A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology (part 4 of 7)

A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology (part 4 of 7)

~Garish~, a. [Written also Gairish.] Flaunting, glaring, showy, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, gay, FINE, airy.

~Garland~, n. Wreath, chaplet, crown, coronal, bays.

~Garment~, n. Dress, article of clothing.

~Garner~, n. Granary.

~Garner~, v. a. Gather (for preservation), store, hoard, deposit, save, husband, reserve, collect, garner up, treasure up, lay in, lay up, lay by, set by.

~Garner up~, Garner, gather, collect.

~Garnish~, v. a. Adorn, decorate, embellish, deck, beautify, grace.

~Garniture~, n. Embellishment, decoration, ornament.

~Gar-pike~, n. GAR-FISH.

~Garret~, n. Attic, loft, cock-loft, upper story.

~Garrulity~, n. Loquacity, loquaciousness, babble, babbling, talkativeness.

~Garrulous~, a. Loquacious, talkative, prattling, babbling.

~Gas~, n. Aeriform fluid.

~Gasconade~, n. Boast, brag, vaunt, bravado, vaporing, great cry and little wool.

~Gasconade~, v. n. Boast, brag, vaunt, swagger, bluster, vapor.

~Gasconader~, n. Boaster, braggart, blusterer, BLATHERSKITE.

~Gash~, v. a. Cut deeply.

~Gash~, n. Deep cut, gaping wound.

~Gas-holder~, n. Gasometer.

~Gas-meter~, n. Gasometer.

~Gasometer~, n. ~1.~ Gas-meter.

~2.~ Gas-holder.

~Gasp~, v. n. Pant, puff, blow.

~Gassy~, a. [Colloquial.] Inflated, bombastic, pompous.

~Gas-tar~, n. Coal-tar.

~Gastric~, a. Of the stomach.

~Gastronome~, n. Epicure, glutton.

~Gastronomer~, n. Epicure, glutton.

~Gastroscopy~, n. (Med.) Abdominoscopy.

~Gather~, v. a. ~1.~ Collect, muster, assemble, congregate, bring together, draw together.

~2.~ Accumulate, amass, hoard, heap up, gather up.

~3.~ Pluck, crop, pick, cull, reap, glean.

~4.~ Infer, deduce, conclude.

~5.~ Plait, pucker.

~Gather~, v. n. ~1.~ Muster, congregate, come together.

~2.~ Collect, increase, thicken, be condensed.

~Gathering~, n. ~1.~ Acquisition, collecting, procuring, earning, gain.

~2.~ Assemblage, assembly, company, meeting, collection, concourse, congregation, muster.

~3.~ Abscess, sore, ulcer, fester, imposthume, pustule.

~Gaud~, n. Trinket, gewgaw, bawble, trifle, toy, worthless piece of finery.

~Gaudy~, a. Showy, gay, flashy, dressy, tawdry, finical, glittering, flaunting, gairish.

~Gauge~, v. a. ~1.~ Measure (a cask, &c.), find the contents of.

~2.~ Measure (as to ability), estimate.

~Gauge~, n. Measure.

~Gaunt~, a. Lean, thin, lank, emaciated, meagre, slender, spare, attenuated.

~Gavel~, n. Mallet (of a presiding officer).

~Gawky~, a. Awkward, ungainly, clownish, boorish, rustic, clumsy, raw, green, uncouth, ungainly, loutish.

~Gawky~, n. Clown, boor, lout, bumpkin, awkward fellow.

~Gay~, a. ~1.~ Showy, gaudy, flashy, finical, tawdry, flaunting, gairish, dashing.

~2.~ Merry, lively, cheerful, gleeful, jovial, sprightly, blithe, blithesome, airy, sportive, frolicsome, gladsome, jolly, buxom, vivacious, hilarious, light-hearted.

~Gayety~, n. ~1.~ Show, gaudiness, finery, tawdriness.

~2.~ Liveliness, cheerfulness, joyousness, joviality, sprightliness, mirth, blithesomeness, merriment, glee, hilarity, jollity, vivacity, animation, good humor, high spirits.

~Gaze~, v. n. Stare, gloat, look intently.

~Gaze~, n. Stare, intent look, fixed look.

~Gazette~, n. Newspaper.

~Gazetteer~, n. Geographical dictionary.

~Gear~, n. ~1.~ APPAREL, dress, furniture, accoutrements, ornaments, TOGGERY.

~2.~ Harness, caparison, rigging, trappings, equipments.

~3.~ Gearing, toothed wheels, series of cog-wheels.

~Gearing~, n. GEAR, toothed wheels.

~Geld~, v. a. Castrate, emasculate, glib, deprive of virility.

~Gelder-rose~, n. Snow-ball tree.

~Gelding~, n. Castrated animal.

~Gelid~, a. [Rare.] Very cold.

~Gelidity~, n. Extreme cold.

~Gem~, n. ~1.~ Jewel, precious stone.

~2.~ (Bot.) Bud, germ.

~Gem~, v. a. ~1.~ Adorn with gems.

~2.~ Embellish, bespangle.

~Geminate~, a. (Bot.) Doubled, twin, in pairs.

~Gemini~, n. pl. [L.] (Astron.) Twins.

~Gemmule~, n. (Bot.) Small bud.

~Genealogy~, n. ~1.~ Pedigree, list of ancestors.

~2.~ Descent, derivation.

~General~, a. ~1.~ Of the whole (genus, class, &c.), catholic, not partial, not special, not particular.

~2.~ ECUMENICAL.

~3.~ Common, usual.

~4.~ Vague, indefinite, lax.

~General~, n. ~1.~ Whole, total.

~2.~ (Mil.) Commander-in-chief, generalissimo, captain-general.

~Generalissimo~, n. Commander-in-chief, general, captain-general.

~Generality~, n. ~1.~ Universality.

~2.~ Bulk, mass, greater part, main body, common run.

~Generally~, ad. ~1.~ Commonly, usually, in general, in the usual course of things, as the world goes.

~2.~ In the main, without particularizing, without details.

~Generate~, v. a. ~1.~ Beget, procreate, engender, breed, propagate.

~2.~ Produce, form, make.

~Generation~, n. ~1.~ Procreation.

~2.~ Production, formation.

~3.~ Progeny, offspring, succession of descendants.

~4.~ Family, stock, race, breed.

~Generosity~, n. ~1.~ Nobleness, disinterestedness, magnanimity, high-mindedness.

~2.~ Liberality, bounty, bounteousness, bountifulness, charity, munificence.

~Generous~, a. ~1.~ Noble, magnanimous, honorable, high-minded.

~2.~ Liberal, bountiful, beneficent, munificent, charitable, open- handed, free-hearted.

~Geneva~, n. Gin.

~Genial~, a. ~1.~ Fostering, cheering, enlivening, inspiriting, encouraging.

~2.~ Cordial, hearty.

~3.~ Cheerful, pleasant, merry, mirthful, jovial.

~Genitals~, n. pl. Sexual organs, private parts.

~Genitive~, a. Possessive.

~Genius~, n. ~1.~ Bent, turn, aptitude, aptness, capacity, faculty, endowment, talent, gift.

~2.~ Invention, ingenuity, intellect, sagacity, brains, parts, wit, mother-wit, inspiration, creative power, power of invention.

~3.~ Adept, proficient, master, master-hand, man of genius.

~4.~ Nature, character, disposition, peculiar constitution, characteristic quality.

~5.~ Spirit, demon, tutelary deity.

~Genteel~, a. ~1.~ Refined, polite, courteous, polished, civil, well- bred, gentlemanly or lady-like.

~2.~ Fashionable, stylish, elegant (in dress, style of living, &c.).

~Gentile~, n. Pagan, heathen, worshipper of false gods.

~Gentility~, n. Politeness, courtesy, urbanity, good breeding, good behavior, refinement of manners.

~Gentle~, a. ~1.~ Mild, bland, moderate, clement, lenient, merciful, kind, tender, compassionate, indulgent, meek, soft, humane, of a sweet disposition, not rough, not harsh.

~2.~ Tame, docile, peaceable, quiet, tractable, pacific, dove-like, not wild, not refractory.

~Gentle-folk~, n. pl. People of good family and good breeding.

~Gentle-folks~, n. pl. People of good family and good breeding.

~Gentleman~, n. ~1.~ [England.] Man of good family (above the rank of yeoman).

~2.~ Man of good breeding, well-mannered man, refined or polished man.

~Gentlemanly~, a. Polite, courteous, civil, refined, urbane, genteel, well-bred.

~Gentlemanlike~, a. Polite, courteous, civil, refined, urbane, genteel, well-bred.

~Gentry~, n. [England.] Middle class (between the nobility and the vulgar).

~Genuine~, a. ~1.~ Pure, uncorrupt, unalloyed, unadulterated, true, real, veritable, authentic, not spurious, not false, not fictitious, not apochryphal, what it purports to be.

~2.~ Native, unaffected, sincere.

~Genus~, n. Group (subordinate to a class, tribe, or order), assemblage of species.

~Geodesy~, n. Land-surveying (on a large scale, as when the curvature of the earth is taken into account).

~Geometer~, n. Geometrician.

~Geometrician~, n. Geometer.

~Geoponic~, a. Agricultural.

~Geoponical~, a. Agricultural.

~Geoponics~, n. pl. Agriculture, rural economy.

~Georgium Sidus~, [L.] (Astron.) Uranus, Herschel.

~Geranium~, n. Cranesbill.

~Germ~, n. ~1.~ Ovary, embryo, seed-bud, young bud.

~2.~ Origin, first principle.

~Germane~, a. ~1.~ Related, akin, allied.

~2.~ Relevant, pertinent, apposite, appropriate, suitable, fitting, to the purpose, to the point.

~German-silver~, n. Packfong, white copper.

~German-tinder~, n. Punk, spunk, amadou.

~Germinate~, v. n. Sprout, shoot, vegetate, bud, push, pullulate, put forth, burst forth, spring up, begin to vegetate.

~Gestation~, n. Pregnancy.

~Gestic~, a. Legendary, traditional, historical.

~Gesticulate~, v. n. Make gestures.

~Gesticulation~, n. GESTURE.

~Gesture~, n. Action (accompanying oral utterance), gesticulation.

~Get~, v. a. ~1.~ Procure, obtain, acquire, gain, win, earn, achieve, realize, secure, come by.

~2.~ Learn, memorize, commit to memory, get by heart.

~3.~ Beget, generate, engender, procreate, breed.

~4.~ Procure or cause to be.

~5.~ Persuade, induce, dispose, influence, prevail upon.

~6.~ Have, have possession of.

~Get ahead~, Proceed, progress, advance, get on, get forward, get along.

~Get along~, Proceed, GET AHEAD.

~Get among~, Come among, come into the company of.

~Get asleep~, Go to sleep, fall asleep.

~Get at~, ~1.~ Discover, determine, find out.

~2.~ Reach, make way to.

~Get away~, Depart, go away.

~Get away from~, Quit, leave, disengage one's self from.

~Get back~, Return.

~Get before~, Come in front of.

~Get behind~, ~1.~ Lag, fall in the rear.

~2.~ Take a position behind.

~Get between~, Come between.

~Get by heart~, Memorize, learn, learn by heart, commit to memory.

~Get clear~, Be released, disengage one's self, get free, get loose, get off.

~Get down~, Descend, come down.

~Get drunk~, Become intoxicated.

~Get forward~, Proceed, progress, advance, get along, get ahead, get on.

~Get free~, Be released, get clear, get loose, get off.

~Get head~, Gain strength, make progress.

~Get home~, Reach one's home.

~Get in~, (Active.) Put under cover, gather into a storehouse.

~Get in~, (Neuter.) Come in, pass in.

~Get into~, ~1.~ Mount, climb into.

~2.~ Be admitted into.

~Get into a mess~ Get into difficulty, GET INTO HOT WATER.

~Get into a muss~ Get into difficulty, GET INTO HOT WATER.

~Get into hot water~, Get into difficulty, get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a muss, fish in troubled waters.

~Get loose~, Disengage one's self, get free, get clear, get off, be released.

~Get near~, Come near.

~Get off~, ~1.~ Escape, get clear, get free.

~2.~ Depart, go away.

~3.~ Alight from, descend from.

~Get on~, (Active.) Put on, draw on.

~Get on~, (Neuter.) Proceed, progress, advance, get along, get ahead, get forward.

~Get out~, ~1.~ Come out.

~2.~ Be extricated.

~Get over~, ~1.~ Climb over.

~2.~ Surmount, conquer, overcome.

~3.~ Recover from.

~Get quit of~, Be freed from, get rid of.

~Get rid of~, ~1.~ Dispose of, shift off, cast off.

~2.~ Be freed from, be relieved from, get clear of, get quit of.

~Get thee gone~, Depart, go away, haste away.

~Get the hang of~, Understand, comprehend, get acquainted with, get accustomed to, get used to, become familiar with, see into, know all about.

~Get the start~, Be first, be ahead at the start.

~Get the start of~, Be ahead of, have the advantage of in the outset.

~Get through~, ~1.~ Pass through, go through.

~2.~ Accomplish, finish.

~Getting~, n. Acquisition, acquirement.

~Get together~, (Active.) Collect, assemble, muster, convene.

~Get together~, (Neuter.) Meet, convene.

~Get up~, (Active.) ~1.~ Prepare, make ready.

~2.~ Print and publish.

~Get up~, (Neuter.) ~1.~ Arise, rise.

~2.~ Ascend, climb.

~Gewgaw~, n. Bawble, trifle, trinket, toy, plaything, gaud, worthless piece of finery.

~Geyser~, n. Boiling spring.

~Ghastly~, a. ~1.~ Pale, wan, cadaverous, death-like.

~2.~ Dismal, hideous, grim, horrible, frightful, shocking.

~Ghost~, n. ~1.~ Spirit, soul.

~2.~ Apparition, spectre, sprite, phantom, shade, GOBLIN, hobgoblin.

~Ghostly~, a. ~1.~ Spiritual, of the soul.

~2.~ Spectral, phantom-like.

~Giant~, n. Monster, Cyclops, Colossus, Hercules, huge man.

~Giant~, a. Huge, GIGANTIC.

~Gibbering~, n. Jargon, gabble, jabber, idle talk, empty babble, empty sound.

~Gibberish~, n. Jargon, gabble, jabber, idle talk, empty babble, empty sound.

~Gibbet~, n. Gallows.

~Gibbet~, v. a. Hang on a gallows.

~Gibble-gabble~, n. Prate, prattle, GABBLE.

~Gibbon~, n. Hylobate, long-armed ape.

~Gibbosity~, n. Convexity, protuberance, gibbousness.

~Gibbous~, a. Convex, protuberant, swelling, rounded.

~Gibbousness~, n. GIBBOSITY.

~Gibe~, v. n. Sneer, scoff, jeer, fleer, flout.

~Gibe~, v. a. Flout, taunt, deride, ridicule, jeer, twit, scoff at, sneer at, jeer at.

~Gibe~, n. Sneer, scoff, taunt, flout, biting jest.

~Giddiness~, n. Vertigo, dizziness, swimming of the head.

~Giddy~, a. ~1.~ Vertiginous, dizzy.

~2.~ Changeable, fickle, inconstant, unsteady, mutable, unstable, irresolute.

~3.~ Careless, heedless, thoughtless, wild, reckless, headlong, flighty, hair-brained, giddy-brained, light-headed.

~Giddy-brained~, a. Hair-brained, heedless, giddy.

~Gift~, n. ~1.~ Donation, present, benefaction, boon, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, subscription, donative, largess, SUBSIDY, allowance, endowment, bounty, bequest, legacy, dower, demise, dotation, DOUCEUR.

~2.~ Talent, power, faculty, capability, capacity, ability, endowment, genius, FORTE, turn.

~Gifted~, a. Talented, able, ingenious, sagacious, inventive, intelligent.

~Gift of the gab~, [Colloquial.] Fluency, volubility, glibness, readiness of speech, command of language, facility of expression.

~Gigantic~, a. Huge, vast, enormous, colossal, prodigious, Cyclopean, Herculean, giant, very large.

~Giggle~, n. Titter, silly laugh.

~Giggle~, v. n. Laugh (in a silly manner), TITTER, CACKLE, CHUCKLE.

~Gild~, v. a. ~1.~ Coat with gold-leaf.

~2.~ Adorn, brighten, make lustrous, make bright.

~Gill~, n. ~1.~ Quarter of a pint.

~2.~ (Bot.) Alehoof, ground-ivy (Nepeta glechoma).

~Gimcrack~, n. Trifle, toy, knicknack, JIGGUMBOB, knack, trivial piece of mechanism.

~Gin~, n. ~1.~ Geneva.

~2.~ Cotton-gin.

~3.~ Trap, snare, net, toils, noose, springe.

~Ginger-beer~, n. Ginger-pop.

~Gingerly~, ad. Cautiously, tenderly, carefully, daintily, fastidiously.

~Ginger-pop~, n. Ginger-beer.

~Gingle~, v. n. [Written also Jingle.] Tinkle.

~Gingle~, v. a. Tinkle.

~Gingle~, n. Tinkle, gingling, gingling sound.

~Gingling~, n. GINGLE.

~Giraffe~, n. Camelopard.

~Girandole~, n. Chandelier.

~Girasole~, n. (Bot.) Turnsole, heliotrope.

~Gird~, v. a. ~1.~ Girdle, bind round, bind with a girdle.

~2.~ Surround, encircle, encompass, enclose, environ, engird, begird.

~3.~ Clothe, invest, equip, furnish.

~Girdle~, n. Band (for the waist), belt, CESTUS, cincture.

~Girdle~, v. a. ~1.~ Gird, bind round.

~2.~ Environ, encompass, surround, enclose, embrace, girt, shut in.

~Girdled~, a. Girded, cinctured, belted.

~Girl~, n. ~1.~ Lass, lassie, damsel, miss, maiden, maid, virgin, young woman.

~2.~ [U. S.] Maid-servant, servant-maid, servant-girl, female domestic.

~Girt~, n. ~1.~ Belly-band.

~Girth~, n. ~1.~ Belly-band.

~2.~ Circumference, distance around.

~Girt~, v. a. Environ, encompass, GIRD.

~Gist~, n. Essence, pith, marrow, substance, main point.

~Give~, v. a. ~1.~ Bestow (voluntarily and without compensation), accord, CONFER.

~2.~ Furnish, supply, afford, spare, accommodate with.

~3.~ Impart, communicate.

~4.~ Pay, exchange.

~5.~ Permit, allow, vouchsafe, deign, GRANT.

~6.~ Utter, pronounce, render.

~7.~ Produce, yield, show as a product.

~8.~ Cause, occasion.

~9.~ Devote, apply, addict, give up.

~Give~, v. n. Yield (to pressure).

~Give a handle~, Furnish an occasion, give an opportunity.

~Give away~, Transfer (without an equivalent), make over gratis, part with gratuitously.

~Give back~, Return, restore.

~Give chase~, Pursue, follow on.

~Give ear~, Listen, hear.

~Give in~, (Active.) ~1.~ Hand in.

~2.~ Abate, deduct, discount.

~Give in~, (Neuter.) Yield, surrender, give up, cry quits, cry quarter.

~Give one's self up~, ~1.~ Resign one's self, devote one's self.

~2.~ Addict one's self, abandon one's self.

~Give one the lie~, Charge one with lying.

~Give one the lie in one's throat~, Charge one with lying outrageously.

~Give over~, ~1.~ Leave, quit, abandon, cease from.

~2.~ Consider hopeless, consider lost, give up.

~Give out~, (Active.) ~1.~ Emit, send forth.

~2.~ Proclaim, announce, report, publish.

~Give out~, (Neuter.) ~1.~ Fail, come short.

~2.~ Be exhausted, spend one's strength.

~Give place~, ~1.~ Withdraw, retire, recede, retreat, give way, make room.

~2.~ Yield precedence.

~Give up~, (Active.) ~1.~ Resign, relinquish, yield, surrender.

~2.~ Abandon, forsake, leave, quit, cease from, give over.

~3.~ Consider hopeless, consider lost, give over.

~Give up~, (Neuter.) Yield, surrender, give in, cry quits, cry quarter.

~Give up the ghost~, Die, expire, depart, decease, leave the world, draw the last breath, cease to exist.

~Give way~, ~1.~ Withdraw, recede, retire, retreat, make room.

~2.~ Fail, break, be broken.

~3.~ (Naut.) Row, bend to the oars.

~Giver~, n. Donor, bestower, disposer, DONATOR.

~Glacial~, a. ~1.~ Icy.

~2.~ Of glaciers.

~Glad~, a. ~1.~ Pleased, delighted, gratified, rejoiced, happy, well contented.

~2.~ Cheerful, joyous, joyful, gladsome.

~3.~ Cheering, animating, gratifying, pleasing, exhilarating.

~Glad~, v. a. [Poetical.] Delight, GLADDEN.

~Gladden~, v. a. Delight, cheer, gratify, rejoice, bless, exhilarate, GLAD, make glad, please highly.

~Gladiate~, a. (Bot.) Sword-shaped.

~Gladiator~, n. Sword-player, prizefighter (in ancient Rome).

~Gladness~, n. Joy, joyfulness, joyousness, happiness, gratification, delight, pleasure.

~Gladsome~, a. Pleased, delighted, cheerful, joyful, joyous, glad, gay, blithe, blithesome, gleeful, jovial, jolly, merry, lively, jocund, airy, vivacious, sprightly, sportive, frolicsome, light-hearted.

~Glair~, n. White of an egg.

~Glamour~, n. Witchery (applied to the eye so as to make things seem to be what they are not).

~Glance~, n. ~1.~ Glitter, gleam.

~2.~ Glimpse, transitory view, rapid look.

~Glance~, v. n. ~1.~ Glitter, gleam, shine.

~2.~ Flit, dart, snatch a momentary look.

~3.~ Dart aside, fly off obliquely.

~Glance at~, Take a glimpse at, look at cursorily.

~Glance-coal~, n. Anthracite, hard coal, blind coal, stone-coal, CULM.

~Glare~, v. n. ~1.~ Flare, dazzle, glitter, glisten, gleam, sparkle.

~2.~ Glower, look fierce, look black.

~Glare~, n. ~1.~ Glitter, flare, dazzling light.

~2.~ Fierce look.

~Glare ice~, Polished ice, smooth ice.

~Glaring~, a. ~1.~ Dazzling, glittering.

~2.~ Barefaced, notorious, conspicuous.

~Glasses~, n. pl. Spectacles.

~Glass-wort~, n. Salt-wort, marsh-samphire (Salicornia herbacea).

~Glassy~, a. ~1.~ Vitreous.

~2.~ Hyaline, crystal, crystalline.

~Glauber's-salt~, n. Sulphate of soda.

~Glaucous~, a. Sea-green.

~Glaze~, v. a. ~1.~ Put glass in (windows), furnish with glass.

~2.~ Cover with a glassy substance.

~3.~ CALENDER, polish, gloss, burnish, furbish, give a glossy surface to.

~Glaze~, n. Glazing, enamel.

~Glazing~, n. ~1.~ Setting glass.

~2.~ Calendering.

~3.~ Glaze, enamel.

~Gleam~, n. ~1.~ Ray, beam, glimmer, glimmering.

~2.~ Lustre, brightness, splendor.

~Gleam~, v. n. Glimmer, shine, glitter.

~Glean~, v. a. ~1.~ Gather (after reapers).

~2.~ Collect, cull, pick up.

~Glebe~, n. Soil, clod, sod, turf, ground.

~Glee~, n. Merriment, mirth, gayety, joviality, jollity, exhilaration, liveliness, sportiveness, jocularity, hilarity.

~Glen~, n. Valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle.

~Glib~, a. ~1.~ Smooth, slippery.

~2.~ Voluble, fluent, ready, talkative, flippant, nimble of speech, ready in speech, of a ready tongue.

~Glib~, v. a. Castrate, geld, emasculate, deprive of virility.

~Glide~, v. n. ~1.~ Slip, slide, move smoothly.

~2.~ Flow, lapse, run, roll on.

~Glide~, n. Lapse, slip, continuous motion.

~Glimmer~, v. n. Shine (faintly), gleam, glitter.

~Glimmer~, n. ~1.~ Gleam (of faint, unsteady light), ray, beam.

~Glimmering~, n. ~1.~ Gleam (of faint, unsteady light), ray, beam.

~2.~ Glimpse, glance, transitory view, faint view.

~Glimpse~, n. Glance, glimmering, GLINT, transitory view, rapid look, momentary perception.

~Glint~, n. [Scottish.] Glance, GLIMPSE.

~Glisten~, v. n. Sparkle, glitter, shine fitfully.

~Glister~, v. n. Sparkle, glitter, shine fitfully.

~Glitter~, v. n. Glisten, glister, sparkle, gleam, flare, glare, make a splendid show.

~Glitter~, n. Sparkle, glister, lustre, brilliancy, splendor, brightness, shine, radiance.

~Gloat~, v. n. Stare, gaze, gaze earnestly, look intently.

~Globate~, a. Globular, globose, spherical, round, spheroidal, globe- shaped.

~Globated~, a. Globular, globose, spherical, round, spheroidal, globe-shaped.

~Globe~, n. ~1.~ Sphere, ball, orb.

~2.~ Earth, terraqueous globe, terrestrial ball.

~Globe-fish~, n. Puffer.

~Globose~, a. Spherical, globular, globate, globated, round, globe- shaped.

~Globosity~, n. Sphericity.

~Globular~, a. Spherical, globate, globated, globose, globulous, round, globe-shaped.

~Globule~, n. Spherule, little globe, small round particle.

~Globulous~, a. Spherical, GLOBULAR.

~Gloom~, n. ~1.~ Obscurity, darkness, dimness, gloominess, cloud.

~2.~ Sadness, dejection, depression, despondency, melancholy, heaviness of mind, low spirits.

~Gloomy~, a. ~1.~ Obscure, dark, dim, dusky, dismal, cheerless, lowering, lurid.

~2.~ Sad, dejected, depressed, dispirited, disheartened, despondent, desponding, melancholy, downcast, crest-fallen, chap-fallen, down- hearted, glum, heavy of heart.

~Glorify~, v. a. ~1.~ Extol, magnify, bless, honor greatly, praise highly, give glory to.

~2.~ Brighten, make bright, add lustre to.

~Glorious~, a. ~1.~ Illustrious, renowned, celebrated, famous, famed, eminent, pre-eminent, distinguished, excellent, noble, conspicuous.

~2.~ Resplendent, splendid, bright, brilliant, radiant.

~Glory~, n. ~1.~ Honor, renown, fame, celebrity, praise.

~2.~ Splendor, lustre, brightness, brilliancy, effulgence, pride.

~3.~ State, pomp, parade, magnificence.

~4.~ Heavenly bliss, celestial happiness.

~5.~ Boast, occasion of pride, something to be proud of.

~6.~ (Painting.) Halo, aureola.

~Glory~, v. n. Exult, vaunt, boast, take pride, triumph, be proud, pride one's self, plume one's self, pique one's self, perk one's self, pat one's self on the back.

~Gloss~, n. ~1.~ Comment, note, explanation, interpretation, scholium, annotation, commentary.

~2.~ Pretext, pretence, specious plea.

~3.~ Lustre, polish, shining surface.

~Gloss~, v. n. Comment, make notes, make explanatory remarks.

~Gloss~, v. a. ~1.~ Varnish, make lustrous.

~2.~ Extenuate, palliate, color, apologize for, gloss over.

~Glossarist~, n. Scholiast, commentator, annotator.

~Glossary~, n. Dictionary (of obscure, antiquated, or local words).

~Glossology~, n. Glottology, linguistics, comparative philology, comparative grammar, science of language.

~Gloss over~, Disguise, varnish, color, make plausible.

~Glossy~, a. Smooth and shining.

~Glottology~, n. GLOSSOLOGY.

~Glow~, v. n. ~1.~ Be incandescent.

~2.~ Shine brightly.

~3.~ Burn, be hot.

~4.~ Be ardent, be warm, feel intensely.

~Glow~, n. ~1.~ Incandescence, white heat.

~2.~ Brightness, bright color.

~3.~ Ardor, vehemence, impetuosity, fervency, fervor, enthusiasm.

~Glower~, v. n. Stare (in anger), glare, look black, look fierce.

~Glow-worm~, n. FIRE-FLY (Lampyris noctilucus).

~Gloze~, v. n. Flatter, cajole, wheedle, fawn, cringe.

~Glucina~, n. Oxide of glucinium.

~Glucine~, n. Oxide of glucinium.

~Glucose~, n. Grape-sugar, starch-sugar.

~Glue~, n. Gelatine (impure).

~Glue~, v. a. Cement (with glue).

~Gluey~, a. Viscous, viscid, GLUTINOUS.

~Glum~, a. Sullen, moody, sulky, morose, sour, crabbed, crusty, grum, glowering, frowning, spleeny, dogged, stubborn, intractable, cross-grained.

~Glume~, n. Husk (of grain and grasses), hull, outer covering.

~Glut~, v. a. ~1.~ Cloy, satiate, sate, surfeit, pall.

~2.~ Gorge, stuff, cram, overfeed, fill full, fill to repletion.

~Glut~, n. ~1.~ Repletion.

~2.~ Superabundance, over-abundance, overplus, surplus, redundancy, superfluity, over-stock.

~Glutinous~, a. Gluey, viscous, viscid, sticky, gummy, adhesive, tenacious, clammy.

~Glutton~, n. ~1.~ Gormandizer, gourmand, gobbler, GREEDY-GUT, voracious eater.

~2.~ Wolverine (Gulo luscus).

~Gluttonish~, a. Voracious, given to excess in eating.

~Gluttonous~, a. Voracious, given to excess in eating.

~Gluttony~, n. Voracity, excess in eating.

~Gnarl~, v. n. Growl, snarl.

~Gnarled~, a. Knotty, knotted, gnarly, full of knots.

~Gnarly~, a. GNARLED.

~Gnash~, v. a. Strike together (the teeth).

~Gnaw~, v. a. ~1.~ Bite, nibble, champ, nibble at, keep biting.

~2.~ Corrode, eat away, wear away.

~Gnomon~, n. Style (of a dial).

~Gnomonics~, n. Dialling.

~Go~, v. n. ~1.~ Move, pass, proceed, advance, make progress, go on.

~2.~ Walk, go on foot.

~3.~ Travel, journey.

~4.~ Depart, set out, go away.

~5.~ Reach, extend.

~6.~ Contribute, concur, tend, avail, have effect, be of use, be of service.

~7.~ Fare, eventuate, turn out.

~8.~ Be considered, be reckoned, be esteemed.

~9.~ Be about, be on the point.

~Go~, interj. Begone, avaunt, aroynt, get you gone, be off, go along, off with you, get along with you, go your way, go about your business.

~Go about~, ~1.~ Endeavor, attempt, undertake, set one's self about.

~2.~ (Naut.) Tack, change the course.

~Goad~, n. Prick, point.

~Goad~, v. a. ~1.~ Prick with a goad.

~2.~ Incite, stimulate, instigate, urge, impel, spur, arouse, stir up, set on.

~Go ahead~, Proceed, advance, go on, push on, press forward.

~Goal~, n. ~1.~ Post (set to bound a race), mark.

~2.~ Object, end, design, destination, aim, height of one's ambition.

~Goatish~, a. Like a goat (especially in smell or in lustfulness).

~Goat-sucker~, n. Night-jar, wheel-bird, churn-owl (Caprimulgus Europæus).

~Go away~, Depart, go off.

~Go a wool-gathering~, Go on a fool's errand, go on a wild-goose chase, go on a sleeveless errand, reckon without one's host.

~Go back~, Return.

~Gobble~, v. a. Swallow (greedily), bolt, gulp.

~Gobbler~, n. ~1.~ Gormandizer, glutton, gourmand, greedy-gut, voracious eater.

~2.~ [Colloquial.] Turkey-cock.

~Go between~, Mediate, interpose.

~Go-between~, n. Agent, broker, factor.

~Go beyond~, Transgress, overstep, transcend.

~Goblin~, n. Hobgoblin, spectre, sprite, frightful apparition, evil spirit.

~Go by~, ~1.~ Pass near.

~2.~ Pass beyond.

~3.~ Act by, act according to, act in obedience to.

~Go by~, n. [Colloquial.] Passing by, neglect to notice.

~God~, n. ~1.~ Jehovah, Lord, Omnipotence, Omniscience, Providence, Heaven, The Creator, The Maker, The Deity, The Godhead, The Infinite, The Eternal, The Omnipotent, The Preserver, The Father, The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, The Author of all things, God the Father, Sovereign of the Universe, The eternal and infinite Spirit.

~2.~ Deity, divinity, idol.

~Goddess~, n. Female divinity.

~Godhead~, n. ~1.~ Deity, divinity, godship.

~2.~ [With The prefixed.] GOD, The Deity.

~Godless~, a. ~1.~ Irreligious, impious, profane, wicked, ungodly.

~2.~ Atheistical, given to atheism.

~Godlike~, a. Divine, heavenly, supernal, celestial.

~Godly~, a. Pious, holy, righteous, religious, devout, saintly, saint-like, heavenly-minded.

~Go down~, ~1.~ Descend.

~2.~ Be swallowed.

~3.~ (Low.) Be received, be admitted, pass current.

~4.~ Fail, come to nothing, come to nought.

~Godsend~, n. Windfall, unexpected gift, good luck, piece of good fortune, piece of good luck.

~Godship~, n. Deity, divinity, godhead.

~Go for~, ~1.~ Pass for, be taken for, pass current for.

~2.~ [Colloquial U. S.] Favor, support, be in favor of, GO IN FOR.

~Go for nothing~, Be of no use, have no effect or efficacy.

~Go forth~, ~1.~ Issue, go out.

~2.~ Get abroad, become public.

~Goggle~, v. n. Roll the eyes.

~Goggle~, n. Stare, owlish look, strained look.

~Goggled~, a. Staring (as a full or prominent eye), rolling.

~Goggle-eye~, n. ~1.~ Rolling eye, staring eye.

~2.~ Strabismus, squinting.

~Go halves~, [Colloquial.] Share equally.

~Go hard with~, Be disastrous to, have serious consequences for.

~Go heels overhead~, Make or turn a somerset.

~Going on~, ~1.~ Proceeding, advancing.

~2.~ Progressing, in progress, in hand.

~Goings on~, [Colloquial.] Proceedings, conduct.

~Go in for~, [Colloquial.] Favor, support, GO FOR.

~Goitre~, n. [Written also Goiter.] Bronchocele, enlargement of the thyroid gland.

~Go it blind~, [Low.] Act without caution, proceed recklessly, leap without looking, leap in the dark.

~Gold-cup~, n. King-cup, buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus).

~Golden~, a. ~1.~ Of gold.

~2.~ Bright, shining, splendid, resplendent, brilliant.

~3.~ Yellow, of a gold color.

~4.~ Excellent, precious, of great value.

~5.~ Auspicious, favorable, opportune, propitious.

~Golden-robbin~, n. Hang-bird, BALTIMORE ORIOLE.

~Goldylocks~, n. Cudweed, everlasting, IMMORTELLE.

~Gonorrhœa~, n. (Med.) Clap, venereal disease.

~Good~, a. ~1.~ Advantageous, beneficial, useful, profitable, serviceable.

~2.~ Suitable, fit, proper, convenient, admirable, not bad, well adapted.

~3.~ Virtuous, upright, religious, pious, righteous, worthy, dutiful.

~4.~ Excellent, valuable, precious, sterling, capital.

~5.~ Kind, benevolent, humane, friendly, favorable, gracious, merciful, obliging, well-disposed.

~6.~ Unblemished, unimpeached, untarnished, unsullied, immaculate, fair, honorable.

~7.~ Companionable, social, genial, lively, cheerful.

~8.~ Able, skilful, ready, expert, dextrous, well qualified.

~9.~ Competent (pecuniarily), of established credit.

~10.~ Pleasant, agreeable, gratifying, cheering.

~11.~ Considerable, great, not small, not insignificant.

~12.~ Real, true, serious, not feigned.

~Good~, n. ~1.~ Benefit, advantage, profit, gain, utility.

~2.~ Welfare, weal, prosperity, interest.

~3.~ Righteousness, virtue, moral qualities.

~4.~ Just actions, moral works.

~5.~ Abundance, richness, best fruits.

~Good-breeding~, n. POLITENESS, civility, courtesy, urbanity, affability, good manners.

~Good-by~, n. or interj. Farewell, adieu.

~Good-bye~, n. or interj. Farewell, adieu.

~Good cheer~, Bountiful fare, high living, plenty to eat and drink.

~Good fellow~, Boon companion, pleasant companion.

~Good-fellowship~, n. Companionableness, sociability, merry society, pleasant company.

~Good fortune~, Prosperity, success, good luck.

~Good graces~, Friendship, favor.

~Good heed~, Great care, due caution.

~Good humor~, Cheerfulness, cheer, joyousness, good spirits, cheerful flow of spirits.

~Good-humored~, a. Cheerful, buoyant, good-natured, good-tempered, of a placid temper.

~Good luck~, Prosperity, success, good fortune.

~Goodly~, a. ~1.~ Beautiful, graceful, comely, good-looking.

~2.~ Pleasant, happy, agreeable, desirable.

~3.~ Considerable, pretty large.

~Goodman~, n. ~1.~ Gaffer.

~2.~ Husband, master of the house.

~Good-nature~, n. Benevolence, kindness, amiability, benignity, good will, good feeling, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling.

~Good-natured~, a. Benevolent, kind, amiable, humane, obliging, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, good-tempered, good-humored.

~Goodness~, n. ~1.~ Excellence, value, worth.

~2.~ Righteousness, virtue, integrity, uprightness, probity, honesty, principle.

~3.~ Kindness, benevolence, good will.

~Good offices~, Mediation, intervention, assistance, aid, help.

~Good opinion~, Approbation, esteem, regard, favorable opinion, golden opinion.

~Goods~, n. pl. ~1.~ Movables, effects, chattels, furniture.

~2.~ Commodities, wares, merchandise.

~Good sense~, Good judgment, sound understanding.

~Good-tempered~, a. Amiable, GOOD-NATURED.

~Good turn~, Service, kind office, act of kindness.

~Good-wife~, n. Good-woman, goody, gammer.

~Good will~, ~1.~ Benevolence, kindness, GOOD-NATURE.

~2.~ Earnestness, heartiness, ardor, zeal.

~3.~ (Law.) Custom (of an established place of business), patronage.

~Good-woman~, n. GOOD-WIFE.

~Goody~, n. Gammer, GOOD-WIFE.

~Go off~, ~1.~ Depart, go away, be off.

~2.~ Explode, be discharged.

~Go on~, ~1.~ Proceed, advance, go ahead, move forward.

~2.~ Progress, make progress, get along.

~3.~ Continue, persist, persevere, keep on, hold out.

~4.~ Be put on (as a garment), be drawn on.

~Go on a fool's errand~, Go on a wild-goose chase, GO A WOOL-GATHERING.

~Go on a sleeveless errand~, GO A WOOL-GATHERING.

~Go on a wild-goose chase~, GO A WOOL-GATHERING.

~Go one's way~, Depart, take one's departure, move on, set forth, jog on, be off.

~Go on tick~, Run up a bill, run up a score, get trusted.

