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#852. Fashion. -- N. fashion, style, ton, bon ton|!, society; good
society, polite society; monde; drawing-room, civilized life, civilization,
town, beau monde, high life, court; world; fashionable world, gay world;
Vanity Fair; show &c. (ostentation) 822.
manners, breeding &c. (politeness) 894; air, demeanor &c. (appearance)
448; savoir faire; gentlemanliness, gentility, decorum, propriety,
biensance; conventions of society; Mrs. Grundy; punctilio; form,
formality; etiquette, point of etiquette; dress &c. 225.
custom &c. 613; mode, vogue, go; rage &c. (desire) 865; prevailing
taste.
man of fashion, woman of fashion, man of the world, woman of the
world; height of fashion, pink of fashion, star of fashion, glass of
fashion, leader of fashion; arbiter elegantiarum &c. (taste) 850; upper
ten thousand &c. (nobility) 875; elite &c. (distinction) 873; smart set;
the four hundred [U.S.].
V. be fashionable &c. adj., be the rage &c. n.; have a run, pass
current.
follow the fashion, conform to the fashion, fall in with the fashion
&c. n.; go with the stream &c. (conform) 82; savoir vivre, savoir faire;
keep up appearances, behave oneself.
set the fashion, bring in the fashion; give a tone to society, cut a
figure in society; keep one's carriage.
Adj. fashionable; in fashion &c. n.; a la mode, comme il faut;
admitted in society, admissible in society &c. n.; presentable;
conventional &c. (customary) 613; genteel; well-gred, well mannered, well
behaved, well spoken; gentlemanlike, gentlemanly; ladylike; civil, polite
&c. (courteous) 894.
polished, refined, thoroughbred, courtly; distingue; unembarrassed,
degage; janty, jaunty; dashing,f ast.
modish, stylish, chic, trendy, recherche; newfangled &c. (unfamiliar)
83; all the rage, all the go|!.
in court, in full dress, in evening dress; en grande tenue &c.
(ornament) 847.
Adv. fashionably &c. adj.; for fashion's sake.
Phr. a la francaise, a la parisienne; a l' anglaise, a l' americaine;
autre temps autre mauers; chaque pays a sa guise.

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#853. Ridiculousness. -- N. ridiculousness &c. adj.; comicality,
oddity &c. adj.; extravagance, drollery.
farce, comedy; burlesque &c. (ridicule) 856; buffoonery &c. (fun) 840;
frippery; doggerel verses; absurdity &c. 497; bombast &c. (unmeaning) 517;
anticlimax, bathos; monstrosity &c. (unconformity) 83; laughingstock &c.
857.
V. be ridiculous &c. adj.; pass from the sublime to the ridiculous;
make one laugh; play the fool, make a fool of oneself, commit an absurdity.
Adj. ridiculous, ludicrous; comical; droll, funny, laughable, pour
rire, grotesque, farcical, odd; whimsical, whimsical as a dancing bear;
fanciful, fantastic, queer, rum, quizzical, quaint, bizarre; screaming;
eccentric &c. (unconformable) 83; strange, outlandish, out of the way,
baroque; awkward &c. (ugly) 846.
extravagant, outre, monstrous, preposterous, bombastic, inflated,
stilted, burlesque, mock heroic.
drollish; seriocomic, tragicomic; gimcrack, contemptible &c.
(unimportant) 643; doggerel; ironical &c. (derisive) 856; risible.
Phr. risum teneatis amici [Horace]; rideret Heraclitus; du sublime au
ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas [Napoleon].

#854. Fop. -- N. fop, fine gentleman; swell; dandy, dandiprat|!;
exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town,
fast man; fribble, milliner|!; Jemmy Jessamy|!, carpet knight; masher,
dude.
fine lady, coquette.

#855. Affectation. -- N. affectation; affectedness &c. adj.; acting a
part &c. v.; pretense &c. (falsehood) 544, (ostentation) 882; boasting &c.
884.
charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity; pretension, airs,
pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism; teratology &c. (altiloquence)
577.
mannerism, simagre, grimace.
conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism.
stiffness, formality, buckram; prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock
modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism; mauvais honte, false shame.
affector, performer, actor; pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist,
euphuist, mannerist; grimacier; lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule,
bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster; prig; charlatan &c. (deceiver) 548;
petit maitre &c. (fop) 854; flatterer &c. 935; coquette, prude, puritan.
V. affect, act a part, put on; give oneself airs &c. (arrogance) 885;
boast &c. 884; coquet; simper, mince, attitudinize, pose; flirt a fan;
overact, overdo.
Adj. affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted,
stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum; canting, insincere.
not natural, unnatural; self-conscious; maniere; artificial;
overwrought, overdone, overacted; euphuist &c. 577.
stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles,
quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited,
coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering,
namby-pamby, sentimental.
Phr. "conceit in weakest bodies strongest works" [Hamlet].

