Book: Roget\'s Thesaurus

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#767. Petitioner.-- N. petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant,
supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor,
bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer.
beggar, mendicant, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger; hotel runner,
runner, steerer [U.S.], tout, touter.
canvasser, bagman &c.758; salesman.

Section III. CONDITIONAL INTERSOCIAL VOLITION

#768. Promise.-- N. promise, undertaking, word, troth, plight, pledge,
parole, word of honor, vow; oath &c. (affirmation) 535; profession,
assurance, warranty, guarantee, insurance, obligation; contract &c. 769;
stipulation.
engagement, preengagement; affiance; betroth, betrothal, betrothment.
V. promise; give a promise &c. n.; undertake, engage; make an
engagement, form an engagement; enter into an engagement, enter on an
engagement; bind oneself, tie oneself, pledge oneself, commit oneself, take
upon oneself; vow; swear &c. (affirm) 535, give one's word, pass one's
word, pledge one's word, plight one's word, give one's honor, pass one's
honor, pledge one's honor, plight one's honor, give credit, pass credit,
pledge credit, plight credit, give troth, pass troth, pledge troth, plight
troth; betroth, plight faith.
assure, warrant, guarantee; covenant &c. 769; attest &c. (bear
witness) 467.
hold out an expectation; contract an obligation; become bound to,
become sponsor for; answer for, be answerable for; secure; give security
&c. 771; underwrite.
adjure, administer an oath, put to one's oath, swear a witness.
Adj. promising &c. v.; promissory; votive; under hand and seal, upon
oath.
promised &c. v.; affianced, pledged, bound; committed, compromised; in
for it.
Adv. as one's head shall answer for.
Phr. in for a penny in for a pound; ex voto; gage d'amour.

#768a. Release from engagement.-- N. release &c. (liberation) 750.
Adj. absolute; unconditional &c. (free) 748.

#769. Compact.-- N. compact, contract, agreement, bargain; affidation;
pact, paction; bond, covenant, indenture; bundobast, deal.
stipulation, settlement, convention; compromise, cartel.
Protocol, treaty, concordat, Zollverein, Sonderbund, charter, Magna
Charta, Progmatic Sanction.
negotiation &c. (bargaining) 794; diplomacy &c. (mediation) 724;
negotiator &c. (agent) 758.
ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil, signet.
V. contract, covenant, agree for; engage &c. (promise) 768.
treat, negotiate, stipulate, make terms; bargain &c. (barter) 794.
make a bargain, strike a bargain; come to terms, come to an
understanding; compromise &c. 774; set at rest; close, close with;
conclude, complete, settle; confirm, ratify, clench, subscribe, underwrite;
endorse, indorse; put the seal to; sign, seal &c. (attest) 467; indent.
take one at one's word, bargain by inch of candle.
Adj. agreed &c. v.; conventional; under hand and seal.
Phr. caveat emptor.

#770. Conditions.-- N. conditions, terms; articles, articles of
agreement; memorandum.
clauses, provisions; proviso &c. (qualification) 469; covenant,
stipulation, obligation, ultimatum, sine qua non; casus foederris.
V. make terms, come to terms &c. (contract) 769; make it a condition,
stipulate, insist upon, make a point of; bind, tie up.
Adj. conditional, provisional, guarded, fenced, hedged in.
Adv. conditionally &c. (with qualification) 469; provisionally, pro re
nata; on condition; with a string to it.

