Part 15
fool, v. dupe, gull, delude, hoodwink, deceive, hoax, trick, beguile, victimize, cully; trifle, toy, dawdle.
fooling, n. foolishness, folly; zanyism, mummery, buffoonery, monkey-tricks, harlequinism.
foolhardy, a. daredevil, reckless, rash.
foolish, a. idiotic, senseless, irrational, silly, imbecile, witless, insensate, weak-minded, half-witted, brainless, fatuous, fatuitous, insagacious, unintelligent; indiscreet, imprudent, ridiculous, absurd, asinine, inept, nonsensical, puerile.
foolishness, n. idiocy, imbecility, fatuity, silliness, irrationality, insagacity; imprudence, indiscretion, unwisdom, folly, absurdity, ineptitude, puerility.
fool's bauble. marotte.
foot, n. paw; hoof; base, bottom, extremity. Associated Words: chiropody, chiropodist, pedicure, orthopedy, orthopedic, orthopedist, pedal, plantigrade, bastinado, taligrade, palmigrade, cloven, ball, instep, phalanges.
foot-bath, n. pediluvium, pedilavium (Eccl.).
footboy, n. page, lackey.
footing, n. foothold; rank, status, standing, grade; amount, total; tread, step.
footlicker, n. sycophant, fawner, toady, lickspittle.
footman, n. infantryman (foot-soldier); lackey.
footpad, n. highwayman, brigand, robber, thug.
footprint, n. footmark, track, footstep; spoor.
foot-shaped, a. pediform.
foot-soldiers, n. pl. infantry.
footstep, n. footmark, footprint, track, trace, vestige; spoor; footfall, tread, step.
footstool, n. cricket, hassock.
foozle, v. bungle.--n. foozling, bungle, bungler.
fop, n. coxcomb, dude, dandy, exquisite, popinjay, blade, jackadandy. Antonyms: sloven, guy.
foppish, a. coxcombical, dandified, finical, exquisite. Antonyms: slovenly, seedy.
foppishness, n. foppery, dandyism, coxcombry, dudishness.
for all that. nevertheless.
forasmuch as. in as much as, since, whereas, seeing that.
foray, n. See raid.
forbear, v. refrain, stop, pause, withhold, abstain; endure, tolerate.
forbearance, n. withholding, refraining; long-suffering, patience, indulgence, toleration.
forbearing, a. long-suffering, patient, indulgent, tolerant, lenient.
forbears, n. pl. ancestors, forefathers.
forbid, v. prohibit, interdict, inhibit, restrain, taboo, preclude, proscribe.
forbidden, a. prohibited, proscribed, interdicted, contraband, inhibited, illicit, taboo.
forbidding, a. repellent, repulsive, offensive, abhorrent, odious, repelling, grim.
forbidding, n. prohibition, interdiction, proscription, restraint, inhibition, taboo.
force, v. compel, coerce, necessitate, constrain, oblige, make; impel, obtrude, extort, wrest; capture, storm; rape, ravish. Antonyms: induce, inveigle, seduce, persuade.
force, n. strength, energy, power, vigor, might, potency, cogency, validity, efficacy, efficiency; compulsion, coercion, violence, constraint, tension, impetus; armament, troops, army, legion, battalion, phalanx. Associated Words: dynamics, dyne, statics, perforce, dynamic, mechanics, brunt, kinit.
forced, a. involuntary, compulsory, strained, far-fetched. Antonyms: spontaneous, voluntary, discretional, optional, elective.
forcible, a. energetic, potent, effective, compulsory, coercive, drastic, vigorous.
forcing, n. compelling, compulsion, coercion, extortion, necessitation, constraint; rape, ravishment. Antonyms: discretion, option, election, free-will.
forearm, n. antibrachium.
forebode, v. portend, presage, foreshadow, augur betoken, foretell.
foreboding, n. premonition, presentiment, augury, prescience, foreknowledge.
forecast, n. predetermination, premeditation, forethought.
foredoom, v. predestine, preordain.
forefather, n. ancestor, progenitor, forbear; pl. ancestry, lineage, progenitors, forbears.
forego, v. quit, relinquish, surrender, yield, do without; precede.
foregoer, n. predecessor, forefather; forerunner, herald, harbinger, precursor, avant-courier.
foregoing, a. previous, anterior, preceding, fore, prior, antecedent, aforesaid.
forehead, n. brow, sinciput. Antonym: occiput.
foreign, a. alien, extraneous, exotic, peregrine; remote, adventitious, inappropriate.
