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#661. Relapse. -- N. relapse, lapse; falling back &c. v.;
retrogradation &c. (retrogression) 283; deterioration &c. 659.
[Return to, or recurrence of a bad state] backsliding, recidivation |;
recidivism, recidivity; recrudescence.
V. relapse, lapse; fall back, slide back, sink back; return;
retrograde &c. 283; recidivate; fall off again &c. 659 .

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#662. Remedy. -- N. remedy, help, redress; anthelmintic; antidote,
antifebrile, antipoison, counterpoison, antitoxin, antispasmodic; bracer,
faith cure, placebo; helminthagogue, lithagogue, pick-meup, stimulant,
tonic; vermifuge, prophylactic, corrective, restorative; sedative &c. 174;
palliative; febrifuge; alterant, alterative; specific; antiseptic, emetic,
analgesic, pain-killer, antitussive, antiinflammatory, antibiotic,
antiviral, antifungal, carminative; Nepenthe, Mithridate.
cure, treatment, regimen; radical cure, perfect cure, certain cure;
sovereign remedy.
examination, diagnosis, diagnostics; analysis, urinalysis, biopsy,
radiology.
medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical,
prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion,
drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon.
nostrum, receipt, recipe, prescription; catholicon, panacea, elixir,
elixir vitae, philosopher's stone; balm, balsam, cordial, theriac, ptisan.
agueweed, arnica, benzoin, bitartrate of potash, boneset, calomel,
catnip, cinchona, cream of tartar, Epsom salts; feverroot, feverwort;
friar's balsam, Indian sage; ipecac, ipecacuanha; jonquil, mercurous
chloride, Peruvian bark; quinine, quinquina; sassafras, yarrow.
salve, ointment, cerate, oil, lenitive, lotion, cosmetic; plaster;
epithem, embrocation, liniment, cataplasm, sinapism, arquebusade,
traumatic, vulnerary, pepastic, poultice, collyrium, depilatory;
emplastrum; eyewater, vesicatory.
compress, pledget; bandage &c. (support) 215.
treatment, medical treatment, regimen; dietary, dietetics; vis
medicatrix, vis medicatrix naturae; medecine expectante; bloodletting,
bleeding, venesection, phlebotomy, cupping, sanguisuge, leeches; operation,
surgical operation; transfusion, infusion, intravenous infusion, catheter,
feeding tube;
prevention, preventative medicine, immunization, inoculation,
vaccination, vaccine, shot, booster, gamma globulin.
pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceutics; pharmacopoeia, formulary;
acology, Materia Medica, therapeutics, posology; homeopathy, allopathy,
heteropathy, osteopathy, hydropathy; cold water cure; dietetics; surgery,
chirurgery, chirurgy; healing art, leechcraft;
orthopedics, orthopedy, orthopraxy; pediatrics; dentistry, midwifery,
obstetrics, gynecology; tocology; sarcology.
hospital, infirmary; pesthouse, lazarhouse; lazaretto; lock hospital;
maison de sante; ambulance.
dispensary; dispensatory, drug store, pharmacy, apothecary, druggist,
chemist.
Hotel des Invalides; sanatarium, spa, pump room, well; hospice; Red
Cross.
doctor, physician, surgeon; medical practitioner, general
practitioner, specialist ; medical attendant, apothecary, druggist; leech;
osteopath, osteopathist; optometrist, ophthalmologist; internist,
oncologist, gastroenterologist; epidemiologist, public health specialist;
dermatologist; podiatrist; witch doctor, shaman, faith healer, quack,
exorcist; Aesculapius, Hippocrates, Galen; accoucheur, accoucheuse,
midwife, oculist, aurist; operator; nurse, registered nurse, practical
nurse, monthly nurse, sister; dresser; bonesetter; pharmaceutist,
pharmacist, druggist, chemist, pharmacopolist.
V. apply a remedy &c. n.; doctor, dose, physic, nurse, minister to,
attend, dress the wounds, plaster; drain; prevent &c. 706; relieve &c. 834;
palliate &c. 658; restore &c. 660; drench with physic; bleed, cup, let
blood; manicure.
operate, excise, cut out; incise.

