N. region, sphere, ground, soil, # area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat,
orb, circuit, circle,
reservation, pale,
compartment, department, clearing,
[political divisions: see property &c. 780 and Government &c. 737a.],
arena, precincts,
enceinte, walk, march,
patch, plot,
parcel,
inclosure, close, field, court,
enclave, reserve, preserve, street,
clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude, biosphere, lithosphere
N. luminary, light, flame,
spark,
scintilla,
phosphorescence,
fluorescence, sun, orb of day,
phoebus, apollo,
aurora, star,
orb,
meteor, falling star, shooting star, blazing star,
dog star,
sirius,
canicula,
aldebaran,
constellation,
galaxy,
zodiacal light,
anthelion, day star, morning star,
lucifer, mock sun,
parhelion,
phosphor, phosphorus, sun dog|, venus,
aurora, polar lights, northern lights, aurora borealis, southern lights, aurora australis,
lightning, chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer lightning, ball lightning, kugelblitz, phosphorus, yellow phosphorus, scintillator,
phosphor, firefly luminescence,
ignis fatuus, jack o'lantern, friar's lantern,
will-o'-the-wisp,
firedrake,
fata morgana, saint elmo's fire,
glowworm,
firefly, june bug, lightning bug, anglerfish, gas, gas light, lime light,
lantern,
lanthorn, dark lantern,
bull's-eye,
candle,
bougie,
taper,
rushlight, oil,
wick, burner, argand,
moderator,
duplex,
torch,
flambeau, link,
brand, gaselier,
chandelier,
electrolier,
candelabrum,
candelabra,
girandole,
sconce,
luster,
candlestick, lamp, light, incandescent lamp, tungsten bulb, light bulb, flashlight,
torch, arc light, laser,
maser, neon bulb, neon sign, fluorescent lamp,
filament,
socket, contacts, filler gas,
firework,
fizgig,
pyrotechnics,
rocket,
lighthouse Phr. "blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels", "the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky", "the planets in their station list'ning stood", "the scriptures of the skies", "that orbed continent, the fire that severs day from night"
N. business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about,
affair,
concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do,
agendum, task, work, job,
chore,
errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part,
role,
cue, province, function,
lookout, department, capacity, sphere,
orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round,
routine, race, career, office, place, post,
chargeship,
incumbency, living, situation,
berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking,
vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft,
mystery,
handicraft, trade, exercise, work,
avocation, press of business
V. pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in, employ oneself in, employ oneself upon, occupy oneself with, concern oneself with, make it one's business, undertake, enter a profession, betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, have to do with, office, place, post,
chargeship,
incumbency, living, situation,
berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, drive a trade, carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business, keep a shop, ply one's task, ply one's trade, labor in one's vocation, pursue the even tenor of one's way, attend to business, attend to one's work,
officiate, serve, act, act one's part, play one's part, do duty, serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of, hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation, hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation, be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on, have one's hands in, have in hand, have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders, bear the burden, have one's hands full, be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil, pass through one's hands
Adj. businesslike, phr,
workaday, "a business with an income at its heels", professional, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, official, par negotiis neque supra,
functional,
busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands,
afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting
Adv. in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally &c
