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#302. [Motion through.] Passage. -- N. passage, transmission;
permeation; penetration, interpenetration; transudation, infiltration;
endosmose exosmose; endosmosis; intercurrence; ingress &c. 294; egress &c.
295; path &c. 627; conduit &c. 350; opening &c. 260; journey &c. 266;
voyage &c. 267.
V. pass, pass through; perforate &c. (hole) 260; penetrate, permeate,
thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut
across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's
way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut
one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear
the course; traverse, go over the ground.
Adj. passing &c. v.; intercurrent; endosmosmic, endosmotic.
Adv. en passant &c. (transit) 270.

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#303 [Motion beyond] Transcursion -- N. transcursion|, transiliency,
transgression; tresspass; encroachment, infringement; extravagation|,
transcendence; redundance &c. 641.
V. transgress, surpass, pass; go beyond, go by; show in front, come to
the front; shoot ahead of; steal a march upon, steal a gain upon.
overstep, overpass, overreach, overgo, override, overleap, overjump,
overskip, overlap, overshoot the mark; outstrip, outleap, outjump, outgo,
outstep, outrun, outride, outrival, outdo; beat, beat hollow; distance;
leave in the lurch, leave in the rear; throw into the shade; exceed,
transcend, surmount; soar &c. (rise) 305.
encroach, trespass, infringe, trench upon, intrench on; strain;
stretch a point, strain a point; cross the Rubicon.
Adj. surpassing &c. v.
Adv. beyond the mark, ahead.

#304 [motion short of] Shortcoming -- N. shortcoming, failure;
falling short &c v.; default, defalcation; leeway; labor in vain, no go.
imcompleteness &c. 53; imperfection &c. 651; insufficiency &c. 640;
noncompletion &c. 730; failure &c. 732.
V. 303, come short of, fall short of, stop short of, come short , fall
short , stop short ; not reach; want; keep within bounds, keep within the
mark, keep withim the compass.
break down, stick in the mud, collapse, flat out [U.S.], come to
nothing; fall through, fall to the ground; cave in, end in smoke, miss the
mark, fail; lose ground; miss stays.
Adj. unreached; deficient; short, short of; minus; out of depth;
perfunctory &c. (neglect) 460.
Adv. within the mark, within the compass, within the bounds;
behindhand; re infecta; to no purpose; for from it.
Phr. the bubble burst.

#305. [Motion upwards] Ascent. -- N. ascent, ascension; rising &c.
309; acclivity, hill &c. 217; flight of steps, flight of stairs; ladder
rocket, lark; sky rocket, sky lark; Alpine Club.
V. ascend, rise, mount, arise, uprise; go up, get up, work one's way
up, start up; shoot up, go into orbit; aspire.
climb, clamber, ramp, scramble, escalade, surmount; scale, scale the
heights.
go aloft, fly aloft; tower, soar, take off, spring up; hover, spire,
plane, swim, float, surge; leap &c. 309.
Adj. rising &c. v. scandent|, buoyant; supernatant, superfluitant|;
excelsior.
Adv. uphill.

#306. [Motion downwards] Descent. -- N. descent, descension,
declension, declination; fall; falling &c. v.: slump; drop, plunge,
plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip,
tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus.
avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide.
declivity, dip, hill.
V. descend; go down, drop down, come down; fall, gravitate, drop,
slip, slide, settle; plunge, plummet, crash; decline, set, sink, droop,
come down a peg; slump.
dismount, alight, light, get down; swoop; stoop &c. 308; fall
prostrate, precipitate oneself; let fall &c. 308.
tumble, trip, stumble, titubate, lurch, pitch, swag, topple, topple
over, tumble over, topple down, tumble down; tilt, sprawl, plump down, come
down a cropper.
Adj. descending &c. v.; descendent; decurrent, decursive; labent,
deciduous; nodding to its fall.
Adv. downhill, downwards.
Phr. the bottom fell out.

#307. Elevation. -- N. elevation; raising &c. v.; erection, lift;
sublevation, upheaval; sublimation, exaltation; prominence &c. (convexity)
250.
lever &c. 633; crane, derrick, windlass, capstan, winch; dredge,
dredger, dredging maching; dumbwaiter, elevator, escalator, lift.
V. heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up,
perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear,
upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate;
place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.
take up, drag up, fish up; dredge.
stand up, rise up, get up, jump up; spring to one's feet; hold
oneself, hold one's head up; drawn oneself up to his full height.
Adj. elevated &c. v.; stilted, attollent, rampant.
Adv. on stilts, on the shoulders of, on one's legs, on one's hind
legs.

