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557. Sculpture — N. sculpture, insculpture†; carving &c v.; statuary. high relief, low relief, bas relief [Fr.]; relief; relieve; bassorilievo†, altorilievo†, mezzorilievo†; intaglio, anaglyph†; medal, medallion; cameo. marble, bronze, terra cotta [Sp.], papier-mache; ceramic ware, pottery, porcelain, china, earthenware; cloisonne, enamel, faience, Laocoon, satsuma. statue, &c (image) 554; cast &c (copy) 21; glyptotheca†. V. sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast [Slang]. Adj. sculptured &c, v.. in relief, anaglyptic†, ceroplastic†, ceramic; parian†; marble &c n.; xanthian†.

558. Engraving — N. engraving, chalcography†; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta†; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography†, glyptography†, cerography†, lithography, chromolithography†, photolithography, zincography†, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph†, glyptograph†, cerograph†, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph†, glyphograph†, holograph. impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint†; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype†, autotype†, heliotype†. graver, burin†, etching point, style; plate, stone, wood block, negative; die, punch, stamp. printing; plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing†, color printing, lithographic printing; type printing &c 591; three-color process. illustration, illumination; half tone; photogravure; vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe [Fr.], tailpiece. [person who inscribes on stone] lapidary, lapidarian. V. engrave, grave, stipple, scrape, etch; bite, bite in; lithograph &c n.; print. Adj. insculptured†; engraved &c v.. [of inscriptions on stone] lapidary. Phr. sculpsit [Lat.], imprimit [Lat.].

559. Artist — N. artist; painter, limner, drawer, sketcher, designer, engraver; master, old master; draftsman, draughtsman; copyist, dauber, hack; enamel, enameler, enamelist; caricaturist. historical painter, landscape painter, marine painter, flower painter, portrait painter, miniature painter, miniaturist, scene painter, sign painter, coach painter; engraver; Apelles†; sculptor, carver, chaser, modeler, figuriste†, statuary; Phidias, Praxiteles; Royal Academician. photographer, cinematographer, lensman, cameraman, camera technician, camera buff; wildlife photographer. Phr. photo safari; with gun and camera

2. CONVENTIONAL MEANS 1. Language generally

560. Language — N. language; phraseology &c 569; speech &c 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect &c 563. confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie†; pantomime &c (signs) 550; onomatopoeia; betacism†, mimmation, myatism†, nunnation†; pasigraphy†. lexicology, philology, glossology†, glottology†; linguistics, chrestomathy†; paleology†, paleography; comparative grammar. literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship &c (scholar) 492. V. express by words &c 566. Adj. lingual, linguistic; dialectic; vernacular, current; bilingual; diglot†, hexaglot†, polyglot; literary. Phr. syllables govern the world [Selden].

561. Letter — N. letter; character; hieroglyphic &c (writing) 590; type &c (printing) 591; capitals; digraph, trigraph; ideogram, ideograph; majuscule, minuscule; majuscule, minuscule; alphabet, ABC†, abecedary†, christcross-row. consonant, vowel; diphthong, triphthong [Gramm.]; mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural. syllable; monosyllable, dissyllable†, polysyllable; affix, suffix. spelling, orthograph†; phonography†, phonetic spelling; anagrammatism†, metagrammatism†. cipher, monogram, anagram; doubleacrostic†. V. spell. Adj. literal; alphabetical, abecedarian; syllabic; majuscular†, minuscular†; uncial &c (writing) 590.

562. Word — N. word, term, vocable; name &c 564; phrase &c 566; root, etymon; derivative; part of speech &c (grammar) 567; ideophone†. dictionary, vocabulary, lexicon, glossary; index, concordance; thesaurus; gradus [Lat.], delectus [Lat.]. etymology, derivation; glossology†, terminology orismology†; paleology &c (philology) 560 [Obs.]. lexicography; glossographer &c (scholar) 492; lexicologist, verbarian†. Adj. verbal, literal; titular, nominal. conjugate [Similarly derived], paronymous†; derivative. Adv. verbally &c adj.; verbatim &c (exactly) 494. Phr. the artillery of words [Swift].