~Goosander~, n. Dish-washer, wagtail, dun-diver (Mergus merganser or Mergus castor).

~Goose~, n. ~1.~ Tailor's smoothing iron.

~2.~ Simpleton, fool, DUNCE.

~Goose-grass~, n. Cleavers, hariff, catch-weed, scratch-weed (Galium aparine).

~Go out~, ~1.~ Issue, go forth.

~2.~ Go abroad, go out of doors.

~3.~ Expire, become extinct, be extinguished, be quenched, be put out.

~Go over~, ~1.~ Read (cursorily), peruse, run over.

~2.~ Examine, review.

~3.~ Study, revolve, think over.

~4.~ Pass over, change sides.

~Gopher~, n. ~1.~ Mulo, pouched rat (Pseudostoma bursarius or Geomys bursarius).

~2.~ Prairie squirrel.

~Gor-cock~, n. Red grouse, red ptarmigan, red game, moor-cock (Lagopus Scoticus).

~Gor-crow~, n. Carrion crow, common crow (Corvus corone).

~Gore~, n. ~1.~ Blood, clotted blood.

~2.~ Gusset, triangular piece (of cloth, &c.).

~Gore~, v. a. ~1.~ Stab, pierce.

~2.~ Piece with a gore.

~Gorge~, n. Ravine, defile, notch.

~Gorge~, v. a. ~1.~ Swallow, devour, eat heartily.

~2.~ Glut, satiate, cram, stuff, fill full, fill to repletion.

~Gorge~, v. n. Feed, eat greedily.

~Gorgeous~, a. Showy, splendid, shining, glittering, brilliant, dazzling, resplendent, magnificent, fine, rich, superb.

~Gorgon~, n. Spectre, hobgoblin, ogre, POKER, BUGABOO, HYDRA, frightful object.

~Gormand~, n. [Written also and usually Gourmand.] Glutton, gormandizer, epicure.

~Gormandize~, v. n. Gorge, stuff, eat greedily, feed ravenously.

~Gormandizer~, n. Glutton, gourmand, epicure.

~Gorse~, n. Furze, whin, goss (Ulex europæus).

~Gory~, a. Bloody, ensanguined.

~Gosling~, n. Young goose.

~Go snacks~, Share together, share and share alike.

~Gospel~, n. ~1.~ [With The prefixed.] Christianity, revelation by Christ, Christian religion, divine revelation, the cross.

~2.~ History of Christ (as given in the New Testament by one evangelist or collectively by all).

~3.~ Doctrine, creed, principle of action.

~Goss~, n. Furze, GORSE.

~Gossamery~, a. Light, flimsy, unsubstantial.

~Gossip~, n. ~1.~ Tattler, babbler, chatterer, gadabout, idle talker.

~2.~ Chat, chitchat, tattle, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, small talk, idle talk.

~Gossip~, v. n. Chat, tattle, prate, prattle, gabble, clack, cackle, talk idly.

~Gothamist~, n. Blunderer, wiseacre, witling, pretender to wisdom, man of small wit.

~Gothic~, a. Rude, barbaric, barbarous.

~Gothic~, n. Gothic language.

~Gothicism~, n. ~1.~ Gothic idiom.

~2.~ Rudeness, barbarism, incivility.

~Go through~, ~1.~ Execute, accomplish, finish.

~2.~ Bear, endure, undergo, suffer.

~Go through with~, Do thoroughly, execute effectually.

~Go to loggerheads~, Come to blows, fall to loggerheads.

~Go to pot~, [Colloquial.] Go to destruction, be destroyed, be ruined, go to the dogs, go by the board, go to rack and ruin.

~Go to war~, Fight, war, contend (in arms), take up arms, take up the cudgel, appeal to arms, wage war, draw the sword, unsheath the sword, come to blows, measure swords, give battle, join battle, enter the lists, couch one's lance, take the field, let slip the dogs of war, fight it out, take up the hatchet.

~Gouge~, n. ~1.~ Hollow chisel.

~2.~ [Colloquial.] Cheat, trick, imposture, imposition, deception, fraud, stratagem, artifice, chouse.

~3.~ [Colloquial.] Trickster, impostor, rogue, knave, swindler, sharper, cheat, cheater.

~Gourd-worm~, n. Fluke, fluke-worm.

~Gourmand~, n. [Written also, but less commonly, Gormand.] Glutton, gormandizer, epicure.

~Gout~ (goo), n. [Fr.] Taste, relish, flavor, smack, savor, gusto, zest.

~Gout~, n. PODAGRA.

~Gouty~, a. Podagric, podagrical.

~Govern~, v. a. ~1.~ Conduct, manage, supervise, regulate, have the direction of, have the charge of.

~2.~ Direct, guide, steer.

~3.~ Control, restrain, curb, bridle, rule, sway, command.

~Govern~, v. n. Rule, have control, exercise authority, hold the reins, bear sway, have the charge.

~Governable~, a. Controllable, manageable.

~Governante~, n. GOVERNESS.

~Governess~, n. Governante, instructress, tutoress.

~Government~, n. ~1.~ Rule, management, regulation, conduct.

~2.~ Direction, guidance.

~3.~ Control, restraint, sway, dominion.

~4.~ Polity, commonwealth, state, form of sovereignty, body politic.

~5.~ Administration, body of executive officers, ruling power, powers that be.

~Governor~, n. ~1.~ Ruler, director, manager, comptroller, superintendent, overseer.

~2.~ Executive, chief magistrate.

~3.~ Tutor, instructor, guardian.

~Go your way~, Avaunt, aroynt, begone, be off, get you gone, go along, off with you, get along with you, go about your business.

~Grab~, v. a. [Low.] Snatch, clutch, seize violently, gripe suddenly.

~Grace~, n. ~1.~ Favor, kindness, condescension, benignity, love, good-will.

~2.~ Divine goodness or favor, divine influence, God's love.

~3.~ Piety, devotion, devoutness, holiness, religion, sanctity.

~4.~ Pardon, forgiveness, mercy.

~5.~ Elegance, polish, refinement, accomplishment.

~6.~ Beauty, symmetry, comeliness, gracefulness, ease.

~7.~ Short prayer (over food at table).

~8.~ (Music.) Embellishment (appoggiatura, shake, trill, turn).

~Grace~, v. a. ~1.~ Adorn, decorate, beautify, embellish, deck.

~2.~ Dignify, honor.

~Graceful~, a. ~1.~ Elegant, comely, becoming, beautiful.

~2.~ Easy, natural, unlabored.

~Graceless~, a. Depraved, degenerate, corrupt, profligate, reprobate, dissolute, abandoned, lost, shameless, obdurate, hardened, incorrigible, irreclaimable, wicked.

~Gracious~, a. ~1.~ Benevolent, benignant, favorable, kind, friendly, merciful, condescending, compassionate, tender, lenient, mild, gentle.

~2.~ Affable, familiar, courteous, civil, polite, easy.

~Gradation~, n. Regular progress (step by step), regular progression.

~Grade~, n. ~1.~ Rank, degree, step, stage.

~2.~ Gradient, rate of ascent or of descent (as on a railroad).

~Gradient~, n. Grade, rate of ascent or of descent.

~Gradual~, a. Regular (step by step), progressive, slow.

~Gradually~, ad. Regularly, slowly, by degrees, step by step, little by little, by little and little.

~Graduate~, v. a. ~1.~ Mark with degrees, divide into regular intervals.

~2.~ Adjust, adapt, proportion, regulate.

~Graduate~, v. n. Take a degree, receive a diploma.

~Gradus~, n. Dictionary of prosody, prosodial dictionary.

~Graff~, n. Ditch, moat, fosse.

~Graft~, n. Shoot (inserted in another tree), scion, sprout.

~Graft~, v. a. Ingraft.

~Grain~, n. ~1.~ Seed, kernel, matured ovule.

~2.~ Corn (wheat, rye, oats, barley, maize, &c.).

~3.~ Particle, atom, bit, scrap, jot, whit, mite, ace, iota, tittle, scintilla, trace, spark, shadow, glimmer.

~4.~ Twentieth part of a scruple, twenty-fourth part of a pennyweight.

~5.~ Fibre, texture.

~6.~ Temper, disposition, humor.

~7.~ Dye, tint, color, stain, tinge, hue, shade, tincture.

~Grallæ~, n. pl. [L.] Waders, wading birds, grallatores.

~Grallatores~, n. pl. [L.] GRALLÆ.

~Gramineous~, a. Grassy.

~Graminaceous~, a. Grassy.

~Graminivorous~, a. Grass-eating, phytivorous, phytophagous.

~Grammar~, n. ~1.~ Accidence, science of language, laws or rules of language, theory of human speech.

~2.~ Propriety of speech, right use of language, art of speaking or writing correctly.

~3.~ Treatise on grammar, manual or handbook of grammar, grammatical text-book.

~Grammarian~, n. Adept in grammar.

~Granary~, n. Garner, corn-house.

~Grand~, a. ~1.~ Stately, lordly, princely, august, majestic, exalted, elevated, dignified, eminent, illustrious, great, high in power, of great dignity.

~2.~ Magnificent, splendid, superb, glorious, noble, sublime, lofty.

~3.~ Principal, chief, superior.

~Grand-duke~, n. ~1.~ Sovereign prince.

~2.~ (Zool.) Great horned owl (Bubo maximus).

~Grandee~, a. Nobleman, noble, lord.

~Grandeur~, n. ~1.~ Greatness, sublimity.

~2.~ Majesty, loftiness, stateliness, state, dignity, pomp, magnificence, augustness, splendor.

~Grandfather~, n. Grandsire, grandpapa.

~Grandiloquence~, n. Bombast, fustian, turgidity, lofty language, high-sounding words, lofty style of speech.

~Grandiloquent~, a. Bombastic, turgid, tumid, swelling, inflated, stilted, pompous, declamatory, rhetorical, high-sounding, high- flowing, HIGHFALUTIN.

~Grand-juror~, n. Grand-juryman.

~Grand-juryman~, n. Grand-juror.

~Grandmamma~, n. Grandmother.

~Grandmother~, n. Grandmamma.

~Grand-vizier~, n. Chief vizier.

~Grant~, v. a. ~1.~ Admit, allow, concede, cede, yield.

~2.~ GIVE (in answer to a request), bestow, CONFER, vouchsafe, deign.

~3.~ (Law.) Convey (by deed), transfer, make conveyance of.

~Grant~, n. ~1.~ Gift, boon, donation, benefaction, bounty, largess, present, concession.

~2.~ (Law.) Conveyance, cession.

~Granulate~, v. a. Form into grains, reduce to grains.

~Granulate~, v. n. Be formed into grains.

~Granule~, n. Small grain, small particle.

~Grape~, n. Fruit of the vine.

~Grape-sugar~, n. Glucose, starch-sugar.

~Graphic~, a. Vivid, lively, picturesque, well drawn, well delineated.

~Graphical~ a. Vivid, lively, picturesque, well drawn, well delineated.

~Graphite~, n. Plumbago, black-lead.

~Grapple~, v. a. Seize, gripe, grasp, catch, clasp, clutch, lay hold of.

~Grapple with~, Struggle with, engage with, close with, contend with (in close fight).

~Grapple~, n. ~1.~ Close hug, close fight.

~2.~ Grappling-irons.

~Grappling-irons~, n. pl. Grapple.

~Grasp~, v. a. Clasp, gripe, seize, clinch, clutch, catch, grapple, lay hold of.

~Grasp at~, Catch at, try to seize.

~Grasp~, n. ~1.~ Clasp, gripe.

~2.~ Hold, possession.

~3.~ Reach, power of seizing or of comprehending.

~Grasping~, a. Avaricious, covetous, miserly, niggardly, penurious, parsimonious, close, stingy, mean, sordid, close-fisted, with an itching palm.

~Grass-eating~, a. Graminivorous, phytivorous, phytophagous.

~Grass-plot~, n. Lawn, green.

~Grassy~, a. Gramineous, graminaceous.

~Grate~, v. a. ~1.~ Rub, scrape, abrade.

~2.~ Rasp, comminute, reduce to particles by rubbing.

~Grate~, v. n. Be irritating, be disagreeable, be offensive.

~Grateful~, a. ~1.~ THANKFUL, obliged, indebted, beholden, under obligation.

~2.~ Agreeable, pleasing, pleasant, gratifying, acceptable, delightful, welcome, charming.

~3.~ Delicious, palatable, savory, nice, luscious, cordial, refreshing, invigorating.

~Gratification~, n. ~1.~ Gratifying, pleasing.

~2.~ Delight, satisfaction, enjoyment, pleasure, fruition.

~3.~ Reward, recompense.

~Gratify~, v. a. Please, indulge, satisfy, humor, delight, give pleasure to, make glad.

~Gratifying~, a. Pleasing, agreeable, welcome.

~Grating~, a. Harsh, irritating, displeasing, disagreeable, offensive.

~Gratis~, ad. [L.] Gratuitously, freely, for nothing.

~Gratitude~, n. Thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation.

~Gratuitous~, a. ~1.~ Voluntary, free, spontaneous, of one's own accord.

~2.~ Unwarranted, unfounded, groundless, without proof.

~Gratuity~, n. Present, gift, donation, benefaction, bounty, largess, grant, free gift.

~Gratulation~, n. Congratulation, felicitation.

~Gratulatory~, a. Congratulatory.

~Grave~, v. a. ~1.~ Engrave, imprint, infix, impress deeply.

~2.~ Carve, form by cutting.

~Grave~, n. Pit (for a dead body), sepulchre, tomb, ossuary, charnel-house, narrow house, long home.

~Grave~, a. ~1.~ Important, weighty, momentous, cogent, of great consequence.

~2.~ Sober, serious, sedate, thoughtful, demure, staid, solemn.

~3.~ Plain, not showy, not tawdry.

~4.~ (Music.) Deep, not acute, low in pitch.

~Grave-clothes~, n. pl. Shroud, winding-sheet.

~Gravel~, n. Sand, grit, small pebbles.

~Gravel~, v. a. ~1.~ Cover with gravel.

~2.~ Puzzle, embarrass, perplex, bewilder, stagger, pose, nonplus, put out.

~Graver~, n. ~1.~ Engraver.

~2.~ Burin, engraving tool.

~Graveyard~, n. Cemetery, necropolis, mortuary, churchyard, burial- ground, burying-ground.

~Gravitate~, v. n. Tend by gravity.

~Gravitation~, n. Gravity, centripetal force, attraction of gravitation.

~Gravity~, n. ~1.~ Heaviness, weight.

~2.~ Gravitation, centripetal force, attraction of gravitation.

~3.~ Sobriety, seriousness, sedateness, thoughtfulness, demureness.

~4.~ Importance, moment.

~Gray~, a. Hoary, black and white.

~Grayish~, a. Grizzly, grizzled, somewhat gray.

~Graze~, v. n. Eat grass, feed upon grass.

~Graze~, v. a. ~1.~ Feed with grass.

~2.~ Feed upon, eat grass from.

~3.~ Shave, scrape, skim, touch lightly (in passing over).

~Grease~, n. ~1.~ Unctuous matter (lard, tallow, &c.).

~2.~ (Farriery.) Scratches.

~Grease~, v. a. ~1.~ Smear with grease.

~2.~ Bribe, give a douceur to.

~Greasy~, a. Unctuous, fat, fatty, oily, adipose, sebaceous, oleaginous.

~Great~, a. ~1.~ Large, big, vast, huge, bulky, ample, immense, gigantic, Herculean, Cyclopean, enormous.

~2.~ Much, excessive, high.

~3.~ Numerous, countless.

~4.~ Considerable, important, weighty.

~5.~ Distinguished, eminent, prominent, exalted, elevated, excellent, noted, illustrious, celebrated, famous, famed, renowned, far-famed.

~6.~ Grand, august, dignified, noble, majestic, sublime.

~7.~ Magnanimous, generous, chivalrous, high-minded.

~8.~ Sumptuous, rich, magnificent.

~9.~ Hard, difficult, onerous, burdensome, grievous.

~10.~ Chief, principal.

~11.~ Superior, pre-eminent.

~Great~, n. [With The prefixed.] Great persons, persons of rank, people of distinction.

~Great bear~, n. [With The prefixed.] Charles's Wain, The Wain, URSA MAJOR.

~Great-bellied~, a. Abdominous, large-bellied, big-bellied, pot- bellied, tun-bellied.

~Greatest good~, Supreme good, SUMMUM BONUM.

~Great-hearted~, a. Noble, magnanimous, generous, chivalrous, high- spirited, high-minded.

~Greatness~, n. ~1.~ Largeness, magnitude, size, bulk, dimensions.

~2.~ High degree.

~3.~ Distinction, eminence, elevation, fame, renown.

~4.~ Dignity, augustness, majesty, sublimity.

~5.~ Magnanimity, generosity, nobleness, disinterestedness, chivalrous spirit.

~Grecian~, a. GREEK.

~Grecian~, n. ~1.~ Greek, native of Greece.

~2.~ Adept in Greek, proficient in the Greek language, Greek scholar.

~Grecism~, n. Greekism, Hellenism.

~Greed~, n. Eagerness, longing, GREEDINESS.

~Greediness~, n. ~1.~ Voracity, ravenousness, gluttony, rapacity, excessive hunger.

~2.~ Eagerness, longing, greed, avidity, intense desire.

~Greedy~, a. ~1.~ Voracious, ravenous, gluttonous, rapacious, insatiable, insatiate, very hungry.

~2.~ Eager, very desirous.

~Greedy-gut~, n. [Low.] Glutton, gormandizer, gourmand, gobbler.

~Greek~, a. ~1.~ Of Greece.

~2.~ Grecian, classic, classical, after the Greek, in the manner of Greece.

~Greek~, n. ~1.~ Grecian, native of Greece.

2~.~ Greek language.

~Green~, a. ~1.~ Verdant.

~2.~ Flourishing, blooming, fresh, undecayed.

~3.~ New, recent.

~4.~ Unripe, not fully grown, immature.

~5.~ Inexperienced, unskilful, inexpert, ignorant, raw.

~6.~ Unseasoned, not dry.

~Green~, n. ~1.~ Blue and yellow.

~2.~ Lawn, grass-plot, grassy plain.

~Greenbone~, n. GAR-FISH, sea-pike.

~Green-broom~, n. Green-weed, dyer's-weed (Genista tinctoria).

~Greenfinch~, n. Green grossbeak (Coccothraustes chloris).

~Greenhorn~, n. [Colloquial.] Novice, inexperienced youth, raw hand.

~Greenhouse~, n. Conservatory.

~Greenness~, n. ~1.~ Verdancy, viridity.

~2.~ Vigor, freshness.

~3.~ Unripeness, immaturity.

~Green-sickness~, n. CHLOROSIS.

~Green-vitriol~, n. Copperas, sulphate of iron (crystallized).

~Green-weed~, n. Green-broom, dyer's weed (Genista tinctoria).

~Greet~, v. a. ~1.~ Salute, welcome, hail, address, accost.

~2.~ Compliment, send greeting to.

~Greeting~, n. ~1.~ Salutation, welcome, salute.

~2.~ Compliment, expression of goodwill.

~Grewsome~, a. [Scottish.] Frightful, ugly, terrible.

~Greylag~, n. Wild goose (Anser ferus).

~Grenatite~, n. Cross-stone, stanrotide, stanrolite.

~Grief~, n. ~1.~ Sorrow, regret, affliction, distress, tribulation, woe, sadness, bitterness, anguish, misery, agony, heartache, heavy heart, bleeding heart, broken heart, pain of mind, mental suffering.

~2.~ Trial, grievance, cause of sorrow.

~Grievance~, n. ~1.~ Hardship, wrong, injury, burden, oppression.

~2.~ Grief, trial, cause of sorrow.

~Grieve~, v. a. Afflict, pain, hurt, or wound the feelings of, make sorrowful.

~Grieve~, v. n. Sorrow, mourn, lament, bewail, feel regret.

~Grievous~, a. ~1.~ Distressing, afflictive, afflicting, painful, sad, deplorable, lamentable, hard to bear.

~2.~ Hurtful, injurious, baneful, noxious, mischievous, detrimental, destructive, calamitous.

~3.~ Atrocious, heinous, flagitious.

~Grim~, a. ~1.~ Fierce, ferocious, ruthless, cruel, savage.

~2.~ Frightful, horrible, hideous, grisly, appalling, dire, horrid, terrific, dreadful, of forbidding look.

~Grimace~, n. Distortion of countenance, wry face.

~Grim-faced~, a. Grim-visaged.

~Grim-visaged~, a. Grim-faced.

~Grin~, v. n. Show the teeth (in laughing, expressing scorn, &c).

~Grin at~, Ridicule, deride, mock at, scoff at, jeer at, laugh at.

~Grind~, v. a. ~1.~ Triturate, pulverize, bruise, bray, CRAZE, comminute by attrition.

~2.~ Sharpen (by rubbing).

~3.~ Grate, rub together.

~4.~ Oppress, harass, persecute, plague, trouble, afflict, be hard upon.

~Grinder~, n. Molar, molar tooth, jaw tooth, double tooth.

~Grindery~, n. [England.] Shoemakers' materials.

~Grindery-warehouse~, n. Finding-store, store for the sale of shoemakers' materials.

~Grip~, n. [Low.] Grasp, gripe, clutch, clasp.

~Gripe~, v. a. ~1.~ Seize, clutch, grasp, clasp, snatch, lay hold of.

~2.~ Press, compress, squeeze, pinch, hold fast.

~3.~ Pain, distress, pinch, straighten, give pain to.

~Gripe~, n. ~1.~ Grasp, clutch, hold, seizure.

~2.~ Affliction, distress, griping, pinching.

~Griping~, n. ~1.~ Seizure, grasping.

~2.~ Colic, gripes, pain in the bowels.

~3.~ Affliction, distress, gripe.

~Gripes~, n. pl. Colic, griping, belly-ache, pain in the bowels.

~Grippe~, n. [Fr.] Catarrh, influenza.

~Grisly~, a. Frightful, horrible, horrid, terrific, hideous, appalling, dreadful, grim.

~Gristle~, n. Cartilage.

~Gristly~, a. Cartilaginous.

~Grit~, n. ~1.~ Bran.

~2.~ Sand, gravel, small pebbles.

~3.~ Gritstone, gritrock.

~Gritrock~, n. Gritstone, grit.

~Grits~, n. pl. Groats, hulled oats, or hulled wheat.

~Gritstone~, n. Grit, gritrock.

~Gritty~, a. Sandy.

~Grizzled~, a. Grayish, grizzly.

~Grizzly~, a. Grayish, grizzled, somewhat gray, a little gray.

~Groan~, v. n. Moan.

~Groat~, n. Fourpence.

~Groats~, n. pl. Grits, hulled oats, or hulled wheat.

~Groceries~, n. pl. [U. S.] GROCERY, grocers' commodities.

~Grocery~, n. ~1.~ [England.] GROCERIES.

~2.~ [U. S.] Grocer's shop.

~Groggery~, n. Grog-shop, dram-shop, liquor-shop.

~Groggy~, a. [Low.] Tipsy, intoxicated, inebriated, DRUNK.

~Grog-shop~, n. GROGGERY.

~Groom~, n. ~1.~ Waiter, servant, valet.

~2.~ Stable-servant, hostler.

~3.~ Bridegroom.

~Groove~, n. Furrow, channel.

~Grope~, v. n. Feel one's way (as in the dark), pick one's way.

~Gross~, a. ~1.~ Large, big, bulky, great.

~2.~ Dense, thick, not attenuated.

~3.~ Coarse, rough, rude, unrefined, indelicate, sensual, impure, vulgar, low, broad.

~4.~ Enormous, flagrant, shameful, unseemly, unbecoming, outrageous.

~5.~ Palpable, manifest, glaring.

~6.~ Whole, total, entire.

~Gross~, n. ~1.~ Whole, total, aggregate, gross amount, sum total.

~2.~ Twelve dozen.

~Grossness~, n. ~1.~ Greatness, bulkiness, bigness.

~2.~ Density, thickness.

~3.~ Coarseness, rudeness, indelicacy, vulgarity, impurity, want of refinement.

~Grot~, n. Cave, cavern, grotto.

~Grotesque~, a. Fantastic, fanciful, odd, whimsical, extravagant, unnatural, wild, strange, BIZARRE.

~Grotto~, n. Grot, cave, cavern.

~Ground~, n. ~1.~ Soil, earth, clod, turf, sod, loam, mould, surface of land.

~2.~ Region, territory, country, land, domain.

~3.~ Estate, acres, field, real property, landed estate.

~4.~ Foundation, support, base, basis, groundwork.

~5.~ Motive, consideration, reason, cause, inducement, account.

~Ground~, v. a. ~1.~ Place on the ground.

~2.~ Found, establish, base, fix, set.

~Ground~, v. n. Run aground, get aground.

~Ground-hog~, n. Woodchuck, American marmot (Arctomys monax).

~Ground-ice~, n. Anchor-ice.

~Ground-ivy~, n. Gill, alehoof.

~Ground-nut~, n. ~1.~ Pig-nut, hawk-nut, earth-nut, earth-chestnut (Bunium flexuosum).

~2.~ Peanut, earth-nut (Arachis hypogæa).

~3.~ Wild bean (Apios tuberosa).

~4.~ Dwarf ginseng (Aralia trifolia or Panax trifolium).

~Ground-plate~, n. Sill, ground-sill, groundsel.

~Grounds~, n. pl. Lees, dregs, sediment, grouts, precipitate, settlings.

~Ground-sill~, a. Sill, ground-plate.

~Groundsel~, a. Sill, ground-plate.

~Ground-squirrel~, n. Chipmunk.

~Groundwork~, n. ~1.~ Base, basis, substratum, foundation, support, bottom, ground.

~2.~ Source, origin, first principle.

~Group~, n. Cluster, collection, assemblage, clump.

~Group~, v. a. Arrange, dispose, assign places to, form into groups.

~Grouse~, n. Heath-game.

~Grouts~, n. pl. Lees, GROUNDS.

~Grouty~, a. [Colloquial.] Sullen, moody, sulky, surly, morose, cross, glum, grum, spleeny, cynical, crabbed, out of humor, out of temper.

~Grove~, n. FOREST, wood, woodland, thicket, copse.

~Grovel~, v. n. Creep, crawl, sneak, fawn, cringe, lie low, lie prone.

~Grovelling~, a. [Written also Groveling.] ~1.~ Creeping, crouching, squat.

~2.~ Low, mean, base, vile, abject, servile, slavish, cringing, fawning, beggarly, sneaking, earth-born.

~Grow~, v. n. ~1.~ Enlarge, increase, expand, extend, be augmented, become (by degrees) greater or larger.

~2.~ Vegetate, sprout, germinate, shoot, pullulate, put forth, shoot up, spring up.

~3.~ Advance, improve, make progress, make improvement.

~4.~ Become, wax, come to be, get to be.

~Grow~, v. a. Raise, produce, cultivate.

~Grower~, n. Producer, cultivator.

~Grow fat~, Batten.

~Growing~, a. Increasing, enlarging.

~Grow out of~, Issue, proceed from, come from.

~Grow up~, Come to maturity.

~Growl~, v. n. Snarl, gnarl, grumble, murmur.

~Growl~, n. Snarl, murmur.

~Growth~, n. ~1.~ Increase, expansion, development.

~2.~ Produce, product.

~3.~ Advancement, advance, progress, improvement.

~Grub~, v. a. Dig, eradicate, dig up, root up, root out, grub up.

~Grub~, v. n. Dig, be meanly employed.

~Grub~, n. ~1.~ Catterpillar, larva.

~2.~ [Colloquial.] FOOD.

~Grub-axe~, n. Mattock, grubbing-hoe.

~Grubbing-hoe~, n. GRUB-AXE.

~Grudge~, v. a. ~1.~ Grant with reluctance, give unwillingly.

~2.~ Envy, begrudge, repine at.

~Grudge~, v. n. ~1.~ Be reluctant, be unwilling.

~2.~ Repine, murmur, grieve, be envious.

~Grudge~, n. Hatred (secretly and persistently entertained), pique, spite, malice, rancor, malevolence, ill-will, inveterate dislike.

~Grudging~, n. ~1.~ Envy.

~2.~ Reluctance, unwillingness, disinclination.

~Gruff~, a. Rough, churlish, rude, uncivil, uncourteous, ungracious, impolite, bluff, blunt, harsh, BRUSQUE.

~Grum~, a. ~1.~ Sour, surly, morose, sullen, crabbed, glum, GROUTY.

~2.~ Guttural (voice), rumbling, deep in the throat.

~Grumble~, v. n. ~1.~ Complain, murmur, repine, croak, find fault.

~2.~ Growl, snarl, gnarl.

~3.~ Rumble, roar.

~Grumbler~, n. Murmurer, complainer, croaker, censurer, fault-finder.

~Grumbling~, n. Complaint, murmuring, repining, fault-finding.

~Grumous~, a. Clotted, concreted, thick.

~Grunter~, n. Hog, pig, swine.

~Guarantee~, n. Surety, security, caution, guaranty.

~Guarantee~, v. a. (Law.) Warrant, insure, guaranty, become surety for, be responsible for, answer for.

~Guarantor~, n. (Law.) Warrantor.

~Guaranty~, v. a. (Law.) Warrant, GUARANTEE.

~Guard~, v. a. Protect, defend, shield, shelter, keep in safety.

~Guard~, v. n. Watch, take care, be cautious, be vigilant.

~Guard~, n. ~1.~ Defence, protection, shield, security, bulwark, rampart, ægis, palladium, safeguard.

~2.~ Sentinel, sentry, watch, watchman.

~3.~ Convoy, escort, conduct, body of defenders.

~4.~ Circumspection, care, watchfulness, caution, attention, heed.

~5.~ Conductor (of a coach or of a railway train).

~Guarded~, a. Cautious, wary, circumspect, watchful, careful.

~Guardian~, n. Warden, keeper, protector, defender, preserver, guardian angel, tutelary saint.

~Guardian~, a. Protecting, tutelary.

~Guardsman~, n. Watchman, sentinel, sentry, guard.

~Guerdon~, n. [Poetical.] Recompense, remuneration, requital, reward.

~Guess~, v. n. ~1.~ Conjecture, divine, surmise, suspect, mistrust.

~2.~ Suppose, think, believe, fancy, imagine, take it, dare say, venture to say.

~Guess~, v. a. Conjecture, divine.

~Guess~, n. Conjecture, surmise, supposition.

~Guest~, n. Visitor, visitant.

~Guffaw~, n. Laugh (boisterous or loud), horse-laugh.

~Guidance~, n. Direction, leadership, lead, conduct, government.

~Guide~, v. a. ~1.~ Lead, conduct, pilot.

~2.~ Direct, rule, govern, manage, regulate, control, steer, preside over, have charge of, take the direction of.

~Guide~, n. ~1.~ Director, conductor, pilot.

~2.~ Mentor, monitor, adviser, counsellor, instructor.

~3.~ CLAVIS, clew.

~Guide-post~, n. Finger-post.

~Guild~, n. Fraternity, association, society, company, corporation, corporate body, joint concern.

~Guile~, n. Cunning, craft, subtlety, artfulness, artifice, duplicity, deceit, deception, trickery, fraud.

~Guileless~, a. Artless, honest, sincere, undesigning, unsophisticated, frank, pure, truthful, candid, ingenuous, open, straightforward, single-minded, open-hearted, simple-hearted, simple- minded.

~Guillemets~, n. pl. Quotation points or marks, marks of quotation, inverted commas.

~Guilt~, n. Criminality, guiltiness, culpability.

~Guiltless~, a. Innocent, sinless, spotless, unspotted, unpolluted, immaculate, unsullied, untarnished, blameless.

~Guilty~, a. Criminal, culpable.

~Guinea~, n. Twenty-one shillings.

~Guinea corn~, Doura, Indian millet, negro-corn (Sorghum vulgare).

~Guinea-fowl~, n. Guinea-hen (Numida meleagris).

~Guinea-hen~, n. GUINEA-FOWL.

~Guise~, n. ~1.~ Appearance, aspect, garb, dress, form, shape, figure, fashion, manner, mode.

~2.~ [Poetical.] Air, mien, demeanor, behavior.

~3.~ Practice, habit, custom, manner, mode.

~Gulch~, n. Ravine (made by running water), gully, CREVASSE.

~Gules~, n. [Her.] Red (represented by perpendicular lines).

~Gulf~, n. ~1.~ Large bay.

~2.~ Abyss.

~Gull~, v. a. Deceive, cheat, dupe, trick, chouse, diddle, cozen, overreach, circumvent, beguile, impose upon.

~Gull~, n. ~1.~ Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, fraud.

~2.~ Dupe, CAT'S-PAW.

~3.~ Mew, cob, seamew, sea-cob.

~Gullet~, n. Œsophagus.

~Gullibility~, n. [Low.] Weak credulity.

~Gullible~, a. [Low.] Credulous, easily duped.

~Gully~, n. GULCH, ravine, CREVASSE.

~Gulp~, v. a. Swallow greedily, BOLT.

~Gumbo~, n. [U. S.] Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus).

~Gum-elastic~, n. Caoutchouc, india-rubber.

~Gumption~, n. ~1.~ [Colloquial.] Shrewdness, TACT, address, sagacity, discernment, skill, cleverness, ability, common sense.

~2.~ Magilp.

~Gum-rash~, n. (Med.) Red-gum.

~Gum-tree~, n. ~1.~ Black-gum, sour-gum (Nyssa multiflora).

~2.~ [U. S.] Sweet-gum, liquid-ambar (Liquid-ambar styraciflora).

~Gun~, n. Fire-arm, BLUNDERBUSS.

~Gun-cotton~, n. Pyroxyline.

~Guns~, n. pl. Fire-arms, CANNON.

~Gurgle~, v. n. Ripple, purl, murmur.

~Gush~, v. n. Spout out, burst forth, rush forth (as a liquid), flow out suddenly.

~Gush~, n. Rush (as of a liquid), sudden efflux or outflow.

~Gusset~, n. Gore.

~Gust~, n. ~1.~ Taste.

~2.~ Relish, zest, liking, gusto.

~3.~ Blast, squall.

~4.~ Burst, outburst, fit, paroxysm.

~Gustable~, a. Relishable, savory, pleasant to the taste, sapid.

~Gusto~, n. Relish, zest, liking, gust.

~Gusty~, a. Stormy, tempestuous, windy, squally, blustering.

~Gut~, n. ~1.~ Intestine.

~2.~ Strait, narrow pass.

~Gut~, v. a. Eviscerate, disembowel, embowel, take out the bowels of.

~Guts~, n. pl. Viscera, intestines, entrails, bowels, inwards.

~Gutta serena~, [L.] (Med.) Amaurosis, drop-serene.

~Gutter~, n. Channel, conduit.

~Guttural~, a. Of the throat.

~Guzzle~, v. n. Drink (greedily or much), carouse, tipple, tope.

~Guzzle~, v. a. Drink (greedily or much), quaff, swill, swig.

~Gymnasium~, n. ~1.~ Place for athletic exercises.

~2.~ School, seminary, academy, high-school.

~Gymnastic~, a. Athletic.

~Gymnastics~, n. pl. Athletic exercises.

~Gypsum~, n. Sulphate of lime (native).

~Gyrate~, v. n. Rotate, revolve, whirl, turn round, wheel round, move in a circle.

~Gyration~, n. Rotation, whirling, revolution, circular motion.

~Gyves~, n. pl. Fetters, shackles, chains.

H

~Habiliment~, n. Dress, garment, clothes, apparel, raiment, vesture, garb, habit, costume, vestment.

~Habit~, n. ~1.~ Condition (of the body), constitution, temperament.

~2.~ Custom (of an individual), usage, wont, practice, habitude, way, manner, second nature.

~3.~ Dress, garb, HABILIMENT.

~Habit~, v. a. Dress, clothe, array, attire, accoutre.

~Habitable~, a. Inhabitable.

~Habitancy~, n. Inhabitancy, residence, legal settlement.

~Habitat~, n. Natural locality (of a plant or an animal).

~Habitation~, n. Abode, dwelling, lodging, domicile, quarters, head- quarters, dwelling-place, place of abode, place of residence.

~Habitual~, a. Usual, customary, accustomed, wonted, common, regular, ordinary, familiar, every-day.

~Habituate~, v. a. Accustom, familiarize, inure, use, train, harden.

~Habitude~, n. Custom, usage, practice, wont, HABIT.

~Hacienda~, n. [Sp.] Plantation, farm, estate.

~Hack~, v. a. Cut (clumsily), hew, chop, mangle, hackle.

~Hack~, n. ~1.~ Notch, cut.

~2.~ Hired horse, worn-out horse.

~3.~ Drudge, over-worked man.

~4.~ Hackney-coach.

~Hack~, a. Hired, mercenary, hireling, hackney.

~Hackee~, n. [U. S.] Chipmunk, striped squirrel.

~Hackle~, v. a. ~1.~ Cut (clumsily), hew, chop, hack, haggle.

~2.~ Hatchel, dress (flax).

~Hackmatack~, n. Tamarack, American larch, black larch (Larix pendula or Larix Americana).

~Hackney~, a. Common, hired, hack.

~Hackney-coach~, n. Hack.

~Hackneyed~, a. ~1.~ Worn out, much used.

~2.~ Common, commonplace, threadbare, trite, stale, beaten.

~Had as lief~, Would as willingly, gladly, or freely, would as lief.

~Hades~, n. Grave, invisible world, region of the dead.

~Had like~, Came near, had nearly, came little short.

~Haft~, n. Handle (of an instrument), stock.

~Hag~, n. Fury, beldam, she-monster, Jezebel, virago, vixen, ugly old woman.

~Haggard~, a. ~1.~ Wild, wayward, intractable, unruly, refractory, untamed, not domesticated.

~2.~ Gaunt, lean, meagre, spare, worn, wasted, rawboned.

~Haggish~, a. Ugly, deformed, horrid.

~Haggle~, v. n. Higgle, chaffer, be tedious in a bargain.

~Haggle~, v. a. Cut (clumsily), hew, chop, hack, hackle.

~Hail~, v. a. Salute, greet, welcome, call to.

~Hail-fellow~, n. Intimate, associate, companion.

~Hair-salt~, n. Native sulphate of magnesia.

~Halcyon~, n. Kingfisher.

~Halcyon~, a. Placid, calm, quiet, still, peaceful, tranquil, undisturbed, unruffled, serene, palmy, happy.

~Hale~, a. Healthy, sound, strong, hearty, hardy, robust, well, in good health.

~Half~, n. Moiety.

~Hallelujah~, interj. Hosanna.

~Half-note~, n. Minim, half a semibreve.

~Half-seas-over~, a. [Low.] Fuddled, disguised, boozy, muddled, tipsy, mellow, corned, crapulous, GROGGY, tight, SLEWED, MUZZY, NAPPY, high, somewhat drunk, slightly intoxicated, in liquor, in one's cups, the worse for liquor, THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND, has had a drop too much.

~Half-wit~, n. Blockhead, simpleton, DUNCE.

~Half-witted~, a. Dull, stupid, stolid, doltish, foolish, soft, silly, shallow, sappy, weak-headed, weak-minded, feeble-minded, shallow-brained, blunt-witted, dull-witted, thick-skulled.

~Half-yearly~, a. Semi-annual.

~Half-yearly~, ad. Semi-annually.

