You must not suppose that the terms used in defining a word are its absolute synonyms, or may be substituted for it indiscriminately.

WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS; a dictionary of discriminated synonyms with antonyms and analogous and contrasted words.

Of the fifty-three species, about thirty-three seem to be new, or to have been so imperfectly described as not to admit of precise identification, and five others have synonyms more or less doubtful applied to them.

One of his famous expressions, the most formidable rival of sine die (which, as the reader has doubtless discovered, he intended as an elegant synonym for without fail), was entirely originalthis was "Granny to Mash" (I spell phonetically), used as an exclamation, and only employed when laboring under great mental excitement.

It might however be contended that the term 'the damp death' is used as an energetic synonym for the 'Splendour' itself.

We have no exact synonym, but this explains, rather than justifies, its use.

Can you think of circumstances in which a young girl might be so placed that the favorable synonyms might be applied to her? <Bright.>

No wonder, then, that Scott recorded his abhorrence of the "whole Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy tribe," while to Coleridge and Thackeray "Jemmy Jessamy stuff" was a favorite synonym for the emotional inane.

Mere synonyms have been taken for different tribes, and their history and language has been criss-crossed as if the facts had been heaped together with a pitchfork.

" The expression is difficult to translate, but Sappho and Cleopatra expressed it in their lives; perhaps ardent in love would be a mild synonym.

And, finally, the translators of French poems often found it easier to transfer a foreign word bodily than to seek out a native synonym, particularly when the former supplied them with a rhyme.

It is pretty clear that, if this distinction were accepted, it would be of use to the critic, inasmuch as we should have two terms for two ideas, instead of one popular term with a rather pedantic synonym.

The physiologic synonyms for "energetic and lazy" are "well-iodinized" and "poorly iodinized.

He continues his poetic synonyms for the night.

The term may be objected to, as the result of a grammatical abbreviation, but if not adopted practically, it may do as a poetical synonym for this great lake.

As a rule, however, "dramatic" is employed by the modern journalist simply as a rather pretentious synonym for the still more hackneyed "startling."]

First, find all the satisfactory synonyms you can for yourself.

To call the world "God" is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym for the word "world."

The place is "Ingleside;" the General will call it by no other than the family name,the sweet Scottish synonym for Home-corner.

It was also the work not of one but of many different groups of translators, as is shown by the variant synonyms employed in different books to translate the same Hebrew words and idioms.