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Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Index Guide

postal 592 – currency 800 postboy 268 post card 592 post chaise 272 postdate 115 postdiluvial 117 poster 531 posterior in order 63 in time 117 in space 235 posteriority 117 posterity futurity 121 descendants 167 hand down to – record 551 fame 873 postern portal 66 back 235 opening 260 postexist 1 postexistence 152 postfix 37 postgraduate 492 – school 542 posthaste swift 274 haste 684 rash 863 post-horse 271 posthumous subsequent 117 late 133 – fame 873 postilion rider 268 guide 694 postliminary subsequent 117 late 133 postlude 65 postman 271, 534 postmeridian 126 post-mortem death 360 interment 363 postnate 117 post-obit 360, 363 post office 534 – order 800 postpone 133, 460 postprandial 117 postscript 37, 65 postulant asking 765 petitioner 767 nun 996 postulate reasoning 476 axiom 496 supposition 514 postulation supposition 514 request 765 postulatory 765 posture circumstances 8 situation 183 form 240 posture master player 599 buffoon 844 posy bouquet 400 motto 550 poem 597 flowers 847 pot much 31 mug 191 heat 384 saucepan 386 preserve 670 stakes 775 death in the – 657 go to – destruction 162 failure 732 keep the – boiling continue 143 active 682 le – au lait imagination 515 hope 858 make the – boil 775 potable 298 potage 298 potager 191 Potomac all quiet on – 721 potation beverage 298 tippling 959 potato 298 pot-bellied 194 pot companion 890 potency 157, 175, 470 potent 157, 159, 175 potentate 745 potential inexistent 2 powerful 157 potentiality power 157 possibility 470 potentialize 171 pother disorder 59 difficult 704 feeling 821 excitement 825 annoyance 830 pot herbs 393 pothooks 386, 517, 590 pothouse 189 pot hunter 767 potion beverage 298 pungency 392 medicine 662 potluck eating 298 chance 621 sociality 892 Potosi 803 potpourri mixture 41 fragrance 400 music 415 pottage 298 pottering faddling 683 potter’s field 361, 363 potter’s wheel 144 pottery baked 384 art 557 pottle 191 potulent drink 298 drunken 959 pot-valiant 959 pot-walloper voter 609 servant 746 commoner 876 pouch 191 poultice pulp 354 remedy 662 relief 834 poultry 366 pounce upon unexpected 508 attack 716 seize 789 pound inclose 232 weight 319 bruise 330the piano 416 imprison 752 – together 41 poundage 813 pounds shillings and pence 800 pour emerge 295 rain 348 sufficient 639 it never rains but it -s 641 – a broadside into 716 – forth eject 297 speak 582 loquacity 584 – in converge 290 ingress 294 sufficiency 639 – on lavish 784 – out 295, 297 – out blood like water 361 – water into a sieve waste 638 prodigality 818 – with rain 348 pourboire 784 pourparler interlocution 588 advice 695 council 696 pousse-café 392 pout project 250 sad 837 discourteous 895 irate 900 sulky 901a poverty style 575 insufficiency 640 unimportance 643 indigence 804 – of blood 160 – of intellect 452, 499 powder 330 food for – 726 gun – 727 keep one’s – dry 673 not worth – 645 – and shot 727 smell – 722 waste – 638 powdered variegated 440 powdering ornament 847 powdery 330 power much 31 numerical 84 multitude 102 efficacy 157 influence 175 loud 404of style 574 authority 737 do all in one’s – 686 give – 760 in the – of authority 737 subjection 749 literary – 569 – of attorney 755 – of money 800 – station 636 powerful strong 159 – voice 580 powerless impotent 158 weak 160 powerlessness 175a powers that be 745 powwow 696 palaver 588 pox 655 praam 273 practicable possible 470 practical 646 (easy 705) practical substantial 3 acting 170 teaching 537 practicable 646 executive 692 imperturbable 871 – joke absurdity 497 deception 545 ridicule 856 disrespect 929 – knowledge 698 practicality [see practical] practically intrinsically 5 practice arithmetic 85 training 537 habit 613 exertion 686 conduct 692 in – prepared 673 skilled 698 out of – 699 – law 968 put in – use 677 action 680 conduct 692 complete 729 practice train 537 use 677 act 680 – at the bar 968 – on one’s credulity 545 – upon experiment 463 deceive 545