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#190. [Things contained.] Contents.-- N. contents; cargo, lading,
freight, shipment, load, bale, burden, jag; cartload, shipload; cup of,
basket of, &c. (receptacle) 191 of; inside &c. 221.
stuffing, ullage.
V. load, lade, ship, charge, fill, stuff.

#191. Receptacle.-- N. receptacle; inclosure &c. 232; recipient,
receiver, reservatory.
compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess,
nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave &c. (concavity) 252.
capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder;
pericarp, udder.
stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard,
breadbasket; mouth.
pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule,
wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel,
reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags;
portfolio; quiver &c. (magazine) 636.
chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk,
bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack
[U.S.]; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.
vessel, vase, bushel, barrel; canister, jar; pottle, basket, pannier,
buck-basket, hopper, maund|, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket,
whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle,
utensil; brazier; cuspidor, spittoon.
[For liquids] cistern &c. (store) 636; vat, caldron, barrel, cask,
puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora,
bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon;
demijohn; flask, flasket; stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster; urn,
epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera; pig gin, big gin; tyg, nipperkin,
pocket pistol; tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug,
pipkin; galipot, gallipot; matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead,
capsule, can, kettle; bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice,
tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet|, tureen.
bail, beaker, billy, canakin; catch basin, catch drain; chatti,
lota, mussuk, schooner [U.S.], spider, terrine, toby, urceus.
plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer,
pan, crucible; glassware, tableware; vitrics.
shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch
glass, thimble.
closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin,
bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of
drawers, till, scrutoire|, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet,
canterbury; escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine.
chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of
rooms, apartment [U.S.], flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room,
cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing
room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box;
boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room,
salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room,
bath room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.
attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold,
cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor,
rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery,
offices; storeroom &c. (depository) 636; lumber room; dairy, laundry, coach
house; garage; hangar; outhouse, penthouse; lean-to.
portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, lobby, court,
hall, vestibule, corridor, passage; ante room, ante chamber; lounge;
piazza [=veranda, U.S.].
conservatory, greenhouse, bower, arbor, summerhouse, alcove, grotto,
hermitage.
lodging &c. (abode) 189; bed &c. (support) 215; carriage &c. (vehicle)
272.
Adj. capsular; saccular, sacculated; recipient; ventricular, cystic,
vascular, vesicular, cellular, camerated, locular, multilocular,
polygastric; marsupial; siliquose, siliquous.

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SECTION II. D I M E N S I O N S

1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS

#192. Size.-- N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness
&c. adj.; greatness &c. (of quantity) 31; expanse &c. (space) 180;
amplitude, mass; proportions.
capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.
turgidity &c. (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness &c.
adj.; embonpoint, corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.
hugeness &c. adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.
giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua,
monster, mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan,
elephant, hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass,
swad, clod, nugget, bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; "Triton
among the minnows" [Coriolanus].
mountain, mound; heap &c. (assemblage) 72.
largest portion &c. 50; full size, life size.
V. be large &c. adj.; become large &c. (expand) 194.
Adj. large, big; great &c. (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky,
voluminous, ample, massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious &c.
180; mighty, towering, fine, magnificent.
corpulent, stout, fat, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping,
bouncing; portly, burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed;
stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good case, in good condition; in
condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.
lubberly, hulky, unwieldly, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking,
whopping, thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy &c. (swollen)
194.
huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous,
stupendous; monster, monstrous, jumbo, mammoth, gigantean; prodigious,
colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Gargantuan; infinite &c. 105.
large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a
pig, fat as a quail, fat as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.