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#308. Depression. -- N. lowering &c. v.; depression; dip &c.
(concavity) 252; abasement; detrusion; reduction.
overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,
precipitation.
bow; courtesy, curtsy; genuflexion, genuflection, kowtow, obeisance,
salaam.
V. depress, lower, let down, take down, let down a peg, take down a
peg; cast; let drop, let fall; sink, debase, bring low, abase, reduce,
detrude, pitch, precipitate.
overthrow, overturn, overset; upset, subvert, prostate, level, fell;
cast down, take down, throw down, fling down, dash down, pull down, cut
down, knock down, hew down; rase to the ground; trample in the dust, pull
about one's ears.
sit, sit down; couch, squat, crouch, stoop, bend, bow; courtesy,
curtsy; bob, duck, dip, kneel; bend the knee, bow the knee, bend the head,
bow the head; cower; recline &c. (be horizontal) 213.
Adj. depressed &c. v.; at a low ebb; prostrate &c. (horizontal) 213;
detrusive.
Phr. facinus quos inquinat aequat [Lucan].

#309. Leap. -- N. leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation.
ance, caper; curvet, caracole; gambade|, gambado|; capriole, demivolt;
buck, buck jump; hop skip and jump; falcade.
kangaroo, jerboa; chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea; buckjumper;
wallaby.
V. leap; jump up, jump over the moon; hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp,
cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper; buck, buck jump; curvet, caracole;
foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start; frisk &c. (amusement) 840; jump about
&c. (agitation) 315; trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light
fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.
Adj. leaping &c. v.; saltatory, frisky.
Adv. on the light fantastic toe.
Phr. di salto in salto.

#310 Plunge -- N. plunge, dip, dive, header; ducking &c. v.; diver.
V. plunge, dip, souse, duck; dive, plump; take a plunge, take a
header; make a plunge; bathe &c.(water) 337.
submerge, submerse; immerse; douse, sink, engulf, send to the bottom.
get out of one's depth; go to the bottom, go down like a stone, drop
like a lead balloon; founder, welter, wallow.


#311. [Curvilinear motion.] Circuition. -- N. circuition, curculation;
turn, curvet; excursiion, circumvention, circumnavigation,
circumambulation; northwest passage; circuit &c. 629.
turning &c. v.; wrench; evolution; coil, corkscreq.
V. turn, bend, wheel; go about, put about; heel; go round to the right
about, turn round to the right about; turn on one's heel; make a circle,
make a complete circle, describe a circle, describe a complete circle; go
through 180x, go through 360x, pass through 180x, pass through 360x.
circumnavigate, circumambulate, circumvent; "put a girdle round about
the earth" [M.N.D.]; go the round, make the round of.
wind, circulate, meander; whisk, twirl; twist &c. (convolution) 248;
make a detour &c. (circuit) 629.
Adj. turning &c. v.; circuitous; circumforaneous, circumfluent.
Adv. round about.

#312. [Motion in a continued circle.] Rotation. -- N. rotation,
revolution, gyration, circulation, roll; circumrotation, circumvolution,
circumgyration; volutation, circination|, turbination, pirouette,
convolution.
verticity|, whir, whirl, eddy, vortex, whirlpool, gurge;
countercurrent; cyclone, tornado; surge; vertigo, dizzy round; Maelstrom,
Charybdis; Ixion.
wheel, screw, whirligig, rollingstone, windmill; top, teetotum;
roller; flywheel; jack; caster.
axis, axle, spindle, pivot, pin, hinge, pole, swivel, gimbals, arbor,
bobbin, mandrel.
[Science of rotary motion] trochilics.
V. rotate; roll along; revolve, spin; turn round; circumvolve;
circulate, gyre, gyrate, wheel, whirl, twirl, trundle, troll, bowl.
roll up, furl; wallow, welter; box the compass; spin like a top, spin
like a teetotum.
Adj. rotating &c.v.; rotary, rotary; circumrotatory, trochilic,
vertiginous, gyratory; vortical, vorticose.
Adv. head over heels, round and round, like a horse in a mill.

#313. [Motion in the reverse circle.] Evolution. -- N. evolution,
unfolding, development; evolvement; unfoldment; eversion &c. (inversion)
218.
V. evove; unfold, unroll, unwind, uncoil, untwist, unfurl, untwine,
unravel; disentagle; develop.
Adj. evolving &c. v.; evolved &c. v.