Adj. remedial; restorative &c. 660; corrective, palliative, healing;
sanatory, sanative; prophylactic, preventative, immunizing; salutiferous
&c. (salutary) 656; medical, medicinal; therapeutic, chirurgical,
epulotic|, paregoric, tonic, corroborant, analeptic, balsamic, anodyne,
hypnotic, neurotic, narcotic, sedative, lenitive, demulcent|, emollient;
depuratory; detersive, detergent; abstersive, disinfectant, febrifugal,
alterative; traumatic, vulnerary.
allopathic, heteropathic, homeopathic, hydropathic; anthelmintic;
antifebile, antiluetic; aperient, chalybeate, deobstruent, depurative,
laxative, roborant.
dietetic, alimentary; nutritious, nutritive; peptic; alexipharmic,
alexiteric; remediable, curable.
phr. aux grands maux les grands remedes; Dios que da la llaga da la
medicina; para todo hay remedio sino para la muerte; temporis ars medicina
fere est [Ovid]; " the remedy is worse than the disease " [Dryden]; " throw
physic to the dogs, I'll none of it " [Macbeth].


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#663. Bane. -- N. bane, curse; evil &c. 619; hurtfulness &c. (badness)
649; painfulness &c. (cause of pain) 830; scourge &c. (punishment) 975;
damnosa hereditas; white elephant.
sting, fang, thorn, tang, bramble, brier, nettle.
poison, leaven, virus venom; arsenic; antimony, tartar emetic;
strychnine, nicotine; miasm, mephitis, malaria, azote, sewer gas; pest.
Albany hemp, arsenious oxide, arsenious acid; bichloride of mercury;
carbonic acid, carbonic gas; choke damp, corrosive sublimate, fire damp;
hydrocyanic acid, cyanide, Prussic acid, hydrogen cyanide; marsh gas, nux
vomica, ratsbane.
rust, worm, helminth, moth, moth and rust, fungus, mildew; dry rot;
canker, cankerworm; cancer; torpedo; viper &c. (evil doer) 913; demon &c.
980.
hemlock, hellebore, nightshade, belladonna, henbane, aconite;
banewort, bhang, ganja, hashish; Upas tree.
[Science of poisons] toxicology.
Adj. baneful &c. (bad) 649; poisonous &c. (unwholesome) 657.
phr. bibere venenum in auro.


3. Contingent Subservience


#664. Safety. -- N. safety, security, surety, impregnability;
invulnerability, invulnerableness &c. Adj.; danger past, danger over;
storm blown over; coast clear; escape &c. 671; means of escape; blow valve,
safety valve, release valve, sniffing valve; safeguard, palladium.
guardianship, wardship, wardenship; tutelage, custody, safekeeping;
preservation &c. 670; protection, auspices.
safe-conduct, escort, convoy; guard, shield &c. (defense) 717;
guardian angel; tutelary god, tutelary deity, tutelary saint; genius loci.
protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna,
chaperon, third person.
watchdog, bandog; Cerberus; watchman, patrolman, policeman; cop, dick,
fuzz, smokey, peeler|, zarp|[all slang]; sentinel, sentry, scout &c.
(warning) 668; garrison; guardship.
[Means of safety] refuge &c. anchor &c. 666; precaution &c.
(preparation) 673; quarantine, cordon sanitaire. [Sense of security]
confidence &c. 858.
V. be safe &c. Adj.; keep one's head above water, tide over, save
one's bacon; ride out the storm, weather the storm; light upon one's feet,
land on one's feet; bear a charmed life; escape &c. 671.
make safe , render safe &c. Adj.; protect; take care of &c. (care)
459; preserve &c. 670; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard
&c. (defend) 717; secure &c. (restrain) 751; intrench, fence round &c.
(circumscribe) 229; house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.
escort, convoy; garrison; watch, mount guard, patrol.
make assurance doubly sure &c. (caution) 864; take up a loose thread;
take precautions &c. (prepare for) 673; double reef topsails.
seek safety; take shelter, find shelter &c. 666.
Adj. safe, secure, sure; in safety, in security; on the safe side;
under the shield of, under the shade of, under the wing of, under the
shadow of one's wing; under cover, under lock and key; out of danger, out
of the woods, out of the meshes, out of harm's way; unharmed, unscathed; on
sure ground, at anchor, high and dry, above water; unthreatened,
unmolested; protected &c. v.; cavendo tutus; panoplied &c. (defended) 717.
snug, seaworthy; weatherproof, waterproof, fireproof.
defensible, tenable, proof against, invulnerable; unassailable,
unattackable, impenetrable; impregnable, imperdible|; inexpugnable;
Achillean.
safe and sound &c. (preserved) 670; harmless; scathless &c. (perfect)
650; unhazarded; not dangerous &c. 665.
protecting &c. v.; guardian, tutelary; preservative &c. 670;
trustworthy &c 939.
adv. ex abundanti cautela; with impunity.
phr. all's well; salva res est; suave mari magno; a couvert; e terra
alterius spectare laborem [Lucretius]; Dieu vous garde.