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#856. Ridicule. -- N. ridicule, derision; sardonic smile, sardonic
grin; irrision; scoffing &c. (disrespect) 929; mockery, quiz|!, banter,
irony, persiflage, raillery, chaffe, badinage; quizzing &c. v.; asteism.
squib, satire, skit, quip, quib, grin.
parody, burlesque, travesty, travestie; farce &c. (drama) 599;
caricature.
buffoonery &c. (fun) 840; practical joke; horseplay.
V. ridicule, deride; snigger; laugh in one's sleeve; banter, rally,
chaff, joke, twit, quiz, roast; haze [U.S.]; tehee; fleer; show up.
play upon, play tricks upon; fool to the top of one's bent; laugh at,
grin at, smile at; poke fun at.
satirize, parody, caricature, burlesque, travesty.
turn into ridicule; make merry with; make fun of, make game of, make a
fool of, make an April fool of; rally; scoff &c. (disrespect) 929.
raise a laugh &c. (amuse) 840; play the fool, make a fool of oneself.
Adj. derisory, derisive; mock; sarcastic, ironic, ironical, quizzical,
burlesque, Hudibrastic; scurrilous &c. (disrespectful) 929.
Adv. in ridicule &c. n.

#857. [Object and cause of ridicule.] Laughingstock. -- N.
laughingstock, jestingstock, gazingstock; butt, game, fair game; April fool
&c. (dupe) 547.
original, oddity; queer fish, odd fish; quiz, square toes; old monkey,
fogey monkey, fogy monkey; buffoon &c. (jester) 844; pantomimist &c.
(actor) 599.
jest &c. (wit) 842.
Phr. dum vitant stulti vitia in contraria currunt.


3. PROSPECTIVE AFFECTIONS


#858. Hope. -- N. hope, hopes; desire &c. 865; fervent hope, sanguine
expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith &c. (belief) 484; affiance,
assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.
good omen, good auspices; promise, well grounded hopes; good prospect,
bright prospect; clear sky.
assumption, presumption; anticipation &c. (expectation) 507.
hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace,
aspiration; optimist, utopist.
castles in the air, chateaux en Espagne, le pot au lait, Utopia,
millennium; day dream, golden dream; dream of Alnaschar; airy hopes, fool's
paradise; mirage &c. (fallacies of vision) 443; fond hope.
beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of
hope; dawn of hope, star of hope; cheer; bit of blue sky, silver lining,
silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead.
anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay; staff &c. (support) 215; heaven &c.
981.
V. hope, trust, confide, rely on, put one's trust in; lean upon; pin
one's hope upon, pin one's faith upon &c. (believe) 484.
feel hope, entertain hope, harbor hope, indulge hope, cherish hope,
feed hope, foster hope, nourish hope, encourage hope, cling to hope, live
in hope, &c. n.; see land; feel assured, rest assured, feel confident, rest
confident &c. adj.
presume; promise oneself; expect &c. (look forward to) 507.
hope for &c. (desire) 865; anticipate.
be hopeful &c. adj.; look on the bright side of, view on the sunny
side, voir en couleur de rose, make the best of it, hope for the best; put
a good face upon, put a bold face upon, put the best face upon; keep one's
spirits up; take heart, take heart of grace; be of good heart, be of good
cheer; flatter oneself, "lay the flattering unction to one's soul" [hamlet]
catch at a straw, hope against hope, reckon one's chickens before they
are hatched.
give hope, inspire hope, raise hope, hold out hope &c. n.; promise,
bid fair, augur well, be in a fair way, look up, flatter, tell a flattering
tale; raise expectations; encourage, cheer, assure, reassure, buoy up,
embolden.
Adj. hoping &c. v.; in hopes &c. n.; hopeful, confident; secure &c.
(certain) 484; sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated,
flushed, exultant, enthusiastic; heartsome; utopian.
unsuspecting, unsuspicious; fearless, free from fear, free from
suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt
from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair; undespairing,
self reliant.
probable, on the high road to; within sight of shore, within sight of
land; promising, propitious; of promise, full of promise; of good omen;
auspicious, de bon augure; reassuring; encouraging, cheering, inspiriting,
looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored.
Adv. hopefully &c. adj.
Int. God speed!
Adv. hopefully &c. adj.
Int. God speed!