foreigner, n. alien; emigrant, immigrant. Antonyms: native, indigene, citizen.
foreign word, plant, or custom. exoticism, exotic.
foreknowledge, n. prescience.
foremilk, n. colostrum.
foreordain, v. preordain, predestinate, foredoom, predetermine.
foreordination, n. predestination, predetermination.
forerun, v. precede, herald.
forerunner, n. precursor, harbinger, herald, avant-courier.
foreshadow, v. presage, presignify, prognosticate, prefigure, augur.
foresight, n. prescience, foreknowledge, prudence.
foreskin, n. prepuce. Associated Words: circumcise, circumcision, preputial.
forest, n. wood, woodland, timber-land, woods, wold, wildwood. Associated Words: sylvan, sylviculture, nemophilist, nemophily, nemoral, afforest, afforestation, Silenus, hamadryad, glade, reforestize, reforestation, reboise, reafforest, forestry, forester, disboscation, disforest disforestation, hag, assart, camass, cruise, cruiser.
forestall, v. anticipate; preoccupy, monopolize.
foretell, v. predict, prophesy, prognosticate, augur, presage, portend, forebode, bode, divine, foreshadow, presignify.
foreteller, a. See prophet.
foretelling, a. prophetic, prognostic, portentous, predictive, oracular, augurial, divinatory.
foretelling, n. prediction, prophecy, foreshowing, prognostication, augury, presage, foreboding, presignification, divination, oracle.
forethought, a. aforethought, prepense, deliberate.
forethought, n. premeditation, prescience, forecast, precaution, prudence, providence.
foretoken, n. omen, prognostic, premonition, sign, augury.
forever, adv. eternally, continually, perpetually, everlastingly.
forewarning, n. premonition.--a. premonitory.
forfeit, n. forfeiture, philopena; fine, mulct, penalty, amercement.
forge, n. smithy, stithy, smithery.
forger, n. fabricator, falsifier, counterfeiter.
forgery, n. counterfeiting, falsification, counterfeit, pseudograph, pseudography; (Civ. Law) _falsi crimen_.
forgetfulness, n. amnesty, amnesia, oblivion, Lethe; ecmnesia.
forget-me-not, n. myosotis.
forgivable, a. pardonable, venial.
forgive, v. pardon, excuse, absolve, condone, exculpate, connive, acquit.
forgiveness, n. pardon, remission, absolution, condonation, acquittal, indulgence.
forgiving, a. compassionate, indulgent, placable, remissive. Antonyms: unforgiving, implacable.
forgo, v. omit, relinquish, let slip.
fork, n. fourchette; divarication, branch, crotch; prong, tine; pew, grain.
fork, v. ramify, branch, divaricate.
forked, a. furcated, bifurcated, crotched, zigzag.
forked support. crotchet.
forlorn, a. deserted, forsaken, lorn, disconsolate, lonesome.
form, n. shape, structure, configuration, figure, conformation, cast, mould, _tournure_; formula, ritual; formality, ceremonial, conventionality; symmetry; image, phantom; mould, pattern, model.
form, v. shape, fashion, mould.
formal, a. ceremonial, express, explicit, punctilious, methodical, prim, ceremonious, conventional.
formality, n. ceremoniousness, precision, punctiliousness, ceremony; conventionality.
formative, a. plastic, creative.
former, a. antecedent, preceding, previous, prior, foregoing, bygone, quondam, _ci-devant_.
formerly, adv. heretofore, aforetime.
formless, a. shapeless, amorphous, chaotic.
formula, n. ritual, ceremony, ceremonial; rule, principle; recipe.
formulary, n. ritual, ceremonial, rule, formula.
forsake, v. quit, abandon, leave; renounce, reject, relinquish, forswear.
forsaken, a. abandoned, deserted, derelict, lorn.
forsaking, n. desertion, abandonment.
forswear, v. renounce, abjure, disavow.
fort, n. fortress, fortification, citadel, fastness, stronghold, bulwark, redoubt.
forthwith, adv. immediately, directly, instantly.
fortification, n. See fort.
fortress, n. See fort.
fortunate, a. lucky, favored; auspicious, favorable. Antonyms: See unfortunate.
fortune-teller, n. chiromancer, palmist, chirosophist, fatiloquist, sibyl.
fortune-telling, n. chiromancy, palmistry.
forty-niner, n. Argonaut.
forum, n. tribunal.