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#314. [Reciprocating motion, motion to and fro.] Oscillation. -- N.
oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation;
undulation; pulsation; pulse.
alternation; coming and going &c. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux,
ups and down.
fluctuation; vacillation &c. (irresolution) 605.
wave, vibratiuncle, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch,
dodge; logan, loggan, rocking-stone, vibroscope.
V. oscillate; vibrate, librate; alternate, undulate, wave; rock,
swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play;
wamble, wabble; dangle, swag.
fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker;
wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down,
bob up and down &c. Adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go;
vacillate &c. 605; teeter [U.S.].
brandish, shake, flourish.
Adj. oscillating &c. v.; oscillatory, undulatory, pulsatory,
libratory, rectilinear; vibratory, vibratile; pendulous.
Adv. to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon,
seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets
in a well.

#315. [Irregular motion] Agitation. -- N. agitation, stir, tremor,
shake, ripple, jog, jolt, jar, jerk, shock, succussion, trepidation,
quiver, quaver, dance; jactitation|, quassation|; shuffling 7c. v.;
twitter, flicker, flutter.
disquiet, pertubation, commotion, turmoil, turbulence; tumult,
tumultuation|; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers,
megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jercks, St.
Vitus's dance, tilmus.
spasm, throe, throb, palpitation, convulsion.
disturbance 7c. (disorder) 59; restlessness &c. (changeableness) 149.
ferment, fermentation; ebullition, effervescence, hurly-burly,
cahotage; tempest, storm, ground swell, heavy sea, whirlpook, vortex &c.
312; whirlwind &c. (wind) 349.
V. be agitated &c.; shake; tremble, tremble like an aspen leaf;
quiver, quaver, quake, shiver, twitter, twire, writhe, toss, shuffle,
tumble, stagger, bob, reel, sway, wag, waggle; wriggle, wriggle like an
eel; dance, stumble, shamble, flounder, totter, flounce, flop, curvet,
prance, cavort [U.S.]; squirm.
throb, pulsate, beat, palpitate, go pitapat; flutter, flitter,
flicker, bicker; bustle.
ferment, effervesce, foam; boil, boil over; bubble up; simmer.
toss about, jumb about; jump like a parched pea; shake like an aspen
leaf; shake to its center, shake to its foundations; be the sport of the
winds and waves; reel to and fro like a drunken man; move from post to
pillar and from pillar to post, drive from post to pillar and from pillar
to post, keep between hawk and buzzard.
agitate, shake, convulse, toss, tumble, bandy, wield, brandish, flap,
flourish, whisk, jerk, hitch, jolt; jog, joggle, jostle, buffet, hustle,
disturb, stir, shake up, churn, jounce, wallop, whip, vellicate.
Adj. shaking &c. v.; agitated tremulous; desultory, subsultory|;
saltatoric; quasative; shambling; giddy-paced, saltatory, convulsive,
unquiet, restless, all of a twitter.
Adv. by fits and starts; subsultorily| &c. adj.; per saltum; hop skip
and jump; in convulsions, in fits.
Phr. tempete dans un verre d'eau.

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CLASS III
Words Relating to MATTER
Section 1. MATTER IN GENERAL


#316. MATERIALITY. -- N. materiality, materialness; corporeity,
corporality; substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum;
physical condition.
matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle,
parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum; frame.
object, article, thing, something; still life; stocks and stones;
materials &c. 635.
[Science of matter] physics; somatology, somatics; natural philosophy,
experimental philosophy; physicism; physical science, philosophie positive,
materialism; materialist; physicist; somatism, somatist.
Adj. material, bodily; corporeal, corporal; physical; somatic,
somatoscopic; sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial.
objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual,
materialistic.

#317. Immateriality. -- N. immateriality, immaterialness;
incorporeity, spirituality; inextension; astral plane.
personality; I, myself, me; ego, spirit &c. (soul) 450; astral body;
immaterialism; spiritualism, spiritualist.
V. disembody, spiritualize.
Adj. immaterial, immateriate; incorporeal, incorporal; incorporate,
unfleshly; supersensible; asomatous, unextended; unembodied, disembodied;
extramundane, unearthly; pneumatoscopic; spiritual &c. (psychical) 450.
personal, subjective, nonobjective.