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#771. Security.-- N. security; guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty,
bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, debenture, hypothecation, bill of
sale, lien, pawn, pignoration; real security; vadium.
stake, deposit, earnest, handsel, caution.
promissory note; bill, bill of exchange; I.O.U.; personal security,
covenant, specialty; parole &c. (promise) 768.
acceptance, indorsement, signature, execution, stamp, seal.
sponsor, sponsion, sponsorship; surety, bail; mainpernor, hostage;
godchild, godfather, godmother.
recognizance; deed of idemnity, covenant of idemnity.
authentication, verification, warrant, certificate, voucher, dequet;
record &c. 551; probate, attested copy.
receipt; acquittance, quittance; discharge, release.
muniment, title deed, instrument; deed, deed poll; assurance,
indenture; charter &c. (compact) 769; charter poll; paper, parchment,
settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil.
V. give security, give bail, give substantial bail; go bail; pawn,
impawn, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate.
guarantee, warrant, assure; accept, indorse, underwrite, insure.
execute, stamp; sign, seal &c. (evidence) 467.
let, sett; grant a lease, take a lease, hold a lease; hold in pledge;
lend on security &c. 787.
Phr. bonis avibus; "gone where the woodbine twineth."

#772. Observance.-- N. observance, performance, compliance,
acquiescence, concurrence; obedience &c. 743; fulfillment, satisfaction,
discharge; acquittance, acquittal.
adhesion, acknowledgement; fidelity &c. (probity) 939; exact &c. 494 -
observance.
V. observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to,
adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into
execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office.
perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation,
acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good
one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge;
keep faith with, stand to one's engagement.
Adj. observant, faithful, true, loyal; honorable &c. 939; true as the
dial to the sun, true as the needle to the pole; punctual, punctilious;
literal &c. (exact) 494; as good as one's word.
Adv. faithfully &c. adj.
Phr. ignoscito soepe alteri nunquam tibi; tempori parendum; "to God,
thy country, and thy friend be true" [Vaughan].

#773. Nonobservance.-- N. nonobservance &c. 772; evasion,
inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality.
infringement, infraction; violation, transgression; piracy.
retractation, repudiation, nullification; protest; forfeiture.
lawlessness; disobedience &c. 742; bad faith &c. 940.
V. fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside,
ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.
infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do
violence to, drive a coach and six through.
discard, protest, repudiate, fling to the winds, set at naught,
nullify, declare null and void; cancel &c. (wipe off) 552.
retract, go back from, be off, forfeit, go from one's word, palter;
stretch a point, strain a point.
Adj. violating &c. v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive.
unfulfilled &c. (see fulfill &c. 772).

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#774. Compromise.-- N. compromise, commutation, composition; middle
term, mezzo termine; compensation &c. 30; abatement of differences,
adjustment, mutal concession.
V. compromise, commute, compound; take the mean; split the difference,
meet one halfway, give and take; come to terms &c. (contract) 769; submit
to arbitration, abide by arbitration; patch up, bridge over, arrange;
straighten out, adjust, differences, agree; make the best of, make a virtue
of necessity; take the will for the deed.

Section IV. POSSESSIVE RELATIONS
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1. Property in general

#775. Acquisition.-- N. acquisition; gaining &c. v.; obtainment;
procuration, procurement; purchase, descent, inheritance; gift &c. 784.
recovery, retrieval, revendication, replevin; redemption, salvage,
trover.
find, trouvaille, foundling.
gain, thrift; money-making, money grubbing; lucre, filthy lucre, pelf;
loaves and fishes, the main chance; emolument &c. (remuneration) 973.
profit, earnings, winnings, innings, pickings, net profit; avails;
income &c. (receipt) 810; proceeds, produce, product; outcome, output;
return, fruit, crop, harvest; second crop, aftermath; benefit &c. (good)
618.
sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool; pot; wealth &c. 803.
[Fraudulent acquisition] subreption; obreption; stealing &c. 791.
V. acquire, get, gain, win, earn, obtain, procure, gather; collect &c.
(assemble) 72; pick, pickup; glean.

