Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
     Adj. horizontal, level, even, plane; flat &c. 251; flat as a billiard
table, flat as a bowling green; alluvial; calm, calm as a mill pond; smooth, smooth as glass.
     recumbent, decumbent, procumbent, accumbent[obs3]; lying &c. v.;
prone, supine, couchant, jacent[obs3], prostrate, recubant[obs3]. 
     Adv. horizontally &c. adj.; on one’s back, on all fours, on its beam
ends.

     #214.  Pendency. —­ N. pendency[obs3], dependency; suspension, hanging
&c. v.; pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail
     peg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook;
fastening &c. 45; spar, horse. 
     V. be pendent &c. adj.; hang, depend, swing, dangle; swag;
daggle[obs3], flap, trail, flow; beetle.
     suspend, hang, sling, hook up, hitch, fasten to, append. 
     Adj. pendent, pendulous; pensile; hanging &c. v.; beetling, jutting
over, overhanging, projecting; dependent; suspended &c. v.; loose, flowing.
     having a peduncle &c. n.; pedunculate[obs3], tailed, caudate.

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     #215.  Support. —­ N. support, ground, foundation, base, basis; terra
firma; bearing, fulcrum, bait [U.S.], caudex crib[obs3]; point d’appui[Fr], gr/pou sto/gr[Grk][Grk], purchase footing, hold, locus standi[Lat]; landing place, landing stage; stage, platform; block; rest, resting place; groundwork, substratum, riprap, sustentation, subvention; floor &c. (basement) 211.
     supporter; aid &c. 707; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment|; cue rest,
jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit[obs3], outrigger; ratlings[obs3].
     staff, stick, crutch, alpenstock, baton, staddle[obs3]; bourdon[obs3],
cowlstaff[obs3], lathi[obs3], mahlstick[obs3].
     post, pillar, shaft, thill[obs3], column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle;
pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle[obs3], zocle[obs3]; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.
     frame, framework; scaffold, skeleton, beam, rafter, girder, lintel,
joist, travis[obs3], trave[obs3], corner stone, summer, transom; rung, round, step, sill; angle rafter, hip rafter; cantilever, modillion[obs3]; crown post, king post; vertebra.
     columella[obs3], backbone; keystone; axle, axletree; axis; arch,
mainstay.
     trunnion, pivot, rowlock[obs3]; peg &c. (pendency) 214[obs3]; tiebeam
&c. (fastening) 45; thole pin[obs3].
     board, ledge, shelf, hob, bracket, trevet[obs3], trivet, arbor, rack;
mantel, mantle piece[Fr], mantleshelf[obs3]; slab, console; counter, dresser; flange, corbel; table, trestle; shoulder; perch; horse; easel, desk; clotheshorse, hatrack; retable; teapoy[obs3].
     seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud[obs3]; chair, bench, form, stool,

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