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#167. Posterity.-- N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring,
brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs;
great-grandchild.
child, son, daughter; butcha; bantling, scion; acrospire, plumule,
shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit, branch; off-shoot, off-set;
ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive;
chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.
straight descent, sonship, line, lineage, filiation, primogeniture.
Adj. filial; diphyletic.
Phr. "the child is father of the man" [Wordsworth].

#168. Productiveness -- N. productiveness &c. adj.; fecundity,
fertility, luxuriance, uberty|.
pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation,
procreation; superfetation.
milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk
and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth; arrish, eddish,
rowen; protoplasm; fertilization.
V. make -productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate,
fertilize, spermative, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, multiply;
produce &c. 161; conceive.
Adj. productive, prolific; teeming, teemful; fertile, fruitful,
frugiferous, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous.
procreant, procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic;
multiparous; omnific, propagable.
parturient &c. (producing) 161; profitable &c. (useful) 644.

#169. Unproductiveness.-- N. unproductiveness &c. adj.; infertility,
sterility, infecundity; impotence &c. 158; unprofitableness &c.
(inutility) 645.
waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness.
V. be - unproductive &c. adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to
nothing.
[make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.
Adj. unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, unfertile,
unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund; sine prole; fallow;
teemless, issueless, fruitless; unprofitable &c. (useless) 645; null and
void, of no effect.

#170. Agency.-- N. agency, operation, force, working, strain,
function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking,
interaction; procurement.
causation &c. 153; instrumentality &c. 631; influence &c. 175; action
&c. (voluntary) 680; modus operandi &c. 627.
quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power; home stroke.
V. be -in action &c. adj.; operate, work; act, act upon; perform,
play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.
come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring
to bear upon.
Adj. operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual.
at work, on foot; acting &c. (doing) 680; in operation, in force, in
action, in play, in exercise; acted upon, wrought upon.
Adv. by the -agency &c. n.- of; through &c. (instrumentality) 631; by
means of &c. 632.
Phr. "I myself must mix with action lest I wither by despair"
[Tennyson].

#171. Physical Energy.-- N. energy, physical energy, force, keenness
&c. adj.; intensity, vigor, strength, elasticity; go; high pressure; fire;
rush.
acrimony, acritude; causiticity, virulence; poignancy; harshness &c.
adj.; severity, edge, point; pungency &c. 392.
cantharides; seasoning &c. (condiment) 393.
activity, agitation, effervescence; ferment, fermentation; ebullition,
splutter, perturbation, stir, bustle; voluntary energy &c. 682;
quicksilver.
resolution &c. (mental energy) 604; exertion &c. (effort) 686;
excitation &c. (mental) 824.
V. give -energy &c. n.; energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert;
sharpen, intensify; inflame &c. (render violent) 173; wind up &c.
(strengthen) 159.
strike home, into home, hard home; make an impression.
Adj. strong, energetic, forcible, active; intense, deep-dyed, severe,
keen, vivid, sharp, acute, incisive, trenchant, brisk.
rousing, irritation; poignant; virulent, caustic, corrosive, mordant,
harsh, stringent; double-edged, double-shotted, double-distilled; drastic,
escharotic|; racy &c. (pungent) 392.
potent &c. (powerful) 157; radioactive.
Adv. strongly &c. adj.; fortiter in re; with telling effect.
Phr. the steam is up; vires acquirit eundo; "the race by vigor not by
vaunts is won" [Pope].

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#172. Physical Inertness.-- N. inertness, dullness &c. adj.; inertia,
vis inertioe, inertion, inactivity, torpor, languor; quiescence &c. 265;
latency, inaction; passivity.
mental inertness; sloth &c. (inactivity) 683; inexcitability &c. 826;
irresolution &c. 605; obstinacy &c. 606; permanence &c. 141.
V. be -inert &c. adj.; hang fire, smolder.
Adj. inert, inactive, passive; torpid &c. 683; sluggish, dull, heavy,
flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.
latent, dormant, smoldering, unexerted.
Adv. inactively &c. adj.; insuspense, inabeyance.

