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#331. Friction. -- N. friction, attrition; rubbing &c. v.;
confrication|, detrition, contrition|, affriction, abrasion, arrosion|,
limature|, frication, rub; elbow grease; rosin; massage; roughness &c. 256.
V. rub, scratch, scrape, scrub, slide, fray, rasp, graze, curry,
scour, polish, rub out, wear down, gnaw; file, grind &c. (reduce to powder)
330.
set one's teeth on edge; rosin.
Adj. anatriptic; attrite.

#332. [Absence of friction. Prevention of friction.] Lubrication. --
N. smoothness &c. 255; unctuousness &c. 355.
lubrication, lubrification; anointment; oiling &c. v.
synovia; glycerine, oil, lubricating oil, grease &c. 356; saliva;
lather.
V. lubricate, lubricitate|; oil, grease, lather, soap; wax.
Adj. lubricated &c. v.; lubricous.

2. FLUID MATTER
1. Fluids in General

#333. Fluidity. -- N. fluidity, liquidity; liquidness &c. adj.;
gaseity &c. 334.
fluid, inelastic fluid; liquid, liquor; lymph, humor, juice, sap,
serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies; chyle.
solubility, solubleness.
[Science of liquids at rest] hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics.
V. be fluid &c. adj.; flow &c. (water in motion) 348; liquefy, melt,
condense &c. 335.
Adj. liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy; ichorous; fluent
&c. (flowing) 348.
liquefied &c. 335; uncongealed; soluble.

#334. Gaseity. -- N. gaseity; vaporousness &c. adj.; flatulence,
flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerifiction.
elastic fluid, gas, air, vapor, ether, steam, essence, fume, reek,
effluvium, flatus; cloud &c. 353; ammonia, ammoniacal gas; volatile alkali;
vacuum, partial vacuum.
[Science of elastic fluids] pneumatics, pneumatostatics; aerostatics,
aerodynamics.
gasmeter, gasometer; air bladder, swimming bladder, sound (of a fish).
V. vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor &c. 336; diffuse.
Adj. gaseous, aeriform, etherea, aerial, airy, vaporous, volatile,
evaporable, flatulent.

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#335. Liquefaction. -N. liquefaction; liquescence, liquescency;
melting &c. (heat) 384; colliquation|, colliquefaction|; thaw; liquation|,
deliquation|, deliquescence; lixiviation, dissolution.
solution, apozem, lixivium, infusion, flux.
solvent, menstruum, alkahest.
V. render liquid &c. 333; liquefy, run; deliquesce; melt &c. (heat)
384; solve; dissolve, resolve; liquate|; hold in solution; condense,
precipitate, rain.
Adj. liquefied &c. v., liquescent, liquefiable; deliquescent, soluble,
colliquative.

#336. Vaporization. -- N. vaporization, volatilization; gasification,
evaporation, vaporation; distillation, cupellation, cohabilition,
sublimination, exhalation; volatility.
vaporizer, still, retort; fumigation, steraming; bay salt, chloride of
sodium.
V. render -gaseous &c. 334; vaporize, volatilize; distill, sublime;
evaporate, exhale, smoke, transpire, emit vapor, fume, reek, steam,
fumigate; cohobate; finestill.
Adj. volatilized &c. v.; reeking &c. v.; volatile; evaporable,
vaporizable.

2. Specific Fluids

#337. Water. -- N. water; serum, serosity; lymph; rheum; diluent;
agua, aqua, pani.
dilution, maceration, lotion; washing &c. v.; immersion|, humectation,
infiltration, spargefaction|, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation,
bath.
deluge &c. (water in motion) 348; high water, flood tide.
V. be watery &c. adj.; reek.
add water, water, wet; moisten &c. 339; dilute, dip, immerse; merge;
immerge, submerge; plunge, souse, duck, drown; soak, steep, macerate,
pickle, wash, sprinkle, lave, bathe, affuse, splash, swash, douse, drench;
dabble, slop, slobber, irrigate, inundate, deluge; syringe, inject, gargle.
Adj. watery, aqueous, aqatic, hydrous, lymphatic; balneal, diluent;
drenching &c. v.; diluted &c. v.; weak; wet &c. (moist) 339.
Phr. the waters are out.

