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Adj. distant; far -off, away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to &c. v. ; yon, -der; ulterior; trans-marine, -pontine, -atlantic, -alpine; tramontane; ultramontane, mundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproach-ed, -able; incontiguous.

Adv. far-off, - away; afar, -off; off; away; a-long, - great, - goodway off; wide away, aloof; wide

clear of; out of the way, reach; abroad, yonder, farther, further, beyond; outre mer, over the border, far and wide, over the hills and far away; from pole to pole &c. (over great space) 180; to the uttermost parts, ends- of the earth; out of hearing, nobody knows where, à perte de vue, out of the sphere of, wide of the mark. apart, asunder; wide -apart, asunder; longo intervallo; at arm's length.

V. be near &c. adj.; adjoin, hang about, trench on; border verge upon; stand by, approximate, tread on the heels of, cling to, clasp, hug; huddle; hang upon the skirts of, hover over; burn. bring, draw near &c. 286; converge &c. 290; crowd &c. 72; place -side by side &c. adv.

Adj. near, nigh; close - nearat hand; close, neighboring; adjacent, adjoining; proxim-ate, -al; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.

Adv. near, nigh; hard -, fastby; close to, upon; at the point of; next door to; within reach, call, hearing, earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the -verge,

brink, - skirts-of; in the -environs &c. n.; at one's -door, – feet, - elbow, - finger's end; - side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a -stone's throw &c. n.; in -sight, presence- of; at close quarters; cheek by -jole, jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, téte-à-tête; in juxtaposition &c. (touching) 199; yard-arm to yard-arm; at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in

the way.

about; here, there-abouts; roughly, in round numbers; approxim-ately, -atively; as good as, well nigh.

198. INTERVAL.-N. interval, interspace; separation &c. 44; break, gap, opening; hole &c. 260; chasm, hiatus, cæsura; interruption, -regnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.

gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith, strait, gully; pass; furrow &c. 259; yawning gulf; hiatus -maxime, - valde- deflendus; paren

199. CONTIGUITY.-N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, juxtaposition, touching &c. v.; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse, rencontre, rencounter, syzygy, coincidence, coexistence; adhesion &c. 46.

border-land; frontier &c. (limit) 233; tangent.

V. be contiguous &c. adj. ; join, adjoin, abut on; graze, touch, meet, osculate, come in contact, coincide; coexist; adhere &c. 46.

Adj. contiguous; touching &c. v.; in contact &c. n.; contermi

thesis &c. (interjacence) 228; void | nous, end to end, osculatory; per&c. (absence) 187; incompleteness tingent; tangential. &c. 53.

2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS.

from -end to end, - stem to stern, -head to foot, the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, - top to toe; fore and aft.

203. NARROWNESS. THINNESS.

202. BREADTH. THICKNESS.-N. breadth, width, latitude, ampli- N. narrowness &c. adj.; closeness,

tude; diameter, bore, calibre, ra- | dius; superficial extent &c. (space)

180.

exility, exiguity &c. (little) 193. line; hair's, finger's- breadth; strip, streak, vein.

thickness, crassitude; corpulence &c. (size) 192; dilatation &c. (ex-ciation, macilency, marcor. pansion) 194.

thinness &c. adj.; tenuity; ema

V. be -broad &c. adj. ; became -, render- -broad &c. adj.; expand &c. 194; thicken, widen.

shaving, slip &c. (filament) 205; threadpaper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindle - shanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.

middle constriction, stricture,

Adj. broad, wide, ample, extended; discous; fan-like; out-neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourspread, stretched; wide as a church-door.

thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.

glass; ridge, ghaut, pass; ravine &c. 198.

narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering; contraction &c.

195.

V. be narrow &c. adj.; narrow,

taper, contract &c. 195; render -narrow &c. adj.

Adj. narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like &c. (filament) 205; finespun, taper, slim, slight-made; scant, y; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted &c. 195; unexpanded &c. (expand &c. 194); slender as a thread.

emaciated, lean, meagre, gaunt, macilent; lank, -y; weedy, skinny; starv-ed, -eling; attenuated, shrivelled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, bare-bone, raw-boned; herring-gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a -lath, - whipping post, - wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

204. LAYER.-N. layer, stratum, 205. FILAMENT.-N. filament, bed, zone, substratum, floor, flag, | line; fibre, fibril; funicle, vein, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; | hair, capillament, cilium, tendril, table, tablet; board, plank; trench-gossamer; hair-stroke.

er, platter.

plate; lam-ina, -ella; sheet, flake, foil, wafer, scale, coat, peel, pellicle, membrane, film, leaf, slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument &c. (covering) 223.

stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.

V. slice, shave, pare, peel; plate, coat, veneer; cover &c. 223.

Adj. lamellar, - ated, -iform; lamin-ated, iferous; micaceous; schist-ose, -ous; scaly, filmy, membranous, flaky, squamous; foliated, ceous; stratified, form; tabular, discoid.

wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing-silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.

strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving. beard &c. (roughness) 256; ramification.