~Halicore~, n. (Zoöl.) Dugong.

~Hall~, n. ~1.~ Large room, chamber.

~2.~ Entry (of a house), entrance.

~3.~ Manor-house.

~Hallabaloo~, [Low.] Racket, clamor, din, uproar, hubbub, outcry, vociferation, disturbance.

~Halloo~, v. n. Shout, call, cry out.

~Halloo~, n. Holla, shout, call.

~Hallow~, v. a. ~1.~ Consecrate, sanctify, dedicate, devote, make holy, invest with solemnity.

~2.~ Reverence, honor, respect, venerate, pay homage to, render honor to.

~Hallowed~, a. Holy, sacred, blessed.

~Hallowmas~, n. Feast of All-Souls.

~Hallucination~, n. ~1.~ Error, blunder, mistake, fallacy.

~2.~ Illusion, delusion, monomania, self-deception, phantasm, aberration.

~Halo~, n. ~1.~ Ring (of light).

~2.~ (Painting.) Glory.

~Halt~, v. n. ~1.~ Stop, hold, stand still, stop short, pull up, take breath, lie by, LIE TO.

~2.~ Limp, hobble, walk lamely.

~Halt~, a. Lame, crippled.

~Halt~, n. ~1.~ Stop, stand, stand still.

~2.~ Limp, limping gait.

~Halve~, v. a. ~1.~ Divide into two equal parts, bisect.

~2.~ Scarf (as timbers), join by a scarf.

~Hamadryad~, n. Wood-nymph, nymph of the woods.

~Hamate~, a. (Bot.) Hooked.

~Hamlet~, n. Small village.

~Hammer and tongs~, [Colloquial expression used adverbially.] Strenuously, vigorously, earnestly, zealously, resolutely, energetically, with all one's might, with might and main, TOOTH AND NAIL, PUGNIS ET CALCIBUS, through thick and thin, through fire and water.

~Hammer-fish~, n. Balance-fish, hammer-head, hammer-headed shark (Zygœna vulgaris).

~Hammer-head~, n. HAMMER-FISH.

~Hammock~, n. Swinging bed.

~Hamper~, n. ~1.~ Crate.

~2.~ Fetter, shackle, clog, chain.

~Hamper~, v. a. Shackle, fetter, entangle, clog, encumber, restrain, hinder, impede, clog.

~Hamstring~, v. a. Hough.

~Hand~, n. ~1.~ Palm and fingers, PAW.

~2.~ Palm, four inches (in estimating the height of a horse), hand- breadth.

~3.~ Side (right or left).

~4.~ Skill, ability, talent, faculty, dexterity.

~5.~ Handiwork, workmanship.

~6.~ Mode of procedure.

~7.~ Agency, intervention, participation.

~8.~ Possession, control, power.

~9.~ Laborer, workman, operative, EMPLOYÉ, artisan, artificer, craftsman.

~10.~ Index, pointer, indicator.

~11.~ Chirography, handwriting, style of penmanship.

~Hand in hand~, Conjointly, unitedly, in union.

~Hand to hand~, In close fight.

~Hand and glove~, Very intimate, very friendly, very familiar.

~Hand~, v. a. ~1.~ Give (with the hand), transmit, present, pass by hand.

~2.~ Lead, conduct, guide.

~Hand down~, Transmit in succession.

~Handbook~, n. Manual.

~Hand-breadth~, n. Palm, hand, four inches.

~Handcuff~, n. Manacle, hand-fetter.

~Handcuff~, v. a. Manacle.

~Hand-fetter~, n. Handcuff, manacle.

~Handful~, n. Maniple.

~Handicraft~, n. Manual occupation.

~Handicraftsman~, n. Artisan, mechanic, artificer, workman, hand, craftsman.

~Handiwork~, n. Hand, workmanship, manufacture.

~Handle~, v. a. ~1.~ Touch, feel, feel of.

~2.~ Manage, use, wield.

~3.~ Treat, discuss, discourse on, treat of.

~4.~ Deal with.

~Handle~, n. ~1.~ Haft, stock.

~2.~ BAIL.

~Handmaid~, n. Maid-servant, female servant.

~Handmaiden~, n. Maid-servant, female servant.

~Hands~, n. pl. CLUTCHES.

~Handscrew~, n. Jack.

~Hands off~, Forbear, desist, keep off, don't touch it.

~Handsome~, a. ~1.~ Beautiful (with dignity or grandeur) comely, fair, PRETTY, well-formed, well-proportioned.

~2.~ Generous, liberal, disinterested, noble, magnanimous.

~3.~ Ample, sufficient, plentiful.

~Handwriting~, n. Hand, chirography, style of penmanship.

~Handy~, a. ~1.~ Dexterous, adroit, ready, expert, skilful, skilled, clever.

~2.~ Convenient, near, at hand, close at hand.

~Hang~, v. a. ~1.~ Suspend.

~2.~ Execute (by the halter), hang by the neck.

~3.~ Attach (so as to swing).

~4.~ Incline (the head), decline, bend down, let droop.

~5.~ Drape, adorn with hangings.

~Hang~, v. n. ~1.~ Depend, dangle, be suspended.

~2.~ Incline, droop, tend downwards.

~3.~ Depend, rely, be dependent.

~4.~ Rest, cling.

~5.~ Be held in fixed attention.

~6.~ Hover, float, play.

~Hang around~, Loiter about.

~Hang-back~, Demur, hesitate, be backward, be reluctant.

~Hang fire~, Be long in discharging (said of a gun).

~Hang on~, ~1.~ Rely on, depend on, wait on, dance attendance on.

~2.~ Continue, last, be protracted.

~3.~ Stick, cling, keep hold, hold fast, hold on, stick to.

~Hang out~, Display.

~Hang over~, ~1.~ Project at top, lean over.

~2.~ Threaten, impend over.

~Hang-bird~, n. Baltimore oriole, golden robin (Icterus Baltimore or Oriolus Baltimore).

~Hang-dog~, n. Mean, base, or scurvy fellow.

~Hanger-on~, n. Parasite, dependant, minion, vassal.

~Hanging~, n. ~1.~ Suspension.

~2.~ Death by the halter.

~Hangings~, n. pl. Drapery, tapestry.

~Hang one's head~, Feel ashamed, take shame to one's self, hide one's face, hide one's diminished head, draw in one's horns.

~Hang together~, ~1.~ Keep united, stick together, hold together.

~2.~ [Colloquial.] Be consistent (as the parts of a story).

~Hang up one's fiddle~, [Colloquial.] Quit business, shut up shop, give up one's occupation.

~Hanker after~, Covet, long for, lust for, desire ardently, have a strong desire for.

~Hankering~, n. Longing, craving, strong desire.

~Hap~, n. Chance, fortune, accident, haphazard, luck, casual event.

~Haphazard~, n. Chance, hap.

~Hapless~, a. Luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, wretched, miserable, forlorn, ill-starred, ill-fated.

~Haply~, ad. Perhaps, perchance, possibly, PERADVENTURE, by chance, by accident, maybe, it may be, as luck may have it, as it may turn up, as it may happen.

~Happen~, v. n. Chance, occur, befall, betide, come, take place, turn up, fall out, come to pass.

~Happily~, ad. ~1.~ Luckily, fortunately, by good fortune, as luck would have it.

~2.~ Successfully, prosperously, in a happy manner.

~3.~ Gracefully, dexterously, skilfully, felicitously.

~Happiness~, n. Felicity, bliss, beatitude, blessedness, enjoyment, welfare, well-being, prosperity.

~Happy~, a. ~1.~ Joyous, joyful, blissful, blessed, blest.

~2.~ Pleased, gratified, delighted, rejoiced, glad, gladdened, charmed.

~3.~ Lucky, fortunate, prosperous, successful.

~4.~ Ready, apt, skilful, adroit, dexterous, expert, able.

~5.~ Seasonable, opportune, befitting, pertinent, felicitous, well- timed.

~6.~ Auspicious, propitious, favorable.

~Harangue~, n. Declamatory speech, public address, popular oration.

~Harangue~, v. n. Declaim, spout, make a declamatory speech.

~Harangue~, v. a. Address (in a declamatory style), make an harangue to.

~Harass~, v. a. ~1.~ Fatigue, tire, weary, fag, jade, exhaust, tire out, KNOCK UP.

~2.~ Vex, plague, worry, tease, distress, trouble, molest, disturb, harry, drive from pillar to post.

~Harbinger~, n. Forerunner, precursor, herald.

~Harbor~, n. ~1.~ Asylum, refuge, shelter, covert, sanctuary, retreat, resting-place, place of shelter.

~2.~ Port, haven, harbor, destination.

~Harbor~, v. n. Take shelter, find a harbor.

~Harbor~, v. a. ~1.~ Shelter, lodge, protect.

~2.~ Entertain, cherish, indulge, foster.

~3.~ (Law.) Secrete, receive clandestinely.

~Hard~, a. ~1.~ Firm, solid, compact, impenetrable, unyielding, not soft.

~2.~ Difficult, embarrassing, perplexing, puzzling, knotty, intricate, not easily understood.

~3.~ Laborious, arduous, toilsome, fatiguing, wearying.

~4.~ Unfeeling, unkind, insensible, unsusceptible, cruel, oppressive, rigorous, severe, unyielding, inflexible, callous, obdurate, hard- hearted.

~5.~ Grievous, distressing, calamitous, painful, disagreeable, unpleasant.

~6.~ Inclement, stormy, tempestuous, cold.

~7.~ Harsh, rough, sour, acid.

~8.~ Coarse, unpalatable.

~9.~ Unfavorable, unprosperous, unpropitious.

~10.~ Stiff, constrained, forced, unnatural, ungraceful.

~11.~ Excessive, intemperate.

~Hard~, ad. ~1.~ Close, near.

~2.~ Laboriously, diligently, earnestly, incessantly, energetically.

~3.~ With difficulty, not easily.

~4.~ Distressfully, painfully, severely, rigorously.

~5.~ Vehemently, forcibly, violently.

~Hard-a-lee~, (Naut.) Close to the lee side.

~Hard-a-port~, (Naut.) Close to the larboard side.

~Hard-a-starboard~, (Naut.) Close to the starboard side.

~Hard-a-weather~, (Naut.) Close to the windward side.

~Hard biscuit~, Cracker.

~Hard by~, Close by, very near.

~Hard coal~, Anthracite, glance-coal, blind-coal, stone-coal, CULM.

~Harden~, v. a. ~1.~ Indurate, make hard, make callous.

~2.~ Habituate, inure, season, accustom, form, train, discipline.

~3.~ Strengthen, fortify, steel, nerve, brace.

~4.~ Sear, make callous, render insensible.

~5.~ Make obdurate, confirm in wickedness.

~Harden~, v. n. Grow or become hard.

~Hardened~, v. a. ~1.~ Indurated, made hard.

~2.~ Confirmed, inured, accustomed, habituated, seasoned, trained.

~3.~ Deadened, seared, steeled, unfeeling, benumbed, callous, insensible.

~4.~ Depraved, reprobate, obdurate, impenitent, lost, abandoned, incorrigible, irreclaimable.

~Hard-favored~, a. Ugly, ill-favored, homely, ill-looking, hard- visaged, of coarse features.

~Hard-featured~, a. Ugly, ill-favored, homely, ill-looking, hard- visaged, of coarse features.

~Hard-fisted~, a. Avaricious, covetous, penurious, miserly, niggardly, sordid, stingy, mercenary, mean, close-fisted.

~Hardhack~, n. Steeple-bush (Spiræa tomentosa).

~Hardhead~, n. Menhaden, pauhaugen, moss-bunker.

~Hard-hearted~, a. Cruel, unfeeling, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, unpitying, ruthless, fell, pitiless, relentless, unrelenting, inexorable, barbarous, savage, ferocious, inhuman.

~Hardihood~, n. Firmness, fortitude, resolution, pluck, mettle, manhood, courage, bravery, intrepidity, boldness, audacity, determination, resolution, decision.

~Hardly~, ad. ~1.~ Scarcely, barely, but just, almost not.

~2.~ Severely, rigorously, unkindly, cruelly, roughly.

~Hardness~, n. ~1.~ Firmness, solidity, compactness, impenetrability.

~2.~ Difficulty, perplexity.

~3.~ Scarcity, penury.

~4.~ Hardship, suffering, tribulation.

~Hards~, n. pl. Tow, refuse flax.

~Hardship~, n. ~1.~ Toil, fatigue.

~2.~ Grievance, suffering, trial, affliction, calamity, misfortune, trouble, burden.

~Hard-visaged~, a. Ugly, homely, hard-favored, hard-featured, ill- favored, ill-looking, of coarse features.

~Hardy~, a. ~1.~ Bold, intrepid, resolute, brave, daring, valiant, heroic, manly, courageous, stout-hearted.

~2.~ Strong, robust, firm, stout, lusty, rigorous, healthy, hearty, hale, sound.

~Hare-brained~, a. Rash, reckless, headlong, heedless, careless, wild, unsteady, giddy, volatile, flighty, giddy-brained, HARUM-SCARUM.

~Harfang~, n. Hawk-owl (Surnea nyctea or Strix nyctea), Canada owl.

~Hariff~, n. Cleavers, goose-grass, catch-weed, scratch-weed (Galium aparine).

~Hark~, interj. Hear, listen, give ear.

~Harlequin~, n. Buffoon, jester, droll, mountebank, merry-Andrew, punch, clown, zany, scaramouch, fool, antic, jack-pudding, pickle- herring.

~Harlequinade~, n. Masking, mummery, masquerade, buffoonery, foolery, tomfoolery.

~Harlot~, n. Whore, STRUMPET.

~Harm~, n. ~1.~ Injury, hurt, detriment, damage, prejudice, disadvantage.

~2.~ Evil, mischief, wrong, criminality, wickedness.

~Harm~, v. a. ~1.~ Injure, hurt, damage, do harm to.

~2.~ Maltreat, molest, abuse, ill-use, ill-treat.

~Harmful~, a. Injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, hurtful.

~Harmless~, a. ~1.~ Innoxious, innocuous, not hurtful.

~2.~ Inoffensive, unoffending.

~3.~ Uninjured, unhurt, unharmed.

~Harmonic~, a. ~1.~ Harmonious, concordant, consonant.

~Harmonical~, a. ~1.~ Harmonious, concordant, consonant.

~2.~ Melodious, tuneful, musical.

~Harmonious~, a. ~1.~ Concordant, harmonic, consonant.

~2.~ Melodious, tuneful, musical, dulcet, mellifluous.

~3.~ Correspondent, consistent, congruent, symmetrical.

~4.~ Friendly, amicable, cordial, brotherly, fraternal, neighborly.

~Harmonize~, v. a. ~1.~ Make harmonious.

~2.~ (Music.) Set accompanying parts to.

~Harmonize~, v. n. Accord, agree, correspond, chime, comport, tally, square, quadrate, cohere, be in unison, be harmonious.

~Harmony~, n. ~1.~ Concord (especially of sounds or tones), accord, accordance, consonance, concordance, unison, agreement, chime.

~2.~ Adaptation, correspondence, consistency, congruity, congruence, fitness, suitableness.

~3.~ Peace, amity, friendship, good understanding.

~Harmotome~, n. Cross-stone, staurolite.

~Harness~, n. Tackling.

~Harness~, v. a. Tackle, put in harness.

~Harp~, n. Lyre.

~Harp~, v. n. ~1.~ Play on the harp.

~2.~ Dwell (tediously).

~Harping~, n. ~1.~ Harp-music.

~2.~ Dwelling, repetition, iteration, reiteration.

~Harping-iron~, n. Harpoon.

~Harpoon~, n. Harping-iron.

~Harpooneer~, n. Harpooner.

~Harpooner~, n. Harpooneer.

~Harpseal~, n. Greenland seal (Phoca Grœnlandica).

~Harpy~, n. ~1.~ Duck-hawk, marsh-harrier, moor-buzzard (_Circus æruginosus _).

~2.~ Extortioner, sharper, plunderer.

~Harry~, v. a. Worry, annoy, molest, plague, torment, trouble, tease, vex, harass, fret, gall, chafe, bore, incommode, disturb.

~Harsh~, a. ~1.~ Rough.

~2.~ Sour, acrid, tart, crabbed, hard, biting, sharp, caustic, corrosive.

~3.~ Grating, discordant, jarring.

~4.~ Crabbed, morose, stern, severe, austere, acrimonious, ill- tempered, out of humor, out of temper.

~5.~ Rude, uncivil, bluff, blunt, gruff, ungracious, churlish, bearish, brutal.

~Harshness~, n. ~1.~ Roughness.

~2.~ Austerity, rigor, severity, sternness, crabbedness, moroseness, churlishness, ill-temper, bad blood.

~3.~ Rudeness, incivility, bluntness, bluffness.

~Hart~, n. Stag, male red deer.

~Hartshorn~, n. Carbonate of ammonia (in solution), spirit of hartshorn, liquid ammonia.

~Harum-scarum~, a. [Colloquial.] Volatile, HARE-BRAINED, rash, precipitate, wild.

~Haruspice~, n. Diviner, SOOTHSAYER.

~Harvest~, n. ~1.~ Ingathering.

~2.~ Produce, crops.

~3.~ Effect, product, result, consequence.

~Harvest~, v. a. Gather in.

~Harvest-fly~, n. Locust (popularly but erroneously so called).

~Harvest-man~, n. ~1.~ Laborer in the harvest.

~2.~ Father-long-legs, daddy-long-legs, shepherd-spider.

~Hash~, v. a. Mince, chop.

~Hash~, n. Minced meat, hashed meat.

~Hasp~, n. ~1.~ Clasp (to be put over a staple).

~2.~ Hook.

~Hastate~, a. (Bot.) Spear-shaped.

~Hastated~, a. (Bot.) Spear-shaped.

~Haste~, n. ~1.~ Despatch, promptitude, quickness, expedition, celerity, speed.

~2.~ Hurry, precipitance, vehemence, precipitation.

~Haste~, v. n. Hasten, be quick, make haste.

~Hasten~, v. n. Haste, hurry, move quickly, move speedily, be quick, be in a hurry, make haste, mend one's pace, lose no time, lose not a moment, make the best of one's way, wing one's way, crowd sail, clap spurs to one's horse.

~Hasten~, v. a. Expedite, despatch, speed, accelerate, quicken, precipitate, press on, urge on, urge forward, push forward.

~Hasty~, a. ~1.~ Quick, swift, rapid, fleet, speedy, fast, brisk.

~2.~ Cursory, slight, hurried.

~3.~ Rash, precipitate, headlong, reckless, thoughtless, indiscreet.

~4.~ Passionate, irritable, touchy, testy, pettish, waspish, petulant, peevish, fretful, fiery, choleric, irascible, excitable, hot, peppery.

~Hat~, n. Beaver.

~Hatch~, v. a. ~1.~ Breed (from eggs).

~2.~ Quicken (by incubation or by heat).

~3.~ Concoct, devise, plan, contrive, plot, design, scheme, project, brew, lay out, chalk out, meditate upon.

~Hatch~, n. ~1.~ Brood.

~2.~ Hatchway.

~Hatchel~, v. a. Hackle, dress (flax).

~Hatcher~, n. ~1.~ Incubator.

~2.~ Contriver, projector, deviser.

~Hatchet~, n. Small axe.

~Hatchway~, n. Hatch.

~Hate~, v. a. ~1.~ Bear malice to, owe a grudge to.

~2.~ DETEST, abhor, abominate, loathe, nauseate, shrink from, recoil from.

~Hate~, n. Hatred, detestation, animosity, enmity, hostility, antipathy.

~Hateful~, a. ~1.~ Malignant, malevolent.

~2.~ Abominable, detestable, execrable, horrid, shocking, damnable, accursed.

~3.~ Loathsome, disgusting, nauseous, offensive, foul, repulsive, obnoxious, revolting, vile, abhorrent, repugnant.

~Hatred~, n. ~1.~ Hate, enmity, hostility, disaffection, disfavor, alienation, estrangement, odium, animosity, ill-will, great dislike.

~2.~ Abhorrence, detestation, abomination, horror, loathing, disgust, antipathy, repugnance.

~Hattock~, n. Shock (of corn), stook.

~Haughtiness~, n. Arrogance, disdain, loftiness, HAUTEUR.

~Haughty~, a. Arrogant, disdainful, supercilious, assuming, proud, lofty.

~Haul~, v. a. Drag, draw, pull, tug, tow, lug, trail, take in tow.

~Haul~, n. ~1.~ Pull, tug.

~2.~ Draught.

~Haunch~, n. Hip.

~Haunt~, v. a. Frequent, resort to.

~Haunt~, n. Retreat, resort, den, place much frequented.

~Hautboy~, n. Oboe.

~Hauteur~, n. [Fr.] Haughtiness, arrogance, loftiness, stateliness, disdain, superciliousness, conceit, pride, self-importance, self- conceit.

~Have~, v. a. ~1.~ Hold (whether one's own or not).

~2.~ Possess, own, be in possession of, be seized of.

~3.~ Be favored with.

~4.~ Be the subject of.

~5.~ Regard, consider, esteem.

~6.~ Require, wish, desire.

~7.~ Obtain, acquire, receive, get, gain.

~8.~ Be obliged, be under the necessity.

~9.~ Accept (as husband or as wife), take.

~10.~ Beget, be the parent of.

~Have a bee in the head~, Be a little crazy, be cracked.

~Have a finger in~, Have a share in, be concerned in, have a hand in.

~Have a hand in~, Be concerned in, have a share in, have a finger in.

~Have an eye to~, Pay particular attention to, have especial regard to, not overlook, not lose sight of.

~Have at heart~, Be deeply interested in, be specially anxious about.

~Have done with~, Have no further concern with, be through with, have ceased to be concerned with.

~Have in hand~, Be engaged upon.

~Haven~, n. ~1.~ Harbor, port.

~2.~ Shelter, asylum, place of safety.

~Havoc~, n. Ravage, devastation, destruction, desolation, waste, ruin, spoil, pillage, rapine, spoliation, slaughter, carnage.

~Have on~, Wear.

~Have one's hands full~, Have much to do, be very busy, have much upon one's hands, be under a press of business.

~Have on the hip~, [Colloquial.] Conquer, subdue, vanquish, defeat, overcome, overthrow, overpower, get the better of, prevail over, get the upper hand of, get the whip hand of.

~Have to do with~, Concern one's self with, have concern with, deal with.

~Haw~, v. n. Hesitate (in speaking), stammer, stutter, falter, hum and haw.

~Hawfinch~, n. Grossbeak (Coccothraustes vulgaris).

~Hawk~, n. Falcon.

~Hawk~, v. a. Cry, sell by outcry.

~Hawk-eyed~, a. Sharp-sighted, quick-sighted, keen-eyed, eagle-eyed, lynx-eyed, Argus-eyed.

~Hawk-moth~, n. Death's-head moth.

~Hawk-nut~, n. Ground-nut.

~Hawk-owl~, n. Canada owl, HARFANG.

~Hawthorn~, n. Whitethorn (Cratœgus oxyacantha).

~Hazard~, n. ~1.~ Chance, casualty, accident, fortuitous event.

~2.~ Danger, peril, risk, jeopardy.

~Hazard~, v. a. Venture, adventure, risk, jeopard, peril, imperil, endanger, put in danger, put at hazard.

~Hazardous~, a. Dangerous, perilous, RISKY, unsafe, fraught with danger.

~Haze~, n. ~1.~ Fog, mist.

~2.~ Obscurity, dimness.

~Hazel~, a. Light brown.

~Hazy~, a. Foggy, misty.

~He~, a. Male.

~Head~, n. ~1.~ Seat of the brain, NODDLE.

~2.~ Top, summit, CAPITAL, upper part, acme.

~3.~ Fore part, front part.

~4.~ Commencement, beginning, rise, source, origin.

~5.~ Chief part, principal part.

~6.~ Person, individual.

~7.~ Chief, chieftain, leader, principal, corypheus, commander, master, director, superintendent.

~8.~ First place, place of honor.

~9.~ Understanding, intellect, mind, thought.

~10.~ Topic, subject.

~11.~ Class, division, section, department, category.

~12.~ Height (of water applicable to the driving of a water-wheel).

~Head~, a. ~1.~ Chief, principal, highest, first.

~2.~ (Naut.) Adverse (said of the wind), contrary.

~Head and ears~, Completely, entirely, wholly.

~Head and shoulders~, ~1.~ Violently, by force.

~2.~ By far, by a great deal, by the height of head and shoulders.

~Head~, v. a. ~1.~ Lead, direct, command, govern, rule.

~2.~ Put a head on, fit with a head.

~3.~ Get in front of (in order to stop), intercept, head off.

~Head~, v. n. ~1.~ Form a head (said of a plant).

~2.~ Tend, be pointed, be directed.

~Headache~, n. Cephalalgy.

~Head-foremost~, ad. ~1.~ With the head first.

~2.~ Rashly, hastily, precipitately, headlong.

~Headiness~, n. ~1.~ Rashness, hurry, precipitation.

~2.~ Obstinacy, stubbornness.

~Heading~, n. Title, CAPTION.

~Head-dress~, n. Coiffure.

~Headland~, n. Promontory, cape, foreland.

~Headless~, a. Acephalous.

~Headlong~, ad. Rashly, hastily, precipitately, head-foremost, thoughtlessly, without deliberation.

~Head-master~, n. Principal (of a school).

~Head-money~, n. Poll-tax, capitation-tax.

~Head off~, Intercept, head, get before.

~Head-piece~, n. Helmet, helm, morion.

~Headsman~, n. Executioner.

~Headstone~, n. ~1.~ Corner-stone.

~2.~ Gravestone.

~Headstrong~, a. Stubborn, obstinate, dogged, cantankerous, ungovernable, unruly, intractable, heady, self-willed, cross-grained.

~Head-voice~, n. Falsetto.

~Head-work~, n. Mental labor, intellectual labor.

~Heady~, a. ~1.~ Rash, impetuous, hasty, precipitate.

~2.~ Stubborn, HEADSTRONG.

~Heal~, v. a. ~1.~ Cure, remedy, restore, make sound or whole.

~2.~ Reconcile, compose, settle, make up.

~Heal~, v. n. Be cured, become sound.

~Healds~, n. pl. Heddle.

~Healing~, a. Sanative, curative.

~Health~, n. Soundness, freedom from disease.

~Healthful~, a. Wholesome, salubrious, salutary, healthy, health- giving.

~Health-giving~, a. HEALTHFUL, wholesome.

~Healthy~, a. ~1.~ Sound, hale, hearty, vigorous, well, in good health, in good case.

~2.~ Wholesome, salubrious, salutary, healthful, health-giving.

~Heap~, n. Pile, mass, collection, accumulation.

~Heap~, v. a. ~1.~ Pile, lay in a heap, throw into a heap.

~2.~ Amass, accumulate, heap up.

~Heap up~, Amass, HEAP.

~Hear~, v. a. ~1.~ Perceive by the ear.

~2.~ Give audience to, listen to, attend to.

~3.~ Regard, heed, give heed to.

~4.~ Try, examine judicially.

~Hear~, v. n. ~1.~ Enjoy the sense of hearing.

~2.~ Listen, hearken, attend, give ear.

~3.~ Be told, be informed, have an account.

~Hearing~, n. ~1.~ Sense of hearing.

~2.~ Audience, opportunity to be heard.

~3.~ Trial, judicial examination.

~4.~ Hearing distance.

~Hearken~, v. n. ~1.~ Listen, hear.

~2.~ Attend, give heed, pay regard.

~Hearsay~, n. Rumor, report, fame, bruit, common talk, town talk.

~Heart~, n. ~1.~ Seat of life.

~2.~ Centre, interior, core, kernel, inner part, vital part.

~3.~ Disposition, mind, will, inclination, purpose, intent, affection, passion.

~4.~ Courage, spirit, firmness, fortitude, resolution.

~Heartache~, n. Grief, sorrow, distress, affliction, woe, bitterness, broken heart, heavy heart, bleeding heart.

~Heart-broken~, a. Disconsolate, inconsolable, woebegone, forlorn, miserable, wretched, desolate, cheerless, comfortless, broken-hearted, in despair.

~Heartburn~, n. Cardialgia, cardialgy.

~Heart-burning~, n. Grudge, resentment, spleen, gall, rankling, animosity, secret enmity.

~Hearten~, v. a. Encourage, embolden, animate, inspirit, enhearten, cheer, incite, stimulate, assure, reassure, comfort, console, buoy up.

~Heart-felt~, a. Deep, profound, hearty, cordial, deep-felt, home- felt.

~Hearth~, n. Fireside, home, hearth-stone.

~Hearth-stone~, n. Fireside.

~Heartily~, ad. ~1.~ Sincerely, cordially, from the heart, with all the heart.

~2.~ Vigorously, earnestly, eagerly, ardently, warmly, zealously, with ardor, with zeal, with resolution.

~3.~ Freely, largely, with good appetite.

~Heart's-ease~, n. (Bot.) Pansy (Viola tricolor).

~Heart-shaped~, a. Cordate.

~Heart-stirring~, a. Inspiring, animating.

~Hearty~, a. ~1.~ Zealous, earnest, warm, affectionate, cordial, sincere, heartfelt, unfeigned.

~2.~ Healthy, hale, sound, strong, well, robust, in good health.

~Heat~, n. ~1.~ Caloric.

~2.~ Warmth.

~3.~ Degree of temperature.

~4.~ Excitement, flush, vehemence, impetuosity, violence, passion, fever.

~5.~ Ardor, earnestness, fervor, zeal.

~6.~ Contest, struggle, race.

~Heat~, v. a. ~1.~ Make hot.

~2.~ Excite, flush, make feverish.

~3.~ Warm, animate, rouse.

~Heather~, n. [Scottish.] Heath.

~Heath-cock~, n. Black-grouse, black-game, blackcock (Tetrao tetrix).

~Heathen~, n. & a. Gentile, pagan, heathenish.

~Heathenish~, a. ~1.~ Heathen, pagan, gentile.

~2.~ Barbarous, savage, cruel, inhuman.

~Heathenism~, n. ~1.~ Paganism, gentilism.

~2.~ Barbarism.

~Heath~, n. HEATHER.

~Heathery~, a. Heathy.

~Heath-game~, n. Grouse.

~Heathy~, a. Heathery.

~Heating~, a. Calorific, heat-producing.

~Heat-producing~, a. HEATING.

~Heave~, v. a. ~1.~ Lift, hoist, raise, elevate, raise up.

~2.~ Breathe, force from the breast.

~3.~ Throw, toss, hurl, send, fling.

~Heave~, v. n. ~1.~ Pant.

~2.~ Swell, dilate, expand.

~3.~ Retch, keck, try to vomit.

~4.~ Struggle, strive, make an effort.

~Heave in sight~, (Naut.) Appear, come in sight, become visible, come into view, open to the view.

~Heave~, n. ~1.~ Swell, rising, swelling, heaving.

~2.~ Retching, effort to vomit.

~3.~ Struggle, striving, effort.

~4.~ Fling, throw.

~Heaven~, n. ~1.~ Firmament, sky, welkin, empyrean, celestial sphere, starry heaven, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven.

~2.~ Paradise, Elysium, abode of the blessed.

~3.~ GOD, Jehovah, Lord.

~4.~ Exalted state, state of bliss, great felicity, supreme happiness.

~Heavenly~, a. ~1.~ Celestial, of the firmament, of the visible heavens.

~2.~ Divine, angelic, seraphic, cherubic, godlike.

~Heavenly-minded~, a. Devout, pious, religious, godly, reverent, spiritually-minded.

~Heaviness~, n. ~1.~ Gravity, weight, ponderousness.

~2.~ Oppressiveness, grievousness, severity.

~3.~ Languor, dulness, stupidity, sluggishness.

~4.~ Dejection, depression, sadness, melancholy, despondency, gloom, low spirits, depression of spirits.

~Heaving~, n. ~1.~ Panting.

~2.~ Swell, rising, swelling, heave.

~Heavy~, a. ~1.~ WEIGHTY (with reference to one's strength), ponderous, not light, not easy to lift.

~2.~ Oppressive, grievous, severe, burdensome, cumbersome, afflictive.

~3.~ Dull, sluggish, inert, inactive, stupid, torpid, indolent, slow.

~4.~ Dejected, depressed, sorrowful, sad, gloomy, melancholy, despondent, downcast, down-hearted, low-spirited, crest-fallen, chap- fallen, in low spirits.

~5.~ Onerous, difficult, laborious.

~6.~ Tedious, tiresome, wearisome.

~7.~ Loaded, burdened, encumbered, weighed down.

~8.~ Miry, muddy, cloggy, clayey.

~9.~ Clammy (as bread), not well raised.

~10.~ Stormy, tempestuous, violent, boisterous.

~11.~ Loud, deep, roaring.

~Heavy-spar~, n. Sulphate of baryta (native).

~Hebdomadal~, a. Weekly.

~Hebetate~, v. a. Dull, blunt, stupefy, benumb, make torpid.

~Hebrew~, n. ~1.~ Israelite, Jew.

~2.~ Hebrew language.

~Hebrew~, a. Jewish.

~Hectic~, a. Habitual (as the fever attending consumption), constitutional.

~Hector~, n. Bully, blusterer, swaggerer, noisy fellow.

~Hector~, v. a. ~1.~ Bully, threaten, menace.

~2.~ Vex, tease, annoy, fret, harry, worry, irritate, provoke.

~Hector~, v. n. Bluster, swagger, play the bully.

~Heddle~, n. Healds.

~Hedge~, n. Fence (of bushes or shrubs), hedge-fence.

~Hedge~, v. a. Enclose with a hedge.

~Hedge-born~, a. Obscure, of low birth, meanly born.

~Hedge-fence~, n. HEDGE.

~Hedge in~, Enclose, environ, surround, shut in, hem in.

~Hedge up~, Obstruct, bar, shut up.

~Heed~, v. a. Regard, mind, notice, mark, observe, attend to, give heed to, pay attention to, take notice of.

~Heed~, n. Regard, notice, care, attention, caution, heedfulness, watchfulness, wariness, vigilance, circumspection, observation.

~Heedful~, a. Observant, observing, mindful, regardful, watchful, cautious, careful, wary, circumspect, attentive, provident.

~Heedless~, a. Unobserving, unobservant, inattentive, careless, thoughtless, negligent, neglectful, unmindful, regardless, inconsiderate, unwatchful.

~Heedlessness~, n. Carelessness, thoughtlessness, inattention, inadvertence, neglect, oversight.

~Heel~, v. n. (Naut.) Incline, lean.

~Heft~, n. ~1.~ Handle.

~2.~ [Colloquial, U. S.] Weight.

~3.~ [Colloquial, U. S.] Bulk, greater part.

~Hegira~, n. ~1.~ Flight of Mahomet (July 16, 622).

~2.~ Exodus, departure, going out.

~Heifer~, n. Young cow.

~Height~, n. ~1.~ Elevation, altitude, TALLNESS.

~2.~ Eminence, summit, apex, acme, culminating point.

~3.~ Hill, mountain, high ground.

~4.~ Utmost degree.

~Heighten~, v. a. ~1.~ Exalt, elevate, raise.

~2.~ Increase, enhance, augment.

~3.~ Intensify, aggravate.

~Heinous~, a. Flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, infamous, villanous, nefarious, crying, very wicked.

~Helamys~, n. Jumping-rat, jumping-hare (Pedetes capensis).

~Helical~, a. Spiral, winding, cochleary, cochleated, screw-shaped.

~Heliotrope~, n. ~1.~ (Bot.) Turnsole.

~2.~ (Min.) Bloodstone.

~Helix~, n. ~1.~ Coil, circumvolution, spiral line.

~2.~ Snail-shell.

~Hell~, n. Gehenna, purgatory, limbo, abyss, Tartarus, Hades, Avernus, Erebus, place of torment, bottomless pit, everlasting fire, infernal regions, shades below, realms of Pluto, the lower world.

~Hellenic~, a. Grecian.

~Hellenism~, n. Grecism, Greek idiom.

~Hellish~, a. ~1.~ Of hell.

~2.~ Infernal, diabolical, fiendish, devilish, demoniacal, fiend-like, atrocious, detestable, abominable, execrable, nefarious, very wicked.

~Helm~, n. ~1.~ Helmet, morion.

~2.~ Steering apparatus.

~3.~ Direction, control, command, rule, reins, post of command.

~Helmet~, n. Helm, morion, CASQUE, cask, head-piece, armor for the head.

~Helminthagogue~, n. Anthelmintic, vermifuge.

~Helot~, n. Slave (of Sparta).

~Helotism~, n. Slavery, servitude, serfdom.

~Help~, v. a. ~1.~ Relieve, succor, serve.

~2.~ Assist, support, aid, second, back, abet, co-operate with, take part with.

~3.~ Remedy, cure, heal.

~4.~ Prevent, hinder, withstand, resist, repress, control.

~5.~ Avoid, forbear, refrain from.

~Help~, v. n. Lend aid, contribute assistance, give one a lift.

~Help~, n. ~1.~ Assistance, aid, succor, support.

~2.~ Remedy, relief.

~3.~ Helper, assistant.

~4.~ [U. S.] Domestic, house-servant (particularly a maid-servant).

~Helper~, n. Assistant, ally, auxiliary, coadjutor, aider, abettor, colleague, partner.

~Helpful~, a. ~1.~ Useful, beneficial, convenient.

~2.~ Wholesome, salutary.

~Helpless~, a. ~1.~ Weak, feeble, powerless, impotent, imbecile, disabled, infirm.

~2.~ Exposed, defenceless, unprotected.

~3.~ Irremediable, beyond help.

~Helpmate~, n. Wife, consort, partner, companion.

~Helpmeet~, n. Wife, consort, partner, companion.

~Help on~, Forward, further.

~Help to~, ~1.~ Help to get or obtain.

~2.~ Supply with, furnish with.

~Helter-skelter~, ad. Pellmell, irregularly, disorderly, in disorder, in confusion.

~Helve~, n. Handle (of an axe or a hatchet).

~Helvetic~, a. Swiss.

~Hem~, n. Border, edge, margin.

~Hem~, v. a. Border, edge, skirt.

~Hem in~, Enclose, confine, environ, surround, shut in, hedge in.

~Hematite~, n. Bloodstone.

~Hemeralopia~, n. (Med.) Night-blindness, day-sight.

~Hemisphere~, n. Half-globe, half-sphere.

~Hemispheric~, a. Half-round.

~Hemispherical~, a. Half-round.

~Hemistich~, n. Half a verse, half a line.

~Hemorrhoids~, n. pl. (Med.) Piles.

~Hence~, ad. ~1.~ From this place, from here.

~2.~ From this time.

~3.~ Therefore, from this cause, for that reason, as a consequence.

~4.~ From this source.

~Henceforth~, ad. Henceforward, from this time forward.

~Henceforward~, ad. HENCEFORTH.

~Hep-tree~, n. [Written also Hip-tree.] Dog-rose, wild-brier (Rosa canina).

~Herald~, n. ~1.~ Proclaimer, publisher, crier.

~2.~ Forerunner, precursor, harbinger.

~Herald~, v. a. Proclaim, announce, publish.

~Heraldry~, n. Blazonry, emblazonry.

~Herbage~, n. Herbs, grass, pasture.

