.

Annular, a.   Ring-shaped.

Annulet, n.   1. Little ring.

2. (Arch.) Fillet, listel, list.

Annulling, n.   Annulment.

Annulment, n.   Annulling, nullification, abrogation, repeal, rescission, cancelling, revocation, abolition.

Annunciation, n.   Announcement.

Anodyne, n.   Opiate, sedative, narcotic.

Anoint, v. a.   1. Smear, rub over with oil or unctuous matter.

2. Consecrate by unction.

Anomalistic, a.   Anomalous.

Anomalous, a.   Irregular, abnormal, anomalistic, unconformable, preternatural, unnatural, unusual, singular, peculiar, exceptional, aberrant, eccentric, erratic, monstrous, out of the way.

Anomaly, n.   Irregularity, abnormity, singularity, peculiarity, unconformity, eccentricity, monstrosity.

Anon, ad.   Soon, quickly, shortly, immediately, in a short time, ere long.

Anonymous, a.   Nameless, without the name of the author.

Another, a.   1. Some other, any other, not the same.

2. One more.

Answer, v. n.   1. Reply (especially to a question), REJOIN, respond, say in reply, make answer.

2. Be accountable, be responsible or liable.

3. Correspond, be like, be similar.

4. Do, pass, serve, be sufficient, be enough, do well enough, pass muster, be of use.

Answer, v. a.   1. Reply to, respond to, make answer to.

2. Refute, meet by argument or explanation.

3. Satisfy, fulfil, be suitable to, be sufficient for.

Answer, n.   1. Reply, response, REJOINDER, replication.

2. Refutation, defence.

Answerable, a.   1. Refutable, that may be answered.

2. Accountable, responsible, amenable, liable.

3. Corresponding, correspondent, correlative, proportionate, suitable, suited, fit.

Ant, n.   Pismire, emmet.

Antagonism, n.   Opposition, contrariety, repugnance, contradiction, clashing.

Antagonist, n.   Opponent, adversary, rival, competitor, enemy, foe, adverse party.

Antagonistic, a.   Opposing, adverse, opposite, hostile, inimical.

Antecedence, n.   Priority (in time), anteriority, precedence.

Antecedent, a.   Preceding, precedent, previous, prior, anterior, foregoing, precursory, forerunning, going before.

Antecedent, n.   1. Precursor, forerunner.

2. (Math.) First term (of a ratio).

3. (Gram.) Preceding noun (to which a relative refers).

4. (Logic.) First proposition (in an enthymeme).

Antecedents, n. pl.   [Modern.] Previous history (of an individual), previous course, incidents of one's past life.

Antedate, v. a.   1. Date before the true time.

2. Anticipate, forestall, foretaste.

Antepast, n.   Foretaste, ANTICIPATION, prelibation, forestalling, presentiment.

Anterior, a.   1. Preceding, prior, previous, antecedent, foregoing, going before.

2. Fore, front, in front.

Anteriority, n.   Priority (in time), precedence, antecedence.

Ante-room, n.   Vestibule, lobby, hall.

Anthelmintic, n.   Vermifuge, helminthagogue.

Anthem, n.   Hymn, divine song.

Anthology, n.   Selections (from authors), beauties, elegant extracts.

Anthracite, n.   Blind-coal, glance-coal, stone-coal, hard-coal.

Anthropophagi, n. pl.   Cannibals, man-eaters.

Antic, a.   Odd, fantastic, grotesque, wild, ridiculous.

Antic, n.   1. Prank, trick, freak, gambol, caper, vagary.

2. Buffoon, fool, merry-andrew, scaramouch, mountebank, harlequin, punch, clown, zany, jester, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.

Anticipate, v. a.   1. Go before, get the start of.

2. Take up beforehand, consider in advance.

3. Foretaste, forestall, antedate.

4. Expect, forecast, foresee, look forward to, count upon, reckon upon, calculate upon, prepare one's self for.

Anticipation, n.   1. Expectation, expectance, contemplation, prospect, hope, trust, ABEYANCE.

2. Foretaste, prelibation, antepast, presentiment, forestalling, foreseeing, foresight, prescience, prevision, forethought, forecast, preconception.

Anticlimax, n.   Bathos.

Antidote, n.   1. Counterpoison, anti-poison, counteractive, corrective.

2. Remedy, cure, specific, restorative.

Antifebrile, a.   Febrifugal.

Antifebrile, n.   Febrifuge.

Antipathy, n.   Repugnance (natural or constitutional), disgust, abhorrence, detestation, hatred, hate, loathing, aversion, horror.

Antipodal, a.   Opposite, over against, diametrically opposite.

Anti-poison, n.   Antidote.

Antiquarian, n.   Antiquary, archæologian, archæologist.

Antiquarian, a.   Archæological.

Antiquary, n.   Antiquarian.

Antiquated, a.   Obsolete, unfashionable, antique, by-gone, archaic, ancient, grown old, out of use, out of fashion, out of date, old-fashioned, gone by.

Antique, a.   Old, ancient, ANTIQUATED.

Antique, n.   Ancient rarity, piece of ancient art.

Antiquity, n.   1. Old times, the olden time, ancient times, days of yore, AULD LANG SYNE.

2. Ancients, people of old times.

3. Ancientness, great age.

4. [pl.] Relics of old times.

Antispasmodic, a.   Carminative, good for cramp or spasms.

Antithesis, n.   (Rhet.) Contrast, opposition.

Antithetic, a.   Contrasted, placed in contrast.

Antithetical, a.   Contrasted, placed in contrast.

Anxiety, n.   Solicitude, concern, care, uneasiness, disquiet, apprehension, fear, misgiving, perplexity, worry, vexation, trouble, pain, disquietude.

Anxious, a.   Solicitous, uneasy, restless, unquiet, apprehensive, CAREFUL, greatly concerned.

Any, a.   1. A single one (of many), any one.

2. Some (indefinitely).

Any, ad.   Somewhat, at all, in any degree.

Anyhow, ad.   In any manner, in any way, in any case.

Apace, ad.   Quickly, speedily, swiftly, rapidly, hastily, post-haste, with speed, with quick pace.

Apart, ad.   1. Separately, aloof, aside, by one's self, by itself.

2. Asunder, into two parts.

Apartment, n.   Room, chamber, hall.

Apathetic, a.   Unfeeling, passionless, impassible, impassive, Platonic, stoical, unimpressible, unsusceptible, insensible, senseless, soulless, phlegmatic, dull, obtuse, cold, sluggish, torpid, tame, lukewarm, indifferent, callous, dead, cold-blooded, without sensibility, destitute of feeling.

Apathy, n.   Insensibility, impassibility, dispassion, dulness, torpor, coldness, phlegm, indifference, unconcern, unfeelingness, stoicism, want of feeling.

Ape, n.   Monkey (without a tail).

Ape, v. a.   Mimic, imitate, mock, counterfeit, take off.

Aperient, a.   (Med.) Laxative, deobstruent, loosening.

Aperient, n.   (Med.) Laxative, laxative medicine.

Aperture, n.   Opening, hole, perforation, LOOP-HOLE, passage, eye, eyelet, hollow, cavity.

Apex, n.   Top, summit, acme, zenith, pinnacle, highest point, culminating point, utmost height.

Aphis, n.   [pl. Aphides.] Plant-louse, vine-fretter, puceron.

Aphorism, n.   Maxim, adage, proverb, saying, dictum, saw, apothegm, byword, sententious precept.

Apiary, n.   Bee-house, beehive.

Apiece, ad.   Severally, one by one, for each.

Apish, a.   1. Imitative (in a servile manner), mimicking.

2. Affected, foppish, trifling.

Apocalypse, n.   Revelation, prophecy of St. John.

Apocryphal, a.   Unauthentic, legendary, uncanonical, of doubtful authority.

Apollyon, n.   Satan, arch-fiend, Devil.

Apologetical, a.   Excusatory, exculpatory.

Apologist, n.   Defender, vindicator, supporter, advocate.

Apologize, v. n.   Make an apology, offer an excuse, plead in defence or extenuation.

Apologue, n.   Fable (founded on the supposed action of brutes or of inanimate things), PARABLE, ALLEGORY, tale, story.

Apology, n.   1. Defence, vindication, justification.

2. Excuse, plea, explanation, extenuation, reparation, AMENDE HONORABLE.

Apostasy, n.   Defection, desertion, backsliding, dereliction, fall.

Apostate, n.   Renegade, backslider, deserter, turncoat.

Apostate, a.   Treacherous, false, faithless, untrue, recreant, backsliding.

Apostle, n.   Messenger, missionary.

Apostolic see, Church of Rome.

Apothegm, n.   Maxim, adage, saying, dictum, saw, proverb, aphorism, byword, sententious precept.

Apotheosis, n.   Deification.

Appall, v. a.   Terrify, frighten, affright, dismay, daunt, scare, intimidate, shock, put in great fear, strike with terror, petrify with fear.

Apparatus, n.   Tools, instruments, utensils, means.

Apparel, n.   Clothes, clothing, dress, raiment, attire, ARRAY, costume, toilet, habit, habiliments, garb, gear, garments, vestments, outfit, accoutrement, equipment, suit, rigging, trappings, TOGGERY, wardrobe.

Apparel, v. a.   Dress, clothe, attire, array, robe, rig, accoutre, equip, fit out, TRICK OUT.

Apparent, a.   1. Visible, discernible, perceptible, open, external, in view, in sight, to be seen.

2. Manifest, obvious, patent, clear, evident, indubitable, plain, conspicuous, legible, unmistakable, in plain sight.

3. Seeming, specious, ostensible, not real.

Apparently, ad.   1. Evidently, obviously, clearly, manifestly, plainly.

2. Seemingly, ostensibly, QUASI, on appearance, at the first blush, in semblance, in show.

Apparition, n.   Ghost, spectre, phantom, phantasm, spirit, sprite, hobgoblin, shade, chimera, illusion, WRAITH, vision, preternatural appearance.

Appeal, v. n.   1. (Law.) Refer the case or cause (from one court to another).

2. Refer to another (in any controversy).

Appeal, v. a.   1. [Rare.] Summon, challenge.

2. (Law.) Refer, transfer by appeal (from one court to another).

Appeal, n.   1. Address, invocation, petition, request, entreaty, imploration, application, solicitation, suit.

2. Resort, recourse.

Appeal to, Address, invoke, refer to, call upon, make application to.

Appear, v. n.   1. Emerge, be in sight, come in sight, be visible, come into view, HEAVE IN SIGHT, open to the view, present itself, crop out, show itself, turn up, come upon the stage, see the light.

2. Open, dawn, break.

3. Arise, occur, offer.

4. Stand in judgment, be present to answer.

5. Be manifest, be obvious, be open, be known.

6. Seem, look, show, wear the appearance, present the appearance, have the appearance, strike one as being.

Appearance, n.   1. Coming, arrival.

2. Appearance, spectrum, what is seen.

3. Semblance, seeming, show, face, pretence, color, pretext, guise, fashion, feature.

4. Mien, air, aspect, look, complexion, figure, manner, demeanor, personal presence.

Appeasable, a.   Placable, forgiving, reconcilable.

Appease, v. a.   1. Pacify, calm, quiet, soothe, tranquillize, allay, assuage, mollify, alleviate, mitigate, abate, ease, compose, still, hush, lull, dull, quell, blunt, temper, attemper, lessen, qualify.

2. Propitiate, reconcile, make propitious, make favorable.

Appellation, n.   Name, title, epithet, cognomen, denomination, style, description, designation, descriptive term.

Append, v. a.   1. Hang or attach.

2. Add, subjoin, join, annex, affix, superadd, tag, tack.

Appendage, n.   Concomitant, attendant, accompaniment, adjunct, attachment, appurtenance, appendix, tailpiece.

Appendant, a.   Annexed, attached, concomitant, hanging.

Appendix, n.   1. Adjunct, addition, appurtenance, appendage, addendum.

2. Supplement.

Appertain to, 1. Belong to, pertain to, be incident to.

2. Regard, concern, touch, relate to, refer to, bear upon.

Appetence, n.   1. Appetite, strong desire.

Appetency, n.   1. Appetite, strong desire.

2. Tendency, inclination, leaning, bent, disposition, propensity, fondness, liking, PENCHANT.

Appetite, n.   1. Desire, longing, craving, relish, hankering, pruriency, appetency, passion.

2. Hunger, stomach, desire of food.

Appetizer, n.   Zest, relish.

Appetizing, a.   That whets the appetite.

Applaud, v. a.   1. Cheer, clap.

2. Praise, commend, laud, approve, compliment, extol, magnify, cry up.

Applause, n.   Acclamation, acclaim, plaudit, eclat, clapping of hands, shout of approbation, loud praise.

Apple of the eye, Pupil of the eye.

Apple Peru, Thorn apple, stramonium, stramony, Jamestown weed (Datura stramonium).

Apple-pie order, [Colloquial.] Perfect order.

Appliance, n.   1. Application, use, exercise, applying.

2. Expedient, means, instrumentality, resource.

Appliances, n. pl.   Means, expedients, instrumentalities, appointments, steps, measures, ways and means.

Applicable, a.   Suitable, fit, fitting, befitting, appropriate, relevant, adapted, apt, proper, pertinent, apposite, germane, to the point, to the purpose.

Applicant, n.   Petitioner, solicitor, suitor, candidate.

Application, n.   1. Applying.

2. Appliance, use, exercise, practice.

3. Solicitation, petition, appeal, request, suit.

4. Assiduity, industry, perseverance, persistency, intense study, close attention.

Apply, v. a.   1. Lay upon, put or place upon.

2. Appropriate, use, employ, exercise, ply, convert to use, put to use.

3. Disperse, execute, carry out, put in practice.

4. Devote, dedicate, addict, direct, engage, turn attentively, bend with diligence.

Apply to, 1. Suit, fit, be adapted to, be suitable to, be applicable to.

2. Solicit, petition, request, appeal to, call upon, make application to, have recourse to.

Appoint, v. a.   1. Fix, determine, prescribe, set, establish.

2. Direct, ordain, enjoin, require, command, decree, order, bid, impose, insist on.

3. Assign, allot, designate, destine.

4. Nominate, name, constitute, create.

5. Furnish, equip, supply.

Appointment, n.   1. Appointing, designation to office.

2. Station, position, office, place.

3. Assignation, agreement (as to time and place of meeting), TRYST, stipulation, arrangement.

4. Decree, bidding, command, order, direction, precept, mandate, ordination, enactment, law, requirement.

5. Equipment, equipage, furniture, outfit, appliance.

6. Allowance, salary, pay, stipend, pension.

7. Nomination, constitution, creation.

Apportion, v. a.   Allot, distribute, assign, divide, partition, part, measure, share, appropriate, deal, dispense, parcel out, deal out, portion out.

Apportionment, n.   Distribution, allotment, assignment, dole, partition, division.

Apposite, a.   Apt, pertinent, relevant, fit, fitting, befitting, suitable, appropriate, seasonable, germane, APROPOS, to the purpose, to the point, well applied, well put.

Appraise, v. a.   Value, estimate, prize, rate, measure, set a value on, fix a price for, estimate the worth of, form an estimate of.

Appraisement, n.   Valuation, estimation, estimate, judgment.

Appreciate, v. a.   1. Estimate justly, set a just value on, form a correct estimate of, value rightly.

2. Estimate, esteem, value, rate.

3. [U. S.] Raise the value of.

Appreciate, v. n.   [U. S.] Rise in value, be worth more.

Appreciation, n.   1. Valuation, estimation.

2. Just estimate, correct valuation.

Apprehend, v. a.   1. Seize, arrest, take, take prisoner.

2. Conceive, imagine, see, perceive, believe, know, COMPREHEND.

3. Fear, dread, think of with fear.

Apprehend, v. n.   Think, suppose, imagine, conceive, fancy, OPINE, hold, ween, presume, be of opinion, take it, entertain the idea.

Apprehension, n.   1. Seizure, arrest.

2. Understanding, intellect, intelligence, intellection, mind, reason.

3. Conception, IMAGINATION, the mind's eye.

4. Knowledge, discernment, perception, sense.

5. Opinion, belief, fancy, supposition, judgment, sentiment, idea, notion.

6. Fear, dread, distrust, suspicion, anxiety, solicitude, care, concern, misgiving, alarm, worry, disquiet, uneasiness, vexation.

Apprehensive, a.   1. Quick to understand.

2. Fearful, distrustful, suspicious, anxious, afraid.

Apprentice, n.   Learner (of a trade).

Apprise, v. a.   Inform, acquaint, warn, notify, tell, admonish, make acquainted, make aware, give notice to, disclose to, make known to, mention to.

Approach, v. n.   Approximate, draw near, draw nigh, come near, be at hand.

Approach, v. a.   Resemble, come near to, be like.

Approach, n.   1. Advance, approximation, advent, coming, drawing near.

2. Access, admittance, admission.

Approachable, a.   Accessible.

Approbation, n.   1. Approval, liking, praise, encomium, commendation, good opinion, favorable opinion.

2. Support, concurrence, assent, consent, sanction, ratification.

Appropriate, v. a.   1. Adopt, take to one's self, take as one's own.

2. Take, seize, abstract, steal, purloin.

3. Assign, apportion, allot, set apart.

4. Apply, use, employ, convert.

Appropriate, a.   Adapted, fit, fitting, befitting, apt, PAT, suitable, proper, becoming, due, seemly, agreeable, conformable, congruous, germane, convenient, pertinent, apposite, felicitous, applicable, APROPOS, to the point, to the purpose.

Appropriateness, n.   Suitableness, fitness, propriety, aptness, appositeness, pertinency, PERTNESS, relevancy, felicity, applicability.

Appropriation, n.   1. Seizure, capture, taking, taking to one's self.

2. Application (to a particular use).

3. Sum set apart (for a specific object).

Approval, n.   1. Approbation.

2. Support, sanction, assent, consent, concurrence, ratification.

Approve, v. a.   1. Commend, recommend, praise, like, appreciate, value, think well or favorably of, think highly of, speak well of, be pleased with.

2. Sanction, confirm, justify, ratify, sustain, make valid.

Approximate, a.   1. Proximate, approaching, coming near.

2. Nearly correct, nearly accurate or true.

Approximate, v. a.   [Rare.] Bring near.

Approximate, v. n.   Approach, come near.

Approximately, ad.   Near, nearly, about, not far from.

Approximation, n.   Approach.

Appulse, n.   Collision, meeting, coming together, striking together.

Appulsive, a.   Impinging, striking against.

Appurtenance, n.   Adjunct, appendage, dependency.

Appurtenant, a.   Belonging.

A priori, [L.] Theoretically, before experience, before trial, from assumed principles.

Apropos, a.   [Fr.] Opportune, seasonable, timely, fit, suitable, apt, apposite, to the point, to the purpose, just the thing, quite the thing.

Apropos, ad.   Opportunely, seasonably, to the purpose.

Apt, a.   1. Apposite, pertinent, suitable, fit, fitting, meet, befitting, germane, applicable, appropriate, APROPOS, to the point, to the purpose.

2. Inclined, liable, prone, disposed.

3. Quick, sharp, ready, prompt, expert, dexterous, able, clever, happy, adroit, handy, skilful.

4. Docile, teachable.

Aptitude, n.   Turn, disposition, genius, gift, endowment, talent, faculty, capacity, capableness, tendency, inclination, bias, proclivity, proneness, propensity, forte, aptness.

Aptness, n.   1. Fitness, suitableness, appropriateness, adaptation, applicability.

2. Turn, tendency, inclination, APTITUDE.

3. Quickness, readiness, expertness, skill, facility, knack, adroitness, address, ability.

4. Docility, teachableness.

Aqua-fortis, n.   [L.] Nitric acid (somewhat diluted), spirit of nitre.

Aqua-regia, n.   [L.] Nitro-muriatic acid, nitro-chloro-hydric acid.

Aquarius, n.   (Astron.) Water-bearer.

Aqueous, a.   Watery, waterish, moist, wet, humid, damp.

Aquiline, a.   Hooked (like an eagle's beak; applied especially to the nose), bent, curved.

Arab, n.   Arabian, Saracen.

Arabesque, a.   Moorish, moresque.

Arabian, a.   Arabic.

Arabian, n.   Arab, Saracen.

Arabic, a.   Arabian.

Arable, a.   That may be ploughed, fit for the plough, suitable for cultivation.

Arbiter, n.   Arbitrator, umpire, judge, referee.

Arbitrament, n.   1. Choice, option, will, determination, decision, umpirage.

2. (Law.) Award, adjudication, determination, decision, decree.

Arbitrariness, n.   Despotism, absoluteness, absolutism, tyranny, autocracy.

Arbitrary, a.   1. Irresponsible, absolute, tyrannical, tyrannous, imperious, domineering, bound by no law.

2. Optional, voluntary, determined by no rule or principle.

Arbitrate, v. a.   Decide, determine.

Arbitrate, v. n.   1. Mediate, intercede, interpose.

2. Judge, decide, determine, adjudicate, give judgment, pass judgment.

Arbitration, n.   1. Mediation, intervention, intercession, interposition.

2. Decision, determination, adjudication, arbitrament, umpirage.

Arbitrator, n.   Arbiter, umpire, judge, referee.

Arbor, n.   1. Bower, shady recess, shady retreat.

2. Spindle, axis, shaft.

Arborescence, n.   Branching, ramification.

Arborescent, a.   Dendriform, dendrite, dendritic, arboriform, branching.

Arboriform, a.   Dendriform, ARBORESCENT.

Arbor-vitæ, n.   White cedar (of Canada; Thuja occidentalis).

Arc, n.   (Geom.) Arch, part of a circumference.

Arcade, n.   Piazza, colonnade.

Arcanum, n.   [L. pl. Arcana.] Secret, mystery.

Arch, n.   1. (Geom.) Arc, part of a circumference.

2. Curved structure.

Arch, v. a.   1. Vault, cover with an arch, arch over.

2. Bend into the form of an arch.

Arch, a.   1. Chief, principal, consummate, first-rate, of the first class.

2. Sly, shrewd, cunning, wily, astute, subtle.

3. Roguish, waggish, mirthful, frolicsome, sportive, merry, playful.

Archæologian, n.   Archæologist.

Archæological, a.   Antiquarian.

Archæologist, n.   Antiquarian, antiquary.

Archæology, n.   Science of antiquities.

Archaic, a.   Old, ancient, obsolete, antiquated, antique, by-gone, out of use, out of date, out of fashion, old-fashioned.

Archaism, n.   Antiquated term or expression.

Archbishop, n.   Primate, metropolitan.

Archduchy, n.   Archdukedom.

Archdukedom, n.   Archduchy.

Arched, a.   1. Vaulted, bowed, camerated, concave.

2. (Bot.) Fornicate.

Arched-ceiling, n.   [L.] Vault.

Arched roof, n.   [L.] Vault.

Arch-enemy, n.   Arch-fiend.

Arch-fiend, n.   Devil, Satan.

Archer, n.   Bowman, SAGITTARY.

Arch over, Arch, cover with an arch.

