V. varnish &c (overlay) 223. Adj

ORGANIC MATTER

protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein; albumen; structure &c 329; organization, organism.

archegenesis &c (production) 161 [Obs.]; antherozoid^†, bioplasm^†, biotaxy^†, chromosome, dysmeromorph^†; ecology, oecology; erythroblast [Physio.], gametangium^†, gamete, germinal matter, invagination [Biol.]; isogamy^†, oogamy^†; karyaster^†; macrogamete^†, microgamete^†; metabolism, anabolism, catabolism; metaplasm^†, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary^†, spermatozoon, trophoplasm^†, vacuole, vertebration^†, zoogloea^†, zygote.

Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism.

morphology, taxonomy.

respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; oxygen, air.

lifeblood; Archeus^†; existence &c 1.

vivification; vital force; vitalization; revivification &c 163; Prometheus; life to come &c (destiny) 152.

[Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.

nourishment, staff of life &c (food) 298.

genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production) 161.

microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.], archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.].

animal &c 366; vegetable &c 367.

artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.

preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662.

see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.

give birth to &c (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate^†; reanimate &c (restore) 660; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life.

hive nine lives like a cat.

vital, vitalic^†; vivifying, vivified, &c v.; viable, zoetic^†; Promethean.

end of life &c 67, cessation of life &c 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life &c 359.

death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis [Lat.]; Stygian shore.

King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c (necessity) 601; Hell's grim Tyrant [Pope].

euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease &c (disease) 655; death blow &c (killing) 361.

necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c (lamentation) 839.

pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death &c (be killed) 361.

dying &c v.; moribund, morient^†; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois [Fr.]; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.

stillborn; mortuary; deadly &c (killing) 361.

Adv. post obit, post mortem [Lat.].

Phr. life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed; Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Lat.] [Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat.]; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Lat.] [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Lat.] [Tacitus]; in adamantine chains shall death be bound [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Lat.] [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Lat.] [Claudianus]; Spake the grisly Terror [Paradise Lost]; the lone couch of this everlasting sleep [Shelley]; nothing is certain but death and taxes.
361. [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing -- N. killing &c v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation^†, iccusion^†; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue^†.

massacre; fusillade, noyade^†; thuggery, Thuggism^†.

deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution &c (capital punishment) 972; judicial murder; martyrdom.

butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur^†; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner &c (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache^†, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.].

regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide^†, uxoricide^†, vaticide^†.

suicide, felo de se^†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath^†; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.

suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging &c v.; lapidation^†.

deadly weapon &c (arms) 727; Aceldama^†.

fatal accident, violent death, casualty.

strangle, garrote, hang, throttle, choke, stifle, suffocate, stop the breath, smother, asphyxiate, drown.

saber; cut down, cut to pieces, cut the throat; jugulate^†; stab, run through the body, bayonet, eviscerate; put to the sword, put to the edge of the sword.

shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate^†; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.

behead, bowstring, electrocute, gas &c (execute) 972.

hunt, shoot &c n.. cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of.

give no quarter, pour out blood like water; decimate; run amuck; wade knee deep in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood.

die a violent death, welter in one's blood; dash out one's brains, blow out one's brains; commit suicide; kill oneself, make away with oneself, put an end to oneself, put an end to it all.

mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous^†, lethiferous^†; unhealthy &c 657; internecine; suicidal.

sporting; piscatorial, piscatory^†.

Adv. in at the death.

Phr. assassination has never changed the history of the world [Disraeli].
362. Corpse -- N. corpse, corse^†, carcass, cadaver, bones, skeleton, dry bones; defunct, relics, reliquiae [Lat.], remains, mortal remains, dust, ashes, earth, clay; mummy; carrion; food for worms, food for fishes; tenement of clay this mortal coil.

shade, ghost, manes.

organic remains, fossils.

Adj. cadaverous, corpse-like; unburied &c 363; sapromyiophyllous^†.
363. Interment -- N. interment, burial, sepulture^†; inhumation^†; obsequies, exequies^†; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation.

funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity; kneel, passing bell, tolling; dirge &c (lamentation) 839; cypress; orbit, dead march, muffled drum; mortuary, undertaker, mute; elegy; funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon; epitaph.

graveclothes^†, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement.

coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn^†.

grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate^†; burning ghat^†; crematorium, crematory; dokhma^†, mastaba^†, potter's field, stupa^†, Tower of Silence.

sexton, gravedigger.

monument, cenotaph, shrine; grave stone, head stone, tomb stone; memento mori [Lat.]; hatchment^†, stone; obelisk, pyramid.

exhumation, disinterment; necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination [Lat.]; zoothapsis^†.