~Herbal~, n. Herbarium, herbary, hortus-siccus.

~Herbalist~, n. Botanist.

~Herbarium~, n. Herbal, hortus-siccus.

~Herbary~, n. Herbal, hortus-siccus.

~Herb-paris~, n. Truelove, oneberry.

~Herculean~, a. ~1.~ Strong, mighty, powerful, puissant, vigorous, sturdy, athletic, brawny, muscular, sinewy, stalwart, able-bodied.

~2.~ Difficult, toilsome, troublesome, laborious, operose, very hard.

~3.~ Large, great, gigantic, strapping, huge, colossal, Cyclopean.

~Herd~, n. ~1.~ Drove (of the larger animals).

~2.~ Crowd, rabble, multitude.

~Herd~, v. n. Associate (as beasts), keep company.

~Herd's-grass~, n. ~1.~ [New England.] Cat's-tail, timothy-grass (Phleum pratense).

~2.~ [Pennsylvania.] Red-top (Agrostis vulgaris).

~Here~, ad. ~1.~ In this place.

~2.~ In the present state, in the present life.

~Hereafter~, ad. ~1.~ In time to come, in some future time.

~2.~ In a future state.

~Hereafter~, n. Future state.

~Hereby~, ad. By this.

~Hereditable~, a. Inheritable.

~Hereditament~, n. Inheritable property.

~Hereditary~, a. ~1.~ Ancestral, patrimonial, by inheritance.

~2.~ Inherited, transmitted (from ancestors).

~Herein~, ad. In this.

~Heresiarch~, n. Chief heretic, leader in heresy.

~Heresy~, n. Heterodoxy, error, unsound doctrine.

~Heretic~, n. Sectary, schismatic, nonconformist, dissenter, separatist.

~Heretical~, a. Heterodox, schismatic, schismatical, sectarian.

~Heretofore~, ad. Formerly, before the present time.

~Hereupon~, ad. Upon this, on this.

~Herewith~, ad. With this.

~Heritage~, n. Inheritance, portion, patrimony, estate.

~Hermeneutic~, a. Exegetical.

~Hermeneutical~, a. Exegetical.

~Hermeneutics~, n. Exegesis, science of interpretation.

~Hermetic~, a. Air-tight.

~Hermetical~, a. Air-tight.

~Hermit~, n. Anchorite, anchoret, recluse, solitary, solitaire, EREMITE.

~Hernia~, n. Rupture.

~Hernshaw~, n. Heron, heronshaw.

~Hero~, n. ~1.~ Brave man.

~2.~ Principal character.

~Heroic~, a. ~1.~ Brave, valiant, courageous, intrepid, bold, daring, gallant, fearless, dauntless, noble, magnanimous.

~2.~ Epic.

~Heroism~, n. Bravery, valor, courage, gallantry, prowess, daring, intrepidity, magnanimity.

~Heron~, n. Hernshaw, heronshaw.

~Heronshaw~, n. Heron, hernshaw.

~Herschel~, n. (Astron.) Uranus, Georgium Sidus.

~Hesitancy~, n. Uncertainty, doubt, suspense, hesitation.

~Hesitate~, v. n. ~1.~ Pause, delay, demur, doubt, waver, vacillate, be undetermined, stop to consider, be in doubt, be in suspense, be doubtful.

~2.~ Falter, stammer, have an impediment in speech.

~Hesitation~, n. ~1.~ Uncertainly, doubt, suspense, hesitancy, vacillation.

~2.~ Faltering, stammering, difficulty of utterance.

~Hesper~, n. Hesperus, evening star.

~Hesperian~, a. [Poetical.] Western, occidental.

~Hesperus~, n. Hesper, Venus, evening star.

~Hessian-fly~, n. Wheat-fly (Cecidomyia destructor).

~Heteroclite~, a. Irregular, anomalous, abnormal.

~Heterodox~, a. Heretical, not orthodox.

~Heterodoxy~, n. Heresy, error, unsound doctrine.

~Heterogeneity~, n. HETEROGENEOUSNESS.

~Heterogeneous~, a. Unlike, dissimilar, different.

~Heterogeneousness~, n. Heterogeneity, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, unlikeness, difference.

~Heteropathic~, a. Allopathic.

~Heteropathy~, n. Allopathy.

~Hew~, v. a. ~1.~ Cut, chop, hack.

~2.~ Smooth (with an axe), fashion, form.

~Hew down~, Fell, cut down.

~Hexahedral~, a. Cubic, six-sided.

~Hexahedron~, n. Cube, six-sided figure.

~Heyday~, n. Frolic, play, exultation.

~Hiatus~, n. Opening, gap, break, interval, chasm.

~Hibernate~ v. n. Winter, pass the winter.

~Hibernian~, a. Irish.

~Hibernian~, n. Irishman.

~Hibernicism~, n. Irishism, Irish idiom.

~Hibernianism~, n. Irishism, Irish idiom.

~Hidden~, a. ~1.~ Concealed, secret, latent, occult, clandestine, close.

~2.~ Abstruse, recondite, mysterious, mystic, mystical, dark, obscure.

~Hide~, v. a. ~1.~ Secrete, conceal, cover, bury, keep from sight.

~2.~ Shelter, cloak, screen, veil.

~3.~ [Low.] Flog, whip, beat.

~Hide~, v. n. Lie hid, lie concealed, be concealed, conceal one's self, lie in ambush, keep one's self out of sight, be withdrawn from view.

~Hide~, n. Skin (of the larger animals).

~Hideous~, a. Frightful, dreadful, appalling, horrible, terrible, horrid, ghastly, grisly, grim, shocking.

~Hie~, v. n. [Poetical.] Hasten, go in haste.

~Hierarchy~, n. Ecclesiastical government, ecclesiastical establishment.

~Hieroglyphic~, a. Emblematical, symbolical.

~Hieroglyphical~, a. Emblematical, symbolical.

~Hieorophant~, n. Priest.

~Higgle~, v. n. ~1.~ Peddle, hawk.

~2.~ Haggle, bargain, negotiate, chaffer.

~Higgledy-piggledy~, ad. [Colloquial.] Confusedly, disorderly, pellmell, in disorder, helter-skelter, topsy-turvy, at sixes and sevens.

~Higgler~, n. ~1.~ Peddler, travelling trader.

~2.~ Chafferer.

~High~, a. ~1.~ Lofty, elevated, TALL, heaven-kissing, of great altitude.

~2.~ Eminent, prominent, pre-eminent, distinguished, superior, exalted, noble, dignified.

~3.~ Abstruse, recondite, occult, obscure, dark, transcendental, profound.

~4.~ Proud, haughty, arrogant, supercilious, lordly.

~5.~ Boastful, ostentatious, bragging, vain-glorious.

~6.~ Oppressive, domineering, over-bearing, tyrannical, despotic.

~7.~ Violent, boisterous, turbulent, tumultuous.

~8.~ Great, strong, extreme.

~9.~ Complete, full.

~10.~ Dear, of great price.

~11.~ Acute, sharp, shrill, high-toned, not flat.

~12.~ Somewhat intoxicated, TIGHT, fuddled, boozy.

~High~, ad. ~1.~ Aloft, on high, to a great height.

~2.~ Profoundly, powerfully.

~Highest good~, Supreme good, greatest good, SUMMUM BONUM.

~Highfalutin~, a. [Colloquial.] Pompous, swelling, inflated, turgid, tumid, bombastic, pretentious, stilted, grandiloquent, declamatory, rhetorical, high-flowing, high-sounding, sophomorical, spread-eagle, high-flown.

~High-flavored~, a. Pungent, piquant, high-seasoned.

~High-flown~, a. 1~.~ Proud, haughty, lofty, supercilious.

~2.~ Extravagant, turgid, bombastic, HIGHFALUTIN.

~High-handed~, a. Overbearing, oppressive, arbitrary.

~Highland~, n. Mountainous region.

~Highlander~, n. Mountaineer.

~Highly~, ad. Extremely, exceedingly, very much, in a great degree, in a high degree.

~High-mettled~, a. Ardent, fiery, spirited, bold, daring, high- spirited.

~High-minded~, a. ~1.~ Proud, arrogant, haughty, lofty.

~2.~ Noble, honorable, elevated, magnanimous, high-toned.

~Highness~, n. ~1.~ Loftiness, altitude, elevation, height.

~2.~ Eminence, exaltation, dignity.

~3.~ Violence, vehemence, turbulence.

~4.~ Greatness.

~5.~ Acuteness, shrillness, sharpness.

~High-priced~, a. Costly, dear, high.

~High-priest~, n. Chief priest.

~High-reaching~, a. ~1.~ Reaching upwards.

~2.~ Ambitious, aspiring.

~High-road~, n. Highway, public road.

~High-school~, n. School (of the first class), academy, seminary, gymnasium.

~High-seasoned~, a. Pungent, piquant, high-flavored.

~High-spirited~, a. ~1.~ Spirited, bold, daring, high-mettled.

~2.~ Proud, high-strung.

~High-strung~, a. Proud, high-spirited.

~High time~, Quite time.

~High-toned~, a. ~1.~ Acute, sharp, shrill, high.

~2.~ Noble, honorable, high-minded.

~High-water-mark~, n. Flood-mark.

~Highway~, n. High-road, public road.

~Highwayman~, n. Robber, footpad, bandit, brigand, freebooter, marauder, outlaw, highway robber.

~High wine~, ~1.~ Brandy.

~2.~ Pure alcohol.

~High words~, Strife, contention, bickering, logomachy, war of words.

~High-wrought~, a. ~1.~ Impetuous, vehement, intense.

~2.~ Enthusiastic, impassioned.

~3.~ Highly finished, nicely elaborated.

~Hilarious~, a. Gay, jovial, jolly, joyful, merry.

~Hilarity~, n. Gayety, mirth, merriment, jollity, jovialty, joyousness, exhilaration, cheerfulness, glee, high spirits.

~Hill~, n. Eminence (less than a mountain), mount, rising ground.

~Hillock~, n. Knoll, mound.

~Hilt~, n. Handle (of a sword).

~Hind~, a. Back, hinder, posterior.

~Hind~, n. ~1.~ Female deer (of the stag or red deer).

~2.~ Peasant, swain, boor, lout, rustic, clod-poll, bumpkin, clown, ploughman, bogtrotter, clodhopper, countryman.

~Hinder~, a. Hind, back, posterior.

~Hinder~, v. a. Prevent (temporarily), impede, obstruct, stop, interrupt, retard, check, thwart, oppose, embarrass.

~Hinderance~, n. [Written also Hindrance.] Impediment, obstacle, stop, obstruction, interruption, check, restraint.

~Hindmost~, a. Last.

~Hinge~, v. n. Turn, depend, hang, be dependent.

~Hinny~, n. Mule.

~Hint~, v. a. Suggest, intimate, insinuate, allude to, refer to, hint at, glance at, just mention, give an inkling of.

~Hint at~, Suggest, HINT.

~Hint~, n. Intimation, suggestion, insinuation, allusion, slight mention.

~Hip~, n. Haunch.

~Hipped~, a. [Colloquial.] Melancholy, hypochondriacal, blue, dejected, depressed, low-spirited, in low spirits.

~Hippish~, a. [Colloquial.] Melancholy, hypochondriacal, blue, dejected, depressed, low-spirited, in low spirits.

~Hippopotamus~, n. River-horse, seahorse.

~Hip-tree~, n. [Written also Hep-tree.] Dog-rose, wild-brier (Rosa canina).

~Hire~, n. Wages, stipend, allowance, salary, pay, remuneration.

~Hireling~, n. ~1.~ Mercenary, hired soldier.

~2.~ Hired servant.

~Hireling~, a. Mercenary, venal.

~Hirling~, n. Salmon-trout, sea-trout (Salmo trutta).

~Hirsute~, a. Hairy, shaggy.

~Hispid~, a. Bristly, rough.

~Historian~, n. Chronicler, annalist, writer of history.

~History~, n. Account, narration, narrative, relation, record, recital, story, CHRONICLE, ANNALS.

~Histrionic~, a. Theatric, theatrical.

~Histrionical~, a. Theatric, theatrical.

~Hit~, v. a. ~1.~ Strike, strike against.

~2.~ Attain, reach, gain, win, secure.

~3.~ Suit, accord with, be conformable to, be suitable to.

~Hit~, v. n. ~1.~ Clash, collide, come in contact, strike together.

~2.~ Succeed, be successful, be crowned with success, come off successful, carry the point, gain the point.

~Hit~, n. ~1.~ Stroke, blow, collision.

~2.~ Chance, venture, fortune, hazard.

~3.~ Happy remark, apt expression.

~4.~ Lucky venture.

~Hit off~, Imitate, personate, mimic, take off.

~Hit upon~, Find, discover, find out, fall upon, light upon.

~Hitch~, v. n. Go by jerks.

~Hitch~, v. a. Fasten, tie, attach.

~Hitch~, n. ~1.~ Catch, impediment, obstacle, hinderance, check.

~2.~ Jerk, jerking motion.

~3.~ (Naut.) Knot, noose.

~Hither~, ad. To this place.

~Hither~, a. Nearest.

~Hitherto~, ad. Yet, till now, to this time, up to this time, until this time.

~Hitherward~, ad. This way, towards this place.

~Hive~, n. ~1.~ Habitation of bees, bee-hive, apiary.

~2.~ Swarm of bees.

~Hive~, v. a. ~1.~ Put into a hive.

~2.~ Store, collect, gather, HOARD.

~Hives~, n. pl. (Med.) Croup, rattles.

~Hoar~, a. Hoary, white, gray.

~Hoard~, v. a. Store (secretly), deposit, save, garner, husband, hive, accumulate, amass, treasure up, lay in, lay by, set by, lay up.

~Hoar-frost~, n. White frost, frozen dew.

~Hoarse~, a. ~1.~ Husky, raucous.

~2.~ Rough, grating, harsh.

~Hoarseness~, n. ~1.~ Huskiness, raucity.

~2.~ Roughness, harshness.

~Hoary~, a. Hoar, white, gray.

~Hoax~, n. Deception (for sport), cheat, fraud, imposition, practical joke.

~Hoax~, v. a. Deceive (jocosely), cheat, impose upon.

~Hobble~, v. n. Limp, halt, hop, walk lamely.

~Hobble~, v. a. Fetter, hopple.

~Hobble~, n. ~1.~ Limp, halt.

~2.~ Perplexity, embarrassment, difficulty, strait, pickle.

~Hobbly~, a. Rough (said of a road), uneven.

~Hobby~, n. ~1.~ Hobby-horse.

~2.~ Favorite object, favorite pursuit.

~Hobby-horse~, n. HOBBY.

~Hobgoblin~, n. Goblin, spectre, sprite, frightful apparition, evil spirit.

~Hobson's choice~, That or nothing, no alternative.

~Hocus-pocus~, n. ~1.~ Juggler, trickster, impostor, cheater, swindler, sharper.

~2.~ Cheat, juggle, trick, deception, imposition, imposture, delusion, deceit, artifice, finesse, circumvention, chouse.

~Hodge-podge~, n. Medley, farrago, jumble, mixture, miscellany, salmagundi, hotch-potch, gallimaufry, olio, olla-podrida.

~Hoe-cake~, n. [U. S.] Johnny-cake.

~Hog~, n. Swine, porker, SOW, PIG.

~Hoggish~, a. ~1.~ Swinish, brutish, filthy.

~2.~ Mean, selfish, greedy.

~Hog-nut~, n. Pig-nut, broom hickory (Juglans glabra).

~Hog-sty~, n. Hog-pen, pig-sty.

~Hoiden~, a. Rustic, rude, inelegant, uncouth, ungenteel, unlicked, hoidenish, rough, rude, ill-taught, ill-behaved, ill-mannered.

~Hoiden~, n. Romp, tomboy, romping girl.

~Hoidenish~, a. HOIDEN.

~Hoist~, v. a. Raise, lift, elevate, heave, raise up.

~Hoist~, n. Lift.

~Hold~, v. a. ~1.~ Grasp, clutch, clinch, gripe.

~2.~ Possess, retain, have, occupy, keep possession of.

~3.~ Restrain, confine, detain, imprison, shut in, shut up, hem in.

~4.~ Bind, fasten, unite, connect.

~5.~ Stop, stay, arrest, suspend, withhold, keep in check.

~6.~ Maintain, support, continue, sustain, prosecute, keep up, carry on.

~7.~ Embrace, entertain, cherish, take as true.

~8.~ Think, regard, consider, believe, judge, esteem, count, account, reckon.

~9.~ Contain, admit, take in, have a capacity for.

~10.~ Celebrate, solemnize.

~11.~ Assemble, convene, call together.

~Hold~, v. n. ~1.~ Be firm, be fast, continue unbroken, not break, not give way.

~2.~ Continue, remain, persist, last, endure.

~3.~ Adhere, cohere, cling, stick, cleave, remain attached.

~4.~ Be derived, derive title.

~5.~ Think, believe, be of opinion.

~6.~ Stand, be true, prove good, hold true.

~Hold~, n. ~1.~ Grasp, gripe.

~2.~ Support, stay, prop.

~3.~ Footing, vantage-ground.

~4.~ Fort, castle, fortress, fortification, fortified place.

~Holdback~, n. Hinderance, restraint, check, obstacle.

~Holder~, n. Owner, possessor, proprietor.

~Holdfast~, n. Catch, hook.

~Hold forth~, ~1.~ (Active.) Offer, propose, exhibit, hold out.

~2.~ (Neuter.) Harangue, preach, speak in public.

~Hold good~, Stand, be valid, be true, be applicable.

~Hold in~, ~1.~ (Active.) Check, restrain, repress, rein in.

~2.~ (Neuter.) Restrain one's self.

~Hold on~, ~1.~ (Active.) Continue, maintain, keep up, push forward.

~2.~ (Neuter.) Cling, stick, hold fast, keep hold of.

~3.~ (Neuter.) Continue, remain, endure, last.

~4.~ Persevere, persist, be steady, be steadfast, be constant, go on, keep on, keep one's course, keep or maintain one's ground, stick to it, not give it up, stand fast, stand firm.

~Hold out~, ~1.~ (Active.) Offer, propose, hold forth.

~2.~ (Neuter.) Last, endure, continue.

~3.~ (Neuter.) Not yield, not be subdued.

~Hold one's own~, Maintain one's position.

~Hold one's tongue~, Be still, keep still, keep silence.

~Hold one's peace~, Be still, keep still, keep silence.

~Hold together~, Remain united, keep together.

~Hold up~, Clear up, cease raining.

~Hole~, n. ~1.~ Perforation, aperture, opening.

~2.~ Cavity, cave, cavern, hollow, concavity, excavation.

~3.~ Hovel, kennel, den, mean habitation.

~Holiday~, n. ~1.~ Festival, anniversary, celebration.

~2.~ Day of amusement.

~Holiness~, n. ~1.~ Sanctity, piety, purity, devotion, devoutness, godliness, religiousness.

~2.~ Divineness, sacredness.

~Holla~, n. Shout, halloo, loud cry.

~Hollow~, a. ~1.~ Vacant, empty, void, cavernous, not solid.

~2.~ Insincere, treacherous, false, faithless, hypocritical, pharisaical, deceitful, false-hearted, hollow-hearted.

~3.~ Deep, low, rumbling.

~Hollow~, n. ~1.~ Depression, low spot, low place.

~2.~ Cavity, concavity, depression, excavation, hole, cave, cavern, dent, dint, dimple, pit.

~3.~ Groove, channel, canal.

~Hollow~, v. a. Excavate, scoop.

~Hollow~, ad. [Low.] Wholly, completely, utterly.

~Hollow-hearted~, a. Insincere, false, false-hearted, HOLLOW.

~Holocaust~, n. Burnt-offering (wholly consumed).

~Holy~, a. ~1.~ Pious, devout, religious, good, godly, saintly, spiritual, pure, saint-like, heavenly-minded.

~2.~ Sacred, consecrated, hallowed, blessed.

~Holy Ghost~, Paraclete, Comforter, Holy Spirit, The Spirit, The Spirit of God, The Sanctifier, Spirit of Truth.

~Holy Spirit~, HOLY GHOST.

~Holy thistle~, n. Blessed thistle (Centaurea benedicta).

~Holy week~, n. Passion-week, week before Easter.

~Holy Writ~, n. Bible, Scriptures, Sacred Scriptures, Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments.

~Homage~, n. ~1.~ Fealty, allegiance, loyalty, fidelity.

~2.~ Reverence, obeisance, respect, deference, duty, service, honor.

~3.~ Cult, worship.

~Home~, n. Domicile, dwelling, residence, abode, place of abode, abiding place.

~Home~, ad. ~1.~ To one's home.

~2.~ Close, closely, pointedly.

~Home~, a. ~1.~ Domestic, home-born.

~2.~ Close, pointed, direct, severe, poignant.

~Home-born~, a. ~1.~ Native, natural, home-bred.

~2.~ Domestic, home, not foreign.

~Home-bred~, ~1.~ Native, natural, home-born.

~2.~ Domestic, not foreign.

~3.~ Unpolished, uncultivated, unrefined, uncouth, rude, plain.

~Home-felt~, a. Inward, private, heartfelt, deep, profound, deep-felt.

~Homelike~, a. Domestic, homely.

~Homeliness~, n. Plainness, coarseness, uncomeliness.

~Homely~, a. ~1.~ Domestic, homelike.

~2.~ Plain, coarse, uncomely, homespun, inelegant.

~3.~ Ugly, ill-looking, of plain features, not handsome.

~Home-made~, a. Homespun, of domestic manufacture.

~Homesickness~, n. NOSTALGIA.

~Homespun~, a. ~1.~ Home-made, of domestic manufacture.

~2.~ Plain, coarse, homely, rude, inelegant, unpolished.

~Homeward~, ad. Towards home.

~Homewards~, ad. Towards home.

~Homicide~, n. ~1.~ Manslaughter, MURDER.

~2.~ Manslayer.

~Homiletic~, a. ~1.~ Of homilies or sermons.

~2.~ Hortatory, persuasive.

~Homiletical~, a. ~1.~ Of homilies or sermons.

~2.~ Hortatory, persuasive.

~Homiletics~, n. Art of preaching or sermonizing, art of delivering homilies.

~Homily~, n. Sermon, discourse.

~Homogeneous~, a. Cognate, congenial, kindred, akin, uniform, of the same kind, of the same nature, of a piece.

~Homoiousian~, a. Of a similar nature, of like essence.

~Homologous~, a. ~1.~ Of the same ratio, of the same proportion.

~2.~ Of the same type, corresponding in structure.

~Homoousian~, a. Of the same nature.

~Homophonous~, a. Unisonous, of the same sound, of like pitch.

~Honest~, a. ~1.~ Honorable, reputable, creditable, right, proper, equitable.

~2.~ Upright, virtuous, conscientious, just, true, fair, faithful, trusty, trustworthy, as good as one's word.

~3.~ Sincere, candid, frank.

~Honesty~, n. ~1.~ Integrity, probity, uprightness, fairness, justice, virtue, equity, veracity, truth, trustiness, faithfulness, honor.

~2.~ Sincerity, candor, frankness, plain dealing.

~Honey-combed~, a. Alveolate, cellular.

~Honeyed~, a. Sweet.

~Honeysuckle~, n. Woodbine.

~Honor~, n. ~1.~ Reputation, repute, fame, consideration, esteem, credit, glory, good name.

~2.~ Dignity, distinction, elevation, high rank, distinguished position.

~3.~ Veneration, reverence, respect, homage, deference, civility.

~4.~ Integrity, probity, honesty, magnanimity, high-mindedness, nobleness of mind, manly virtue.

~5.~ Nice sense of right or justice.

~6.~ Ornament, boast.

~Honor~, v. a. ~1.~ Dignify, exalt, glorify, raise to distinction.

~2.~ Reverence, revere, venerate, respect, pay respect to, pay deference to, render honor to.

~3.~ Commemorate, celebrate, observe, keep.

~4.~ (Com.) Accept and pay (a draft).

~Honorable~, a. ~1.~ Illustrious, noble, great, of high rank.

~2.~ Upright, just, honest, fair, trustworthy, trusty, true, conscientious, virtuous, magnanimous, high-minded, as good as one's word.

~3.~ Reputable, creditable, estimable, right, proper, equitable.

~Hood~, n. Cowl.

~Hooded~, a. ~1.~ Covered with a hood.

~2.~ (Bot.) Cucullate, cucullated, hood-shaped.

~Hooded snake~, Cobra, COBRA-DE-CAPELLO.

~Hoodwink~, v. a. ~1.~ Blind, blindfold.

~2.~ Deceive, cheat, delude, dupe, gull, cozen, fool, befool, trick, circumvent, overreach, chouse, diddle, beguile, impose upon, make a fool of, play a trick upon, pull wool over one's eyes.

~Hook~, n. Catch, clasp, HASP.

~Hooked~, a. Bent, curved, curvated, hamate.

~Hook-nose~, n. Aquiline nose, hooked nose.

~Hoop~, n. ~1.~ Ring.

~2.~ Farthingale, crinoline, hoop-skirt.

~Hooper~, n. Wild swan (Cygnus ferus).

~Hooping-cough~, n. [Written also Whooping-cough.] Chin-cough.

~Hoop-skirt~, n. Hoop, farthingale, crinoline.

~Hoot~, v. n. Shout, yell, cry out.

~Hoot~, v. a. Execrate, denounce, hiss, cry down, cry out against, hoot at.

~Hoot~, n. Shout, cry, outcry, yell.

~Hoot at~, HOOT, cry out against.

~Hop~, v. n. ~1.~ Leap, bound, jump, skip, spring, CAPER.

~2.~ Dance, trip.

~3.~ Limp, halt, walk lamely.

~Hop~, n. ~1.~ Leap, bound, jump, spring, skip, CAPER.

~2.~ Dance.

~Hope~, n. ~1.~ Trust, confidence, faith.

~2.~ Expectation (of something agreeable), expectance, anticipation.

~3.~ Reliance, dependence, ground of confidence.

~Hope~, v. a. Expect (something agreeable), long for, hope for.

~Hope~, v. n. Trust, expect, believe, indulge or entertain a hope, feel confident, rest assured, flatter one's self, be in hopes, live in hopes, look on the bright side.

~Hope for~, HOPE, long for.

~Hopeless~, a. ~1.~ Despairing, desperate, forlorn.

~2.~ Remediless, irremediable, incurable, past cure.

~3.~ Impossible, impracticable.

~Hop-hornbeam~, n. American ironwood (Ostrya Virginica).

~Hop o' my thumb~, n. Dwarf, pygmy.

~Hoppers~, n. pl. Hop-scotch, scotch-hoppers.

~Hopple~, v. a. Fetter (an animal), hobble.

~Hopples~, n. pl. Fetters (for animals).

~Hop-scotch~, n. Hoppers, scotch-hoppers.

~Horde~, n. Gang (not living in fixed habitations), troop, crew, clan, migratory company.

~Horizontal~, a. Level, parallel to the horizon.

~Horn~, n. ~1.~ Trumpet.

~2.~ Drinking-cup.

~3.~ (Bot.) Spur.

~Hornbook~, n. Primer.

~Horned-screamer~, n. Kamichi (Palamedea cornuta).

~Horn-fish~, n. Greenbone, sea-needle, gar-pike, gar-fish, sea-pike, long-nose, gore-bill, sword-fish, mackerel-guide (Esox belone or Belone vulgaris).

~Horn of plenty~, Cornucopia.

~Horn-pike~, n. HORN-FISH.

~Horn-pout~, n. Cat-fish, mud-pout, bull-head (Pimelodus cattus).

~Horny~, a. Corneous.

~Horologe~, n. Time-piece (of any kind).

~Horoscope~, n. Ascendant.

~Horrid~, a. ~1.~ Frightful, terrible, terrific, horrible, alarming, portentous, formidable, appalling, dire, horrifying, horrific, harrowing, dreadful, fearful, awful, hideous.

~2.~ Shocking, offensive, disgusting, revolting, repulsive, odious, disagreeable, unpleasant, vile, abominable.

~Horrific~, a. Frightful, HORRID.

~Horrify~, v. a. Frighten, terrify, fill with horror, strike with terror, make one's blood run cold.

~Horripilation~, n. (Med.) Shuddering, horror.

~Horror~, n. ~1.~ Fright, affright, alarm, fear, dread, awe, terror, dismay, consternation, panic.

~2.~ Abomination, abhorrence, detestation, disgust, loathing, hatred, antipathy.

~3.~ (Med.) Shuddering, horripilation.

~Horrors~, n. pl. [With The prefixed.] Delirium tremens, MANIA A POTU.

~Horror-struck~, a. Dismayed, horrified, terrified, appalled, frightened, panic-stricken.

~Hors de combat~, [Fr.] Disabled, out of condition to fight.

~Horse~, n. ~1.~ STEED, CHARGER, MARE, FILLY, COLT, PONY, SHELTIE (or SHELTY), PALFREY, NAG, BARB, COB, PAD, ROADSTER, TIT, PUNCH.

~2.~ Cavalry, horsemen.

~Horse-armor~, n. Caparison, bard, trappings for a horse.

~Horse-fly~, n. Breese, gad-fly.

~Horsefoot~, n. King-crab, horse-shoe, horse-shoe crab (Limulus Americanus).

~Horse-jockey~, n. Jockey, dealer in horses.

~Horse-laugh~, n. Guffaw, cachinnation, boisterous laugh.

~Horse-leech~, n. Farrier, horse-doctor, veterinarian, veterinary surgeon.

~Horse-mackerel~, n. ~1.~ Bonito, albicore (Thynnus vulgaris).

~2.~ Bluefish (Temnodon saltator).

~Horseman~, n. ~1.~ Rider.

~2.~ Dragoon, CHASSEUR, chevalier, cavalier, equestrian, mounted soldier, horse-soldier.

~Horsemen~, n. pl. Cavalry, horse, horse-soldiers, dragoons, chasseurs, chevaliers, cavaliers, equestrians, mounted soldiers.

~Horse-shoe~, n. King-crab, horsefoot (Limulus Americanus).

~Horse-soldier~, n. Dragoon, CHASSEUR, cavalier, chevalier, horseman, equestrian, mounted soldier.

~Hortative~, n. Incitement, exhortation, persuasive.

~Hortatory~, a. ~1.~ Persuasive, homiletic.

~2.~ Encouraging, inciting.

~Horticulture~, n. Gardening.

~Horticulturist~, n. Gardener.

~Hortus-siccus~, [L.] Herbarium.

~Hosanna~, interj. Hallelujah.

~Hose~, n. Stockings.

~Hospitable~, a. ~1.~ Kind or attentive to strangers.

~2.~ Generous, liberal, bountiful.

~Hospitality~, n. Hospitableness, kindness to strangers.

~Host~, n. ~1.~ Entertainer.

~2.~ Landlord, innkeeper.

~3.~ Army, legion, armed force.

~4.~ Multitude.

~5.~ Consecrated wafer.

~Hostile~, a. ~1.~ Inimical, unfriendly, warlike, at variance.

~2.~ Adverse, opposite, contrary, repugnant.

~Hostilities~, n. pl. WAR, warfare.

~Hostility~, n. ~1.~ Enmity, animosity, hatred, unfriendliness, ill- will.

~2.~ Opposition, repugnance.

~Hostler~, n. Groom, stable-servant.

~Hot~, a. ~1.~ Burning, fiery, scalding.

~2.~ Irascible, excitable, impetuous, passionate, hasty, choleric, furious.

~3.~ Ardent, vehement, fervent, eager, glowing, animated, fervid, violent.

~4.~ Pungent, piquant, sharp, acrid, biting, peppery, high-flavored, high-seasoned.

~Hot-brained~, a. HOT-HEADED.

~Hotch-potch~, n. Medley, farrago, jumble, miscellany, gallimaufry, salmagundi, olio, hodge-podge, OLLA PODRIDA, confused mixture.

~Hotel~, n. Inn, tavern, CABARET, public house, house of entertainment.

~Hot-headed~, a. Violent, rash, precipitate, vehement, furious, passionate, hot-brained.

~Hotspur~, n. Madcap, blood, wild fellow, hot-brained fellow.

~Hough~, v. a. Hamstring.

~Hound~, n. Dog (for the chase), hunting dog.

~Hound~, v. a. ~1.~ Incite, urge, spur, set on, urge on, spur on.

~2.~ Hunt, pursue, chase.

~Hour~, n. Sixty minutes, twenty-fourth part of a day.

~Hour-circle~, n. Meridian, great circle of the sphere.

~Houri~, n. [Term of the Mohammedans.] Nymph of Paradise.

~Hourly~, ad. ~1.~ Every hour.

~2.~ Frequently, continually.

~House~, n. ~1.~ Habitation, abode, dwelling, mansion, residence, domicile, dwelling-place.

~2.~ Building, edifice.

~3.~ Family, household.

~4.~ Lineage, race, kindred, tribe.

~5.~ Legislative body.

~6.~ Firm, partnership, company, concern, commercial establishment.

~7.~ Hotel, inn, tavern, place of entertainment, public house.

~House~, v. a. Shelter, protect, put under cover (of a roof).

~House~, v. n. Abide, dwell, reside, lodge.

~House-breaking~, n. Burglary (when committed at night).

~Household~, n. Family, house.

~Household~, a. Domestic, home.

~Householder~, n. Master of a family.

~House of correction~, Prison, jail, bridewell, workhouse, penitentiary.

~House of God~, Church, temple, meeting-house, house of worship.

~Housewife~, n. ~1.~ Mistress of a family.

~2.~ Huswife, female economist, thrifty woman.

~Housing~, n. ~1.~ Horse-cloth, saddle-cloth.

~2.~ Covering, protection (from the weather).

~Hovel~, n. Shed, hut, cot, cabin, mean habitation.

~Hover~, v. n. ~1.~ Flutter.

~2.~ Hang about, hang over.

~How~, ad. ~1.~ In what manner, in what way, by what mode, by what means.

~2.~ To what extent, to what degree.

~3.~ For what cause, for what reason.

~4.~ In what state, in what condition, in what plight.

~How far~, To what extent or degree.

~How far forth~, To what extent or degree.

~However~, ad. Howsoever, in whatever manner, in whatever degree.

~However~, conj. Yet, still, nevertheless, but, though, notwithstanding.

~Howl~, n. Cry (as of a dog), yell.

~Howl~, v. n. ~1.~ Cry (as a dog), yell.

~2.~ Wail, lament.

~3.~ Roar.

~Howsoever~, ad. However, in whatever manner, in whatever degree.

~Hub~, n. Nave (of a wheel).

~Hubbub~, n. ~1.~ Uproar, clamor, din, racket, hallabaloo, HULLABALOO, outcry.

~2.~ Tumult, disorder, confusion, disturbance, riot.

~Hubbubboo~, n. [Low.] Cry, howl, howling, wailing, ululation.

~Hubby~, a. [U. S. Said of a road.] Rough, uneven, hobbly.

~Huckleberry~, n. Black whortleberry (Vaccinium resinosum).

~Huckster~, n. Retailer, hawker, peddler.

~Huddle~, v. a. Throw together in confusion.

~Huddle~, v. n. Crowd, press together in confusion.

~Huddle~, n. Crowd, tumult, disorder, confusion, disturbance.

~Huddle on~, Put on in disorder, put on in a hurry.

~Hue~, n. Color, hue, tint, tinge, shade.

~Hue and cry~, n. Shouting, clamor, outcry.

~Hueless~, a. Colorless, uncolored, untinged, achromatic, free from color.

~Huff~, n. ~1.~ Miff, pet, tiff, rage, passion, fume, fit of anger, angry mood.

~2.~ Boaster, braggart, braggadocio, BLUSTERER.

~Huffish~, a. [Colloquial.] ~1.~ Angry, petulant.

~2.~ Blustering, arrogant, insolent, hectoring.

~Huffy~, a. [Colloquial.] ~1.~ Angry, petulant.

~2.~ Blustering, arrogant, insolent, hectoring.

~Hug~, v. a. ~1.~ Embrace, clasp.

~2.~ Retain, hold fast, cling to, keep hold of.

~3.~ (Naut.) Go near, keep close to.

~Hug~, n. Embrace, clasp.

~Huge~, a. Vast, bulky, enormous, immense, stupendous, gigantic, colossal, elephantine, Herculean, Cyclopean, very great, very large.

~Hugger-mugger~, n. [Low.] Secrecy, privacy.

~Hugger-mugger~, a. [Low.] 1~.~ Secret, clandestine, sly.

~2.~ Mean, unfair, base, contemptible.

~3.~ Confused, disorderly.

~Huguenot~, n. French Protestant.

~Hulk~, n. Hull (of an old vessel).

~Hull~, n. ~1.~ Husk, outer covering.

~2.~ Body of a vessel, HULK.

~Hull~, v. a. Peel, strip the hull from.

~Hullabaloo~, n. [Low.] Racket, din, clamor, uproar, hubbub, outcry, vociferation, hallabaloo.

~Hum~, v. n. Buzz, make a buzzing sound.

~Hum~, v. a. Sing (in a low voice).

~Hum~, n. Buzz, buzzing sound.

~Human~, a. ~1.~ Man's, of man.

~2.~ Common to mankind.

~Humane~, a. Kind, benevolent, benignant, obliging, accommodating, tender, sympathetic, charitable, compassionate, clement, gentle, kind- hearted, tenderhearted, good-hearted.

~Humanist~, n. Student of polite literature.

~Humanities~, n. pl. [With The prefixed.] Belles-lettres, polite literature, elegant literature.

~Humanity~, n. ~1.~ Human nature.

~2.~ Kindness, benevolence, benignity, philanthropy, tenderness, sympathy, charity, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good nature, milk of human kindness.

~Humanize~, v. a. ~1.~ Soften, make humane.

~2.~ Civilize, cultivate, refine, polish, improve, enlighten, educate, reclaim from barbarism.

~Humble~, a. ~1.~ Meek, modest, unassuming, unpretending, unobtrusive, lowly, submissive, not proud, not haughty, not arrogant.

~2.~ Low, not high, not great.

~Humble~, v. a. Humiliate, shame, mortify, degrade, crush, break, subdue, snub, abash, make ashamed, bring down, put down, take down, put out of countenance.

~Humblebee~, n. Bumblebee.

~Humbleness~, n. HUMILITY.

~Humbug~, n. [Colloquial.] ~1.~ Imposition, imposture, fetch, deception, fraud, trick, cheat, gammon, dodge, gouge, blind, feint, chouse.

~2.~ Charlatanry, charlatanism, quackery, mummery, cant, hypocrisy.

~3.~ Impostor, charlatan, quack.

~Humbug~, v. a. [Colloquial.] Deceive, cheat, cozen, swindle, trick, hoax, befool, diddle, chouse, impose upon.

~Humdrum~, a. Dull, prosy, dronish, stupid, wearisome, tiresome.

~Humid~, a. Wet, moist, damp, dank.

~Humidity~, n. Moisture, dampness.

~Humiliate~, v. a. Humble, mortify, shame, abash, SNUB, put to shame, put down.

~Humiliation~, n. ~1.~ Condescension, resignation, submission.

~2.~ Humility, meekness, humbleness, lowliness, lowness, submissiveness.

~3.~ Abasement, self-abasement, self-denial, mortification.

~Humility~, n. Humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, lowliness, modesty, diffidence, self-abasement.