forward, a. anterior, fore; overready, presumptuous, brazen, impertinent, obtrusive, intrusive; premature, precocious.
forward, v. advance, promote, accelerate, expedite, further; transmit, send, ship.
forwarding, n. transmission.
fossil, n. Associated Words: paleontology, paleontography, ichnology, fossiliferous, _in situ_.
fossilist, n. paleontologist.
fossilization, n. fossilification, lapidification.
fossilize, v. petrify, lapidify; mummify.
fossilized, a. petrified; antiquated, old-fashioned.
foster, v. nourish, nurse, support; promote, encourage, advance.
foul, a. filthy, squalid, dirty, polluted; scurrilous, abusive, obscene, insulting, blasphemous, vituperative, vulgar; shameful, detestable, odious, abominable, loathsome, disgusting, repulsive, offensive; unpropitious, unfavorable; feculent, roily, turbid, dreggy, dreggish.
foul, v. defile, soil, dirty, pollute.
foul-mouthed, a. scurrilous, opprobrious, abusive; blasphemous, profane, obscene, smutty.
found, v. establish, plant, institute; cast, form, mould.
foundation, n. substructure, base, groundwork; founding establishment; endowment; grillage. Antonym: superstructure. Associated words: fundamental, basic, caisson.
founder, n. establisher, institutor, father, planter, originator, moulder; closh.
founder, v. fall, stumble; fail, miscarry.
fount, n. spring, fountain.
fountain, n. fount, spring, _jet d'eau_; source, fountainhead, origin; Castalia.
four, n. quaternion, quaternary, tetrad, quadruplet, quartette; quadruplets. Associated Words: quadrisection quadripartite, quadripartition, quadruplication, quarter, quadruply, quadruple.
four cities. tetrapolis.
fourfold, a. quadruple, quadruples, quadruplicate.
four-footed, a. quadruped.
four-handed, a. quadrumanous.
four-handed animals. Quadrumana.
four hundred. Associated Word: quadrigenarious.
four-sided, a. quadrangular, square, quadrilateral, tetragonal, tetrahedral.
four-sided figure. square, tetragon, quadrangle, rhombus.
foursquare, a. quadrangular.
fourth, n. quarter.
four years, quadrennium. Associated Words: quadrennial, quadrennially.
fox, n. Reynard, Renard, tod, Charlie. Associated Words: vulpine, vulpicide, skulk.
foxglove, n. digitalis.
foxy, a. cunning, sly, wily, crafty.
foyer, n. greenroom.
fracas, n. brawl, uproar, disturbance, quarrel.
fractious, a. unruly, perverse, irritable, ugly, waspish.
fracture, n. rupture, breach, breaking.
fragile, a. brittle, frangible, frail, delicate.
fragility, n. brittleness, frangibility, frailty.
fragment, n. remnant, chip, scrap, flinder, piece, flitter.
fragmentary, a. disconnected, fractional, incomplete.
fragrance, n. perfume, aroma, redolence. Antonyms: fetor, stench, inodorousness.
fragrant, a. sweet-smelling, redolent, aromatic, balmy, sweet-scented. Antonyms: inodorous, scentless, fetid.
frail, a. fragile, brittle, frangible; feeble, weak, infirm.
frailty, n. fragility, frangibility, brittleness; imperfection, fault, defect.
frame, v. devise, plan, contrive, compose; invent, fabricate; adjust, fit, conform.
framework, n. frame, skeleton.
frank, a. candid, unreserved, outspoken, ingenuous, undisguised.
frankness, n. candor, unreserve, ingenuousness.
frantic, a. distracted, frenzied, crazed, raving.
fraternal, a. brotherly.
fraternity, n. brotherhood, brotherliness.
fraud, n. imposture, deceit, humbug, duplicity, imposition, chicanery, wile, circumvention, guile, hypocrisy, malversation, graft, surreption. Associated Words: collude, collusion, collusive, connivance.
fraudulent, a. deceptive, wily, crafty, subtle, surreptitious, knavish.
fraught, a. laden, freighted, charged, pregnant.
fray, n. fight, battle, combat, broil, affray; fret, chafe.
frazzle, v. fray, tatter.
frazzle, n. tag end, tatter.
freak, n. whim, vagary, caprice, whimsey, humor, crotchet, fancy.
freakish, a. whimsical, capricious, fanciful, erratic, crotchety, vagarious.
freckle, n. lentigo, lenticula.
freckled, a. spotted, lentiginous.
