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Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.

ns to move or curve under the influence of light. In ordinary use the term is practically synonymous with heliotropism.

velope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.

ject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with recent composers often synonymous with overture. The last Georgic was a good prelude to the Ænis Addison. The cause is more than the prelude, the effect is more than the sequel, of the fact. Whewell.

Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; -- sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital. People were tempted to lend, by great premiums and large interest. Swift.

In Great Britain and Europe used, rarely, as synonymous with quick-fire.

e purpose of attaining some particular effect, as a reduction of flesh; -- sometimes used synonymously with hygiene.

The head of a tribe among the American Indians; a chief; -- generally used as synonymous with sachem, but some writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. "Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow." Longfellow.

. Mr. Hume sometimes employs (after the manner of the French metaphysicians) sentiment as synonymous with feeling; a use of the word quite unprecedented in our tongue. Stewart. Less of sentiment than sense. Tennyson.

circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. State is a term nearly synonymous with "mode," but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. Sir W. Hamilton. Declare the past and present state of things. Dryden. Keep the state of the question in your e…

nearly the same signification, and therefore may often be used interchangeably. See under Synonymous. [Written also synonyme.] All languages tend to clear themselves of synonyms as intellectual culture advances, the superfluous words being taken up and appropriated by new shades and combinations of thought evolved in t…

Synonymous. [Obs.]

Synonymously. [Obs.]

The science, or the scientific treatment, of synonymous words.

Of or pertaining to synonyms, or synonymic; synonymous.

The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.

unishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

ords by figures placed under the base; figured bass; basso continuo; -- sometimes used as synonymous with harmony.

Inertness; inactivity. Vis intertiæ and inertia are not strictly synonymous. The former implies the resistance itself which is given, while the latter implies merely the property by which it is given. -- Vis mortua Etym: [L.] (Mech.), dead force; force doing no active work, but only producing pressure. -- Vis vitæ, o…