~Humine~, n. (Chem.) Humic acid.

~Hummock~, n. Hillock.

~Humor~, n. ~1.~ Moisture.

~2.~ Cutaneous eruption.

~3.~ Temper, disposition, bent, bias, vein, propensity, predilection, turn of mind, frame of mind.

~4.~ Mood, fancy, whim, caprice, freak, vagary, crotchet, whimsey, maggot, WRINKLE.

~5.~ Pleasantry, facetiousness, jocoseness, jocularity, kindly wit.

~Humor~, v. a. ~1.~ Indulge, gratify, give way to, consult the wishes of.

~2.~ Favor, suit the nature of, meet the requirements of.

~Humorist~, n. Wag, wit, Joe Miller, droll fellow, funny fellow.

~Humorous~, a. Facetious, jocular, jocose, droll, funny, sportive, comical, witty, pleasant.

~Humorsome~, a. ~1.~ Petulant, peevish, snappish, waspish, crusty, captious, perverse, wayward, cross-grained.

~2.~ Capricious, whimsical, fanciful, fitful, fantastic, odd.

~Humpback~, n. ~1.~ Crooked back.

~2.~ Hunchback.

~Hump-backed~, a. Hunch-backed.

~Hunch~, ~1.~ Hump, protuberance, knob, bunch, lump.

~2.~ Punch, push, shove.

~3.~ [Colloquial.] Lump, hunk, large piece, thick slice.

~Hunch~, v. a. Punch, push, shove, jostle.

~Hunchback~, n. Humpback.

~Hunch-backed~, a. Hump-backed.

~Hundred~, n. Century.

~Hundredth~, a. Centesimal.

~Hung-beef~, n. Jerked-beef, dried beef.

~Hunger~, n. Craving appetite (for food), craving for food.

~Hunger~, v. n. ~1.~ FAMISH, feel hunger, feel hungry.

~2.~ Long, have an eager desire.

~Hungry~, a. Craving (for food), famishing, ravenous, sharp-set.

~Hunk~, n. [Low.] Lump, HUNCH, large piece, thick slice.

~Hunker~, n. [U. S.] Conservative, fogy.

~Hunks~, n. Miser, niggard, curmudgeon, codger, lickpenny, skinflint, scrimp, screw, muckworm, sordid wretch, mean fellow.

~Hunt~, v. a. Chase, pursue.

~Hunt~, v. n. ~1.~ Follow the chase.

~2.~ Search, seek, look.

~Hunt~, n. Chase, pursuit, hunting, field-sport.

~Hunter~, n. ~1.~ Huntsman.

~2.~ Hound, hunting dog.

~Hunt for~, Search for, seek for, look for, hunt out.

~Hunting~, n. Chase, HUNT.

~Hunting leopard~, CHETAH.

~Hunt out~, Search for, HUNT FOR.

~Huntsman~, n. Hunter.

~Hurl~, v. a. Throw, fling, cast, pitch, send, toss, sling, chuck, flirt, shy.

~Hurl~, n. ~1.~ Throw, cast, fling, toss.

~2.~ Tumult, commotion, turmoil, confusion, bustle, disturbance, HURLY- BURLY.

~Hurly-burly~, n. [Colloquial.] Hurl, turmoil, tumult, commotion, confusion, bustle, disturbance.

~Hurrah~, interj. Huzza.

~Hurricane~, n. Tornado, violent gale.

~Hurried~, a. ~1.~ Driven (by work), over head and ears, pressed for time.

~2.~ Hasty, cursory, slight, superficial.

~Hurry~, v. a. ~1.~ Drive, precipitate.

~2.~ Hasten, expedite, speed, despatch, urge or push forward, urge or press on.

~Hurry~, v. n. ~1.~ Act precipitately, be in a flutter, be in a flurry.

~2.~ Haste, hasten, move quickly, be in haste, be quick, be in a hurry, make haste, mend one's pace, lose no time, lose not a moment, wing one's way, make the best of one's way, crowd sail, clap spurs to one's horse.

~Hurry~, n. ~1.~ Precipitation, flurry, flutter, agitation, confusion, bustle, perturbation, hurry-skurry.

~2.~ Haste, despatch, celerity, quickness, promptitude, expedition.

~Hurry-scurry~, n. [Colloquial.] Flutter, flurry, agitation, confusion, hurry.

~Hurt~, v. a. ~1.~ Injure, harm, damage, mar, impair, do harm to.

~2.~ Pain, wound, give pain to.

~Hurt~, n. ~1.~ Harm, injury, damage, detriment, mischief, disadvantage.

~2.~ Wound, bruise.

~Hurtful~, a. Injurious, detrimental, mischievous, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, baneful, prejudicial, disadvantageous, harmful, baleful.

~Husband~, n. Spouse, married man.

~Husband~, v. a. Save, economize, spend frugally, manage with frugality.

~Husbandman~, n. Agriculturist, farmer, tiller of the ground, cultivator of the soil.

~Husbandry~, n. ~1.~ Agriculture, farming, tillage, geoponics, cultivation of the soil.

~2.~ Frugality, thrift, domestic economy, management of domestic affairs.

~Hush~, v. a. Still, silence, calm, quiet.

~Hush~, interj. Silence, whist, be still, keep quiet, make no noise.

~Hush-money~, n. BLACKMAIL, bribe to keep silence.

~Husk~, n. Rind, bark, hull, glume, CHAFF, outer covering.

~Husk~, v. a. Strip off the husk from (as from Indian corn).

~Husks~, n. pl. Hulls, glumes, chaff.

~Husky~, a. ~1.~ Dry, shrivelled.

~2.~ Hoarse, rough, raucous, harsh.

~Hussar~, n. Light-armed dragoon.

~Hussy~, n. Jade, queen, base woman, sorry wench.

~Hustle~, v. a. Push, jostle, justle, elbow, crowd.

~Huswife~, n. Housewife, female economist, thrifty woman.

~Huswifely~, a. Thrifty, frugal, economical.

~Hut~, n. Cot, cabin, shed, hovel, poor cottage, mean dwelling.

~Hutch~, n. ~1.~ Chest, coffer, bin.

~2.~ Trap (as for rabbits).

~3.~ (Mining.) Box (for coal).

~Huzza~, interj. Hurrah.

~Huzza~, n. Shout, halloo, holla, hoot.

~Huzza~, v. n. Shout, cry huzza.

~Hyaline~, a. Glassy, crystalline, transparent.

~Hyaloid~, a. (Anat.) Vitriform.

~Hybrid~, n. Mule, mongrel.

~Hybrid~, a. Mongrel.

~Hydra~, n. ~1.~ (Myth.) Many-headed monster.

~2.~ Spectre, hobgoblin, ogre, Gorgon, bugbear, POKER, BUGABOO, frightful object, raw head and bloody bones.

~Hydrant~, n. Discharge-pipe (from the main of an aqueduct), water- plug.

~Hydrargyrum~, n. Mercury, quicksilver.

~Hydrate~, n. Hydro-oxide.

~Hydraulic press~, Bramah press, hydrostatic press.

~Hydraulic ram~, Water-ram.

~Hydrocephalus~, n. Dropsy of the brain.

~Hydrochlorate~, n. Muriate.

~Hydrochloric acid~, Muriatic acid.

~Hydrocyanic acid~, Prussic acid.

~Hydrogen~, n. (Chem.) Inflammable air.

~Hydro-oxide~, n. Hydrate.

~Hydropathist~, n. Water-doctor.

~Hydropathy~, n. Water-cure.

~Hydrophobia~, n. [Med.] Canine madness.

~Hydropthalmia~, n. Dropsy of the eye.

~Hydropthalmy~, n. Dropsy of the eye.

~Hydrostatic press~, Bramah press, hydraulic press.

~Hydrosulphuric acid~, Sulphuretted hydrogen.

~Hydrous~, a. Watery.

~Hyemal~, a. Brumal, wintry, frosty, icy, cold, chilling.

~Hyena~, n. Tiger-wolf.

~Hygeia~, n. (Myth.) Goddess of health.

~Hygiene~, n. Hygienics, science of health.

~Hygienics~, n. Hygiene.

~Hylobate~, n. Gibbon, long-armed ape.

~Hymen~, n. (Myth.) God of marriage.

~Hymeneal~, n. Hymenean, marriage song.

~Hymeneal~, a. Nuptial, connubial, matrimonial, bridal, conjugal, CONJUGIAL.

~Hymenean~, n. Hymeneal, marriage song.

~Hymn~, n. Song (of praise), devotional song, spiritual song.

~Hyoid bone~, (Anat.) Bone of the tongue.

~Hyperbaton~, n. (Rhet.) Inversion, transposition of words.

~Hyperbole~, n. (Rhet.) Exaggeration.

~Hyperborean~, a. ~1.~ Most northern, far north.

~2.~ Very cold.

~Hypercritical~, a. Over-critical, captiously critical.

~Hypercriticism~, n. Captious criticism.

~Hypnotic~, a. Soporific, somniferous.

~Hypnotic~, n. Narcotic, soporific, anodyne, opiate.

~Hypnotism~, n. Sleepiness, lethargy.

~Hypochondria~, n. (Med.) MELANCHOLY, spleen, vapors, depression, dejection, ~hypochondriasis~, low spirits.

~Hypochondriac~, n. Seek-sorrow, self-tormentor.

~Hypochondriac~, a. MELANCHOLY, splenetic, dispirited, dejected, depressed.

~Hypochondriacal~, a. MELANCHOLY, splenetic, dispirited, dejected, depressed.

~Hypochondriasis~, n. (Med.) Melancholy, HYPOCHONDRIA.

~Hypocrisy~, n. ~1.~ Pharisaism, formalism, sanctimoniousness, cant, pietism, assumed piety.

~2.~ Dissimulation, deceit, deception, imposture, pretence, false profession.

~Hypocrite~, n. ~1.~ Pharisee, formalist, pietist, religionist, canter.

~2.~ Dissembler, deceiver, impostor, pretender, cheat.

~Hypocritic~, a. ~1.~ Pharisaical, canting, sanctimonious.

~2.~ Dissembling, insincere, false, hollow.

~Hypocritical~, a. ~1.~ Pharisaical, canting, sanctimonious.

~2.~ Dissembling, insincere, false, hollow.

~Hypogene rocks~, Primary rocks.

~Hypostasis~, n. ~1.~ Substance, subsistence.

~2.~ Person, personality.

~3.~ Principle, element.

~Hypostatic union~, Incarnation.

~Hypothecate~, v. a. Pledge (as ship, freight, cargo, &c., without delivery), mortgage.

~Hypothesis~, n. Supposition, theory.

~Hypothetic~, a. Conditional, that involves an hypothesis.

~Hypothetical~, a. Conditional, that involves an hypothesis.

~Hysteria~, n. (Med.) Hysterics.

~Hysteric~, a. ~1.~ Spasmodic.

~2.~ Affected with hysterics.

~Hysterical~, a. ~1.~ Spasmodic.

~2.~ Affected with hysterics.

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~Iambic~, n. ~1.~ Iambus.

~2.~ Iambic verse.

~Ibex~, n. Stein-boc (Capra ibex).

~Ibidem~, ad. [L.] In the same place.

~Ice~, n. ~1.~ Frozen water.

~2.~ Concreted sugar, icing, frosting.

~3.~ Ice-cream.

~Ice-cream~, n. Ice.

~Iceland crystal~, ICELAND SPAR.

~Iceland spar~, Calcareous spar, crystallized carbonate of lime, Iceland crystal.

~Ichnography~, n. Ground plan, horizontal section.

~Ichor~, n. ~1.~ (Myth.) Blood of the Gods.

~2.~ Serous humor.

~Ichorous~, a. Serous, watery, thin.

~Ichthyocol~, n. Isinglass, fish-glue, CARLOCK.

~Ichthyocolla~, n. Isinglass, fish-glue, CARLOCK.

~Icing~, n. Frosting, concreted sugar (for coating cake).

~Iconoclasm~, n. Image-breaking.

~Iconoclast~, n. Image-breaker.

~Icterus~, n. (Med.) Jaundice.

~Icy~, a. ~1.~ Glacial.

~2.~ Cold, chilling, frosty.

~3.~ Frigid, indifferent, cold-hearted.

~Idea~, n. ~1.~ [In the Platonic philosophy.] Archetype (conceived of as existing from eternity), pattern, model, exemplar, form, essence (common to many individual things and represented by a general term).

~2.~ Universal, concept, conception, notion, general or universal conception.

~3.~ Object of thought, image in the mind, mental representation of an object.

~4.~ Impression, apprehension, thought, fancy, conceit.

~5.~ Opinion, belief, supposition, judgment, sentiment.

~Ideal~, a. ~1.~ Intellectual, mental.

~2.~ Imaginary, unreal, fanciful, fantastic, fancied, illusory, chimerical, visionary, shadowy.

~Ideal~, n. Imaginary standard, ideal model of perfection.

~Ideality~, n. Imagination, conception, invention, fancy.

~Idem~, [L.] The same.

~Identical~, a. Same, selfsame, very same, one and the same, exactly the same, not different.

~Identify~, v. a. ~1.~ Prove to be identical, prove to be the same, ascertain to be the same.

~2.~ Make identical, regard as one, consider the same.

~Identify~, v. n. Become identical, be the same.

~Identity~, n. Sameness.

~Ideology~, n. Metaphysics, psychology, pneumatology, mental philosophy, science of the mind, science of ideas.

~Id est~, [L.] That is.

~Idiocrasy~, n. Peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, peculiar temperament.

~Idiocy~, n. Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, feebleness of intellect, want of understanding.

~Idiom~, n. ~1.~ Peculiar mode or turn of expression (sanctioned by use in any language).

~2.~ Genius (of a language), characteristic quality.

~3.~ Dialect.

~Idiomatic~, a. Peculiar (as respects any mode of expression).

~Idiomatical~, a. Peculiar (as respects any mode of expression).

~Idiosyncrasy~, n. Peculiarity (of constitution), idiocrasy, peculiar temperament.

~Idiot~, n. Fool, natural, natural fool.

~Idiotic~, a. Foolish, sottish.

~Idiotical~, a. Foolish, sottish.

~Idle~, a. ~1.~ Unemployed, unoccupied, unbusied, inactive.

~2.~ Indolent, lazy, slothful, sluggish, inert.

~3.~ Vacant, unused.

~4.~ Useless, ineffectual, bootless, fruitless, unavailing, vain, futile, abortive.

~5.~ Trifling, trivial, unimportant, trashy, foolish, unprofitable.

~Idle away~, Waste, spend in idleness.

~Idler~, n. Drone, sluggard, laggard, lounger, dawdler, trifler, doodle, slow-back, inefficient person.

~Idol~, n. ~1.~ Pagan deity, false god.

~2.~ Falsity.

~3.~ Favorite, pet, darling.

~Idolater~, n. ~1.~ Worshipper of idols.

~2.~ Adorer, great admirer.

~Idolatry~, n. ~1.~ Worship of idols.

~2.~ Excessive love, excessive veneration.

~Idolize~, v. a. ~1.~ Deify.

~2.~ Adore, reverence or love excessively.

~Idyl~, n. ~1.~ Bucolic, eclogue, pastoral, pastoral poem.

~2.~ Short poem (highly wrought).

~If~, conj. ~1.~ Suppose that, admitting that, allowing that.

~2.~ Whether, whether or not.

~Igneous~, a. Fiery.

~Ignis fatuus~, [L.] Jack-with-a-lantern, Jack-a-lantern, Will-with- the-wisp, Will-o'-the-wisp.

~Ignite~, v. a. Kindle, set fire to, set on fire.

~Ignite~, v. n. Kindle, take fire, catch fire.

~Ignoble~, a. ~1.~ Plebeian, vulgar, untitled, base-born, low-born, mean, low.

~2.~ Worthless, insignificant, mean, contemptible.

~3.~ Dishonorable, disgraceful, infamous, base.

~Ignominious~, a. Dishonorable, disgraceful, shameful, infamous, scandalous, disreputable, opprobrious.

~Ignominy~, n. Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, infamy, obloquy, contempt, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement.

~Ignoramus~, n. Sciolist, smatterer, novice, wiseacre, greenhorn, simpleton, numskull, DUNCE.

~Ignorance~, n. Illiteracy, nescience, darkness, blindness, want of knowledge.

~Ignorant~, a. Unlearned, uninstructed, uninformed, uneducated, untaught, unenlightened, blind, illiterate, unlettered, dark.

~Ignorant of~, Unaware of, unacquainted with.

~Ignore~, v. a. ~1.~ Regard as unknown, shut one's eyes to, leave out of view, not recognize, not take into account.

~2.~ (Law.) Reject, set aside.

~Ill~, a. ~1.~ Bad, evil, unfortunate, unfavorable.

~2.~ Wicked, wrong, iniquitous, naughty.

~3.~ Indisposed, ailing, unwell, sick, on the sick list, out of sorts, out of health, laid on the shelf, laid on the back, under the weather.

~Ill~, n. ~1.~ Wickedness, depravity, evil.

~2.~ Misfortune, calamity, misery, pain.

~Ill~, ad. ~1.~ Badly, not well.

~2.~ With difficulty, not easily.

~Ill-advised~, a. Injudicious, unwise, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd, foolish, ill-judged.

~Illation~, n. Inference, deduction, conclusion.

~Illative~, a. Inferential.

~Ill-bred~, a. Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, uncourtly, unpolished, uncouth, rude, ill-behaved, ill-mannered.

~Ill-breeding~, n. Impoliteness, incivility, rudeness, discourtesy, ill manners.

~Illegal~, a. Unlawful, illicit, unlicensed.

~Illegality~, n. Unlawfulness, illicitness.

~Illegible~, a. Unreadable, not readable.

~Illegitimate~, a. ~1.~ Unlawfully begotten, born out of wedlock.

~2.~ Spurious, not genuine.

~3.~ Unauthorized, unlawful, illicit, improper.

~Ill-fated~, a. Luckless, unlucky, unfortunate, ill-starred.

~Ill-favored~, a. Ugly, homely, plain, ill-looking.

~Ill-flavored~, a. Unsavory, unpalatable.

~Ill-humor~, n. Fretfulness, peevishness, petulance, testiness, ill- temper.

~Illiberal~, a. ~1.~ Parsimonious, stingy, miserly, niggardly, penurious, ungenerous, sordid, covetous, mean, selfish, close, close- fisted.

~2.~ Uncharitable, selfish, narrow, self-seeking, narrow-minded.

~Illicit~, a. Unlawful, illegal, unlicensed.

~Illimitable~, a. Boundless, infinite, unbounded, immense, vast.

~Illiteracy~, n. Ignorance, want of learning, want of literary culture.

~Illiterate~, a. Uninstructed (in books), unlettered, unlearned, untaught, ignorant.

~Ill-temper~, n. Moroseness, sullenness, sulkiness, crabbedness, crossness, perverseness, ill-nature, bad temper.

~Ill-judged~, a. Unwise, injudicious, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd, foolish, ill-advised.

~Ill-looking~, a. Ugly, homely, plain, ill-favored.

~Ill-mannered~, a. Impolite, uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, uncourtly, unpolished, uncouth, rude, ill-behaved, ill-bred.

~Ill-nature~, n. ~1.~ Malevolence, unkindness, hatred, enmity, ill- will.

~2.~ Moroseness, sullenness, ill-temper, bad temper.

~Ill-natured~, a. ~1.~ Malevolent, unkind, disobliging, unfriendly, unamiable.

~2.~ Morose, sullen, sulky, cross, churlish, crabbed, sour, perverse, wayward, crusty, petulant, cross-grained, ill-tempered.

~Illness~, n. Disease, sickness, indisposition, ailing, ailment, complaint, disorder, distemper.

~Illogical~, a. Sophistical, inconclusive, inconsequent, fallacious, incorrect, unsound.

~Illogicalness~, n. Inconsequence, inconclusiveness.

~Ill-proportioned~, a. Misshapen, misproportioned, shapeless, ill- shaped, ill-made.

~Ill-provided~, a. Ill-furnished, scantily supplied.

~Ill-spent~, a. Wasted.

~Ill-starred~, a. Unlucky, luckless, unfortunate, ill-fated.

~Ill-temper~, n. Moroseness, ILL-NATURE.

~Ill-tempered~, a. Morose, ILL-NATURED.

~Ill-timed~, a. Unseasonable, untimely, inopportune, inapposite, irrelevant, out of place.

~Ill-treat~, v. a. Maltreat, injure, abuse, ill-use.

~Ill-turn~, n. ~1.~ Unkind act.

~2.~ [Colloquial.] Slight illness.

~Illude~, v. a. Mock, deceive, disappoint, cheat, balk, dupe.

~Illume~, v. a. [Poetical.] Illuminate.

~Illuminate~, v. a. ~1.~ Enlighten, illumine, illume, supply with light.

~2.~ Adorn with lights (as a building), light up.

~3.~ Adorn with colored letters.

~Illumine~, v. a. Enlighten, illuminate, illume, supply with light.

~Illusion~, n. Delusion, hallucination, deception, error, fallacy, mockery, fantasy, phantasm, chimera, false show.

~Illusive~, a. Deceptive, deceitful, delusive, fallacious.

~Illusory~, a. Deceptive, deceitful, delusive, fallacious.

~Illustrate~, v. a. ~1.~ Elucidate, explain, exemplify, make clear, make plain, throw light upon.

~2.~ Adorn with pictures.

~Illustration~, n. ~1.~ Elucidation, explanation, exemplification.

~2.~ Illustrative picture.

~Illustrative~, a. Explanatory.

~Illustrious~, a. ~1.~ Glorious, splendid, brilliant, bright, radiant.

~2.~ Famous, famed, noted, distinguished, renowned, celebrated, conspicuous, eminent, signal, remarkable.

~Ill-will~, n. Malevolence, unkindness, enmity, hatred, rancor, uncharitableness, ill-nature.

~Image~, n. ~1.~ Statue.

~2.~ Idol, object of worship.

~3.~ Likeness, effigy, figure, similitude, resemblance, picture, representation of an object (real or fancied).

~4.~ Trope, figurative expression.

~Image~, v. a. ~1.~ Form an image of.

~2.~ IMAGINE, fancy, picture.

~Imagery~, n. ~1.~ Phantasm, phantom, vision, dream, fanciful forms.

~2.~ Tropes, figures of speech, figurative language.

~Imaginable~, a. Conceivable.

~Imaginary~, a. Visionary, ideal, fancied, fanciful, chimerical, dreamy, unreal, shadowy, wild, Quixotic, Utopian.

~Imagination~, n. Conception (united with the faculty of recombining ideas so as to form a new creation), invention, ideality, FANCY, creative power, plastic power.

~Imaginative~, a. Inventive, creative, poetical.

~Imagine~, v. a. ~1.~ Conceive, image, fancy, picture, picture to one's self, figure to one's self.

~2.~ Think, apprehend, suppose, believe, deem.

~3.~ Devise, contrive, plot, scheme, project, frame.

~Imagine~, v. n. Suppose, think, opine, fancy, dream, take it into one's head, have a notion.

~Imbecile~, a. ~1.~ Weak, feeble, infirm, helpless, decrepit.

~2.~ Foolish, witless, drivelling, idiotic, fatuous.

~Imbecile~, n. Dotard, feeble person.

~Imbecility~, n. ~1.~ Weakness, feebleness, debility, infirmity, helplessness.

~2.~ Foolishness, childishness, idiocy, fatuity.

~Imbibe~, v. a. ~1.~ Absorb, take in, suck in, suck up, swallow up.

~2.~ Receive, gather, acquire, gain, get, pick up.

~Imbitter~, v. a. [Written also Embitter.] ~1.~ Make bitter.

~2.~ Make unhappy or grievous.

~3.~ Exasperate, madden, enrage.

~Imbosom~, v. a. ~1.~ Hold in the bosom.

~2.~ Enclose, surround.

~Imbricate~, a. (Bot.) Overlapping.

~Imbricated~, a. (Bot.) Overlapping.

~Imbroglio~, n. [It.] ~1.~ Intricate plot.

~2.~ Complication, complexity, entanglement, embarrassing situation.

~Imbrue~, v. a. Wet, moisten, steep, soak, drench.

~Imbrute~, v. a. Brutify.

~Imbue~, v. a. ~1.~ Tinge, dye, stain, tint, tincture, color.

~2.~ Impregnate, inoculate, infuse.

~Imitate~, v. a. ~1.~ Copy, follow, pattern after.

~2.~ Mimic, ape, mock, personate, impersonate, take off.

~3.~ Parody, travesty, turn into burlesque.

~Imitation~, n. ~1.~ Copying, imitating.

~2.~ Copy, resemblance, likeness.

~3.~ Mimicry, mocking.

~4.~ Parody, travesty.

~Imitative~, a. ~1.~ Imitating, copying.

~2.~ Mimicking, aping, apish.

~Imitator~, n. Copyist.

~Immaculate~, a. ~1.~ Spotless, unspotted, stainless, unsullied, unsoiled, untainted, unblemished, untarnished, undefiled, clean, pure.

~2.~ Innocent, guiltless, sinless, faultless.

~Immanence~, n. Inherence, indwelling.

~Immanent~, a. Intrinsic, inherent, internal, subjective, indwelling.

~Immaterial~, a. ~1.~ Incorporeal, unbodied, spiritual.

~2.~ Unimportant, insignificant, unessential, non-essential, of no importance, of no consequence.

~Immateriality~, n. Spirituality, incorporsity.

~Immaterialness~, n. Spirituality, incorporsity.

~Immature~, a. ~1.~ Unripe, crude, green, raw, unformed, unprepared, rudimental, imperfect, unfinished.

~2.~ Premature, untimely, unseasonable, out of season.

~Immatureness~, a. Unripeness, crudeness, crudity, incompleteness, greenness, rawness.

~Immaturity~, a. Unripeness, crudeness, crudity, incompleteness, greenness, rawness.

~Immeasurable~, a. Illimitable, limitless, boundless, unbounded, measureless, immense, infinite.

~Immediate~, a. ~1.~ Proximate, close.

~2.~ Direct, without other agency.

~3.~ Instantaneous, instant, present.

~Immediately~, ad. ~1.~ Closely, proximately.

~2.~ Directly, without any intervention.

~3.~ Instantly, INSTANTER, forthwith, just now, without delay, this moment.

~Immemorial~, a. Beyond memory, that cannot be remembered.

~Immense~, a. ~1.~ Illimitable, boundless, unbounded, unlimited, measureless, infinite.

~2.~ Vast, enormous, prodigious, huge, gigantic, colossal, Cyclopean, Herculean, very great.

~Immensity~, n. ~1.~ Infinity, infinitude, boundlessness.

~2.~ Vastness, hugeness.

~Immerge~, v. a. IMMERSE.

~Immerse~, v. a. ~1.~ Dip, plunge, immerge, submerge, overwhelm, douse, souse, duck.

~2.~ Involve, engage, absorb.

~Immersion~, n. ~1.~ Dipping, plunging.

~2.~ Engagement, absorption.

~3.~ (Astron.) Disappearance, occultation.

~Immesh~, v. a. Entangle (as in the meshes of a net), ensnare.

~Immethodical~, a. Unsystematic, irregular, unmethodical, confused, desultory, disorderly.

~Immethodically~, ad. Irregularly, confusedly, pellmell, helter- skelter.

~Imminent~, a. Impending, threatening, impendent, near at hand.

~Immitigable~, a. Not to be mitigated, that cannot be mitigated.

~Immobility~, n. Unmovableness, immovableness, immovability.

~Immoderate~, a. Inordinate, excessive, unreasonable, extravagant, exorbitant, intemperate.

~Immodest~, a. ~1.~ Indelicate, indecent, shameless, indecorous, gross, coarse.

~2.~ Impure, obscene, smutty, lewd, unchaste, filthy.

~Immodesty~, n. ~1.~ Indecency, indecorum, grossness, coarseness.

~2.~ Impurity, obscenity, lewdness, unchastity, smuttiness.

~Immolate~, v. a. Sacrifice, offer up, offer in sacrifice, kill as a victim.

~Immolation~, n. ~1.~ Sacrifice.

~2.~ Sacrificial victim.

~Immoral~, a. Wicked, vicious, sinful, unprincipled, dishonest, unjust, depraved, corrupt, profligate, dissolute.

~Immorality~, n. Wickedness, vice, sin, dishonesty, depravity, corruption, demoralization, sinfulness, criminality, profligacy, want of principle.

~Immortal~, a. ~1.~ Undying, deathless, ever-living, imperishable, incorruptible, unfading, indestructible, enduring, never-dying.

~2.~ Eternal, everlasting, endless, perpetual, ceaseless, never-ending.

~Immortality~, n. ~1.~ Exemption from death, endless life.

~2.~ Perpetuity, unlimited existence.

~3.~ Perpetual fame, exemption from oblivion.

~Immortalize~, v. a. ~1.~ Exempt from death, make immortal.

~2.~ Perpetuate, make everlasting.

~3.~ Perpetuate in memory, exempt from oblivion, make ever famous.

~Immortelle~, n. [Fr.] Cudweed, everlasting, goldylocks.

~Immovable~, a. ~1.~ Fixed, firm, stable, not to be moved.

~2.~ Steadfast, unshaken, unalterable, unchangeable.

~3.~ (Law.) Real.

~Immunity~, n. ~1.~ Freedom, exemption, release, exoneration.

~2.~ Privilege, prerogative, right, liberty, charter, franchise.

~Immure~, v. a. ~1.~ Confine, shut up.

~2.~ Imprison, incarcerate.

~Immutability~, n. Unchangeableness, invariableness, invariability, constancy, permanence, stability.

~Immutable~, a. Unchangeable, invariable, unalterable, undeviating, constant, permanent, stable.

~Imp~, n. Sprite, hobgoblin, FLIBBERTIGIBBET, little demon or devil, malignant spirit.

~Impact~, n. Impulse, collision, shock.

~Impair~, v. a. ~1.~ Deteriorate, injure, vitiate, make worse.

~2.~ Lessen, diminish, decrease, make less.

~3.~ Weaken, enfeeble, enervate.

~Impalpable~, a. ~1.~ Intangible, very fine, not palpable, not to be felt, not perceptible by the touch.

~2.~ Imperceptible, shadowy, unsubstantial.

~Impart~, v. a. ~1.~ Give, grant, bestow, CONFER, share.

~2.~ Communicate, divulge, disclose, reveal, tell, make known.

~Impartial~, a. Unbiassed, unprejudiced, disinterested, equitable, just, fair, honorable, even-handed.

~Impartiality~, n. Disinterestedness, equitableness, justice, fairness, honor, honorableness, fair play.

~Impassable~, a. Impervious, impermeable, impenetrable, pathless.

~Impassibility~, n. Impassiveness, insensibility.

~Impassible~, a. Impassive, insensible, incapable of suffering.

~Impassioned~, a. Passionate, vehement, impetuous, glowing, intense, excited, animated, fervid, fervent, zealous, warm, ardent.

~Impassive~, a. Impassible, insensible.

~Impatience~, n. ~1.~ Disquietude, restlessness, uneasiness.

~2.~ Vehemence, impetuosity, haste, eagerness, precipitation.

~Impatient~, a. ~1.~ Unquiet, uneasy, restless.

~2.~ Hasty, precipitate, vehement, impetuous, eager.

~Impecunious~, a. [Rare.] Moneyless, penniless, out of money, short of money.

~Impecuniosity~, n. [Rare.] Want of money.

~Impawn~, v. a. Pledge, pawn.

~Impeach~, v. a. ~1.~ Accuse, charge, indict, arraign, criminate.

~2.~ Censure, denounce, call in question.

~Impeachment~, n. ~1.~ Accusation, indictment, charge, arraignment, crimination.

~2.~ Censure, blame, reproach, imputation.

~Impeccability~, n. Sinlessness, faultlessness, immaculateness, innocence, purity.

~Impeccable~, a. Sinless, faultless, immaculate.

~Impede~, v. a. Hinder, obstruct, stop, clog, check, retard, delay, interrupt, thwart, restrain, block.

~Impediment~, n. Hinderance, obstruction, obstacle, check, bar, difficulty, stumbling-block.

~Impel~, v. a. ~1.~ Drive, push, urge, put in motion, press on, urge forward.

~2.~ Induce, move, persuade, influence, instigate, incite, actuate, set on, stir up.

~Impend~, v. n. Threaten, hang over, be imminent, be at hand, be in store, stare one in the face.

~Impendent~, a. Impending, threatening, imminent, near at hand.

~Impenetrable~, a. Not to be penetrated, not to be pierced.

~Impenitence~, n. Obduracy, hardness of heart, seared conscience.

~Impenitency~, n. Obduracy, hardness of heart, seared conscience.

~Impenitent~, a. Uncontrite, unrepentant, obdurate, hardened, seared, lost, recusant, relentless, graceless, shameless, incorrigible, irreclaimable.

~Imperative~, a. ~1.~ Commanding, authoritative, peremptory.

~2.~ Binding, obligatory.

~Imperceptible~, a. ~1.~ Invisible, undiscernible, not to be perceived.

~2.~ Fine, minute, very small.

~Imperfect~, a. ~1.~ Defective, incomplete, faulty, not entire.

~2.~ Weak, frail, erring.

~Imperfection~, n. ~1.~ Defect, fault, blemish, stain.

~2.~ Weakness, frailty, foible, failing, vice.

~Imperial~, a. Kingly, regal, royal, sovereign.

~Imperious~, a. Dictatorial, magisterial, domineering, tyrannical, despotic, overbearing, lordly, haughty, arrogant.

~Imperishable~, a. Indestructible, everlasting, unfading, eternal, perennial, immortal, never-ending.

~Impermeable~, a. Impervious, impenetrable, impassable.

~Impersonate~, v. a. ~1.~ Personate, imitate, ape, mimic, mock, take off.

~2.~ Incarnate, invest with personality.

~Impersonation~, n. Incarnation, bodily manifestation, investment with personality.

~Impertinence~, n. ~1.~ Irrelevance, irrelevancy.

~2.~ Rudeness, intrusiveness, impudence, insolence, incivility, sauciness, forwardness, boldness, presumption, effrontery, pertness, assurance, face, front, brass, CHEEK, brazen face.

~Impertinency~, n. ~1.~ Irrelevance, irrelevancy.

~2.~ Rudeness, intrusiveness, impudence, insolence, incivility, sauciness, forwardness, boldness, presumption, effrontery, pertness, assurance, face, front, brass, CHEEK, brazen face.

~Impertinent~, a. ~1.~ Irrelevant, inapposite, not applicable, not to the point, not pertaining to the matter in hand, not pertinent.

~2.~ Intrusive, meddling, officious, insolent, rude, impudent, saucy, forward, pert, bold, malapert, unmannerly.

~Imperturbability~, n. Calmness, coolness, composure, collectedness, equanimity, placidity.

~Imperturbable~, a. Calm, cool, composed, unmoved, undisturbed, tranquil, unruffled, collected, placid, inexcitable, sedate, not to be disturbed.

~Impervious~, a. Impermeable, impenetrable, impassable.

~Impetuosity~, n. Vehemence, violence, fury, precipitancy, precipitation, haste.

~Impetuous~, a. Vehement, violent, furious, fierce, passionate, precipitate, hasty, hot, over-zealous.

~Impetus~, n. Momentum.

~Impiety~, n. Irreverence, ungodliness, irreligion, wickedness, unrighteousness, sinfulness, iniquity, unholiness, profanity.

~Impinge~, v. n. Strike, hit, fall against, strike against, dash against, clash upon, collide with.

~Impious~, a. Irreverent, ungodly, irreligious, blasphemous, wicked, sinful, unrighteous, unholy, iniquitous, profane.

~Implacability~, n. Malice, vindictiveness, rancor, inexorableness, relentlessness, cruelty.

~Implacable~, a. Malicious, vindictive, inexorable, unrelenting, relentless, rancorous, unappeasable, cruel.

~Implacableness~, n. IMPLACABILITY.

~Implant~, v. a. ~1.~ Engraft, infix, set, put, place.

~2.~ Instil, infuse, inculcate.

~Implement~, n. Instrument, tool, utensil.

~Implicate~, v. a. ~1.~ Infold, entangle.

~2.~ Involve, make participator, prove to be concerned, bring into connection with.

~Implication~, n. ~1.~ Involution, entanglement.

~2.~ Tacit inference, necessary conclusion.

~Implicit~, a. ~1.~ Implied, inferred, understood, tacit.

~2.~ Unreserved, unhesitating, firm, undoubting, steadfast, unshaken.

~Implicitly~, ad. ~1.~ Impliedly, virtually, by inference, by implication.

~2.~ Unreservedly, with unshaken confidence, without hesitation.

~Implore~, v. a. ~1.~ Entreat, supplicate, beseech, pray, pray to.

~2.~ Crave, solicit, beg, pray for, petition for.

~Imply~, v. a. Involve (as a consequence), include (by implication), import, signify, mean.

~Impolicy~, n. Imprudence, indiscretion, folly, bad policy.

~Impolite~, a. Uncivil, uncourteous, discourteous, unpolished, rude, ungentlemanly, rough, boorish, savage, bearish.

~Impolitic~, a. Imprudent, injudicious, indiscreet, ill-advised, ill- judged.

~Imporous~, a. Close, compact, dense, solid, without pores.

~Import~, v. a. ~1.~ Bring into (a country from abroad).

~2.~ Imply, denote, purport, signify, betoken, mean.

~3.~ Concern, be of importance to, be of consequence to, be of interest to.

~Import~, n. ~1.~ Signification, meaning, purport, import, sense, drift, gist, spirit, bearing, tenor, intention.

~2.~ Imported merchandise.

~3.~ Importance, consequence, weight, moment, significance.

~Importance~, n. Consequence, weight, moment, significance, import, concern.

~Important~, a. Weighty, momentous, grave, serious, material, significant, of importance, of moment, of great weight.

~Importation~, n. ~1.~ Importing.

~2.~ Import, merchandise imported.

~Importunate~, a. Urgent, pertinacious, pressing, teasing, busy, earnestly solicitous.

~Importune~, v. a. Press (by entreaty), urge (by repeated requests), beset, entreat, dun, solicit earnestly.

~Importunity~, n. Entreaty, urgency, insistence, pressing solicitation.

~Impose~, v. a. ~1.~ Put, lay, set, place.

~2.~ Prescribe, enjoin, appoint.

~3.~ Obtrude, palm, pass off.

~Impose on~, Deceive, cheat, chouse, trick, befool, hoax, dupe, delude, circumvent, diddle, play upon, put upon.

~Impose upon~, Deceive, cheat, chouse, trick, befool, hoax, dupe, delude, circumvent, diddle, play upon, put upon.

~Imposing~, a. Grand, stately, august, majestic, impressive, noble, commanding.

~Imposition~, n. ~1.~ Imposing.

~2.~ Constraint, oppression, burden, charge, injunction, levy, tax.

~3.~ Deception, fraud, trickery, artifice, IMPOSTURE, cheating.

~Impossibility~, n. ~1.~ Impracticability.

~2.~ What cannot be, thing impossible.

~Impossible~, a. Impracticable, unfeasible, unattainable, unachievable, not feasible, not possible, out of the question.

~Impost~, n. Tax, duty, custom, excise, toll, tribute, rate.

~Imposthume~, n. Abscess, gathering, ulcer, fester, sore, pustule.

