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indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk[obs3], remiss, slack, inert, torpid, sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpish[obs3]; exanimate[obs3], soulless; listless; drony[obs3], dronish[obs3]; lazy as Ludlam's dog.

dilatory, laggard; lagging &c. v.; slow &c. 275; rusty, flagging; lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering &c. v.;shilly-shally &c. (irresolute) 605.

sleeping, &c. v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in the lap of Morpheus.

sleepy, sleepful[obs3]; dozy[obs3], drowsy, somnolent, torpescent[obs3], lethargic, lethargical[obs3]; somnifacient[obs3]; statuvolent[obs3], statuvolic[obs3]; heavy, heavy with sleep; napping; somnific[obs3], somniferous; soporous[obs3], soporific, soporiferous[obs3]; hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.

sedative &c. 174.

bestir oneself &c. (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment, lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make the best of one's way.

be precipitate &c. adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry &c. n.; have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work against time.

quicken &c. 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge, whip; railroad.

in haste, in a hurry &c. n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless, pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.

hastily, precipitately &c. adj.; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry[obs3], holus-bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu[Fr].

by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.

Phr. sauve qui peut[French: every man for himself][panic], devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; a word and a blow; haste makes waste, maggiore fretta minore atto [Italian]; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German][Goethe's motto]; "stand not upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you dragons of the night" [Cymbeline].
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M7.3.1.6 Liesure

{{co-occurs_with}} leisure time, spare time, spare hours, spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands.

{{co-occurs_with(leisure time)}} after hours, after-work time; holiday; vacation.

{{antonym_of(leisure time): work time, working hours}}.

ease, relaxation &c. (rest) 687; otium cum dignitate [Lat][Cicero].

no hurry; no big rush; no deadline.

{{has_activity}} play, playing.

{{has_subtype(playing)}} {{property_of(R720, competition, rivalry)}} game.

{{has_subtype(game)}} {{has_subtype(competition, R720)}} sport.

{{has_subtype(sport): professional sport, @P2.3.2.3.2.3.5}}.

"a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together"; dead lift; heft; gymnastics; exercise, exercitation[obs3]; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble; uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.

labor, work, toil.

{{has_subtype(labor}} travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink[obs3], drudgery.

{{has_subtype(labor}} slavery, fagging[obs3], hammering; limae labor[Lat].

{{has_subtype(labor}} industry, industriousness, operoseness[obs3], operosity[obs3].

{{has_subtype(labor}} trouble, pains; resolution &c. 604; energy &c. (physical) 171.

{{has_subtype(labor}} task, project, chore, undertakng, enterprise.

{{has_subtype(labor}} duty, assignment, mission, responsibility, charge.

{{has_subtype(labor)}} tour of duty, stint, shift, watch.

{{has_subtype(duty): employment, paid employment, occupation, P2.3.2.3.2.3}}.

{{has_location(employment): workshop, P2.3.1.3.10.2.2.2}}.

labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar

bestir oneself (be active) 682; take trouble, trouble oneself.

work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm; fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel &c. (resolution) 604; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to &c. (persevere) 604a; work one's way, fight one's way,; lay about one, hammer at.

take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; give one hundred percent, do the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card; put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water &c. (resolution) 604; move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.

Adj. laboring &c. v.

laborious, operose[obs3], elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome, wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric[obs3].

hard-working, painstaking; strenuous, energetic.

hard at work, on the stretch.

by the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.

relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause &c. (cessation) 142; respite.

day of rest, dies non, Sabbath, Lord's day, holiday, red-letter day; vacation.

{{of_subject: school/legislature}} recess.

relax, unbend, slacken; take breath &c. (refresh) 689; rest upon one's oars; pause &c. (cease) 142; stay one's hand.

lie down; recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair; go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep &c. 683.

take a holiday, shut up shop; lie fallow &c. (inaction) 681.

[of materials and people] unstressed.

anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium[Lat], syncope, lipothymy[obs3]; goneness[obs3].

fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, exhaust, wear out, prostrate, knock up[obs2]; harass.

tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.

