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.

     #787.  Lending.—­ N. lending &c. v.; loan, advance, accommodation,
feneration|; mortgage, second mortgage, home loan &c. (security) 771; investment; note, bond, commercial paper.
     mont de piete[Fr], pawnshop, my uncle’s.
     lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer, loan shark.
     loaner
     V[item loaned][coll.]. lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on
security; loan; pawn &c. (security) 771.
     intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.
     let, demise, lease, sett[obs3], underlet. 
     Adj. lending &c. v.; lent &c. v.; unborrowed &c. (see borrowed &c.
788)[obs3]. 
     Adv. in advance; on loan, on security.

     #788.  Borrowing.—­ N. borrowing, pledging.
     borrowed plumes; plagiarism &c. (thieving) 791.
     replevin[Law]. 
     V. borrow, desume|.
     hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take
by the mile, take by the year &c., hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year &c.; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.
     raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from
Peter to pay Paul; run into debt &c. (debt) 806.
     replevy[Law].

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     #789.  Taking.—­ N. taking &c. v.; reception &c. (taking in) 296;
deglutition &c. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation|; capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension|; abreption|, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation; subtraction, withdrawal &c. 38; abstraction, ademption[obs3]; adrolepsy|!.
     dispossession; deprivation, deprivement[obs3]; bereavement;
divestment; disherison[obs3]; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction &c. 297.
     rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft &c.791.
     resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery &c. 775.
     clutch, swoop, wrench; grip &c. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch;
scramble.
     taker, captor.
     [Geol:  descent of one of the earth’s crustal plates under another
plate] subduction. 
     V. take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one’s pocket;
receive; accept.
     reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c. (get) 775; draw.
     appropriate, expropriate, impropriate[obs3]; assume, possess oneself
of; take possession of; commandeer; lay one’s hands on, clap one’s hands on; help oneself to; make free with, dip one’s hands into, lay under contribution; intercept; scramble for; deprive of.
     take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off;
adeem|!; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal &c. 791; ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by storm, take by assault; snatch, reave[obs3].
     snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay
violent hands on.
     get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold

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