~Impostor~, n. Deceiver, pretender, cheat, rogue, trickster, tricker, knave, hypocrite, Pharisee, quack, charlatan, mountebank, double-dealer.

~Imposture~, n. Cheat, trick, deception, imposition, hoax, fraud, delusion, artifice, ruse, dodge, wile, deceit, stratagem, BAM, chouse, clap-trap, crafty device.

~Impotence~, n. Inability, disability, incapacity, incapability, incompetence, inefficiency, weakness, feebleness, imbecility, infirmity, frailty.

~Impotent~, a. Powerless, unable, incapable, incompetent, disabled, incapacitated, imbecile, weak, feeble, infirm, frail, inefficient.

~Impound~, v. a. ~1.~ Put into a pound.

~2.~ Confine, incage, imprison, shut up, coop up.

~Impoverish~, v. a. ~1.~ Make poor, bring to want, reduce to poverty, reduce to indigence.

~2.~ Exhaust the fertility of, make sterile.

~Impracticability~, n. Impossibility, infeasibility, impracticableness.

~Impracticable~, a. ~1.~ Impossible, unfeasible, not practicable.

~2.~ Hard to deal with, hard to get along with.

~3.~ Impassable (as a road).

~Impracticableness~, n. Impracticability.

~Imprecate~, v. a. Invoke (a curse or some evil).

~Imprecation~, n. ~1.~ Invocation (of evil).

~2.~ Curse, malediction, execration, denunciation, anathema.

~Impregnable~, a. Unassailable, inexpugnable, not to be taken by assault, not to be stormed, secure from capture, tenable against all odds.

~Impregnate~, v. a. ~1.~ Fecundate, make pregnant, get with child.

~2.~ Imbue, infuse, saturate, fill, tincture.

~3.~ (Bot.) Fertilize, make prolific.

~Impregnation~, n. ~1.~ Fecundation.

~2.~ Infusion, saturation, tincture.

~Impress~, v. a. ~1.~ Stamp, print, imprint, mark by pressure.

~2.~ Inculcate, fix deeply.

~3.~ Press, force into public service.

~Impress~, n. ~1.~ Print, imprint, stamp, impression, mark, seal.

~2.~ Device (as upon a seal), motto, cognizance, symbol, emblem.

~Impressibility~, n. ~1.~ Susceptibility to impression.

~2.~ Sensitiveness, sensibility.

~Impressible~, a. ~1.~ Susceptible of impression.

~2.~ Sensitive, easily affected.

~Impression~, n. ~1.~ Printing, imprinting, stamping.

~2.~ Mark, stamp, impress, brand.

~3.~ Sensation, influence, effect.

~4.~ Notion, opinion, idea, fancy, indistinct recollection.

~5.~ Edition (of a book), number (of copies) printed at once.

~Impressive~, a. Affecting, touching, moving, stirring, powerful.

~Imprimatur~, n. [L.] License to print.

~Imprimis~, ad. [L.] In the first place, first of all, first in order.

~Imprint~, v. a. ~1.~ Print, stamp, mark by pressure.

~2.~ Impress, inculcate, fix deeply.

~Imprison~, v. a. Incarcerate, immure, impound, confine, commit, shut up.

~Imprisonment~, n. Incarceration, confinement, commitment, restraint, constraint, duress, durance.

~Improbability~, n. Unlikelihood.

~Improbable~, a. Unlikely, not probable.

~Improbity~, n. Dishonesty, disingenuousness, unfairness, baseness, knavery, faithlessness, bad faith.

~Impromptu~, a. Extempore, unpremeditated, off-hand.

~Impromptu~, ad. Extempore, off-hand, without premeditation.

~Impromptu~, n. Improvisation, extemporaneous effusion.

~Improper~, a. ~1.~ Unsuitable, unsuited, unfit, unapt, inapposite, inappropriate, unadapted, not proper.

~2.~ Unseemly, unbecoming, indecent, indecorous.

~3.~ Inaccurate, incorrect, erroneous, wrong.

~Impropriety~, n. ~1.~ Unsuitableness, unfitness.

~2.~ Unseemliness, indecency, indecorum.

~3.~ Inaccuracy, incorrectness.

~Improve~, v. a. ~1.~ Amend, mend, better, meliorate, ameliorate, make better.

~2.~ Use, make use of, turn to account, avail one's self of.

~3.~ Make a good use of, turn to good account, employ advantageously, make productive.

~4.~ Apply practically (as the doctrines of a discourse).

~Improve~, v. n. ~1.~ Mend, become better, get better, get on, gain ground, pick up.

~2.~ Make progress, take a step forward.

~3.~ (Com.) Increase, rise, be enhanced.

~Improve on~, Make better, make improvement in, bring nearer to perfection.

~Improvement~, n. ~1.~ Amendment, melioration, amelioration, betterment, progress, proficiency, advancement.

~2.~ Good use, beneficial employment.

~3.~ Practical application (as of a doctrine). ~Improvidence~, n. Shiftlessness, imprudence, want of forethought, carelessness of the future, neglect of preparation.

~Improvident~, a. Shiftless, imprudent, prodigal, wasteful, without forecast, without foresight, careless of the future.

~Improvisate~, v. a. & n. Improvise, speak extempore (in verse).

~Improvisation~, n. ~1.~ Improvising.

~2.~ Impromptu.

~Improvise~, v. a. & n. Improvisate, speak extempore.

~Imprudence~, n. Indiscretion, heedlessness, carelessness, rashness, inconsiderateness, improvidence, want of forethought.

~Imprudent~, a. Indiscreet, inconsiderate, incautious, injudicious, improvident, careless, rash, unadvised.

~Impudence~, n. Insolence, assurance, presumption, boldness, shamelessness, effrontery, rudeness, impertinence, sauciness, pertness, flippancy, brass, front, face, CHEEK.

~Impudent~, a. Insolent, insulting, presumptuous, bold, shameless, impertinent, rude, saucy, pert, flippant, cool, brazen, forward, bold- faced, brazen-faced.

~Impugn~, v. a. Attack, assail, oppose, resist, contradict, gainsay, call in question.

~Impulse~, n. ~1.~ Thrust, push, impelling force.

~2.~ Passion, instinct, sudden thought.

~3.~ Incitement, instigation, motive, influence.

~Impulsive~, a. ~1.~ Impelling, moving.

~2.~ Passionate, rash, quick, hot, hasty.

~Impunity~, n. ~1.~ Exemption from punishment.

~2.~ Exemption from injury.

~Impure~, a. ~1.~ Foul, unclean, dirty, filthy, feculent.

~2.~ Obscene, indecent, lewd, smutty, ribald, bawdy, coarse, immodest, gross, vulgar, indelicate, loose.

~Impurity~, n. ~1.~ Foulness, uncleanness, feculence.

~2.~ Obscenity, indecency, immodesty, ribaldry, smuttiness, smut, bawdiness.

~3.~ Coarseness, grossness, lowness, vulgarity.

~Imputable~, a. Attributable, referrible, chargeable, traceable, owing, to be imputed, to be charged, to be attributed.

~Imputation~, n. ~1.~ Imputing, attributing.

~2.~ Charge, accusation, censure, reproach, blame.

~Impute~, v. a. Ascribe (especially to some evil cause), attribute, refer, charge, consider as due.

~Inability~, n. ~1.~ Incapacity, incapability, impotence, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, want of power, want of capacity.

~2.~ Disability, disqualification.

~In a box~, In a perplexity, in a difficulty, in a dilemma, in an embarrassing position.

~Inaccessible~, a. ~1.~ Unapproachable, not to be reached.

~2.~ Unattainable.

~Inaccuracy~, n. Incorrectness, mistake, blunder, error, inadvertence.

~Inaccurate~, a. Incorrect, inexact, erroneous.

~Inaction~, n. INACTIVITY, inertness.

~Inactive~, a. Inert, lazy, indolent, idle, slothful, supine, torpid, sluggish, dronish, lumpish, passive, Fabian.

~Inactivity~, n. Inaction, inertness, laziness, indolence, idleness, sloth, supineness, torpor, torpidity, sluggishness, Fabian policy.

~Inadequacy~, n. ~1.~ Insufficiency, inadequateness.

~2.~ Incompleteness, defectiveness.

~Inadequate~, a. ~1.~ Insufficient, unequal, disproportionate.

~2.~ Incomplete, defective.

~Inadequateness~, n. Inadequacy.

~Inadmissible~, a. Not to be admitted, not to be allowed.

~In advance~, ~1.~ Before, in front.

~2.~ Beforehand.

~3.~ To be credited for money advanced.

~Inadvertence~, n. ~1.~ Inattention, inconsiderateness, carelessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness, negligence.

~2.~ Error, mistake, blunder, oversight, inaccuracy.

~Inadvertency~, n. ~1.~ Inattention, inconsiderateness, carelessness, thoughtlessness, heedlessness, negligence.

~2.~ Error, mistake, blunder, oversight, inaccuracy.

~Inadvertent~, a. Inattentive, thoughtless, careless, heedless, inconsiderate, unobservant, negligent.

~Inadvertently~, ad. Thoughtlessly, inconsiderately, carelessly, heedlessly, negligently, in an unguarded moment.

~Inalienable~, a. Not to be alienated, not transferable.

~Inane~, a. ~1.~ Empty, void.

~2.~ Vain, frivolous, trifling, puerile.

~Inane~, n. [Rare.] Void, vacuity, vacuum, empty space.

~Inanimate~, a. Lifeless, dead, inert, soulless, spiritless.

~Inanition~, n. Emptiness, vacuity, inanity.

~Inanity~, n. ~1.~ Emptiness, vacuity, inanition.

~2.~ Vanity, frivolousness, puerility.

~In an under tone~, Softly, with bated breath, in a low voice, in a low tone, sotto voce.

~In a nut shell~, In a small compass, IN NUCE.

~Inapplicability~, n. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inaptness, inaptitude.

~Inapplicable~, a. Unfit, unsuitable, irrelevant, inapt, INAPPOSITE.

~Inapposite~, a. Unfit, unsuitable, irrelevant, inapplicable, inapt, impertinent, not pertinent, out of place, not in keeping, not to the purpose.

~Inappreciable~, a. Not appreciable, not to be appreciated.

~Inappropriate~, a. Unfit, unsuited, unsuitable, unadapted, unbecoming, out of character, out of keeping, out of place, in bad taste.

~Inapt~, a. Unfit, unsuitable, INAPPOSITE.

~Inaptitude~, n. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inappropriateness, inapplicability.

~Inaptness~, n. Unfitness, unsuitableness, inappropriateness, inapplicability.

~Inarticulate~, a. ~1.~ Indistinct.

~2.~ (Zoöl.) Inarticulated, not jointed.

~Inarticulated~, a. (Zoöl.) INARTICULATE.

~Inartificial~, a. ~1.~ Natural, not made by art.

~2.~ Artless, ingenuous, NAÏVE, guileless, sincere, simple-minded, single-minded.

~Inasmuch as~, Since, seeing that, considering that.

~Inattention~, n. Inadvertence, heedlessness, thoughtlessness, inconsiderateness, carelessness, neglect, absence of mind.

~Inattentive~, a. Unobservant, unobserving, unmindful, inadvertent, heedless, thoughtless, regardless, careless, negligent, remiss, unwatchful, inconsiderate, absent, absent-minded, caught napping.

~Inaudible~, a. ~1.~ Not audible, not to be heard.

~2.~ Still, silent, mute, noiseless.

~Inaugurate~, v. a. ~1.~ Install, invest with an office, introduce into an office, induct into office.

~2.~ Celebrate the institution of, introduce with fitting ceremonies.

~3.~ Commence, begin.

~Inauguration~, n. ~1.~ Investiture, installation, ceremony of induction or of consecration.

~2.~ Ceremony of institution, ceremony of initiation.

~3.~ Commencement, beginning, inauguration.

~Inauspicious~, a. Unpropitious, unfavorable, unlucky, unfortunate, untoward, unpromising, ill-omened.

~In bad odor~, In disgrace, out of favor, in disrepute.

~In black and white~, In writing (or in print), set down distinctly.

~Inborn~, a. Innate, inherent, inbred, natural, instinctive, congenital, ingrained, in the grain, bred in the bone.

~In brief~, Concisely, briefly, in short, in a few words.

~In bulk~, ~1.~ In a mass, in an entire state.

~2.~ Loose in the hold, not in packages.

~Incage~, v. a. ~1.~ Put into a cage.

~2.~ Confine, impound, imprison, shut up, coop up.

~Incalculable~, a. Not to be calculated, not to be reckoned, beyond calculation.

~Incalescence~, n. Calefaction, warmth, incipient heat.

~Incalescency~, n. Calefaction, warmth, incipient heat.

~Incandescence~, n. White heat.

~Incandescent~, a. White-hot.

~Incantation~, n. Conjuration, sorcery, charm, spell, enchantment, magic, necromancy, witchery, witchcraft.

~Incapability~, n. Incapacity, inability, disability, incompetence.

~Incapable of~, ~1.~ Without capacity for, unable to, incompetent for, not capable of.

~2.~ Not susceptible of, not admitting of.

~Incapacious~, a. Narrow, scant, of small capacity, not ample, not capacious.

~Incapacitate~, v. a. ~1.~ Disable, make incapable.

~2.~ Disqualify, unfit, make unfit.

~Incapacity~, n. ~1.~ Inability, incapability, disability, incompetency.

~2.~ Disqualification, unfitness.

~Incarcerate~, v. a. IMPRISON, commit, put in prison.

~Incarceration~, n. IMPRISONMENT, confinement, commitment.

~Incarnate~, v. a. Clothe with flesh, embody in flesh.

~Incarnation~, n. ~1.~ Incarnating.

~2.~ Hypostatic union.

~3.~ Impersonation, personification, exemplification, bodily manifestation.

~Incautious~, a. Unwary, heedless, careless, reckless, headlong, neglectful, negligent, uncircumspect, imprudent, inconsiderate.

~Incendiary~, a. Inflammatory, seditious, factious.

~Incendiary~, n. ~1.~ Burner of buildings.

~2.~ Firebrand, political agitator.

~Incense~, v. a. Enrage, exasperate, inflame, irritate, provoke, anger, chafe, make angry.

~Incense~, n. Perfume (exhaled by a burning substance).

~Incentive~, n. Incitement, inducement, stimulus, impulse, spur, provocative, goad, motive, cause, encouragement.

~Inception~, n. Beginning, commencement, inauguration.

~Inceptive~, a. Inchoative, that denotes a beginning.

~Incertitude~, n. Uncertainty, doubtfulness, ambiguity.

~Incessant~, a. Ceaseless, unceasing, uninterrupted, unremitting, continual, perpetual, constant.

~Inch~, n. Twelfth part of a foot.

~Inchoate~, a. Beginning, commencing, incipient.

~Inchoative~, a. Inceptive, that denotes a beginning.

~Incident~, a. ~1.~ Happening, liable to happen.

~2.~ Belonging, pertaining, appertaining, relating.

~3.~ (Optics.) Falling, impinging.

~Incident~, n. Event, occurrence, circumstance.

~Incidental~, a. ~1.~ Accidental, casual, fortuitous, contingent.

~2.~ Occasional, adventitious, extraneous, non-essential.

~Incinerate~, v. a. Burn to ashes.

~Incipience~, n. Beginning, commencement.

~Incipiency~, n. Beginning, commencement.

~Incipient~, a. Beginning, commencing, inchoate.

~Incised~, a. (Bot.) Cut.

~Incision~, n. Cut, gash.

~Incisive~, a. ~1.~ Cutting.

~2.~ Sharp, acute, sarcastic, satirical, severe, biting.

~Incisor~, n. Cutting tooth.

~Incite~, v. a. Rouse (to action), arouse, animate, provoke, stimulate, impel, prompt, urge, encourage, spur, goad, excite, set on, spur on, stir up, work up.

~Incitement~, n. Inducement, stimulus, impulse, spur, provocative, incentive, motive, encouragement, goad.

~Incivility~, n. Discourtesy, rudeness, impoliteness, uncourteousness, uncourtliness, inurbanity, unmannerliness, disrespect, ill-breeding.

~Inclemency~, n. Severity, rigor, harshness, boisterousness, storminess, tempestuousness, roughness.

~Inclement~, a. Severe, rigorous, harsh, boisterous, stormy, rough, not mild.

~Inclination~, n. ~1.~ Inclining, leaning, slope, slant, bend.

~2.~ Trending, verging, oblique direction.

~3.~ Disposition, predilection, predisposition, bent, bias, proneness, proclivity, tendency, leaning, aptitude, propensity, PENCHANT.

~4.~ Desire, wish, partiality, fondness, liking.

~Incline~, v. n. ~1.~ Lean, slope, slant.

~2.~ Trend, verge, tend obliquely.

~3.~ Be disposed, have a disposition, have a desire, feel a propensity.

~Incline~, v. a. ~1.~ Give a direction towards.

~2.~ Dispose, predispose, turn, bias.

~3.~ Bend, bow.

~Inclose~, v. a. [Written also Enclose.] ~1.~ Encircle, surround, encompass, imbosom, circumscribe, shut in, fence in.

~2.~ Cover, envelop, wrap.

~Include~, v. a. ~1.~ Hold, contain.

~2.~ Comprise, comprehend, contain, embrace, embody, take in.

~Inclusive~, a. ~1.~ Inclosing, encircling.

~2.~ Including both, both being included.

~Incog~, a. [Colloquial.] INCOGNITO.

~Incognito~, a. [L.] Unknown (in one's true character), disguised, in disguise, in an assumed character.

~Incoherence~, n. ~1.~ Looseness (of parts), want of cohesion.

~Incoherency~, n. ~1.~ Looseness (of parts), want of cohesion.

~2.~ Incongruity, inconsistency, inconsequence, want of connection, want of agreement.

~Incoherent~, a. ~1.~ Loose, detached, non-adhesive.

~2.~ Incongruous, inconsistent, inconsequential, without connection.

~Incombustible~, a. Not to be burned, that will not burn.

~Income~, n. Revenue, profits, gains.

~Incommensurable~, a. Without a common measure.

~Incommensurate~, a. ~1.~ Disproportionate.

~2.~ Inadequate, insufficient, unequal.

~Incommode~, v. a. Disturb, annoy, molest, trouble, disquiet, plague, worry, vex, tease, harry, fret, gall, chafe, bore, discommode, inconvenience, put to inconvenience.

~Incommodious~, a. ~1.~ Inconvenient, troublesome, annoying, vexatious, harassing, irritating, provoking, disadvantageous.

~2.~ Cumbersome, cumbrous, unmanageable, unwieldy, awkward, unhandy.

~Incommunicable~, a. Not to be communicated, that cannot be communicated or imparted.

~Incommunicative~, a. Reserved, unsociable, unsocial.

~Incomparable~, a. Transcendent, peerless, matchless, unrivalled, unequalled, unparalleled, inimitable, very superior.

~Incompatibility~, n. Inconsistency, incongruity, unsuitableness, want of agreement, want of adaptation.

~Incompatible~, a. Inconsistent, incongruous, unsuitable, unadapted.

~Incompetence~, n. ~1.~ Incapacity, inability.

~2.~ Insufficiency, inadequacy.

~3.~ Disqualification, unfitness.

~Incompetency~, n. ~1.~ Incapacity, inability.

~2.~ Insufficiency, inadequacy.

~3.~ Disqualification, unfitness.

~Incompetent~, a. ~1.~ Unable, incapable, not competent.

~2.~ Insufficient, inadequate.

~3.~ Disqualified, incapacitated, unfit, unfitted.

~Incomplete~, a. ~1.~ Defective, deficient, imperfect, not complete.

~2.~ Unfinished, uncompleted, unaccomplished, unexecuted, not completed, left undone.

~Incomposite~, a. ~1.~ Uncompounded, unmixed, simple.

~2.~ (Arith.) Prime.

~Incomprehensibility~, n. Inconceivableness, incomprehensibleness.

~Incomprehensible~, a. Inconceivable, unimaginable, not to be comprehended, past finding out, beyond the reach of human faculties.

~Incomprehensibleness~, n. Inconceivableness, incomprehensibility.

~Incompressibility~, n. Incompressibleness.

~Incompressible~, a. Not to be compressed, not compressible.

~Incompressibleness~, n. Incompressibility.

~Incomputable~, a. Not to be computed, that cannot be computed.

~Inconceivable~, a. INCOMPREHENSIBLE, that cannot be conceived.

~Inconceivableness~, n. Incomprehensibleness, incomprehensibility.

~Inconclusive~, a. Unconvincing, indecisive, not conclusive.

~Incongruity~, n. Unsuitableness, inconsistency, impropriety, inappropriateness, discrepancy, incompatibility, incoherence, absurdity.

~Incongruous~, a. Unsuitable, inconsistent, inappropriate, improper, incompatible, incoherent, discrepant, absurd.

~In conscience~, ~1.~ Conscientiously, in justice, in honesty, in fairness.

~2.~ Truthfully, sincerely, in sincerity, in truth.

~Inconsequence~, n. Inconclusiveness, illogicalness.

~Inconsiderable~, a. Unimportant, insignificant, small, trivial, trifling, petty, immaterial, of no consequence, of no moment.

~Inconsiderate~, a. Thoughtless, careless, heedless, inattentive, inadvertent, negligent, imprudent, indiscreet, rash, hasty, giddy, headlong, hare-brained, giddy-brained, light-headed.

~Inconsiderateness~, n. Thoughtlessness, carelessness, heedlessness, inattention, inadvertence, negligence, imprudence, indiscretion, rashness.

~Inconsistency~, n. ~1.~ Incongruity, incompatibility, unsuitableness, incoherence.

~2.~ Contrariety, contradiction.

~Inconsistent~, a. ~1.~ Incongruous, incompatible, unsuitable, incoherent, irreconcilable, discrepant.

~2.~ Contrary, contradictory.

~Inconsolable~, a. Disconsolate, woebegone, comfortless, heart- broken, broken-hearted.

~Inconstancy~, n. ~1.~ Changeableness, fickleness, vacillation, wavering, unsteadiness.

~2.~ Unstableness, instability, mutability, variableness.

~Inconstant~, a. ~1.~ Changeable, fickle, capricious, vacillating, wavering, unsteady, like a weathercock.

~2.~ Unstable, mutable, variable, unsettled, uncertain.

~Incontestable~, a. Indisputable, incontrovertible, unquestionable, certain, undeniable, indubitable, irrefragable, not to be disputed, beyond all question, beyond a doubt, past dispute.

~Incontinence~, n. Lewdness, lasciviousness, indulgence of lust.

~Incontinent~, a. Lewd, lascivious, unchaste.

~Incontrovertible~, a. Indisputable, unquestionable, INCONTESTABLE.

~Inconvenience~, n. ~1.~ Incommodiousness, annoyance, vexation, molestation, disturbance, trouble, disadvantage.

~2.~ Awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness.

~3.~ Unfitness, unsuitableness, unseasonableness.

~Inconvenient~, a. ~1.~ Incommodious, troublesome, annoying, vexatious, disadvantageous.

~2.~ Cumbersome, cumbrous, unwieldy, awkward, unmanageable, unhandy.

~3.~ Unfit, unsuitable, unseasonable, inopportune, untimely.

~Inconvertibility~, n. Unchangeableness, inconvertibleness.

~Inconvertible~, a. Unchangeable, not transmutable, not convertible.

~Inconvertibleness~, n. Inconvertibility.

~Incorporate~, v. a. ~1.~ Unite, combine, mix, blend, merge, consolidate, form into one body.

~2.~ Form into a corporation, form into a body politic.

~Incorporation~, n. ~1.~ Combination, union, blending, mixture.

~2.~ Association (as a body politic).

~Incorporeal~, a. Immaterial, spiritual, bodiless, not corporeal.

~Incorporeity~, n. Spirituality, immaterialness, immateriality.

~Incorrect~, a. ~1.~ Inexact, inaccurate, erroneous, false, untrue.

~2.~ Ungrammatical, faulty.

~Incorrectness~, n. Inaccuracy, inexactness, error, mistake.

~Incorrigible~, a. ~1.~ Irremediable, remediless, irreparable, irretrievable, irreversible, irremedicable, irrecoverable, hopeless, incurable, past cure, past mending.

~2.~ Depraved, corrupt, impenitent, profligate, abandoned, obdurate, hardened, lost, shameless, graceless, recreant, irreclaimable.

~Incorruptibility~, n. Imperishableness, incorruptibleness, incorruption.

~Incorruptible~, a. ~1.~ Imperishable, incapable of decay.

~2.~ Of inflexible honesty, not to be bribed.

~Incorruptibleness~, n. INCORRUPTIBILITY.

~Incorruption~, n. INCORRUPTIBILITY.

~Increase~, v. n. ~1.~ Grow, augment, be augmented, become greater or larger.

~2.~ Multiply, be fruitful.

~Increase~, v. a. ~1.~ Augment, enlarge, make greater, make larger.

~2.~ Enhance, raise, advance, heighten, add to.

~3.~ Extend, prolong.

~4.~ Aggravate, intensify.

~Increase~, n. ~1.~ Augmentation, enlargement, extension, expansion, growth, addition, accession, increment.

~2.~ Product, produce, gain, profit.

~3.~ Offspring, issue, progeny, descendants.

~Incredible~, a. Not to be credited, not to be believed, not credible.

~Incredulity~, n. Unbelief, disbelief, distrust, scepticism, want of belief.

~Incredulous~, a. Unbelieving, sceptical.

~Increment~, n. INCREASE, augmentation.

~Incriminate~, v. a. Accuse, impeach, charge, inculpate, blame, criminate.

~Incrust~, v. a. Cover with a crust.

~Incrustation~, n. ~1.~ Incrusting.

~2.~ Crust, coating.

~Incubate~, v. n. Brood.

~Incubus~, n. ~1.~ Nightmare.

~2.~ Encumbrance, clog, impediment, hinderance, drag weight, dead weight.

~Inculcate~, v. a. Impress, enforce, instil, infuse, infix, ingraft, implant.

~Inculcation~, n. Enforcement.

~Inculpable~, a. Unblamable, irreprehensible, irreprovable, irreproachable, blameless, faultless, sinless, innocent.

~Inculpate~, v. a. Accuse, charge, impeach, criminate, incriminate, blame, censure.

~Inculpation~, n. Crimination, blame, charge, impeachment, censure.

~Incumbent~, a. Obligatory, devolving.

~Incumbent~, n. Holder (of a benefice, &c.).

~Incumbrance~, n. [Written also Encumbrance.] ~1.~ Load, clog, impediment, incubus, hinderance, dead weight, drag weight.

~2.~ Debt, claim, liability.

~Incur~, v. a. ~1.~ Contract, become liable to, become subject to.

~2.~ Bring on.

~Incurable~, a. Irremediable, incorrigible, remediless, hopeless, irreparable, irretrievable, irremedicable, past cure, past mending.

~Incurious~, a. Uninquisitive, inattentive, unobservant, careless, heedless, not inquisitive, destitute of curiosity.

~Incursion~, n. Inroad, irruption, forray, raid, descent, partial invasion.

~Incurvate~, v. a. Bend, bow, crook, curve, make crooked.

~Incurvate~, a. (Bot.) Hooked, curved, bowed, crooked, aduncous, ARCUATE.

~Indebted~, a. ~1.~ Owing, in debt.

~2.~ Obliged, beholden.

~Indecency~, n. ~1.~ Indecorum, impropriety.

~2.~ Indelicacy, grossness, immodesty, impurity, obscenity.

~Indecent~, n. ~1.~ Indecorous, improper, unbecoming, unseemly.

~2.~ Indelicate, gross, immodest, impure, obscene, filthy, unchaste.

~Indeciduous~, a. (Bot.) Evergreen, not deciduous.

~Indecision~, n. Irresolution, vacillation, hesitation, unsteadiness, inconstancy, changeableness, fickleness.

~Indecisive~, a. ~1.~ Inconclusive, not decisive.

~2.~ Unsettled, wavering, vacillating, irresolute, hesitating.

~Indeclinable~, a. Undeclinable.

~Indecorous~, a. Indecent, unbecoming, improper, unseemly, gross, rude, coarse, uncivil, impolite.

~Indecorousness~, n. Indecorum.

~Indecorum~, n. Indecorousness, indecency, impropriety, grossness, rudeness, incivility, impoliteness, violation of propriety.

~Indeed~, ad. Truly, really, veritably, positively, absolutely, certainly, in fact, in truth, in reality.

~Indeed~, interj. Really, is it so, you don't say so, who'd have thought it, Heaven save the mark.

~Indefatigability~, n. Indefatigableness, perseverance, persistence, persistency.

~Indefatigable~, a. Unwearied, untiring, unflagging, persevering, persistent, sedulous, assiduous, unremitting, never-tiring.

~Indefatigableness~, n. Indefatigability.

~Indefeasible~, a. Irreversible, unalterable, irrevocable, immutable, that cannot be abrogated, that cannot be made void.

~Indefensible~, a. ~1.~ Untenable, that cannot be defended.

~2.~ Inexcusable, injustifiable, unwarrantable, censurable, faulty, wrong.

~Indefinite~, a. ~1.~ Indeterminate, undefined, indistinct, confused.

~2.~ Vague, obscure, doubtful, uncertain, equivocal, unsettled, loose.

~Indelible~, a. Ineffaceable, ingrained, not to be blotted out.

~Indelicacy~, n. Indecency, indecorum, coarseness, grossness, rudeness, vulgarity, want of refinement.

~Indelicate~, a. Indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unseemly, coarse, gross, rude, broad, vulgar.

~In demand~, In request.

~Indemnification~, n. ~1.~ Indemnifying, security (against loss, injury, or penalty).

~2.~ Compensation (for loss or injury), remuneration, reimbursement, indemnity, reparation.

~Indemnify~, v. a. ~1.~ Secure (against loss, injury, or penalty), save harmless.

~2.~ Compensate (for loss or injury), remunerate, reimburse, requite, make good.

~Indent~, v. a. ~1.~ Notch, jag, cut notches in.

~2.~ Indenture, bind by indenture.

~Indentation~, n. Notch, jag, cut.

~Indenture~, n. Written contract.

~Indenture~, v. a. Indent, bind by indenture.

~Independence~, n. Freedom, liberty, self-direction, exemption from control.

~Independent~, a. ~1.~ Unrelated, unconnected, free, self-directing, unrestricted, unrestrained, absolute, not dependent, not subordinate.

~2.~ Unconstrained, easy, bold.

~3.~ Irrespective.

~Independent of~, ~1.~ Unconnected with, unrestricted by, not related to, not dependent upon.

~2.~ Irrespective of.

~Indescribable~, a. Inexpressible, ineffable, unutterable, that cannot be described, that beggars description.

~Indestructible~, a. Imperishable, that cannot be destroyed.

~Indeterminate~, a. Indefinite, unfixed, uncertain, not settled, not precise.

~Index~, n. [L. pl. Indices, Eng. pl. Indexes.] ~1.~ Pointer, hand, director.

~2.~ Alphabetical table of references.

~3.~ Exponent.

~4.~ Characteristic (of a logarithm), integral part.

~5.~ (Anat.) Fore finger.

~Indian corn~, n. Maize (Zea mays).

~Indian-fig~, n. ~1.~ Banian (Ficus Indica).

~2.~ Prickly-pear.

~Indian file~, Single file.

~Indian grass~, Wood-grass (Sorghum nutans).

~Indian millet~, Doura, Guinea corn, negro-corn (Sorghum vulgare).

~Indian oak~, n. Teak-tree (Tectona grandis).

~Indian poke~, n. White hellebore (Veratrum viride).

~Indian-red~, n. Red-ochre.

~Indian sage~, Boneset, thoroughwort, feverwort, ague-weed (Eupatorium perfoliatum).

~Indian tobacco~, n. Lobelia (North American species,--Lobelia inflata).

~India-rubber~, n. Caoutchouc, gum-elastic.

~Indicate~, v. a. Show, denote, betoken, mark, designate, signify, point out, shadow forth, be the sign of.

~Indication~, a. ~1.~ Indicating.

~2.~ Sign, mark, token, note, index, symptom, manifestation.

~Indicative~, a. ~1.~ Significant, to be taken as a sign.

~2.~ (Gram.) Affirmative.

~Indicative of~, That indicates, that points out, that shows, that is a sign of, significant of.

~Indices~, n. pl. Exponents.

~Indicolite~, n. (Min.) Indigolite, blue tourmaline.

~Indict~, v. a. Accuse, charge, criminate, arraign, impeach.

~Indictment~, n. Accusation, charge, arraignment, crimination, impeachment.

~Indifference~, n. ~1.~ Neutrality, impartiality, disinterestedness, freedom from bias or prejudice.

~2.~ Unconcernedness, apathy, coldness, carelessness, negligence, heedlessness, inattention, want of interest.

~3.~ Triviality, unimportance, insignificance.

~Indifferent~, a. ~1.~ Neutral, impartial, disinterested, unbiassed.

~2.~ Unconcerned, unmoved, apathetic, cool, inattentive, dead, heedless, regardless, unmindful, not interested.

~3.~ Equal, all the same, just the same, all one, the same thing.

~4.~ Passable, tolerable, middling, ordinary, so-so, not very bad.

~Indigence~, n. Poverty, penury, pauperism, destitution, want, need, necessity, privation, distress.

~Indigenous~, a. Native, not exotic.

~Indigent~, a. Poor, destitute, needy, necessitous, pinched, reduced, penniless, moneyless, insolvent, distressed, short of money, out of money, out of cash, out of pocket, in need, in want.

~Indigested~, a. ~1.~ Unconcocted, undigested, not digested.

~2.~ Crude, ill-judged, ill-advised, not well considered.

~3.~ Disorderly, confused, not arranged, not methodized, not sorted, in confusion, in disorder.

~Indigestibility~, n. Indigestibleness.

~Indigestible~, a. That cannot be digested.

~Indigestibleness~, n. Indigestibillty.

~Indigestion~, n. Dyspepsia, dyspepsy, difficulty of digestion.

~Indignant~, a. Angry, incensed, provoked, irate, exasperated, wrathful, wroth, ireful.

~Indignation~, n. Anger, wrath, ire, resentment, fury, rage, choler, exasperation.

~Indignity~, n. Insult, affront, outrage, slight, disrespect, dishonor, contumely, obloquy, opprobrium, reproach, abuse.

~Indigolite~, n. (Min.) Indicolite, blue tourmaline.

~Indirect~, a. ~1.~ Circuitous, tortuous, not straight, not direct, not rectilinear.

~2.~ Roundabout, oblique, collateral, not directly to the point.

~3.~ Unfair, dishonest, dishonorable.

~Indiscernible~, a. Undiscernible, imperceptible, invisible, undiscoverable, not to be discerned.

~Indiscreet~, a. Imprudent, injudicious, unwise, inconsiderate, foolish, rash, incautious, reckless, heedless, headlong.

~Indiscretion~, n. ~1.~ Imprudence, inconsiderateness, rashness, folly.

~2.~ Mistake, FAUX PAS, indiscreet act, act of indiscretion.

~Indiscriminate~, a. ~1.~ Undiscriminating, undistinguishing.

~2.~ Confused, mixed, mingled, undistinguishable, promiscuous.

~Indispensable~, a. Necessary, essential, requisite, needful, needed, not to be dispensed with.

~Indispose~, v. a. Disincline, render averse, make unfavorable.

~Indisposed~, a. ~1.~ Disinclined, unwilling, reluctant, averse, loath, backward, not disposed.

~2.~ Ill, unwell, ailing, sick, out of health, out of sorts.

~Indisposition~, n. ~1.~ Disinclination, unwillingness, reluctance, dislike, aversion, backwardness.

~2.~ Illness, sickness, ailment.

~Indisputable~, a. Incontestable, incontrovertible, unquestionable, undeniable, indubitable, irrefragable, evident, obvious, certain, not to be disputed, beyond all question, beyond a doubt, past dispute.

~Indissoluble~, a. ~1.~ Indissolvable, that cannot be dissolved, that cannot be liquefied.

~2.~ Indestructible, stable, firm, enduring, not to be broken.

~Indissolvable~, a. ~1.~ Indissoluble, that cannot be dissolved.

~2.~ Indestructible, not to be broken.

~Indistinct~, a. ~1.~ Indeterminate, undefined, indefinite, undistinguishable, confused, not distinct.

~2.~ Obscure, dim, vague, imperfect, faint, not clear.

~3.~ Ambiguous, uncertain, doubtful.

~Indistinguishable~, a. Indistinct, indeterminate, confused, undistinguishable, that cannot be distinguished.

~Indite~, v. a. ~1.~ Compose, write, pen.

~2.~ Dictate.

~Individual~, a. Particular, special, separate, single, one.

~Individual~, n. Person, personage, character, being, somebody, some one.

~Individuality~, n. Personality, distinct existence.

~Individualize~, v. a. Particularize, consider individually, specify, name with precision.

~Indivisible~, a. ~1.~ Inseparable, that cannot be divided.

~2.~ (Math.) Incommensurable.

~Indocibility~, n. Unteachableness, indocibleness, indocility.

~Indocible~, a. Unteachable, indocile.

~Indocibleness~, n. INDOCILITY.

~Indocile~, a. ~1.~ Unteachable, dull.

~2.~ Untractable, stubborn, perverse, unruly, headstrong, refractory, obstinate, dogged, mulish, unmanageable, ungovernable, cantankerous.

~Indocility~, n. ~1.~ Unteachableness, indocibleness, indocibility, dulness.

~2.~ Intractableness, stubbornness, obstinacy, mulishness.

~Indoctrinate~, v. a. Teach, instruct, initiate, give instruction to.

~Indoctrination~, n. Instruction, initiation.

~Indolence~, n. Laziness, slothfulness, sloth, inertness, idleness, sluggishness.

~Indolent~, a. Lazy, slothful, inert, sluggish, inactive, listless, supine, lumpish, habitually idle.

~Indomitable~, a. Unyielding, unconquerable, invincible, not to be subdued.

~In doors~, Within the house, under cover.

~Indorse~, v. a. [Written also Endorse.] ~1.~ Superscribe, write on the back of.

~2.~ Sanction, approve, confirm, ratify, vouch for.

~Indubitable~, a. Unquestionable, indisputable, incontestable, undeniable, incontrovertible, evident, certain, beyond all question, beyond a doubt, past dispute.

~Induce~, v. a. ~1.~ Influence, impel, move, prompt, actuate, instigate, persuade, urge, incite, spur, act upon, set on, weigh with, prevail on, prevail upon.

~2.~ Cause, produce, effect, bring on.

~Inducement~, n. Motive, reason, cause, consideration, incitement, incentive, stimulus, spur, influence, impulse.

~Induct~, v. a. Introduce (into office), install, inaugurate.

~Induction~, n. ~1.~ Introduction (into office), installation, inauguration, institution.

~2.~ Conclusion (from many facts), inference, inductive method, Baconian method.

~3.~ (Physics.) Influence of proximity.

~Indue~, v. a. Supply, invest, clothe, endue, endow.

~Indulge~, v. a. ~1.~ Gratify, favor, humor, cherish, pamper, COCKER, give free scope to, give a loose rein to, give way to, give one's self up to.

~2.~ Allow, permit, suffer.

~Indulge~, v. n. Indulge one's self.