Adj. fatigued, tired &c. v.; weary &c. 841; drowsy &c. 683; drooping &c. v.; haggard; toilworn[obs3], wayworn:, footsore, surbated[obs1], weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed * [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed[obs3], unrestored.

worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.

breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind; blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose[obs3]; broken winded, short-winded; dyspnaeal[obs3], dyspnaeic[obs3].

ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat[Fr].

fatiguing &c. v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.
M7.3.1.10 Refreshment

#689. Refreshment. -- N. bracing &c. v.; recovery of strength, recuperation &c. 159; restoration, revival &c. 660; repair, refection, refocillation[obs1], refreshment, regalement[obs3], bait; relief &c. 834.

break, spell.

refreshment stand; refreshments; ice cream[list], cold soda, soda pop, hot dogs (food) .

V. brace &c. (strengthen) 159; reinvigorate; air, freshen up, refresh, recruit; repair &c. (restore) 660; fan, refocillate[obs1]; refresh the inner man.

breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath, recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength, renew one's strength &c. 159; perk up, get one's second wind.

come to oneself &c. (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.

Adj. refreshing &c. v.; recuperative &c. 660.

refreshed &c. v.; untired[obs3], unwearied.

692a. Method (moved here from path, method)

693. Direction

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695. Advice

696. Council

697. Precept

698. Skill 699. Unskillfulness
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dealing, transaction &c. (action) 680; business &c. 625.

tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics[obs3]; plan &c. 626.

management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government &c. (direction) 693.

execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.

course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method &c., path &c. 627.

bear oneself, behave oneself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry oneself, conduct oneself, acquit oneself.

run a race, lead a life, play a game; take a course, adopt a course; steer one's course, shape one's course; play one's paint, play one's cards, shift for oneself; paddle one's own canoe; bail one's own boat.

conduct; manage, supervise &c. (direct) 693.

participate &c. 680.

deal with, have to do with; treat, handle a case; take steps, take measures.

way, manner, wise, mode, mechanism, means, fashion, modus operandi, MO.

gait, form, tone, guise.

{{property_of(speed)}} short cut.

{{property_of(frequency)}} routine.

{{property_of(secrecy)}} trade secret.

{{has_expression(skill, R698)}} clever method, trick, trick of the trade.

{{has_subtype(document)}} {{uses: rule book, manual, check list, handbook}}.

{{property_of(empirical)}} scientific method.

{{has_subtype(process)}} {{uses(manufacturing)}} industrial process.

methodically, systematically.

procedurally.

one way or another, anyhow; somehow or other &c. (instrumentality) 631;

supervision, superintendence; surveillance, oversight; eye of the master; control, charge; command &c. (authority) 737.

premiership, senatorship; chair, portfolio.

statesmanship; statecraft, kingcraft[obs3], queencraft[obs3].

administration; ministry, ministration; stewardship, proctorship[obs3]; agency.

{[in_frame(government,R737a): government, gubernation[obs3]; reins, reins of government; legislation; regulation]}.

[intransitive] take the helm, be at the helm; have the reins, handle the reins, hold the reins, take the reins; drive, tool.

superintend, supervise; overlook, control, keep in order, look after, see to, legislate for; administer, administrate, ministrate[obs3]; matronize[obs3]; have the care of, have the charge of; be in charge of, have charge of, take the direction; boss, boss one around; pull the strings, pull the wires; rule &c. (command) 737; have the direction, hold office, hold the portfolio; preside, preside at the board; take the chair, occupy the chair, be in the chair; pull the stroke oar.

Adj. directing &c. v.; hegemonic.

directorial, managerial, supervisory, administrative, administrational; regulatory.

administratively; managerially.

exhortation &c. (persuasion) 615; expostulation &c. (dissuasion) 616; admonition &c. (warning) 668; guidance &c. (direction) 693.

instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation[obs3]; Governor's message, President's message; King's message, Queen's speech; message, speech from the throne.

adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus Apollo[Lat][obs3], senator; teacher &c. 540.

guide, manual, chart &c. (information) 527.

physician, doctor, leech[obs2], archiater[obs3].

arbiter &c. (judge) 967.

reference, referment[obs3]; consultation, conference, pourparler.

enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon &c. (request) 765; dictate.

expostulate &c. (dissuade) 616; admonish &c. (warn) 668.

advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold a council, deliberate, be closeted with.

confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be advised by, have at one's elbow, take one's cue from.