#318. World. -- N. world, creation, nature, universe; earth, globe,
wide world; cosmos; kosmos; terraqueous globe, sphere; macrocosm, megacosm;
music of the spheres.
heavens, sky, welkin|, empyrean; starry cope, starry heaven, starry
host; firmament; Midgard; supersensible regions; varuna; vault of heaven,
canopy of heaven; celestial spaces.
heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids; nebulae; galaxy, milky way,
galactic circle, via lactea.
sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus; photosphere, chromosphere; solar
system; planet, planetoid; comet; satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana,
silver-footed queen; aerolite, meteor; planetary ring; falling star,
shooting star; meteorite, uranolite.
constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big
Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt,
Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades.
colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit.
[Sicence of heavenly bodies] astronomy; uranogrraphy, uranology;
cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony; eidouranion, orrery; goedesy &c.
(measurement) 466; star gazing, star gazer; astronomer; observatory;
planetarium.
Adj. cosmic, cosmical; mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious|,
terraqueous, terrene, terreous|, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun;
sublunary, subastral.
solar, heliacal; lunar; celestial, heavenly, sphery; starry, stellar;
sidereal, sideral; astral; nebular; uranic.
Adv. in all creation, on the face of the globe, here velow, under the
sun.
Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the
frozen echo of the silent voice of God" [Hageman]; "green calm below, blue
quietness above" [Whittier]; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"
[Paradise Lost]; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful" [Tennyson]; "silently
as a dream the fabric rose" [Cowper]; "some touch of nature's genial glow"
[Scott]; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire" [Hamlet]; "through
knowledge we behold the World's creation" [Spenser].

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#319. Gravity. -- N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c. adj.;
specific gravity; pondorosity, pressure, load; burden, burthen; ballast,
counterpoise; lump of, mass of, weight of.
lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
weighing, ponderation, trutination|; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy
weight, apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb,
arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton,
quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod.
[metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram;
nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram.
[Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam,
weighbridge; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance,
two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale.
[Science of gravity] statics.
V. be heavy &c. adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
[Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adj. weighty; weighing &c. v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable;
lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
incumbent, superincumbent.

#320. Levity. -- N. levity; lightness &c. adj.; imponderability,
buoyancy, volatility.
feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer,
straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
leaven, ferment, barm, yeast.
V. be light &c. adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up.
render light &c. adj.; lighten, leaven.
Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous, imponderable; astatic,
weightless, ethereal, sublimated; gossamery; suberose, suberous;
uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating &c. v.; portable.
light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air.
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Section II. INORGANIC MATTER
1. Solid Matter

#321. Density.. -- N. density, solidity; solidness &c. adj.;
impenetrability, impermeability; imcompressibility; imporosity; cohesion
&c. 46; constipation, consistence, spissitude|.
specific gravity; hydrometer, areometer.
condensation; caseation; solidation, solidification; consolidation;
concretion, coagulation; petrification &c. (hardening) 323;
crystallization, precipitation; deposit, precipitate; inspissation;
thickening &c. v.
indivisibility, indiscerptibility, indisolvableness.
solid body, mass, block, knot, lump; concretion, concrete,
conglomerate; cake, clot, stone, curd, coagulum; bone, gristle, cartilage;
casein, crassamentum|, legumin.
V. be dense &c. adj.; become solid, render solid &c. adj.; solidify,
solidate; concrete, set, take a set, consolidate, congeal, coagulate; curd,
curdle; lopper; fix, clot, cake, candy, precipitate, deposit, cohere,
crystallize; petrify &c. (harden) 323.
condense, thicken, inspissate, incrassate; compress, squeeze, ram
down, constipate.
Adj. dense, solid; solidified &c. v.; caseous; pukka; coherent,
cohesive &c. 46; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive,
lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, imporous; incompressible; constipated;
concrete &c. (hard) 323; knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline,
crystallizable; thick, grumous|, stuffy.
undissolved, unmelted, unliquefied, unthawed.
indivisible, indiscerptible, infrangible, indissolvable, indissoluble,
insoluble, infusible.

#322. Rarity. -- N. rarity, tenuity; absence of solidity &c. 321;
subtility; subtilty, subtlety; sponginess, compressibility.
rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization.
ether &c. (gas) 334.
V. rarefy, expand, dilate, subtilize.
Adj. rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight;
light &c. 320; cavernous, spongy &c. (hollow) 252.
rarefied &c. v.;; unsubstantial; uncompact, incompressed; rarefiable.

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#323. Hardness. -- N. hardness &c. adj.; rigidity; renitence,
renitency; inflexibility, temper, callosity, durity .
induration, petrifaction; lapidification, lapidescence; vitrification,
ossification; crystallization.
stone, pebble, flint, marble, rock, fossil, crag, crystal, quartz,
granite, adamant; bone, cartilage; hardware; heart of oak, block, board,
deal board; iron, steel; cast iron, decarbonized iron, wrought iron; nail;
brick, concrete; cement.
V. render hard &c. adj.; harden, stiffen, indurate, petrify, temper,
ossify, vitrify; accrust.
Adj. hard, rigid, stubborn, stiff, firm; starch, starched; stark,
unbending, unlimber, unyielding; inflexible, tense; indurate, indurated;
gritty, proof.
adamant, adamantine, adamantean; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous,
lithic, vitreous; horny, corneous; bony; osseous, ossific; cartilaginous;
hard as a rock &c. n.; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker.

