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.
anchor; stock, still; standing still &c. v.; sedentary, untraveled, stay-at-home; becalmed, stagnant, quiet; unmoved, undisturbed, unruffled; calm, restful; cataleptic; immovable &c. (stable) 150; sleeping &c. (inactive) 683; silent &c. 403; still as a statue, still as a post, still as a mouse, still as death; vegetative, vegetating. 
     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

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