Phr. nil desperandum [Horace]; never say die, dum spiro spero, latet
scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora; " the wish being
father to the thought" [Henry IV]; "hope told a flattering tale"; rusticus
expectat dum defluat amnis.
at spes non fracta; ego spem prietio non emo [Terencel; un Dieu est ma
fiance; " hope! thou nurse of young desire " [Bickerstaff]; in hoc signo
spes mea; in hoc signo vinces; la speranza e il pan de miseri; l'esperance
est le songe d'un homme eveille; " the mighty hopes that make us men"
[Tennyson]; " the sickening pang of hope deferred " [Scott].

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#859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness. -- N.
hopelessness &c. adj.; despair, desperation; despondency &c. (dejection)
837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill
omen.
hope deferred, dashed hopes; vain expectation &c. (disappointment)
509.
airy hopes &c. &c 858; forlorn hope; gone case, gone coon* [U.S.];
goner*; bad job, bad business; enfant perdu; gloomy horizon, black spots in
the horizon; slough of Despond, cave of Despair; immedicabile vulnus.
V. despair; lose all hope, give up all hope, abandon all hope,
relinquish all hope, lose the hope of, give up the hope of, abandon the
hope of, relinquish the hope of; give up, give over; yield to despair;
falter; despond &c. (be dejected) 837; jeter le manche apres la cognee.

inspire despair, drive to despair &c. n.; disconcert; dash one's
hopes, crush one's hopes, destroy one's hopes; hope against hope.
Adj. hopeless, desperate, despairing, gone, in despair, au desespoir,
forlorn; inconsolable &c. (dejected) 837; broken hearted.
out of the question, not to be thought of; impracticable &c. 471; past
hope, past cure, past mending, past recall; at one's last gasp &c. (death)
360; given up, given over.
incurable, cureless, immedicable, remediless, beyond remedy;
incorrigible; irreparable, irremediable, irrecoverable, irreversible,
irretrievable, irreclaimable, irredeemable, irrevocable; ruined, undone;
immitigable.
unpromising, unpropitious; unasupicious, ill-omened, threatening,
clouded over.
Phr. "lasciate ogni speranza voi ch' entrate" [Dante]; its days are
numbered; the worst come to the worst; "no change, no pause, no hope, yet I
endure" [Shelley]; "O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton].