563. Neologism — N. neology, neologism; newfangled expression, nonce expression; back-formation; caconym†; barbarism. archaism, black letter, monkish Latin. corruption, missaying†, malapropism, antiphrasis†. pun, paranomasia†, play upon words; word play &c (wit) 842; double- entendre &c (ambiguity) 520 [Fr.]; palindrome, paragram†, anagram, clinch; abuse of language, abuse of terms. dialect, brogue, idiom, accent, patois; provincialism, regionalism, localism; broken English, lingua franca; Anglicism, Briticism, Gallicism, Scotticism, Hibernicism; Americanism†; Gypsy lingo, Romany; pidgin, pidgin English, pigeon English; Volapuk, Chinook, Esperanto, Hindustani, kitchen Kaffir. dog Latin, macaronics†, gibberish; confusion of tongues, Babel; babu English†, chi-chi. figure of speech &c (metaphor) 521; byword. colloquialism, informal speech, informal language. substandard language, vernacular. vulgar language, obscene language, obscenity, vulgarity. jargon, technical terms, technicality, lingo, slang, cant, argot; St. Gile's Greek, thieves' Latin, peddler's French, flash tongue, Billingsgate, Wall Street slang. pseudology†. pseudonym &c (misnomer) 565; Mr. So-and-so; wha d'ye call 'em†, whatchacallim, what's his name; thingummy†, thingumbob; je ne sais quoi [Fr.]. neologist†, coiner of words. V. coin words, coin a term; backform; Americanize, Anglicize. Adj. neologic†, neological†; archaic; obsolete &c (old) 124; colloquial; Anglice†.

564. Nomenclature — N. nomenclature; naming &c v.; nuncupation†, nomination, baptism; orismology†; onomatopoeia; antonomasia†. name; appelation†, appelative†; designation, title; heading, rubric; caption; denomination; by-name, epithet. style, proper name; praenomen [Lat.], agnomen†, cognomen; patronymic, surname; cognomination†; eponym; compellation†, description, antonym; empty title, empty name; handle to one's name; namesake. term, expression, noun; byword; convertible terms &c 522; technical term; cant &c 563. V. name, call, term, denominate designate, style, entitle, clepe†, dub, christen, baptize, characterize, specify, define, distinguish by the name of; label &c (mark) 550. be called &c v.; take the name of, bean the name of, go by the name of, be known by the name of, go under the name of, pass under the name of, rejoice in the name of. Adj. named &c v.; hight†, ycleped, known as; what one may well, call fairly, call properly, call fitly. nuncupatory†, nuncupative; cognominal†, titular, nominal, orismological†. Phr. beggar'd all description [Antony and Cleopatra].

565. Misnomer — N. misnomer; lucus a non lucendo [Lat.]; Mrs. Malaprop; what d'ye call 'em &c (neologism) 563 [Obs.]; Hoosier. nickname, sobriquet, by-name; assumed name, assumed title; alias; nom de course, nom de theatre, nom de guerre [Fr.], nom de plume; pseudonym, pseudonymy. V. misname, miscall, misterm†; nickname; assume a name. Adj. misnamed &c v.; pseudonymous; soi-disant [Fr.]; self called, self styled, self christened; so-called. nameless, anonymous; without a having no name; innominate, unnamed; unacknowledged. Adv. in no sense.

566. Phrase — N. phrase, expression, set phrase; sentence, paragraph; figure of speech &c 521; idiom, idiotism†; turn of expression; style. paraphrase &c (synonym) 522; periphrase &c (circumlocution) 573; motto &c (proverb) 496 [Obs.]. phraseology &c 569. V. express, phrase; word, word it; give words to, give expression to; voice; arrange in words, clothe in words, put into words, express by words; couch in terms; find words to express; speak by the card; call, denominate, designate, dub. Adj. expressed &c v.; idiomatic. Adv. in round terms, in set terms, in good set terms, set terms; in set phrases.

567. Grammar — N. grammar, accidence, syntax, praxis, punctuation; parts of speech; jussive†; syllabication; inflection, case, declension, conjugation; us et norma loquendi [Lat.]; Lindley Murray &c (schoolbook) 542; correct style, philology &c (language) 560. V. parse, punctuate, syllabicate†.