#173. Violence.-- N. violence, inclemency, vehemence, might,
impetuosity; boisterousness &c. adj.; effervescence, ebullition;
turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump [U. S.], riot, row, rumpus, le
diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire.
severity &c. 739; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation,
malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia; force, brute force;
outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog; spasm, convulsion, throe;
hysterics, passion &c. (state of excitability) 825.
outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge,
volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion|,
torrent.
turmoil &c. (disorder) 59; ferment &c. (agitation) 315; storm,
tempest, rough weather; squall &c. (wind) 349; earthquake, volcano,
thunderstorm.
berserk, berserker; fury, dragon, demon, tiger, beldame, Tisiphone,
Megaera, Alecto, madcap, wild beast; fire eater &c. (blusterer) 887.
V. be -violent &c. adj.; run high; ferment, effervesce; romp, rampage;
run wild, run amuck, run riot; break the peace; rush, tear; rush headlong,
rush foremost; raise a storm, make a riot, make a row, kick up a row; ;
rough house*; bluster, rage, roar, riot, storm; boil, boil over; fume,
foam, come on like a lion; wreak, bear down, ride roughshod, out Herod,
Herod; spread like wildfire.
break out, fly out, burst out; bounce, explode, go off, displode|,
fly, detonate, thunder, blow up, flash, flare, burst; shock, strain; break
open, force open, prize open.
render -violent &c. adj.; sharpen, stir up, quicken, excite, incite,
annoy, urge, lash, stimulate, turn on; irritate, inflame, kindle,
suscitate|, foment; accelerate, aggravate, exasperate, exacerbate,
convulse, infuriate, madden, lash into fury; fan the flame; add fuel to the
flame, pour oil on the fire, oleum addere camino.
explode; let fly, fly off; discharge, detonate, set off, detonize,
fulminate.
Adj. violent, vehement; warm; acute, sharp; rough, rude, ungentle,
bluff, boisterous, wild; brusque, abrupt, waspish; impetuous; rampant.
turbulent; disorderly; blustering, raging &c. v.; troublous, riotous;
tumultuary, tumultuous; obstreperous, uproarious; extravagant; unmitigated;
ravening, tameless; frenzied &c. (insane) 503. desperate &c. (rash) 863;
infuriate, furious, outrageous, frantic, hysteric, in hysterics.
fiery, flaming, scorching, hot, red-hot, ebullient.
savage, fierce, ferocious, fierce as a tiger.
excited &c. v.; unquelled, unquenched, unextinguished, unrepressed,
unbridled, unruly; headstrong, ungovernable, unappeasable, unmitigable;
uncontrollable, incontrollable; insuppressible, irrepressible; orgastic.
spasmodic, convulsive, explosive; detonating &c. v.; volcanic,
meteoric; stormy &c. (wind) 349.
Adv. violently &c. adj.; amain; by storm, by force, by main force;
with might and main; tooth and nail, vi et armis, at the point of the
sword, at the point of the bayonet; at one fell swoop; with a high hand,
through thick and thin; in desperation, with a vengeance; a outrance, a
toute outrance; headlong, head foremost.
Phr. furor arma ministrat; "blown with restless violence round about
the pendent world" [Measure for Measure].