Archetype, n.   Pattern, model, type, prototype, original, examplar, example, protoplast, mirror, paragon.

Arching, a.   Vaulted, curving.

Architect, n.   1. Designer of buildings, professor of building.

2. Contriver, maker, former, author.

Architecture, n.   1. Science or art of building.

2. Workmanship, framework, frame, structure, fabric.

Archives, n. pl.   1. Registry, record-office.

2. Records, chronicles, registers, ANNALS, historical accounts.

Archway, n.   Arched passage.

Arctic, a.   Northern, boreal.

Arcuate, a.   [Rare.] Curved, bent, bowed, hooked, crooked, aduncous.

Arcuation, n.   [Rare.] Curvature, incurvation, curvity, flexure, bend, crook.

Ardent, a.   1. Hot, burning, fiery.

2. Warm, passionate, fervent, impassioned, eager, intense, keen, sharp, vehement, fiery, earnest, fervid, glowing, zealous, devoted, enthusiastic, strenuous, sanguine.

3. Alcoholic, spirituous.

Ardor, n.   1. Heat, warmth.

2. Zeal, fervor, fervency, flame, glow, excitement, sharpness, earnestness, eagerness, heartiness, devotion, enthusiasm, soul, spirit, vehemence, impetuosity, intensity, passion.

Arduous, a.   1. Steep, high, lofty, uphill.

2. Hard, difficult, laborious, onerous, troublesome, Herculean, toilsome, tiresome, wearisome, fatiguing, beset with difficulties, full of difficulties.

Area, n.   1. Region, sphere, realm, territory, domain, district, circuit, circle, definite space.

2. (Geom.) Superficial contents.

Arena, n.   Field, lists, stage, ring, amphitheatre, battle-field, field of battle, scene of action, place of contest.

Arenaceous, a.   Sandy, arenose.

Arenose, a.   Sandy, arenaceous.

Areometer, n.   Hydrometer.

Argent, a.   1. Of silver.

2. Silvery, bright, resplendent, shining, radiant, brilliant, beaming, effulgent, refulgent.

Argil, n.   1. Potter's clay, white clay.

2. Alumina, argillaceous earth, oxide of aluminium.

Argillaceous, a.   Clayey, aluminous.

Argol, n.   Tartar (crude), bitartrate of potash, wine-stone.

Argosy, n.   Carack, galleon.

Argue, v. n.   1. Reason, plead, offer reasons, use arguments.

2. Dispute, debate, chop logic, try conclusions, bandy words or arguments, hold or carry on an argument.

Argue, v. a.   1. Show, indicate, evince, denote, imply, betoken, prove.

2. Debate, discuss, VENTILATE, sift, contest, controvert, moot, reason upon.

Arguer, n.   Reasoner, debater, controversialist, disputant, disputer.

Argument, n.   1. Reason, reasoning, chain of reasoning, process of reasoning.

2. Controversy, dispute, disputation, discussion.

3. Subject, topic, matter, theme, thesis, question, subject-matter, matter in hand.

Argumentation, n.   Reasoning, ratiocination, process of reasoning.

Argumentative, a.   1. Controversial, polemical.

2. Disputatious, given to controversy.

Argus-eyed, a.   Discerning, perspicacious, sharp-sighted, quick-sighted, lynx-eyed, hawk-eyed.

Arid, a.   Dry, dried up, parched with heat.

Aridity, n.   Dryness, SICCITY, want of moisture.

Aright, ad.   Rightly, without error or mistake.

Ariose, a.   Melodious, of a melodious character, characterized by melody (as distinguished from harmony).

Arise, v. n.   1. Ascend, mount, soar, tower, go up.

2. Get up, start up, get out of bed.

3. Rise, appear, come in sight, come into view, present itself, show itself, discover itself, make its appearance, reveal itself, come to light.

4. Begin, originate, spring, spring up, be excited, come into action.

5. Come into being, enter upon life.

6. Accrue, result, proceed, issue, flow, follow, come, ensue, be derived.

Aristate, a.   (Bot.) Awned, bearded.

Aristocracy, n.   1. Government of nobles or a privileged order.

2. Nobility, noblesse, gentry, peerage, body of nobles, the quality, persons of rank.

3. [Colloquial.] Upper classes, UPPER-TEN, UPPER-CRUST, upper ten thousand.

Aristocratic, a.   1. Noble, princely, patrician, titled, of high rank.

2. Haughty, proud, arrogant, disdainful, overweening, supercilious, overbearing, consequential.

Aristocratical, a.   1. Noble, princely, patrician, titled, of high rank.

2. Haughty, proud, arrogant, disdainful, overweening, supercilious, overbearing, consequential.

Aristotelian, a.   Peripatetic.

Aristotelian, n.   Follower of Aristotle, peripatetic philosopher.

Arithmetic, n.   Science of numbers, art of computation.

Arm, n.   1. Branch, bough, projecting part.

2. Inlet (of the sea).

3. Power, might, strength, puissance.

4. Branch of military service (as artillery or cavalry).

Arm, v. a.   1. Equip, furnish, provide, or supply with arms.

2. Fortify, put in a state of defence.

3. Prepare, fit up, make ready.

Arm, v. n.   Take arms, be fitted or provided with arms.

Armada, n.   Fleet (especially that of Spain against England in 1588), squadron, flotilla.

Armament, n.   1. Body of forces.

2. Guns, cannon, arms, munitions of war.

Arm-chair, n.   Elbow-chair, armed chair.

Armistice, n.   Truce, suspension of hostilities, cessation of arms, temporary peace.

Arm of flesh, Human strength, human aid.

Arm of the sea, Estuary, frith, inlet.

Armor, n.   Defensive clothing, coat of mail.

Armorial, a.   Heraldic.

Armory, n.   Arsenal, depository of arms, magazine of arms.

Armpit, n.   Axilla.

Arms, n. pl.   1. Weapons.

2. War, warlike exploits.

3. Escutcheon, scutcheon, shield, ensign armorial, armorial hearings.

Army, n.   Host, force, troops, legions, armed force, military force, body of troops.

Arnica, n.   Leopard's-bane.

Aroma, n.   Fragrance, perfume, redolence, sweet scent, pleasing scent, grateful odor.

Aromatic, a.   Fragrant, redolent, balmy, spicy, odoriferous, aromatous, ambrosial, high-scented, strong-scented, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling.

Aromatize, v. a.   Scent, perfume.

Aromatous, a.   Fragrant, spicy, AROMATIC.

Around, ad.   Round, on every side, on all sides, in a circle, right and left.

Around, prep.   1. About, round, encircling, encompassing, surrounding, on every side of.

2. All over, in all parts of.

Arouse, v. a.   Incite, excite, animate, stimulate, warm, kindle, inspirit, provoke, instigate, awaken, raise, whet, stir up, wake up, summon up, set on, hurry on.

Arraign, v. a.   1. Prosecute, bring to trial, take the law of, bring before a court.

2. Accuse, charge, denounce, impeach, indict, criminate, tax, inform against, call to account, take to task.

Arraignment, n.   1. Prosecution, bringing to trial.

2. Accusation, charge, indictment, impeachment.

Arrange, v. a.   1. Dispose, array, class, classify, group, rank, trim, marshal, distribute, place, range, put or bring into order, set in order, reduce to order, set out, assign places to.

2. Adjust, settle, determine, fix upon.

3. Plan, devise, scheme, contrive, project, mature, organize, concoct, construct, prepare, fall upon, hit upon, lay out.

Arrangement, n.   1. Disposition, classification, method, distribution, grouping, collocation, reducing to order.

2. Structure, make, form, mode of building, manner of making.

3. Adjustment, settlement.

4. Regulation, management, economy.

5. Preparation, plan, scheme.

Arrant, a.   1. Notorious, utter, gross, downright, consummate, rank, thorough-going.

2. Infamous, vile, atrocious, monstrous.

Arras, n.   Tapestry, hangings.

Array, n.   1. Order, regular disposition.

2. Dress, fine clothes, elegant attire, rich garments.

3. Exhibition, show.

4. (Law.) Panel, body of jurors.

Array, v. a.   1. Rank, range, arrange, place, dispose, marshal, set in order, draw up.

2. Dress, habit, enrobe, robe, invest, clothe, bedeck, deck, adorn, embellish, decorate, garnish, BEDIZEN, TRICK OUT, set off.

Arrears, n. pl.   Arrearage, amounts due but unpaid.

Arrearage, n.   Arrears.

Arrest, v. a.   1. Stop, stay, check, interrupt, obstruct, hinder, delay, detain, restrain, hold, withhold, keep back.

2. Seize, apprehend, take, capture, catch, take up, take into custody, take prisoner.

3. Engage, fix, engross, occupy, rivet.

Arrest, n.   1. Staying, stopping, hinderance, obstruction.

2. Seizure, capture, detention.

Arrival, n.   Advent, coming.

Arrive, v. n.   1. Come, get here, reach this place.

2. Get there, reach that place.

Arrive at, Reach, attain, come to, get to, TOUCH AT.

Arrogance, n.   Haughtiness, pride, presumption, assumption, superciliousness, disdain, contumely, lordliness, loftiness, stateliness, self-conceit, conceitedness, self-importance, HAUTEUR.

Arrogant, a.   Haughty, proud, supercilious, lordly, disdainful, contumelious, cavalier, overbearing, overweening, assuming, magisterial, dogmatic, imperious, important, swelling, blustering, big, high, lofty, stately, self-conceited, self-sufficient, UPPISH.

Arrogate, v. a.   Assume, usurp, claim unduly, make unjust pretensions to.

Arrow, n.   Dart, shaft, bolt.

Arrow-headed, a.   Wedge-shaped, cuneiform.

Arsenal, n.   Armory, magazine of arms, repository of military stores.

Arsenic, n.   Arsenious acid.

Arsenious acid, Arsenic, rat's-bane, white arsenic, white oxide of arsenic.

Art, n.   1. Trade, craft, business, calling, employment, exercise of skill.

2. Skill, address, adroitness, readiness, dexterity, tact, aptitude, aptness, cleverness, ingenuity.

3. Cunning, astuteness, artfulness, shrewdness, artifice, deceit, subtlety, craftiness, craft, duplicity, wiliness, guile.

Artful, a.   1. Skilful, ingenious, dexterous.

2. Cunning, crafty, astute, shrewd, sharp, wily, sly, foxy, snaky, subtle, arch, insidious, designing, intriguing, politic, deceitful, trickish, TRICKY, diplomatic, Machiavelian.

Article, n.   1. Part, portion, branch, member, clause, item, particular, count, point.

2. Term, stipulation, provision, condition, covenant.

3. Thing, substance, commodity.

4. (Gram.) Definitive adjective.

Articulate, a.   1. Jointed, articulated. 2. Distinctly uttered.

Articulate, v. a.   Utter distinctly (as respects the elementary sounds), PRONOUNCE, ENOUNCE, speak.

Articulated, a.   Jointed, articulate.

Articulation, n.   1. Distinct utterance.

2. Consonant.

3. Joint, juncture, hinge.

Artifice, n.   Cunning, deceit, trickery, duplicity, guile, subtlety, finesse, stratagem, trick, subterfuge, wile, ruse, chance, dodge, doubling, Machiavelism, machination, deception, cheat, shuffle, fraud, imposture, imposition, double-dealing, COLLUSION, hocus-pocus, crafty device, artful contrivance.

Artificer, n.   Artist (not of the highest grade), manufacturer, superior artisan, skilful mechanic, TRADESMAN.

Artificial, a.   1. Factitious, made by art, not natural.

2. Fictitious, feigned, counterfeited, sham, spurious.

3. Assumed, affected, forced, strained.

Artillery, n.   Ordnance, cannon, enginery, great guns.

Artisan, n.   Mechanic, handicraftsman, workman, laborer, operative.

Artist, n.   1. Designer, contriver, projector, adept, ARTIFICER, skilful person.

2. Painter, limner, sketcher.

3. Sculptor, carver, modeller.

Artistic, a.   Skilful, masterly, workman-like.

Artistical, a.   Skilful, masterly, workman-like.

Artless, a.   1. Ignorant, unlearned, untaught, unskilful, rude.

2. Inartificial, simple, natural, without marks of art.

3. Unaffected, plain, honest, frank, fair, open, candid, NAÏVE, guileless, sincere, true, unsophisticated, ingenuous, undesigning, truthful, honorable, single-minded, simple-hearted, simple-minded, open-hearted, straightforward.

As, ad.   1. In the manner that.

2. Like, similar to, for example, of the same kind with, in the same manner with.

3. Viewed like, taken in the character of, considered in the state of.

4. While, during the time that, at the same time that.

5. Because, since, for the reason that.

6. To the degree that, in the same proportion that.

7. Being of the kind which, being of the class who.

As far as, To the extent that, to the degree that.

Ascend, v. n.   1. Rise, arise, aspire, mount, soar, tower, CLIMB, go up.

2. Go backward (in the order of time).

Ascend, v. a.   CLIMB, scale, get up, go up.

Ascendant, n.   1. Horoscope.

2. Superiority, predominance, ascendency, superior influence, controlling influence.

Ascendant, a.   1. Rising, above the horizon.

2. Superior, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, surpassing.

Ascendency, n.   Power, authority, sway, control, superiority, government, masterly, masterdom, command, dominion, rule, sovereignty, supremacy, domination, predominance, controlling influence, advantage over, upper-hand.

Ascension, n.   Rising, rise, ascent.

Ascent, n.   1. Rising, rise, ascension.

2. Acclivity, rising ground.

3. Elevation, height, eminence.

Ascertain, v. a.   1. Determine, establish, fix, settle, define, certify, verify, make certain, make sure.

2. Discover, find out, get at.

Ascetic, a.   Austere, rigid, severe, stern, puritanical, uncompromising.

Ascetic, n.   Recluse, hermit, anchoret, solitary, solitaire, EREMITE.

Asceticism, n.   Austerity, mortification.

Ascribable, a.   Attributable, traceable, chargeable, imputable, referrible, owing.

Ascribe, v. a.   Attribute, assign, refer, charge, lay, IMPUTE.

As good as, 1. Of equal goodness with.

2. The same as, equivalent to, equal to, tantamount to.

Ashamed, a.   Abashed, confused, put out of countenance.

Ash-colored, a.   Ashy, pale, gray.

Ashes, n. pl.   1. Remains (of what is burnt).

2. Corpse, remains (of the human body), dead body.

Ashore, ad.   1. On shore, on land.

2. To the shore.

3. Aground, not afloat.

4. Stranded, wrecked, cast away.

Ashy, a.   1. Cineritious, cinereous, favillous, like ashes.

2. Pale, pallid, whitish, gray, ash-colored.

Asiatic cholera, Spasmodic cholera, cholera asphyxia.

Aside, ad.   1. Laterally, to the side, to one side.

2. Out of the straight course, out of the true course.

3. Apart, separately, away.

As if, As though.

As it were, So to speak, so it would seem, so it seems.

Ask, v. a.   1. Question, interrogate, inquire of, put the question to.

2. Request, solicit, petition, beseech, implore, supplicate, crave, beg, desire, entreat, pray for, prefer a petition for, make application for.

3. Require, claim, demand, challenge, call for.

Ask, v. n.   1. Petition, beg, pray.

2. Inquire, question, make inquiry.

Askance, ad.   Obliquely, sidewise, askew, aslant, on one side.

Askant, ad.   Obliquely, sidewise, askew, aslant, on one side.

Asker, n.   Inquirer, petitioner, solicitor, solicitant.

Askew, ad.   Awry, aside, askance, aslant, asquint, to one side.

Aslant, ad.   Obliquely, askance, askew, aslope.

Aslant, a.   Oblique, inclined, slanting.

Asleep, a.   Sleeping, fast asleep, in a sound sleep, in the arms of Morpheus, gone to the land of Nod.

Aslope, ad.   Aslant, obliquely.

Aspect, n.   1. Air, mien, countenance, expression, visage, feature.

2. Appearance, view, light, condition, situation, position, state, attitude, posture.

3. Direction, bearing, relative position.

Asperity, n.   1. Roughness, ruggedness, unevenness.

2. Acrimony, tartness, sourness, sharpness, causticity, corrosiveness.

3. Harshness, moroseness, sternness, severity, virulence, crabbedness, bitterness, churlishness, acerbity, sullenness, ill temper, bad blood.

Asperse, v. a.   Vilify, slander, calumniate, traduce, defame, scandalize, malign, revile, lampoon, backbite, abuse, disparage, blacken, blemish, slur, VITUPERATE, run down, detract from, speak ill of, accuse falsely, damn with faint praise.

Aspersion, n.   Calumny, detraction, slander, defamation, abuse, vituperation, obloquy, reproach, scandal, backbiting, reviling, gainsaying, traducing.

Asphalt, n.   Native bitumen, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch.

Asphaltum, n.   Native bitumen, mineral pitch, Jew's pitch.

Aspirant, n.   1. Aspirer, ambitious person.

2. Candidate, solicitor, solicitant, competitor.

Aspirant, a.   Aspiring, ambitious.

Aspirate, a.   Aspirated, toneless, unintonated, atonic, surd, pronounced with a simple breathing, not vocal, without vocality, without tone.

Aspirate, n.   Rough breathing.

Aspirate, v. a.   Pronounce with an aspirate or rough breathing.

Aspirated, a.   Aspirate.

Aspiration, n.   1. Pronouncing with the rough breathing.

2. Longing, yearning, hankering, craving, ardent wish or desire.

Aspire, v. n.   1. Desire (earnestly), long.

2. Ascend, rise, soar, tower, mount.

Aspirer, n.   Aspirant, ambitious person.

Aspire to, Desire eagerly, wish for ardently, long for, aim at, thirst after.

Aspiring, a.   Ambitious, high-reaching.

Asquint, ad.   Askance, askant, awry, askew, obliquely, to one side.

Ass, n.   1. Jackass, donkey.

2. Dolt, fool, blockhead, simpleton, numskull, ninny, DUNCE.

Assail, v. a.   Assault, attack, invade, oppugn, fall upon, fly at, bear down upon, make aggression on.

Assailant, n.   Aggressor, assaulter, attacker, invader, assailer.

Assailant, a.   Attacking, invading, assaulting.

Assailer, n.   Aggressor, ASSAILANT.

Assassin, n.   Murderer, slayer, cut-throat, assassinator, bravo.

Assassinate, v. a.   Kill (by secret assault), murder, slay, despatch.

Assassination, n.   Murder (by secret assault).

Assassinator, n.   Assassin.

Assault, n.   1. Attack, onset, onslaught, aggression, invasion, charge, thrust.

2. Storming, storm.

Assault, v. a.   Assail, attack, charge, invade, STORM, fall upon, fly at, bear down upon, make aggression on.

Assay, n.   Trial (particularly to determine the quantity of metal in an ore), test, examination, experiment, proof, touchstone, ordeal.

Assay, v. a.   Try, test, put to the test, make trial of.

Assay, v. n.   Try, endeavor, attempt, essay.

Assemblage, n.   1. Collection, group, cluster, clump, mass, congeries, pack.

2. Assembly, concourse, company, crowd, throng, congregation, gathering, meeting.

Assemble, v. a.   Collect, muster, convene, convoke, congregate, gather, levy, call, call together, bring together, get together.

Assemble, v. n.   Converse, meet, meet together, come together.

Assembly, n.   1. Company, concourse, throng, congregation, gathering, collection, assemblage, meeting.

2. Congress, convention, convocation, conclave, synod, diet, meeting, council, caucus, conventicle, Parliament.

Assent, v. n.   Agree (as to a matter of opinion), CONSENT, concur, acquiesce, subscribe, yield, yield assent, give consent, fall in, go with the stream, go with the current.

Assent, n.   Consent, agreement, concurrence, acquiescence, allowance.

Assent to, Consent to, agree to, give assent to, acquiesce in, concur in.

Assert, v. a.   1. Affirm, declare, pronounce, express, aver, allege, asseverate, protest, avow, predicate, lay down.

2. Vindicate, defend, claim, maintain, uphold.

Assertion, n.   1. Affirmation, declaration, asseveration, protestation, position, statement, word, averment, predication, remark.

2. Vindication, defence, maintenance, support.

Assess, v. a.   1. Tax, charge as one's share.

2. Value, appraise, compute, estimate, rate.

Assessment, n.   1. Assessing, valuation.

2. Tax, impost, charge, rate.

Assets, n. pl.   Property (particularly as compared with liabilities), effects, possessions, estate.

Asseverate, v. a.   Aver, affirm, declare, ASSERT, protest, maintain, avow.

Asseveration, n.   Declaration, assertion, avowal, protestation, affirmation, averment, assurance.

Assiduity, n.   Industry, DILIGENCE, assiduousness, sedulousness, activity, perseverance, persistence, patience, close application.

Assiduous, a.   Industrious, sedulous, diligent, indefatigable, notable, active, busy, untiring, unwearied, unremitting, persevering, persistent, constant, patient, studious, zealous, never-tiring, painstaking.

Assiduousness, n.   Assiduity.

Assign, v. a.   1. Apportion, allot, appoint, appropriate, cast.

2. Fix, specify, determine, designate.

3. Adduce, allege, advance, offer, give, present, bring forward.

4. (Law.) Transfer, convey, make over.

Assignation, n.   1. Designation.

2. Appointment to meet.

Assign dower, (Law.) Set off (by metes and bounds) the widow's share.

Assignment, n.   1. Appointment, allotment, apportionment.

2. (Law.) Transfer, conveyance.

Assimilate, v. a.   1. Liken, make like, bring to a resemblance.

2. Digest, turn to one's own substance.

Assist, v. a.   1. Help, aid, support, befriend, patronize, serve, speed, second, abet, back, sustain, co-operate with, take part with, give support to, minister to.

2. Succor, relieve, SPELL.

Assistance, n.   Help, aid, succor, LIFT, support, patronage, relief, helping hand, good offices.

Assistant, n.   Coadjutor, helper, aider, co-operator, co-aid, ally, auxiliary, abettor, ADJUTANT, CLERK, right hand man.

Assizes, n. pl.   Sessions (of the superior courts in the counties of England).

Associate, v. a.   Join, conjoin, unite, connect, combine, affiliate, yoke, couple, link, bring into close relation.

Associate, v. n.   Fraternize, sort, consort, keep company, be in familiar intercourse.

Associate, n.   1. Companion, mate, fellow, yoke-fellow, comrade, peer, compeer, follower, CONSORT.

2. Partner, copartner, coadjutor, COLLEAGUE, confederate, ally.

Association, n.   1. Union, connection, conjunction, combination.

2. Society, fraternity, partnership, copartnership, sodality, company, band, corporation, body, guild, firm, house, confederacy, confederation, LODGE, club, COTERIE, CLIQUE, joint concern.

Assort, v. a.   Class, classify, rank, group, arrange, distribute, sort.

Assort, v. n.   Agree, consort, suit, be adapted, be suitable.

Assortment, n.   1. Assorting, arranging, allotment, distribution, arrangement.

2. Class, group, set, batch, lot, parcel, stock, store, collection, pack.

3. Variety of sorts, many kinds.

Assorted, a.   Of various sorts.