568. Solecism — N. solecism; bad grammar, false grammar, faulty grammar; slip of the pen, slip of the tongue; lapsus linguae [Lat.]; slipslop†; bull; barbarism, impropriety. V. use bad grammar, faulty grammar; solecize†, commit a solecism; murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English, break Priscian's head. Adj. ungrammatical; incorrect, inaccurate; faulty; improper, incongruous; solecistic, solecistical†.

569. Style — N. style, diction, phraseology, wording; manner, strain; composition; mode of expression, choice of words; mode of speech, literary power, ready pen, pen of a ready writer; command of language &c (eloquence) 582; authorship; la morgue litteraire [Fr.]. V. express by words &c 566; write. Phr. le style c'est de l'homme [Buffon]; style is the dress of thoughts [Chesterfield]. Various Qualities of Style

570. Perspicuity — N. perspicuity, perspicuousness &c (intelligibility) 518; plain speaking &c (manifestation) 525; definiteness, definition; exactness &c 494; explicitness, lucidness. Adj. lucid &c (intelligible) 518; explicit &c (manifest) 525; exact &c 494.

571. Obscurity — N. obscurity &c (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words; ambiguity &c 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness &c 475, inexactness &c 495; what d'ye call 'em &c (neologism) 563 [Obs.]; darkness of meaning. Adj. obscure &c n.; crabbed, involved, confused.

572. Conciseness — N. conciseness &c adj.; brevity, the soul of wit, laconism†; Tacitus; ellipsis; syncope; abridgment &c (shortening) 201; compression &c 195; epitome &c 596; monostich†; brunch word, portmanteau word. V. be concise &c adj.; condense &c 195; abridge &c 201; abstract &c 596; come to the point. Adj. concise, brief, short, terse, close; to the point, exact; neat, compact; compressed, condensed, pointed; laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary; pregnant; compendious &c (compendium) 596; succinct; elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp; sententious. Adv. concisely &c adj.; briefly, summarily; in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words; for shortness sake; to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief; it comes to this, the long and the short of it is. Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio [Lat.] [Horace].

573. Diffuseness — N. diffuseness &c adj.; amplification &c v.; dilating &c v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words &c (loquacity) 584; looseness. Polylogy†, tautology, battology†, perissology†; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages†; periphrase†, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness &c 577. V. be diffuse &c adj.; run out on, descant, expatiate, enlarge, dilate, amplify, expand, inflate; launch out, branch out; rant. maunder, prose; harp upon &c (repeat) 104; dwell on, insist upon. digress, ramble, battre la campagne [Fr.], beat about the bush, perorate, spin a long yarn, protract; spin out, swell out, draw out; battologize†. Adj. diffuse, profuse; wordy, verbose, largiloquent†, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy; longsome†, long-winded, longspun†, long drawn out; spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering; circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious†, roundabout; digressive; discursive, excursive; loose; rambling episodic; flatulent, frothy. Adv. diffusely &c adj.; at large, in extenso [Lat.]; about it and about it.

574. Vigor — N. vigor, power, force; boldness, raciness &c adj.; intellectual, force; spirit, point, antithesis, piquance, piquancy; verve, glow, fire, warmth; strong language; gravity, sententiousness; elevation, loftiness, sublimity. eloquence; command of words, command of language. Adj. vigorous, nervous, powerful, forcible, trenchant, incisive, impressive; sensational. spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious. lofty, elevated, sublime; eloquent; vehement, petulant, impassioned; poetic. Adv. in glowing terms, in good set terms, in no measured terms. Phr. thoughts that breath and words that burn [Gray].

575. Feebleness — N. feebleness &c adj.. Adj. feeble, bald, tame, meager, jejune, vapid, bland, trashy, lukewarm, cold, frigid, poor, dull, dry, languid; colorless, enervated; proposing, prosy, prosaic; unvaried, monotonous, weak, washy, wishy- washy; sketchy, slight. careless, slovenly, loose, lax (negligent) 460; slipshod, slipslop†; inexact; puerile, childish; flatulent; rambling &c (diffuse) 573.

