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Roget, Peter Mark, 1779-1869

"Roget's Thesaurus"


Adj. short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn,
stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate[obs3];
retrousse[obs3]; stocky; squab, squabby[obs3]; squat, dumpy; little &c.
193; curtailed of its fair proportions; short by; oblate; concise &c. 572;
summary.
Adv. shortly &c. adj.; in short &c. (concisely) 572.
#202. Breadth, Thickness.-- N. breadth, width, latitude, amplitude;
diameter, bore, caliber, radius; superficial extent &c. (space) 180.
thickness, crassitude[obs3]; corpulence &c. (size) 192; dilation &c.
(expansion) 194.
V. be broad &c. adj.; become broad, render broad &c. adj.; expand &c.
194; thicken, widen, calibrate.
Adj. broad, wide, ample, extended; discous[obs3]; fanlike; outspread,
outstretched; "wide as a church-door" [Romeo and Juliet];
latifoliate[obs3], latifolous[obs3].
thick, dumpy, squab, squat, thickset; thick as a rope.
#203. Narrowness. Thinness.-- N. narrowness &c. adj.; closeness,
exility[obs3]; exiguity 7c. (little) 193.
line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.
monolayer; epitaxial deposition[Engin].
thinness &c. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency[obs3], marcor|.
shaving, slip &c. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow,
anatomy, spindleshanks[obs3], lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.


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