N. selfishness, self-love, self- indulgence, self-worship, self-interest, egotism, egoism, amour propre, &c. (vanity) 880, nepotism, worldliness, world wisdom, illiberality, meanness, time-pleaser, time-server, tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter, jobber, worldling, egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist, dog in the manger, charity that begins at home, canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer

V. be selfish, please oneself, indulge oneself, coddle oneself, consult one's own wishes, consult one's own pleasure, look after one's own interest, feather one's nest, take care of number one, have an eye to the main chance, know on which side one's bread is buttered, give an inch and take an ell

Adj. selfish, self-seeking, self-indulgent, self-interested, self- centered, wrapped up in self, wrapt up in self, centered in self, egotistic, egotistical, egoistical, illiberal, mean, ungenerous, narrow-minded, mercenary, venal, covetous, unspiritual, earthly, earthly-minded, mundane, worldly, worldly- minded, worldly-wise, timeserving, interested, alieni appetens sui profusus

Adv. ungenerously, to gain some private ends, from interested motives

Phr. apres nous le deluge

N. intemperance, sensuality, animalism, carnality, tragalism, pleasure, effeminacy, silkiness, luxury, luxuriousness, lap of pleasure, lap of luxury, free living, indulgence, high living, wild living, inabstinence, self- indulgence, voluptuousness, epicurism, epicureanism, sybaritism, drug habit, dissipation, licentiousness, debauchery, crapulence, revels, revelry, debauch, carousal, jollification, drinking bout, wassail, saturnalia, orgies, excess, too much, circean cup, bhang, hashish, marijuana, pot, hemp, grass, opium, cocaine, morphine, heroin, lsd, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, angel dust, pcp, barbiturates, amphetamines, speed

V. be intemperate, indulge, exceed, live well, live high, live high on the fat of the land, live it up, live high on the hog, give a loose to indulgence, wallow in voluptuousness, plunge into dissipation, revel, rake, live hard, run riot, sow one's wild oats, slake one's appetite, slake one's thirst, swill, pamper

Adj. intemperate, inabstinent, sensual, self-indulgent, voluptuous, luxurious, licentious, wild, dissolute, rakish, fast, debauched, brutish, crapulous, swinish, piggish, paphian, epicurean, sybaritical, bred in the lap of luxury, nursed in the lap of luxury, indulged, pampered, full-fed, high-fed

Phr. "being full of supper and distempering draughts"