find; come upon, pitch upon, light upon; scrape up, scrape together;
get in, reap and carry, net, bag, sack, bring home, secure; derive, draw,
get in the harvest.
profit; make profit, draw profit; turn to profit, turn to account;
make capital out of, make money by; obtain a return, reap the fruits of;
reap an advantage, gain an advantage; turn a penny, turn an honest penny;
make the pot boil, bring grist to the mill; make money, coin money, raise
money; raise funds, raise the wind; fill one's pocket &c. (wealth) 803.
treasure up &c. (store) 636; realize, clear; produce &c. 161; take &c.
789.
get back, recover, regain, retrieve, revendicate, replevy, redeem,
come by one's own.
come by, come in for; receive &c. 785; inherit; step into a fortune,
step into the shoes of; succeed to.
get hold of, get between one's finger and thumb, get into one's hand,
get at; take possession, come into possession, enter into possession.
be profitable &c. adj.; pay, answer.
accrue &c. (be received) 785.
Adj. acquiring, acquired &c. v.; profitable, advantageous, gainful,
remunerative, paying, lucrative.
Phr. lucri causa.

#776. Loss.-- N. loss; deperdition, perdition; forfeiture, lapse.
privation, bereavement; deprivation &c. (dispossession) 789; riddance;
damage, squandering, waste.
V. lose; incur a loss, experience a loss, meet with a loss; miss;
mislay, let slip, allow to slip through the fingers; be without &c.
(exempt) 777a; forfeit.
get rid of &c. 782; waste &c. 638.
be lost; lapse.
Adj. losing &c. v.; not having &c. 777a.
shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off;
dispossessed &c. 789; rid of, quit of; out of pocket.
lost &c. v.; long lost; irretrievable &c. (hopeless) 859; off one's
hands.
Int. farewell to! adieu to.

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#777. Posession.-- N. possession, seizin, seisin; ownership &c. 780;
occupancy; hold, holding; tenure, tenancy, feodality, dependency;
villenage, villeinage; socage, chivalry, knight service.
exclusive possession, impropriation, monopoly, retention &c.781;
prepossession, preoccupancy; nine points of the law; corner, usucaption.
future possession, heritage, inheritance, heirship, reversion, fee,
seigniority; primogeniture, ultimogeniture.
bird in hand, uti possidetis, chose in possession.
V. possess, have, hold, occupy, enjoy; be possessed of &c. adj.; have
in hand &c. adj.; own &c. 780; command.
inherit; come to, come in for.
engross, monopolize, forestall, regrate, impropriate, have all to
oneself; corner; have a firmhold of &c. (retain) 781; get into one's hand
&c. (acquire) 775.
belong to, appertain to, pertain to; be in one's possession &c. adj.;
vest in.
Adj. possessing &c. v.; worth; possessed of, seized of, master of, in
possession of; usucapient; endowed with, blest with, instinct with, fraught
with, laden with, charged with.
possessed &c. v.; on hand, by one; in hand, in store, in stock; in
one's hands, in one's grasp, in one's possession; at one's command, at
one's disposal; one's own &c. (property) 780.
unsold, unshared.
Phr. entbehre gern was du nicht hast; meum et tuum; tuum est.

#777a. Exemption.-- N. exemption; absence &c. 187; exception,
immunity, privilege, release.
V. not have &c. 777; be without &c. adj.; excuse.
Adj. exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with;
immune from.
not having &c. 777; unpossessed; untenanted &c. (vacant) 187; without
an owner.
unobtained, unacquired.

#778. [Joint possession.] Participation.-- N. participation;
cotenancy, joint tenancy; occupancy in common, possession in common,
tenancy in common; joint stock, common stock; co-partnership, partnership;
communion; community of possessions, community of goods; communism,
socialism; cooperation &c. 709.
snacks, coportion|, picnic, hotchpot; co-heirship, co-parceny, co-
parcenary; gavelkind.
participator, sharer; co-partner, partner; shareholder; co-tenant,
joint tenant; tenants in common; co-heir, co-parcener.
communist, socialist.
V. participate, partake; share, share in; come in for a share; go
shares, go snacks, go halves; share and share alike.
have in common, possess in common, be seized in common, have as joint
tenants, possess as joint tenants, be seized as joint tenants &c. n.
join in; have a hand in &c. (cooperate) 709.
Adj. partaking &c. v.; communistic.
Adv. share and share alike.