~Indulgence~, n. ~1.~ Gratification, humoring, pampering, cockering.

~2.~ Favor, liberality, lenity, lenience, kindness, tenderness.

~3.~ (Theol.) Remission, absolution, forgiveness, pardon.

~Indulgent~, a. ~1.~ Yielding, compliant.

~2.~ Lenient, mild, clement, tolerant, gentle, forbearing, kind, tender, not severe.

~Indurate~, v. a. ~1.~ Harden, render hard, make hard.

~2.~ Make obdurate, make unfeeling.

~Induration~, n. ~1.~ Hardening.

~2.~ Obduracy, hardness of heart.

~Industrious~, a. DILIGENT, assiduous, sedulous, busy, laborious, notable, at work, active, persevering, hard-working, diligently employed, busily engaged, up and stirring, busy as a bee, brisk as a bee.

~Industry~, n. Assiduity, assiduousness, sedulousness, perseverance, activity, DILIGENCE, habitual devotion to labor.

~Inebriate~, v. a. Intoxicate, make drunk.

~Inebriation~, n. Intoxication, drunkenness, inebriety.

~Inebriety~, n. INEBRIATION.

~Ineffable~, a. Unspeakable, unutterable, inexpressible, indescribable, that cannot be spoken, beyond expression.

~Ineffaceable~, n. Indelible, ingrained.

~In effect~, In fact, in truth, really, in reality.

~Ineffective~, a. INEFFECTUAL, inefficacious.

~Ineffectual~, a. ~1.~ Inefficacious, ineffective, inoperative, unavailing, fruitless, useless, abortive, bootless, to no purpose, without effect.

~2.~ Powerless, weak, impotent, feeble, inefficient.

~Ineffectualness~, n. Inefficacy.

~Inefficacious~, n. INEFFECTUAL, ineffective, unavailing.

~Inefficacy~, n. Ineffectualness.

~Inefficiency~, n. Weakness, impotence, inefficacy, powerlessness.

~Inefficient~, a. Weak, feeble, impotent, powerless.

~Inelegant~, a. ~1.~ Ungraceful, graceless, rude, rough, homely, homespun, uncouth, plain, clumsy, coarse, ungainly, uncourtly, unpolished, unrefined.

~2.~ Stiff, constrained, harsh, crude, bald, cramped, abrupt.

~Ineligible~, a. ~1.~ That cannot be elected (to office).

~2.~ Inexpedient, unadvisable, objectionable.

~Inept~, a. ~1.~ Improper, unfit, unsuitable, inappropriate, inapposite, unapt, useless, worthless, void, null.

~2.~ Foolish, silly, nonsensical, senseless, stupid.

~Ineptitude~, n. ~1.~ Unfitness, unsuitableness, inaptitude, uselessness.

~2.~ Folly, foolishness, nonsense.

~Inequality~, n. ~1.~ Disparity, difference, diversity.

~2.~ Unevenness.

~Inequitable~, a. Unjust, unfair, disingenuous, dishonorable, not equitable.

~Inert~, a. ~1.~ Inactive, lifeless, passive, motionless, dead.

~2.~ Dull, indolent, torpid, sluggish, slothful, lazy, idle, supine, lumpish, dronish.

~Inertia~, n. Inertness, sluggishness, indisposition to move.

~In esse~, [L.] In being, actually existing.

~Inestimable~, a. Invaluable, priceless, that cannot be estimated, above all price.

~Inevitable~, a. Unavoidable, necessary, not to be escaped, that must be suffered.

~Inevitably~, ad. Unavoidably, certainly, surely.

~Inexact~, a. Incorrect, inaccurate.

~Inexcusable~, a. Unpardonable, indefensible, unjustifiable, irremissible, INEXPIABLE.

~Inexhaustible~, a. Exhaustless, unfailing, that cannot be exhausted.

~Inexistence~, n. Non-existence, nonentity.

~Inexorable~, a. Unrelenting, relentless, implacable, pitiless, merciless, unmerciful, uncompassionate, hard, cruel, not to be moved by entreaty.

~Inexpedient~, a. Improper, unadvisable, unfit, unsuitable, disadvantageous, not prudent, not discreet.

~Inexperience~, n. Rawness, greenness, ignorance, want of experience.

~Inexperienced~, a. Unpractised, untrained, uninitiated, unschooled, raw, unversed, unconversant, undisciplined, unskilled, green, without experience.

~Inexpert~, a. Unskilful, unskilled, awkward, clumsy, unhandy, inapt, bungling, maladroit, without dexterity.

~Inexpiable~, a. Unpardonable, irremissible, unatonable, not to be atoned for, that admits of no satisfaction.

~Inexplicable~, a. Unaccountable, unintelligible, incomprehensible, inscrutable, mysterious, strange, enigmatical, not to be explained.

~Inexpressible~, a. INEFFABLE, unutterable, unspeakable, indescribable.

~Inexpressive~, a. Unexpressive, characterless, blank.

~Inexpugnable~, a. ~1.~ Impregnable, unassailable, not to be taken by assault, not to be stormed, secure from capture, tenable against all odds.

~2.~ Unconquerable, not to be subdued.

~Inexsuperable~, a. Insurmountable.

~In extenso~, [L.] In full, to the full extent, at length.

~Inextinguishable~, a. Unquenchable, that cannot be extinguished.

~In extremis~, [L.] In one's last moments, at the point of death.

~Inextricable~, a. Intricate, perplexed, entangled, that cannot be disentangled, not to be unravelled.

~In fact~, Really, truly, in truth, in reality, DE FACTO.

~Infallibility~, n. ~1.~ Infallibleness, exemption from liability to err.

~2.~ Certainty.

~Infallible~, a. ~1.~ Unerring, not liable to err.

~2.~ Certain, sure, unfailing, not liable to fail.

~Infallibleness~, n. Infallibility.

~Infallibly~, ad. Certainly, surely, unfailingly, without fail.

~Infamous~, a. ~1.~ Disreputable, of ill repute, ill spoken of.

~2.~ Disgraceful, dishonorable, shameful, odious, detestable, scandalous, ignominious, base, vile, nefarious, villanous, heinous, atrocious, wicked, dark.

~Infamy~, n. ~1.~ Dishonor, disgrace, discredit, disrepute, shame, ignominy, obloquy, opprobrium, odium, scandal, abasement.

~2.~ Disgracefulness, dishonorableness, shamefulness, odiousness, detestableness, scandalousness, wickedness, atrocity, villany.

~Infancy~, n. ~1.~ Babyhood, first part of life.

~2.~ Beginning, commencement, first age, early period of existence.

~3.~ (Law.) Minority, nonage, pupilage, childhood.

~Infant~, n. ~1.~ Babe, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, BAIRN, little child, little one.

~2.~ (Law.) Minor.

~Infanticide~, n. ~1.~ Child-murder.

~2.~ Murderer of an infant, slayer of infants.

~Infantile~, a. Childish, young, tender, childlike.

~Infantine~, a. Childish, young, tender, childlike.

~Infantry~, n. Foot-soldiers.

~Infatuate~, v. a. Befool, besot, stultify, delude, make foolish, deprive of reason, deprive of sound judgment or common sense.

~Infatuation~, n. Folly, foolishness, hallucination, want of sound judgment.

~In favor of~, Favorable to, inclined to approve, willing to support.

~In favor with~, Favored by, in the good graces of.

~Infeasibility~, n. Impracticability, infeasibleness, unfeasibleness.

~Infeasible~, a. Impracticable, unfeasible, that cannot be accomplished, not to be done.

~Infeasibleness~, n. Infeasibility.

~Infect~, v. a. ~1.~ Taint with disease, affect with contagious matter.

~2.~ Pollute, contaminate, vitiate, poison, defile, corrupt.

~Infection~, n. ~1.~ Contagion.

~2.~ Contamination, taint, bane, pest, poison.

~Infectious~, a. ~1.~ Contagious, pestilential, pestiferous, catching.

~2.~ Contaminating, corrupting, vitiating, poisoning, defiling.

~Infecund~, a. Unfruitful, infertile, unproductive, unprolific, sterile, barren.

~Infecundity~, n. Unfruitfulness, barrenness, unproductiveness, sterility, infertility.

~Infelicity~, n. ~1.~ Unhappiness, wretchedness, misery, misfortune, calamity, ill-luck.

~2.~ Unfavorableness, unfortunate state.

~Infer~, v. a. Deduce, conclude, collect, gather, consider probable.

~Inferable~, a. [Written also Inferrible.] Deducible, to be inferred.

~Inference~, n. Conclusion, deduction, consequence, corollary.

~Inferior~, a. ~1.~ Lower.

~2.~ Subordinate, secondary.

~3.~ Poor, indifferent.

~Inferiority~, n. ~1.~ Lower state or condition.

~2.~ Subordination.

~3.~ Mediocrity, poor quality.

~Infernal~, a. ~1.~ Hellish, Tartarean, Stygian, of hell.

~2.~ Diabolical, devilish, demoniacal, fiendish, fiendlike, satanic, atrocious, nefarious, dark, very wicked.

~Inferrible~, a. [Written also Inferable.] Deducible, to be inferred.

~Infertility~, n. Unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, barrenness, sterility, infecundity.

~Infest~, v. a. Disturb, annoy, vex, tease, harass, plague, torment, trouble, molest, worry.

~In few~, [Poetical.] Briefly, in short, in a few words.

~Infidel~, n. Unbeliever (in revealed religion), ATHEIST, sceptic, freethinker.

~Infidelity~, n. ~1.~ Unbelief, disbelief, scepticism.

~2.~ Faithlessness (particularly in the marriage relation), unfaithfulness.

~Infiltrate~, v. i. Soak (into a porous substance), be absorbed, pass by filtration.

~Infinite~, a. ~1.~ Unbounded, boundless, unlimited, illimitable, limitless, immeasurable, interminable.

~2.~ Immense, enormous, vast, stupendous, very great, very large.

~Infinitesimal~, a. Infinitely small.

~Infinitesimal~, n. Infinitely small quantity.

~Infinitude~, n. ~1.~ Boundlessness.

~2.~ Immensity, vastness, infinity.

~Infinity~, n. Infinitude, immensity, vastness.

~Infirm~, a. ~1.~ Weak (from age), feeble, enfeebled, decrepit, imbecile, not strong.

~2.~ Irresolute, vacillating, wavering, faltering.

~Infirmity~, n. ~1.~ Weakness (from age), feebleness, debility, imbecility.

~2.~ Foible, fault, failing, defect.

~Infix~, v. a. Implant, ingraft, instil, inculcate, infuse.

~Inflame~, v. a. ~1.~ Excite, stimulate, enkindle, incite, fire, rouse, arouse, animate, inspirit, set on, work up, stir up.

~2.~ Exasperate, irritate, nettle, provoke, anger, enrage, incense, madden, infuriate.

~Inflammability~, n. Inflammableness, combustibility, combustibleness.

~Inflammable~, a. Combustible.

~Inflammable air~, Hydrogen.

~Inflammableness~, n. Inflammability.

~Inflammation~, n. ~1.~ Burning, conflagration, setting on fire.

~2.~ (Med.) Swelling and redness.

~Inflammatory~, a. ~1.~ Inflaming, fiery.

~2.~ Incendiary, seditious.

~Inflate~, v. a. ~1.~ Swell (by blowing), distend, expand, bloat, blow up.

~2.~ Puff up, make conceited.

~3.~ Enlarge, increase.

~Inflated~, a. ~1.~ Distended (with air), swollen, bloated, puffed up.

~2.~ Tumid, turgid, bombastic, grandiloquent, stilted, declamatory, rhetorical, sophomorical, high-flown, HIGHFALUTIN.

~Inflation~, n. ~1.~ Swelling (by air), distention, expansion, blowing up.

~2.~ Conceit, conceitedness, self-conceit, self-sufficiency, self- complacency.

~3.~ Increase, enlargement.

~Inflect~, v. a. ~1.~ Bend, bow, curve, turn from a direct line.

~2.~ (Gram.) Decline (a noun or an adjective), conjugate (a verb), vary the terminations of.

~Inflection~, n. ~1.~ Bending, curvature, bend, curvity, flexure, crook.

~2.~ (Gram.) Variation (in declension or in conjugation).

~3.~ (Music and Elocution.) Modulation (of the voice).

~Inflexibility~, n. ~1.~ Stiffness, inflexibleness.

~2.~ Pertinacity, doggedness, stubbornness, obstinacy.

~3.~ Firmness, resolution, perseverance, tenacity of purpose.

~Inflexible~, a. ~1.~ Stiff, rigid.

~2.~ Pertinacious, dogged, stubborn, obstinate, unyielding, refractory, headstrong, wilful, cantankerous, intractable, heady, obdurate, cross-grained.

~3.~ Firm, resolute, steadfast, immovable, persevering.

~Inflexibleness~, a. INFLEXIBILITY.

~Inflict~, v. a. Impose, lay on.

~Infliction~, n. ~1.~ Inflicting, imposition.

~2.~ Punishment, judgment.

~Influence~, n. ~1.~ Authority, sway, control, predominance, ascendency, power of impelling or directing, controlling power, directing agency.

~2.~ Reputation, credit, weight of character.

~Influence~, v. a. ~1.~ Control, sway, bias, lead, direct.

~2.~ Move, induce, impel, instigate, persuade, actuate, incite, rouse, arouse, work upon, prevail upon.

~Influential~, a. Potent, powerful, controlling, of influence, of authority.

~Influx~, n. Introduction, flowing in.

~Infold~, v. a. [Sometimes written Enfold.] ~1.~ Inwrap, enclose, wrap, fold, envelop.

~2.~ Clasp, embrace.

~Inform~, v. a. ~1.~ Animate, inspire, quicken, give life to.

~2.~ Acquaint, apprise, advise, tell, notify, make known to, mention to, give notice to, signify to, send word to, write word to.

~Inform against~, Give information against (by way of accusation).

~Informal~, a. Irregular, out of the usual course, not according to the prescribed form.

~Informality~, n. Irregularity.

~Informant~, n. ~1.~ Informer.

~2.~ Accuser, complainant.

~Information~, n. ~1.~ Intelligence, notice, advice.

~2.~ (Law.) Accusation, complaint.

~Informer~, n. ~1.~ Informant.

~2.~ Accuser, complainant.

~Infraction~, n. Breaking, breach, infringement, violation, transgression, disobedience, non-observance.

~Infrangible~, a. ~1.~ That cannot be broken.

~2.~ Not to be violated.

~Infrequency~, n. Uncommonness, rarity, rareness.

~Infrequent~, a. Uncommon, rare, unfrequent.

~Infringe~, v. a. Break, violate, transgress, disobey, break through, trench upon, set at nought.

~Infringement~, n. Breaking, breach, infraction, violation, transgression, disobedience, non-observance.

~Infringe upon~, Invade, trespass upon, encroach upon, intrude upon.

~Infundibular~, a. (Bot.) Tunnel-shaped.

~Infundibuliform~, a. (Bot.) Tunnel-shaped.

~Infuriate~, a. Enraged, raging, mad, incensed, furious, very angry.

~Infuriated~, a. Enraged, raging, mad, incensed, furious, very angry.

~Infuse~, v. a. ~1.~ Instil, engraft, implant, inspire, breathe into, introduce, inculcate.

~2.~ Steep (in liquor), macerate.

~Infusion~, n. ~1.~ Introduction, inculcation, instillation.

~2.~ Infusing, steeping, macerating.

~3.~ Steeped liquor.

~Infusoria~, n. pl. Animalcules, animalcula.

~Ingathering~, n. Harvest.

~In general~, Generally, in the main, for the most part, with few exceptions.

~Ingenious~, a. ~1.~ Inventive, gifted, able, sagacious, clever, bright.

~2.~ That shows invention, exhibiting ingenuity.

~Ingenuity~, n. Inventiveness, ingeniousness, ability, capableness, capacity, faculty, aptitude, aptness, cleverness, knack, turn, gift, genius.

~Ingenuous~, a. Artless, frank, open, candid, fair, sincere, guileless, honest, downright, straightforward, truthful, NAÏVE, simple- minded, single-minded, open-hearted, above-board.

~Ingenuousness~, n. Artlessness, frankness, candor, sincerity, honesty, truthfulness, NAÏVETÉ.

~Inglorious~, a. ~1.~ Obscure, mean, low, unknown, undistinguished, nameless, unnoted, unhonored.

~2.~ Shameful, disgraceful, disreputable, infamous, opprobrious, odious, scandalous, ignominious.

~Ingloriousness~, n. ~1.~ Obscurity, meanness, lowness, want of distinction.

~2.~ Abasement, discredit, disrepute, dishonor, disgrace, ignominy, obloquy, shame, infamy, opprobrium, odium, scandal.

~In good case~, In good condition, in good health.

~Ingraft~, v. a. ~1.~ Graft.

~2.~ Infix, implant, instil, infuse, inculcate.

~Ingrain~, v. a. ~1.~ Dye in the grain.

~2.~ Imbue, impregnate.

~Ingratiate one's self~, Insinuate one's self (into favor), push one's self artfully.

~Ingratitude~, n. Unthankfulness, thanklessness.

~Ingredient~, n. Element, constituent, component, component part.

~Ingress~, n. Entrance, entry.

~Inguinal~, a. (Anat.) Of the groin.

~Ingulf~, v. a. [Written also Engulf.] Absorb, swallow up.

~Inhabit~, v. a. Occupy, dwell in, live in, reside in.

~Inhabit~, v. n. Dwell, reside, sojourn, live, abide.

~Inhabitable~, a. Habitable.

~Inhabitant~, n. Dweller, resident, citizen.

~Inhabiter~, n. Dweller, resident, citizen.

~Inhalation~, n. Inspiration.

~Inhale~, v. a. Inspire, breathe in, draw into the lungs.

~Inharmonic~, a. Inharmonious.

~Inharmonical~, a. Inharmonious.

~Inharmonious~, a. Discordant, unmusical, inharmonic, unharmonious, out of tune.

~Inhere~, v. n. Exist (as a part), be fixed (as a quality).

~Inherent~, a. Innate, inborn, inbred, not adventitious.

~Inherit~, v. a. Take from ancestors, take by inheritance, come into possession of as an heir.

~Inheritance~, n. ~1.~ Inheriting.

~2.~ Heritage, patrimony.

~Inheritor~, n. Heir.

~Inhibit~, v. a. ~1.~ Restrain, hinder, check, repress, obstruct, bar, debar, stop.

~2.~ Prohibit, forbid, interdict.

~Inhibition~, n. ~1.~ Restraint, hinderance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction, check.

~2.~ Prohibition, interdiction, interdict, disallowance, embargo.

~Inhibitory~, a. Prohibitory.

~In high feather~, In good health, in good spirits, in good condition.

~Inhospitable~, a. Unfriendly (to strangers), unkind, not hospitable.

~Inhospitality~, n. Want of hospitality.

~Inhuman~, a. Barbarous, brutal, SAVAGE, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, remorseless, merciless, fell, ferocious, unfeeling.

~Inhumanity~, n. Barbarity, brutality, savageness, cruelty, ferocity.

~Inhume~, v. a. Bury, inter, entomb, deposit in the earth.

~Inimical~, a. ~1.~ Hostile, unfriendly, unkind, malevolent, antagonistic.

~2.~ Adverse, unfavorable, opposed, contrary, repugnant, hurtful, pernicious.

~Inimitable~, a. Unparalleled, perfect, unequalled, unexampled, incomparable, unrivalled, unmatched, unparagoned, matchless, peerless, above imitation.

~Iniquitous~, a. Unjust, unrighteous, unfair, inequitable, wrong, wicked, nefarious, heinous, flagitious.

~Iniquity~, n. ~1.~ Injustice, unrighteousness, wickedness.

~2.~ Sin, crime, deviation, wicked act, offence.

~Initial~, a. ~1.~ First, at the beginning, at the head.

~2.~ Incipient, commencing, beginning, in the first stages.

~Initial~, n. First letter (of a name).

~Initiate~, v. a. ~1.~ Introduce, give entrance to.

~2.~ Indoctrinate, instruct, teach.

~3.~ Begin, commence, inaugurate, enter upon.

~Initiation~, n. ~1.~ Introduction, admission, entrance.

~2.~ Instruction, indoctrination.

~3.~ Beginning, inauguration.

~Initiative~, a. Inceptive, initiatory.

~Initiative~, n. Beginning, first step.

~Initiatory~, a. Initiative, inceptive.

~Inject~, v. a. Throw in, dart in.

~Injection~, n. ~1.~ Injecting.

~2.~ Clyster, enema, lavement.

~In jest~, In joke, for sport, not in earnest.

~In joke~, IN JEST.

~Injudicious~, a. Unwise, indiscreet, imprudent, inconsiderate, foolish, rash, incautious, hasty, ill-judged, ill-advised.

~Injunction~, n. Command, order, precept, mandate.

~Injure~, v. a. ~1.~ Maltreat, wrong, abuse, do wrong to, do an ill office to, treat unjustly.

~2.~ Harm, hurt, damage, spoil, impair, mar, disfigure, do harm to, PLAY THE DEUCE WITH.

~Injurious~, a. ~1.~ Wrongful, iniquitous, unjust, inequitable.

~2.~ Hurtful, detrimental, prejudicial, pernicious, deleterious, noxious, deadly, baneful, mischievous, damaging, disadvantageous, destructive, ruinous, fatal.

~3.~ Contumelious, detractory.

~Injury~, n. ~1.~ Wrong, injustice.

~2.~ Hurt, damage, harm, detriment, mischief, prejudice.

~Injustice~, n. Unfairness, iniquity, wrong, grievance, foul play.

~Inkhorn~, n. Inkstand.

~Inkling~, n. ~1.~ Inclination, desire.

~2.~ Hint, intimation, whisper.

~Inkstand~, n. Inkhorn.

~Inky~, a. Black, atramentous.

~Inlaid~, a. Diversified (by pieces inserted), variegated.

~Inland~, a. ~1.~ Interior.

~2.~ Domestic, not foreign.

~Inlay~, v. a. Diversify (by pieces inserted), variegate.

~Inlet~, n. ~1.~ Entrance, passage, place of ingress.

~2.~ Bay, bight, cove.

~In limine~, [L.] At the outset, at the beginning, on the threshold.

~In little~, In miniature, on a small scale.

~In loco~, [L.] In the proper or natural place.

~Inmate~, n. Fellow-lodger, fellow-boarder.

~In memoriam~, [L.] In memory, to the memory of.

~Inmost~, a. Innermost.

~Inn~, n. Tavern, hotel, cabaret, CARAVANSARY, public house, house of entertainment.

~Innate~, a. Inborn, inbred, native, natural, inherent, not adventitious.

~Inner~, a. Interior, internal.

~Innermost~, a. Inmost.

~Innkeeper~, n. Innholder, host, landlord, tavern-keeper.

~Innocence~, n. ~1.~ Harmlessness, inoffensiveness, innocuousness, innoxiousness.

~2.~ Guiltlessness, sinlessness, blamelessness, guilelessness, purity.

~Innocent~, a. ~1.~ Harmless, inoffensive, innocuous, innoxious.

~2.~ Guiltless, sinless, faultless, blameless, immaculate, spotless, pure, clean, clear, guileless, upright.

~Innocuous~, a. Harmless, inoffensive, innoxious, innocent.

~Innovate~, v. n. Introduce novelties, make changes.

~Innovation~, n. Change, introduction of novelty.

~Innoxious~, a. Harmless, inoffensive, innocuous, innocent.

~In nuce~, [L.] In a nutshell, in a small compass.

~Innuendo~, n. Insinuation, remote intimation, indirect allusion, oblique hint, sly suggestion.

~Innumerable~, a. Numberless, countless, not to be counted, that cannot be numbered.

~Inoculate~, v. a. ~1.~ Bud.

~2.~ Vaccinate.

~Inoculation~, n. ~1.~ Budding.

~2.~ Vaccination.

~Inodorous~, a. Scentless, without odor or smell.

~Inoffensive~, a. Harmless, unoffending, innocuous, innoxious, innocent.

~In one's cups~, Drunk, drunken, intoxicated, inebriated, tipsy, fuddled, muddled, maudlin, disguised, mellow, in liquor, SLEWED, TIGHT, high, NAPPY, GROGGY, HALF SEAS OVER, THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND, has had a drop too much.

~Inoperative~, a. Inactive, inefficacious, ineffectual, useless, unavailing.

~Inopportune~, a. Unseasonable, untimely, inconvenient, unsuitable, unfit, ill-timed, not opportune.

~Inordinate~, a. Immoderate, extravagant, excessive.

~Inorganic~, a. Unorganized.

~Inorganical~, a. Unorganized.

~Inosculate~, v. n. (Bot. & Anat.) Anastomose, unite at the ends (as veins or arteries).

~Inosculate~, v. a. Unite by apposition or contact.

~Inosculation~, n. (Bot. & Anat.) Anastomosis.

~In our midst~, [Common, but not sanctioned by the best writers.] In the midst of us, among us.

~In part~, Partly, in some degree.

~In posse~, [L.] Possible, in possibility, that may exist.

~In print~, Printed, published, issued.

~In propria persona~, [L.] In one's own person.

~In puris naturalibus~, [L.] Quite naked.

~Inquest~, n. ~1.~ Inquisition, judicial inquiry (especially by a coroner).

~2.~ Jury (particularly a coroner's jury).

~Inquietude~, n. Uneasiness, disquiet, disquietude, restlessness, anxiety.

~Inquire~, v. n. [Written also Enquire.] ~1.~ Ask, question, seek information (by questioning), make inquiry.

~2.~ Make investigation, make examination.

~Inquire~, v. a. [Written also ~Enquire~.] Ask about, make inquiry about.

~Inquirer~, n. Searcher, investigator.

~Inquire into~, Examine, investigate, sift, canvass, follow up, look into.

~Inquiry~, n. ~1.~ Interrogation, question, query, interrogatory.

~2.~ Investigation, examination, research, scrutiny, study, exploration.

~Inquisition~, n. Inquest, judicial inquiry.

~Inquisitive~, a. Curious, prying, peering, scrutinizing, given to research.

~Inroad~, n. Irruption, forray, incursion, raid, encroachment, partial invasion.

~Insalubrious~, a. Unhealthy, unwholesome, unhealthful, noxious, unfavorable to health.

~Insane~, a. Deranged, crazy, crazed, lunatic, mad, distracted, demented, delirious, out of one's mind, out of one's head, out of one's senses, out of one's wits.

~Insanity~, n. Derangement, lunacy, craziness, DEMENTIA, mania, madness, delirium, aberration of mind, alienation of mind.

~Insatiability~, n. Insatiableness.

~Insatiable~, a. Insatiate, unappeasable, voracious, not to be satisfied, very greedy.

~Insatiableness~, n. Insatiability.

~Insatiate~, a. INSATIABLE.

~Inscribe~, v. a. ~1.~ Write, engrave.

~2.~ Imprint, impress.

~3.~ Address (as a literary work), dedicate (with little formality).

~4.~ (Geom.) Delineate or draw (within another figure).

~Inscrutability~, n. Inscrutableness.

~Inscrutable~, a. Undiscoverable, unsearchable, hidden, mysterious, past comprehension, above comprehension, not to be understood.

~Inscrutableness~, n. Inscrutability.

~Insecure~, a. ~1.~ Uncertain, not sure, not confident.

~2.~ Unsafe, unprotected, exposed, dangerous, hazardous, perilous.

~Insecurity~, n. ~1.~ Uncertainty.

~2.~ Danger, hazard, peril.

~Insensate~, a. Dull, stupid, insensible, senseless.

~Insensibility~, n. ~1.~ Torpor, lethargy, want of sensibility.

~2.~ Apathy, unfeelingness, indifference.

~3.~ Dulness, stupidity.

~Insensible~, a. ~1.~ Imperceptible, imperceivable, not discoverable.

~2.~ Insensate, dull, stupid, torpid, brutish, senseless, without sensibility.

~3.~ Unfeeling, apathetic, phlegmatic, unsusceptible, unimpressible.

~Insensibly~, ad. Imperceptibly.

~Insentient~, a. Inert, senseless, not sentient, without perception.

~Inseparability~, n. Inseparableness.

~Inseparable~, a. Indivisible, not to be separated.

~Inseparableness~, n. Inseparability.

~Insert~, v. a. Set in, place in, put in.

~Insessores~, n. pl. [L.] (Ornith.) Perchers, perching birds.

~Insessorial~, a. (Ornith.) Perching.

~Inside~, n. Interior, interior part, inner part.

~Insidious~, a. Artful, sly, wily, arch, crafty, cunning, subtle, intriguing, designing, deceitful, treacherous, crooked, trickish, TRICKY, foxy, snaky, diplomatic, Machiavelian.

~Insight~, n. ~1.~ Deep view, thorough knowledge.

~2.~ Discernment, penetration, quick perception.

~Insignia~, n. pl. [L.] Badges of office, marks of distinction.

~Insignificance~, n. Unimportance, paltriness, triviality, emptiness, nothingness.

~Insignificant~, a. ~1.~ Without meaning, not significant.

~2.~ Unimportant, paltry, petty, empty, trivial, trifling, immaterial, unessential, of little consequence, of little account, of no moment.

~Insincere~, a. False, faithless, truthless, disingenuous, unfair, uncandid, dishonest, hollow, hypocritical, pharisaical, canting, double-tongued, double-faced.

~Insincerity~, n. Duplicity, hypocrisy, cant, dissimulation, deceitfulness, disingenuousness, unfairness, dishonesty.

~Insinuate~, v. a. ~1.~ Introduce gently.

~2.~ Ingratiate, push artfully.

~3.~ Instil (artfully), infuse, inculcate.

~4.~ Hint, suggest, intimate, allude to, point to, refer to, remind of, put in mind of.

~Insinuation~, n. ~1.~ Infusion, instillation, gentle introduction.

~2.~ Ingratiating one's self, getting one's self into favor.

~3.~ Hint, suggestion, intimation, innuendo.

~Insipid~, a. ~1.~ Tasteless, gustless, savorless, vapid, mawkish, stale, flat.

~2.~ Spiritless, lifeless, heavy, stupid, dull, frigid, tame, prosaic, prosy, uninteresting, unentertaining.

~Insipidity~, n. ~1.~ Tastelessness, vapidness, mawkishness.

~2.~ Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, heaviness, want of interest.

~Insipidness~, n. ~1.~ Tastelessness, vapidness, mawkishness.

~2.~ Dulness, lifelessness, stupidity, heaviness, want of interest.

~Insist on~, Urge, press earnestly, persist in demanding, insist upon.

~Insistence~, n. Urging, urgency, importunity, solicitation, entreaty.

~Insist upon~, INSIST ON.

~In situ~, [L.] (Min.) In the original position, as originally deposited or formed.

~Insnare~, v. a. [Written also Ensnare.] ~1.~ Entrap, catch.

~2.~ Inveigle, allure, seduce.

~3.~ Entangle, embarrass, perplex, confound, bewilder.

~Insolate~, v. a. ~1.~ Expose to the rays of the sun.

~2.~ Dry in the sun.

~Insolation~, n. ~1.~ Exposure to the rays of the sun.

~2.~ Drying in the sun.

~3.~ Sun-stroke, SIRIASIS, COUP-DE-SOLEIL, stroke of the sun.

~Insolence~, n. Impertinence, impudence, sauciness, pertness, malapertness, flippancy, rudeness, abuse.

~Insolent~, a. Impertinent, impudent, saucy, pert, malapert, flippant, rude, abusive, overbearing, domineering, contemptuous, without humility or self-respect.

~Insolubility~, n. Insolubleness.

~Insoluble~, a. ~1.~ That cannot be dissolved.

~2.~ Insolvable, inexplicable, that cannot be solved, not to be explained.

~Insolubleness~, n. Insolubility.

~Insolvable~, a. Inexplicable, that cannot be solved, not to be explained.

~Insolvency~, n. Bankruptcy.

~Insolvent~, a. Bankrupt.

~Insomnia~, n. [L.] (Med.) Wakefulness, sleeplessness, want of sleep, indisposition to sleep.

~Inspect~, v. a. ~1.~ Examine, scrutinize, investigate, look into, pry into.

~2.~ Superintend, oversee.

~Inspection~, n. ~1.~ Examination, scrutiny, investigation.

~2.~ Superintendence, oversight.

~Inspector~, n. ~1.~ Examiner, censor, critic, visitor.

~2.~ Superintendent, overseer, BOSS.

~Inspiration~, n. ~1.~ Inhalation, breathing in.

~2.~ Afflatus, supernatural influence.

~Inspire~, v. n. Inhale air, draw in the breath.

~Inspire~, v. a. ~1.~ Inhale, breathe in.

~2.~ Breathe into, fill with the breath.

~3.~ Infuse, instil.

~4.~ Animate, inspirit, enliven, cheer.

~5.~ Affect by supernatural influence.

~Inspirit~, v. a. Animate, enliven, encourage, cheer, comfort, stimulate, incite, quicken, rouse, arouse, fire.

~Inspissate~, v. a. Thicken, make thick.

~Inspissate~, a. Thick, inspissated.

~In sport~, In jest, not in earnest.

~Instability~, n. Inconstancy, mutability, changeableness.

~Instable~, a. Inconstant, changeable, mutable, unstable, unsteadfast.

~Install~, v. a. Inaugurate, induct, introduce into office.

~Installation~, n. Inauguration, investiture, instalment, ceremony of induction.

~Instalment~, n. [Written also Installment.] ~1.~ INSTALLATION.

~2.~ Payment in part, partial payment.

~Instance~, n. ~1.~ Solicitation, request, urgency, prompting, importunity, instigation, incitement.

~2.~ Example, exemplification, illustration, case in point.

~3.~ Time, occasion, occurrence.

~Instance~, v. a. Mention as an instance, bring forward as an example.

~Instant~, a. ~1.~ Pressing, urgent, importunate, earnest.

~2.~ Immediate, quick, instantaneous.

~3.~ Current, present, now passing.

~Instant~, n. ~1.~ Moment, second, twinkling, flash, trice, jiffy, twinkling of an eye, smallest conceivable point of time.

~2.~ Present month, current month.

~Instantaneous~, a. Immediate, quick, instant.

~Instantaneously~, ad. Immediately, forthwith, INSTANTER, in an instant, on the instant, in a moment, right away, without a moment's delay, all at once, on the spur of the moment, in less than no time, quick as thought, quick as lightning, before one can say "Jack Robinson."

~Instantly~, ad. Immediately, forthwith, INSTANTER, in an instant, on the instant, in a moment, right away, without a moment's delay, all at once, on the spur of the moment, in less than no time, quick as thought, quick as lightning, before one can say "Jack Robinson."

~Instar omnium~, [L.] Like all, a specimen of the whole, an example for all.

~Instanter~, ad. [L.] INSTANTLY.

~In statu quo~, [L.] In the same state as before.

~Instauration~, n. Restoration, renewal, re-establishment, reinstatement, renovation, reconstruction, redintegration, reconstitution, REHABILITATION.

~Instead~, ad. In lieu, in the room, in the stead, in the place.

~Instigate~, v. a. Incite, impel, move, urge, provoke, stimulate, rouse, actuate, persuade, influence, encourage, prompt, set on, prevail upon, stir up, spur on.

~Instigation~, n. Incitement, urgency, encouragement, prompting, influence, solicitation, instance, importunity.

~Instil~, v. a. [Written also Instill.] ~1.~ Infuse, insinuate.

~2.~ Inculcate, impress, enforce, implant, ingraft.

~Instillation~, n. Infusion, insinuation, gentle introduction.

~Instinct~, n. Natural impulse.

~Instinctive~, a. Natural, spontaneous, involuntary.

~Instinct with~, Moved by (as an internal impulse), animated by.

~Institute~, v. a. ~1.~ Establish, found, originate, appoint, settle, fix, enact, ordain, set up.

~2.~ Begin, commence, set in operation.

~3.~ Invest with a sacred office, invest with the care of souls.

~Institute~, n. ~1.~ Doctrine, dogma, precept, maxim, principle, tenet.

~2.~ Scientific body, literary or philosophical society.

~3.~ School, academy, gymnasium, seminary, place of education.

~Institution~, n. ~1.~ Establishing, founding, foundation, enactment.

~2.~ Establishment, organized society.

~3.~ Investiture.

~Instruct~, v. a. ~1.~ Teach, inform, enlighten, educate, indoctrinate, drill, exercise, train, school.

~2.~ Direct, command, order, enjoin, prescribe to.

~Instruction~, n. ~1.~ Teaching, information, education, indoctrination, training, schooling, discipline, tuition, nurture, breeding.

~2.~ Advice, counsel, precept.

~3.~ Direction, order, command, mandate.

~Instructor~, n. Teacher, tutor, preceptor, master, school-master.

~Instrument~, n. ~1.~ Tool, implement, utensil.

~2.~ Medium, agent, means.

~3.~ Writing, document, charter, deed, indenture.

~Instrumental~, a. ~1.~ Conducive, subservient, serviceable, helping, helpful, assisting, auxiliary, ancillary, ministerial.

~2.~ Of musical instruments.

~Instrumentality~, n. Agency, mediation, intervention.

~Insubordinate~, a. Disobedient, unruly, mutinous, riotous, seditious, disorderly, turbulent, ungovernable, refractory.

~Insubordination~, n. Disobedience, revolt, insurrection, mutiny, riotousness, sedition.

~Insufferable~, a. Intolerable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, that cannot be borne or endured.

~Insufficiency~, n. Inadequateness, inadequacy, incompetence, deficiency, defectiveness, dearth.

~Insufficient~, a. Inadequate, incompetent, unequal, incapable, unfit, not sufficient.

~Insular~, a. Surrounded by water.

~Insulate~, v. a. Detach, isolate, separate, disconnect, disunite, disengage.

~Insulation~, n. Isolation, separation, disconnection, disengagement.

~Insulator~, n. (Physics.) Non-conductor.

~Insult~, n. Affront, offence, indignity, outrage, abuse.

~Insult~, v. a. Affront, offend, abuse, treat with insolence, offer an indignity to.

~Insulting~, a. Insolent, impudent, impertinent, saucy, abusive, vituperative, ribald, blackguard.

~Insuperable~, a. Insurmountable, not to be overcome.

~Insupportable~, a. Intolerable, unbearable, unendurable, insufferable.

~Insuppressible~, a. Uncontrollable, irrepressible, not to be suppressed.

~Insurance~, n. Assurance, security against loss.

~Insure~, v. a. [Written also Ensure.] ~1.~ Make secure, make sure.

~2.~ ASSURE, secure against loss, agree to indemnify for loss.

~Insure~, v. n. Underwrite, practise insurance.

~Insurer~, n. Underwriter.

~Insurgent~, a. Rebellious, seditious, insubordinate, disobedient, mutinous.

~Insurgent~, n. Rebel, traitor, revolter, renegade.

~Insurmountable~, a. Insuperable, not to be overcome, that cannot be surmounted.

~Insurrection~, n. Rebellion, revolt, sedition, mutiny.

~Insurrectionary~, a. Rebellious, seditious, mutinous, insubordinate.

~Insusceptible~, a. Incapable, insusceptive, not susceptible.

~Insusceptive~, a. INSUSCEPTIBLE.

~Intact~, a. Untouched, uninjured, unhurt, unharmed, scathless.