free, v. liberate, manumit, disinthrall, deliver, emancipate, release, enfranchise, disengage, exonerate, acquit, extricate, disentangle.
free, a. exempt, immune, independent, unrestrained; liberated, freed, released, emancipated, delivered; unconstrained, unreserved, informal, familiar, frank, ingenuous, communicative, artless, candid; gratuitous, spontaneous, voluntary, optional; liberal, open-handed, generous, bountiful, lavish, flush, munificent, hospitable; unrestrained, immoderate, prodigal, dissolute, lax; ready, eager, prompt, willing. Antonyms: subject, reserved, formal, coercive, arbitrary, restrained, bound.
free and easy. (Colloq.) informal, unceremonious, unrestrained.
freebooter, n. buccaneer, pillager, pirate, sea robber.
freebooting, n. plunder, pillaging, robbery.
freedom, n. exemption, immunity; liberty, independence, self-government, autonomy; privileges, immunities, franchises; ease, facility, unconstraint, laxity; candor, frankness, informality; latitudinarianism. Antonyms: subjection, liability, dependence, heteronomy, reserve, constraint, subordination, repression.
free-handed, a. liberal, open-handed, lavish.
freeing, n. emancipation, manumission, liberation, release, disinthrallment, enfranchisement, extrication, disengagement, discharge, exoneration.
free-liver, n. epicure, epicurean, voluptuary, _bon vivant_.
free-living, n. epicurism.
freely, adv. bounteously, readily, abundantly, gratuitously, voluntarily, liberally, copiously, spontaneously, unreservedly.
free-thinker, n. infidel, unbeliever, skeptic.
free-will, a. voluntary.
freezable, a. congealable.
freeze, v. congeal.
freezing, n. congelation, congealment.
freight, n. cargo, lading, load; freightage.
Frenchism, n. Gallicism.
French policeman. gendarme.
French Protestant. Huguenot.
frenzied, a. distracted, frantic.
frenzy, n. distraction, rage, fury, delirium.
frequenter, n. habitué.
freshen, v. refresh, revive, renovate, renew.
fresh-water, a. fresh, unsalted; unskilled, raw, inexperienced, untrained.
fret, v. chafe, abrade, fray, rub; gnaw, corrode; roughen, ruffle, agitate; worry, harass, tease, irritate, vex, fume, rankle.
fret, n. vexation, agitation, irritation; herpes, tetter, ringworm; whelk, wale, ridge.
fretful, a. irritable, petulant, querulous, peevish, captious, spleeny.
fribbling, a. frivolous, trifling.
friction, n. abrasion, attrition, confrication, rubbing; clashing, disagreement.
friend, n. wellwisher, intimate, confidante, chum, associate; patron, advocate, adherent, supporter; ally, confrère; Quaker.
friendliness, n. comity, amity, good will, amicability.
friendly, a. amicable, favorable, kind; fraternal, hospitable, neighborly, cordial; favorable, propitious, salutary, advantageous. Antonyms: See unfriendly.
friendship, n. amity, intimacy, amicability, friendliness. Antonyms: enmity, estrangement, alienation, disaffection, hostility, aloofness.
fright, n. alarm, fear, consternation, terror, dismay; ogre, scarecrow, guy, dowdy.
frighten, v. terrify, alarm, scare, intimidate, dismay, affright, daunt, appall, terrorize.
frightful, a. terrible, dreadful, hideous, ogreish, fearful, alarming, grewsome, grim, dire, direful, awful, Gorgonian, horrible.
frill, n. ruffle, gathering, furbelow.
fringe, n. edging, margin, confine, border, fimbriation.
fringed, a. fimbriate, fimbriated, fimbricate.
frisk, n. frolic, gambol.--v. leap, skip, gambol, frolic, play.
frisky, a. frolicsome, sportive, coltish, playful, gay.
frivolous, a. trivial, trifling, petty, puerile, insignificant.
friz, v. curl, crisp, frizzle.--n. curl, frizzle.
frizzle, n. curl, friz.--v. curl, crisp, frizz.
frock, n. gown; smock-frock; soutane, cassock.
frog-eating, a. ranivorous, batrachophagous.
frogs, n. pl. Associated Words: Batrachomyomachy, ranarium, amphibious, batrachoid, batrachian, ranine.
frolic, n. prank, lark, gambol, escapade, fun.
frolicsome, a. playful, prankish, sportive, frisky.
from head to foot. throughout, completely, cap-a-pie.