exhume, disinter, unearth.

flesh, flesh and blood; physique; strength &c 159.

beast, brute, creature, critter [U.S.]; wight, created being; creeping thing, living thing; dumb animal, dumb creature; zoophyte.

flocks and herds, live stock; domestic animals, wild animals; game, ferae naturae [Lat.]; beasts of the field, fowls of the air, denizens of the sea; black game, black grouse; blackcock^†, duck, grouse, plover, rail, snipe.

plant; tree, shrub, bush; creeper; herb, herbage; grass.

annual; perennial, biennial, triennial; exotic.

timber, forest; wood, woodlands; timberland; hurst^†, frith^†, holt, weald^†, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage^†, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney; underwood, brushwood; scrub; boscage, bosk^†, ceja [Sp.], chaparal, motte [U.S.]; arboretum &c 371.

bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^†; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva^†, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria^†, banyan; blow, blowth^†; floret^†, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

foliage, branch, bough, ramage^†, stem, tigella^†; spray &c 51; leaf.

flower, blossom, bine^†; flowering plant; timber tree, fruit tree; pulse, legume.

Adj. vegetable, vegetal, vegetive^†, vegitous^†; herbaceous, herbal; botanic^†; sylvan, silvan^†; arborary^†, arboreous^†, arborescent^†, arborical^†; woody, grassy; verdant, verdurous; floral, mossy; lignous^†, ligneous; wooden, leguminous; vosky^†, cespitose^†, turf-like, turfy; endogenous, exogenous.

Phr. green-robed senators of mighty woods [Keats]; this is the forest primeval [Longfellow].
368. [The science of animals.] Zoology -- N. zoology, zoonomy^†, zoography^†, zootomy^†; anatomy; comparative anatomy; animal physiology, comparative physiology; morphology; mammalogy.

anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology^†, malacology^†, helminthology [Med.], entomology, oryctology^†, paleontology, mastology^†, vermeology^†; ornithotomy^†, ichthyotomy^†, &c; taxidermy.

zoologist &c

Adj. zoological &c n..
369. [The science of plants.] Botany -- N. botany; physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography^†, phytology^†, phytotomy^†; vegetable physiology, herborization^†, dendrology, mycology, fungology^†, algology^†; flora, romona; botanic garden &c (garden) 371 [Obs.]; hortus siccus [Lat.], herbarium, herbal.

botanist &c; herbist^†, herbarist^†, herbalist, herborist^†, herbarian^†.

menagerie, vivarium, zoological garden; bear pit; aviary, apiary, alveary^†, beehive; hive; aquarium, fishery; duck pond, fish pond.

phthisozoics &c (killing) 361 [Obs.] [Destruction of animals]; euthanasia, sacrifice, humane destruction.

neatherd^†, cowherd, shepherd; grazier, drover, cowkeeper^†; trainer, breeder; apiarian^†, apiarist; bull whacker [U.S.], cowboy, cow puncher [U.S.], farrier; horse leech, horse doctor; vaquero, veterinarian, vet, veterinary surgeon.

cage &c (prison) 752; hencoop^†, bird cage, cauf^†; range, sheepfold, &c (inclosure) 232.

V. tame, domesticate, acclimatize, breed, tend, break in, train; cage, bridle, &c (restrain) 751.

Adj. pastoral, bucolic; tame, domestic.
371. [The economy or management of plants.] Agriculture -- N. agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics^†; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture^†, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture.

husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist; agricultor^†, agriculturist; yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman; granger, habitat, vigneron^†, viticulturist; Triptolemus.

field, meadow, garden; botanic garden^†, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden; nursery; green house, hot house; conservatory, bed, border, seed plot; grassplot^†, grassplat^†, lawn; park &c (pleasure ground) 840; parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery^†, pinetum^†, orchard; vineyard, vinery; orangery^†; farm &c (abode) 189.

V. cultivate; till the soil; farm, garden; sow, plant; reap, mow, cut; manure, dress the ground, dig, delve, dibble, hoe, plough, plow, harrow, rake, weed, lop and top; backset [U.S.].

Adj. agricultural, agrarian, agrestic^†.

arable, predial^†, rural, rustic, country; horticultural.

human being; person, personage; individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody; one; such a one, some one; soul, living soul; earthling; party, head, hand; dramatis personae [Lat.]; quidam [Lat.].

people, persons, folk, public, society, world; community, community at large; general public; nation, nationality; state, realm; commonweal, commonwealth; republic, body politic; million &c (commonalty) 876; population &c (inhabitant) 188.

tribe, clan (paternity) 166; family (consanguinity) 11.

cosmopolite; lords of the creation; ourselves.