Adv. at a stand &c. adj.; tout court; at the halt.
Int. stop! stay! avast! halt! hold hard! whoa! hold! sabr karo[obs3]!.
Phr. requiescat in pace[Lat]; Deus nobis haec otia fecit
[Lat][Vergil]; “the noonday quiet holds the hill” [Tennyson].
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#266. [Locomotion by
land.] Journey. — N. travel; traveling &c.
v.
wayfaring, campaigning.
journey, excursion,
expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit,
peregrination, discursion|, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj,
trek, course, ambulation[obs3], march, walk, promenade,
constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot,
turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation[obs3],
noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing,
jaunt.
equitation, horsemanship,
riding, manege[Fr], ride and tie;
basophobia[obs3].
roving, vagrancy, pererration|;
marching and countermarching;
nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.];
gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration,
demigration|, intermigration[obs3]; wanderlust.
plan, itinerary, guide;
handbook, guidebook, road book;
Baedeker[obs3], Bradshaw, Murray; map, road map, transportation
guide, subway map.
procession, cavalcade,
caravan, file, cortege, column.
[Organs and instruments
of locomotion] vehicle &c. 272; automobile,
train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway,
motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan,
motor scooter, trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs,
pins, trotters.
traveler &c. 268.
depot [U.S.], railway
station, station.
V. travel, journey,
course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk,
go out for walk &c. n.; have a run; take the air.
flit, take wing; migrate,
emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range,
patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country,
traverse the country; peragrate|; circumambulate,
perambulate; nomadize[obs3], wander, ramble, stroll,
saunter, hover, go one’s rounds, straggle; gad,
gad about; expatiate.
walk, march, step, tread,
pace, plod, wend, go by shank’s mare;
promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle,
strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along,
toddle; paddle; tread a path.
take horse, ride, drive,
trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk[obs3],
frisk, caracoler[obs3], caracole; gallop &c. (move
quickly) 274.
[start riding] embark,
board, set out, hit the road, get going, get
underway.
peg on, jog on, wag
on, shuffle on; stir one’s stumps; bend one’s
steps, bend one’s course; make one’s way,
find one’s way, wend one’s way, pick one’s