#860. Fear. -- N fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence;
apprehensiveness, fearfulness &c. adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care,
apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.]; mistrust &c. (doubt) 485; suspicion,
qualm; hesitation &c. (irresoluion) 605.
nervousness, restlessness &c. adj.; inquietude, disquietude;
batophobia; heartquake; flutter, trepidation, fear and trembling,
perturbation, tremor, quivering, shaking, trembling, throbbing heart,
palpitation, ague fit, cold sweat; abject fear &c. (cowardice) 862; mortal
funk, heartsinking, despondency; despair &c. 859.
fright; affright, affrightment; boof [U.S.] alarm, dread, awe, terror,
horror, dismay, consternation, panic, scare, stampede [of horses].
intimidation, terrorism, reign of terror.
[Object of fear] bug bear, bugaboo; scarecrow; hobgoblin &c. (demon)
980; nightmare, Gorgon, mormo, ogre, Hurlothrumbo, raw head and bloody
bones, fee-faw-fum, bete noire, enfant terrible.
alarmist &c. (coward) 862.
V. fear, stand in awe of; be affraid &c. adj.; have qualms &c. n.;
apprehend, sit upon thorns, eye askance; distrust &c. (disbelieve) 485.
hesitate &c. (be irresolute) 605; falter,
funk, cower, crouch; skulk &c. (cowardice) 862; let " I dare not" wait
upon "I would "; take fright, take alarm; start, wince, flinch, shy,
shrink; fly &c. (avoid) 623.
tremble, shake; shiver, shiver in one's shoes; shudder, flutter; shake
like an aspen leaf, tremble like an aspen leaf, tremble all over; quake,
quaver, quiver, quail.
grow pale, turn pale; blench, stand aghast; not dare to say one's soul
is one's own.
inspire fear, excite fear, inspire awe, excite awe; raise
aprehensions; be in a daze, bulldoze [U. S.]; faze, feeze [U. S.]; give an
alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry " wolf,"
disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright from one's
propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out
of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into,
strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on
the agony.
make one's flesh creep, make one's hair stand on end, make one's blood
run cold, make one's teeth chatter; take away one's breath, stop one's
breath; make one tremble &c.
haunt,; prey on the mind, weigh on the mind.
put in fear, put in bodily fear; terrorize, intimidate, cow, daunt,
overawe, abash, deter, discourage; browbeat, bully; threaten &c. 909.
Adj. fearing &c. v.; frightened &c. v.; in fear, in a fright &c. n.;
haunted with the fear of &c. n.; afeard.
afraid, fearful; timid, timorous; nervous, diffident, coy, faint-
hearted, tremulous, shaky, afraid of one's shadow, apprehensive, restless,
fidgety; more frightened than hurt.
aghast; awe-stricken, horror-stricken, terror-stricken, panic-
stricken, awestruck, awe-stricken, horror-strruck; frightened to death,
white as a sheet; pale, pale as a ghost, pale as death, pale as ashes;
breathless, in hysterics.
inspiring fear &c. v.; alarming; formidable, redoubtable; perilous &c.
(danger) 665; portentous; fearful; dread, dreadful; fell; dire, direful;
shocking; terrible, terrific; tremendous; horrid, horrible, horrific;
ghastly; awful, awe-inspiring; revolting &c. (painful) 830; Gorgonian.
Adv. in terrorem.
Int. " angels and ministers of grace defend us! [Hamlet].
Phr. ante tubam trepidat; horresco referens, one's heart failing one,
obstupui steteruntque comae et vox.faucibus haesit [Vergil].
"a dagger of the mind " [Macbeth]; expertus metuit [Horace]; " fain
would I climb but that I fear to fall [Raleighl; " fear is the parent of
cruelty " [Froude]; " Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire " [Paradise
Lost]; omnia tuta timens [Vergil]; " our fears do make us traitors "
[Macbethl.

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#861. [Absence of fear.] Courage. -- N. courage, bravery, valor;
resoluteness, boldness &c. adj.; spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity;
contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness &c.
863; dash; defiance &c. 715; confidence, self-reliance.
manliness, manhood; nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, heart of grace;
spunk, , guts, face, virtue, hardihood, fortitude, intestinal fortitude;
firmness &c. (stability) 150; heart of oak; bottom, backbone, spine &c.
(perseverance) 604a. resolution &c. (determination) 604; bulldog courage.
prowess, heroism, chivalry.

exploit, feat, achievement; heroic deed, heroic act; bold stroke.
man, man of mettle; hero, demigod, Amazon, Hector; lion, tiger,
panther, bulldog; gamecock, fighting-cock; bully, fire eater &c. 863.
V. be courageous &c. adj.; dare, venture, make bold; face danger,
front danger, affront danger, confront danger, brave danger, defy danger,
despise danger, mock danger; look in the face; look full in the face, look
boldly in the face, look danger in the face; face; meet, meet in front;
brave, beard; defy &c. 715.
take courage, muster courage, summon up courage, pluck up courage;
nerve oneself, take heart; take heart, pluck up heart of grace; hold up
one's head, screw one's courage to the sticking place; come up to scratch;
stick to one's guns, standfire, stand against; bear up, bear up against;
hold out &c. (persevere) 604a.
put a bold face upon; show a bold front, present a bold front; show
fight; face the music.
bell the cat, take the bull by the horns, beard the lion in his den,
march up to the cannon's mouth, go through fire and water, run the gantlet.
give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage,
embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a
rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.
Adj. courageous, brave; valiant, valorous; gallant, intrepid;
spirited, spiritful; high-spirited, high-mettled; mettlesome, plucky;
manly, manful; resolute; stout,.stout-hearted; iron-hearted, lion-hearted;
heart of oak; Penthesilean.
bold, bold-spirited; daring, audacious; fearless, dauntless,
dreadless, aweless; undaunted, unappalled, undismayed, unawed, unblanched,
unabashed, unalaxmed, unflinching, unshrinking, unblanching,
unapprehensive; confident, self-reliant; bold as a lion, bold as brass.
enterprising, adventurous; venturous, venturesome; dashing,
chivalrous; soldierly &c. (warlike) 722; heroic.
fierce, savage; pugnacious &c. (bellicose) 720.
strong-minded, hardy, doughty; firm &c. (stable) 150; determined &c.
(resolved) 604; dogged, indomitable &c. (persevering) 604a.
up to, up to the scratch; upon one's mettle; reassured &c. v.;
unfeared, undreaded.

