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&c. (show) 882; garniture; theatri- | &c. 225); uncoif; dismantle; put cal properties. take cast- off; doff; peel, outfit, equipment, trousseau; pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, uniform, regimentals; canonicals scalp, flay; expose, lay open; ex&c. 999; livery, gear, harness, foliate, moult, mew; cast the skin. turn out, accoutrement, caparison, suit, rigging, trappings, traps, slops, togs, toggery.

Adj. divested &c. v.; bare, naked, nude; un-dressed, -draped; exposed; in dishabille; bald, dishabille, morning dress, négli-thread-bare, ragged, callow, roofgé, dressing-gown, undress; shoot- less. ing-coat; mufti; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds.

robe, tunic, paletot, habit, gown, coat, frock, blouse, toga, smock frock; frock-, dress-, tail-coat.

cloak, pall; mantle, mantlet, mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, hous

in a state of nature, nature's garb, buff, - native buff, - birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot: leaf-, nap-, hair-less.

ing, horse-cloth, bornouse, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; sur-, over-, great-coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine.

jacket, vest, jerkin, waistcoat, doublet, camisole, gabardine; stays, corsage, corset, corselet, boddice; stomacher; skirt, petticoat, farthingale, kilt, jupe, crinoline, bustle, panier, apron, pinafore.

trou-, trow-sers; breeches, pantaloons, inexpressibles, overalls, smalls, small-clothes; tights, drawers; knickerbockers; phil-, fill-ibeg.

head-dress, -gear; cap, hat, beaver, castor, bonnet, tile, wideawake, billy-cock; wimple; night-, mob-, skull-cap; hood, coif; capote, calash; scull-cap; kerchief, snood; head, coiffure; crown &c. (circle) 247; chignon, pelt, wig, front, peruke, periwig; caftan, turban, fez, shako, csako, busby; képi, forage cap, bearskin; morion, murrion, casque, helmet, pickelhaube; mask, domino.

body clothes; linen; shirt, sark, smock, shift, chemise; nightgown, -shirt; bed-gown; jersey; under-clothing, -waistcoat. neck-erchief, -cloth; tie, ruff, collar, cravat, stock, handkerchief, scarf; bib, tucker; boa; girdle &c. (circle) 247.

shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, goloshes, patten, elog; high-low; Blucher-, Wellington, Hessian, jack, topboot; Balmoral; legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, mocassin, gamache, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antegropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk-hose, sock; hosiery.

glove, gauntlet, mitten, muff, cuff, wristband, sleeve. swaddling cloth, baby-linen, layette; pocket-handkerchief. clothier, tailor, milliner, costumier, sempstress, snip; dress

habit-, breeches-, shoe-maker; cordwainer, cobbler, hosier, hatter.

V. invest; cover &c. 223; envelop, lap, involve; in-, enwrap; wrap; fold, wrap -, lap -, muffle- up; overlap; sheathe, swathe, swaddle, roll up in, circumvest:

vest, clothe, array, dress, dight, drape, robe, enrobe, attire, apparel, accoutre, rig, fit out; deck &c. (ornament) 847; perk; equip, harness, caparison.

wear; don; put -, huddle -, slip- on; mantle.

Adj. invested &c. v. ; habited; dight, -ed; clad, costume, shod, chaussé; en grande tenue &c. (show) 882.

sartorial.

cir- 228. INTERJACENCE.-N. interjacence, -currence, -venience, -location, -digitation, -penetration; permeation.

227. CIRCUMJACENCE.-N. cum-jacence, -ambience; environment, encompassment; atmosphere, medium; surroundings. outpost; border &c. (edge) 231; girdle &c. (circumference) 230; outskirts, boulevards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs, environs, entourage, banlieue.

V. lie -around &c. adv.; surround, beset, compass, encompass, environ, inclose, enclose, encircle, embrace, circumvent, lap, gird; begird, engird; skirt, twine round; hem in &c. (circumscribe) 229.

Adj. circum-jacent, -ambient, -fluent; ambient; surrounding &c. v.; circumferential, suburban.

Adv. around, about; without; on every side, - all sides; right and left, all round, round about.

inter-jection, -polation, -lineation, -spersion, -calation; embolism.

inter-vention,

ference, position; in-, ob-trusion; insinuation; insertion &c. 300; dovetailing; infiltration.

intermedi-um, -ary; go-between, bodkin, intruder, interloper; parenthesis, episode; fly-leaf.

partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff; party-wall, panel, vail; half-way house.

V. lie -, come -, get- between; intervene, slide in, interpenetrate, permeate.

put between, introduce, import; throw, wedge, edge, jam –, worm foist - run -, plough -, work- in, inter-pose, -ject, -calate, -polate, -line, leave, -sperse, -weave, -lard, -digitate; let in, dovetail, splice, mortise; insinuate, smuggle; infiltrate, ingrain.

interfere, put in an oar, thrust one's nose in; intrude, obtrude; have a finger in the pie; introduce the thin end of the wedge; thrust in &c. (insert) 300.

Adj. inter-jacent, -current, -venient, -vening &c. v., -mediate, -mediary, -calary, stitial; embolismal.

parenthetical, episodic; mediterranean; intrusive; embosomed; merged.

Adv. between, betwixt; 'twixt; among, -st; amid, -st; 'mid, -st; in the thick of; betwixt and between; sandwich-wise; parenthetically, obiter dictum.

229. CIRCUMSCRIPTION.-N. circumscription, limitation, inclosure; confinement &c. (restraint) 751; circumvallation; envelope &c. 232.

V. circumscribe, limit, bound, confine, enclose; surround &c. 227; compass about; imprison &c. (restrain) 751; hedge –, wall -, rail- in; fence -, hedge- round; picket.

enfold, bury, incase, pack up, enshrine, inclasp; wrap up &c. (invest) 225.