#779. Possessor.-- N. possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant;
person in possession, man in possession &c.777; renter, lodger, lessee,
underlessee; zemindar, ryot; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant
from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life.
owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator, master,
mistress, lord.
land holder, land owner, landlord, land lady; lord of the manor, lord
paramount; heritor, laird, vavasour, landed gentry, mesne lord; planter.
cestui-que-trust, beneficiary, mortgagor.
grantee, feoffee, releasee, devisee; legatee, legatary.
trustee; holder &c. of the legal estate; mortgagee.
right owner, rightful owner.
[Future possessor] heir presumptive, heir apparent; heiress;
inheritor, inheritress, inheritrix; reversioner, remainderman.

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#780. Property.-- N. property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum.
ownership, proprietorship, lordship; seignority; empire &c. (dominion)
737.
interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding; tenure
&c. (possession) 777; vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial
interest, equitable interest; use, trust, benefit; legal estate, equitable
estate; seizin, seisin.
absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold; fee tail, fee simple;
estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail; estate in tail male, estate in
tail female, estate in tail general.
limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular
estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie; remainder,
reversion, expectancy, possibility.
dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, partimony,
alimony; legacy &c. (gift) 784; Falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds.
assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances; wealth &c. 803;
money &c. 800; what one is worth, what one will cut up for; estate and
effects.
landed property, landed real estate property; realty; land, lands;
tenements; hereditaments; corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal
hereditaments; acres; ground &c. (earth) 342; acquest, messuage, toft.
territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate,
sphere of influence.
manor, honor, domain, demesne; farm, plantation, hacienda; allodium
&c. (free) 748; fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency; arado,
merestead, ranch.
free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland; chattels real; fixtures,
plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.
personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty,
chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps,
rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage &c. 633.
parcels, appurtenances.
impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.
rent roll; income &c. (receipts) 810; maul and wedges [U.S.].
patent, copyright; chose in action; credit &c. 805; debt &c.806.
V. possess &c. 777; be the possessor &c. 779 of; own; have for one's
own, have for one's very own; come in for, inherit.
savor of the realty.
be one's property &c. n.; belong to; appertain to, pertain to.
Adj. one's own; landed, predial, manorial, allodial; free lease-hold,
copy lease-hold; feudal, feodal.
Adv. to one's credit, to one's account; to the good.
to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to
one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and
assigns.

#781. Retention.-- N. retention; retaining &c. v.; keep, detention,
custody; tenacity, firm hold, grasp, gripe, grip, iron grip.
fangs, teeth, claws, talons, nail, unguis, hook, tentacle, tenaculum;
bond &c. (vinculum) 45.
clutches, tongs, forceps, pincers, nippers, pliers, vice.
paw, hand, finger, wrist, fist, neaf, neif.
bird in hand; captive &c.754.
V. retain, keep; hold fast one's own, hold tight one's own, hold fast
one's ground, hold tight one's ground; clinch, clench, clutch, grasp,
gripe, hug, have a firm hold of.
secure, withhold, detain; hold back, keep back; keep close; husband
&c. (store) 636; reserve; have in stock, keep in stock &c. (possess) 777;
entail, tie up, settle.
Adj. retaining &c. v.; retentive, tenacious.
unforfeited, undeprived, undisposed, uncommunicated.
incommunicable, inalienable; in mortmain; in strict settlement.
Phr. uti possidetis.