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#665. Danger. -- N. danger, peril, insecurity, jeopardy, risk, hazard,
venture, precariousness, slipperiness; instability &c. 149; defenselessness
&c. Adj. exposure &c. (liability) 177; vulnerability; vulnerable point,
heel of Achilles; forlorn hope &c. (hopelessness) 859.
[Dangerous course] leap in the dark &c. (rashness) 863; road to ruin,
faciles descensus Averni [Vergil], hairbreadth escape.
cause for alarm; source of danger &c. 667. [Approach of danger] rock
ahead, breakers ahead; storm brewing; clouds in the horizon, clouds
gathering; warning &c. 668; alarm &c. 669. [Sense of danger] apprehension
&c. 860.
V. be in danger &c. Adj.; be exposed to danger, run into danger, incur
danger, encounter danger &c. n.; run a risk; lay oneself open to &c.
(liability) 177; lean on a broken reed, trust to a broken reed; feel the
ground sliding from under one, have to run for it; have the chances against
one, have the odds against one, face long odds; be in deep trouble, be
between a rock and a hard place.
hang by a thread, totter; sleep on a volcano, stand on a volcano; sit
on a barrel of gunpowder, live in a glass house.
bring in danger, place in danger, put in danger , place in jeopardy,
put in jeopardy &c. n.; endanger, expose to danger, imperil; jeopard,
jeopardize; compromise; sail too near the wind &c. (rash) 863.
adventure, risk, hazard, venture, stake, set at hazard; run the
gauntlet &c. (dare) 861; engage in a forlorn hope.
threaten danger &c. 909; run one hard; lay a trap for &c. (deceive)
545.
Adj. in danger &c. n.; endangered &c. v.; fraught with danger;
dangerous, hazardous, perilous, parlous, periculous|; unsafe, unprotected
&c. (safe, protect &c. 664);insecure, . untrustworthy; built upon.sand, on
a sandy basis; wildcat.
defenseless, fenceless, guardless, harborless; unshielded; vulnerable,
expugnable, exposed; open to &c. (liable) 177.
aux abois, at bay; on the wrong side of the wall, on a lee shore, on
the rocks.
at stake, in question; precarious, critical, ticklish; slippery,
slippy; hanging by a thread &c. v.; with a halter round one's neck; between
the hammer and the anvil, between Scylla and Charybdis, between a rock and
a hard place, between the devil and the deep blue sea, between two fires;
on the edge of a precipice, on the brink of a precipice, on the verge of a
precipice, on the edge of a volcano; in the lion's den, on slippery ground,
under fire; not out of the wood.
unwarned, unadmonished, unadvised, ununprepared &c. 674; off one's
guard &c. (inexpectant) 508.
tottering; unstable, unsteady; shaky, top-heavy, tumbledown,
ramshackle, crumbling, waterlogged; helpless, guideless; in a bad way;
reduced to the last extremity, at the last extremity; trembling in the
balance; nodding to its fall &c. (destruction) 162. threatening &c. 909;
ominous, illomened; alarming &c. (fear) 860; explosive.
adventurous &c. (rash) 863, (bold) 861.
phr. incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim; nam tua res agitur
paries dum proximus ardet.


