N. agency, operation, force, working, strain, # function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke

V. be -in action, operate, work, act, act upon, perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike, come play, come bring into operation, have play, have free play, bring to bear upon

Adj. operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon

Adv. by the -agency, - of, through, by means of

Phr. "i myself must mix with action lest i wither by despair"

N. instrumentality, aid, subservience, subserviency, mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand, agency, minister, handmaid, midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician, gobetween, cat's-paw, stepping-stone, opener, key, master key, passkey, latchkey, "open sesame", passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password, instrument, expedient, means

V. subserve, minister, mediate, intervene, be instrumental, pander to, officiate, tend

Adj. instrumental, useful, ministerial, subservient, mediatorial, intermediate, intervening, conducive

Adv. through, by, per, whereby, thereby, hereby, by the agency of, by dint of, by virtue of, in virtue of, through the medium of, along with, on the shoulders of, by means of, by the aid of, with the aid of, per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul, somehow, somehow or other, by hook or by crook