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#782. Relinquishment.-- N. relinquishment, abandonment &c. (of a
course) 624; renunciation, expropriation|!, dereliction; cession,
surrender, dispensation; resignation &c.757; riddance.
derelict &c. adj.; foundling; jetsam, waif.
V. relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip;
spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate|!, give away,
dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf &c.
(disuse) 678; set aside, put aside; make away with, cast behind; maroon.
give notice to quit, give warning; supersede; be rid of, get rid of,
be quit of, get quit of; eject &c. 297.
rid oneself of, disburden oneself of, divest oneself of, dispossess
oneself of; wash one's hands of.
discard, cast off, dismiss; cast away, throw away, pitch away, fling
away, cast aside, cast overboard, cast to the dogs, throw aside, throw
overboard, throw to the dogs, pitch aside, pitch overboard, pitch to the
dogs, fling aside, fling overboard, fling to the dogs; cast to the winds,
throw to the winds, sweep to the winds; put away, turn away, sweep away;
jettison.
quit one's hold.
Adj. relinquished &c. v.; cast off, derelict; unowned, unappropriated,
unculled; left &c. (residuary) 40.
Int. away with!

2. Transfer of Property

#783. Transfer.-- N. transfer, conveyance, assignment, alienation,
abalienation; demise, limitation; conveyancing; transmission &c.
(transference) 270; enfeoffment, bargain and sale, lease and release;
exchange &c. (interchange) 148; barter &c. 794; substitution &c. 147.
succession, reversion; shifting use, shifting trust; devolution.
V. transfer, convey; alienate, alien; assign; grant &c. (confer) 784;
consign; make over, hand over; pass, hand, transmit, negotiate; hand down;
exchange &c.(interchange) 148.
change hands, change hands from one to another; devolve, succeed; come
into possession &c. (acquire) 775.
abalienate; disinherit; dispossess &c. 789; substitute &c. 147.
Adj. alienable, negotiable.
Phr. estate coming into possession.

#784. Giving.-- N. giving &c. v.; bestowal, bestowment, donation;
presentation, presentment; accordance; concession; delivery, consignment,
dispensataion, communication, endowment; investment, investiture; award.
almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity.
[Thing given] gift, donation, present, cadeau; fairing; free gift,
boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation;
lagniappe [U.S.], pilon [U.S.].
grace, act of grace, bonus.
allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention.
bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage; voluntary
settlement, voluntary conveyance &c. 783; amortization.
alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule|, donative, help, oblation,
offertory, honorarium, gratuity, Peter pence, sportula, Christmas box,
Easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld,
bakshish; fee &c. (recompense) 973; consideration.
bribe, bait, ground bait; peace offering, handsel; boodle*, graft,
grease*.
giver, grantor &c. v.; donor, feoffer, settlor.
V. deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of; hand over, make over,
deliver over, pass over, turn over; assign dower.
present, give away, dispense, dispose of; give out, deal out, dole
out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out.
pay &c. 807; render, impart, communicate.
concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast; spend &c. 809.
give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign.
intrust, consign, vest in.
make a present; allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota.
invest, endow, settle upon; bequeath, leave, devise.
furnish, supply, help; administer to; afford, spare; accommodate with,
indulge with, favor with; shower down upon; lavish, pour on, thrust upon.
tip, bribe; tickle the palm, grease the palm; offer &c. 763;
sacrifice, immolate.
Adj. giving &c. v.; given &c. v.; allowed, allowable; concessional;
communicable; charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary|, tributary; gratis &c.
815; donative.
Phr. auctor pretiosa facit; ex dono; res est ingeniosa dare [Ovid].

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#785. Receiving.-- N. receiving &c. v.; acquisition &c. 775; reception
&c. (introduction) 296; suscipiency|!, acceptance, admission.
recipient, accipient; assignee, devisee; legatee, legatary; grantee,
feoffee, donee, relessee, lessee; receiver.
sportulary|, stipendiary; beneficiary; pensioner, pensionary; almsman.
income &c. (receipt) 810.
V. receive; take &c. 789; acquire &c. 775; admit.
take in, catch, touch; pocket; put into one's pocket, put into one's
purse; accept; take off one's hands.
be received; come in, come to hand; pass into one's hand, fall into
one's hand; go into one's pocket; fall to one's lot, fall to one's share;
come to one, fall to one; accrue; have given &c. 784 to one.
Adj. receiving &c. v.; recipient, suscipient|!.
received &c. v.; given &c. 784; secondhand.
not given, unbestowed &c. (see give, bestow &c. 784).