#666. [Means of safety.] Refuge. -- N. refuge, sanctuary, retreat,
fastness; acropolis; keep, last resort; ward; prison &c. 752; asylum, ark,
home, refuge for the destitute; almshouse; hiding place &c. (ambush) 530;
sanctum sanctorum &c. (privacy) 893.
roadstead, anchorage; breakwater, mole, port, haven; harbor, harbor of
refuge; seaport; pier, jetty, embankment, quay.
covert, cover, shelter, screen, lee wall, wing, shield, umbrella;
barrier; dashboard, dasher [U.S.].
wall &c. (inclosure) 232; fort &c. (defense) 717.
anchor, kedge; grapnel, grappling iron; sheet anchor, killick;
mainstay; support &c. 215; cheek &c. 706; ballast.
jury mast; vent-peg; safety valve, blow-off valve; safety lamp; lightning
rod, lightning conductor.
means of escape &c. (escape) 671 lifeboat, swimming belt, cork jacket;
parachute, plank, steppingstone.
safeguard &c. (protection) 664.
V. seek refuge, take refuge, find refuge &c. n.; seek safety, find
safety &c. 664; throw oneself into the arms of; break for taller timber [U.
S.].
create a diversion.
Phr. bibere venenum in auro; valet anchora virtus.


#667. [Source of danger.] Pitfall. -- N. rocks, reefs, coral reef,
sunken rocks, snags; sands, quicksands; syrt|, syrtis|; Goodwin sands,
sandy foundation; slippery ground; breakers, shoals, shallows, bank, shelf,
flat, lee shore, ironbound coast; rock ahead, breakers ahead.
precipice; maelstrom, volcano; ambush &c. 530; pitfall, trapdoor; trap
&c. (snare) 545.
sword of Damocles; wolf at the door, snake in the grass, death in the
pot; latency &c. 526.
ugly customer, dangerous person, le chat qui dort; firebrand, hornet's
nest.
Phr. latet anquis in herba [Vergil]; proximus ardet Ucalegon [Vergil].

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#668. Warning. -- N. warning, early warning, caution, caveat; notice
&c. (information) 527; premonition, premonishment; prediction &c. 511;
contraindication, lesson, dehortation; admonition, monition; alarm &c. 669.
handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow
flag; fog-signal, foghorn; siren; monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs
of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen,
gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch.
watchtower, beacon, signal post; lighthouse &c. (indication of
locality) 550. sentinel, sentry,; watch, watchman; watch and ward;
watchdog, bandog, housedog; patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac,
scout, spy, spial|; undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman; advanced
guard, rear guard; lookout.
cautiousness &c. 864.
V. warn, caution; forewarn, prewarn; admonish, premonish; give notice,
give warning, dehort; menace &c. (threaten) 909; put on one's guard; sound
the alarm &c. 669; croak.
beware, ware; take warning, take heed at one's peril; keep watch and
ward &c. (care) 459.
Adj. warning &c. v.; premonitory, monitory, cautionary; admonitory,
admonitive; sematic.
warned, forewarned &c. v.; on one's guard &c. (careful) 459,
(cautious) 864.
adv. in terrorem &c. (threat) 909.
Int. beware! ware! take care! look out! fore![golf], mind what you are
about!, take care what you are about! mind!
Phr. ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort; foenum habet in cornu; caveat
actor; le silence du people est la legon des rois; verbum sat sapienti; un
averti en vaut deux.

#669. [Indication of danger.] Alarm. -- N. alarm; alarum, larum, alarm
bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue
and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop;
warning &c. 668; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light,
red flag; fire bell; police whistle.
false alarm, cry of wolf; bug-bear, bugaboo.
V. give the alarm, raise the alarm, sound the alarm, turn in the
alarm, beat the alarm, give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm, turn
in an alarm, beat an alarm &c. n.; alarm; warn &c. 668; ring the tocsin;
battre la generale; cry wolf.
Adj. alarming &c. v.
Int. sauve qui peut! qui vive?