#338. Air. -- N. air &c. (gas) 334; common air, atmospheric air;
atmosphere; aerosphere.
open air; sky, welkin; blue sky; cloud &c. 353.
weather, climate, rise and fall of the barometer, isobar.
[Science of air] aerology, aerometry, aeroscopy, aeroscopy,
aerography; meteorology, climatology; pneumatics; eudioscope, baroscope,
aeroscope, eudiometer, barometer, aerometer; aneroid, baroscope; weather
gauge, weather glass, weather cock.
exposure to the air, exposure to the weather; ventilation;
aerostation, aeronatics, aeronaut.
V. air, ventilate, fan &c. (wind) 349.
Adj. containing air, flatulent, effervescent; windy &c. 349.
atmospheric, airy; aerial, aeriform; meteorological; weatherwise.
Adv. in the open air, a la belle etoile, al fresco; sub jove dio.

#339. Moisture. -- N. moisture; moistness &c. adj.; humidity,
humectation; madefaction|, dew; serein; marsh &c. 345; hygrometry,
hygrometer.
V. moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbeu,
imbreu, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench &c. (water) 337.
be moist &c. adj.; not have a dry thread; perspire &c. (exude) 295.
Adj. moist, damp; watery &c. 337; madid, roric; undried, humid,
sultry, wet, dank, luggy, dewy; roral|, rorid|; roscid; juicy.
wringing wet, soaking wet; wet through to the skin; saturated &c. v.
swashy, soggy, dabbled; reeking, dripping, soaking,soft, sodden,
sloppy, muddy; swampy &c. (marshy) 345; irriguous.

#340. Dryness. -- N. dryness &c. adj.; siccity, aridity, drought, ebb
tide, low water.
exsiccation|, desiccation; arefaction|, dephlegmation|, drainage;
drier, desiccative, dessicator.
V. be dry &c. adj.; render dry &c. adj.; dry; dry up, soak up; sponge,
swab, wipe; exsiccate, desiccate; drain, parch.
be fine, hold up.
Adj. dry, anhydrous, arid; adust, arescent|; dried &c. v.; undamped;
juiceless, sapless; sear; husky; rainless, without rain, fine; dry as a
bone, dry as dust, dry as a stick, dry as a mummy, dry as a biscuit.
water proof, water tight.

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#341. Ocean -- N. sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves,
billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, "vasty deep"; wave,
tide, &c. (water in motion) 348.
hydrography, hydrographer; Neptune, Poseidon, Thetis, Triton, Naiad,
Nereid; sea nymph, Siren; trident, dolphin.
Adj. oceanic; marine, maritime; pelagic, pelagian; seagoing;
hydrographic; bathybic, cotidal.
Adv. at sea, on sea; afloat.

#342. Land. -- N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma.
continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; dongue of land,
neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory &c. (projection) 250; highland &c.
(height) 206.
coast, shore, scar, strand, beach; playa; bank, lea; seaboard,
seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach; ironbound coast; loom of the land;
derelict; innins; alluvium , alluvion; anicon.
soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil,
clod, clot; rock, crag.
acres; real estate &c. (property) 780; landsman.
V. land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land;
come ashore, go ashore, debark.
Adj. earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian,;
alluvial; terrene &c. (world) 318; landed, predial, territorial;
geophilous; repicolous.
Adv. ashore; on shore, on land.

#343. Gulf. Lake -- N. land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay,
inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou [U.S.], fiord, armlet; frith,
firth, ostiary|, mouth; lagune, lagoon; indraught; cove, creek; natural
harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles;
continental slope, continental shelf.
lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle,
slab, well, artesian well; standing water, dead water, sheet of water; fish
pond, mill pond; ditch, dike, dyke, dam; reservoir &c. (store) 636;
alberca, barachois, hog wallow [U.S.].
Adj. lacustrine.

#344. Plain. -- N. plain, table-land, face of the country; open
country, champaign country; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild,
steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt; moor,
moorland; busch; plateau &c. (level) 213; campagna; alkali flat, llano;
mesa, mesilla [U.S.], playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega.
meadow, mead, haugh, pasurage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot,
grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds;
maidan, agostadero.
Adj. champaign, alluvial; campestral, campestrial, campestrian,
campestrine.

#345. Marsh. -- N. marsh, swamp, morass, marish, moss, fen, bog,
quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall [U.S.], cienaga,
jhil, vlei.
Adj. marsh, marshy; swampy, boggy, plashy, poachy, quaggy, soft;
muddy, sloppy, squashy; paludal; moorish, moory; fenny.

#346. Island. N. island, isle, islet, eyot, ait, holf, reef, atoll,
breaker; archipelago; islander.
Adj. insular, seagirt; archipelagic.