#324. Softness. -- N. softness, pliableness &c. adj.; flexibility;
pliancy, pliability; sequacity, malleability; ductility, tractility;
extendibility, extensibility; plasticity; inelasticity, flaccidity, laxity.
clay, wax, butter, dough, pudding; alumina, argil; cushion, pillow,
feather bed, down, padding, wadding.
mollification; softening &c.v.
V. render -soft &c. adj.; soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper;
mash, knead, squash.
bend, yield, relent, relax, give.
Adj. soft, tender, supple; pliant, pliable; flexible, flexile; lithe,
lithesome; lisom, limber, plastic; ductile; tractile, tractable; malleable,
extensiole, sequacious, inelastic; aluminous; remollient.
yielding &c. v.; flabby, limp, flimsy.
doughy, spongy.
flaccid, flocculent, downy; oedematous, medullary, argillaceous,
mellow.
soft as butter, soft as down, soft as silk; yielding as wax, tender as
chicken.

#325. Elasticity. -- N. elasticity, springiness, spring, resilience,
renitency, buoyancy.
rubber, India(n) rubber, latex, caoutchouc, whalebone, gum elastic,
baleen, natural rubber; neoprene, synthetic rubber, Buna-S, plastic.
V. stretch, flex, extend, distend, be elastic &c. adj.; bounce, spring
back &c. (recoil) 277.
Adj. elastic, flexible, tensile, spring, resilient, renitent, buoyant.

#326. Inelasticity. -- N. want of elasticity, absence of elasticity
&c. 325; inelasticity &c. (softness) 324,
Adj. unyielding, inelastic, inflexible &c. (soft) 324; irresilient.

#327. Tenacity. -- N. {ant. 328} tenacity, toughness, strength;
(cohesion) 46; grip, grasp, stickiness, (cohesion) 46; sequacity;
stubbornness &c. (obstinacy); glue, cement, glutinousness, sequaciousness,
viscidity, (semiliquididty) 352.
leather; white leather, whitleather; gristle, cartilage.
V. be tenacious &c. adj.; resist fracture.
Adj. tenacious, tough, strong, resisting, sequacious, stringy, gristly
cartilaginous, leathery, coriaceous, tough as whitleather; stubborn &c.
(obstinate) 606.

#328. Brittleness. -- N. {ant. 327} brittleness &c. adj.; fragility,
friability, fragibility, fissibility; house of cards, house of glass.
V. be brittle &c. adj.; live in a glass house.
break, crack, snap, split, shiver, splinter, crumble, break short,
burst, fly, give way; fall to pieces; crumble to, crumble into dust.
Adj. brittle, brash [U.S.], frangible, fragile, frail, gimcrack|,
shivery, fissile; splitting &c. v.; lacerable, splintery, crisp, crimp,
short, brittle as glass.

#329. [Structure.] Texture. -- N. structure (form) 240, organization,
anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction; framework, carcass,
architecture; stratification, cleavage.
substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple,
organism.
[Science of structures] organography, osteology, myology,
splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology; angiography, adenography.
texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain,
web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap &c. (roughness) 256;
fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.
[Science of textures] histology.
Adj. structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical.
textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate,
subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun.

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#330. Pulverulence. -- N. [State of powder.] powderiness,
pulverulence; sandiness &c. adj.; efflorescence; friability.
powder, dust, sand, shingle; sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour, farina,
rice, paddy, spore, sporule; crumb, seed, grain; particle &c. (smallness)
32; limature|, filings, debris, detritus, scobs, magistery, fine powder;
flocculi.
smoke; cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke; puff of smoke,
volume of smoke; sand storm, dust storm.
[Reduction to powder] pulverization, comminution, attenuation,
granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation,
abrasion, detrition, multure; limitation; tripsis; filing &c.v..
[Instruments for pulverization] mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater,
rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone,
kern, quern, koniology.
V. come to dust; be disintegrated, be reduced to powder &c.
reduce to powder, grind to powder; pulverize, comminute, granulate,
triturate, levigate; scrape, file, abrade, rub down, grind, grate, rasp,
pound, bray, bruise; contuse, contund; beat, crush, cranch, craunch,
crunch, scranch, crumble, disintegrate; attentuate &c. 195.
Adj. powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous,
branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous;
arenose, arenarious, arenaceous; gritty, efflorescent, impalpable;
lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline; sporaceous, sporous.
pulverizable; friable, crumbly, shivery; pulverized &c. v.; attrite;
in pieces.

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