Assuage, v. a.   Mitigate, moderate, appease, alleviate, soothe, soften, mollify, pacify, compose, tranquillize, quiet, still, quell, allay, abate, temper, attemper, lessen, qualify, relieve, ease, dull, blunt, lull.

Assuagement, n.   Mitigation, alleviation, pacification, easing, abatement.

Assuasive, a.   Soothing, assuaging, emollient, lenient, lenitive, mitigating, mitigative, mild.

Assume, v. a.   1. Take, undertake, take on, take upon one's self, be willing to bear.

2. Affect, feign, counterfeit, simulate, pretend to, put on.

3. Arrogate, usurp, claim unduly, make unjust pretensions to.

4. Beg, suppose, presuppose, imply, consider as true, take for granted.

Assumed name, Alias.

Assuming, a.   1. Presuming, presumptuous, forward, audacious, bold, shameless, frontless, unblushing, brazen, brazen-faced.

2. Arrogant, proud, lofty, stately, haughty, supercilious, overbearing, overweening, conceited, consequential, self-conceited, self-sufficient.

Assumption, n.   1. Assuming, arrogating, usurpation.

2. Presumption, supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, postulate, theory.

3. Haughtiness, loftiness, superciliousness, lordliness, stateliness, conceit, pride, conceitedness, self-conceit, self-importance, vain-glory, arrogance, insolence, HAUTEUR.

Assurance, n.   1. Security, certainty, conviction, persuasion, pledge of certainty, ground of confidence.

2. Promise, engagement, word of honor.

3. Affirmation, assertion, declaration, protestation, asseveration, averment, avowal.

4. Intrepidity, courage, confidence, firmness, self-reliance.

5. Boldness, effrontery, brass, impudence, impertinence, presumption, CHEEK, face, front.

6. (Law.) Insurance.

Assure, v. a.   1. Make certain or sure, free from doubt or uncertainty.

2. Embolden, encourage, enhearten, hearten, make confident.

3. Declare to (confidently and earnestly), vouch to, avow to, protest to, warrant.

4. (Law.) Insure, agree to indemnify for loss, secure against loss.

Assured, a.   1. Certain, indubitable, unquestionable.

2. Confident, sure, secure, sanguine.

3. (Law.) Insured.

Assuredly, ad.   Certainly, indubitably, undoubtedly, unquestionably, truly, surely, sure, without doubt.

Asteism, n.   Genteel irony, polite banter or raillery, delicate ridicule.

Asterisk, n.   Star (in printing).

Astern, ad.   (Naut.) 1. Behind, back.

2. Backward, rearward, abaft.

Asteroid, n.   Small planet.

As though, As if.

Astonish, v. a.   Amaze, surprise, astound, confound, shock, stagger, stupefy, stun, dumfounder, strike dumb, strike with wonder, petrify with wonder.

Astonishment, n.   Amazement, wonder, surprise, awe, ADMIRATION.

Astound, v. a.   Amaze, ASTONISH.

Astral, a.   Starry, stellar, sidereal.

Astray, ad.   Out of the right way, on the wrong scent.

Astringent, a.   Binding, contracting, styptic.

Astute, a.   1. Cunning, crafty, intriguing, wily, artful, sly, subtle, arch, deep, Machiavelian.

2. Shrewd, sagacious, acute, sharp, quick, discerning, ingenious, perspicacious, keen, intelligent, long-headed, keen-sighted, clear-sighted, quick-sighted, eagle-eyed.

Astuteness, n.   1. Cunning, craft, craftiness, subtlety, artfulness, art, artifice, slyness, deceit, duplicity, wiliness, guile.

2. Shrewdness, acuteness, sharpness, perspicacity, discernment, penetration, sagacity, ingenuity, mother-wit, quick parts.

Asunder, ad.   Apart, into two parts.

Asylum, n.   1. Sanctuary, shelter, retreat, refuge, place of refuge.

2. Charitable institution.

At a blow, Suddenly, all at once, by a single stroke, by one effort.

At all, In any manner, in any degree, in the least degree, in the least.

At all events, At any rate, in any case, whatever be the case, happen what may, come what may, let it be as it will, sink or swim.

At a loss, Puzzled, perplexed, embarrassed, staggered, posed, nonplussed, at one's wits' end, hard pressed, at a stand, in doubt, in difficulty, put to it, put to one's shifts, out of one's depth, beyond one's depth, in a quandary, at fault, in a dilemma, not know what to do.

At any rate, At all events.

At a pinch, In an emergency, in a difficulty, if things come to the worst.

At a stand, 1. Interrupted, stopped.

2. Perplexed, embarrassed, AT A LOSS.

At dawn, Early, at break of day, at peep of day, at the opening of day.

At discretion, Without conditions or stipulations.

At ease, Untroubled, comfortable, free from pain, at rest.

At fault, 1. Off the scent, on the wrong track.

2. Puzzled, perplexed, AT A LOSS.

At first, In the beginning, at the commencement, in the outset, at the start.

At hand, Near, nigh, close by, hard by, close to, close upon, close at hand, within reach.

At hazard, Hazarded, AT STAKE.

At heart, In principle, in one's true character.

Atheism, n.   Denial of God, disbelief in the existence of God.

Atheist, n.   Unbeliever (in the existence of God), INFIDEL, sceptic, free-thinker.

Atheistic, a.   Godless, given to atheism.

Atheistical, a.   Godless, given to atheism.

Athlete, n.   Combatant, champion, contender for victory.

Athletic, a.   1. Strong, stout, robust, sturdy, brawny, muscular, lusty, sinewy, nervous, stalwart, powerful, strapping, Herculean, able-bodied, made of iron.

2. Gymnastic.

Athwart, prep.   Across, over, from one side of to the other.

Athwart, ad.   1. Across, crosswise, sidewise, obliquely.

2. Wrong, wrongfully, unseasonably, unsuitably, MALAPROPOS.

At last, Finally, in the end, in the upshot.

At length, 1. After a long time, after a long while, at last, in the end.

2. In full, to the full extent, IN EXTENSO.

Atmosphere, n.   Air.

Atmospheric, a.   Aerial, of the atmosphere.

Atmospherical, a.   Aerial, of the atmosphere.

At odds, Quarrelling, bickering, at variance.

Atom, n.   1. Molecule, monad, ultimate particle (of any element), indivisible particle.

2. Corpuscle, scrap, mite, bit, grain, jot, iota, tittle, whit, ace, scintilla.

Atomic, a.   1. Of atoms.

2. Small, minute.

Atomical, a.   1. Of atoms.

2. Small, minute.

At once, Immediately, directly, forthwith, straightway, without delay.

Atone for, Expiate, make expiation for, make amends for, make reparation for, do penance for, answer for, pay for.

Atonement, n.   1. [Rare.] Reconciliation, pacification, concord, agreement.

2. Expiation, propitiation, satisfaction, reparation, amends, peace-offering, atoning sacrifice.

Atony, n.   (Med.) Weakness, debility, languor.

Atrabiliary, a.   Melancholy, ATRABILIOUS.

Atrabilious, a.   Melancholy, hypochondriacal, hypped, dejected, dispirited, depressed, gloomy, sad, sorrowful, blue, desponding, downcast, down-hearted, chop-fallen, low-spirited, cast down, down in the mouth, in the dumps, with a long face.

Atramentous, a.   Black, inky.

At random, By chance, without choice, without selection, just as it happens.

At rest, 1. Resting, reposing, quiescent.

2. Untroubled, comfortable, at ease, free from pain.

Atrocious, a.   Infamous, villanous, flagitious, heinous, felonious, flagrant, outrageous, enormous, grievous, diabolical, monstrous, infernal, hellish, horrible, black, very wicked.

Atrocity, n.   1. Heinousness, atrociousness, enormity, flagrancy, villany, flagitiousness, depravity, wickedness.

2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany.

Atrophy, n.   Emaciation (from want of nourishment), consumption, marasmus, decline, gradual wasting.

At stake, Hazarded, risked, pledged, in danger, at hazard.

Attach, v. a.   1. Fasten, tie, join, connect, cement, affix, fix, append, subjoin, annex, hitch, make fast, set to.

2. Attract, captivate, enamour, endear, charm, win, engage, gain over.

3. (Law.) Take, seize, distrain, distress.

Attachment, n.   1. Love, liking, regard, affection, friendship, fondness, predilection, devotedness, devotion, adhesion, adherence.

2. Adjunct, appendage, appurtenance, addition, addendum.

3. (Law.) Seizure, distress.

Attack, v. a.   1. Assail, assault, STORM, encounter, invade, charge, engage, oppugn, TACKLE, have at, set upon, fly at, run at, make a run at, rush upon, spring upon, have a fling at, have a cut at, bear down upon, make aggression on, ride full tilt against, PITCH INTO.

2. Impugn, censure, criticise, reflect upon, pass censure on.

Attack, n.   Assault, onset, onslaught, charge, thrust, encounter, invasion, aggression, descent, OFFENCE.

Attacker, n.   Assailer, assailant, assaulter, invader, aggressor.

Attain, v. a.   1. Procure (by effort), acquire, get, obtain, gain, win, secure, achieve, compass, accomplish, effect, hit.

2. Reach, arrive at, come to, attain to.

Attain to, Reach, attain, arrive at, come to.

Attainable, a.   Compassable, achievable, practicable, feasible, possible.

Attainder, n.   Corruption of blood.

Attainment, n.   1. Attaining, getting, acquisition.

2. Acquirement, accomplishment, erudition, learning, information, enlightenment, wisdom, stock of knowledge, mental resources.

Attaint, v. a.   1. Taint, corrupt, stain.

2. (Law.) Punish by corruption of blood.

Attar of roses, Oil of roses, ottar of roses, otto of roses.

Attemper, v. a.   1. Temper, moderate, allay, alleviate, soften, mollify, assuage, soothe, qualify, appease.

2. Adapt, suit, fit, proportion.

Attempt, v. a.   1. Try, assay, essay, make trial or experiment of.

2. Undertake, go about, set about, take in hand, endeavor to accomplish.

Attempt, v. n.   Try, strive, endeavor, seek, aim, make an attempt, make essay, do one's best, do all that in one lies, strain every nerve, leave no stone unturned.

Attempt, n.   Effort, trial, essay, endeavor, experiment, undertaking, enterprise.

Attend, v. a.   1. Accompany, escort, follow, go with, go along with, keep company with.

2. Guard, watch, have in keeping.

3. Serve, lackey, minister to, wait on, dance attendance on.

4. Be present at.

5. Await, be in store for, be ready for.

Attend, v. n.   1. Listen, hearken, hear, give ear, pay attention.

2. Tend, serve, wait, be attendant.

Attendance, 1. Presence.

2. Service, ministration, waiting on.

Attendant, a.   Accompanying, attending.

Attendant, n.   1. Follower, satellite, companion, fellow, associate, escort.

2. Servant, vassal, servitor, dependant, retainer, squire, domestic, footman, lackey, VALET, waiter, flunkey, underling, menial, understrapper, tender.

3. Accompaniment, concomitant, attendant circumstance.

Attend on, Accompany, serve, wait on, be in waiting upon, be within call of.

Attend to, 1. Mind, heed, notice, regard, observe, mark, be attentive to, pay regard to, give heed to, take heed of, take notice of, give or pay attention to, give a thought to, be mindful of.

2. Look after, look to, see to.

3. Practise, pursue, follow.

Attention, n.   1. Care, heed, regard, heedfulness, mindfulness, notice, observation, consideration, advertence, circumspection, watch, watchfulness.

2. Application, reflection, study.

3. Civility, courtesy, politeness, deference, respect, regard.

Attentive, a.   Mindful, heedful, observant, wary, circumspect, watchful, careful, thoughtful, regardful, awake, alive, wide awake, on the alert, on the lookout.

Attentive to, Mindful of, occupied with, taken up with, absorbed in.

Attenuate, v. a.   1. Dilute, thin, rarefy, make thin, make less dense.

2. Lessen, diminish, contract, reduce.

Attenuation, n.   Thinning, diminishing, contracting.

Attest, v. a.   1. Witness, certify, endorse, confirm, ratify, corroborate, support, authenticate, seal, vouch for, bear out, set one's hand and seal to.

2. Adjure, invoke, call to witness.

3. Prove, show, exhibit, manifest, confess.

Attestation, n.   Attesting, authentication, confirmation, testimony, witness, proof, evidence, seal.

Attic, a.   Chaste, classic, classical, pure, correct, refined, elegant, polished, in good taste.

Attic, n.   1. Athenian, Athenian author.

2. Garret, loft, cockloft, upper story.

Atticism, n.   Attic idiom or phrase, elegant or concise expression, happy phrase.

Attic salt, Delicate wit.

Attire, v. a.   Dress, clothe, array, apparel, rig, robe, enrobe, accoutre, equip, fit out, TRICK OUT.

Attire, n.   Dress, clothes, clothing, apparel, raiment, ARRAY, habit, garb, gear, costume, habiliment, vesture, vestment, outfit, suit, accoutrement, equipment, toilet, rigging, trappings, TOGGERY, wardrobe.

Attitude, n.   1. Posture (with reference to the expression of some sentiment), position.

2. Situation, aspect, phase, standing, predicament

Attorney, n.   1. Agent, factor, proxy, deputy, substitute.

2. Lawyer, counsellor, counsel, SOLICITOR, advocate, barrister, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.

Attract, v. a.   1. Draw, bring into proximity, cause to approach.

2. Allure, invite, entice, engage, win, captivate, fascinate, endear, charm, enamour.

Attraction, n.   1. Attracting, drawing.

2. Allurement, lure, fascination, charm, enticement, witchery, attractiveness.

Attractive, a.   1. Alluring, inviting, enticing, fascinating, captivating, charming, winning, bewitching, enchanting, engaging, interesting, prepossessing, taking, pleasing, pleasant, lovely, sweet.

2. Magnetic, magnetical.

Attributable, a.   Ascribable, imputable, referrible, chargeable, traceable, owing, to be charged, to be attributed, to be imputed.

Attribute, v. a.   Ascribe, assign, refer, impute, consider as due.

Attribute, n.   Quality, property, characteristic, peculiarity.

Attrition, n.   Abrasion, friction, rubbing.

Attune, v. a.   1. Set to a tune, make musical.

2. Tune, accord, harmonize, modulate, put in tune.

At variance, Quarrelling, bickering, at odds.

Auburn, a.   Nut-brown, chestnut-colored, reddish-brown.

Auction, n.   Vendue, cant, public sale, auction sale.

Auctioneer, n.   Vendue-master.

Audacious, a.   1. Bold, daring, fearless, courageous, intrepid, venturesome, dauntless, undaunted, valiant, stout-hearted.

2. Presumptuous, assuming, forward, impudent, insolent.

Audaciousness, n.   Audacity.

Audacity, n.   1. Boldness, daring, fearlessness, courage, intrepidity, venturesomeness, hardihood.

2. Impudence, insolence, impertinence, sauciness, effrontery, presumptuousness, presumption, assurance, face, front, brass, CHEEK.

Audience, n.   1. Hearing.

2. Auditory, assembly of hearers.

Audience-chamber, n.   Divan, council-chamber, state-chamber.

Audit, v. a.   Examine (as accounts, to ascertain whether they are correct or not).

Audit, n.   1. Examination of accounts.

2. Final account.

Auditor, n.   1. Hearer, listener.

2. Examiner of accounts.

Auditory, n.   Audience, assembly of hearers.

Au fait, [Fr.] Skilful, skilled, expert, at home, in one's element.

Aught, n.   Any thing.

Augment, v. a.   Enlarge, increase, magnify, add to, make larger.

Augment, v. n.   Increase, grow larger.

Augmentation, n.   Increase, enlargement, extension, addition, accession.

Augur, n.   Soothsayer, prophet, fortune-teller.

Augur, v. n.   Prophesy, conjecture, predict, guess.

Augur, v. a.   Portend, forebode, presage, foreshow, foreshadow, prognosticate, betoken, foretell, predict, prophesy, be ominous of.

Augury, n.   1. Prognostication, prognostic, prediction, prophecy, vaticination.

2. Omen, sign, auspice, portent, presage, prognostic, precursor, forerunner, harbinger, herald.

August, a.   Imposing, awful, solemn, venerable, majestic, stately, pompous, great, regal, noble, dignified, kingly, princely, magnificent, superb.

Auld lang syne, [Scotch.] Antiquity, old times, former times, days of yore, the olden time, time gone by, days gone by.

Aureate, a.   Golden, yellow, gold-colored.

Aurelia, n.   (Ent.) Chrysalis, pupa, nympha.

Aureola, n.   [L.] Halo, glory.

Auricle, n.   Pavilion, external ear.

Aurora, n.   1. (Mythol.) Goddess of Morning.

2. Daybreak, dawn, morning, morn, sunrise, break of day, opening of day, peep of day, first blush of the morning.

Aurora borealis, [L.] Northern lights, polar lights.

Auspice, n.   Omen, AUGURY, sign, portent, presage, prognostic.

Auspices, n. pl.   Favor, influence, patronage, protection, support.

Auspicious, a.   1. Prosperous, successful, fortunate, lucky, happy, red-letter.

2. Propitious, promising, favorable, seasonable, opportune, golden, bright.

Austere, a.   1. Rough (to the taste), sour and astringent.

2. Severe, rigid, strict, formal, stiff, rigorous, harsh, stern, difficult, hard, uncompromising, unrelenting, relentless, ascetic, straight-laced.

Austerity, n.   Severity, rigor, sternness, harshness, asceticism.

Authentic, a.   1. Genuine, real, true, veritable, pure, uncorrupted, unadulterated, not false, not spurious, not fictitious, not apocryphal, what it purports to be.

2. Trustworthy, RELIABLE, authoritative, of approved authority, to be depended on, worthy of belief.

Authenticate, v. a.   Verify, seal, attest, give credit or validity to, prove to be genuine.

Authentication, n.   Verification, attestation, seal, confirmation.

Authenticity, n.   1. Genuineness.

2. Trustworthiness.

Author, n.   1. Originator, inventor, maker, creator, father, former, contriver, first cause.

2. Writer, composer.

Authoritative, a.   1. Official, commanding, by authority, EX CATHEDRA.

2. Dictatorial, imperative, imperious, magisterial, oracular, peremptory, dogmatic.

Authorities, n. pl.   1. Magistrates, officials, persons in office.

2. Precedents, decisions, judgments.

Authority, n.   1. Power, sovereignty, dominion, empire, government.

2. Rule, sway, ascendency, supremacy, control, influence, interest.

3. Permission, warrant, warranty, liberty, permit, precept, order, authorization, sanction.

4. Witness, testimony.

5. Credibility, weight of evidence.

6. Respectability, dignity, weight of character.

Authorize, v. a.   1. Sanction, justify, warrant, legalize, support by authority.

2. Empower, commission, permit, allow, give permission to, give leave to, give authority to.

Autochthonal, a.   Aboriginal, original, primitive, primeval, pristine, primary, first, native, indigenous.

Autochthonous, a.   Aboriginal, original, primitive, primeval, pristine, primary, first, native, indigenous.

Autocracy, n.   Dictatorship, absolutism, despotism, tyranny, arbitrary power, absolute power.

Autocrat, n.   Dictator, despot, tyrant, absolute ruler.

Autocratic, a.   Absolute, despotic.

Automatic, a.   Self-moving, self-acting.

Autopsy, n.   1. Ocular evidence, personal examination.

2. Post-mortem examination.

Autumn, n.   Fall, fall of the leaf.

Auxiliary, a.   Aiding, helping, assisting, ancillary, subsidiary, helpful.

Auxiliary, n.   Helper, assistant, coadjutor, adjutant, co-operative, ally, confederate, right-hand man.

Avail, v. a.   Benefit, profit, be of advantage to.

Avail one's self of, Use, employ, take advantage of, turn to account, make use of.

Avail, v. n.   Be of advantage, do good, be of use, answer the purpose.

Avail, n.   Profit, advantage, benefit, use, utility, service.

Avails, n. pl.   Proceeds, profits, returns.

Available, a.   1. To be availed of, to be turned to account.

2. Serviceable, useful, profitable, advantageous, beneficial.

3. Suitable or fit (for some purpose), likely to answer the end.

Avant-courier, n.   Harbinger, forerunner, herald.

Avant-guard, n.   Van, advanced guard.

Avarice, n.   Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness, covetousness.

Avaricious, a.   Miserly, penurious, parsimonious, sordid, illiberal, niggardly, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, grasping, close-fisted, hard-fisted, COVETOUS, eager for gain (for the sake of hoarding it).

Avast, interj.   (Naut.) Hold, stop, stay, enough.

Avaunt, interj.   Hence, begone, be off, get you gone.

Avenge, v. a.   1. Take satisfaction for, award just punishment for.

2. Revenge, vindicate (by punishment of an offender), inflict punishment in behalf of.

3. [So used by the translators of the Bible.] Take revenge upon, treat revengefully.

Avengement, n.   [Rare.] Avenging.

Avenue, n.   1. Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach, passage-way.

2. Alley, walk, street, road, path.

3. Channel, route, way, pass.

Aver, v. a.   Assert, affirm, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate.

Average, n.   1. Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.

2. Mediocrity, medial standard, average standard.

Average, v. a.   1. Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.

2. (Com.) Proportion, distribute proportionally.

Average, v. n.   Amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken.

Average, a.   1. Medial, mean.

2. Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.

Averment, n.   Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark, asseveration, protestation, avowal, word.

Avernus, n.   (Mythol.) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below.

Averse, a.   Unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath, backward, adverse, opposed.

Aversion, n.   1. Dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness, repugnance, backwardness.

2. Antipathy, hatred, loathing, disgust, nausea, detestation, abhorrence, horror.

Avert, v. a.   1. Turn aside, turn away, turn off.

2. Prevent, divert, preclude, FOREFEND, ward off, keep off.

Avid, a.   [Rare.] Eager, greedy.

Avidity, n.   1. Eagerness, longing, yearning, intense desire.

2. Greediness, craving, voracity, rapacity, voraciousness, ravenousness, canine appetite.

Avocation, n.   Occasional business (business that calls aside).

Avoid, v. a.   1. Shun (in a negative sense, or denoting care only without positive exertion), eschew, escape, blink, elude, keep away from, keep aloof from, keep out of the way of, withdraw from, keep clear of, be shy of, fight shy of, have nothing to do with.

2. Forbear, help, refrain from.

Avoset, n.   Scooper.

Avouch, v. a.   Affirm, assert, asseverate, declare, protest, allege, say, maintain.

Avow, v. a.   Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.

Avowal, n.   Acknowledgment, confession, declaration, profession, manifesto.

Await, v. a.   1. Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for.

2. Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.

Awake, a.   1. Not asleep.

2. Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.

Awake, v. a. &n.   Awaken.

Awaken, v. a.   1. Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.

2. Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.

Awaken, v. n.   Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.

Awakening, n.   Revival.

Award, v. a.   Adjudge, decrees.

Award, n.   Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.

Aware, a.   Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised, sensible, convinced, persuaded.

Away, ad.   1. Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present.