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3. Fluids in Motion

#347. [Fluid in motion.] Stream. -- N. stream &c. (of water) 348, (of
air) 349.
V. flow &c. 348; blow &c. 349.

#348. [Water in motion.] River. -- N. running water.
jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet
d'eau; sluice.
water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll,
Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe|, cataclysm; debacle,
inundation, deluge; chute, washout.
rain, rainfall; serein; shower, scud; downpour; driving rain,
drenching rain, cloudburst; hyetology, hyetography; predominance of
Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin; mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash;
dropping &c. v.; falling weather.
stream, course, flux, flow, profluence; effluence &c. (egress) 295;
defluxion; flowing &c. v.; current, tide, race, coulee.
spring, artesian well, fount, fountain; rill, rivulet, gill, gullet,
rillet; streamlet, brooklet; branch [U.S.]; runnel, sike, burn, beck,
creek, brook, bayou, stream, river; reach, tributary.
body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash; spring tide, high
tide, full tide; bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre; fresh, freshet; indraught,
reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom,
regurgitation, overflow; confluence, corrivation|.
wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple; ; beach
comber, riffle [U.S.], rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses,
whitecaps; rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea,
chopping sea.
[Science of fluids in motion] hydrodynamics; hydraulics,
hydraulicostatics; rain gauge, flowmeter; pegology.
irrigation &c. (water) 337; pump; watering pot, watering cart;
hydrant, syringe; garden hose, lawn spray; bhisti, mussuk.
V. flow, run; meander; gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue;
drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate;
stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash; guggle,
murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgel, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate;
ooze, flow out &c. (egress) 295.
rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks; pour
with rain, drizzle, spit, set in; mizzle.
flow into, fall into, open into, drain into; discharge itself,
disembogue.
[Cause a flow] pour; pour out &c. (discharge) 297; shower down,
irrigate, drench &c. (wet) 337; spill, splash.
[Stop a flow] stanch; dam, up &c. (close) 261; obstruct &c. 706.
Adj. fluent; diffluent, profluent, affluent; tidal; flowing &c. v.;
meandering, meandry, meandrous; fluvial, fluviaatile; streamy,
showery,rainy, pluvial, stillicidous ; stillatitious.
Phr. "for men may come and men may go but I go on forever" [Tennyson]
"that old man river, he just keeps rolling along" [Showboat]

#349. [Air in motion] Wind. -- N.. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus,
efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow,
drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent.
gust, blast, breeze, squall, gale, half a gale, storm, tempest,
hurricane, whirlwind, tornado, samiel, cyclone, anticyclone, typhoon;
simoon, simoom; harmattan, monsoon, trade wind, sirocco, mistral, bise,
tramontane, levanter; capful of wind; fresh breeze, stiff breeze; keen
blast; blizzard, barber [Can.], candelia, chinook, foehn, khamsin, norther,
vendaval, wuther.
windiness &c.adj.; ventosity|; rough weather, dirty weather, ugly
weather, stress of weather; dirty sky, mare's tail; thick squall, black
squall, white squall.
anemography, aerodynamics; windgauge, weathercock, weathervane;
anemometer, anemoscope.
sufflation, insufflation, perflation, inflation, afflation; blowing,
fanning &c. v.; ventilation.
sneezing &c.v.: errhine; sternutative, sternutatory; sternutation;
hiccup, hiccough; catching of the breath.
Eolus, Boreas, Zephyr, cave of Eolus.
air pump, air blower, lungs, bellows, blowpipe, fan, ventilator,
punkah; branchiae, gills, flabellum, vertilabrum.
V. blow, waft; blow hard, blow great guns, blow a hurricane &c.. n.;
wuther; stream, issue.
respire, breathe, puff; whif, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle;
sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.
fan, ventilate; inflate, perflate|; blow up.
Adj. blowing &c. v.; windy, flatulent; breezy, gusty, squally; stormy,
tempestuous, blustering; boisterous &c. (violent) 173.
pulmonic, pulmonary.
Phr. "lull'd by soft zephyrs" [Pope]; "the storm is up and all is on
the hazard" [Julius Caesar]; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air"
[Byron]; "while mocking winds are piping loud" [Milton]; "winged with red
lightning and tempestuous rage" [Paradise Lost].

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#350. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit. -- N. conduit,
channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito, aboideau,
aboiteau, bito; acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre; arroyo; adit, aqueduct,
canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate, runner; lock-weir, tedge;
vena; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough,
kennel, siphon; piscina; pipe &c. (tube) 260; funnel; tunnel &c. (passage)
627; water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore,
spout, scupper; adjutage, ajutage; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle; penstock,
weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.
Adj. vascular &c. (with holes) 260.