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#174. Moderation.-- N. moderation, lenity &c. 740; temperateness,
gentleness &c. adj.; sobriety; quiet; mental calmness &c. (inexcitability)
826.
moderating &c. v.; anaphrodisia; relaxation, remission, mitigation,
tranquilization, assuagement, contemporation, pacification.
measure, juste milieu, golden mean, .
moderator; lullaby, sedative, lenitive, demulcent, antispasmodic,
carminative, laudanum; rose water, balm, poppy, opiate, anodyne, milk,
opium, "poppy or mandragora"; wet blanket; palliative.
V. be -moderate &c. adj.; keep within bounds, keep within compass;
sober down, settle down; keep the peace, remit, relent, take in sail.
moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy|; attemper, contemper;
mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe,
subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken &c. 160; lessen
&c. (decrease) 36; check palliate.
tranquilize, pacify, assuage, appease, swag, lull, soothe, compose,
still, calm, calm down, cool, quiet, hush, quell, sober, pacify, tame,
damp, lay, allay, rebate, slacken, smooth, alleviate, rock to sleep,
deaden, smooth, throw cold water on, throw a wet blanket over, turn off;
slake; curb &c. (restrain) 751; tame &c. (subjugate) 749; smooth over; pour
oil on the waves, pour oil on the troubled waters; pour balm into, mattre
de l'eau dans son vin.
go out like a lamb, "roar you as gently as any sucking dove,"
[Midsummer-Night's Dream].
Adj. moderate; lenient &c. 740; gentle, mild, mellow; cool, sober,
temperate, reasonable, measured; tempered &c. v.; calm, unruffled, quiet,
tranquil, still; slow, smooth, untroubled; tame; peaceful, peaceable;
pacific, halcyon.
unexciting, unirritating; soft, bland, oily, demulcent, lenitive,
anodyne; hypnotic &c. 683; sedative; antiorgastic, anaphrodisiac.
mild as mother's milk; milk and water.
Adv. moderately &c. adj.; gingerly; piano; under easy sail, at half
speed; within bounds, within compass; in reason.
Phr. est modue in rebus.

4. Indirect Power

#175. Influence.-- N. influence; importance &c. 642; weight, pressure,
preponderance, prevalence, sway; predominance, predominancy; ascendency;
dominance, reign; control, domination, pull*; authority &c.737; capability
&c. (power) 157; effect &c. 154; interest.
footing; purchase &c. (support) 215; play, leverage, vantage ground.
tower of strength, host in himself; protection, patronage, auspices.
V. have -influence &c. n.; be -influential &c. adj.; carry weight,
weigh, tell; have a hold upon, magnetize, bear upon, gain a footing, work
upon; take root, take hold; strike root in.
run through, pervade; prevail, dominate, predominate; out weigh, over
weigh; over-ride, over-bear; gain head; rage; be -rife &c. adj.; spread
like wildfire; have the upper hand, get the upper hand, gain the upper
hand, have full play, get full play, gain full play.
be recognized, be listened to; make one's voice heard, gain a hearing;
play a part, play a leading part, play a leading part in; take the lead,
pull the strings; turn the scale, throw one's weight into the scale; set
the fashion, lead the dance.
Adj. influential, effective; important &c. 642; weighty; prevailing
&c. v.; prevalent, rife, rampant, dominant, regnant, predominant, in the
ascendant, hegemonical.
Adv. with telling effect.
Phr. tel maure tel valet.

#175a. Absence of Influence.-- N. impotence &c. 158; powerlessness;
inertness &c. 172; irrelevancy &c. 10.
V. have no -influence &c. 175.
Adj. uninfluential, ineffective; unconducing, unconducive,
unconducting to; powerless &c. 158; irrelevant &c. 10.

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#176. Tendency.-- N. tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness,
proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition,
inclination, propensity, susceptibiliy; conatus, nisus; liability &c. 177;
quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain;
humor, mood; drift &c. (direction) 278; conduciveness, conducement;
applicability &c. (utility) 644; subservience &c. (instrumentality) 631.
V. tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to,
trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote
&c. (aid) 707.
Adj. tending &c. v.; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to,
calculated to; liable &c. 177; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631; useful
&c. 644; subsidiary &c. (helping) 707.
Adv. for, whither.

#177. Liability.-- N. liability, liableness; possibility, contingency;
susceptivity, susceptibility.
V. be -liable &c. adj.; incur, lay oneself open to; run the chance,
stand a chance; lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to.
Adj. liable, subject; in danger &c. 665; open to, exposed to,
obnoxious to; answerable; unexempt from; apt to; dependent on; incident to.
contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at
the mercy of.

5. Combinations of Causes

#178. Concurrence.-- N. concurrence, cooperation, coagency; union;
agreement &c. 23; consilience; consent, coincidence &c. (assent) 488;
alliance; concert &c. 709; partnership &c. 712.
V. concur, conduce, conspire, contribute; agree, unite; hang together,
pull together.
&c. (cooperate) 709; help to &c. (aid) 707.
keep pace with, run parallel; go with, go along with, go hand in hand
with.
Adj. concurring &c. v.; concurrent, in alliance with, banded together,
of one mind, at one with.
Adv. with one consent.

