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. summit, summity|, top,
peak,
vertex, apex,
zenith, # pinnacle,
acme,
culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum,
climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point, turn of the tide, fountain head, water shed, water parting, sky, pole,
tip, tip top, crest, crow's nest, cap,
truck,
nib, end, crown,
brow, head,
nob,
noddle,
pate,
capsheaf, high places, heights, topgallant mast, sky scraper, quarter deck, hurricane deck,
architrave,
frieze,
cornice, coping stone,
zoophorus, capital,
epistyle,
sconce,
pediment,
entablature,
tympanum,
ceiling, attic,
loft,
garret, house top, upper story, summit conference, summit, peak of achievement, peak of performance, peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys
Adj. highest &c. (high ), top, top most, upper most,
tiptop,
culminating, meridian,
meridional, capital, head, polar, supreme,
supernal,
topgallant Adv. atop, at the top of the tree
Phr. en flute, fleur deau
N. disease, illness, sickness, ailing &c. "all the ills that flesh is heir to",
morbidity, morbosity|,
infirmity,
ailment, indisposition,
complaint, disorder,
malady, distemper, distemperature,
visitation, attack,
seizure, stroke, fit, delicacy, loss of health,
invalidation,
cachexy,
cachexia,
atrophy,
marasmus,
indigestion,
dyspepsia, decay, decline, consumption,
palsy,
paralysis,
prostration,
taint,
pollution,
infection,
sepsis,
septicity,
infestation,
epidemic,
pandemic,
endemic,
epizootic,
murrain, plague,
pestilence,
pox,
sore,
ulcer,
abscess,
fester,
boil,
pimple,
wen,
carbuncle, gathering,
imposthume, peccant humor, issue,
rot,
canker, cold sore, fever sore,
cancer,
carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease,
malignancy,
tumor,
caries,
mortification, corruption,
gangrene,
sphacelus,
sphacelation,
leprosy,
eruption,
rash, breaking out, fever, temperature,
calenture, inflammation,
ague,
angina pectoris,
appendicitis, asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera, biliary calculus, kidney stone,
black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea, blood poisoning,
bloodstroke,
bloody flux,
brash,
breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, q-fever, heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy, hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis,
bronchocele,
canker rash, cardialgia,
carditis,
endocarditis,
cholera,
asphyxia,
chlorosis,
chorea,
cynanche, dartre, enanthem, enanthema,
erysipelas,
exanthem,
exanthema,
gallstone,
goiter,
gonorrhea, green sickness,
grip,
grippe,
influenza, flu,
hay fever,
heartburn,
heaves, rupture,
hernia,
hemorrhoids, piles,
herpes,
itch, king's evil,
lockjaw,
measles,
mumps, polio,
necrosis,
pertussis,
phthisis,
pneumonia,
psora,
pyaemia,
pyrosis,
quinsy,
rachitis,
ringworm,
rubeola, st. vitus's dance,
scabies,
scarlatina,
scarlet fever,
scrofula,
seasickness,
struma, syntexis,
tetanus,
tetter,
tonsillitis,
tonsilitis,
tracheocele, trachoma,
trismus,
varicella, varicosis,
variola,
water qualm, whooping cough,
yellow fever, yellow jack, fatal disease, dangerous illness, galloping consumption, churchyard cough, general breaking up, break up of the system,
idiocy,
insanity, martyr to disease,
cripple, "the halt the lame and the blind",
valetudinary,
valetudinarian,
invalid, patient, case, sickroom, sick- chamber,
pathology,
etiology,
nosology,
anthrax, bighead,
blackleg, blackquarter, cattle plague,
glanders,
mange, scrapie, milk sickness, heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms, quarter-evil, quarter-ill,
rinderpest,
virus,
bacterium,
bacteria, dna virus, rna virus, rhinovirus, rhabdovirus, picornavirus, herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, cmv, human immunodefficiency virus, hiv
V. be ill,
ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have,
droop, flag,
languish,
halt,
sicken,
peak, pine,
gasp, keep one's bed, feign sickness, lay by, lay up, take a disease, catch a disease, catch an infection, break out
Adj. diseased,
ailing, ill, ill of, taken ill, seized with, indisposed, unwell, sick,
squeamish, poorly,
seedy, affected with illness, afflicted with illness, laid up, confined,
bedridden, invalided, in hospital, on the sick list, out of health, out of sorts, under the weather,
valetudinary, unsound, unhealthy, sickly, morbid,
morbose, healthless, infirm,
chlorotic, unbraced,
drooping,
flagging,
lame,
crippled,
halting, morbid,
tainted,
vitiated,
peccant,
contaminated, poisoned,
tabid,
mangy,
leprous,
cankered,
rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core,
withered,
palsied,
paralytic,
dyspeptic, luetic,
pneumonic,
pulmonic,
phthisic,
rachitic, syntectic, syntectical,
tabetic,
varicose, touched in the wind,
broken-winded,
spavined,
gasping,
hors de combat, weakly,
weakened,
decrepit, decayed, incurable, in declining health,
cranky, in a bad way, in danger,
prostrate,
moribund,
morbific,
epidemic,
endemic,
zymotic