Adj. circumscribed &c. v.; begirt, lapt; buried immersed in; embosomed, in the bosom of, imbedded, encysted, mewed up; imprisoned &c. 751; land-locked, in a ring fence.

230. OUTLINE.-N. outline, circumference; peri-meter, -phery; ambit, circuit, lines, tournure, contour, profile, silhouette.

zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, cingle, clasp, girt; cordon &c. (inclosure) 232; circlet &c. 247.

231. EDGE.-N. edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth: jaws, chops, chaps, fauces; lip, muzzle.

threshold, door, porch; portal &c. (opening) 260; coast, shore.

frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt; furbelow, valance.

Adj. border, marginal, skirting; labial, labiated, marginated.

232. INCLOSURE.-N. inclosure, envelope; case &c. (recep tacle) 191; wrapper; girdle &c. 230.

pen, fold; pen-, in-, sheep-fold; paddock, pound; net, seine net.

wall; hedge, row; espalier; fence &c. (defence) 717; pale, paling, balustrade, rail, railing, quickset hedge, park paling, circumvallation, enceinte, ring fence.

barrier, barricade; gate, -way; door, hatch, cordon; prison &c. 752.

dike, dyke, ditch, fosse, moat.

V. inclose; circumscribe &c. 229.

233. LIMIT.-N. limit, boundary, bounds, confine, enclave, term, bourn, verge, kerb-stone, but, pale; termin-ation, -us; stint, frontier, precinct, marches.

boundary line, landmark; line of demarcation, - circumvallation; pillars of Hercules; Rubicon, turning-point; ne plus ultra; sluice, flood-gate.

Adj. definite; contermin-ate, -able; terminal, frontier.
Adv. thus far, - and no further.

2. Special.

234. FRONT.-N. front; fore, - part; foreground; face, disk, disc, frontage, façade, proscenium, facia, frontispiece; anteriority; obverse [of a medal].

fore, front- rank; van, -guard; advanced guard; outpost.

brow, forehead, visage, physiognomy, phiz, countenance, mug; rostrum, beak, bow, stem, prow, prore.

pioneer &c. (precursor) 64; metoposcopy.

V. be, stand- in front &c. adj.; front, face, confront; bend forwards; come to the front, fore.

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V. be behind &c. ade.; fall astern; bend backwards; bring up the rear.

Adj. back, rear; hind, -er,

Adj. fore, anterior, front, fron--most, -ermost; post-ern, -erior; dorsal, after; caudal, lumbar.

van,

Adv. before; in front, the Adv. behind; in the rear, advance; ahead, right ahead; fore-, head-most; in the -foreground, lee of; before one's -face, eyes; face to face, vis-à

vis.

236. LATERALITY.-N. laterality; side, flank, quarter, lee; hand; cheek, jowl, jole, wing; profile; temple, parietes, loin, haunch, hip. gable, end; broadside; lee side. points of the compass; East, Orient, Levant; West; orientation.

V. be on one side &c. adv.; flank, outflank; sidle; skirt.

Adj. lateral, sidelong; collateral; parietal, flanking, skirting; flanked; sideling.

many-sided; multi-, bi-, tri-, quadri-lateral.

Eastern; orient, -al; Levantine; Western, occidental, Hesperian. Adv. side-ways, long; broadside on; on one side, abreast,

back-ground; behind one's back; at the -heels, tail, back- of; back to back.

after, aft, abaft, astern, sternmost, aback, rearward.

[blocks in formation]

alongside, beside, aside; by, - the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl &c. (near) 197; to windward, - leeward; laterally &c. adj.; right and left; on her beam ends.

238. DEXTRALITY.-N. dextral

239. SINISTRALITY.-N. sinisity; right, -hand; dexter, off-trality; left, -hand; sinister, nearside, starboard. side, larboard, port.

Adj. dextral, right-handed; am- Adj. sinistral, left-handed. bidextral.

SECTION III. FORM.

1o. GENERAL FORM.

240. FORM.-N. form, figure, shape; con-formation, -figuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mould; fashion; contour &c. (outline) 230; structure &c. 329.

feature, lineament, turn; phase &c. (aspect) 448; posture, attitude, pose.

[Science of form] Morphology.
[Similarity of form] isomorph-

ism.

forming &c. v.; form-, figur-, efform-ation; sculpture.

V. form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew,

241. [Absence of form.] AMORPHISM.-N. amorphism, informity; unlicked cub; rudis indigestaque moles; disorder &c. 59; deformity &c. 243.

disfigure-, deface-ment; mutila

tion.

V. [Destroy form] deface, disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate; derange &c. 61.

Adj. shapeless, amorphous, formless; un-formed, -hewn, -fashioned, -shapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous, rugged.

cast; rough-hew, -cast; sketch; block hammer- out; trim; lick, put- into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mould, sculpture; cast, stamp; build &c. (construct) 161.

Adj. formed &c. v.

[Receiving form] plastic, fictile.
[Giving form plasmic.
[Similar in form] isomorphous.

242. [Regularity of form.] SYM

243. [Irregularity of form.] DISMETRY.-N. symmetry, shapeli-TORTION.-N. dis-, de-, con-torness, finish; beauty &c. 845; proportion, eurythmy, uniformity, parallelism; bi-, tri-, multi-lateral symmetry; centrality &c. 222.

arboresence, branching, ramifi

cation.

Adj. symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful &c. 845; classic, chaste, severe.

regular, uniform, balanced; equal &c. 27; parallel, coextensive. arborescent, -iform; dendr

tion; twist; crookedness &c. (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity; mal-, malcon-for mation; monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis; ugliness &c. 846; Teratology.

V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

Adj. distorted &c. v.; out of shape, irregular, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not

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