front, n. facade; obverse, face; van, fore-rank, front rank.--a. anterior, foremost.
frost, n. rime, hoarfrost; uncordiality, unsociability, reserve.
frosting, n. icing.
frosty, a. cold, icy; uncordial, distant, aloof, unsociable; pruinose.
froth, n. spume, foam.
frothing, n. rant.
frothy, a. spumy, foamy, spumous; trivial, frivolous, unsubstantial.
froward, a. refractory, unyielding, disobedient, insubmissive, untoward.
frown, n. scowl, lower, glower.
frowning, a. scowling, lowering, glowering, stern.
frowzy, a. strong-smelling, fetid, rank, musty, rancid, malodorous; slatternly, disordered, untidy, disheveled, dowdy.
frugal, a. economical, saving, sparing, thrifty, provident.
frugality, n. economy, parsimony, thriftiness, thrift.
fruit, n. produce, harvest, crop; offspring, consequence, result, outcome, fruitage.
fruit, n. fruitage, fruitery. Associated Words: pomology, Pomona, pomologist, carpology, carpologist, carpophagous, drupe, carpomania, raceme, fructiferous, fructify, fructification, bletting, pulp, rind, orchard, nursery, pepinnery, fruitchafer, pomiculture, sarcocarp.
fruit-eating, a. frugivorous, fructivorous, carpophagous.
fruiterer, n. fruit-dealer, costermonger, coster.
fruitful, a. prolific, productive, fertile, frugiferous, fecund, bountiful.
fruitless, a. unfruitful, infertile, infecund, acarpous, barren; unavailing, useless, vain.
fruit-seller, n. fruiterer, coster, costermonger (peddler).
fruit sugar. levulose.
frump, n. (Colloq.) gossip.
frustrate, v. baffle, defeat, disappoint, foil, balk, thwart, circumvent, nullify.
frustration, n. defeat, disappointment, balking, foiling, nullification.
frying-pan, n. spider, skillet.
fuddled, a. muddled, tipsy, drunk, intoxicated, boozy, groggy.
fudge, n. See balderdash.
fuel, n. combustibles.
fugitive, a. fleeing; evanescent, short-lived, fugacious, volatile, ephemeral, impermanent, transient.
fugitive, n. runaway, runagate, renegade, deserter.
fulfill, v. accomplish, complete, consummate, realize, satisfy, fill, answer, meet; discharge, perform.
fulfillment, n. consummation, accomplishment, fruition, realization; discharge, performance.
full, a. filled up, replete; copious, ample, plethoric, plenteous, bountiful, abundant, liberal; complete, plenary; sated, surfeited, cloyed, glutted, gorged, saturated; engrossed with.
full swing. _carte blanche_, liberty, unrestraint.
fulsome, a. offensive, nauseous, disgusting, excessive, gross, immoderate.
fume, n. exhalation, reek, smoke, steam, vapor.
fume, v. smoke, reek; storm, rage, bluster.
fun, n. merriment, mirth, gayety, frolic, jest, pleasantry, drollery, waggery, waggishness, facetiousness, divertisement amusement, relaxation, jocularity.
function, n. duty, province, office, business, part; discharge, performance, execution; party, entertainment, festivity, reception.
fundament, n. buttocks.
fundamental, a. basal, elementary, original, essential, radical.
fundamentally, adv. primarily, essentially, radically.
funeral, n. obsequies.
funeral director. undertaker.
funeral oration. éloge.
funeral pile. pyre.
funeral song. dirge, elegy, requiem.
funereal, a. exequial, mournful, solemn, sad.
Fungi, n. pl. Thallophytes (toadstools_, _mushrooms_, _etc.). Associated Words: spawn, spore, mycophagy, fungivorous, mycetophagous, amanitine, mycelium, fungic, fungicide, fungoid, fungiform, fungous, mycologist.
fungology, n. mycology.
fungus, n. thallogen, thallophyte; granulation, proud flesh.
funk, v. stink; (Colloq.) flinch, recoil, shrink back.
funk, n. (Colloq.) recoiling, flinching; shirk, coward.
funnel, n. tunnel.
funnel-shaped, a. infundibular, infundibulate, infundibuliform.
funny, a. comic, comical, amusing, droll, laughable, farcical, witty, jocular, jocose, ludicrous, burlesque, facetious, risible, absurd, waggish, humorous, jesting.
fur, n. peltry, pelage. Associated Words: furrier, furriery, tippet, pelisse.
furbelow, n. flounce, frill, ruffle.
furbish, v.polish, burnish, scour, clean.