Phr. one's blood being up; courage sans peur;fortes fortuna adjuvat
[Terence]; "have I not in my time heard lions roar " [Taming of the Shrew];
" I dare do all that may become a man " [Macbeth]; male vincetis sed
vincite [Ovid]; omne solum.forti patria.; " self-trust is the essence of
heroism " [Emerson]; stimulos dedit oemula virtus [Lucan]; " strong and
great, a hero [Longfellow]; teloque animus proestantior omni [Ovid];
"there, is always safety in valor" [Emerson]; virtus ariete fortier.


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#862. [Excess of fear.] Cowardice. -- N. cowardice, pusillanimity;
cowardliness &c. adj.; timidity, effeminacy.
poltroonery, baseness; dastardness, dastardy; abject fear, funk; Dutch
courage; fear &c. 860; white feather, faint heart; cold feet * [U. S.],
yellow streak*.
coward, poltroon, dastard, sneak, recreant; shy cock, dunghill cock;
coistril, milksop, white liver, lilly liver, nidget, one that cannot say "
bo" to a goose; slink; Bob Acres, Jerry Sneak.
alarmist,: terrorist, pessimist; runagate &c. (fugitive) 623.
V. quail &c. (fear) 860; be cowardly &c. adj., be a coward &c. n.;
funk; cower,skulk, sneak; flinch, shy, fight shy, slink, turn tail; run
away &c. (avoid) 623; show, the white feather.
Adj. coward, cowardly; fearful, shy; timid, timorous; skittish; poor-
spirited, spiritless, soft, effeminate.
weak-minded; infirm of purpose &c. 605; weakhearted, fainthearted,
chickenhearted, henhearted, lilyhearted, pigeon-hearted; white-livered,
lily-livered, milk-livered; milksop, smock-faced; unable to say " bo " to a
goose.
dastard, dastardly; base, craven, sneaking, dunghill, recreant;
unwarlike, unsoldier-like.
" in face a lion but in heart a deer."
unmanned; frightened &c. 860.
Int. sauve qui peut! devil take the hindmost!
Phr. ante tubam trepidat, one's courage oozing out; degeneres animos
timor arguit [Vergil].



#863. Rashness. -- N. rashness &c. adj.; temerity, want of caution,
imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity.
precipitancy, precipitation; impetuosity,; levity; foolhardihood,
foolhardness; heedlessness, thoughtlessness &c. (inattention) 458;
carelessness &c. (neglect) 460; desperation; Quixotism, knight-errantry;
fire eating.
gaming, gambling; blind bargain, leap in the dark, fool's paradise;
too many eggs in one basket.
desperado, rashling, madcap, daredevil, Hotspur, fire eater, bully,
bravo, Hector, scapegrace, enfant perdu; Don Quixote, knight-errant,
Icarus; adventurer; gambler, gamester; dynamitard; boomer [U. S.].
V. be rash &c. adj.; stick at nothing, play a desperate game; run into
danger &c. 665; play with fire, play with edge tools.
carry too much sail, sail too near the wind, ride at single anchor, go
out of one's depth.
take a leap in the dark, buy a pig in a poke.
donner tete baissee; knock, one's bead against a wall &c. (be
unskillful) 699; rush on destruction; kick against the pricks, tempt
Providence, go on a forlorn hope.
reckon one's chickens before they are hatched, count one's chickens
before they are hatched, reckon without one's host; catch at straws; trust
to a broken reed, lean on a broken reed.
Adj. rash, incautious, indiscreet; imprudent, improvident,
temerarious; uncalculating; heedless; careless &c. (neglectful) 460;
without ballast, heels over head, head over heels; giddy &c. (inattentive)
458; wanton, reekless, wild, madcap; desperate, devil-may-care.
hot-blooded, hotheaded, hotbrained; headlong, headstrong; breakneck;
foolhardy; harebrained; precipitate, impulsive. overconfident, overweening;
venturesome, venturous; adventurous, Quixotic, fire eating, cavalier;
janty, jaunty, free and easy.
off one's guard &c. (inexpectant) 508.
Adv. post haste, a corps perdu, hand over head, tete baissee,
headforemost; happen what may, come what may.
Phr. neck or nothing, the devil being in one; non semper temeritas est
felix [Livy]; paucis temeritas est bono multis malo [Phaedrus].

