N. height, altitude, elevation, eminence, pitch,
loftiness,
sublimity, tallness,
stature,
procerity, prominence,
colossus,
giant,
grenadier,
giraffe,
camelopard, mount, mountain, hill alto,
butte,
monticle, fell,
knap, cape,
headland,
foreland,
promontory, ridge, hog's back,
dune, rising ground, vantage ground, down,
moor,
moorland,
alp, uplands, highlands, heights &c. (summit), 210,
knob,
loma, pena, picacho,
tump,
knoll,
hummock,
hillock,
barrow,
mound,
mole, steeps,
bluff,
cliff,
craig,
tor,
peak,
pike,
clough,
escarpment, edge,
ledge,
brae, dizzy height, tower,
pillar, column,
obelisk, monument,
steeple,
spire,
minaret,
campanile,
turret, dome,
cupola, skyscraper, pole,
pikestaff,
maypole,
flagstaff, top mast, topgallant mast,
ceiling, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide,
altimetry, batophobia,
satellite, spy-in-the-sky
V. be high, tower,
soar, command,
hover, hover over, fly over, orbit, be in orbit, cap,
culminate,
overhang, hang over,
impend,
beetle,
bestride,
ride, mount,
perch,
surmount, cover, overtop, stand on tiptoe, become high, grow higher, grow taller,
upgrow, rise, send into orbit, render high,
heighten Adj. high, elevated, eminent,
exalted, lofty, tall, gigantic,
patagonian, towering,
beetling,
soaring, hanging, elevated, upper, highest, high reaching,
insessorial,
perching,
upland,
moorland, hilly,
knobby, mountainous, alpine,
subalpine, heaven kissing, cloudtopt, cloudcapt, cloudtouching,
aerial, overhanging,
incumbent, overlying,
superincumbent,
supernatant,
superimposed, prominent &c. c, 250, tall as a maypole, tall as a poplar, tall as a steeple,
lanky Adv. on high, high up,
aloft, up, above,
aloof, overhead, airwind,
upstairs, abovestairs, in the clouds, on tiptoe, on stilts, on the shoulders of, over head and ears, breast high, over, upwards, from top to bottom
Phr. e meglio cader dalle finistre che dal tetto
N. convexity, prominence, projection, swelling,
gibbosity,
bilge,
bulge,
protuberance,
protrusion,
camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell,
intumescence,
tumour,
tumor,
tubercle,
tuberosity,
excrescence,
hump,
hunch,
bunch,
boss,
embossment,
hub, hubble tooth,
knob,
elbow, process,
apophysis,
condyle,
bulb,
node,
nodule,
nodosity, tongue,
dorsum,
bump,
clump, sugar loaf, bow,
mamelon,
molar,
belly, corporation|, pot belly,
gut,
withers, back, shoulder,
lip,
flange,
pimple, zit,
wen, wheel,
papula,
pustule,
pock, proud flesh, growth,
sarcoma,
caruncle, corn,
wart, pappiloma,
furuncle,
polypus,
fungus,
fungosity,
exostosis,
bleb,
blister,
blain,
boil, airbubble,
blob,
papule, verruca,
papilla,
nipple,
teat,
tit,
titty, boob,
knocker,
pap, breast,
dug,
mammilla,
proboscis, nose,
neb,
beak,
snout,
nozzle, schnoz,
peg,
button,
stud, ridge, rib,
jutty,
trunnion,
snag,
cupola, dome, arch,
balcony,
eaves,
pilaster, relief,
relievo,
cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape,
promontory,
mull,
forehead,
foreland, point of land,
mole,
jetty,
hummock,
ledge,
spur,
naze,
ness V. be prominent, project,
bulge,
protrude,
pout, bouge|,
bunch, jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out, stick up, bristle up, start up, cock up, shoot up, swell over, hang over, bend over,
beetle, render prominent, raise 307,
emboss,
chase, belly out
Adj. convex, prominent,
protuberant, projecting,
bossed,
embossed,
bossy,
nodular,
bunchy,
clavate,
clavated,
claviform,
hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform,
papulous, papilose,
hemispheric,
bulbous, bowed, arched, bold,
bellied,
tuberous,
tuberculous, tumous,
cornute,
odontoid,
lentiform,
lenticular,
gibbous, club shaped,
hubby, hubbly,
knobby,
papillose,
saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate,
torose,
ventricose,
verrucose,
salient, in relief, raised,
repousse, bloated &c, (expanded) 194
Land Roget’s Thesaurus §342 N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, # continent, mainland, peninsula,
chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land,
isthmus,
oasis,
promontory,
highland, coast, shore,
scar,
strand,
beach,
playa, bank,
lea,
seaboard,
seaside, seabank,
seacoast,
seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land,
derelict,
innings,
alluvium,
alluvion,
ancon, riverbank, river bank,
levee, soil,
glebe, clay,
loam,
marl,
cledge, chalk, gravel,
mold,
subsoil,
clod,
clot, rock,
crag, acres,
real estate,
landsman V. land, come to land, set foot on the soil, set foot on dry land, come ashore, go ashore,
debark Adj. earthy, continental,
midland,
coastal,
littoral,
riparian, alluvial,
terrene, landed,
predial,
territorial, geophilous, ripicolous
Adv. ashore, on shore, on land
