Adj. enjoying &c. v.; luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable,
cosy, snug, in comfort, at ease.
pleasant, agreeable &c. 829.
Adv. in comfort &c. n.; on a bed of roses &c. n.; at one’s ease.
Phr. ride si sapis [Lat][Martial]; voluptales commendat rarior usus
[Lat][Juvenal].
#378. Physical
Pain. — N. pain; suffering, sufferance,
suffrance[obs3]; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily
suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering
&c. 828; dolour, ache; aching &c. v.; smart; shoot,
shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach
ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris[Lat]; hurt,
cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia[Med],
earache, gout, ischiagra[obs3], lumbago, neuralgia,
odontalgia[obs3], otalgia[obs3], podagra[obs3], rheumatism,
sciatica; tic douloureux[Fr], toothache, tormina[obs3],
torticollis[obs3].
spasm, cramp; nightmare,
ephialtes[obs3]; crick, stitch; thrill,
convulsion, throe; throb &c. (agitation) 315; pang;
colic; kink.
sharp pain, piercing
pain, throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting,
gnawing pain, burning pain; excruciating pain.
anguish, agony; torment,
torture; rack; cruciation[obs3], crucifixion;
martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection.
V. feel pain, experience
pain, suffer pain, undergo pain &c. n.;
suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge,
twitch, lancinate[obs3]; writhe, wince, make a wry
face; sit on thorns, sit on pins and needles.
give pain, inflict pain;
lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite,
gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick,
pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize;
crucify; cruciate[obs3], excruciate|; break on the
wheel, put to the rack; flog &c. (punish) 972; grate
on the ear &c. (harsh sound) 410.
Adj. in pain &c. n.,
in a state of pain; pained &c. v.; gouty,
podagric[obs3], torminous[obs3].
painful; aching &c.
v.; sore, raw.
% Special Sensation (1) Touch %
#379. [Sensation of
pressure] Touch. — N. touch; tact, taction[obs3],
tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation[obs3];
manipulation; massage.
[Organ of touch] hand,
finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler,
antenna; palpus[obs3].
V. touch, feel, handle,
finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble;
twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers
over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.
Adj. tactual, tactile;
tangible, palpable; lambent.
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#380. Sensations
of Touch. — N. itching, pruritis &c. v[Med].;
titillation, formication[obs3], aura; stereognosis[obs3].
V. itch, tingle, creep,
thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,
titillate.
Adj. itching &c. v.;
stereognostic[obs3], titillative.
#381. [insensibility
to touch.] Numbness. — N. numbness &c. (physical
insensibility) 376; anaesthesia; pins and needles.
V. benumb &c. 376.
Adj. numb; benumbed
&c. v.; deadened; intangible, impalpable.