2. Begone, let us go.

Away with, Take away.

Awe, n.   1. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.

2. Dread, fearfulness.

Awe, v. a.   Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.

Awe-struck, a.   Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.

Awful, a.   1. Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.

2. Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.

3. [Vulgar.] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.

Awhile, ad.   For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.

Awkward, a.   1. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.

2. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.

3. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.

Awned, a.   (Bot.) Aristate, bearded.

Awning, n.   Canopy, tilt.

Awry, ad.   1. Obliquely, asquint, askance.

2. Perversely, wrong.

Awry, a.   Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.

Axilla, n.   [L. pl. Axillæ.] (Anat.) Armpit.

Axiom, n.   1. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.

2. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.

Axiomatic, a.   Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.

Axiomatical, a.   Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.

Axis, n.   Shaft, spindle, arbor.

Ay, ad.   Yes.

Aye, ad.   Yes.

Aye, ad.   [Poetical.] Always, for ever.

Azote, n.   Nitrogen.

Azure, a.   Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.

Azure, n.   Blue, sky-color.

B

Babble, v.n. 1. Prattle, jabber, chatter, talk inarticulately.

2. Prate, chat, gossip, palaver, tattle, be loquacious, talk idly or thoughtlessly.

Babble, v. a.   Tell (foolishly), prate, utter, prate about.

Babble, n.   Prattle, palaver, chit-chat, gabble, twaddle, chatter, balderdash, platitude, flummery, wish-wash, stuff, moonshine, fudge, trash, nonsense, small talk, idle talk, childish or foolish talk, frothy discourse.

Babbling, n.   1. Prattle, BABBLE.

2. Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.

Babe, n.   Infant, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, BAIRN, little one.

Babel, n.   Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.

Baby, n.   Infant, BABE.

Babyhood, n.   Infancy.

Baccalaureate, n.   Degree of bachelor of arts.

Baccate, a.   (Bot.) Of a pulpy nature (like a berry).

Bacchanal, n.   Reveller, carouser, bacchanalian.

Bacchanal, a.   Riotous, revelling, noisy, bacchanalian.

Bacchanalian, n.   and a.   Bacchanal.

Bacchanals, n. pl.   Revelry, revels, orgies, carousal, debauch, drunken frolic, potation, compotation, wassail, Saturnalia, drunken feasts.

Back, n.   1. Upper part, outer part.

2. Hinder part.

Back, a.   1. Remote.

2. Hindmost, in the rear.

3. In a backward direction.

Back, ad.   1. To the place of starting.

2. Backward, rearward, abaft, in the rear, towards what is behind.

3. In return, in recompense.

Back, v. a.   1. Assist, aid, second, support, countenance, favor, sustain, abet, side with, stand by, take part with, give support to, co-operate with, back up.

2. Move backward.

Backbite, v. a.   Defame, traduce, malign, slander, revile, calumniate, libel, lampoon, asperse, vilify, blacken, abuse, scandalize, run down, speak ill of.

Backbiter, n.   Slanderer, defamer, traducer, calumniator, libeller.

Backbiting, n.   Detraction, defamation, aspersion, slander, calumny, contumely, obloquy.

Backbone, n.   1. Spine, spinal column, vertebral column.

2. Firmness, nerve, resolution, courage, pluck, hardihood, manhood.

Backhanded, a.   1. Inclining to the left hand (as writing).

2. Outward and backward.

3. Indirect, unfair.

Back-house, n.   Privy, necessary, jakes, water-closet.

Back out, [Colloquial.] Withdraw from a bargain, not keep a promise, not stand to an engagement.

Backslide, v. n.   Apostatize, fall off, fall away, break faith.

Backslider, n.   Apostate, deserter, renegade.

Backsliding, n.   Apostasy.

Back up, Support, sustain, assist, aid, help, BACK.

Backward, a.   1. Averse, unwilling, reluctant, loath, disinclined, indisposed, wavering, hesitating.

2. Dull, sluggish, slow, stupid, stolid.

3. Late, tardy, behindhand, after the usual time.

Backward, ad.   Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT.

Backwards, ad.   Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, ABAFT.

Bad, a.   1. Evil, ill, baneful, deleterious, pernicious, mischievous, noxious, hurtful, injurious, detrimental, unwholesome.

2. Wicked, depraved, abandoned, dishonest, unfair, disingenuous, rascally, villanous.

3. Untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, unwelcome.

4. Vile, wretched, sorry, mean, shabby, scurvy, abominable.

5. Poor, inferior.

Bad blood, Rancor, venom, bitterness, acrimony, harshness, sternness, asperity, crabbedness, churlishness, moroseness, sullenness, ill temper.

Bad faith, Perfidy, dishonesty, unfairness, faithlessness, want of faith, breach of faith.

Badge, n.   Mark of distinction, token of office, sign of authority.

Badger, v. a.   Persecute, tease, worry, harry, annoy, vex, plague, harass, torment, pester, trouble, bother, hector.

Badinage, n.   [Fr.] Raillery, banter, ASTEISM, light talk, small talk, trifling or playful discourse.

Baffle, v. a.   1. Disconcert, frustrate, foil, elude, balk, circumvent.

2. Confound, bewilder, perplex, out-general, out-manœuvre.

Bag, n.   Sack, pouch.

Bagatelle, n.   [Fr.] Trifle, small matter, thing of no consequence or importance.

Baggage, n.   Luggage, bag and baggage.

Bagnio, n.   1. Bath, bathing-house.

2. Brothel, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.

Bail, n.   1. Security, surety.

2. Handle (of a pail, &c.).

Bail, v. a.   Admit to bail.

Bairn, n.   [Scottish.] Child, BABE.

Bait, v. a.   1. Put bait upon.

2. Furnish with a meal.

Bait, v. n.   Take refreshment (on a journey).

Bait, n.   1. Lure, decoy, allurement, enticement, temptation.

2. Refreshment (on a journey).

Bake, v. a.   1. Harden (by heat).

2. Cook (by direct heat).

Balance, n.   1. Pair of scales.

2. Equipoise, equilibrium, equality of weight.

3. Excess, overplus, surplus.

4. [Low, U. S.] Rest, residue, remainder.

Balance, v. a.   1. Poise, keep in equipoise, hold in equilibrium.

2. Counterpoise, counteract, neutralize, countervail, counterbalance, compensate, make up for.

3. (Com.) Equalize, make equal.

Balance-fish, n.   Hammer-fish, hammer-headed shark (Zygœna vulgaris).

Bald, a.   1. Without hair (on the head).

2. Unadorned, inelegant, prosaic, dull, meagre, vapid, tame.

Balderdash, n.   Verbiage, palaver, twaddle, chatter, trash, stuff, moonshine, platitude, flummery, fudge, wish-wash, jargon, nonsense, senseless prate, frothy discourse, idle talk.

Baldric, n.   Shoulder belt.

Bale, n.   Bundle, package.

Baleen, n.   Whalebone.

Bale-fire, n.   Beacon-fire.

Baleful, a.   Hurtful, injurious, noxious, mischievous, pernicious, baneful, ruinous, deadly, fraught with evil.

Balk, v. a.   Disappoint, frustrate, defeat, foil, baffle, disconcert, thwart.

Balky, a.   [U. S.] Perverse (said of a horse), unruly, refractory, wayward, contrary, stubborn, obstinate.

Ball, n.   1. Globe, sphere.

2. Dance, entertainment of dancing.

3. Game of ball.

Ballad, n.   Light poem, sentimental song.

Ballast, n.   1. Weight (for steadiness), ballasting.

2. Prudence, discretion, judgment, sense, wisdom, TACT, GUMPTION, common sense.

Ballast, v. a.   Put ballast into.

Ballasting, n.   Ballast.

Ballooning, n.   Aëronautics, aërostation.

Balloonist, n.   Aëronaut, aërial navigator.

Balmy, a.   1. Soothing, refreshing, easing, assuaging, lenitive, sedative.

2. Fragrant, odoriferous, odorous, aromatic, aromatous, ambrosial, spicy, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented.

Baltimore oriole, Golden robin, hang-bird, fiery hang-bird (Icterus Baltimore or Oriolus Baltimore).

Bam, n.   [Low.] Cheat, imposition, imposture, fraud, circumvention, trick.

Bam, v. a.   [Low.] Cheat, BAMBOOZLE.

Bamboozle, v. a.   Deceive, cheat, dupe, beguile, mislead, inveigle, gull, trick, chouse, overreach, circumvent, defraud, diddle, BAM.

Ban, n.   1. Proclamation, edict.

2. Curse, malediction, excommunication, denunciation, execration, anathema.

Band, n.   1. Tie, ligature, ligament.

2. Cord, chain, fetter, manacle, shackle, bond.

3. Bandage, fillet, binding.

4. Company (especially of instrumental musicians), troop, gang, crew, horde, party, body, club, junto, COTERIE, CLIQUE, society, sodality, association.

Bandage, n.   Fillet, band, binding.

Bandit, n.   Outlaw, robber, brigand, freebooter, footpad, highwayman, marauder.

Banditti, n. pl.   Band of outlaws or robbers.

Bandy, v. a.   1. Toss, toss about, toss to and fro.

2. Exchange, interchange, give and take.

Bane, n.   1. Poison, venom.

2. Pest, scourge, curse, ruin.

Baneful, a.   1. Poisonous, venomous.

2. Destructive, noxious, hurtful, injurious, pernicious, mischievous, baleful, deadly, ruinous, fraught with evil.

Banewort, n.   Belladonna, dwale, deadly-nightshade (Atropa Belladonna).

Banging, a.   [Low.] Huge, large, great.

Banian, n.   (Bot.) Indian fig-tree (Ficus Indicus).

Banish, v. a.   1. Exile, expatriate, ostracize, expel from the country.

2. Exclude, shut out, drive away, put out of mind.

Banishment, n.   Exile, expatriation, ostracism, expulsion, proscription.

Bang, v. a.   Beat, thump, pound, strike, knock, maul, pommel, thwack, WALLOP, deal roughly with.

Bankrupt, a.   Insolvent.

Bankrupt, n.   Insolvent debtor.

Bankruptcy, n.   Insolvency.

Banner, n.   Flag, standard, streamer, ensign, pennon, colors.

Banquet, n.   Feast, entertainment, treat.

Banquet, v. n.   Feast, be regaled with good eating and drinking.

Banquet, v. a.   Treat with a banquet or feast.

Banter, v. a.   Jeer, joke, rally, quiz, ridicule, taunt, twit, deride, mock, make fun of, make sport of, make merry with, play upon, make a butt of.

Banter, n.   Raillery, ridicule, mockery, derision, persiflage, pleasantry, BADINAGE, ASTEISM, joking, jesting, quizzing, frivolous talk, small talk.

Bantling, n.   Infant, babe, baby, chit, brat, nursling, suckling, BAIRN, little child, little one, young one.

Baptize, v. a.   1. Administer baptism to.

2. Christen.

Bar, n.   1. Obstacle, hinderance, obstruction, barrier, BARRICADE, stop, impediment.

2. Rail, railing.

3. Tribunal, judgment-seat.

4. Body of lawyers.

Bar, v. a.   1. Fasten with a bar.

2. Hinder, obstruct, stop, prevent.

3. Exclude, shut out.

Barb, n.   1. Beard (or excrescences like a beard), wattles.

2. Horse (of the Barbary breed).

Barbadoes tar, Petroleum, rock-oil, Seneca oil, mineral pitch, mineral tar, mineral oil.

Barbarian, n.   1. Savage.

2. Brute, ruffian, brutal monster.

Barbarian, a.   1. Uncivilized, rude, savage, BARBAROUS, barbaric.

2. Inhuman, brutal, cruel, unfeeling, ruthless, truculent, ferocious, fierce, fell, bloody, brutish.

Barbaric, a.   1. Foreign, outlandish, exotic, not native.

2. Barbarian, barbarous, uncivilized, rude, savage.

Barbarism, n.   1. Incivility, rudeness, savageness, Vandalism, Gothicism, barbarous state, uncivilized condition.

2. Vulgarism, slang, unauthorized expression.

Barbarity, n.   Cruelty, savageness, brutality, brutishness, ferociousness, ferocity, inhumanity, truculence, hardness of heart, manners of a barbarian.

Barbarous, a.   1. Uncivilized, rough, coarse, rude, untutored, ignorant, unlettered, uncultivated, savage, barbarian, barbaric.

2. Cruel, inhuman, brutal, brutish, ferocious, ruthless, fell, truculent, fierce, bloody.

3. Uncouth (as a word or an expression), harsh, vulgar, contrary to good usage.

Barbed, a.   1. Bearded.

2. Clad in armor.

Barberry, n.   Pepperidge-bush.

Bard, n.   1. Poet, minstrel.

2. Caparison, horse-armor, trappings for a horse.

Bare, a.   1. Naked, nude, denuded, uncovered, unclothed, undressed.

2. Simple, sheer, mere.

Bare, v. a.   Strip, uncover, make bare.

Barefaced, a.   1. Undisguised, unreserved, unconcealed, palpable, conspicuous, glaring, notable, notorious.

2. Impudent, presumptuous, shameless, audacious.

Barely, ad.   Merely, simply, only.

Bargain, n.   1. Compact, agreement, stipulation, covenant, contract, convention, concordat, treaty, indenture.

2. Cheap purchase, purchase on favorable terms, good bargain.

Bargain, v. n.   Contract, agree, stipulate, covenant, make a bargain.

Barilla, n.   Carbonate of soda (impure), kelp.

Bark, v. n.   Yelp.

Bark up the wrong tree, [Colloquial.] Mistake, err, make a mistake, BE IN THE WRONG BOX.

Barm, n.   Yeast, ferment, leaven.

Barmy, a.   Yeasty.

Barren, a.   1. Unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not prolific.

2. Unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUS.

3. Scanty, not copious.

Barricade, n.   Obstruction (as in the streets of a city to serve as a fortification), BARRIER.

Barricade, v. a.   Obstruct, block up, stop up.

Barrier, n.   Obstruction, obstacle, hinderance, bar, BARRICADE, stop, impediment.

Barrister, n.   Advocate (admitted to plead at the bar), counsellor, counsel, lawyer, attorney, SOLICITOR, attorney at law, limb of the law.

Barrow, n.   1. Wheelbarrow.

2. Mound, hillock.

3. Hog (especially a castrated hog).

Barter, v. n.   Make exchanges, traffic by exchanges.

Barter, v. a.   Give in exchange, barter away.

Barter, n.   Exchange, traffic by exchange.

Barter away, Barter.

Baryta, n.   Oxide of barium.

Barytes, n.   Heavy spar, sulphate of baryta.

Base, a.   1. Ignoble, plebeian, vulgar, untitled, nameless, unhonored, base-born, of low birth.

2. Vile, low, mean, despicable, contemptible, beggarly, abject, grovelling, sordid, servile, slavish, menial, sorry, worthless, pitiful, low-minded, rascally.

3. Shameful, disreputable, disgraceful, discreditable, dishonorable, scandalous, infamous.

Base, n.   1. Basis, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.

2. (Surveying.) Base-line.

3. (Chem.) Principal element (of a compound).

Base-born, a.   Base, of low birth.

Base-line, n.   (Surveying.) Base.

Basement, n.   Ground-floor, lowest story.

Base-minded, a.   Mean, low, vile, grovelling, beggarly, pitiful, despicable, abject, low-minded, mean-spirited.

Baseness, n.   1. Meanness, vileness, despicableness, contemptibleness, abasement, worthlessness, abjectness.

2. Disgrace, ignominy, infamy, shame, dishonor, turpitude.

Bashful, a.   Shy, timid, timorous, coy, diffident, sheepish, shamefaced, over-modest, not self-possessed.

Bashfulness, n.   Shyness, timidity, coyness, diffidence, self-distrust, excessive modesty.

Basilisk, n.   Cockatrice.

Basis, n.   Base, foundation, ground, groundwork, lowest part.

Bask, v. n.   Lie in the sun, be exposed to a pleasant heat.

Bask, v. a.   Expose to sunshine or to a pleasant heat.

Bass, a.   (Mus.) Low, deep, grave.

Basset, v. n.   (Geol.) Crop out.

Bassetting, n.   Cropping out, out-crop.

Bastard, n.   Love-child, illegitimate child, natural child.

Bastard, a.   1. Illegitimate.

2. Spurious, false, counterfeit, not genuine.

Baste, v. a.   1. Beat (with a stick), cudgel, cane, drub, thrash.

2. Moisten with fat.

3. Sew (with long stitches).

Bastinado, n.   Cudgelling or beating (on the soles of the feet).

Bastinado, v. a.   Cudgel or beat (on the soles of the feet).

Batch, n.   Certain quantity (as of bread, ore, &c., treated at one time).

Bate, v. a.   Abate, lessen, diminish, decrease, reduce, rebate, remit.

Bathe, v. a.   Wash, lave.

Bathe, v. n.   Wash the body, go into a bath, take a bath.

Bathos, n.   Anticlimax.

Bating, prep.   Except, excepting.

Batten, n.   Thin strip.

Batten, v. a.   1. Fasten with battens.

2. Fatten, make fat.

Batten, v. n.   Grow fat.

Batter, v. a.   1. Beat, smite, pelt, dash against.

2. Bruise, break, shatter, shiver, smash, demolish, destroy, strike down, knock down, shake to pieces, shiver to pieces.

Batter, v. n.   (Masonry.) Slope backward.

Batter, n.   (Masonry.) Slope backward.

Battle, n.   Combat, engagement, action, conflict, contest, fight, rencontre, collision, skirmish, brush, affair.

Battle array, Order of battle.

Bawble, n.   Trinket, gewgaw, toy, trifle, plaything, gimcrack, knack, knick-knack, JIGGUMBOB.

Bawd, n.   Procurer, pander, pimp.

Bawdy, a.   Obscene, filthy, indecent, impure, smutty, lewd.

Bawdy-house, n.   Brothel, stew, bagnio, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill fame.

Bawl, v. n.   Hoot, shout, vociferate, yell, howl, roar, cry, squall.

Bay, a.   Reddish-brown.

Bay, n.   1. Bight, inlet of the sea.

2. Recess (as in a room), opening.

3. Compartment.

4. Bay-tree, laurel-tree (Laurus nobilis).

Bay, v. n.   Bark.

Bayberry, n.   Wax-myrtle (Myrica cerifera).

Bay-rum, n.   Spirit of Myrcia (rum distilled with the leaves of Myrcia acris).

Bays, n. pl.   Crown, garland, wreath, honorary distinction.

Bay-salt, n.   Common salt (as obtained by evaporation of sea-water), chloride of sodium.

Bay-tree, n.   Bay, laurel-tree.

Bazaar, n.   Market-place.

Be, v. n.   Exist (whether in fact or in imagination), subsist, have existence, have being.

Beach, n.   Shore, coast, strand, seaboard, seacoast.

Beacon, n.   1. Signal-fire.

2. Mark, sign, signal.

Beak, n.   1. Bill, mandible, neb.

2. Prow, bow, stem.

Beam, n.   1. Girder, piece of timber.

2. Ray, pencil, streak, gleam, GLIMMER.

Beam, v. n.   Shine, emit rays.

Beam, v. a.   Shoot forth, emit in rays or beams.

Beamy, a.   Radiant, beaming.

Bear, v. a.   1. Uphold, support, sustain, hold up.

2. Carry, transport, convey, waft.

3. Possess, have, hold.

4. Endure, suffer, undergo, brook, tolerate, abide, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily, have patience with, submit to.

5. Admit, permit, allow, admit of, be capable of.

6. Maintain, keep up, carry on.

7. Entertain, cherish, harbor.

8. Be answerable for, be charged with.

9. Produce, yield.

10. Generate, beget, bring forth, give birth to.

11. Exhibit, utter, show, give.

Bear, v. n.   1. Suffer, submit.

2. Press, push, be oppressive.

3. Be fruitful, be prolific.

4. [Rare.] Imply, intimate.

5. (Naut.) Be situated (with respect to the point of compass).

Bear, n.   Bruin.

Bearable, a.   Tolerable, endurable, supportable.

Bear a hand, (Naut.) Be quick, make haste.

Beard, v. a.   Defy, challenge, dare, take or pluck by the beard, oppose to the face.

Bearded, a.   1. Barbed.

2. (Bot.) Aristate, awned.

Bear date, Be dated.

Bear down, Overwhelm, oppress, crush.

Bear down upon, Attack, assail, assault, charge, march upon, march against, set upon, rush upon, fall upon.

Bear-grass, n.   Yucca, Adam's needle, Spanish bayonet.

Bearing, n.   1. Deportment, demeanor, behavior, conduct, carriage, mien, air, port.

2. Relation, dependency, connection.

3. Endurance, suffering.

4. Direction, course, aim, aspect, point of compass.

Bearings, n. pl.   Charges (in coats of arms).

Bearish, a.   Rough, rude, coarse, savage, boorish, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, impolite, ungentlemanly.

Bear one's self, Behave, acquit one's self, conduct one's self.

Bear out, Maintain, support, defend, uphold, justify, make good.

Bear the bell, Be the leader.

Bear the cross, Take up the cross, submit to trials or afflictions.

Bear the palm, Excel, be superior.

Bear up, 1. (Active.) Support, uphold; sustain, keep from falling.

2. (Passive.) Stand firm, show fortitude.

Bear with, Endure, BEAR, tolerate, put up with, have patience with.

Bear witness, Testify, depose, state, affirm, declare, aver, avow, say, SWEAR.

Beast, n.   Brute (fit for the service of man), quadruped, beast of the field, four-footed animal, irrational animal.

Beastly, a.   Brutish, brutal, bestial, sensual, irrational.

Beat, v. a.   1. Strike, knock, hit, thump, belabor, drub, maul, pommel, BASTE, thrash, thwack, bang, lay blows upon.

2. Hammer, forge.

3. Pound, bruise, pulverize, comminute, bray, break in pieces.

4. Batter, smite, pelt, dash against.

5. Conquer, overcome, subdue, vanquish, overpower, defeat, checkmate.

6. [Colloquial.] Excel, surpass, outdo, cut out.

Beat, v. n.   1. Pulsate, throb.

2. Dash, strike.

3. (Naut.) Go against the wind, go a zigzag course.

Beat, n.   1. Stroke, striking, blow.

2. Pulsation, throb, beating.

3. Round, course.

Beat all hollow, [Low.] Surpass completely, excel beyond all question.

Beat back, Repulse, repel, drive back.

Beat down, 1. Batter, overturn, destroy, break, throw down.

2. Subdue, overpower, overcome, crush, put down.

3. Press down (by blows), lay flat.

Beaten, a.   1. Worn by use, much travelled.

2. Hackneyed, trite, common, common-place.

Beatific, a.   Ravishing, enchanting.

Beatification, n.   1. Beatifying (especially the act of the pope in declaring a person happy after death).

2. Bliss, BEATITUDE.

Beatify, v. a.   Enrapture, enchant, transport, enravish, make happy.

Beating, n.   1. Striking, drubbing, flogging, thrashing, cudgelling, pommelling, caning, flagellation, BASTINADO.

