adynamy[obs3], cachexy[obs3], cachexia[Med], sprain, strain.
     reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards.
     softling[obs3], weakling; infant &c. 129; youth &c. 127. 
     V. be weak &c. adj.; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake,
halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.
     render weak &c. adj.; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of
strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman &c. (render powerless) 158; cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l’eau dans son vin[Fr]. 
     Adj. weak, feeble, debile|; impotent &c. 158; relaxed, unnerved, &c.
v.; sapless, strengthless[obs3], powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic[obs3], asthenic[obs3]; nervous.
     soft, effeminate, feminate[obs3], womanly.
     frail, fragile, shattery[obs3]; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial,
gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy[obs3]; drooping, tottering &c. v..
     broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied &c.
158; decrepit.
     languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish[obs3]; sickly &c. (disease)
655; dull, slack, evanid|, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.
     unstrengthened &c. 159[obs3], unsupported, unaided, unassisted;
aidless[obs3], defenseless &c. 158; cantilevered (support) 215.
     on its last legs; weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken,
weak as a cat, weak as a rat; weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water; colorless &c. 429. 
     Phr. non sum qualis eram[Lat].

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     #161.  Production.—­ N. {ant. 162, 158} production, creation,
construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster[obs3]; organization; nisus formativus[Lat]; putting together &c. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement &c. (completion) 729. flowering, fructification; inflorescence.
     bringing forth &c. v.:  parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth,
delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture[obs3]; gestation &c. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy[Phil]; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy[Biol], genesis, generation, epigenesis[obs3], procreation, progeneration[obs3], propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen &c. 357.
     spontaneous generation; archegenesis[obs3], archebiosis[obs3];
biogenesis, abiogenesis[obs3], digenesis[obs3], dysmerogenesis[obs3], eumerogenesis[obs3], heterogenesis[obs3], oogenesis,