#179. Counteraction.-- N. counteraction, opposition; contrariety &c.
14; antagonism, polarity; clashing &c. v.; collision, interference,
inhibition, resistance, renitency, friction; reaction; retroaction &c.
(recoil) 277; counterblast; neutralization &c. (compensation) 30; vis
inertiae; check & c. (hindrance) 706.
voluntary opposition &c. 708, voluntary resistance &c. 719; repression
&c. (restraint) 751.
V. counteract; run counter, clash, cross; interfere with, conflict
with; contravene; jostle; go against, run against, beat against, militate
against; stultify; antagonize, block, oppose &c. 708; traverse; withstand
&c. (resist) 719; hinder &c. 706; repress &c. (restrain) 751; react &c.
(recoil) 277.
undo, neutralize; counterpoise &c. (compensate) 30; overpoise.
Adj. counteracting &c. v.; antagonistic, conflicting, retroactive,
renitent, reactionary; contrary &c. 14.
Adv. although &c. 30; in spite of &c. 708; against.

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CLASS II

WORDS RELATING TO SPACE

SECTION I. S P A C E I N G E N E R A L

1. ABSTRACT SPACE

#180. [Indefinite space.] Space.-- N. space, extension, extent,
superficial extent, expanse, stretch; room, scope, range, field, way,
expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread.
latitude, play.
spare room, elbow room, house room; stowage, roomage, margin; opening,
sphere, arena.
open space, free space; void &c. (absence) 187; waste; wildness,
wilderness; moor, moorland; campagna.
abyss &c. (interval) 198; unlimited space; infinity &c. 105; world;
ubiquity &c. (presence) 186; length and breadth of the land.
proportions, acreage; acres, acres and perches, roods and perches;
square inches, square yards&c.; ares, arpents.
Adj. spacious, roomy, extensive, expansive, capacious, ample;
widespread, vast, world-wide, uncircumscribed; boundless &c. (infinite)
105; shoreless, trackless, pathless; extended.
Adv. extensively &c. adj.; wherever; everywhere; far and near, far and
wide; right and left, all over, all the world over; throughout the world,
throughout the length and breadth of the land; under the sun, in every
quarter; in all quarters, in all lands; here there and everywhere; from
pole to pole, from China to Peru [Johnson], from Indus to the pole [Pope],
from Dan to Beersheba, from end to end; on the face of the earth, in the
wide world, from all points of the compass; to the four winds, to the
uttermost parts of the earth.

#180a. Inextension.-- N. inextension, nonextension, point; dot; atom
&c. (smallness) 32.

#181. [Definite space.] Region.-- N. region, sphere, ground, soil,
area, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle;
pale &c. (limit) 233; compartment, department; clearing; domain, tract,
territory, country, canton, county, shire, province, arrondissement,
mofussil, parish, township, commune, ward; wapentake, hundred, riding,
lathe, garth, soke, tithing, bailiwick; principality, duchy, kingdom;
archduchy, archdukedom.
arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, inclosure,
close, enclave, field, court; street &c. (abode) 189.
clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude.
Adj. territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.

#182. [Limited space.] Place.-- N. place, lieu, spot, point, dot;
niche, nook &c. (corner) 244; hole; pigeonhole &c. (receptacle) 191;
compartment; premises, precinct, station; area, courtyard, square; abode
&c. 189; locality &c. (situation) 183.
ins and outs; every hole and corner.
Adv. somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in
various places, passim.

2. RELATIVE SPACE

#183. Situation.-- N. situation, position, locality, locale, status,
latitude and longitude; footing, standing, standpoint, post; stage; aspect,
attitude, posture, pose.
place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts; ground; bearings &c.
(direction) 278; spot &c. (limited space) 182.
topography, geography, chorography; map &c. 554.
V. be situated, be situate; lie, have its seat in.
Adj. situate, situated; local, topical, topographical &c. n.
Adv. in situ, in loco; here and there, passim; here abouts, there
abouts, where abouts; in place, here, there.
in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in
such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and
such environs, amidst such and such entourage.