#351. [Channel for the passage of air.] Airpipe. -- N. air pipe, air
tube; airhole, blowhole, breathinghole, venthole; shaft, flue, chimney,
funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand, trachea; bronchus,
bronchia; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct, ventilator;
louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe &c. (wind) 349; pipe &c. (tube)
260; jhilmil; smokestack.

3. IMPERFECT FLUIDS

#352. Semiliquidity. -- N. semiliquidity; stickiness &c. adj.;
viscidity, viscosity; gummosity, glutinosity, mucosity; spissitude,
crassitude; lentor; adhesiveness &c. (cohesion) 46.
impissation, incrassation; thickening.
jelly, mucilage, gelatin; carlock, fish glue; ichthyocol, ichthycolla;
insinglass; mucus, phelgm; pituite, lava; glair, starch, gluten, albumen,
milk, cream, protein; treacle; gum, size, glue (tenacity) 327; wax,
beeswax; emulsion, soup; squash, mud, slush, slime, ooze; moisture &c. 339;
marsh &c. 345.
V. inspissate, incrassate; thicken, mash, squash, churn, beat up.
Adj. semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose; half melted, half frozen;
milky, muddy &c. n.; lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous;
emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous.
gelatinous, albuminous, mucilaginous, glutinous; gelatin, mastic,
amylaceous, ropy, clammy, clotted; viscid, viscous; sticky, tacky; slab,
slabby; lentous , pituitous; mucid, muculent, mucous.

#353. [Mixture of air and water.] Bubble. [Cloud.] -- N. bubble, foam,
froth, head, spume, lather, suds, spray, surf, yeast, barm, spindrift.
cloud, vapor, fog, mist, haze, steam, geyser; scud, messenger, rack,
nimbus; cumulus, woolpack, cirrus, stratus; cirrostratus, cumulostratus;
cirrocumulus; mackerel sky, mare's tale, dirty sky; curl cloud; frost
smoke; thunderhead.
[Science of clouds] nephelognosy; nephograph, nephology.
effervescence, fermentation; bubbling &c. v.
nebula; cloudliness &c. (opacity) 426; nebulosity &c. (dimness) 422.
V. bubble, boil, foam, froth, mantle, sparkle, guggle, gurgle;
effervesce, ferment, fizzle.
Adj. bubbling &c. v.; frothy, nappy, effervescent, sparkling,
mousseux, up.
cloudy &c. n.; thunderheaded; vaporous, nebulous, overcast.
Phr. "the lowring element scowls o'er the darkened landscip" [Paradise
Lost].

#354. Pulpiness. -- N. pulpiness &c. adj.; pulp, taste, dough, curd,
pap, rob, jam, pudding, poultice, grume.
Adj. pulpy &c. n.; pultaceous, grumous; baccate.

#355. Unctuousness. -- N. unctuousness &c. adj.; unctuosity,
lubricity; ointment &c. (oil) 356; anointment; lubrication &c. 332.
V. oil &c. (lubricate) 332.
Adj. unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat,
fatty, greasy; waxy, butryaceous, soapy, saponaceous, piguid, lardaceous;
slippery.

#356. Oil. -- N. oil, fat, buttter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard,
dripping exunge|, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine, oleagine; soap; soft
soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere; petroleum, mineral,
mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil, olive
oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal
oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite,
amole, Barbados tar; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate of
amyl, ghee; heating oil, #2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet
fuel, gasoline, naphtha; stearin.

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#356a. Resin. -- N. resin, rosin; gum; lac, sealing wax; amber,
ambergris; bitumen, pitch, tar; asphalt, asphaltum; camphor; varnish,
copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan.
V. varnish &c. (overlay) 223.
Adj. resiny, resinous; butuminous, pitchy, tarry; asphaltic,
alsphaltite.

SECTION III. ORGANIC MATTER

1. VITALITY

1. Vitality in general

#357. Organization. -- N. organized world, organized nature; living
nature, animated nature; living beings; organic remains, fossils.
protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure &c. 329;
organization, organism.
[Science of living beings] biology; natural history, organic
chemistry, anatomy, physiology; zoology &c. 368; botany &c. 369;
naturalist.
archegenesis &c. (production) 161; antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy,
chromosome, dysmeromorph; ecology, oecology; erythroblast, gametangium,
gamete, germinal matter, invagination; isogamy, oogamy; karyaster;
macrogamete, microgamete; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm,
ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa,
spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea,
zygote.
Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism.
morphology, taxonomy.
Adj. organic, organized; karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar,
zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.

