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.
way, pick one’s way, thread one’s way, plow one’s way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile.
     go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to. 
     Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving,
rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean[obs3], circumforaneous[obs3]; noctivagrant[obs3], mundivagrant; locomotive.
     wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained. 
     Adv. on foot, on horseback, on Shanks’s mare; by the Marrowbone stage,
     in transitu &c. 270[Lat]; en route &c. 282. 
     Int. come along!

     #267. [Locomotion by water, or air.] Navigation. —­ N. navigation;
aquatics; boating, yachting; ship &c. 273; oar, paddle, screw, sail, canvas, aileron.
     natation[obs3], swimming; fin, flipper, fish’s tail.
     aerostation[obs3], aerostatics[obs3], aeronautics; balloonery[obs3];
balloon &c. 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation[obs3]; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting.
     voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus[obs3];
headway, sternway, leeway; fairway.
     mariner &c. 269.
     flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift. 
     V. sail; put to sea &c. (depart) 293; take ship, get under way; set
sail, spread sail, spread canvas; gather way, have way on; make sail, carry sail; plow the waves, plow the deep, plow the main, plow the ocean; walk the waters.
     navigate, warp, luff[obs3], scud, boom, kedge; drift, course, cruise,
coast; hug the shore, hug the land; circumnavigate.
     ply the oar, row, paddle, pull, scull, punt, steam.
     swim, float; buffet the waves, ride the storm, skim, effleurer[Fr],
dive, wade.
     fly, be wafted, hover, soar, flutter, jet, orbit, rocket; take wing,
take a flight, take off, ascend, blast off, land, alight; wing one’s flight, wing one’s way; aviate; parachute, jump, glide. 
     Adj. sailing &c. v.; volant[obs3], aerostatic[obs3]; seafaring,
nautical, maritime, naval; seagoing, coasting; afloat; navigable; aerial, aeronautic; grallatory[obs3]. 
     Adv. under way, under sail, under canvas, under steam; on the wing, in
flight, in orbit. 
     Phr. bon voyage; “spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale”
[Pope].

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     #268.  Traveler. —­ N. traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant,
passenger, commuter.
     tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker,
backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator[obs3], wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling[obs3]; vagrant, scatterling[obs3], landloper[obs3], waifs and estrays[obs3], wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab[obs3], Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee;

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