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#184. Location.-- N. location, localization; lodgment; deposition,
reposition; stowage, package; collocation; packing, lading; establishment,
settlement, installation; fixation; insertion &c. 300.
anchorage, mooring, encampment.
plantation, colony, settlement, cantonment; colonization,
domestication, situation; habitation &c. (abode) 189; cohabitation; "a
local habitation and a name" [Midsummer Night's Dream]; endenization,
naturalization.
V. place, situate, locate, localize, make a place for, put, lay, set,
seat, station, lodge, quarter, post, install; house, stow; establish, fix,
pin, root; graft; plant &c. (insert) 300; shelve, pitch, camp, lay down,
deposit, reposit; cradle; moor, tether, picket; pack, tuck in; embed,
imbed; vest, invest in.
billet on, quarter upon, saddle with; load, lade, freight; pocket, put
up, bag.
inhabit &c. (be present) 186; domesticate, colonize; take root, strike
root; anchor; cast anchor, come to an anchor; sit down, settle down;
settle; take up one's abode, take up one's quarters; plant oneself,
establish oneself, locate oneself; squat, perch, hive, se nicher, bivouac,
burrow, get a footing; encamp, pitch one's tent; put up at, put up one's
horses at; keep house.
endenizen, naturalize, adopt.
put back, replace &c. (restore) 660.
Adj. placed &c. v.; situate, posited, ensconced, imbedded, embosomed,
rooted; domesticated; vested in, unremoved.
moored &c. v.; at anchor.

#185. Displacement.-- N. displacement, elocation, transposition.
ejectment &c. 297; exile &c. (banishment) 893; removal &c.
(transference) 270.
misplacement, dislocation &c. 61; fish out of water.
V. displace, displant, dislodge, disestablish; exile &c. (seclude)
893; ablegate, set aside, remove; take away, cart away; take off, draft
off; lade &c. 184.
unload, emply &c. (eject) 297; transfer &c. 270; dispel.
vacate; depart &c. 293.
Adj. displaced &c. v.; unplaced, unhoused, unharbored, unestablished,
unsettled; houseless, homeless; out of place, out of a situation.
misplaced, out of its element.

3. EXISTENCE IN SPACE

#186. Presence.-- N. presence; occupancy, occupation; attendance;
whereness.
permeation, pervasion; diffusion &c. (dispersion) 73.
ubiety, ubiquity, ubiquitariness; omnipresence.
bystander &c. (spectator) 444.
V. exist in space, be present &c. adj.; assister; make one of, make
one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's
face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy.
people; inhabit, dwell, reside, stay, sojourn, live, abide, lodge,
nestle, roost, perch; take up one's abode &c. (be located) 184; tenant.
resort to, frequent, haunt; revisit.
fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through;
over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.
Adj. present; occupying, inhabiting &c. v.; moored &c. 184; resiant,
resident, residentiary; domiciled.
ubiquitous, ubiquitary; omnipresent; universally present.
peopled, populous, full of people, inhabited.
Adv. here, there, where, everywhere, aboard, on board, at home,
afield; here there and everywhere &c. (space) 180; in presence of, before;
under the eyes of, under the nose of; in the face of; in propria persona.
on the spot.
Phr. nusquam est qui ubique est [Seneca].

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#187. [Nullibiety.1] <-- 1 Bishop Wilkins. --> Absence.-- N. absence;
inexistence &c. 2; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi.
emptiness &c. adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa;
exemption; hiatus &c. (interval) 198; lipotype|!.
truant, absentee.
nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive.
V. be absent &c. adj.; keep away, keep out of the way; play truant,
absent oneself, stay away; keep aloof, hold aloof.
withdraw, make oneself scarce, vacate; go away &c. 293.
Adj. absent, not present, away, nonresident, gone, from home; missing;
lost; wanting; omitted; nowhere to be found; inexistence &c. 2.
empty, void; vacant, vacuous; untenanted, unoccupied, uninhabited;
tenantless; desert, deserted; devoid; uninhabitable.
Adv. without, minus, nowhere; elsewhere; neither here nor there; in
default of; sans; behind one's back.
Phr. the bird has flown, non est inventus.
"absence makes the heart grow fonder" [Bayley]; "absent in body but
present in spirit" [1 Corinthians v, 3]; absento nemo ne nocuisse velit
[Propertius]; "Achilles absent was Achilles still" [Homer]; aux absents les
os; briller par son absence; "conspicious by his absence" [Russell]; "in
the hope to meet shortly again and make our absence sweet" [B. Jonson].