#358. Inorganization. -- N. mineral world,mineral kingdom;
unorganized matter, inorganic matter, brute matter, inanimate matter.
[Science of the mineral kingdom] mineralogy, geology, geognosy,
geoscopy; metallurgy, metallography; lithology; oryctology|, oryctography|.
V. turn to dust.
Adj. inorganic, inanimate, inorganized; lithoidal; azoic; mineral.

#359. Life. -- N. life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark,
vital flame, soul, spirit.
respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils;
lifeblood; Archeus; existence &c. 1.
vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization;
revivification &c. 163; Prometheus; life to come &c. (destiny) 152.
[Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.
nourishment, staff of life &c. (food) 298.
V. be alive &c. adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist &c. (exist) 1;
walk the earth "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be
spared.
see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw
breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive;
come to life.
give birth to &c. (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life,
vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate &c. (restore) 660; keep alive, keep
body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
Adj. living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living;
on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated;
animative; lively &c. (active) 682; all alive and kicking; tenacious of
life.
vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified, &c. v.; viable, zoetic;
Promethean.
Adv. vivendi causa.
Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita
[Marial].

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#360. Death. -- N. death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure,
obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality,
morbidity.
end of life &c. 67, cessation of life &c. 142, loss of life,
extinction of life, ebb of life &c. 359.
death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death,
agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of
death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying
agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore.
King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c. (necessity) 601; "Hell's
grim Tyrant" [Pope].
euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay;
sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature;
suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease &c. (disease) 655; death blow &c.
(killing) 361.
necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c. (lamentation)
839.
V. die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away,
be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being,
resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly
career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this
life; be no more &c. adj.; go off, dropp off, pop off; lose one's life, lay
down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the
grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop deat, fall
down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up
the ghost; be all over with one.
pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last
sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks,
hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the greater number,
join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry,
cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy
Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's
will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle;
come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the
bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death
&c. (be killed) 361.
Adj. dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct;
late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off,
released; departed this life &c. v.; dead and gone; dead as a doornail,
dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits;
launched into eternity, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.
dying &c. v.; moribund, morient|; hippocratic; in articulo, in
extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux
abois; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at
death's door,, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with
one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.
stillborn; mortuary; deadly &c. (killing) 361.
Adv. post obit, post mortem.
Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are
numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed;
Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out
of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Vergil]; de
mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Horace];
honesta mors turpi vita potior [Tacitus]; "in adamantine chains shall death
be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Girace];; ominia mors aequat
[Claudianus]; "Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost]; "the lone couch of
this everlasting sleep" [Shelley].

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#361. [Destruction of live; violent death.] Killing. -- N. killing &c.
v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation|, iccusion|;
effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery;
battue.
massacre; fusillade, noyade; Thuggism.
deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution &c.
(capital punishmnt) 972; judicial murder; martydom.
butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat,
garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur; guet-a-pens; gallows,
executioner &c. (punishment) 975; maneater, apache, hatchet man [U.S.],
highbinder [U.S.].
regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide,
foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide.
suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath; immolation, auto
da fe, holocaust.
suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging &c. v.; lapidation.
deadly weapon &c. (arms) 727; Aceldama.
[Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthiozoics; sport, sporting;
the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking;
sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, shambles,
abattoir.
fatal accident, violent death, casuality.
V. kill, put to death, slay, shed blood; murder, assassinate, butcher,
slaughter, victimize, immolate; massacre; take away life, deprive of life;
make away with, put an end to; despatch, dispatch; burke, settle, do for.
strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the
breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.
saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate; stab, run
through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of
the sword.
shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone,
lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quiietus, - coupe de
grace.
behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas &c. (execute) 972.
hunt, shoot &c. n.
cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last
account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.
give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade
knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.
die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains,
blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with
oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.
Adj. killing &c. v.; murderous, slaughterous; sanguinary,
sanguinolent; blood stained, blood thirsty; homicidal, red handed; bloody,
bloody minded; ensanguined, gory.
mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous , lethiferous;
unhealthy &c. 657; internecine; suicidal.
sporting; piscatorial, piscatory.
Adv. in at the death.
Phr. "assassination has never changed the history of the world"
[Disraeli].