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#193. Littleness.-- N. littleness &c. adj.; smallness &c. (of
quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension; parvitude, parvity; duodecimo; Elzevir
edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness &c. 203.
dwarf, pigmy, Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon, urchin, elf; atomy,
dandiprat; doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb; manikin, mannikin;
homunculus, dapperling, cock-sparrow.
animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet, fly, midge, gnat, shrimp,
minnow, worm, maggot, entozoon; bacteria; infusoria; microzoa; phytozoaria;
microbe; grub; tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard
seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of sand; molehill, button, bubble.
point; atom &c. (small quantity) 32; fragment &c. (small part) 51;
powder &c. 330; point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae &c.
(unimportance) 643.
micrography, micrometer, microscope; vernier; scale.
V. be little &c. adj.; lie in a nutshell; become small &c. (decrease)
36, (contract) 195.
Adj. little; small &c. (in quantity) 32; minute, diminutive,
microscopic; microzeal; inconsiderable &c. (unimportant) 643; exiguous,
puny, tiny, wee, petty, minikin, minature, pigmy, elfin; undersized; dwarf,
dwarfed, dwarfish; spare, stunted, limited; cramp, cramped; pollard,
Liliputian, dapper, pocket; portative, portable; duodecimo; dumpy, squat;
short &c. 201.
impalpable, intangible, evanescent, imperceptible, invisible,
inappreciable; infinitesimal, homoeopathic; atomic, corpuscular, molecular;
rudimentary, rudimental; embryonic, vestigial.
weazen|!, scant, scraggy, scrubby; thin &c. (narrow) 203; granular &c.
(powdery) 330; shrunk &c. 195; brevipennate.
Adv. in a small compass, in a nutshell; on a small scale.

#194. Expansion.-- N. expansion; increase &c. 35 of size; enlargement,
extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation; aggrandizement, spread,
increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction;
turgescence, turgidness, turgidity; dispansion|; obesity &c. (size) 192;
hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling,
tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation.
dilatability, expansibility.
germination, growth, upgrowth; accretion &c. 35; budding, gemmation.
overgrowth, overdistension; hypertrophy, tympany.
bulb &c. (convexity) 250; plumper; superiority of size.
V. become larger &c. (large &c. 192); expand, widen, enlarge, extend,
grow, increase, incrassate, swell, gather; fill out; deploy, take open
order, dilate, stretch, spread; mantle, wax; grow up, spring up; bud,
bourgeon, shoot, sprout, germinate, put forth, vegetate, pullulate, open,
burst forth; gain flesh, gather flesh; outgrow; spread like wildfire,
overrun.
be larger than; surpass &c. (be superior) 33.
render larger &c. (large &c. 192); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize,
distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate,
puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.
Adj. expanded &c. v.; larger &c. (large &c. 192; swollen; expansive;
wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat,
turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied|;
oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous;
bulbous &c. (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big &c. 192;
abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.

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#195. Contraction.-- N. contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease
&c. 36 of size; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking &c. v.;
compaction; tabes, collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction,
consumption, marasmus, atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.
condensation, compression, compactness; compendium &c. 596; squeezing
&c. v.; strangulation; corrugation; astringency; astringents, sclerotics;
contractility, compressibility; coarctation.
inferiority in size.
V. become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease &c. 36; grow less,
dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh,
wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb; decay &c. (deteriorate) 659.
be smaller than, fall short of; not come up to &c. (be inferior) 34.
render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow,
coarctate; boil down; constrict, constringe; condense, compress, squeeze,
corrugate, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, stow; pinch, tighten,
strangle; cramp; dwarf, bedwarf; shorten &c. 201; circumscribe &c. 229;
restrain &c. 751.
pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, grind, chip, shave,
shear.
Adj. contracting &c. v.; astringent; shrunk, contracted &c. v.;
strangulated, tabid, wizened, stunted; waning &c. v.; neap, compact.
unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194); contractile; compressible; smaller
&c. (small &c.193).

#196. Distance.-- N. distance; space &c. 180; remoteness, farness,
far-cry to; longinquity, elongation; offing, background; remote region;
removedness; parallax; reach, span, stride.
outpost, outskirt; horizon; aphelion; foreign parts, ultima Thule, ne
plus ultra, antipodes; long range, giant's stride.
dispersion &c.73.
V. be distant &c. adj.; extend to, stretch to, reach to, spread to, go
to, get to, stretch away to; range.
remain at a distance; keep away, keep off, keep aloof, keep clear of,
stand away, stand off, stand aloof, stand clear of.
Adj. distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of;
stretching to &c. v.; yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine,
transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane;
hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached,
unapproachable; incontiguous.
Adv. far off, far away; afar, afar off; off; away; a long way off, a
great way off, a good way off; wide away, aloof; wide of, clear of; out of
the way, out of reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer,
over the border, far and wide, "over the hills and far away [Gay]; from
pole to pole &c. (over great space) 180; to the uttermost parts, to the
ends of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, a perte de vue, out
of the sphere of, wide of the mark; a far cry to.
apart, asunder; wide apart, wide asunder; longo intervallo; at arm's
length.
Phr. "distance lends enchantment" [Campbell].