#670. Preservation. -- N. preservation; safe-keeping; conservation &c.
(storage) 636; maintenance, support, susteritation, conservatism; vis
conservatrix; salvation &c. (deliverance) 672.
[Means of preservation] prophylaxis; preserver, preservative;
hygiastics, hygiantics; cover, drugget; cordon sanitaire; canning;
ensilage; tinned goods, canned goods.
[Superstitious remedies] snake oil, cure-all; charm &c. 993.
V. preserve, maintain, keep, sustain, support, hold; keep up, keep
alive; refrigerate, keep on ice;not willingly let die; bank up; nurse;
save, rescue; be safe, make safe &c. 664; take care of &c. (care) 459;
guard &c. (defend) 717.
stare super antiquas vias [Bacon]; hold one's own; hold one's ground,
stand one's ground &c. (resist) 719.
embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize|, bottle, pot, tin, can;
sterilize, pasteurize, radiate; dry, lyophilize, freeze-dry, concentrate,
evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze, deep-freeze; husband &c. (store) 636.
Adj. preserving &c. v.; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory,
preservative; hygienic.
preserved &c. v.; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged,
unmarred; safe, safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari.

#671. Escape. -- N.escape, scape; avolation|, elopement, flight;
evasion &c. (avoidance) 623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape;
close call; come off, impunity.
[Means of escape] loophole &c. (opening) 260; path &c. 627; refuse &c.
666; vent, vent peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.
reprieve &c. (deliverance) 672; liberation &c. 750. refugee &c.
(fugitive) 623.
V. escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good
one's escape; break jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper
belle, save one's bacon; weather the storm &c. (safe) 664; escape scot-
free.
elude &c., make off &c. (avoid) 623;. march off &c. (go away) 293;
give one the slip; slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip
the collar, wriggle out of prison, break out, break loose, break loose
from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find vent, find a hole to
creep out of.
disappear, vanish.
Adj..escaping, escaped &c. v. stolen away, fled.
Phr. the bird has flown the coop.

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#672. Deliverance. -- N. deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve,
reprieval; respite; liberation &c. 750; emancipation; redemption,
salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
V. deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring
off,bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch
from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve &c. (restore)
660; be rid of, get rid of.
Adj. saved &c. v. extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
Int. to the rescue!

3. Precursory Measures

#673. Preparation. -- N. preparation; providing &c. v.; provision,
providence; anticipation &c. (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation,
predisposition; forecast &c. (plan) 626; rehearsal, note of preparation.
[Putting in order] arrangement &c. 60; clearance; adjustment &c. 23;
tuning; equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.
ripening &c. v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction,
digestion; gestation, batching, incubation, sitting.
groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold
&c. (support) 215; scaffolding, echafaudage.
[Preparation of men] training &c. (education) 537; inurement &c.
(habit) 613; novitiate; [ Preparation of food] cooking, cookery; brewing,
culinary art; [ Preparation of the soil] tilling, plowing, sowing;
semination, cultivation.
[State of being prepared] preparedness, readiness, ripeness,
mellowness; maturity; un impromptu fait a loisir.
[Preparer] preparer, trainer; pioneer, trailblazer; avant-courrier,
avant-coureur; voortrekker; sappers and miners, pavior, navvy; packer,
stevedore; warming pan.
V. prepare; get ready, make ready; make preparations, settle
preliminaries, get up, sound the note of preparation. set in order, put in
order &c. (arrange) 60; forecast &c. (plan) 626 prepare the ground, plow
the ground, dress the ground; till the soil, cultivate the soil;
predispose, sow the seed, lay a train, dig a mine; lay the groundwork, fix
the groundwork, lay the basis, fix the basis, lay the foundations, fix
the foundations; dig the foundations, erect the scaffolding; lay the first
stone &c. (begin) 66.
roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape &c.
(form) 240.
elaborate, mature, ripen, mellow, season, bring to maturity; nurture
&c. (aid) 707; hatch, cook, brew; temper, anneal, smelt; barbecue;
infumate|; maturate. equip, arm, man; fit-out, fit up; furnish, rig, dress,
garnish, betrim, accouter, array, fettle, fledge; dress up, furbish up,
brush up, vamp up; refurbish; sharpen one's tools, trim one's foils, set,
prime, attune; whet the knife, whet the sword; wind up, screw up; adjust
&c. (fit) 27; put in trim, put in train, put in gear, put in working order,
put in tune, put in a groove for, put in harness; pack.
train &c. (teach) 537; inure &c. (habituate) 613; breed; ppepare &c.
for; rehearse; make provision for; take steps, take measures, take
precautions; provide, provide against; beat up for recruits; open the door
to &c. (facilitate) 705.
set one's house in order, make all snug; clear the decks, clear for
action; close one's ranks; shuffle the cards.
prepare oneself; serve an apprenticeship &c. (learn) 539; lay oneself
out for, get into harness, gird up one's loins, buckle on one's armor,
reculer pour mieux sauter, prime and load, shoulder arms, get the steam up,
put the horses to.
guard against, make sure against; forearm, make sure, prepare for the
evil day, have a rod in pickle, provide against a rainy day, feather one's
nest; lay in provisions &c. 637; make investments; keep on foot.
be prepared, be ready &c. Adj.; hold oneself in readiness, keep one's
powder dry; lie in wait for &c. (expect) 507; anticipate &c. (foresee) 510;
principiis obstare; veniente occurrere morbo.

