Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
954. treat; refreshment, regale; feast; delice[Fr]; dainty &c. 394;
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bonne bouche[Fr]. source of pleasure &c. 829; happiness &c. (mental
enjoyment) 827. V. feel pleasure, experience pleasure, receive
pleasure; enjoy, relish; luxuriate in, revel in, riot in, bask in, swim
in, drink up, eat up, wallow in; feast on; gloat over, float on; smack
the lips. live on the fat of the land, live in comfort &c. adv.; bask
in the sunshine, faire ses choux gras[Fr].. give pleasure &c. 829. Adj.
enjoying &c. v.; luxurious, voluptuous, sensual, comfortable, cosy,
snug, in comfort, at ease. pleasant, agreeable &c. 829. Adv. in comfort
&c. n.; on a bed of roses &c. n.; at one's ease. Phr. ride si sapis
[Lat][Martial]; voluptales commendat rarior usus [Lat][Juvenal].
#378. Physical Pain.—N. pain; suffering, sufferance,
suffrance[obs3]; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical
suffering, body pain; mental suffering &c. 828; dolour, ache; aching
&c. v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache,
stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris[Lat]; hurt, cut; sore,
soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia[Med], earache, gout,
ischiagra[obs3], lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia[obs3], otalgia[obs3],
podagra[obs3], rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux[Fr], toothache,
tormina[obs3], torticollis[obs3]. spasm, cramp; nightmare,
ephialtes[obs3]; crick, stitch; thrill, convulsion, throe; throb &c.
(agitation) 315; pang; colic; kink. sharp pain, piercing pain,
throbbing pain, shooting pain, sting, gnawing pain, burning pain;
excruciating pain. anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack;
cruciation[obs3], crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow,
vivisection. V. feel pain, experience pain, suffer pain, undergo pain
&c. n.; suffer, ache, smart, bleed; tingle, shoot; twinge, twitch,
lancinate[obs3]; writhe, wince, make a wry face; sit on thorns, sit on
pins and needles. give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe,
sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick,
pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify;
cruciate[obs3], excruciate|; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog
&c. (punish) 972; grate on the ear &c. (harsh sound) 410. Adj. in pain
&c. n., in a state of pain; pained &c. v.; gouty, podagric[obs3],
torminous[obs3]. painful; aching &c. v.; sore, raw.
_2. Special Sensation_
_(1) Touch_
#379. [Sensation of pressure] Touch.—N. touch; tact, taction[obs3],
tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation[obs3];
manipulation; massage. [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger,
thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus[obs3]. V. touch, feel, handle,
finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the
fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a
feeler. Adj. tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent.
#380. Sensations of Touch.—N. itching, pruritis &c. v[Med].;
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titillation, formication[obs3], aura; stereognosis[obs3].
V. itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,
titillate.
Adj. itching &c. v.; stereognostic[obs3], titillative.
#381. [insensibility to touch.] Numbness.—N. numbness &c. (physical
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insensibility) 376; anaesthesia; pins and needles.
V. benumb &c. 376.
Adj. numb; benumbed &c. v.; deadened; intangible, impalpable.
_(2) Heat_
#382. Heat.—N. heat, caloric; temperature, warmth, fervor,
calidity[obs3]; incalescence[obs3], incandescence; glow, flush; fever,
hectic. phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze;
bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny[obs3]; wildfire; sheet of
fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy[obs3];
recalescence[Phys]. summer, dog days; canicular days[obs3]; baking &c.