#786. Apportionment.-- N. apportionment, allotment, consignment,
assignment, appointment; appropriation; dispensation, distribution;
division, deal; repartition, partition; administration.
dividend, portion, contingent, share, allotment, lot, measure, dose;
dole, meed, pittance; quantum, ration; ratio, proportion, quota, modicum,
mess, allowance; suerte.
V. apportion, divide; distribute, administer, dispense; billet, allot,
detail, cast, share, mete; portion out, parcel out, dole out; deal, carve.
partition, assign, appropriate, appoint.
come in for one's share &c. (participate) 778.
Adj. apportioning &c. v.; respective.
Adv. respectively, each to each.

#787. Lending.-- N. lending &c. v.; loan, advance, accommodation,
feneration|; mortgage &c. (security) 771; investment.
mont de piete, pawnshop, my uncle's.
lender, pawnbroker, money lender; usurer.
V. lend, advance, accommodate with; lend on security; loan; pawn &c.
(security) 771.
intrust, invest; place out to interest, put out to interest.
let, demise, lease, sett, underlet.
Adj. lending &c. v.; lent &c. v.; unborrowed &c. (see borrowed &c.
788).
Adv. in advance; on loan, on security.

#788. Borrowing.-- N. borrowing, pledging.
borrowed plumes; plagiarism &c. (thieving) 791.
replevin.
V. borrow, desume|.
hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take
by the mile, take by the year &c., hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire
by the year &c.; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.
raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from
Peter to pay Paul; run into debt &c. (debt) 806.
replevy.

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#789. Taking.-- N. taking &c. v.; reception &c. (taking in) 296;
deglutition &c. (taking food) 298; appropriation, prehension, prensation|;
capture, caption; apprehension, deprehension|; abreption|, seizure,
abduction, ablation; subtraction &c. (subduction) 38; abstraction,
ademption; adrolepsy|!.
dispossession; deprivation, deprivement; bereavement; divestment;
disherison; distraint, distress; sequestration, confiscation; eviction &c.
297.
rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism; theft &c.791.
resumption; reprise, reprisal; recovery &c. 775.
clutch, swoop, wrench; grip &c. (retention) 781; haul, take, catch;
scramble.
taker, captor.
V. take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket;
receive; accept.
reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c. (get) 775; draw.
appropriate, impropriate; assume, possess oneself of; take possession
of; commandeer; lay one's hands on, clap one's hands on; help oneself to;
make free with, dip one's hands into, lay under contribution; intercept;
scramble for; deprive of.
take away, carry away, bear away, take off, carry off, bear off;
adeem|!; abstract; hurry off with, run away with; abduct; steal &c. 791;
ravish; seize; pounce upon, spring upon; swoop to, swoop down upon; take by
storm, take by assault; snatch, reave.
snap up, nip up, whip up, catch up; kidnap, crimp, capture, lay
violent hands on.
get hold of, lay hold of, take hold of, catch hold of, lay fast hold
of, take firm hold of; lay by the heels, take prisoner; fasten upon, grip,
grapple, embrace, gripe, clasp, grab, clutch, collar, throttle, take by the
throat, claw, clinch, clench, make sure of.
catch at, jump at, make a grab at, snap at, snatch at; reach, make a
long arm, stretch forth one's hand.
take from, take away from; disseize; deduct &c. 38; retrench &c.
(curtail) 201; dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from,
tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of,
bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling.
oust &c. (eject) 297; divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester,
sequestrate; accroach; unsurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume,
impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry,
exhaust, swallow up; absorb & c. (suck in) 296; draw off; suck the blood
of, suck like a leech.
retake, resume; recover &c. 775.
Adj. taking &c.v.; privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal,
predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic.
bereft &c. 776.
Adv. at one fell swoop.
Phr. give an inch and take an ell.

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