576. Plainness — N. plainness &c adj.; simplicity, severity; plain terms, plain English; Saxon English; household words V. call a spade 'a spade'; plunge in medias res; come to the point. Adj. plain, simple; unornamented, unadorned, unvarnished; homely, homespun; neat; severe, chaste, pure, Saxon; commonplace, matter-of- fact, natural, prosaic. dry, unvaried, monotonous &c 575. Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common parlance; point-blank.

577. Ornament — N. ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c 578; orotundity. inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness &c (metaphor) 521. flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism†, euphemism. big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology†, sesquipedalia verba [Lat.], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality†; Minerva press. phrasemonger; euphuist†, euphemist. V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp. Adj. ornament &c v.; beautified &c 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic†, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent†; sesquipedal†, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming. antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c 521; artificial &c (inelegant) 579. Adv. ore rutundo [Lat.].

578. Elegance — N. elegance, purity, grace, ease; gracefulness, readiness &c adj.; concinnity†, euphony, numerosity†; Atticism†, classicalism†, classicism. well rounded periods, well turned periods, flowing periods; the right word in the right place; antithesis &c 577. purist [Slang]. V. point an antithesis, round a period. Adj. elegant, polished, classical, Attic, correct, Ciceronian, artistic; chaste, pure, Saxon, academical†. graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored†; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose†, rhythmical. felicitous, happy, neat; well put, neatly put, well expressed, neatly expressed

579. Inelegance — N. inelegance; stiffness &c adj.; unlettered Muse [Gray]; barbarism; slang &c 563; solecism &c 568; mannerism &c (affectation) 855; euphuism†; fustian &c 577; cacophony; words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw; marinism†. V. be inelegant &c adj.. Adj. inelegant, graceless, ungraceful; harsh, abrupt; dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde [Fr.]; forced, labored; artificial, mannered, ponderous; awkward, uncourtly†, unpolished; turgid &c 577; affected, euphuistic†; barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting; offensive to ears polite. 2. Spoken Language

580. Voice — N. voice; vocality†; organ, lungs, bellows; good voice, fine voice, powerful voice &c (loud) 404; musical voice &c 413; intonation; tone of voice &c (sound) 402. vocalization; cry &c 411; strain, utterance, prolation†; exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis†; enunciation, articulation; articulate sound, distinctness; clearness, of articulation; stage whisper; delivery. accent, accentuation; emphasis, stress; broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent; pronunciation. [Word similarly pronounced] homonym. orthoepy†; cacoepy†; euphony &c (melody) 413. gastriloquism†, ventriloquism; ventriloquist; polyphonism†, polyphonist†. [Science of voice] phonology &c (sound) 402. V. utter, breathe; give utterance, give tongue; cry &c (shout) 411; ejaculate, rap out; vocalize, prolate†, articulate, enunciate, pronounce, accentuate, aspirate, deliver, mouth; whisper in the ear. Adj. vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious &c (melodious) 413. Phr. how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman [Massinger]; the organ of the soul [Longfellow]; thy voice is a celestial melody [Longfellow].

581. Aphony — N. aphony†, aphonia†; dumbness &c adj.; obmutescence†; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony†; cacoepy†; silence &c (taciturnity) 585; raucity†; harsh voice &c 410, unmusical voice &c 414; falsetto, childish treble mute; dummy. V. keep silence &c 585; speak low, speak softly; whisper &c (faintness) 405. silence; render mute, render silent; muzzle, muffle, suppress, smother, gag, strike dumb, dumfounder; drown the voice, put to silence, stop one's mouth, cut one short. stick in the throat. Adj. aphonous†, dumb, mute; deafmute, deaf and dumb; mum; tongue-tied; breathless, tongueless, voiceless, speechless, wordless; mute as a fish, mute as a stockfish†, mute as a mackerel; silent &c (taciturn) 585; muzzled; inarticulate, inaudible. croaking, raucous, hoarse, husky, dry, hollow, sepulchral, hoarse as a raven; rough. Adv. with bated breath, with the finger on the lips; sotto voce [Lat.]; in a low tone, in a cracked voice, in a broken voice. Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Lat.] [Vergil].