~Intangibility~, n. Intangibleness.

~Intangible~, a. Impalpable, that cannot be touched.

~Intangibleness~, n. Intangibility.

~Integer~, n. Whole number.

~Integral~, a. Whole, entire, total, not fractional.

~Integrity~, n. ~1.~ Wholeness, entireness, entirety, completeness.

~2.~ Rectitude, uprightness, probity, honesty, virtue, goodness, principle, moral soundness.

~Integument~, n. Covering, envelope, tegument.

~Intellect~, n. Understanding, reason, mind, sense, brains, thinking principle, reasoning faculty, rational faculty, discursive faculty, intellectual powers, intellectual faculties.

~Intellection~, n. Apprehension, intuition, understanding.

~Intellectual~, a. Mental, of the intellect, of the understanding.

~Intelligence~, n. ~1.~ Information, knowledge, acquired knowledge.

~2.~ News, tidings, advice, notice, notification, instruction.

~3.~ Spirit, spiritual being.

~Intelligent~, a. ~1.~ Knowing, understanding, instructed, enlightened, skilful, skilled, clever, well-informed.

~2.~ Astute, acute, quick, bright, apt, shrewd, discerning, clear- sighted, keen-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-sighted, sharp-witted, keen-eyed, long-headed, clear-headed.

~Intelligibility~, n. Comprehensibility, intelligibleness.

~Intelligible~, a. Clear, plain, distinct, comprehensible, that may be understood.

~Intelligibleness~, n. INTELLIGIBILITY.

~Intemperance~, n. ~1.~ Excess (in any action or in any indulgence), want of moderation.

~2.~ Habitual excess in drinking intoxicating liquors.

~Intemperate~, a. ~1.~ Excessive, inordinate, not temperate.

~2.~ Given to excess in drinking intoxicating liquors.

~Intend~, v. a. Mean, design, purpose, meditate, contemplate, COMPASS, propose to one's self, have in view, think of, aim at, drive at.

~Intend~, v. n. Mean, purpose, design, have the intention, propose to one's self.

~Intendant~, n. Superintendent, overseer, supervisor, inspector.

~Intense~, a. ~1.~ Close, strict, intent, severe, strained, stretched.

~2.~ Excessive, extreme, very great.

~3.~ Forcible, energetic, vigorous, powerful.

~4.~ Ardent, vehement, earnest.

~Intenseness~, n. Intensity.

~Intensify~, v. a. Strengthen, make intense, make more intense.

~Intensity~, n. ~1.~ Intenseness, closeness, strictness, severity.

~2.~ Excess, vehemence, extremity, violence, high degree, extreme degree.

~3.~ Vigor, strength, power, activity, force, energy.

~4.~ Ardor, earnestness, vehemence.

~Intensive~, a. Intensifying.

~Intent~, a. Eager, earnest, close, closely fixed, resolutely bent.

~Intent~, n. Design, purpose, intention, aim, end, meaning, drift, purport, object, scope, mark, purview.

~Intention~, n. Design, purpose, INTENT.

~Intentional~, a. Designed, intended, premeditated, contemplated, preconcerted, studied.

~Inter~, v. a. Bury (with funeral rites), inhume, entomb, inurn.

~Intercede~, v. n. Mediate, arbitrate, interpose, plead.

~Interceder~, n. Mediator, intercessor.

~Intercept~, v. a. ~1.~ Stop on the way, seize on the passage.

~2.~ Interrupt, obstruct, cut off.

~Intercession~, n. Mediation, interposition, intervention.

~Intercessor~, n. Mediator, interceder.

~Interchange~, v. a. Exchange, bandy, change reciprocally, give and take mutually.

~Interchange~, n. ~1.~ Exchange, reciprocity, reciprocation.

~2.~ Alternation, alternate succession.

~Interchangeability~, n. Interchangeableness.

~Interchangeable~, a. That may be interchanged.

~Interchangeableness~, n. Interchangeability.

~Interchangeably~, ad. Alternately, by interchange, by reciprocation.

~Intercourse~, n. Communication, commerce, converse, communion, connection, mutual exchange.

~Interdependence~, n. Mutual dependence.

~Interdict~, v. a. Forbid, prohibit, inhibit.

~Interdict~, n. Prohibition, interdiction.

~Interdiction~, n. ~1.~ Interdicting.

~2.~ Prohibition, interdict.

~Interest~, v. a. ~1.~ Concern, affect, touch, be of importance to.

~2.~ Engage, enlist.

~Interest one's self~, Take an interest, feel an interest, be engaged, be concerned.

~Interest~, n. ~1.~ Good, benefit, profit, weal, advantage.

~2.~ Share, portion, part, participation.

~3.~ Concern, regard, sympathy.

~4.~ Authority, influence.

~5.~ Selfishness, self-interest, private interest.

~6.~ Premium for the use of money, profit from money loaned.

~Interested~, a. Partial, biassed, prejudiced, not disinterested.

~Interesting~, a. Engaging, attractive, pleasing, entertaining.

~Interfere~, v. n. ~1.~ Intermeddle, meddle, interpose, PUT IN ONE'S OAR, THRUST ONE'S NOSE IN.

~2.~ Clash, conflict, be opposed, come into collision.

~Interference~, n. ~1.~ Intermeddling, interposition.

~2.~ Clashing, opposition, interfering, collision.

~Interfering~, n. Clashing, interference.

~Interim~, n. Interval, intermediate time, mean time.

~Interior~, a. ~1.~ Internal, inner, inward, not outward.

~2.~ Inland, remote from the shore or the frontier.

~Interior~, n. Inside, inner part, interior part.

~Interjacent~, a. Intervening, intermediate, interposed.

~Interject~, v. a. Insert, put between, throw in between.

~Interjection~, n. Exclamation.

~Interlace~, v. a. Intertwine, interweave, inweave, intwine, twine together.

~Interlard~, v. a. Mix, intersperse, diversify by mixture.

~Interline~, v. a. ~1.~ Write between the lines of.

~2.~ Write in alternate lines.

~Interlineal~, a. Interlined.

~Interlinear~, a. Interlined.

~Interlink~, v. a. Interchain, join closely together.

~Interlock~, v. a. Interchain, join closely together.

~Interlocution~, n. Dialogue, colloquy, conference, interchange of speech.

~Interlocutor~, n. Speaker (in a dialogue).

~Interloper~, n. Intruder, intermeddler, meddler.

~Intermeddle~, v. n. Interfere, meddle, take part (officiously).

~Intermediate~, a. Intervening, interposed, interjacent.

~Interment~, n. Burial, inhumation, sepulture.

~Interminable~ a. Illimitable, unlimited, boundless, unbounded, limitless, endless, infinite.

~Intermingle~, v. a. Blend, mingle, commingle, intermix, commix, mix, mix together.

~Intermission~, n. Remission, suspension, suspense, stoppage, stop, interruption, pause, rest, respite.

~Intermit~, v. a. Suspend, interrupt, discontinue, cease, stop, leave off, give over.

~Intermit~, v. n. Cease, abate, subside, be suspended, be interrupted.

~Intermittent~, a. Intermitting.

~Intermittent~, n. Intermittent fever, fever and ague.

~Intermix~, v. a. Blend, mix, commix, mingle, commingle, mix together.

~Internal~, a. ~1.~ Interior, inner, inward, not outward, not external.

~2.~ Spiritual, not literal.

~3.~ Intrinsic, real, genuine, true.

~4.~ Domestic, not foreign.

~International~, a. Between nations.

~Internecine~, a. Mortal, deadly, mutually destructive.

~Inter nos,~ [L.] Between ourselves.

~Interpellation~, n. ~1.~ Interruption (of one who is speaking).

~2.~ Intercession, interposition.

~Interpolate~, v. a. ~1.~ Insert (wrongfully), foist in.

~2.~ (Math.) Introduce (terms to complete a series).

~Interpose~, v. a. Intrude, thrust in.

~Interpose~, v. n. ~1.~ Mediate, intercede, arbitrate.

~2.~ Remark (by way of interruption).

~Interposition~, n. Mediation, intervention, interpellation, intercession.

~Interpret~, v. a. ~1.~ Explain, expound, decipher, elucidate, unfold, define, make out, make clear, explain the meaning of.

~2.~ Construe, translate, render.

~Interpretation~, n. ~1.~ Explanation, exposition, elucidation.

~2.~ Rendering, translation, version, construction.

~3.~ Meaning, sense, signification.

~Interpreter~, n. Expounder.

~Interrogate~, v. a. Question, catechise, examine, ask, inquire of, put questions to.

~Interrogation~, n. ~1.~ Interrogating, questioning.

~2.~ Question, inquiry, interrogatory, query.

~Interrogative~, a. Interrogatory.

~Interrogator~, n. Questioner.

~Interrogatory~, n. Question, inquiry, interrogation, query.

~Interrogatory~, a. Interrogative.

~In terrorem~, [L.] By way of threat, for a warning.

~Interrupt~, v. a. ~1.~ Disturb, break in upon, hinder from proceeding.

~2.~ Separate, divide, break, disconnect, disunite, disjoin.

~3.~ Intermit, suspend, discontinue, break off, leave off.

~Interruption~, n. ~1.~ Hinderance, stop, obstruction, obstacle, impediment.

~2.~ Intermission, pause, suspension, cessation, discontinuance.

~Intersect~, v. a. Cross.

~Intersect~, v. n. Cross each other.

~Intersection~, n. Crossing.

~Interspace~, n. Interval, INTERSTICE.

~Intersperse~, v. a. ~1.~ Scatter or set here and there.

~2.~ Interlard, mix, diversify by mixture.

~Interstice~, n. Interval, interspace, intervening space, space between.

~Intertwine~, v. a. Interweave, interlace, intwine, inweave, twine together.

~Intertwine~, v. n. Be intertwined, be interlaced, be twined together, be mutually woven together.

~Interval~, n. ~1.~ Interstice, space between, intermediate space.

~2.~ Season, spell, period, term, space of time, intermediate time.

~Intervene~, v. n. ~1.~ Interfere, come between.

~2.~ Happen (in the mean time), occur, befall.

~Intervening~, a. Intermediate, interjacent.

~Intervention~, n. ~1.~ Interposition, interference.

~2.~ Mediation, agency.

~Interview~, n. ~1.~ Meeting.

~2.~ Conference, parley.

~In the name of~, By authority of, on behalf of.

~In the rough~, In a rude condition.

~In the teeth of~, In spite of, in direct opposition to.

~Interweave~, v. a. ~1.~ Intertwine, interlace, inweave, weave together.

~2.~ Mix, mingle, intermix, intermingle.

~Intestate~, a. Without a will.

~Intestinal~, a. Of the intestines.

~Intestine~, a. Domestic, not foreign.

~Intestines~, n. pl. Entrails, bowels, guts, viscera, inwards.

~In the family way~, Pregnant, big, ENCIENTE, with child.

~In the good graces of~, In favor with, favored by.

~In their midst~, [Common, but not sanctioned by the best writers.] In the midst of them, among them.

~In the long run~, Finally, in the end, as a final result.

~In the straw~, Confined, lying in, in child-bed, brought to bed.

~In the wind~, In preparation, going to be, going to happen.

~In the wrong~, Mistaken, in error.

~Inthrall~, v. a. [Written also Inthral, Enthral, and Enthrall.] Enslave, reduce to servitude, put under restraint.

~Inthralment~, n. [Written also Enthralment.] Enslavement, servitude, slavery, bondage, vassalage, serfdom, thraldom, captivity.

~Intimacy~, n. Familiarity, fellowship, friendship, close acquaintance.

~Intimate~, a. ~1.~ Near, close.

~2.~ Familiar, friendly, THICK, hand and glove, hail fellow well met.

~Intimate~, n. Confidant, crony, familiar friend, intimate acquaintance.

~Intimate~, v. a. Suggest, hint, insinuate, allude to, make allusion to, give an inkling of, glance at, remind of, put in mind of.

~Intimately~, ad. ~1.~ Closely, nearly.

~2.~ Familiarly, thoroughly.

~Intimation~, n. Hint, suggestion, allusion, insinuation, INNUENDO.

~Intimidate~, v. a. Frighten, affright, FRIGHT, alarm, scare, daunt, dismay, terrify, appall, put in fear.

~Intimidation~, n. ~1.~ Intimidating.

~2.~ Fear, terror, terrorism, reign of terror.

~Intolerable~, a. Insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, not to be tolerated.

~Intolerance~, n. Superciliousness, imperiousness, want of toleration, want of forbearance.

~Intolerant~, a. Overbearing, supercilious, dictatorial, imperious.

~Intonation~, n. Tone, cadence, twang, modulation of voice.

~In toto~, [L.] Entirely, wholly.

~Intoxicate~, v. a. Inebriate, fuddle, muddle, make drunk, make tipsy.

~Intoxicated~, a. Inebriated, drunk, tipsy, drunken, fuddled, muddled, disguised, maudlin, mellow, SLEWED, GROGGY, in liquor, in one's cups, half seas over, THREE SHEETS IN THE WIND.

~Intoxication~, n. ~1.~ Inebriation, ebriety, inebriety, drunkenness.

~2.~ Infatuation, great excitement, great exhilaration.

~Intractability~, n. Stubbornness, obstinacy, perverseness, intractableness.

~Intractable~, a. Stubborn, obstinate, perverse, refractory, dogged, mulish, pig-headed, unruly, headstrong, unmanageable, ungovernable, indocile, obdurate, cross-grained, wilful, inflexible, unyielding, contumacious, cantankerous.

~Intractableness~, n. Intractability.

~In transitu~, [L.] While passing (as merchandise from one place to another).

~Intrench on~, Invade, trespass upon, encroach upon, trench upon, intrench upon.

~Intrench~, v. a. Defend by intrenchments.

~Intrenchment~, n. ~1.~ Fortification (with a trench), rampart.

~2.~ Encroachment.

~Intrench upon~, INTRENCH ON.

~Intrepid~, a. Bold, fearless, dauntless, undaunted, undismayed, unterrified, unappalled, unawed, brave, courageous, valorous, valiant, heroic, gallant, chivalrous, daring, doughty.

~Intrepidity~, n. Boldness, fearlessness, bravery, courage, valor, prowess, gallantry, spirit, heroism, daring, contempt of danger.

~Intricacy~, n. Perplexity, complexity, complication, entanglement, involution, obscurity, difficulty, intricateness.

~Intricate~, a. Entangled, complicated, involved, perplexed, obscure, difficult.

~Intricateness~, n. Intricacy.

~Intrigue~, n. ~1.~ Plot, conspiracy, cabal, machination, stratagem, manœuvre, wile, finesse, ruse.

~2.~ Amour, love affair.

~Intrigue~, v. n. ~1.~ Manœuvre, form plots.

~2.~ Carry on an amour.

~Intriguing~, a. Cunning, crafty, artful, sly, wily, astute, subtle, insidious, designing, arch, deceitful, trickish, TRICKY, crooked, diplomatic, politic, foxy, snaky, Machiavelian.

~Intrinsic~, a. ~1.~ Inherent, internal, inward, inborn, inbred, native, natural, ingrained, not extrinsic.

~2.~ Real, genuine, true, essential.

~Intrinsical~, a. ~1.~ Inherent, internal, inward, inborn, inbred, native, natural, ingrained, not extrinsic.

~2.~ Real, genuine, true, essential.

~Intrinsically~, ad. ~1.~ Naturally, inherently, in the nature of things.

~2.~ Really, truly, essentially.

~Introduce~, v. a. ~1.~ Conduct, lead in, bring in, usher in.

~2.~ Present, make acquainted.

~3.~ Bring into notice, bring before the public, bring into use.

~4.~ Begin, commence, be the first to take up.

~Introduction~, n. ~1.~ Introducing, ushering in.

~2.~ Presentation.

~3.~ Preface, prelude, proëm, exordium, preliminary part.

~Introductory~, a. Prefatory, preliminary, precursory, proëmial.

~Introspection~, n. Looking within.

~Intrude~, v. n. ~1.~ Obtrude, force one's self, thrust one's self, enter where one is not welcome.

~2.~ Encroach, trench, infringe, trespass.

~Intrude~, v. a. Obtrude, force in, thrust in, press in, foist in, worm in.

~Intruder~, n. Interloper, intermeddler, meddler.

~Intrusion~, n. ~1.~ Intruding, obtrusion.

~2.~ Encroachment, infringement.

~Intrusive~, a. Obtrusive, trespassing.

~Intrust~, v. a. Confide, commit, consign, give in trust, deliver in trust.

~Intrust with~, Confide to the care of, commit to the safe keeping of.

~Intuition~, n. Immediate perception (by the intellect), immediate knowledge, instinctive knowledge, direct cognition, apprehension at first sight.

~Intuitive~, a. ~1.~ Apprehended immediately, perceived at once (without reasoning).

~2.~ Immediate, full, clear, distinct.

~Intuitively~, ad. By intuition.

~Intumesce~, v. n. Swell, expand, dilate, become tumid.

~Intumescence~, n. Swelling.

~Intwine~, v. a. Inweave, interweave, intertwine, interlace, twine together.

~Inundate~, v. a. Flood, deluge, submerge, overflow, overwhelm, drown, put under water (or other liquid).

~Inundation~, n. Flood, deluge, overflow, cataclysm.

~Inurbane~, a. Uncivil, impolite, uncourtly, ungentlemanly, uncourteous, discourteous, rude, unmannerly, uncomplaisant, ill-bred, ill-mannered.

~Inurbanity~, n. Incivility, impoliteness, rudeness, discourtesy, ill-breeding.

~Inure~, v. a. Habituate, accustom, use, familiarize, train.

~Inure~, v. n. [Written also Enure.] Be applied, come into use, take effect.

~Inurn~, v. a. Bury, inter, entomb, inhume, lay in the grave, consign to the grave.

~Inutility~, n. Uselessness, unprofitableness, futility.

~In vacuo~, [L.] In a vacuum.

~Invade~, v. a. ~1.~ Attack, assail, assault.

~2.~ Infringe, violate, encroach upon, trench upon.

~Invalid~, (in-val´id) a. ~1.~ Weak, of no weight, of no force.

~2.~ (Law.) Void, null, of no legal force, null and void.

~Invalid~, (in´va-lid) a. Weak, feeble, infirm, sick, sickly, weakly, frail, valetudinary.

~Invalid~, (in´val-id) a. Valetudinarian, feeble person, infirm person, sick person.

~Invalidate~, v. a. Nullify, annul, cancel, overthrow, make void, render of no effect.

~Invalidism~, n. Feebleness, infirmity, illness, sickness, valetudinarianism.

~Invaluable~, a. Inestimable, priceless, very precious, above all value, above all price.

~Invariability~, n. INVARIABLENESS.

~Invariable~, a. Unchangeable, immutable, unalterable, constant.

~Invariableness~, n. Unchangeableness, immutability, constancy, invariability.

~Invasion~, n. ~1.~ Attack, assault, aggression, incursion, irruption, inroad, forray, raid.

~2.~ Encroachment, infringement, violation.

~Invective~, n. ~1.~ Abuse, contumely, reproach, censure, railing.

~2.~ Satire, sarcasm, lampoon, pasquinade, phillipic, diatribe, fling.

~Invective~, a. ~1.~ Abusive, reproachful, censorious, captious, railing, scolding.

~2.~ Satirical, sarcastic.

~Inveigh against~, Censure, reproach, condemn, blame, denounce, declaim against, rail at, exclaim against, scold at.

~Inveigle~, v. a. Wheedle, cajole, entice, seduce, decoy, beguile, entrap, insnare, lure.

~Invent~, v. a. ~1.~ Contrive (what did not before exist), devise, be the first to contrive or devise.

~2.~ Originate, frame, imagine, conceive, concoct.

~3.~ Fabricate, forge, coin.

~Invention~, n. ~1.~ Inventing, origination, creation.

~2.~ Contrivance, device, design.

~3.~ Ingenuity, power of inventing.

~4.~ Fabrication, forgery, fiction, coinage.

~Inventive~, a. Ingenious, creative, quick at contrivance, fertile in expedients.

~Inventor~, n. Contriver, originator, creator, father, author.

~Inventory~, n. List (as of the goods of a merchant, or of a deceased person), roll, schedule, record, account, register, CATALOGUE.

~Inverse~, a. Inverted (as respects order or relation), reversed.

~Inversion~, n. ~1.~ Inverting, placing in contrary order.

~2.~ Reciprocal change of place, reversed position.

~3.~ (Rhet.) Hyperbaton, transposition of words.

~Invert~, v. a. ~1.~ Turn upside down.

~2.~ Reverse, place in contrary order.

~Invertebral~, a. (Zoöl.) Without vertebræ, destitute of a backbone.

~Invertebrate~, a. (Zoöl.) Without vertebræ, destitute of a backbone.

~Invest~, v. a. ~1.~ Clothe, dress, array.

~2.~ Endow (as with authority or power), endue.

~3.~ Put at interest (as money).

~4.~ (Mil.) Enclose, surround, besiege, lay siege to.

~Investigable~, a. That may be investigated.

~Investigate~, v. a. Examine, scrutinize, canvass, study, sift, consider, overhaul, explore, probe, dissect, look into, search out, search into, inquire into, follow up.

~Investigation~, n. Examination, study, scrutiny, inquiry, research, exploration, inquisition, sifting.

~Investigator~, n. Inquirer, searcher.

~Investiture~, n. Installation, induction.

~Investment~, n. ~1.~ Investing.

~2.~ Vestment, dress, robe, garments, habiliments, clothes.

~3.~ Money invested.

~4.~ (Mil.) Siege.

~Inveteracy~, n. Inveterateness, obstinacy, chronic state.

~Inveterate~, a. ~1.~ Obstinate, besetting, chronic, deep-seated, long established.

~2.~ Habituated, habitual, accustomed, confirmed, hardened.

~Invidious~, a. Offensive, hateful, odious, likely to excite ill-will.

~Invigorate~, v. a. Strengthen, fortify, animate, give vigor to, give life and energy to.

~Invincibility~, n. Unconquerableness, invincibleness.

~Invincible~, a. ~1.~ Unconquerable, not to be subdued.

~2.~ Insuperable, insurmountable, not to be overcome.

~Invincibleness~, n. Invincibility.

~Inviolability~, n. Inviolableness.

~Inviolable~, a. ~1.~ Not to be violated, not to be broken.

~2.~ Sacred, not to be profaned, not to be injured.

~Inviolableness~, n. Inviolability.

~Inviolate~, a. ~1.~ Unbroken, unviolated.

~2.~ Unhurt, uninjured, unprofaned, unpolluted.

~Invisibility~, n. Invisibleness.

~Invisible~, a. Imperceptible, unseen, that cannot be seen.

~Invisibleness~, n. Invisibility.

~Invita Minerva~, [L.] Minerva being unwilling, without genius, without capacity.

~Invitation~, n. Solicitation, bidding, call, summons.

~Invite~, v. a. ~1.~ Solicit, bid, summon, call, ask, request.

~2.~ Allure, attract, entice, lead, draw on, prevail upon.

~Inviting~, a. Alluring, attractive, winning, engaging, captivating, pleasing, fascinating, bewitching, prepossessing.

~Invocation~, n. Supplication, prayer, petition, orison.

~In vogue~, Fashionable, stylish, genteel, modish, in fashion, À LA MODE, having a run, the rage.

~Invoice~, n. List (of articles of merchandise shipped or sold), inventory, bill, schedule.

~Invoke~, v. a. Implore, supplicate, pray, entreat, beg, beseech, conjure, ADJURE, importune, solicit, call upon, pray to, appeal to, prefer a request to.

~Involuntary~, a. ~1.~ Instinctive, automatic, blind, independent of the will.

~2.~ Unwilling, reluctant, compulsory, against one's will.

~Involution~, n. Complication, intricacy, entanglement.

~Involve~, v. a. ~1.~ Envelop, inwrap, wrap, cover.

~2.~ Include (as a consequence), imply, comprise, embrace, contain.

~3.~ Entangle, implicate.

~4.~ Complicate, make intricate.

~5.~ Join, conjoin, connect, unite, mingle, blend.

~6.~ Twine, intwine, intertwine, interweave, interlace, inweave, twist together.

~Invulnerability~, n. Invulnerableness.

~Invulnerable~, a. Secure from injury, that cannot be wounded.

~Invulnerableness~, n. Invulnerability.

~Inward~, a. Interior, internal, inner.

~Inward~, ad. Within, inwardly, toward the inside.

~Inwards~, ad. Within, inwardly, toward the inside.

~Inwards~, n. pl. Entrails, bowels, guts, viscera, intestines.

~Inweave~, v. a. Intwine, interweave, intertwine, interlace, weave together.

~Inwrap~, v. a. Infold, involve, cover, envelop, wrap, wrap up.

~In your midst~, [Common, but not sanctioned by the best writers.] In the midst of you, among you.

~Iota~, n. Jot, whit, tittle, bit, grain, particle, atom, scrap, mite, scintilla, spark, glimmer, shadow, trace.

~Ipecac~, n. Brazil-root.

~Ipecacuanha~, n. Brazil-root.

~Ipse dixit~, [L.] Mere assertion.

~Irascibility~, n. Irritability, irascibleness.

~Irascible~, a. Passionate, hasty, hot, irritable, touchy, testy, waspish, quick, snappish, splenetic, petulant, choleric, peppery, like tinder, like touchwood.

~Irascibleness~, n. Irascibility.

~Irate~, a. [Recent.] Angry, provoked, piqued, irritated, ireful, in a passion.

~Ire~, n. [Poetical.] Wrath, anger, rage, fury, choler, indignation, resentment, passion, exasperation.

~Ireful~, a. Angry, raging, furious, passionate, IRATE, incensed.

~Iridescence~, n. Play of colors (like those of the rainbow).

~Iridescent~, a. Irisated, nacreous, pavonine.

~Iris~, n. ~1.~ Rainbow.

~2.~ (Bot.) Flower-de-luce.

~Irisated~, a. IRIDESCENT.

~Irish~, a. Of Ireland.

~Irish~, n. ~1.~ Irish language.

~2.~ Natives of Ireland.

~Irishism~, n. Hibernicism, Hibernianism, Irish idiom.

~Irishry~, n. Irish, people of Ireland, Irish people.

~Irksome~, a. Wearisome (in consequence of being distasteful), tiresome, TEDIOUS, wearying, weary, devoid of interest.

~Ironical~, a. Derisive, bantering, mocking, that expresses one thing and means the opposite.

~Iron-pyrites~, n. (Min.) Bisulphuret of iron.

~Irons~, n. pl. Fetters, shackles, manacles, chains, hampers, gyves.

~Irony~, n. Ridicule, raillery, banter, mockery, ASTEISM, saying one thing and meaning the opposite.

~Irradiate~, v. a. Illuminate, illumine, illume, brighten, light up, make bright, shine upon, throw light upon, cast lustre upon, adorn with light.

~Irrational~, a. ~1.~ Brutish, brute, void of reason, without reason.

~2.~ Absurd, unreasonable, preposterous, foolish, silly, unwise, injudicious, extravagant.

~Irrationality~, n. ~1.~ Brutishness, want of reason.

~2.~ Absurdity, folly, foolishness, unreasonableness.

~Irreclaimable~, a. ~1.~ Irrecoverable, incorrigible, hopeless, irreparable, past cure, past hope, remediless, irretrievable, irreversible, incurable, past mending.

~2.~ Obdurate, hardened, impenitent, lost, abandoned, profligate, graceless, shameless, recreant, unrepentant.

~Irreconcilable~, a. ~1.~ Unappeasable, implacable, not to be reconciled.

~2.~ Inconsistent, incompatible, incongruous.

~Irrecoverable~, a. ~1.~ Irretrievable, not to be restored, lost for ever.

~2.~ Irreparable, incurable, remediless, irremediable, irretrievable, irreversible, hopeless, past cure, past hope, past mending, not to be remedied.

~Irrefragable~, a. Indisputable, incontestable, irrefutable, indubitable, past dispute, undeniable, unquestionable, incontrovertible, evident, obvious, past dispute, beyond a doubt, beyond all question.

~Irrefutable~, a. Indisputable, unanswerable, IRREFRAGABLE.

~Irregular~, a. ~1.~ Anomalous, abnormal, anomalistic, unusual, unconformable, aberrant, exceptional, eccentric, erratic, devious.

~2.~ Uncertain, unpunctual, capricious, desultory, fitful, variable, changeable, not uniform.

~3.~ Immethodical, out of order, unsymmetrical.

~4.~ Disorderly, inordinate, immoral, wild.

~Irregularity~, n. ~1.~ Aberration, abnormity, anomaly, anomalousness, singularity.

~2.~ Uncertainty, capriciousness, variableness, changeableness.

~3.~ Want of method, want of symmetry.

~4.~ Immorality, incorrectness, vice, impropriety, indecorum, laxity, sin, iniquity.

~Irrelevancy~, n. Inapplicability.

~Irrelevant~, a. Inapplicable, impertinent, not relevant, not applicable, not to the point, foreign to the purpose, not bearing upon the point in question, having nothing to do with the matter, travelling out of the record.

~Irreligion~, n. Impiety, ungodliness.

~Irreligious~, a. ~1.~ Ungodly, undevout.

~2.~ Profane, impious, wicked.

~Irremediable~, a. Incurable, irreparable, irretrievable, irrecoverable, irrevocable, irreversible, unchangeable, unalterable, not to be remedied, remediless, that cannot be cured.

~Irremissible~, a. Unpardonable, inexcusable, indefensible, unjustifiable, inexpiable, unatonable.

~Irreparability~, n. Irreparableness.

~Irreparable~, a. IRREMEDIABLE.

~Irreprehensible~, a. Irreproachable, irreprovable, unblamable, blameless, faultless, inculpable, innocent, not to be blamed, not to be censured.

~Irrepressible~, a. Uncontrollable, insuppressible, not to be repressed.

~Irreproachable~, a. IRREPREHENSIBLE.

~Irresistible~, a. That cannot be resisted.

~Irresolute~, a. Undetermined, undecided, wavering, vacillating, unsettled, unsteady, hesitating, infirm of purpose, on the fence; waiting to see which way the cat jumps, or which way the wind blows; waiting for something to turn up.

~Irrespective of~, Regardless of, without regard to.

~Irresponsible~, a. Unaccountable, unanswerable, not responsible.

~Irretrievable~, a. ~1.~ Irrecoverable, not to be restored, lost for ever.

~2.~ Irreparable, incurable, irremediable, remediless, past cure, past hope.

~Irreverence~, n. ~1.~ Impiety, profaneness, profanity, blasphemy.

~2.~ Disrespect, disesteem, slight, neglect, incivility, discourtesy, rudeness.

~Irreverent~, a. ~1.~ Impious, profane, blasphemous.

~2.~ Disrespectful, UNCIVIL, rude, discourteous, impolite.

~Irreversible~, a. Unchangeable, unalterable, irrevocable, irrepealable, immutable, invariable, changeless.

~Irrevocable~, a. Unchangeable, IRREVERSIBLE.

~Irrigate~, v. a. Water, moisten, wet.

~Irrigation~, n. Watering.

~Irritability~, n. ~1.~ Irascibility, fretfulness, testiness, peevishness, petulance, excitability, snappishness.

~2.~ Susceptibility (to the influence of a stimulus).

~Irritable~, a. ~1.~ Irascible, fretful, testy, touchy, peevish, pettish, waspish, snappish, choleric, splenetic, captious, petulant, excitable, hot, peppery, passionate, fiery.

~2.~ Susceptible (to the influence of a stimulus).

~Irritate~, v. a. ~1.~ Provoke, nettle, chafe, incense, exasperate, enrage, anger, fret, offend, vex, annoy, tease, gall.

~2.~ (Med.) Inflame (by friction).

~Irritation~, n. ~1.~ Irritating.

~2.~ Exasperation, provocation, wrath, ire, anger, passion, excitement, indignation, resentment.

~3.~ (Med.) Inflammation (by friction).

~Irruption~, n. ~1.~ Bursting in, breaking in.

~2.~ Incursion, inroad, forray, raid, partial invasion.

~Ischiadic~, a. Ischiatic, of the hip.

~Ischiagra~, n. (Med.) Sciatica, gout of the hip.

~Ischiatic~, a. Ischiadic, of the hip.

~Isinglass~, n. ~1.~ Fish-glue, ichthyocol, icthyocolla, CARLOCK.

~2.~ Mica.

~Islam~, n. Mahometanism, Mohammedanism.

~Islamism~, n. Mahometanism, Mohammedanism.

~Island~, n. ISLE.

~Isle~, n. [Poetical.] Island.

~Islet~, n. Little island.

~Isochronal~, a. Isochronous, of equal time, of equal duration (as the vibrations of a pendulum).

~Isolate~, v. a. Separate, dissociate, detach, insulate, segregate, place by itself, set apart.

~Isolation~, n. Separation, disconnection, insulation, segregation, detachment.

~Isomorphism~, n. Similarity of crystalline form.

~Isomorphous~, a. Of similar crystalline form.

~Isoperimetrical~, a. Of equal perimeters, the same in circumference.

~Israelite~, n. Jew.

~Israelic~, a. Jewish.

~Israelitish~, a. Jewish.

~Issue~, n. ~1.~ Egress, exit, outlet, passage out.

~2.~ Delivering, delivery, sending out.

~3.~ Event, consequence, end, termination, conclusion, consummation, result, effect, outcome, upshot, DÉNOUEMENT, FINALE, final or ultimate result, final event, finishing stroke, winding up.

~4.~ Offspring, progeny, children, posterity, lineal descendants.

~5.~ (Med.) Fontanel, artificial ulcer.

~6.~ (Law.) Point in dispute.

~Issue~, v. a. ~1.~ Deliver, send out, put forth.

~2.~ Distribute, give out.

~3.~ Put into circulation.

~Issue~, v. n. ~1.~ Proceed, flow, emanate, arise, spring, originate, follow, ensue, come, take rise, be the effect, be derived, go forth, grow out, pass out, flow out, rush out.

~2.~ End, terminate, result.

~Italian~, a. Of Italy.

~Italian~, n. ~1.~ Native of Italy.

~2.~ Language of Italy.

~Italicism~, n. Italian idiom.

~Italicize~, v. a. Print in Italics, distinguish by Italics.

~Italics~, n. pl. Italic letters.

~Itch~, n. ~1.~ Itching.

~2.~ (Med.) Psora.

~Itch~, v. n. Feel an itching.

~Itching~, n. ~1.~ Itch.

~2.~ Craving, longing, strong desire.

~Item~, ad. [L.] Also, as an additional article.

~Item~, n. Article, particular.

~Iterate~, v. a. Repeat, reiterate.

~Iteration~, n. Repetition, reiteration.

~Iterative~, a. Repeating.

~Itinerancy~, n. Travelling, going from plane to place.

~Itinerant~, a. Travelling, wandering, roving, roaming, nomadic, going from place to place, not settled.

~Itinerary~, n. Guide for travelling.

~It is odds~, It is probable, it is likely.

~Ivory-black~, n. Bone-black (improperly called Ivory-black, which is, strictly speaking, prepared from Ivory).

~Ivory-nut~, n. Corosso nut.

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~Jabber~, v. n. Prate, chatter, prattle, gabble, talk rapidly, talk idly.

~Jabber~, v. a. Speak rapidly.

~Jabber~, n. Prate, prattle, gab, chatter, idle talk.

~Jabberer~, n. Prattler, chatterer, babbler, chatterbox.

~Jack-a-lantern~, n. Jack-with-a-lantern, will-o'-the-wisp, will- with-the-wisp, IGNIS FATUUS.

~Jack at all trades~, Factotum, doer of all work.

~Jack of all trades~, Factotum, doer of all work.

~Jack-a-dandy~, n. Beau, fop, coxcomb, dandy, exquisite, popinjay, macaroni, jackanapes, man of dress, man milliner, vain fellow.

~Jackanapes~, n. [Written also Jackanape.] ~1.~ Monkey, APE.

~2.~ Beau, fop, dandy, JACK-A-DANDY.

~Jackass~, n. ~1.~ Male ass.

~2.~ Blockhead, simpleton, DUNCE.

~Jackdaw~, n. Daw (Corvus monedula).

~Jacket~, n. Jerkin, short coat.

~Jack-ketch~, n. Hangman, public executioner.

~Jack-pudding~, n. Buffoon, harlequin, mountebank, jester, droll, zany, clown, PUNCH, scaramouch, merry-Andrew.

~Jack-snipe~, n. Judcock.

~Jacobin~, n. ~1.~ Dominican, predicant, blackfriar, preaching friar.

~2.~ Anarchist, turbulent demagogue.

~Jacobinic~, a. Turbulent, revolutionary.

~Jacobinical~, a. Turbulent, revolutionary.

~Jaculate~, v. a. Dart, throw, launch, hurl, let fly.

~Jaculation~, n. Darting, throwing, hurling, launching.

~Jade~, n. ~1.~ Hack, tired horse, worthless horse.

~2.~ Hussy, quean, base woman, sorry wench.

~3.~ Young woman (in irony or slight contempt).

~Jade~, v. a. Tire, weary, fatigue, fag, exhaust, tire out, knock up.

~Jag~, n. Notch, denticulation, protuberant point.

~Jagged~, a. Notched, serrated, indented, denticulated, cleft, divided, uneven (on the edges).

~Jaggedness~, n. Unevenness (on the edges).

~Jaguar~, n. American tiger (Felis onca).

~Jail~, n. [Written also, but not commonly, Gaol.] Prison, penitentiary, bridewell, workhouse, TOLLBOOTH, JUG, house of correction.

~Jakes~, n. Privy, necessary, back-house, water-closet.

~Jam~, v. a. Press, crowd, squeeze tight.

~Jam~, n. ~1.~ Conserve (boiled in mass), thick preserve.

~2.~ Pressure (from a crowd), crowding.

~3.~ Crowd, throng, mass of people (crowded together).

~Jamb~, n. Side-piece (of a fireplace, a door, a window, &c.).

~Jamestown weed~, Thorn-apple, stramonium, stramony, Apple Peru (Datura stramonium).

~Jangle~, v. n. Wrangle, squabble, bicker, quarrel, dispute, spar, spat, jar, TIFF, have words, have an altercation.

~Jangle~, v. a. Sound discordantly, utter inharmoniously.

~Jangle~, n. ~1.~ Discord, discordant sound.

~2.~ Wrangling, JANGLING.

~Jangled~, a. Discordant, inharmonious, out of tune.

~Jangler~, n. Wrangler, quarrelsome fellow.

~Jangling~, n. Wrangling, bickering, quarrelling, altercation, jangle, jar.

~Janitor~, n. Porter, CONCIÈRGE, door-keeper.

~Janty~, a. [Written also Jaunty.] Showy, finical, airy, fluttering, bedizened, gairish, dressy, gay, fine, pranked out.

~Japan~, v. a. Varnish, lacquer.

~Japan earth~, Catechu, TERRA JAPONICA, gambier, cutch.

~Japanese~, a. Of Japan.

~Japanese~, n. ~1.~ Native of Japan.

~2.~ Language of Japan.

~Jar~, v. n. ~1.~ Vibrate harshly.

~2.~ Clash, interfere, wrangle, contend, quarrel, bicker, spat, spar, jangle, squabble, TIFF, have words, have an altercation.

~Jar~, v. a. Shake, agitate, jolt.