Adj. filamentous, - aceous, -iform; fibr-ous, -illous; threadlike, wiry, stringy, ropy; capillary, -iform; funicular, wire-drawn; anguilliform; flagelliform; hairy &c. (rough) 256.

206. HEIGHT.-N. height, altitude, elevation; eminence, pitch; loftiness &c. adj.; sublimity. tallness &c. adj.; stature, procerity; prominence &c. 250. colossus &c. (size) 192; giant, grenadier, giraffe.

mount, -ain; hill, monticle, fell, knap; cape; head-, fore-land; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising, vantage- ground; down; moor, -land; Alp; up-, high-lands; heights &c. (summit) 210; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae.

tower, pillar, column, obelisk, monument, steeple, spire, minaret, campanile, turret, dome, cupola.

pole, pikestaff, maypole, flagstaff; top, topgallant- mast. ceiling &c. (covering) 223. high water; high –, flood spring- tide.

altimetry &c. (angle) 244.

207. LOWNESS.-N. lowness &c. adj.; debasement, depression; prostration &c. (horizontal) 213; depression &c (concave) 252.

molehill; lowlands; basement-, ground- floor; rez de chaussée; hold; feet, heels.

low water; low -, ebb -, neap -, spring- tide.

V. be -low &c. adj.; lie -low, flat; underlie; crouch, slouch, wallow, grovel; lower &c. (depress) 308.

Adj. low, neap, debased; nether, -most; flat, level with the ground; lying low &c. v.; crouched, subjacent, squat, prostrate &c. (horizontal) 213.

Adv. under; be-, under-neath; below; down, -wards; adown, at the foot of; under-foot, -ground; down - below- stairs; at a low ebb; below par.

V. be -high &c. adj.; tower, soar, command; hover, cap, culminate; overhang, hang over, impend, beetle; bestride, ride, mount; perch, surmount; cover &c. 223; overtop &c. (be superior) 33; stand on tiptoe.

become -high &c. adj.; grow, - higher, - taller; upgrow; rise &c. (ascend) 305.

render -high &c. adj.; heighten &c. (elevate) 307.

Adj. high, elevated, eminent, exalted, lofty; tall; gigantic &c. (big) 192; Patagonian; towering, beetling, soaring, hanging [gardens]; elevated &c. 307; upper; highest &c. (topmost)

210.

up-, moor-land; hilly, mountainous, alpine, sub-alpine, heaven-kissing; cloud-topt, -capt, -touching; aerial.

overhanging &c. v.; incumbent, overlying; super-incumbent, -natant, -imposed; prominent &c. 250.

tall as a -maypole, - poplar, - steeple; lanky &c. (thin) 203. Adv. on high, high up, aloft, up, above, aloof, overhead; up -, above- stairs; in the clouds; on -tiptoe, stilts, the shoulders of; over head and ears; breast high.

over, upwards; from top to bottom &c. (completely) 52:

208. DEPTH.-N. depth; deep

209. SHALLOWNESS. N. shal

ness &c. adj.; profundity, depres- lowness &c. adj.; shoals; mere sion &c. (concavity) 252.

scratch.

hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater; Adj. shallow, superficial; skin. gulf &c. 198; bowels of the earth,, ankle-, knee-deep; just bottomless pit, hell. enough to wet one's feet; shoal, -y.

soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding-rod, - line; lead.

V. be deep &c. adj.; render -deep &c. adj.; deepen. plunge &c. 310; sound, heave the lead, take soundings; dig &c. (excavate) 252.

Adj. deep, seated; profound, sunk, buried; submerged &c. 310; sub-aqueous, -marine, -terranean, -terrene; underground. bottom-, sound-, fathom-less; unfathom-ed, -able; abysmal; deep as a well.

knee-, ankle-deep.

Adv. beyond -, out of- one's depth; over head and ears.

210. SUMMIT.-N. summit, -y; top, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus ultra, height, pitch, maximum, climax; culminating, crowning-, turningpoint; turn of the tide, fountain head; water -shed, -parting; sky, pole.

tip, top; crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, peak, nib; end &c. 67; crown, brow; head, nob, noddle, pate.

high places, heights.
top-gallant mast, sky scraper;

quarter, hurricane- deck.

architrave, frieze, cornice, coping-stone, zoophorus, capital, sconce, pediment, entablature; ceiling &c. (covering) 223. attic, loft, garret, house-top, upper story.

V. culminate, crown, top; overtop &c. (be superior to) 33. Adj. highest &c. (high &c. 206); top; top-, upper-most; tiptop; culminating &c. v.; meridi-an, -onal; capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, top-gallant.

Adc. a-top, at the top of the tree.

212. VERTICALITY. - N. verticality; erectness &c. adj.; perpendicularity; right angle, normal; azimuth circle.

wall, precipice, cliff.

213. HORIZONTALITY.-N. horizontality; flatness; level, plane; stratum &c. 204; dead -level, -, flat; level plane.

recumbency; lying down &c. v. ;

elevation, erection ; square, reclination, decumbence; de-, dis

plumb-line, plummet.

cumbency; proneness &c. adj.; ac