582. Speech — N. speech, faculty of speech; locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation†, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion. oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration; speechifying; soliloquy &c 589; allocution &c 586; conversation &c 588; salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.]. oratory; elocution, eloquence; rhetoric, declamation; grandiloquence, multiloquence†; burst of eloquence; facundity†; flow of words, command of words, command of language; copia verborum [Lat.]; power of speech, gift of the gab; usus loquendi [Lat.]. speaker &c v.; spokesman; prolocutor, interlocutor; mouthpiece, Hermes; orator, oratrix†, oratress†; Demosthenes, Cicero; rhetorician; stump orator, platform orator; speechmaker, patterer†, improvisatore†. V. speak of; say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to; utter forth, pour forth; breathe, let fall, come out with; rap out, blurt out have on one's lips; have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue. break silence; open one's lips, open one's mouth; lift one's voice, raise one's voice; give the tongue, wag the tongue; talk, outspeak†; put in a word or two, hold forth; make a speech, deliver a speech &c n.; speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate &c (speak at length) 573; speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.S.]. soliloquize &c 589; tell &c (inform) 527; speak to &c 586; talk together &c 588. be eloquent &c adj.; have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab &c n.. pass one's lips, escape one's lips; fall from the lips, fall from the mouth. Adj. speaking &c; spoken &c v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c 577; talkative &c 584; Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian. Adv. orally &c adj.; by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of. Phr. quoth he, said he &c; action is eloquence [Coriolanus]; pour the full tide of eloquence along [Pope]; she speaks poignards and every word stabs [Much Ado About Nothing]; speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]; to try thy eloquence now 'tis time [Antony and Cleopatra].

583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering — N. inarticulateness; stammering &c v.; hesitation &c v.; impediment in one's speech; titubancy†, traulism†; whisper &c (faint sound) 405; lisp, drawl, tardiloquence†; nasal tone, nasal accent; twang; falsetto &c (want of voice) 581; broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences. brogue &c 563; slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae [Lat.]. V. stammer, stutter, hesitate, falter, hammer; balbutiate†, balbucinate†, haw, hum and haw, be unable to put two words together. mumble, mutter; maud†, mauder†; whisper &c 405; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump†; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay†. Adj. stammering &c v.; inarticulate, guttural, nasal; tremulous; affected. Adv. sotto voce &c (faintly) 405 [Lat.].

584. Loquacity — N. loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness &c adj.; garrulity; multiloquence†, much speaking. jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet†, caquetterie [Fr.]; blabber, bavardage†, bibble-babble†, gibble-gabble†; small talk &c (converse) 588. fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche [Fr.], flux de mots [Fr.]; copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.]; furor loquendi [Lat.]; verbosity &c (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab &c (eloquence) 582. talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler &c v.; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser†, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip &c (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles [Fr.]. V. be loquacious &c adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter†, blether†; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate &c (speak at length) 573; gossip &c (converse) 588; din in the ears &c (repeat) 104; talk at random, talk nonsense &c 497; be hoarse with talking. Adj. loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious†, multiloquous†; largiloquent†; chattering &c v.; chatty &c (sociable) 892; declamatory &c 582; open-mouthed. fluent, voluble, glib, flippant; long tongued, long winded &c (diffuse) 573. Adv. trippingly on the tongue; glibly &c adj.; off the reel. Phr. the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels; all talk and no cider; foul whisperings are abroad [Macbeth]; what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! [Tempest].

585. Taciturnity — N. silence, muteness, obmutescence†; taciturnity, pauciloquy†, costiveness†, curtness; reserve, reticence &c (concealment) 528. man of few words. V. be silent &c adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak. &c 582; say nothing, keep one's counsel; seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth; put a bridle on one's tongue; bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth; make no sign, not let a word escape one; keep a secret &c 528; not have a word to say; hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips; render mute &c 581. stick in one's throat. Adj. silent, mute, mum; silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as the grave &c (still) 403; dumb &c 581; unconversable†. taciturn, sparing of words; closetongued; costive†, inconversable†, curt; reserved; reticent &c (concealing) 528. Int. shush!, tush!, silence!, mum!, hush!, chut!†, hist!, tut!, chup!†, mum's the word; keep your mouth shut! [Vulg.]. Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui [Lat.]; volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].

