#520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness.—­ N. equivocalness &c
adj.; double meaning &c. 516; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre[Fr], pun, paragram[obs3], calembour[obs3], quibble, equivoque[Fr], anagram; conundrum &c (riddle) 533; play on words, word play &c. (wit) 842; homonym, homonymy[Gram]; amphiboly[obs3], amphibology[obs3]; ambilogy[obs3], ambiloquy|. 
     Sphinx, Delphic oracle.
     equivocation &c. (duplicity) 544; white lie, mental reservation &c.
(concealment) 528; paltering. 
     V. be -equivocal &c. adj.; have two meanings &c. 516; equivocate &c.
(alter) 544. 
     Adj. equivocal, ambiguous, amphibolous[obs3], homonymous[obs3];
double-tongued &c. (lying) 544; enigmatical, indeterminate. 
     Phr. on the one hand, on the other hand.

     #521.  Metaphor.—­ N. figure of speech; facon de parler [French], way
of speaking, colloquialism.
     phrase &c. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage[obs3],
catachresis[obs3]; metonymy[Gram], synecdoche[Semant]; autonomasia|!, irony, figurativeness &c. adj.; image, imagery; metalepsis[obs3], type, anagoge[obs3], simile, personification, prosopopoeia[obs3], allegory, apologue[obs3], parable, fable; allusion, adumbration; application.
     exaggeration, hyperbole &c. 549.
     association, association of ideas (analogy) 514a
     V. employ -metaphor &c. n.; personify, allegorize, adumbrate, shadow
forth, apply, allude to. 
     Adj. metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical[obs3], typical,
tralatitious[obs3], parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical[obs3]; ironical; colloquial; tropical. 
     Adv. so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were. 
     Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Lat][Horace].

     #522.  Interpretation. —­ N. interpretation, definition; explanation,
explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c. 516.
     translation; rendering, rendition; redition[obs3]; literal
translation, free translation; key; secret; clew &c. (indication) 550; clavis[obs3], crib, pony, trot [U.S.].
     exegesis; expounding, exposition; hermeneutics; comment, commentary;
inference &c. (deduction) 480; illustration, exemplification; gloss, annotation, scholium[obs3], note; elucidation, dilucidation|; eclaircissement[Fr], mot d’enigme[Fr].
     [methods of interpreting — list] symptomatology[Med], semiology,
semeiology[obs3], semiotics; metoposcopy[obs3], physiognomy; paleography &c. (philology) 560; oneirology
     acception[obs3], acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection,
construction, version.
     equivalent, equivalent meaning &c. 516; synonym; paraphrase,
metaphrase[obs3]; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c. 562; polyglot. 
     V. interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into,
turn into; transfuse the sense of.