2. Beat, pulsation, throb, throbbing.

Beat into, [Colloquial.] Teach (by laborious effort), instil, inculcate, implant.

Beatitude, n.   Happiness, bliss, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatification, transport, rapture, heavenly joy.

Be at loggerheads, Come to blows, fall to loggerheads, go to loggerheads.

Beat out, 1. Flatten (by hammering).

2. Exhaust, overcome (with fatigue).

Beat the air, Make vain efforts, try in vain, lash the waves, fish in the air, milk the ram.

Beau, n.   1. Fop, dandy, coxcomb, exquisite, macaroni, popinjay, jackanapes, jack-a-dandy, man of dress.

2. Gallant, lover, admirer, suitor, sweetheart, CICISBEO.

Beau ideal, [Fr.] Ideal beauty, ideal excellence, ideal standard.

Beau-monde, n.   [Fr.] Gay world, fashionable world, people of fashion, genteel people.

Beauteous, a.   [Poetical.] Beautiful.

Beauties, n. pl.   1. Anthology, selections, elegant extracts.

2. Beautiful persons (especially beautiful women).

Beautiful, a.   Handsome, fair, fine, elegant, graceful, PRETTY, BEAUTEOUS.

Beautify, v. a.   Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, bedeck, BEDIZEN, ornament, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, set, TRICK OUT, set off, make beautiful.

Beauty, n.   1. Elegance, grace, symmetry.

2. Comeliness, seemliness, fairness, loveliness, attractiveness.

3. Fine part, special grace, particular excellence.

4. Beautiful person (especially a beautiful woman).

Beaux-esprits, n. pl.   [Fr.] Men of wit, men of genius.

Beaver, n.   1. Fur of the beaver.

2. Hat.

3. Face-guard (of a helmet).

Be beat out, Be exhausted, be fagged, be greatly fatigued.

Be brought to bed, Be confined, lie in, be in child-bed.

Becafico, n.   Fig-eater, fig-pecker, greater pettychaps, garden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).

Be called, Be named, go by the name of, take the name of, pass under the name of.

Becalm, v. a.   1. Quiet, soothe, calm, tranquillize, pacify, make calm, make tranquil.

2. Detain by a calm (as a ship).

Be cast away, 1. Be thrown aside.

2. Be shipwrecked.

Because, conj.   1. For, since, as, for the cause that, for the reason that, on this account that, inasmuch as.

2. On account, by reason.

Bèche-de-mer, n.   [Fr.] Trepang, sea-cucumber, sea-slug.

Beck, n.   Nod, bow.

Beckon, v. n.   Make a sign, give a signal.

Beckon, v. a.   Call by a sign or signal.

Becloud, v. a.   Dim, bedim, obscure, darken, cloud.

Become, v. n.   1. Be.

2. Change to, be changed to, be converted into, get to be, come to be.

Become, v. a.   Suit, befit, be suitable to, be proper for, be appropriate to.

Becoming, a.   1. Fit, proper, suitable, meet, appropriate, congruous, right, seemly.

2. Comely, graceful, neat, pretty.

Become of, Be the fate of, be the end of, be the final condition of.

Be confined, 1. Be restrained, be shut up, be shut in.

2. Be brought to bed, lie in, be in child-bed.

Bed, n.   1. Couch, BERTH, resting-place, place to sleep in.

2. Raised plot (of ground).

3. Layer, stratum, seam, vein.

Bed, v. a.   Embed.

Bedaub, v. a.   Smear, daub, besmear, soil, daub over.

Bedeck, v. a.   Adorn, decorate, embellish, beautify, ornament, deck, emblazon, gild, array, garnish, grace, BEDIZEN, set out, set off, TRICK OUT.

Bedew, v. a.   Moisten, wet, damp, dampen.

Bedim, v. a.   Darken, dim, obscure, cloud, becloud.

Bedizen, v. a.   Adorn (gaudily), deck, BEDECK.

Bedlam, n.   Madhouse, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.

Bedlamite, n.   Madman, lunatic, maniac, crazy person, insane person.

Bedouin, n.   Nomadic Arab.

Bedridden, a.   Confined to the bed.

Beef, n.   Flesh of neat-cattle.

Bee-house, n.   Apiary, beehive.

Bee-line, n.   Straight line, right line, shortest distance, most direct line.

Bee-moth, n.   Wax-moth.

Beetle, v. n.   Protrude, project, jut, jut out, hang over.

Beetle-head, n.   Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

Beetle-headed, a.   Dull, stupid, obtuse, foolish, senseless, witless, insensible, sluggish, slow of apprehension, void of understanding.

Beeves, n. pl.   Neat-cattle.

Befall, v. a.   Betide, overtake, happen to.

Befall, v. n.   Happen, occur, take place.

Befit, v. a.   Suit, fit, become, be suitable or proper for, be appropriate for.

Befitting, a.   Becoming, suitable, fit, proper, right, meet, seemly, appropriate, congruous.

Befool, v. a.   Infatuate, dupe, deceive, delude, cheat, chouse, trick, diddle, hoax, stultify, hoodwink, circumvent, overreach, beguile, bamboozle, impose upon, practise upon, play upon, make a fool of.

Before, prep.   1. Preceding.

2. Prior to, previous to.

3. In the presence of, face to face with.

4. Near the front of, in front of.

Before, ad.   1. Toward the front.

2. In advance, farther onward.

3. Formerly, in time past, of old.

4. Hitherto, up to that time.

5. Above, in a former part.

Beforehand, ad.   Previously, in anticipation, in advance.

Beforehand, a.   Forehanded, in comfortable circumstances (as respects property), well off, well to do.

Before the wind, With the wind, in the direction of the wind.

Befoul, v. a.   Soil, pollute, daggle, draggle, foul, bemire, dirty.

Befriend, v. a.   Favor, encourage, patronize, countenance, assist, help, aid, benefit, act as a friend to, do a good turn for, be kind to.

Beg, v. a.   1. Crave, solicit, beseech, implore, supplicate, conjure, pray for, petition for, seek by petition, ask earnestly.

2. Assume, take for granted, consider as true.

Beg, v. n.   Solicit charity, ask alms.

Beget, v. a.   1. Generate, procreate, engender, breed, get, be the father of.

2. Produce, originate, give rise to.

Beggar, n.   Mendicant, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.

Beggar, v. a.   1. Impoverish, ruin, render poor, reduce to poverty, bring to want.

2. Surpass, exceed, go beyond, be above, put at fault, show to be inadequate.

Beggarly, a.   1. Destitute, indigent, needy, poor.

2. Sorry, mean, abject, base, low, paltry, shabby, vile, scurvy, miserable, contemptible, despicable, pitiful, pitiable, servile, slavish, grovelling, base-minded, low-minded, mean-spirited.

Beggary, n.   Poverty, indigence, penury, destitution, want, distress, mendicancy, mendicity.

Begin, v. n.   1. Originate, arise, take rise.

2. Commence, make a beginning, take the first step, break ground, break the ice.

Begin, v. a.   Commence, institute, originate, enter upon, set about, set on foot, set in operation.

Beginner, n.   Tyro, novice.

Beginning, n.   1. Commencement, outset, opening, start.

2. Origin, source, rise.

Begird, v. a.   1. Gird, bind with a girdle.

2. Surround, encompass, environ, encircle, enclose, engird.

Begone, interj.   1. Depart, go away, haste away, be off, get thee gone.

2. Away, let us go, let us be off.

Begrudge, v. a.   Grudge, envy the possession of.

Beguile, v. a.   1. Delude, cheat, deceive, BEFOOL.

2. Divert, amuse, entertain, cheer, solace.

Behalf, n.   Benefit, advantage, profit, interest, account, behoof.

Be hanged, Come to the gallows.

Behave, v. n.   Act, conduct one's self, demean one's self, acquit one's self, behave one's self.

Behave one's self, Behave.

Behavior, n.   Deportment (on particular occasions), conduct, bearing, demeanor, carriage, manner, mien, air, port.

Behead, v. a.   Decapitate, decollate, deprive of the head.

Beheading, n.   Decapitation, decollation.

Behest, n.   Command, commandment, mandate, order, precept, injunction, direction, charge, bidding.

Behind, prep.   1. Abaft, at the back of, in the rear of.

2. After, following.

Behind, ad.   1. Backward, back.

2. Abaft, aft, ASTERN, rearward, in the rear, at the back.

Behindhand, a.   Backward, late, tardy, after the usual time.

Behind the curtain, Hid, concealed, in concealment.

Behold, v. a.   See, observe, view, descry, discern, look upon, set one's eyes on.

Behold, interj.   See, look, observe, lo.

Beholden, a.   Obliged, indebted, grateful, thankful, under obligation.

Beholder, n.   Observer, spectator, looker-on.

Behoof, n.   Advantage, benefit, profit, interest, account, behoof.

Behoove, v. a.   Become, befit, beseem, be fit for, be proper for, be meet for.

Be in earnest, Be serious, be not jesting.

Being, 1. Existence, subsistence.

2. Creature, substance, thing.

Be in the ascendant, Have superior influence, have commanding influence.

Be in the wrong box, Mistake, err, make a mistake, BARK UP THE WRONG TREE.

Be it so, 1. Suppose it to be so.

2. Amen, so be it, let it be so.

Belabor, v. a.   Thump, beat, strike, knock, lay blows upon.

Belated, a.   Retarded, hindered, made late.

Belay, v. a.   (Naut.) Fasten, make fast.

Belch, v. a.   1. Eject (as wind from the stomach), discharge.

2. Throw out violently, cast forth.

Belch, v. n.   1. Eructate, eject wind from the stomach.

2. Be ejected violently.

Belching, n.   Eructation.

Beldam, n.   Hag, Jezebel, virago, vixen, fury, she-monster, ugly old woman.

Beleaguer, v. a.   Besiege, invest, beset, lay siege to.

Bel-esprit, n.   [Fr. pl. Beaux-esprits.] Wit, man of wit, man of genius.

Belfry, n.   Campanile.

Belial, n.   Satan, DEVIL, Apollyon, arch-fiend.

Belie, v. a.   1. Falsify, misrepresent, represent falsely.

2. Give the lie to, convict of falsehood, show to be false, charge with falsehood.

Belief, n.   1. Credence, credit, confidence, trust, reliance, persuasion, FAITH.

2. Doctrine, tenet, dogma, opinion, creed, article of faith, profession of faith.

Believe, v. a.   Credit, give credit to, think to be true, give faith to, put faith in, rely upon, make no doubt of, put confidence in.

Believe, v. n.   1. Exercise faith, have faith, have a firm persuasion.

2. Think, suppose, conceive, fancy, apprehend, imagine, hold. OPINE, be of opinion, entertain the idea, take it.

Belike, ad.   [Colloquial.] Probably, perhaps, mayhap, it may be, it is likely.

Belladonna, n.   Banewort, dwale, deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).

Belle, n.   Beautiful young lady, fair damsel.

Belles-lettres, n. pl.   [Fr.] Polite literature, elegant literature, the humanities.

Belligerent, a.   1. Carrying on war, engaged in war, waging war.

2. Of belligerents.

3. Warlike, hostile.

Belligerent, n.   Belligerent state or nation.

Bellow, v. n.   1. Roar (as a beast).

2. Vociferate, clamor, yell, howl, cry, bawl, make a loud outcry.

Bell-pepper, n.   Red pepper (of the garden. Capsicum annuum).

Bell-shaped, a.   (Bot.) Campanulate.

Belly, n.   1. Abdomen, paunch.

2. Convexity, swell, swelling, bulge, protuberance.

Belly-ache, n.   Colic, pain in the bowels.

Belong to, 1. Be the property of, be possessed by.

2. Regard, appertain to, pertain to, relate to, refer to, be related to, have reference to.

3. Be appendent to, constitute a part of, be connected with.

4. Be incumbent on, be the duty of, devolve on.

5. Be a resident of, have a legal residence in.

Beloved, a.   Dear, darling, much loved.

Below, prep.   1. Under, beneath, underneath.

2. Unbecoming, unworthy of.

Below, ad.   1. Under, beneath, underneath.

2. On the earth.

3. In hell, in the lower regions, in the regions of the dead.

Belt, n.   Girdle, cincture, cestus, band.

Bemire, v. a.   Daggle, draggle, befoul, foul, dirty, soil.

Bemoan, v. a.   Bewail, lament, deplore, moan over, mourn over, express sorrow for.

Bemused, a.   Stupefied, confused, bewildered, MUZZY, half-drunk.

Bench, n.   1. Long seat.

2. Court, tribunal, body of judges.

Bend, v. a.   1. Curve, crook, bow, incurvate, make crooked.

2. Direct, turn towards, incline towards.

3. Exert, apply earnestly, direct attentively.

4. Subdue, cause to yield, bring to submission, make submissive.

5. (Naut.) Fasten, make fast.

Bend, v. n.   1. Crook, be crooked, be bent, be curved.

2. Lean, incline, turn.

Bend, n.   1. Curve, curvity, curvature, flexure, angle, elbow, crook, incurvation, ARCUATION.

2. Bight, coil.

Beneath, prep.   1. Under, underneath, below.

2. Unbecoming, unbefitting, unworthy of.

Beneath, ad.   Below.

Benedict, n.   Married man.

Benediction, n.   Blessing, benison, invocation of happiness.

Benefaction, n.   Gift, donation, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, boon, present, alms, charity.

Benefice, n.   Ecclesiastical living.

Beneficence, n.   Charity, bounty, liberality, generosity, alms-giving, active goodness, kind action, doing of good.

Beneficient, a.   Bountiful, munificent, liberal, generous, bounteous, princely, kind.

Beneficial, a.   Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, good, for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest.

Benefit, n.   1. Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.

2. Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.

Benefit, v. a.   1. Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on.

2. Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.

Benevolence, n.   Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, tenderness, charitableness, good-will, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.

Benevolent, a.   Kind, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, obliging, humane, tender, charitable, disposed to do good.

Benighted, a.   1. Overtaken with night.

2. Involved in darkness.

Benign, a.   1. Kind, benevolent, gracious, complaisant, humane, obliging, benignant, good, amiable, friendly, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, of a gentle disposition.

2. (Med.) Mild, of a mild nature.

Benignant, a.   Kind, BENIGN.

Benignity, n.   1. Kindness, graciousness, benevolence, complaisance, humanity, amiability, amenity, friendliness, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good feeling, good humor, good temper, obliging manner.

2. [Rare.] Mildness.

Benison, n.   Blessing, benediction.

Benne, n.   Sesame, oil-plant.

Bent, n.   Disposition, inclination, tendency, turn, PENCHANT, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, predisposition, predilection, partiality, liking, fondness, proneness, appetency.

Bent, a.   Crooked, hooked, bowed, curved, aduncous, ARCUATE, INCURVATE.

Benumb, v. a.   Stupefy, paralyze, deaden, blunt, make torpid, render insensible.

Be of opinion, Think, believe, conclude, judge, suppose, imagine, fancy, deem, WERN, OPINE, hold, entertain the idea, take it.

Be on the carpet, Be under consideration, be upon the tapis.

Bequeath, v. a.   Leave, demise, devise, will, give by will.

Bequest, n.   Legacy, devise.

Berate, v. a.   1. Scold, chide, reprimand, rate.

2. Abuse, vilify, defame.

Bereave, v. a.   Deprive (of something that cannot be restored), dispossess, divest, take away from.

Bereavement, n.   Deprivation, loss (especially of friends by death).

Berth, n.   (Naut.) 1. Ship's station.

2. Bed, place to sleep in.

3. Situation, office, post, employment, place.

Beseech, v. a.   1. Entreat, beg, implore, supplicate, petition, conjure, ADJURE, pray to.

2. Solicit, ask, petition for, pray for, beg for.

Beseem, v. a.   Become, bent, be proper for, be appropriate for, be meet for.

Be seized of, Possess, have possession of, be possessed of.

Be selfish, Indulge one's self, coddle one's self, consult one's own wishes, interest, or pleasure; take care of, or look after, number one; have an eye to the main chance.

Beset, v. a.   1. Surround, encompass, environ, encircle, enclose, besiege, hem in.

2. Embarrass, perplex, entangle.

Beshrew, v. a.   Execrate, wish evil to, implore a curse upon.

Beside, prep.   1. Near, close to, at the side of, by the side of.

2. Except, save, over and above, in addition to, distinct from.

3. Aside from, out of the way of, out of the course of, not according to.

4. Out of, not in possession of.

Besides, prep.   1. Near, close to, at the side of, by the side of.

2. Except, save, over and above, in addition to, distinct from.

3. Aside from, out of the way of, out of the course of, not according to.

4. Out of, not in possession of.

Beside, ad.   1. Moreover, yet, too, also, furthermore, more than that, over and above, in addition.

2. Else.

Besides, ad.   1. Moreover, yet, too, also, furthermore, more than that, over and above, in addition.

2. Else.

Besiege, v. a.   Surround (with a military force), beset, beleaguer, invest, lay siege to.

Besmear, v. a.   Bedaub, daub, smear, soil, bespatter, daub over.

Besot, v. a.   Infatuate, stultify, stupefy, befool, make sottish, make foolish.

Bespatter, v. a.   Spatter (with something filthy), bedaub, BESMEAR.

Bespeak, v. a.   1. Order, speak for beforehand.

2. [Rare.] Forebode, foretell, predict.

3. Indicate, imply, proclaim, declare, betoken, show.

Best, a.   1. Most good, most excellent, superlatively good, good in the highest degree.

2. Most wise, most judicious, most expedient.

Best, ad.   1. Most of all, in the highest degree, beyond all others.

2. With most propriety, most profitably or advantageously, to the greatest advantage.

3. Most intimately, most thoroughly, most completely.

4. With the highest qualification, by the clearest title.

Best, n.   1. Highest perfection.

2. Utmost, greatest effort, highest endeavor, the most that can be done.

Bestial, a.   Beastly, brutal, brutish, irrational, sensual.

Bestir one's self, Labor, work, toil, strive, fall to work, exert one's self, rouse one's self, trouble one's self, busy one's self, take pains, be busy, be active, be quick, BEAR A HAND.

Bestow, v. a.   1. Put, place, stow, deposit, lay up in store.

2. Give, accord, grant, impart, CONFER.

3. Use, apply, make use of.

Bestower, n.   Giver, disposer, donor, DONATOR.

Bestride, v. a.   1. Straddle, stride over.

2. Ride upon astraddle.

Bet, n.   Wager, stake.

Bet, v. n.   Wager, lay a wager, make a bet.

Bet, v. a.   Stake, pledge, wager, lay, wage.

Betake one's self, Resort, repair, apply, have recourse.

Bethink one's self, Consider, reflect, take thought.

Betide, v. a.   Befall, overtake, happen to, come to.

Betime, ad.   Seasonably, early, before it is too late.

Betimes, ad.   Seasonably, early, before it is too late.

Betoken, v. a.   1. Signify, denote, indicate, represent, typify, imply, prove, show, argue.

2. Prefigure, foreshow, foreshadow, portend, augur, presignify.

Betray, v. a.   1. Deliver up (by breach of trust), give up treacherously.

2. Violate the confidence of, disclose the secrets of, deceive by treachery.

3. Discover, divulge, reveal, tell, blab, show, make known.

4. Mislead, lure, insnare, entrap, inveigle.

Betroth, v. a.   Affiance, pledge in marriage, engage to marry.

Betrothment, n.   Engagement.

Better, a.   1. More good, more excellent, good in a higher degree.

2. More useful, more valuable.

3. Preferable, more desirable, more acceptable.

4. More fit, more appropriate, more suitable.

5. Improved in health, less ill.

6. More familiar, more intimate.

Better, n.   1. Superiority, advantage.

2. Improvement, greater good.

3. Superior.

Better, ad.   1. In a superior manner, in a more excellent way, more fully, more completely.

2. With greater advantage, more usefully or profitably.

3. More, in a higher degree.

Better, v. a.   Improve, amend, emend, meliorate, ameliorate, reform, make or render better.

Better-half, n.   [Colloquial.] Wife.

Bettering, n.   Improvement, amendment, melioration, amelioration.

Between, prep.   Betwixt.

Betwixt, prep.   [Nearly obsolete.] Between.

Be upon the tapis. Be under consideration, be on the carpet.

Bevel, n.   Chamfer.

Bevel, v. a.   Chamfer.

Beverage, n.   Drink, potion.

Bevy, n.   1. Flock, covey.

2. Company (especially of women), party.

Bewail, v. a.   Bemoan, lament, deplore, mourn for, mourn over, express sorrow for.

Bewail, v. n.   Mourn, lament, sorrow, grieve.

Beware v. n.   Mind, take care, be cautious.

Bewilder, v. a.   Perplex, confound, confuse, embarrass, puzzle, stagger, pose, nonplus, mystify, entangle.

Bewilderment, n.   Perplexity, embarrassment, confusion, entanglement.

Bewitch, v. a.   Charm, fascinate, enchant, captivate, transport, enravish, enrapture, entrance.

Be with child, Be pregnant, be big, be ENCEINTE, be in the family way.

Beyond, prep.   1. On the further side of.

2. Before, at a distance before.

3. Remote from, out of the reach of, out of the grasp of.

4. Farther than.

5. Above, superior to.

Beyond, ad.   Yonder, at a distance.

Bias, n.   Inclination, bent, leaning, tendency, predilection, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, partiality, prejudice, disposition, predisposition, turn, PENCHANT.

Bias, v. a.   Influence, incline, prejudice, dispose, predispose.

Bible, n.   [Used with The prefixed.] The Scriptures, the Old and New Testaments, the sacred volume.

Biblical, a.   Scriptural.

Bibliomania, n.   Book-madness.

Bibulous, a.   Spongy, porous.

Bichloride of mercury, Corrosive sublimate.

Bicker, v. n.   1. Wrangle, dispute, quarrel, spar, spat, jangle, squabble, TIFF, have words, have an altercation.

2. Quiver, be tremulous.

Bickering, n.   Dispute, quarrel, wrangle, wrangling, jangle, jarring, jangling, sparring, altercation, dissension, contention, strife, war of words.

Bid, n.   Offer (of a price), bidding, proposal.

Bid, v. a.   1. Command, order, require, charge, enjoin, direct.

2. Offer, propose, proffer, tender.

3. Pronounce, declare, utter.

Bidding, n.   1. Command, order, direction, injunction, precept, behest, requisition, mandate, appointment.

2. Offer (of a price), bid, proposal.

Bide, v. a.   1. Endure, suffer, tolerate, bear, put up with, submit to.

2. Abide, await, wait for.

Bid fair, Seem likely, offer a good prospect, present a fair prospect, make a fair promise.

Big, a.   1. Great, large, huge, bulky, massive, massy.

2. Haughty, arrogant, proud, pompous, important, swelling, blustering, assuming, self-conceited, self-sufficient.

3. Pregnant, ENCEINTE, with child, in the family way.

Big-bellied, a.   Large-bellied, great-bellied, pot-bellied, tun-bellied, abdominous.

Bight, n.   1. [Naut.] Bend, coil.

2. Bay, inlet, cove.

Bigot, n.   Zealot, fanatic, enthusiast, dogmatist.