586. Allocution — N. allocution, alloquy†, address; speech &c 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear. [Feigned dialogue] dialogism†. platform &c 542; plank; audience &c (interview) 588. V. speak to, address, accost, make up to, apostrophize, appeal to, invoke; ball, salute; call to, halloo. take aside, take by the button; talk to in private. lecture &c (make a speech) 582. Int. soho!†, halloo!, hey!, hist!,

587. Response — N. &c see Answer 462.

588. Conversation — N. conversation, interlocution; collocution†, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse; oral communication, commerce; dialogue, duologue, trialogue. causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk†, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle; babble, babblement†; tripotage†, cackle, prittle-prattle†, cancan, on dit [Fr.]; talk of the town, talk of the village. conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler; tete-a-tete; reception, conversazione [It]; congress &c (council) 696; powwow [U.S.]. hall of audience, durbar†. palaver, debate, logomachy†, war of words. gossip, tattler; Paul Pry; tabby; chatterer &c (loquacity) 584; interlocutor &c (spokesman) 582; conversationist†, dialogist†. the feast of reason and the flow of soul [Pope]; mollia tempora fandi [Lat.]. V. talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate &c (loquacity) 584; powwow [U.S.]. discourse with, confer with, commune with, commerce with; hold converse, hold conference, hold intercourse; talk it over; be closeted with; talk with one in private, tete-a-tete. Adj. conversing &c v.; interlocutory; conversational, conversable†; discursive, discoursive†; chatty &c (sociable) 892; colloquial. Phr. with thee conversing I forget all time [Paradise Lost].

589. Soliloquy — N. soliloquy, monologue, apostrophe; monology†. V. Soliloquize; say to oneself, talk to oneself; say aside, think aloud, apostrophize. Adj. soliloquizing &c v.. Adv. aside. 3. Written Language

590. Writing — N. writing &c v.; chirography, stelography†, cerography†; penmanship, craftmanship†; quill driving; typewriting. writing, manuscript, MS., literae scriptae [Lat.]; these presents. stroke of the pen, dash of the pen; coupe de plume; line; headline; pen and ink. letter &c 561; uncial writing, cuneiform character, arrowhead, Ogham, Runes, hieroglyphic; contraction; Brahmi†, Devanagari, Nagari; script. shorthand; stenography, brachygraphy†, tachygraphy†; secret writing, writing in cipher; cryptography, stenography; phonography†, pasigraphy†, Polygraphy†, logography†. copy; transcript, rescript; rough copy, fair copy; handwriting; signature, sign manual; autograph, monograph, holograph; hand, fist. calligraphy; good hand, running hand, flowing hand, cursive hand, legible hand, bold hand. cacography†, griffonage†, barbouillage†; bad hand, cramped hand, crabbed hand, illegible hand; scribble &c v.; pattes de mouche [Fr.]; ill-formed letters; pothooks and hangers. stationery; pen, quill, goose quill; pencil, style; paper, foolscap, parchment, vellum, papyrus, tablet, slate, marble, pillar, table; blackboard; ink bottle, ink horn, ink pot, ink stand, ink well; typewriter. transcription &c (copy) 21; inscription &c (record) 551; superscription &c (indication) 550; graphology. composition, authorship; cacoethes scribendi [Lat.]; graphoidea†, graphomania†; phrenoia†. writer, scribe, amanuensis, scrivener, secretary, clerk, penman, copyist, transcriber, quill driver; stenographer, typewriter, typist; writer for the press &c (author) 593. V. write, pen; copy, engross; write out, write out fair; transcribe; scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch; interline; stain paper; write down &c (record) 551; sign &c (attest) 467; enface†. compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate; dictate; inscribe, throw on paper, dash off; manifold. take up the pen, take pen in hand; shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink. Adj. writing &c v.; written &c v.; in writing, in black and white; under one's hand. uncial, Runic, cuneiform, hieroglyphical†. Adv. currente calamo [Sp.]; pen in hand. Phr. audacter et sincere [Lat.]; le style est l'homme meme [Fr.]; nature's noblest gift - my gray goose quill [Byron]; scribendi recte sapere et principium et fons [Lat.] [Horace]; that mighty instrument of little men [Byron]; the pen became a clarion [Longfellow].