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#864. Caution. -- N. caution; cautiousness &c. adj.; discretion,
prudence, cautel|, heed, circumspection, calculation, deliberation.
foresight &c. 510; vigilance &c. 459; warning &c. 668.
coolness &c. adj.; self-possession, self-command; presence of mind,
sang froid; well-regulated mind; worldly wisdom, Fabian policy.
V. be cautious &c. adj.; take care, take heed, take good care; have
a care mind, what one is about; be on one's guard &c. (keep watch) 459;
"make assurance doubly sure" [Macbeth].
bespeak &c. (be early) 132.
think twice, look before one leaps, count the cost, look to the main
chance, cut one's coat according to one's cloth; feel one's ground, feel
one's way; see how the land lies &c. (foresight) 510; wait to see how the
cat jumps; bridle one's tongue; reculer pour mieux sauter &c. (prepare)
673; let well alone, let well enough alone, ne pas reveiller le chat qui
dort.
keep out of harm's way, keep out of troubled waters; keep at a
respectful distance, stand aloof; keep on the safe side, be on the safe
side.
husband one's resources &c. 636.
caution &c. (warn) 668.
Adj. cautious, wary, guarded; on one's guard &c. (watchful) 459;
cavendo tutus; in medio tutissimus; vigilant.
careful, heedful; cautelous|, stealthy, chary, shy of, circumspect,
prudent, discreet, politic; sure-footed &c. (skillful) 698.
unenterprising, unadventurous, cool, steady, self-possessed;
overcautious.
Adv. cautiously &c. adj.
Int. have a care!
Phr. timeo Danaos [Vergil]; festina lente.
ante victoriam ne canas triumphum; "give, every man thine ear but few
thy voice" [Hamlet]; he who laughs last laughs best, il rit bien qui rit
le dernier; ni firmes carta que no leas ni bebas agua que no veas; nescit
vox missa reverti [Horace]; " love all, trust a few " [All's Well]; noli
irritare leones; safe bind safe find.

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#865. Desire. -- N. desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need,
exigency.
mind, inclination, leaning, bent, animus, partiality, penchant,
predilection; propensity &c. 820; willingness &c. 602; liking, love,
fondness, relish.
longing, hankering, inkling; solicitude, anxiety; yearning, coveting;
aspiration, ambition, vaulting ambition; eagerness, zeal, ardor,
empressement, breathless impatience, overanxiety; impetuosity, &c. 825.
appetite, appetition, appetence, appetency; sharp appetite, keenness,
hunger, stomach, twist; thirst, thirstiness; drouth, mouthwatering; itch,
itching; prurience, cacoethes, cupidity, lust, concupiscence.
edge of appetite, edge of hunger; torment of Tantulus; sweet tooth,
lickerish tooth; itching palm; longing eye, wistful eye, sheep's eye.
avidity; greed, greediness; covetousness, ravenousness &c. adj.;
grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity; voracity &c. (gluttony) 957.
passion, rage, furore, mania, manie|; inextinguishable desire;
dipsomania, kleptomania.
[Person desiring] lover, amateur, votary, devotee, aspirant,
solicitant, candidate; cormorant &c. 957.
[Object of desire] desideratum; want &c. (requirement) 630; "a
consummation devoutly to be wished "; attraction, magnet, allurement,
fancy, temptation, seduction, fascination, prestige, height of one's
ambition, idol; whim, whimsey; maggot; hobby, hobby-horse.
Fortunatus's cap; wishing cap, wishing stone, wishing well.
care for, affect, like, list; take to, cling to, take a fancy to;
fancy; prefer &c. (choose) 609.
have an eye, have a mind to; find it in one's heart &c. (be willing)
602; have a fancy for, set one's eyes upon; cast a sheep's eye upon, look
sweet upon; take into one's head, have at heart, be bent upon; set one's
cap at, set one's heart upon, set one's mind upon; covet.
want, miss, need, feel the want of, would fain have, would fain do;
would be glad of.
V. desire; wish, wish for; be desirous &c. adj. have a longing &c. n.;
hope &c. 858.

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