Bigoted, a.   Prejudiced, crotchety, mulish, intolerant, narrow-minded, wrong-headed, self-opinionated, over-zealous, creed-bound, wedded to an opinion.

Bigotry, n.   Prejudice, intolerance, blind zeal.

Big-sounding, a.   High-sounding.

Big-wig, n.   [Colloquial.] Person of consequence.

Big-wigged, a.   Consequential, pompous, self-important.

Bijou, n.   [Fr.] Jewel, trinket, elegant ornament.

Bijoutry, n.   Jewelry, jewels, trinkets.

Bi-labiate, a.   (Bot.) Two-lipped.

Bilbo, n.   Rapier, short sword.

Bilboes, n. pl.   Shackles, fetters, gyves, chains.

Bile, n.   Gall.

Bileduct, n.   Biliary duct, hepatic duct.

Biliary calculus, Gall-stone.

Biliary duct, Bileduct, hepatic duct.

Bilk, v. a.   Deceive (by not fulfilling an engagement), disappoint, elude.

Bill, n.   1. Beak, mandible, neb.

2. Account, charges, reckoning, score.

3. Statement of particulars.

4. Draft of a law, projected law.

Bill of exchange, Draft.

Billet, n.   Note, short letter.

Billet, v. a.   Assign (to a lodging place, as soldiers, by a billet), apportion, allot, distribute, quarter, place in lodgings.

Billet-doux, n.   [Fr.] Love-letter.

Billing and Cooing, Blandishment.

Billingsgate, n.   Ribaldry, BLACKGUARDISM, foul or profane language.

Billow, n.   Wave, surge, breaker.

Bin, n.   Bunker, crib.

Binary, a.   Dual, double, consisting of two.

Bind, v. a.   1. Confine, restrain, restrict, put bonds upon.

2. Enwrap, put a bandage upon.

3. Tie, fasten, secure by a bond.

4. Engage, oblige, OBLIGATE, make responsible, lay under obligation.

5. Confirm, ratify, sanction.

6. Put a border round.

Binding, n.   1. Bandage, band, fillet.

2. Cover, covering.

Binding, a.   1. Astringent, contracting, styptic.

2. Obligatory, valid.

Binoxide, n.   Deutoxide.

Biography, n.   1. Life, memoir, history of a person's life.

2. Biographical writings.

Bird, n.   Fowl, fowl of the air.

Birth, n.   1. Nativity, coming into life.

2. Lineage, extraction, descent, race, family, line, ancestry.

Birthday, n.   1. Natal day.

2. Anniversary of one's birth.

Bisect, v. a.   Cut or divide into two equal parts, cut in halves, halve.

Bisection, n.   Halving, cutting, or dividing into two equal parts.

Bishop, n.   1. Prelate.

2. Bustle, tournure.

Bishopric, n.   Diocese, see, jurisdiction or charge of a bishop.

Bison, n.   [U. S.] Buffalo.

Bissextile, n.   Leap-year.

Bit, n.   1. Mouth-piece of a bridle.

2. Mouthful, morsel, crumb, fragment, scrap.

3. Whit, tittle, jot, iota, particle, atom, grain, mite, ace, scintilla.

Bitch, n.   Slut, female dog.

Bite, v. a.   1. Gnaw, chew, champ.

2. Blast, nip (as frost).

3. Defraud, deceive, cheat, dupe, trick, gull, overreach, jockey, cozen, chouse, outwit, bamboozle, diddle, impose upon, beguile, mislead, inveigle, gammon.

Biting, a.   1. Pungent, piquant, hot, sharp, peppery, stinging, high-flavored, high-seasoned.

2. Severe, sarcastic, cutting, caustic.

3. Cold, freezing, nipping, piercing.

Bitter, a.   1. That tastes like wormwood.

2. Fierce, savage, cruel, merciless, relentless, virulent, fell, ruthless.

3. Severe, harsh, stern.

4. Distressing, painful, grievous, sorrowful, afflictive, poignant, calamitous.

Bitter-apple, n.   Colocynth, coloquintida, bitter-cucumber.

Bitter-cucumber, n.   Bitter-apple.

Bitterness, n.   1. Bitter taste.

2. Spleen, gall, rankling, rancor, heart-burning, animosity, hatred, malice, malignity, spite, enmity, ill-will.

3. Asperity, acerbity, severity, harshness, acrimony, ill-temper, bad blood.

4. Distress, pain, grief, sorrow, affliction, heaviness, regret, despondency.

Bitter-sweet, n.   Woody nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).

Bivalve, a.   Two-valved, bivalvular.

Bivalved, a.   Two-valved, bivalvular.

Bivalvular, a.   Two-valved, BIVALVE.

Bivouac, n.   and v. n.   Halt for the night (without encamping).

Bizarre, a.   [Fr.] Odd, fantastic, strange, singular, whimsical.

Blab, v. a.   Betray, disclose, reveal, divulge, let out, speak out.

Blab, v. n.   Tattle, prattle, prate, BLOW, tell tales, tell a secret, let the cat out of the bag, tell tales out of school.

Blab, n.   Prater, tattler, babbler, tell-tale.

Black, a.   1. Dark, ebon, inky, atramentous, swarthy, murky, dusky, pitchy, dingy, Cimmerian.

2. Wicked, atrocious, villanous, heinous, flagitious, diabolic, infernal, hellish, outrageous, monstrous, horrible.

Black, n.   1. Black color.

2. Mourning, black garment.

3. Negro, blackamoor, black man.

Blackamoor, n.   Negro, BLACK.

Black art, Magic, conjuration, sorcery, NECROMANCY, magical art.

Blackball, v. a.   Exclude by black balls, reject by a negative vote.

Blackcap, n.   Blackcap warbler, mock-nightingale (Corucca atricapilla).

Black-coat, n.   Clergyman, minister, divine, pastor, priest.

Black-cock, n.   Heath-cock, black-grouse, black-game (Tetrao tetrix).

Blacken, v. a.   1. Darken, make black.

2. Vilify, defame, slander, calumniate, asperse, traduce, malign, abuse, revile, rail at, sneer at, run down, speak ill of.

Blackfish, n.   Tautog (Labrus Americanus).

Blackfriar, n.   Dominican, predicant, jacobin, preaching friar.

Black-game, n.   Blackcock.

Black-grouse, n.   Blackcock.

Blackguard, n.   Scurrilous or abusive fellow, person of low character, vile fellow.

Blackguard, a.   Scurrilous, abusive, contumelious, insulting, ribald, vituperative, reproachful, opprobrious.

Blackguardism, n.   Ribaldry, billingsgate, scurrility, indecency, obscenity, foul or profane language.

Black hellebore, Christmas rose (Helleborus niger).

Black-jack, n.   [Term used by miners.] Blende, zinc-blende, sulphuret of zinc, false galena, mock lead.

Black-lead, n.   Plumbago, graphite.

Blackleg, n.   Gambler, sharper, swindler.

Black-mail, n.   1. Tribute (paid for immunity from robbery).

2. [U. S.] Hush-money, bribe to keep silence.

Black man, Negro, blackamoor, black.

Black Sea, Euxine.

Black tea, Bohea.

Blackthorn, n.   Sloe (Prunus spinosa).

Blade, n.   1. Leaf.

2. Flat part (as of a knife or an oar).

3. Buck, gallant, spark; gay, dashing fellow.

Blain, n.   Pustule, blister, blotch, sore.

Blamable, a.   Culpable, censurable, reprehensible, faulty, blameworthy.

Blame, v. a.   Censure, reprove, reprehend, reflect upon, lay or cast blame upon, find fault with, cry out against.

Blame, n.   Censure, reprehension, animadversion, reproof, condemnation, imputation of fault.

Blameless, a.   Irreproachable, unimpeachable, irreprehensible, inculpable, faultless, guiltless, unblemished, unspotted, unsullied, undefiled, spotless, stainless, innocent.

Blameworthy, a.   Culpable, censurable, reprehensible, faulty, blamable.

Blanc-fix, n.   Permanent white, sulphate of baryta (artificially made).

Blanch, v. a.   Bleach, whiten, etiolate, make or render white.

Bland, a.   Soft, mild, gentle, not harsh.

Blandishment, n.   Caressing, caresses, endearment, soft words, expression of affection, billing and cooing.

Blank, a.   1. Void, empty.

2. White, of a white color.

3. Astonished, confounded, confused, dumfounded, disconcerted, nonplussed, struck dumb.

Blank verse, Unrhymed verse (especially the heroic verse of five feet).

Blare, n.   Noise, sound, roar, peal, blast, clang, clamor, uproar.

Blarney, n.   1. Flattery, adulation.

2. Unmeaning talk, smooth phrases.

Blase, a.   [Fr.] Surfeited, cloyed, satiated, palled, incapable of enjoyment (in consequence of excesses).

Blaspheme, v. a.   1. Speak irreverently or impiously of.

2. [Rare.] Revile, calumniate, defame, traduce, malign, speak evil of.

Blaspheme, v. n.   Utter blasphemy, speak irreverently of God or of sacred things.

Blasphemous, a.   Impious, irreverent, profane.

Blasphemy, n.   Impiety, irreverence, profanity.

Blast, n.   1. Gust, squall, sudden breeze.

2. Peal, blare, clang.

3. Explosion, outbreak, burst, discharge.

4. Blight, pestilential influence.

Blast, v. a.   1. Blight, kill, destroy, ruin, annihilate, wither, shrivel.

2. Rend by explosion.

Blatant, a.   1. Bellowing, braying.

2. Clamorous, obstreperous, vociferous, noisy.

Blatherskite, n.   [Colloquial, U. S.] 1. Blusterer, swaggerer, bully, boaster, vaunter, braggart, braggadocio, roisterer, huff, drawcansir, noisy fellow.

2. Bluster, boasting.

Blattering, a.   Blustering, swaggering, noisy.

Blattering, n.   Bluster.

Blaze, n.   Flame.

Blaze, v. n.   Flame, burn with a flame.

Blaze, v. a.   Publish, proclaim, blazon, make known, noise abroad, spread abroad, blaze abroad.

Blaze abroad, Blaze.

Blazing star, Comet.

Blazon, v. a.   1. Emblazon, emblaze, adorn with ensigns armorial.

2. Display, exhibit, set forth, make a show of, show off.

3. Proclaim, publish, blaze, make known, noise, spread or blaze abroad.

Blazon, n.   1. Blazonry.

2. Publication, proclamation.

3. Exhibition, show, pompous display.

Blazonry, n.   Emblazonry, heraldry.

Bleach, v. a.   Whiten, blanch, etiolate, make or render white.

Bleach, v. n.   Whiten, etiolate, grow or become white.

Bleaching powder, Chloride of lime.

Bleak, a.   1. Cold, chill, chilly, raw, biting, piercing.

2. Unsheltered, exposed to cold, exposed to wind.

Blearedness, n.   Lippitude, dim-sightedness.

Blear-eyed, a.   Dim-sighted.

Bleb, n.   1. Blister, vesicle, little tumor.

2. Air-bubble.

Bleed, v. n.   1. Lose blood.

2. Lose sap or juice.

3. Be slaughtered.

Bleeding, n.   Phlebotomy, venesection, blood-letting.

Blemish, v. a.   1. Stain, sully, blur, spot, tarnish, mar, injure, taint.

2. Defame, vilify, traduce, ASPERSE, calumniate, slander, malign, revile, run down, speak ill of.

Blemish, n.   1. Stain, spot, defect, speck, blur, soil, tarnish, flaw, fault.

2. Disgrace, dishonor, reproach, taint.

Blench, v. n.   Shrink, flinch, start back, give way, lack courage or resolution.

Blend, v. a.   Mingle, mix, intermingle, commingle, amalgamate.

Blende, n.   (Min.) Black-jack, sulphuret of zinc, mock lead, false galena.

Bless, v. a.   1. Ask or implore a blessing upon.

2. Delight, gladden, make happy.

3. Wish happiness to.

4. Glorify, exalt, celebrate, magnify, praise.

Blessed, a.   1. Happy.

2. Holy, hallowed, sacred.

Blessedness, n.   Bliss, blissfulness, happiness, felicity, beatitude, joy.

Blessing, n.   1. Benediction, benison, invocation of happiness.

2. Good, benefit, advantage, profit, gain, boon, service.

Blight, n.   Pestilence (among plants), mildew, blast.

Blight, v. a.   Blast, wither, shrivel, kill, destroy, taint with mildew, cause to decay.

Blind, a.   1. Sightless, eyeless, unseeing, stone-blind, stark-blind, unable to see.

2. Ignorant, undiscerning, unaware, unmindful, inattentive, heedless, incapable of judging.

Blind, v. a.   1. Make blind, deprive of sight.

2. Hoodwink, blindfold.

Blind, n.   Screen, cover.

Blind alley, Cul-de-sac.

Blind-coal, n.   Anthracite, glance-coal, hard-coal, stone-coal.

Blindfold, v. a.   Blind, hoodwink, cover the eyes of, hinder from seeing (by a bandage over the eyes).

Blindfold, a.   Blinded (by a bandage over the eyes), blindfolded.

Blindside, n.   Weakness, foible, failing, defect, weak side, weak part.

Blink, v. n.   Wink, NICTATE, see obscurely.

Blink, v. a.   Overlook (purposely), disregard, avoid, evade, pass over, gloss over, shut out of sight, make no account of, not take into account, not mind, not trouble one's self with, pretend not to see.

Bliss, n.   Happiness, felicity, blessedness, blissfulness, beatitude, beatification, transport, rapture, ecstasy, heavenly joy.

Blissful, a.   Transported, enraptured, in raptures, in ecstasies, very happy, full of joy, highly blessed.

Blister, n.   1. Vesicle, pustule, blain.

2. Vesicatory, blistering plaster.

Blister, v. a.   Raise blisters on.

Blister, v. n.   Rise in blisters.

Blithe, a.   Cheerful, gay, sprightly, lively, animated, elated, vivacious, joyous, joyful, merry, mirthful, jocund, sportive, airy, buoyant, debonair, blithesome, of good cheer, in high spirits, in good spirits, full of life, full of spirit.

Blithesome, a.   Cheerful, gay, BLITHE.

Bloat, v. a.   Swell, inflate, distend, puff up, blow up, make turgid.

Bloat, v. n.   Swell, be swollen, be inflated or distended, be puffed or blown up, become turgid.

Bloating, n.   Swelling, dilatation, DILATION, expanding, expansion.

Blobber-lip, n.   Thick lip.

Blobber-lipped, a.   Thick-lipped.

Block, v. a.   Obstruct, close, BLOCKADE, shut up, stop up, block up.

Block, n.   1. Thick and heavy piece (as of wood or stone).

2. Wooden mould (on which hats are made).

3. Simpleton, fool, blockhead, DUNCE.

4. [U. S.] Mass of houses (in a square or a continuous row).

5. (Naut.) Pulley.

Blockade, v. a.   Close (as ports, so as to prevent egress or ingress), block, shut up, stop up.

Blockade, n.   Closure (as of a port), shutting up, blocking up.

Blockhead, n.   Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

Blockish, a.   Stupid, stolid, heavy, doltish, unintelligent, dull, stockish.

Block up, Obstruct, BLOCK.

Blonde, a.   Fair, light, flaxen.

Blood, n.   1. Vital fluid, vital current, life blood.

2. Kindred, relation, family, consanguinity.

3. Royal lineage, royal line.

4. High birth, noble extraction.

5. Hotspur, madcap, fiery fellow.

Bloodroot, n.   Bloodwort.

Bloodshed, n.   Slaughter, carnage, butchery, massacre, murder.

Bloodstone, n.   1. Hematite.

2. Heliotrope.

Blood-sucker, n.   Leech.

Blood-thirsty, a.   Cruel, savage, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbarian, fell, truculent, ruthless, bloody, murderous, bloody-minded.

Bloodwort, n.   Bloodroot, red root, red puccoon (Sanguinarea Canadensis).

Bloody, a.   1. Sanguinary, ensanguined, gory.

2. Murderous, cruel, BLOOD-THIRSTY.

Bloody-flux, n.   Dysentery.

Bloody-minded, a.   Blood-thirsty.

Bloom, n.   1. Efflorescence, flower, blossom, blow.

2. Flush, freshness, vigor.

Bloom, v. n.   Flower, blossom, put forth blossoms.

Bloomy, a.   Flowery.

Blossom, n.   Flower, bloom, blow.

Blossom, v. n.   Flower, bloom, blow.

Blot, v. a.   1. Efface, obliterate, erase, cancel, expunge, rub out, blot out, scratch out, strike out.

2. Spot, stain, blur, disfigure.

3. Tarnish, sully, disgrace.

Blot, n.   1. Obliteration, erasure, blotting.

2. Blur, spot, stain, blemish.

3. Disgrace, cause of reproach.

Blotch, n.   Pustule, eruption, pimple, blain.

Blow, n.   1. Stroke, knock, rap, pat, thump, dab, beat.

2. Calamity, disaster, misfortune, affliction.

3. Bloom, blossom, flower.

4. [Low.] Spree, carousal, drinking frolic, BLOW-OUT.

Blow, v. n.   1. Move or flow in currents (as the wind).

2. Pant, puff, lose breath, breathe hard.

3. Flower, bloom, blossom.

4. [Low.] Blab, tell a secret, tell tales, let the cat out of the bag.

Blow, v. a.   1. Drive by the wind.

2. Force wind upon, direct a current of air upon.

Blow down, Prostrate (by the wind).

Blow off, 1. Drive from shore (by the wind, as a ship).

2. Detach or scatter (by the wind, as fruit from trees).

3. Let off (as steam), suffer to escape.

Blow out, Extinguish.

Blow-out, n.   [Colloquial.] Carousal, BLOW.

Blow up, [Active.] 1. Inflate, fill with air.

2. Burst, scatter by explosion, cause to explode.

3. Kindle.

4. (Low.) Scold, rate, berate, chide, reprimand, censure, reprove, blame, scold at.

Blow up, [Neuter.] Explode, burst, be scattered by explosion.

Blow upon, Discredit, blast, taint, bring into disfavor, make distasteful.

Blow-valve, n.   Snifting-valve.

Blowzed, a.   Ruddy, BLOWZY.

Blowzy, a. Ruddy, blowzed, tanned, ruddy-faced, high-colored, sun-burnt.

Blubber, n.   Whale fat.

Blubber, v. n.   Cry (so as to swell the cheeks), whine, whimper, weep.

Bludgeon, n.   Club, cudgel.

Blue, a.   1. Azure, cerulean, sky-colored.

2. [Colloquial.] Melancholy, dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, glum, gloomy, mopish, downcast, desponding, downhearted, hypochondriac, hypped, chopfallen, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, with a long face, down in the mouth.

Blue, n.   Azure, sky-color.

Blue-devils, n. pl.   Blues.

Blue-fish, n.   Tailor, skip-jack, snapping mackerel (Temnodon saltator).

Blues, n. pl.   [With The prefixed.] Melancholy, dejection, depression, despondency, hypochondria, dumps, vapors, megrims, low spirits, blue-devils, the dismals.

Blue-stocking, n.   Literary woman.

Blue-vitriol, n.   Sulphate of copper.

Bluff, a.   Blustering, swaggering, bullying, vaporing, pompous, coarse, rude, BLUNT, gruff, churlish, bearish.

Bluff, n.   Precipitous bank (especially on the margin of a river or the sea).

Bluff, v. a.   [Low.] Repulse (by a bluff manner), repel, snub, bluff off, send away with a flea in one's ear.

Blunder, v. n.   Mistake (grossly), err (from want of care), make a bull.

Blunder, n.   Mistake (of the grossest kind), error (from thoughtlessness), gross mistake, bull.

Blunderbuss, n.   1. Short gun (with a large bore).

2. Blunderer, blunderhead, stupid fellow.

Blunderer, n.   Blunderhead, blunderbuss, stupid fellow.

Blunderhead, n.   Blunderer.

Blunt, a.   1. Dull, obtuse, pointless, edgeless.

2. Abrupt, bluff, gruff, rough, rude, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite, BRUSQUE, not gentle.

Blunt, v. a.   1. Dull, make dull.

2. Benumb, paralyze, deaden, stupefy, obtund, hebetate; make insensible, callous, or obtuse.

3. Moderate, allay, assuage, mitigate, quiet, alleviate, soften.

Blunt-witted, a.   Dull, stupid, stolid, doltish, blockish, obtuse, unintelligent, unintellectual, shallow.

Blur, n.   Blot, stain, spot, blemish, soil, tarnish, defect.

Blur, v. a.   1. Obscure, darken.

2. Tarnish, stain, blot, sully, spot, blemish.

Blush, v. n.   Redden (in the cheeks), color.

Blush, n.   Reddening (of the cheeks), suffusion of the face.

Bluster, v. n.   1. Roar (as the wind), make a loud noise.

2. Vapor, swagger, bully, BOAST, vaunt, swell, domineer, gasconade, play the bully.

3. Make a great ado, make much ado about nothing.

Bluster, n.   1. Boisterousness, noise, tumult, turbulence.

2. Boasting, swaggering, bullying, blattering, BLATHERSKITE.

3. Great ado, much ado about nothing.

Blusterer, n.   Swaggerer, bully, boaster, braggart, vaunter, BOUNCER, roisterer, huff, braggadocio, drawcansir, fire-eater, BLATHERSKITE, noisy fellow.

Blustering, a.   1. Windy, stormy, tempestuous, squally, gusty.

2. Swaggering, boasting, bragging, blattering, pompous, assuming, important, arrogant, swelling, big, bluff, self-sufficient, self-conceited.

Board, n.   1. Plank (thin).

2. Table (for food), stand.

3. Food, diet, provision, fare, victuals, entertainment, meals.

4. Conclave, council, committee.

Board, v. a.   1. Cover with boards.

2. Enter or go on board of (a vessel) by force.

3. Furnish with meals.

Boards, n. pl.   [With The prefixed.] The stage (of a theatre).

Boast, v. n.   Brag, vaunt, gasconade, BLUSTER, crow, crack, flourish, exalt one's self, magnify one's self, give one's self airs, TALK BIG, ride a high horse.

Boast, v. a.   1. Magnify (unduly), make much of, boast of, brag of.

2. (Sculp.) Shape roughly (as a block of marble).

Boast, n.   1. Vaunt, brag, gasconade, rodomontade, vaporing, bravado, boasting, blustering, swaggering, flourish of trumpets, much cry and little wool.

2. Cause of pride or laudable exultation.

Boaster, n.   Braggart, braggadocio, BLUSTERER.

Boastful, a.   Boasting, vaunting, bragging, vaporing, blustering, exulting, triumphant, cock-a-hoop.

Boasting, n.   Vaunt, brag, BOAST.

Boast one's self, Exult over-confidently.

Boat-shaped, a.   (Bot.) Cymbiform, navicular, SCAPHOID.

Bob, v. a.   1. Move with a jerk.

2. Strike (suddenly and lightly), rap, knock.

3. Clip, cut short.

4. [Rare.] Steal, purloin, rob, pilfer, filch, cabbage, get by fraud.