#197. Nearness.-- N. nearness &c. adj.; proximity, propinquity;
vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity &c. 199.
short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters,
stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.
purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours, suburbs,
confines, banlieue, borderland; whereabouts.
bystander; neighbor, borderer.
approach &c. 286; convergence 7c. 290; perihelion.
V. be near &c. adj.; adjoin, hang about, trench on; border upon, verge
upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug;
huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn.
bring near, draw near &c. 286; converge &c. 290; crowd &c. 72; place
side by side &c. adv.
Adj. near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring;
bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at
hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.
Adv. near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at
the point of; next door to; within reach, within call,
within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far
from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts
of; in the environs &c. n.; at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow,
at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under
one's nose; within a stone's throw &c. n.; in sight of, in presence of; at
close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by
side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition &c. (touching) 199; yardarm to yardarm,
at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon,
verging to; in the way.
about; here abouts, there abouts; roughly, in round numbers;
approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh.

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#198. Interval.-- N. interval, interspace; separation &c. 44; break,
gap, opening; hole &c. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption,
interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek,
cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent,
gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.
gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet,
frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow &c. 259; abra; barranca, barranco; clove
[U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime, hiatus
valde deflendus; parenthesis &c. (interjacence) 228; void 7c. (absence)
187; incompleteness &c. 53.
V. gape &c. (open) 260.
Adj. with an interval, far between; breachy, rimose, rimulose.
Adv. at intervals &c. (discontinuously) 70; longo intervallo.

#199. Contiguity.-- N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition,
abuttal, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre,
rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion &c. 46; touching &c.
v. (see touch 379).
borderland; frontier &c. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.
V. be contiguous &c. adj.; join, adjoin, abut on, march with; graze,
touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c. 46.
Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; conterminous, end
to end, osculatory; pertingent|; tangential.
hand to hand; close to &c. (near) 197; with no interal &c. 198.

2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS


#200. Length.-- N. length, longitude, span; mileage.
line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius.
lengthening &c. v.; prolongation, production, protraction; tension,
tensure; extension.
[Measures of length] line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard,
ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league; chain; arpent, handbreadth,
jornada [U.S.], kos, vara.
pedometer, perambulator; scale &c. (measurement) 466.
V. be long &c. adj.; stretch out, sprawl; extend to, reach to, stretch
to; make a long arm, "drag its slow length along."
render long &c. adj.; lengthen, extend, elongate; stretch; prolong,
produce, protract; let out, draw out, spinout; drawl.
enfilade, look along, view in perspective.
Adj. long, longsome; lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched; lengthened &c.
v.; sesquipedalian &c. (words) 577; interminable, no end of; macrocolous.
linear, lineal; longitudinal, oblong.
as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow; unshortened &c.
(shorten &c. 201).
Adv. lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along; tandem; in
a line &c. (continuously) 69; in perspective.
from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown
of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe; fore and aft.

#201. Shortness.-- N. shortness &c. adj.; brevity; littleness &c. 193;
a span.
shortening &c. v.; abbreviation, abbreviature; abridgment, concision,
retrenchment, curtailment, decuration|; reduction &c. (contraction) 195;
epitome &c. (compendium) 596.
elision, ellipsis; coonciseness &c. (in style) 572.
abridger, epitomist, epitomizer.
V. be short &c. adj.; render short &c. adj.; shorten, curtail,
abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress &c. (contract) 195;
epitomize &c. 596.
retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut
down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop;
snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; [in drawing]
foreshorten.
Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn,
stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate; retrousse;
stocky; squab, squabby; squat, dumpy; little &c. 193; curtailed of its fair
proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c. 572; summary.
Adv. shortly &c. adj.; in short &c. (concisely) 572.

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#202. Breadth, Thickness.-- N. breadth, width, latitude, amplitude;
diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent &c. (space) 180.
thickness, crassitude; corpulence &c. (size) 192; dilation &c.
(expansion) 194.
V. be broad &c. adj.; become broad, render broad &c. adj.; expand &c.
194; thicken, widen, calibrate.
Adj. broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fanlike; outspread,
outstretched; "wide as a church-door" [Romeo and Juliet]; latifoliate,
latifolous.
thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.

