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.
spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed[obs3], unrestored.
     worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.
     breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind;
blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose[obs3]; broken winded, short-winded; dyspnaeal[obs3], dyspnaeic[obs3].
     ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off
one’s legs, tired to death, on one’s last legs, played out, hors de combat[Fr].
     fatiguing &c v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.

     #689.  Refreshment. —­ N. bracing &c. v.; recovery of strength,
recuperation &c. 159; restoration, revival &c. 660; repair, refection, refocillation|, refreshment, regalement[obs3], bait; relief &c. 834.
     break, spell.
     refreshment stand; refreshments; ice cream[list], cold soda, soda
pop, hot dogs (food). 
     V. brace &c. (strengthen) 159; reinvigorate; air, freshen up,
refresh, recruit; repair &c. (restore) 660; fan, refocillate|; refresh the inner man.
     breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather,
take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one’s head; recover one’s strength, regain one’s strength, renew one’s strength &c. 159; perk up, get one’s second wind.
     come to oneself &c. (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant
refreshed. 
     Adj. refreshing &c v.; recuperative &c. 660.
     refreshed &c. v.; untired[obs3], unwearied.

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     #690.  Agent.—­ N. doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator,
operator; executor, executrix; practitioner, worker, stager.
     bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of
all work, factotum.
     workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative;
working man; laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy[obs3]; hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool &c. 633; beast of burden, drudge, fag; lumper[obs3], roustabout.
     maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder,
mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright.
     machinist, mechanician, engineer.
     sempstress[obs3], semstress[obs3], seamstress; needlewoman[obs3],
workwoman; tailor, cordwainer[obs3].
     minister &c. (instrument) 631; servant &c. 746; representative &c.
(commissioner) 758, (deputy) 759.
     coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis[Lat], dramatis
personae[Lat]; personnel. 
     Phr. quorum pars magna fui [Lat][Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae
suae [Lat].

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