Bob, v. n.   1. Play back and forward, have a jerking motion.

2. Angle (with a jerking motion), fish.

Bob, n.   1. Jerking motion.

2. Pendent, hanging appendage.

Bobolink, n.   Rice-bird, rice-bunting, reed-bird, butter-bird, skunk-bird, skunk-blackbird (Dolichonyx orizyvorus).

Bode, v. a.   Betoken, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, presage, augur, foretell, predict, forebode, prophesy, be ominous of.

Bode, v. n.   Forebode, presage.

Bodice, n.   1. Corset, stays.

2. Waist (of a dress).

Bodiless, a.   Incorporeal, without a body.

Bodily, a.   1. Of the body.

2. Corporeal.

Bodily, ad.   1. Corporeally.

2. Entirely (as respects the body or mass), completely, wholly.

Body, n.   1. Material substance, material part (as distinguished from the spirit or life).

2. Carcass, corpse, dead body.

3. Visible form or frame.

4. Trunk (as distinguished from the limbs), stem, BOLE.

5. Bulk, main part (as distinguished from subordinate parts).

6. Person, being, individual, mortal, creature.

7. Company, band, party, COTERIE, society, association, corporation.

8. System, summary, general collection.

9. Consistency, thickness, substance.

Body coat, n.   Dress coat.

Bog, n.   Morass, quagmire, slough, fen, marsh, swamp.

Bog-berry, n.   Cranberry.

Boggle, v. n.   Hesitate, vacillate, waver, falter, demur, shrink, hang back, shrink back, hang fire, be in suspense.

Bogtrotter, n.   [In derision.] Irishman.

Bogus, a.   [Cant term, U. S.] Spurious, counterfeit, false.

Bohea, n.   Black tea.

Boil, v. n.   1. Be agitated by heat.

2. Bubble, rise in bubbles.

3. Be ardent, be hot.

Boil, v. a.   Seethe.

Boil, n.   Furuncle, pustule, gathering, inflamed tumor.

Boiling, n.   Ebullition.

Boisterous, a.   1. Roaring, loud, stormy.

2. Noisy, furious, tumultuous, turbulent, vehement, violent, impetuous.

Bold, a.   1. Fearless, dauntless, daring, valiant, chivalrous, valorous, doughty, undaunted, intrepid, courageous, brave, heroic, audacious, adventurous, manful, manly, stout-hearted, bold-spirited.

2. Confident, assured, free from bashfulness.

3. Impudent, insolent, rude, impertinent, saucy, forward, pushing, assuming, brazen-faced, bold-faced.

4. Conspicuous, striking, prominent, standing out to the view.

5. Steep, abrupt.

Bold-faced, a.   Impudent, BOLD.

Boldness, n.   1. Fearlessness, dauntlessness, intrepidity, courage, BRAVERY, valor, audacity, daring, pluck, heroism, hardihood, SPUNK.

2. Confidence, assurance, confident mien, freedom from bashfulness.

3. Impudence, insolence, sauciness, rudeness, impertinence, effrontery, presumption, brass, face, front, CHEEK.

4. Prominence, striking character or quality.

5. Steepness, abruptness.

Bold-spirited, a.   Courageous, BOLD.

Bole, n.   1. Body (of a tree), stem, trunk.

2. Bolus, large pill.

Boll, n.   Pod, capsule, pericarp.

Bolt, n.   1. Arrow, dart, shaft.

2. Thunderbolt, stroke of lightning.

3. Pin (of large size).

4. Sieve.

Bolt, v. a.   1. Fasten with a bolt.

2. Swallow (without chewing).

3. Sift, pass through a sieve.

Bolt, v. n.   1. Bounce, start suddenly, spring out abruptly.

2. [U. S.] Rat, abscond, withdraw (especially from a political party), desert suddenly.

Bolt-upright, a.   Perpendicular, quite upright.

Bolus, n.   Bole, large pill.

Bombard, v. a.   Attack with bombs.

Bombardment, n.   Attack with bombs.

Bombast, n.   Fustian, rodomontade, rant, inflated style, swelling or pompous phraseology.

Bombastic, a.   Inflated, turgid, tumid, swelling, stilled, grandiloquent, pompous, sophomorical, high-flown, high-sounding, HIGHFALUTIN.

Bona fide, [L.] Really, truly, actually, sincerely, in good faith, without fraud.

Bond, n.   1. Band, ligature, cord, chain, FETTER.

2. Obligation, compact.

Bondage, n.   Servitude, slavery, thraldom, captivity, imprisonment, confinement, bond-service, bonds, restraint of personal liberty.

Bonds, n. pl.   Imprisonment, captivity, chains, FETTERS, BONDAGE.

Bonbon, n.   [Fr.] Sweetmeat, sugar-plum.

Bone-ash, n.   Bone-earth, burnt bones, earthy matter of bones.

Bone-black, n.   Ivory-black, animal charcoal.

Bone-earth, n.   Bone-ash.

Bone of contention, Subject of contention, subject of dispute.

Boneset, n.   Thoroughwort, feverwort, ague-weed, Indian sage (Eupatorium perfoliatum).

Bonhomie, n.   [Fr.] Good-nature, easy humor, good-natured simplicity.

Bonito, n.   Albicore, horse-mackerel (Thynnus pelamys).

Bonmot, n.   [Fr.] Jest, joke, witticism, witty repartee.

Bonne-bouche, n.   [Fr.] Titbit, delicacy, nice bit, delicate morsel, choice morsel, delicious mouthful.

Bonny, a.   1. Handsome, beautiful, pretty.

2. Cheerful, blithe, sprightly, buoyant, airy, gay, merry, joyous, jolly, jocund, winsome, buxom, playful, sportive, jocose, in good spirits, in high spirits.

3. Plump, round, chubby, in good health.

Bon-ton, n.   [Fr.] High mode, fashionable style, style of high life.

Bonus, n.   [L.] Premium, reward.

Bon-vivant, n.   [Fr.] Luxurious liver, boon companion, jovial companion, jolly fellow.

Booby, n.   1. Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

2. (Ornith.) Gannet, noddy, solan goose (Sula bassana).

Book, n.   Work, volume.

Booked up, Posted, well-informed.

Bookish, a.   Given to reading, fond of books, fond of study, very studious.

Book-keeper, n.   Accountant.

Book-learned, a.   Versed in books.

Book-madness, n.   Bibliomania.

Book-maker, n.   Compiler.

Book-making, n.   Compilation.

Bookstore, n.   [U. S.] Bookseller's shop.

Bookworm, n.   Great reader or student (without discrimination and without definite purpose).

Booley, n.   [Irish.] Nomad, wanderer.

Boom, v. n.   1. Roar, resound.

2. Rush, bound, dash forward.

Boon, n.   Gift, present, benefaction, grant, offering.

Boon, a.   1. Kind, bountiful, generous.

2. Gay, merry, jovial, jolly, convivial.

Boor, n.   Rustic, clown, hind, lout, lubber, swain, peasant, bumpkin, clodpole, countryman, ploughman.

Boorish, a.   Rustic, rude, clownish, loutish, bearish, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, coarse, rough, unrefined, uncourtly, ungraceful, gawky, lubberly.

Boosy, a.   Boozy.

Boot, v. a.   [Generally used impersonally.] Profit, benefit, advantage.

Bootee, n.   Bootikin, half boot, short boot.

Bootikin, n.   Bootee, half boot.

Bootless, a.   Useless, unavailing, fruitless, futile, unprofitable, profitless, valueless, worthless, ineffectual, abortive, vain, idle, without avail.

Booty, n.   Plunder (to be used for any purpose), spoil, pillage, PREY.

Boozy, a.   [Written also Boosy.] Tipsy, inebriated, fuddled, disguised, maudlin, mellow, SLEWED, GROGGY, half drunk, half seas over.

Borax, n.   Tincal, bi-borate of soda.

Border, n.   1. Edge, rim, brim, verge, brink, margin, skirt.

2. Limit, boundary, confine, frontier.

Border, v. a.   Put a border upon, adorn with a border, make a border for.

Border on, Adjoin, be in contact with, be coterminous with, touch at the side or end of, be contiguous to, border upon.

Border upon, Border on.

Bore, v. a.   1. Perforate, pierce, drill.

2. Weary (by tedious repetition), fatigue, plague, trouble, vex, worry, annoy.

Bore, n.   1. Hole, calibre.

2. Proser, button-holder.

3. Eagre, great tidal flood.

Boreal, a.   Northern, northerly, arctic.

Boreas, n.   The north wind.

Born again, Regenerated, regenerate, converted, renewed in spirit.

Born days, [Low.] Life, lifetime.

Borough, n.   Town (In England, a town represented in Parliament).

Borrow, v. a.   1. Ask the loan of, take or receive as a loan.

2. Take, appropriate, adopt, make use of.

Bosom, n.   Breast.

Bosom-friend, n.   Confidant, intimate friend, dear friend.

Boss, n.   1. Protuberance, knob, stud, protuberant part.

2. [Colloquial, U. S.] Superintendent, overseer, master-workman.

Boss, v. a.   1. Stud, cover with bosses.

2. [Colloquial, U. S.] Direct, oversee, superintend.

Bossy, n.   [Childish term.] Calf.

Botch, n.   1. Pustule, blotch, blain, sore.

2. Failure, miscarriage, bad work, bad job, clumsy performance, bungling piece of work.

Botch, v. a.   1. Mend awkwardly, patch clumsily.

2. Put together unskilfully, construct in a bungling manner.

Both, a.   The two, the one and the other.

Both, conj.   [Preceding a word or phrase which is followed by and; Both—and.] As well as, not only, but also.

Bother, v. a.   Perplex, worry, harass, trouble, annoy, tease, vex, plague, molest, incommode, BORE, disturb, pester.

Bother, n.   [Colloquial.] Perplexity, vexation, annoyance, plague, trouble, bore.

Botheration, n.   [Low.] Bother.

Bottom, n.   1. Lowest part.

2. Foundation, basis, groundwork, base.

3. Dale, valley, alluvial land.

4. Ship, vessel, sailing craft.

5. Fundament, seat.

6. Stamina, native strength, power of endurance.

7. Grounds, lees, dregs, sediments.

Bottom, v. a.   Found, establish, build.

Bottom, v. n.   Rest (for support), be based.

Boudoir, n.   [Fr.] Cabinet, private room, retired apartment.

Bough, n.   Branch, limb, shoot.

Bouilli, n.   [Fr.] Stew, boiled meat, stewed meat.

Bouillon, n.   [Fr.] Broth, soup.

Bounce, n.   1. Knock, thump, sudden blow.

2. Bound, leap, jump, spring.

3. [Colloquial.] Boast, vaunt, brag.

4. [Colloquial.] Falsehood, lie, WHOPPER, bouncer.

Bounce, v. n.   1. Bolt, leap or spring suddenly.

2. Rebound, recoil.

3. Knock, thump, beat.

Bounce, v. a.   Thrust, drive against.

Bouncer, n.   [Colloquial.] 1. Boaster, BLUSTERER, bully.

2. Falsehood, lie, WHOPPER, bounce.

3. Giant, STRAPPER, large person.

Bouncing, a.   [Colloquial.] Stout, lusty, strong, portly, burly, huge, great, strapping.

Bound, n.   1. Limit, BOUNDARY, bourn, border, confine.

2. Leap, jump, spring, bounce.

Bound, v. a.   Limit, border, terminate, circumscribe.

Bound, v. n.   1. Jump, leap, spring.

2. Rebound, spring back.

Bound, a.   [Followed by to or for.] Destined, tending, going, on the way.

Boundary, n.   Limit, border, confine, bourn, bound, verge, term, termination.

Bounden, a.   Obligatory, binding, appointed.

Boundless, a.   Unbounded, unlimited, unconfined, undefined, immeasurable, illimitable, infinite.

Bounteous, a.   Liberal, BOUNTIFUL.

Bountiful, a.   Liberal, munificent, beneficent, generous, princely, bounteous.

Bounty, n.   1. Liberality, munificence, beneficence, generosity.

2. Present, gift, benefaction.

3. Premium (for encouragement), reward.

Bouquet, n.   [Fr.] Nosegay, bunch of flowers.

Bourgeoisie, n.   [Fr.] Middle classes (especially such as depend on trade).

Bourn, n.   Bound, limit, confine, border, BOUNDARY.

Bourse, n.   [Fr.] Exchange.

Bout, n.   1. Turn.

2. [Rare.] Conflict, contest, set to.

Bow, v. a.   1. Bend, inflect, crook, incurvate, curve, make crooked.

2. Incline, turn downward.

3. Depress, sink, cast down, bring down.

Bow, v. n.   1. Bend, buckle, be inflected, be bent.

2. Incline (in token of respect, reverence, or submission), make a bow.

Bow, n.   (Naut.) Fore part (of a ship), prow, beak, stem.

Bowels, n. pl.   1. Intestines, guts, viscera, inwards.

2. Inside, interior, interior parts.

3. Compassion, pity, tenderness.

Bower, n.   Arbor, shady recess, shady retreat.

Bow-hand, n.   1. (Archery.) The left hand.

2. (Music.) The right hand.

Bowman, n.   Archer, SAGITTARY.

Bow-window, n.   Bay-window.

Box, n.   1. Case.

2. Blow, stroke, cuff.

Box, v. a.   1. Enclose in a box.

2. Strike (with the hand or fist, as the ears), buffet, cuff.

Box-berry, n.   Wintergreen, tea-berry, partridge-berry, mountain-tea (Gaultheria procumbens).

Box-elder, n.   Ash-leaved maple (Negundium Americanum).

Box the compass, Name the points of compass in their order.

Boy, n.   Lad, stripling, male child.

Boy-servant, n.   Page, serving boy.

Brace, v. a.   1. Tighten, draw tight, make tense, strain up.

2. Strengthen, fortify, support, prop, give strength to.

Brace, n.   1. Couple, pair.

2. Prop, support, stay, shore, strut.

3. Bit-stock.

Braces, n. pl.   1. Suspenders, gallowses.

2. Straps (on which a carriage rests).

Boyish, a.   1. Of boyhood.

2. Childish, puerile.

Brachygraphy, n.   Stenography, shorthand.

Bracing, a.   Strengthening, invigorating.

Brackets, n. pl.   (Printing.) Crotchets.

Brackish, a.   Saltish, somewhat salt.

Brag, v. n.   Boast, vaunt, gasconade, bluster, vapor, flourish, exalt one's self, magnify one's self, TALK BIG.

Brag, n.   Boast, vaunt, gasconade, bluster, bravado, vaporing, BLATHERSKITE, great cry and little wool.

Braggadocio, n.   Boaster, blusterer, vaunter, braggart, BLATHERSKITE, gascon, vain-glorious fellow.

Braggart, n.   Boaster, BRAGGADOCIO.

Braggart, a.   BOASTFUL, boasting.

Brag of, Boast, vaunt, magnify, exalt, make much of.

Brahma, n.   (Hindoo Mythol.) The Creator, God.

Brahmin, n.   [Written also Bramin.] Hindoo Priest.

Braid, v. n.   Plait, plat, intertwine, interweave, interlace, weave together.

Brain-fever, n.   Phrenitis.

Brain-pan, n.   Skull, cranium.

Brains, n. pl.   Understanding, sense, mind, reason, intellect, capacity, intellectual faculties.

Brake, n.   1. Fern.

2. Thicket, brushwood, jungle.

Brake up, Put down the brakes (to stop a railway train).

Bramah press, Hydraulic press, hydrostatic press.

Branch, n.   1. Bough, limb, shoot.

2. Offshoot, ramification, arm, projecting part.

3. Section, subdivision, part, portion, article, member.

Branch, v. n.   Diverge, ramify, spread in branches, shoot off, branch off.

Branch off, Ramify, BRANCH.

Branch out, Expatiate, be diffuse, speak diffusely.

Branchiæ, n. pl.   [L.] Gills.

Branching, n.   Ramification, arborescence.

Branching, a.   Arborescent, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendritic.

Brand, n.   1. Fire-brand.

2. Mark (of a hot iron).

3. Kind, quality.

4. Stigma, stain, reproach.

5. [Poetical.] Sword.

Brand, v. a.   1. Mark (with a hot iron).

2. Stigmatize, denounce.

Brand-goose, n. Brant, brent (Anser bernicla).

Brandish, v. a.   Flourish, wave.

Brand-new, a.   Quite new, fire-new, spick and span new, span new.

Brant, n.   Brent, BRAND-GOOSE.

Brash, a.   1. Hasty, rash, impetuous.

2. [Local, U. S.] Brittle, fragile, easily broken.

Brass, n.   1. Alloy of copper and zinc.

2. Assurance, boldness, pertness, effrontery, presumption, audacity, forwardness, face, front, CHEEK.

Brassy, a.   [Colloquial.] Bold, pert, assuming, forward, CHEEKY, brazen, brazen-faced.

Brat, n.   [Term of contempt.] Child, urchin, bantling, infant, BAIRN.

Bravado, n.   Boast, boasting, brag, bluster, BLATHERSKITE.

Brave, a.   Fearless (from temperament), COURAGEOUS, intrepid, daring, undaunted, dauntless, valiant, bold, chivalrous, chivalric, gallant, valorous, doughty, heroic, Spartan, lion-hearted.

Brave, n.   1. [Rare.] Bully, hector, blusterer.

2. Indian warrior.

Brave, v. a.   Defy, dare, challenge, set at defiance.

Bravery, n.   Fearlessness (from temperament), COURAGE, intrepidity, audacity, valor, gallantry, daring, boldness, spirit, mettle, pluck, manhood, heroism, SPUNK.

Bravo, n.   Bandit, assassin, assassinator, murderer, cut-throat, daring villain.

Bravo, interj.   Well done.

Brawl, v. n.   1. Quarrel (noisily), dispute (angrily).

2. Roar, resound.

Brawl, n.   Quarrel, wrangle, dispute, uproar, broil, altercation, fracas, squabble, fray, AFFRAY, feud, tumult, disturbance, row, BOBBERY, MÊLÉE. RUMPUS, outbreak.

Brawny, a.   Muscular, sinewy, stalwart, sturdy, athletic, powerful, strong, vigorous, lusty, robust, nervous, strapping, Herculean, able-bodied.

Bray, v. a.   Pound (into small pieces or powder), bruise, crush, grind, comminute, triturate.

Bray, v. n.   1. Utter a harsh cry (like the ass).

2. Make a harsh sound.

Braying, a.   Blatant, bellowing, clamorous, vociferous, noisy, obstreperous.

Braze, v. a.   Solder with brass.

Brazen, a.   1. Made of brass.

2. Bold, BRAZEN-FACED.

Brazen-faced, a.   Bold, impudent, assuming, forward, pert, saucy, brazen, BRASSY, CHEEKY.

Brazier, n.   1. Worker or artificer in brass.

2. Pan for coals.

Brazil-root, n.   Ipecacuanha, ipecac.

Brazil tea, Maté.

Breach, n.   1. Break, fracture, rupture, opening, chasm, gap, crack, flaw, fissure, rent, rift.

2. Infraction, violation, infringement, non-observance.

3. Quarrel, difference, variance, disagreement, dissension, schism, misunderstanding, alienation, disaffection, rupture, falling out.

Bread, n.   Food (especially food made of grain), sustenance, aliment, nutriment, nourishment, subsistence, fare, diet, regimen, victuals, viands, provisions.

Breadth, n.   Width.

Break, v. a.   1. Rend, sever, part, dispart, fracture, tear asunder.

2. Shatter, shiver, smash, batter, dash to pieces.

3. Enfeeble, enervate, weaken, impair.

4. Tame, make tractable, make docile.

5. Make bankrupt.

6. Discard, dismiss, discharge, degrade, cashier.

7. Violate, infringe, transgress, set at nought.

8. Lessen the force of (as a fall).

9. Interrupt, cease, intermit, cut short.

10. Disclose, open, unfold, lay open.

Break, v. n.   1. Be shattered, be shivered, be dashed to pieces.

2. Burst, explode.

3. Open, dawn, appear.

4. Become bankrupt.

5. Decline, low health or strength.

Break, n.   1. Breach, opening, gap, fissure, rent, rift, chasm, rupture, fracture.

2. Interruption, pause, CÆSURA.

3. Dawn, dawning.

Break away, 1. Escape (against resistance), break loose.

2. Be scattered, be dissipated.

Break-bone fever, Dengue, dandy-fever.

Break bulk, Begin to unload.

Break down, (Active.) Crush, overwhelm, overcome.

Break down, (Neuter.) Fall, give out.

Breaker, n.   Wave, surge, billow.

Break faith, Be faithless, be perfidious, falsify one's word.

Break forth, Issue, burst out, break out.

Break ground, Begin, commence operations.

Break jail, Escape from jail.

Break in, 1. Make an irruption.

2. Intrude one's self, take up the discourse, begin to speak.

Breaking, n.   Rupture, fracture.

Break of day, Dawn, dawning, daybreak, morning, cockcrowing, MORN, dayspring, peep of day, prime of day, first blush of the morning.

Break off, 1. Be ruptured.

2. Desist, cease, stop, leave off.

Break out, Issue, break forth, burst out.

Break the ice, Make a beginning, prepare the way, open a way.

Breakwater, n.   Jetty, pier, mole.

Break with, Fall out, part friendship with.

Breast, n.   1. Bosom.

2. Heart, conscience, seat of the affections.

3. Mamma, teat, dug, udder.

Breast, v. a.   Face, stem, withstand, oppose, resist, bare the breast against.

Breast bone, n.   Sternum.

Breastwork, n.   (Fort.) Parapet.

Breath, n.   1. Air inspired and expired.

2. Life, existence, animation, breath of life, vital spark.

3. Respite, pause, rest.

Breathe, v. n.   1. Respire.

2. Live, exist.

3. Pause, rest, take breath, have a respite.

Breathe, v. a.   1. Inspire and expire.

2. Exhale, emit, give out, throw out.

3. Whisper, utter softly.

4. Indicate, manifest, express, show.

Breathe in, Inhale, draw into the lungs.

Breathe out, Expire, force out of the lungs.

Breathing, n.   1. Respiration.

2. Aspiration, wish, desire, longing, craving, yearning.

Breathing, a.   Living, alive, live, not dead.

Breathing-hole, n.   Vent-hole.

Breathless, a.   1. Out of breath.

2. Dead, lifeless, defunct.

Breech, n.   Hinder part, after part.

Breech-band, n.   Breeching.

Breeches, n. pl.   1. Small-clothes.

2. Trousers, pantaloons.

Breeching, n.   Breech-band.

Breed, v. a.   1. Nourish, nurture, foster, bring up.

2. Discipline, educate, instruct, train, teach, school.

3. Beget, get, procreate, engender, generate, produce.

4. Originate, occasion, give rise to, be the cause of.

Breed, v. n.   1. Bring forth young, produce offspring.

2. Be born, be produced.

Breed, n.   Race (of animals), lineage, pedigree, progeny, stock.

Breeding, n.   1. Nurture, education, discipline, instruction, training, schooling.

2. Deportment, manners.

Breeze, n.   Zephyr, air, gentle gale, moderate wind, light wind.