Adj. preparing &c. v.; in preparation, in course of preparation, in
agitation, in embryo, in hand, in train; afoot, afloat; on foot, on the
stocks, on the anvil; under consideration &c. (plan) 626; brewing,
batching, forthcoming, brooding; in store for, in reserve.
precautionary, provident; preparative, preparatory; provisional,
inchoate, under revision; preliminary &c. (precedent) 62.
prepared &c. v.; in readiness; ready, ready to one's band, ready made,
ready cut and dried: made to one's hand, handy, on the table; in gear; in
working order,in working gear; snug; in practice.
ripe, mature, mellow; pukka; practiced &c. (skilled) 698; labored,
elaborate, highly-wrought, smelling of the lamp, worked up.
in full feather, in best bib and tucker; in harness, at harness; in
the saddle, in arms, in battle array, in war paint; up in arms; armed at
all points, armed to the teeth, armed cap a pie; sword in hand; booted
and spurred.
in utrumque paratus, semper paratus; on the alert &c. (vigilant) 459;
at one's post.
Adv. in preparation, in anticipation of; against, for; abroach.
Phr. a bove majori discit arare minor; "looking before and after "
[Hamlet], si vis pacem para bellum.

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#674. Nonpreparation. -- N. non-preparation, absence of preparation,
want of preparation; inculture|, inconcoction|, improvidence.
immaturity, crudity; rawness &c. Adj.; abortion; disqualification.
[Absence of art] nature, state of nature; virgin soil, unweeded
garden; neglect &c. 460.

rough copy &c. (plan) 626; germ &c. 153; raw material &c. 635.
improvisation &c. (impulse) 612.
V. be unprepared &c. Adj.; want preparation, lack preparation; lie
fallow; s'embarquer sans biscuits; live from hand to mouth.
[Render unprepared] dismantle &c. (render useless) 645; undress &c.
226. extemporize, improvise.
Adj. unprepared &c. [prepare &c. 673]; without preparation &c. 673;
incomplete &c. 53; rudimental, embryonic, abortive; immature, unripe,
kachcha, raw, green, crude; coarse; rough cast, rough hewn; in the rough;
unhewn, unformed, unfashioned, unwrought, unlabored, unblown, uncooked,
unboiled, unconcocted, unpolished.
unhatched, unfledged, unnurtured, unlicked, untaught, uneducated,
uncultivated,. untrained, untutored, undrilled, unexercised; deckle-edged;
precocious, premature; undigested, indigested; unmellowed, unseasoned,
unleavened.
fallow; unsown, untilled; natural, in a state of nature; undressed; in
dishabille, en deshabille.
unqualified, disqualified; unfitted; ill-digested; unbegun, unready,
unarranged, unorganized, unfurnished, unprovided, unequipped, untrimmed;
out of gear, out of order; dismantled &c. v.
shiftless, improvident, unthrifty, thriftless, thoughtless, unguarded;
happy-go-lucky; caught napping &c. (inexpectant) 508; unpremeditated &c.
612.
Adv. extempore &c. 612.

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