384 heat, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat[obs3], Bengal
heat[obs3], summer heat, blood heat; sirocco, simoom; broiling sun;
insolation; warming &c. 384. sun &c. (luminary) 423. [Science of heat]
pyrology[obs3]; thermology[obs3], thermotics[obs3], thermodynamics;
thermometer &c. 389. [thermal units] calorie, gram-calorie, small
calorie; kilocalorie, kilogram calorie, large calorie; British Thermal
Unit, B.T.U.; therm, quad. [units of temperature] degrees Kelvin,
kelvins, degrees centigrade, degrees Celsius; degrees Fahrenheit. V. be
hot &c. adj.; glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew,
simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame; smolder;
parch, fume, pant. heat &c. (make hot) 384; recalesce[obs3]; thaw,
give. Adj. hot, warm, mild, genial, tepid, lukewarm, unfrozen; thermal,
thermic; calorific; fervent, fervid; ardent; aglow. sunny, torrid,
tropical, estival|!, canicular[obs3], steamy; close, sultry, stifling,
stuffy, suffocating, oppressive; reeking &c. v.; baking &c. 384. red
hot, white hot, smoking hot, burning &c. v. hot, piping hot; like a
furnace, like an oven; burning, hot as fire, hot as pepper; hot enough
to roast an ox, hot enough to boil an egg. fiery; incandescent,
incalescent[obs3]; candent[obs3], ebullient, glowing, smoking; live; on
fire; dazzling &c. v.; in flames, blazing, in a blaze; alight, afire,
ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished[obs3]; smoldering; in a heat, in a
glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific[obs3];
sweltering, sweltered; blood hot, blood warm; warm as a toast, warm as
wool. volcanic, plutonic, igneous; isothermal|!, isothermic|!,
isotheral|!. Phr. not a breath of air; "whirlwinds of tempestuous fire"
[Paradise Lost].
#383. Cold.—N. cold, coldness &c. adj.; frigidity, inclemency,
fresco. winter; depth of winter, hard winter; Siberia, Nova Zembla;
wind-chill factor. [forms of frozen water] ice; snow, snowflake, snow
crystal, snow drift; sleet; hail, hailstone; rime, frost; hoar frost,
white frost, hard frost, sharp frost; barf; glaze [U. S.], lolly
[obs3][N. Am.]; icicle, thick-ribbed ice; fall of snow, heavy fall;
iceberg, icefloe; floe berg; glacier; neve, serac[obs3]; pruina[obs3].
[cold substances] freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid
helium. [Sensation of cold] chilliness &c. adj.; chill; shivering &c.
v.; goose skin, horripilation[obs3]; rigor; chattering of teeth;
numbness, frostbite. V. be cold &c. adj[intrans.].; shiver, starve,
quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder[obs3], quiver; freeze, freeze to
death, perish with cold. [transitive] chill, freeze &c. (render cold)
385; horripilate[obs3], make the skin crawl, give one goose flesh. Adj.
cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid[obs3]; fresh,
keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous[obs3], cutting,
nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved &c. (made cold) 385;
chilled to the bone, shivering &c. v.; aguish, transi de froid[Fr];
frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped. cold as a stone, cold as
marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity,
cold as Christmas; cool as a cucumber, cool as custard. icy, glacial,
frosty, freezing, pruinose[obs3], wintry, brumal[obs3], hibernal[obs3],
boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal[obs3]; hyperborean, hyperboreal[obs3];
icebound; frozen out. unwarmed[obs3], unthawed[obs3]; lukewarm, tepid;
isocheimal[obs3], isocheimenal[obs3], isocheimic[obs3]. frozen, numb,
frost-bitten. Adv. coldly, bitterly &c. adj.; pierre fendre[Fr];
#384. Calefaction.—N. increase of temperature; heating &c. v.;
calefaction[obs3], tepefaction[obs3], torrefaction[obs3]; melting,
fusion; liquefaction &c. 335; burning &c. v.; ambustion[obs3],
combustion; incension|, accension[obs3]; concremation[obs3], cremation;
scorification[obs3]; cautery, cauterization; ustulation[obs3],
calcination; cracking, refining; incineration, cineration[obs3];
carbonization; cupellation[Chem]. ignition, inflammation,
adustion[obs3], flagration| [obs3]; deflagration, conflagration;
empyrosis[obs3], incendiarism; arson; auto dafe[Fr]. boiling &c. v.;
coction[obs3], ebullition, estuation[obs3], elixation|, decoction;
ebullioscope[obs3]; geyser; distillation (vaporization) 336. furnace
&c. 386; blanket, flannel, fur; wadding &c. (lining) 224; clothing &c.
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