#188. Inhabitant.-- N. inhabitant; resident, residentiary; dweller,
indweller; addressee; occupier, occupant; householder, lodger, inmate,
tenant, incumbent, sojourner, locum tenens, commorant; settler, squatter,
backwoodsman, colonist; islander; denizen, citizen; burgher, oppidan,
cockney, cit, townsman, burgess; villager; cottager, cottier, cotter;
compatriot; backsettler, boarder; hotel keeper, innkeeper; habitant; paying
guest; planter.
native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones; Englishman, John Bull;
newcomer &c. (stranger) 57.
aboriginal, American, Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck*,
downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle
Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
garrison, crew; population; people &c. (mankind) 372; colony,
settlement; household; mir.
V. inhabit &c. (be present) 186; endenizen &c. (locate oneself) 184.
Adj. indigenous; native, natal; autochthonal, autochthonous; British;
English; American; Canadian, Irish, Scotch, Scottish, Welsh; domestic;
domiciliated, domiciled; naturalized, vernacular, domesticated;
domiciliary.
in the occupation of; garrisoned by, occupied by.

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#189. [Place of habitation, or resort.] Abode.-- N. abode, dwelling,
lodging, domicile, residence, address, habitation, where one's lot is
cast, local habitation, berth, diggings, seat,
lap, sojourn, housing, quarters, headquarters, resiance|, tabernacle,
throne, ark.
home, fatherland; country; homestead, homestall; fireside; hearth,
hearth stone; chimney corner, ingleside; harem, seraglio, zenana; household
gods, lares et penates, roof, household, housing, dulce domum, paternal
domicile; native soil, native land.
nest, nidus, snuggery; arbor, bower, &c. 191; lair, den, cave, hole,
hiding place, cell, sanctum sanctorum, aerie, eyry, rookery, hive; covert,
resort, retreat, perch, roost; nidification; kala jagah.
bivouac, camp, encampment, cantonment, castrametation; barrack,
casemate, casern.
tent &c. (covering) 223; building &c. (construction) 161; chamber &c.
(receptacle) 191; xenodochium.
tenement, messuage, farm, farmhouse, grange, hacienda, toft.
cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy,
shanty, dugout [U.S.], wigwam; pen &c. (inclosure) 232; barn, bawn; kennel,
sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable,
dovecote, columbary, columbararium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine
dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house;
shack, shebang*, tepee, topek.
house, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in
urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court,
manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country
seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement
house; temple &c. 1000.
hamlet, village, thorp, dorp, ham, kraal; borough, burgh, town, city,
capital, metropolis; suburb; province, country; county town, county seat;
courthouse [U.S.]; ghetto.
street, place, terrace, parade, esplanade, alameda, board walk,
embankment, road, row, lane, alley, court, quadrangle, quad, wynd, close,
yard, passage, rents, buildings, mews.
square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade,
peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market
place, place, plaza.
anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.
quarter, parish &c. (region) 181.
assembly room, meetinghouse, pump room, spa, watering place; inn;
hostel, hostelry; hotel, tavern, caravansary, dak bungalow, khan, hospice;
public house, pot house, mug house; gin palace; bar, bar room; barrel
house* [U.S.], cabaret, chophouse; club, clubhouse; cookshop, dive [U.S.],
exchange [euphemism, U.S.]; grill room, saloon [U.S.], shebeen; coffee
house, eating house; canteen, restaurant, buffet, cafe, estaminet, posada;
almshouse, poorhouse, townhouse [U.S.].
garden, park, pleasure ground, plaisance, demesne.
V. take up one's abode &c. (locate oneself) 184; inhabit &c. (be
present) 186.
Adj. urban, metropolitan; suburban; provincial, rural, rustic;
domestic; cosmopolitan; palatial.
Phr. eigner Hert ist goldes Werth; "even cities have their graves"
[Longfellow]; ubi libertas ibi partria.