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.
compass about; imprison &c. (restrain) 751; hedge in, wall in, rail in; fence round, fence in, hedge round; picket; corral.
     enfold, bury, encase, incase[obs3], pack up, enshrine, inclasp[obs3];
wrap up &c. (invest) 225; embay[obs3], embosom[obs3].
     containment (inclusion) 76. 
     Adj. circumscribed &c. v.; begirt[obs3], lapt[obs3]; buried in,
immersed in; embosomed[obs3], in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned &c. 751; landlocked, in a ring fence.

     #230.  Outline. —­ N. outline, circumference; perimeter, periphery,
ambit, circuit, lines tournure[obs3], contour, profile, silhouette; bounds; coast line.
     zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre[Brit],
cingle[obs3], clasp, girt; cordon &c. (inclosure) 232; circlet, &c. 247..

     #231.  Edge. —­ N. edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border,
confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth; jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle.
     threshold, door, porch; portal &c. (opening) 260; coast, shore.
     frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem,
selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp. 
     Adj. border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated[obs3],
marginated[obs3].

     #232.  Inclosure. —­ N. inclosure, envelope; case &c. (receptacle) 191;
wrapper; girdle &c. 230.
     pen, fold; pen fold, in fold, sheep fold; paddock, pound; corral;
yard; net, seine net.
     wall, hedge, hedge row; espalier; fence &c. (defense) 717; pale,
paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation[obs3], enceinte, ring fence.
     barrier, barricade; gate, gateway; bent, dingle [U.S.]; door, hatch,
cordon; prison &c. 752.
     dike, dyke, ditch, fosse[obs3], moat. 
     V. inclose, circumscribe &c. 229.

     #233.  Limit. —­ N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term,
bourn, verge, curbstone[obs3], but, pale, reservation; termination, terminus; stint, frontier, precinct, marches; backwoods.
     boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, line of
circumvallation[obs3]; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning point; ne plus ultra[Lat]; sluice, floodgate. 
     Adj. definite; conterminate|, conterminable[obs3]; terminal, frontier;
bordering. 
     Adv. thus far, thus far and no further. 
     Phr. stick to the reservation; go beyond the pale.

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     #234.  Front. —­ N. front; fore, forepart; foreground; face, disk,
disc, frontage; facade, proscenium, facia[Lat], frontispiece; anteriority[obs3]; obverse [of a medal or coin].
     fore rank, front rank; van, vanguard; advanced guard; outpost; first
line; scout.
     brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz[obs3], countenance,
mut*[obs3]; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore[obs3], jib.
     pioneer &c. (precursor) 64; metoposcopy[obs3]. 

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