Adj. recommendatory; hortative &c. (persuasive) 615; dehortatory &c. (dissuasive) 616[obs3]; admonitory &c. (warning) 668.

Int. go to!

Phr. "give every man thine ear but few thy voice" [Hamlet]; "I pray thee cease thy counsel" [Much Ado About Nothing]; "my guide, philosopher, and friend" [Pope]; "'twas good advice and meant, my son be good" [Crabbe]; verbum sat sapienti [Latin: a word to the wise is sufficient]; vive memor leti[Lat]; "we, ask advice but we mean approbation" [Colton].
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#697. Precept. -- N. precept, direction, instruction, charge; prescript, prescription; recipe, receipt; golden rule; maxim &c. 496.

rule, canon, law, code, corpus juris[Lat], lex scripta[Lat], act, statute, rubric, stage direction, regulation; form, formula, formulary; technicality; canon law; norm.

order &c. (command) 741.
#698. Skill. -- N. skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness &c. adj.; proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity[obs3], facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy[obs3]; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness[obs3]; sleight of hand &c. (deception) 545.

seamanship, airmanship, marksmanship, horsemanship; rope-dancing.

accomplishment, acquirement, attainment; art, science; technicality, technology; practical knowledge, technical knowledge.

knowledge of the world, world wisdom, savoir faire[Fr]; tact; mother wit &c. (sagacity) 498; discretion &c. *(caution) 864; finesse; craftiness &c. (cunning) 702; management &c. (conduct) 692; self-help.

cleverness, talent, ability, ingenuity, capacity, parts, talents, faculty, endowment, forte, turn, gift, genius; intelligence &c. 498; sharpness, readiness &c. (activity) 682; invention &c. 515; aptness, aptitude; turn for, capacity for, genius for; felicity, capability, curiosa felicitas[Lat], qualification, habilitation.

proficient &c. 700.

masterpiece, coup de maitre[Fr], chef d'euvre[Fr], tour de force; good stroke &c. (plan) 626.

V. be skillful &c. adj.; excel in, be master of; have a turn for &c. n.

know what's what, know a hawk from a handsaw, know what one is about, know on which side one's bread is buttered, know what's o'clock; have cut one's eye teeth, have cut one's wisdom teeth.

see one's way, see where the wind lies, see which way the wind blows; have all one's wits about one, have one's hand in; savoir vivre[Fr]; scire quid valeant humeri quid ferre recusent[Lat][obs3].

look after the main chance; cut one's coat according to one's cloth; live by one's wits; exercise one's discretion, feather the oar, sail near the wind; stoop to conquer &c. (cunning) 702; play one's cards well, play one's best card; hit the right nail on the head, put the saddle on the right horse.

take advantage of, make the most of; profit by &e. (use) 677; make a hit &c. (succeed) 731; make a virtue of necessity; make hay while the sun shines &c. (occasion) 134.

Adj. skillful, dexterous, adroit, expert, apt, handy, quick, deft, ready, gain; slick, smart &c. (active) 682; proficient, good at, up to, at home in, master of, a good hand at, au fait, thoroughbred, masterly, crack, accomplished; conversant &c. (knowing) 490.

experienced, practiced, skilled, hackneyed; up in, well up in; in practice, in proper cue; competent, efficient, qualified, capable, fitted, fit for, up to the mark, trained, initiated, prepared, primed, finished.

clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive &c. 515; shrewd, sharp, on the ball &c. (intelligent) 498; cunning &c. 702; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet.

neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-footed; cut out for, fitted for.

technical, artistic, scientific, daedalian[obs3], shipshape; workman-like, business-like, statesman-like.