#203. Narrowness. Thinness.-- N. narrowness &c. adj.; closeness,
exility; exiguity 7c. (little) 193.
line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.
thinness &c. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor|.
shaving, slip &c. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow,
anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.
middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass;
ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine &c. 198.
narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering; contraction &c. 195.
V. be narrow &c. adj.; narrow, taper, contract &c. 195; render narrow
&c. adj.
Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c. (filament)
205; finespun; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate,
incapacious; contracted &c. 195; unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194); slender
as a thread.
[in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt,
macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny [U.S.] slinky; starved,
starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer];
thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced;
lantern-jawed.
attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid|, barebone, rawboned.

#204. Layer.-- N. layer, stratum, course, bed, zone, substratum,
floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escrapment; table, tablet; dess;
flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.
plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel;
coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving,
integument &c. (covering) 223; eschar.
stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.
V. slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover
&c. 223.
Adj. lamellar, lamellated, lamelliform; laminated, laminiferous;
micaceous; schistose, schistous; scaly, filmy, membranous, flaky,
squamous; foliated, foliaceous; stratified, stratiform; tabular, discoid;
spathic, spathose.

#205. Filament.-- N. filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle, vein;
hair, capillament, cilium, tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet, venula,
venule.
wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist,
whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.
strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband,
roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.
beard &c. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.
Adj. filamentous, filamentiferous, filaceous, filiform; fibrous,
fibrillous; thread-like, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, capilliform;
funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform; flagelliform; hairy &c. (rough) 256;
taeniate, taeniform, taenioid; venose, venous.

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#206. Height. -- N. height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch;
loftiness &c. adj.; sublimity.
tallness &c. adj.; stature, procerity; prominence &c. 250.
colussus &c. (size) 192; giant, grenadier, giraffe, camelopard.
mount, mountain; hill alto, butte [U.S.], monticle, fell, knap; cape;
headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground,
vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights &c.
(summit), 210; knob, loma, pena [U.S.], picacho, tump; knoll, hummock,
hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike,
clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height.
tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret,
campanile, turret, dome, cupola.
pole, pikstaff, maypole, flagstaff; top mast, topgallant mast.
ceiling &c. (covering) 223.
high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide.
altimetry &c. (angel) 244; batophobia.
V. be high &c. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover; cap, culminate;
overhang, hang over, impend, beetle, bestride, ride, mount; perch,
surmount; cover &c. 223; overtop &c. (be superior) 33; stand on tiptoe.
become high &c. adj.; grow higher, grow taller; upgrow; rise &c.
(ascend) 305.
render high &c. adj.; heighten &c. (elevate) 307.
Adj. high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty, tall; gigantic &c. (big)
192; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated
&c. 307; upper; highest &c. (topmost) 210; high reaching, insessorial,
perching.
upland, moorland; hilly, knobby [U.S.]; mountainous, alpine,
subalpine, heaven kissing; cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching; aerial.
overhanging &c. v. ; incumbent, overlying, superincumbent,
supernatant, superimposed; prominent &c. c. 250.
tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple, lanky &c.
(thin) 203.
Adv. on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; airwind;
upstairs, abovestairs; in the clouds; on tiptoe, on stilts, on the
shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.
over, upwards; from top to bottom &c. (completely) 52.
Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto.

#207. Lowness. -- N. lowness &c. adj.; debasement, depression,
prostration &c. (horizontal) 213; depression &c. (concave) 252.
molehill; lowlands; basement floor, ground floor; rez de chaussee;
cellar; hold; feet, heels.
low water; low tide, ebb tide, neap tide, spring tide.
V. be low &c. adj.; lie low, lie flat; underlie; crouch, slouch,
wallow, grovel; lower &c. (depress) 308.
Adj. low, neap, debased; eether most; flat, level with the ground;
lying low &c. v.; crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate &c. (horizontal)
213.
Adv. under; beneath, underneath; below; downwards; adown, at the foot
of; under foot, under ground; down stairs, below stairs; at a low ebb;
below par.

#208. Depth. -- N. depth; deepness &c. adj.; profundity, depression
&c. (concavity) 252.
hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; gulf &c. 198; bowels of the earth,
botttomless pit, hell.
soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound,
probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
V. be deep &c. adj.; render deep &c. adj.; deepen.
plunge &c. 310; sound, heave th elead, take soundings; dig &c.
(excavate) 252.
Adj. deep, deep seated; profound, sunk, burried; submerged &c. 310;
subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterrene; underground.
bottomless, soundless, fathomless; unfathomed, unfathomable; abysmal;
deep as a well; bathycolpian; benthal, benthopelagic; downreaching,
yawning.
knee deep, ankel deep.
Adv. beyond one's depth, out of one's depth; over head and ears.

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