2. Quarrel, disturbance, commotion, noise, tumult, uproar, stir, agitation.

Bregma, n.   (Anat.) Sinciput, top of the head.

Brent, n.   Brant, brand-goose (Anser bernicla).

Brett, n.   Britzska.

Breviary, n.   1. Abridgment, epitome, compend, compendium, summary, synopsis, syllabus, abstract, digest, brief, conspectus, outline, sum and substance.

2. Prayer-book.

Brevipennate, a.   (Ornith.) Short-winged.

Brevity, n.   1. Briefness, shortness.

2. Conciseness, terseness, compression, succinctness, pithiness.

Brew, v. a.   1. Prepare by fermentation.

2. Contrive, plot, devise, project, hatch, concoct, foment, excite, stir up.

Brew, v. n.   1. Make beer.

2. Be gathering, be forming.

Brewery, n.   Brew-house.

Bribe, n.   Reward of treachery.

Bribe, v. a.   Suborn, gain by a bribe, give a bribe to.

Bridal, a.   Nuptial, connubial, hymeneal, matrimonial, conjugal.

Bridal, n.   Marriage, wedding, nuptials, nuptial festival.

Bridewell, n.   Prison, jail, penitentiary, workhouse, house of correction.

Bridle, n.   Restraint, curb, check.

Bridle, v. a.   Restrain, control, check, curb, control, govern.

Brief, a.   1. Short, concise, succinct, compendious, laconic, CURT.

2. Transitory, fleeting, transient, temporary, short-lived, ephemeral.

Brief, n.   1. Epitome, compendium, summary, synopsis, syllabus, abstract, breviary, abridgment, conspectus.

2. Pontifical letter, papal rescript.

3. (Law.) Writ, precept.

Briefly, ad.   Concisely, in short, in brief, in a few words.

Brigand, n.   Robber, highwayman, free-booter, marauder, outlaw, bandit.

Bright, a.   1. Luminous, shining, resplendent, glowing, lustrous, beaming, gleaming, radiant, brilliant, effulgent, refulgent, splendid, beamy, silvery, argent.

2. Clear, transparent, lucid, pellucid, limpid.

3. Illustrious, glorious, famous.

4. Acute, ingenious, discerning, keen, INTELLIGENT.

5. Auspicious, promising, propitious.

Brighten, v. a.   1. Polish, burnish, furbish, make bright.

2. Make cheerful, make joyous.

Brighten, v. n.   Grow bright.

Brightness, n.   1. Lustre, splendor, brilliancy, radiance, resplendence, effulgence.

2. Clearness, transparency, lucidity.

3. Acuteness, ingenuity, sagacity, acumen, astuteness, discernment, mother-wit, quick parts.

Brilliancy, n.   Splendor, lustre, brightness, effulgence, refulgence, radiance, shine, sheen, gloss.

Brilliant, a.   1. Sparkling, glittering, splendid, lustrous, shining, bright, beaming, radiant, effulgent, refulgent, resplendent.

2. Illustrious, glorious, celebrated, famous.

Brilliant, n.   Diamond (cut into facets).

Brim, n.   Edge, border, rim, verge, margin, skirt.

Brimful, a.   Quite full, full to the brim, choke full.

Brimstone, n.   1. Sulphur.

2. [Commercial term.] Cane brimstone, roll sulphur, stick sulphur.

Brinded, a.   Brindled, tabby.

Brindled, a.   Brinded, tabby.

Brine, n.   1. Salt water.

2. Sea, ocean, deep, main.

Bring, v. a.   1. Convey, bear, FETCH.

2. Produce, gain, be the cause of, be the means of.

3. Draw, lead, induce, prevail upon.

Bring about, Effect, achieve, accomplish, bring to pass.

Bring back, 1. Recall.

2. Restore, return.

Bring down, Humble, abase.

Bring forth, 1. Give birth to.

2. Produce, exhibit, show, expose, bring out, bring to light, make manifest.

Bring forward, Introduce, propose.

Bring near, Approximate.

Bring on, Originate, give rise to.

Bring out, Produce, expose, show, exhibit, bring forth, bring to light.

Bring over, 1. Bear across.

2. Convert, win over.

Bring to, 1. Check the course of (said of a ship).

2. Resuscitate, revive.

Bring under, Subdue, repress, restrain, conquer, get the better of.

Bring up, Educate, instruct, rear, nurse.

Brink, n.   Edge, border, margin, verge, brow.

Briny, a.   Salt.

Brisk, a.   Active, lively, smart, agile, nimble, quick, smart, alert, spry, spirited, vivacious, sprightly.

Brittle, a.   Fragile, crumbling, shivery, frail, frangible, BRASH, easily broken (into pieces), easily shivered.

Britzska, n.   Brett.

Broach, v. a.   1. Pierce, tap.

2. Utter, publish, proclaim, give out.

Broached, a.   Tapped, abroach, on tap.

Broad, a.   1. Wide.

2. Large, ample, extensive, expanded, extended, vast.

3. Spread, diffused, open.

4. Gross, coarse, indelicate, vulgar, obscene.

Broaden, v. a.   Widen, make broad.

Broadside, n.   1. Cannonade (from all the guns on the side of a ship).

2. Placard, bill, poster, hand-bill.

Brochure, n.   [Fr.] Pamphlet.

Broil, n.   Affray, fray, quarrel, contention, feud, BRAWL.

Broken, a.   1. Shattered, rent, severed, separated.

2. Weakened, impaired, feeble, shaken, spent, wasted, exhausted.

3. Abrupt, craggy, steep, precipitous, rough.

Broken-hearted, a.   Disconsolate, inconsolable, comfortless, cheerless, sad, sorrowful, melancholy, woebegone, forlorn, undone, heart-broken, in despair.

Broker, n.   Factor, agent, middleman, go-between.

Brood, v. n.   Incubate.

Brood, n.   Offspring, progeny, issue.

Brood over, Think long and anxiously about.

Brook, n.   Rivulet, streamlet, run, RUNNEL, runlet, rill, BURN, small stream.

Brook, v. a.   Endure, bear, abide, tolerate, suffer, put up with, submit to, bear with, take patiently or easily.

Broom, n.   Besom.

Broth, n.   Soup (in which meat has been macerated).

Brothel, n.   Bagnio, stew, bawdy-house, whore-house, house of prostitution, house of ill-fame.

Brotherhood, n.   1. Relation of a brother, mutual kindness (as of brothers).

2. Fraternity, ASSOCIATION, sodality, society, CLIQUE, coterie, clan, JUNTO.

Brotherly, a.   Fraternal, affectionate, kind, amicable, friendly, cordial.

Brow, n.   1. Forehead.

2. Edge (as of a precipice), brink, border.

Browbeat, v. a.   Bully, overbear, treat insolently.

Brown study, Reverie, musing, abstraction, preoccupation, absence, absence of mind.

Browse, n.   Tender twigs of shrubs and trees.

Browse, v. a.   Nibble, crop, feed upon.

Browse, v. n.   1. Feed on browse.

2. [Colloquial.] Live precariously.

Bruin, n.   [Colloquial.] Bear.

Bruise, v. a.   1. Crush, squeeze, contuse.

2. Break, batter, pound, bray, pulverize, comminute, triturate, break to pieces.

Bruise, n.   Contusion.

Bruit, n.   Rumor, fame, report, hearsay, town-talk.

Bruit, v. a.   Report, noise, blaze or spread abroad.

Brunt, n.   Shock, heat of onset.

Brush, n.   1. Skirmish, engagement, rencounter, encounter, battle, contest, fight, conflict, collision, action, affair.

2. Thicket, bushes, shrubs, brushwood.

Brushwood, n.   Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.

Brusque, a.   [Fr.] Rude, rough, blunt, unceremonious, abrupt, bluff, gruff, ungentle, uncivil, ungracious, bearish, discourteous, uncourteous, impolite.

Brutal, a.   1. Savage, ferocious, cruel, inhuman, unfeeling, barbarous, barbarian, fell, barbaric, ruthless, truculent, bloody, brutish, brute.

2. Churlish, gruff, bearish, harsh, uncivil, rude, rough, impolite, unmannerly, BRUSQUE, ungentlemanly.

3. Gross, coarse, sensual, carnal, brutish, beastly, bestial.

Brutality, n.   Savageness, inhumanity, barbarity, cruelty, brutishness, ferocity, truculence, hardness of heart.

Brute, n.   1. Beast (in a wild state), quadruped, four-footed animal, ferocious animal.

2. Ruffian, barbarian, brutal monster.

Brute, a.   1. Irrational, void of reason.

2. Bestial, savage, barbarous, BRUTAL.

3. Rough, rude, uncivilized.

Brutish, a. 1. Brutal.

2. Irrational, brute.

3. Stupid, dull, insensible.

4. Gross, carnal, sensual, bestial, beastly.

Brutum fulmen, [L.] Harmless thunderbolt, loud but harmless threatening, empty sound.

Bubble, n.   1. Water bladder.

2. Trifle, bagatelle, small matter.

3. Cheat, delusion, hoax, false show.

Buccaneer, n.   Pirate, corsair, sea-rover, sea-robber, freebooter, picaroon.

Buck, n.   1. Male (of the deer, sheep, goat, rabbit, and hare).

2. Blade, spark, gallant; gay, dashing fellow.

Buckish, a.   Gay, dashing.

Buckle, v. a.   Fasten with a buckle.

Buckle, v. n.   1. Bend, bow.

2. [Rare.] Struggle, contend, strive.

Buckle one's self, Apply vigorously, set one's self earnestly.

Buckler, n.   1. Shield, ægis.

2. Defence, protection, safeguard.

Bucolic, n.   Eclogue, pastoral, idyl, pastoral poem.

Bucolic, a.   Pastoral, rustic.

Bucolical, a.   Pastoral, rustic.

Bud, n.   Germ, gem, undeveloped branch or flower.

Bud, v. n.   Sprout, shoot, push, germinate, vegetate, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, shoot forth.

Budge, v. n.   Stir, move, go.

Budget, n.   1. Bag (with its contents), pack, packet, parcel, package, bundle, roll.

2. Stock, store, batch, lot, set, assortment, collection.

Buff, n.   Buff-skin.

Buff, a.   1. Light yellow.

2. Made of buff or buff-skin.

Buffalo, n.   [U. S.] Bison.

Buffet, n.   1. Slap, box, knock, rap, blow, cuff.

2. Cupboard.

Buffet, v. a.   1. Beat, box, strike, smite, cuff.

2. Struggle against, contend against.

Buffle-headed, a.   Dull, stupid, doltish, foolish, blockish, simple, witless, thick-skulled.

Buffoon, n.   Mountebank, harlequin, jester, droll, merry Andrew, punch, punchinello, clown, zany, scaramouch, fool, antic, jack-pudding, pickle-herring.

Buffoonery, n.   Jesting (of a low sort), mummery, foolery, tomfoolery, harlequinade, low pranks, vulgar tricks.

Buff-skin, n.   Buff.

Bugaboo, n.   [Low.] Bugbear.

Bugbear, n.   Hobgoblin, spectre, ogre, BUGABOO, POKER, Gorgon, Hydra, frightful object, raw head and bloody bones.

Buggery, n.   Sodomy, unnatural carnal intercourse.

Build, v. a.   Construct, erect, raise, fabricate.

Build, v. n.   Construct edifices.

Build upon, Depend on, rest on, rely upon, calculate upon, reckon upon, count upon.

Building, n.   1. Construction.

2. Structure, edifice, erection, fabric, pile.

Bulb, n.   1. (Bot.) Scaly bud (like the onion and the tulip).

2. Spherical protuberance.

Bulbous, a.   1. (Bot.) Of the nature of the bulb.

2. Round, roundish, protuberant, swelling out.

Bulbul, n.   Persian nightingale (Pyconotus jocosus).

Bulge, n.   Protuberance, bilge, belly, swell, swelling.

Bulge, v. n.   Protrude, jut out.

Bulk, n.   1. Magnitude, size, volume, greatness, largeness, bigness, bulkiness, amplitude, mass, massiveness, dimensions.

2. Body, gross, majority, main part, greater part, principal part.

Bulkhead, n.   (Naut.) Partition, dividing wall.

Bulky, a.   Large, great, big, huge, vast, of great size or bulk.

Bull, n.   1. Male of bovine animals.

2. Edict (issued by the Pope), rescript.

3. Blunder (involving a contradiction), gross mistake.

4. (Astron.) Taurus.

Bull-head, n. 1. Blockhead, simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

2. Horn-pout, mud-pout, cat-fish (Pimelodus cattus).

Bully, n.   Blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, hector, fire-eater, Hotspur, mock hero.

Bully, v. a.   Browbeat, overbear, treat insolently.

Bullying, a.   Blustering, swaggering, vaporing, vaunting, hectoring, bluff, gruff, bearish.

Bullying, n.   Blustering, swaggering, bluster, fanfaronade.

Bulwark, n.   1. Rampart, redoubt, fortification.

2. Security, safeguard, palladium.

Bumble-bee, n.   Humble-bee.

Bummer, n.   [Colloquial U.S.] Raider (in search of provisions), forager.

Bump, n.   1. Thump, knock, blow.

2. Swelling, protuberance.

3. [Colloquial, in allusion to the doctrine of Phrenology that protuberances on the skull indicate faculties of the mind.] Faculty, power, endowment, gift.

Bump, v. a.   Knock, thump, strike, hit.

Bumpkin, n.   Rustic, peasant, clodpole, clown, boor, hind, lout, lubber, swain, ploughman, countryman.

Bumptious, a.   [Colloquial.] Conceited, vain, egotistical, self-opinionated, self-conceited.

Bunch, n.   1. Protuberance, hunch, knob, lump.

2. Cluster (as of grapes).

3. Batch, assortment, lot, set, parcel, collection.

4. Tuft, knot.

Bundle, n.   Package, pack, packet, parcel, budget, roll.

Bundle, v. a.   Tie in a bundle, put into bundles, bundle up.

Bundle, v. n.   1. Depart hurriedly, set off in a hurry.

2. Sleep together (without undressing).

Bundle off, (Active.) Send off in a hurry.

Bundle up, (Active.) Bundle, wrap up.

Bungle, v. n.   Do any thing clumsily.

Bungler, n.   Lubber, fumbler, clumsy workman, bad hand (at any thing), fresh-water sailor.

Bungling, a.   1. Clumsy, awkward, unhandy, unskilful, maladroit, inapt.

2. Ill-done.

Bunk, n.   [Colloquial U.S.] Berth, bed.

Bunk, v. n.   [Colloquial U.S.] Lie (in a bunk), sleep.

Bunker, n.   Bin, crib.

Bunt, v. n.   Butt, strike with the head or the horns.

Buoy, n.   Float (to indicate shoals, anchoring places, &c.).

Buoy up, 1. Float, keep afloat, bear up, bear on the surface.

2. Encourage, embolden, reassure.

Buoyancy, n.   1. Lightness, levity, specific lightness.

2. Vivacity, liveliness, sprightliness, cheerfulness, GAYETY.

Buoyant, a.   1. Tending to float, light.

2. Cheerful, hopeful, lively, sprightly, vivacious, animated, spirited, joyful, joyous, gay, blithe, blithesome, jocund, sportive, elated, jubilant, in good spirits, in high spirits, full of life, full of spirit.

Burbot, n.   Eel-pout (Lota vulgaris).

Burden, n.   1. Load, weight.

2. Cargo, freight, lading.

3. Incumbrance, clog, impediment, incubus, drag weight, dead weight.

4. Chorus, refrain.

Burden, v. a.   Load, overload, overlay, oppress, surcharge, put a burden upon.

Burdensome, a.   1. Heavy, oppressive, onerous.

2. Troublesome, grievous, hard to bear.

Bureau, n.   1. Chest of drawers.

2. Office, counting-room, place of business.

3. Department (of Government).

Burgall, n.   Conner, cunner, CHOGSET, blue perch.

Burglary, n.   House-breaking (at night).

Burial, n.   Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment, burying.

Burial-ground, n.   Cemetery, graveyard, burying-ground, church-yard, necropolis.

Burin, n.   Graver, style.

Burlesque, a.   Comic, comical, funny, laughable, farcical, ludicrous, jocular, sportive.

Burlesque, n.   Caricature, travesty, parody, farce, ludicrous representation.

Burlesque, v. a.   Caricature, travesty, make ludicrous.

Burly, a.   1. Stout, lusty, brawny, portly, bulky, strong, STRAPPING, BOUNCING.

2. Boisterous, noisy, blustering, swaggering, bullying, hectoring, coarse and rough.

Burn, v. a.   1. Consume with fire, reduce to ashes.

2. Calcine, char, scorch, toast, parch, bake.

3. Injure by fire or heat.

4. Shrivel, cause to wither.

Burn, v. n.   1. Flame, be on fire.

2. Glow, warm, be excited.

Burn, n.   [Scottish.] Brook, rivulet, streamlet, runnel, rivulet, rill, small stream.

Burning, a.   1. Fiery, flaming, hot, scorching.

2. Glowing, ardent, fervent, fervid, impassioned, intense, earnest.

3. Vehement, powerful.

Burning-glass, n.   Convex lens.

Burnish, v. a.   Polish, furbish, brighten, make bright, make glossy.

Burn one's fingers, Get one's self into trouble (as by meddling in the affairs of others, or by speculation), smart for it.

Burst, v. n.   1. Break open (from internal pressure), fly open, be rent asunder.

2. Break out suddenly.

Burst, v. a.   Rend asunder, break open.

Burst, n.   Explosion, BURSTING.

Bursting, n.   Explosion, disruption, blast, burst.

Bury, v. a.   1. Cover (with earth, &c.), cover up.

2. Inter, inhume, entomb, inurn, lay in the grave, consign to the grave.

3. Hide, conceal, secrete, shroud.

Burying, n.   Interment, sepulture, inhumation, entombment, burial.

Burying-ground, n.   Cemetery, graveyard, BURIAL-GROUND.

Bury the hatchet, Make peace, be reconciled, sheathe the sword, put up the sword.

Bush, n.   Shrub.

Bushel, n.   Four pecks, eight gallons, thirty-two quarts.

Business, n.   1. Calling, employment, occupation, pursuit, vocation, profession, craft, AVOCATION, walk of life.

2. Trade, commerce, traffic, dealing.

3. Concern, matter, affair, transaction.

4. Office, duty, function.

Buskin, n.   1. Half boot (especially one with high soles, worn by the ancient tragedians).

2. Tragedy, tragic drama.

Buskined, a.   1. Dressed in buskins.

2. [Rare.] Tragic.

Buss, v. a.   [Colloquial.] Kiss.

Buss, n.   Kiss, smack.

Bustle, v. n.   Fuss, stir about, busy one's self, be active, be busy, bestir one's self, make a fuss, be in a fidget, be in a PUCKER, be in a stew, make much ado about trifles or about nothing.

Bustle, n.   1. Stir, FUSS, hurry, flurry, tumult, pother, commotion, ado, TO DO.

2. Bishop, TOURNURE.

Busy, a.   1. Diligent, assiduous, industrious, sedulous, notable, active, working, hard-working, at work; diligently employed, engaged, or occupied.

2. Brisk, stirring, bustling, nimble, agile, SPRY, constantly in motion.

3. Meddling, officious, importunate.

Busy, v. a.   Occupy, employ, make busy.

Busybody, n.   Meddler, intermeddler, meddlesome person, officious person.

But, conj.   1. On the other hand, on the contrary.

2. Yet, still, however, nevertheless, moreover, further.

3. Unless, if it were not that, if it be not that.

4. But that, otherwise than that.

But, prep.   Except, excepting.

But, ad.   Only, no more than.

But, n.   1. End (especially the larger end), but-end.

2. Bound, boundary, mete.

Butcher, n.   Slayer, killer, murderer, slaughterer, assassin, cut-throat.

Butcher, v. a.   Kill, MURDER, slay, slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death.

Butchery, n.   Murder, slaughter, massacre, carnage, bloodshed.

But-end, n.   Blunt end, but.

Butt, n.   1. Mark, object, target, point aimed at.

2. Laughing-stock.

3. Stroke, blow.

4. Cask.

Butt, v. n.   Bunt, strike with the head or the horns.

Butter-bird, n.   Bobolink, rice-bird, rice-bunting, reed-bird, skunk-bird, skunk-blackbird (Dolichonyx orizyvorus).

Butterfly-shaped, a.   Papilionaceous.

Buttery, n.   Pantry.

Buttock, n.   Rump.

Button-ball tree, Button-wood.

Button-holder, n.   Bore, proser.

Button-wood, n.   Sycamore, plane-tree, button-ball tree, water-birch (Platanus occidentalis).

Buttress, n.   Shore, prop, support, stay, brace.

Buxom, a.   Gay, brisk, sprightly, lively, joyous, joyful, buoyant, vivacious, cheerful, blithe, blithesome, WINSOME, jocund, sportive, frolicsome, jolly, airy, debonair, in high health and spirits.

Buy, v. a.   Purchase, bargain for.

Buzz, v. n.   1. Hum, make a humming sound (as bees).

2. Whisper, murmur.

Buzz, n.   1. Hum, humming noise.

2. Whisper, murmur.

By, prep.   1. Through (as the cause, or the remote agent), WITH, by the agency of, by means of, by dint of.

2. At, on, by way of.

3. From, according to.

4. Near to, close by.

5. Past.

6. Along, over.

By, ad.   Near.

By and by, Presently, soon, before long, in a short time.

By chance, Perhaps, perchance, possibly, haply, PERADVENTURE, maybe, it may be, as luck may have it, as it happened.

By degrees, Gradually, step by step, little by little, by little and little.

By dint of, By, by force of, by means of, by the agency of.

By-end, n.   By-purpose, private interest, secret purpose, self-interested purpose, clandestine design.

By far, Very much, in a great degree.

By fits, Irregularly, fitfully, by fits and starts.

By fits and starts, By fits.

Bygone, a.   Past, gone by.

By hand, With the hands, by the use of the hands.

By hook or by crook, Somehow or other, one way or other, in one way or another, by any means.

By-name, n.   Nickname, SOBRIQUET.

By one's self, 1. Alone, solitary.

2. On one's own account, ON ONE'S OWN HOOK.

By-path, n.   By-way, private way.

By-place, n.   Retired place, out-of-the-way place.

By-purpose, n.   By-end.

By-road, n.   Private road, unfrequented road.

By-room, n.   Private room, CABINET.

By rote, By mere repetition, without any exercise of the understanding, with no attention to the meaning.

Bystander, n.   Spectator, looker-on.

By stealth, Secretly, clandestinely.

By the board, Overboard, over the side.

By the bye, In passing, EN PASSANT, apropos to the matter in hand, by the way.

By the job, At a stipulated price (for the whole job).

By the strike, By the level measure.

By the way, By the bye.

By-way, n.   By-path, private way.

Byword, n.   1. Saying, saw, maxim, adage, proverb, aphorism, apothegm, dictum, sententious precept.

2. Object of contempt, mark for scorn.

3. Slang, cant term.