Furies, n. pl. Erinyes, Eumenides (Tisiphone, Alecto Megæra).
furious, a. infuriated, angry, raging, violent, frenzied, turbulent, fierce.
furnish, v. supply, provide, contribute, bestow, purvey, cater.
furniture, n. goods, movables. Associated Words: cabinet-maker, cabinet-making, upholstering, shook.
furthermore, adv. moreover, besides.
fury, n. wrath, rage, indignation, ire, frenzy; virago, termagant, shrew, vixen, beldame, Xantippe; agitation, excitement, turbulence.
fuse, v. melt, liquefy, dissolve, smelt; commingle, blend, amalgamate, intermix.
fusion, n. melting, fluidity; intermingling, amalgamation, coalition, blending, intermixture.
fuss, n. ado, bustle, to-do, pother, agitation, excitement.
fuss, v. pother, fume, fret; disturb, annoy, bother.
fussy, a. fidgety, fastidious, finical, particular, scrupulous, overnice, pernickety.
fustian, n. bombast, rant, rodomontade; twaddle, nonsense, balderdash.
futile, a. vain, bootless, ineffectual, unavailing, abortive, useless.
fuzz, n. down, pubescence.
fuzzy, a. downy, pubescent.
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Gabble, n. gibberish, babble, prate, prating, chatter, jargon.
gabble, v. gibber, jabber, babble, prate, chatter.
gable, n. Associated Word: pediment.
gad, n. goad.
gag, v. silence, muzzle, muffle, hush, suppress; retch.
gag, n. muffler, muzzler, silencer.
gain, n. increase, profit, advantage, increment, acquisition, accumulation, accretion, store, hoarding; emolument, lucre.
gain, v. get, acquire, achieve, win, obtain, attain; conciliate, persuade, induce.
gainsay, v. contradict, dispute, deny, controvert, impugn.
gaiters, n. pl. spats, spatterdashes, leggings, gramashes, puttee.
gale, n. wind, tempest; excitement, confusion, flurry.
gall, n. bile; bitterness, rancor, spite, malignity.
gall, n. (Slang) impudence, audacity, effrontery, insolence.
gall, v. chafe, fret; vex, annoy, harass, worry, exasperate.
gallant, a. polite, deferential, courtly, chivalrous.
gallant, n. spark, beau, cicisbeo, philander; lover, suitor; seducer, paramour.
gallantry, n. chivalry, bravery, heroism; courtliness, politeness, deference; intrigue.
gall bladder. cholecystis.
gallery, n. balcony; corridor, passage, passageway; museum.
galloping, n. Associated Words: rataplan, tantivy.
gallstone, n. bilestone, biliary calculus.
galoot, n. (Slang) rowdy, blusterer.
galore, n. and a. plenty, abundance, in abundance, abounding.
gambler, n. gamester, card-sharper, blackleg, punter. Associated words: decoy, croupier, capper, by-bidder.
gambol, v. caper, frolic, play, sport, frisk, curvet.
game, n. play, amusement, pastime, diversion, fun, sport; contest; prey, quarry; scheme, plan, project, undertaking, enterprise, stratagem.
game, a. plucky, resolute, unyielding, courageous, unflinching, indomitable, undaunted, unconquerable; (Colloq.) crippled, lame, crooked, deformed.
gang, n. band, crew, company, group, crowd, set, squad, party, number, clique.
gangling, a. (Colloq.) lanky, spindling.
gangrene, n. mortification, sphacelation.--v. mortify, sphacelate.
gangrenous, a. mortified, mortifying, sphacelate.
gap, n. hiatus, rift, crevice, rent, interstice, chasm. See opening.
gape, v. yawn, oscitate; gaze, stare.
gape, n. yawn, yawning, gaping, oscitancy, oscitation; rictus (the gapes).
gaping, n. yawning, oscitancy, oscitation; staring.
garbage, n. offal, refuse, swill, waste. Associated Word: scavenger.
garble, v. pervert, distort, falsify, misstate, wrench, misquote, misrepresent.
garbling, n. perversion, distortion, falsification, misstatement, misrepresentation.
gardener, n. horticulturist.
gardening, n. horticulture.
garland, n. wreath, chaplet, coronal, bays, laurel; anthology, rosary.
garnish, v. embellish, beautify, decorate, trim, adorn.
garniture, n. garnish, garnishment, embellishment, decoration, trimming.
garret, n. attic, cockloft.