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. sharpness,
acuity,
acumination,
spinosity, point,
spike,
spine,
spicule,
spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle,
tack,
nail, pin,
prick,
prickle,
spur,
rowel,
barb,
spit,
cusp, horn,
antler,
snag, tag thorn,
bristle, adam's needle, bear grass,
tine,
yucca,
nib, tooth,
tusk, spoke,
cog,
ratchet,
crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf,
pike,
aiguille,
spire, pyramid,
steeple,
beard, chevaux de frise,
porcupine,
hedgehog,
brier,
bramble,
thistle,
comb,
awn,
beggar's lice,
bur,
burr,
catchweed,
cleavers,
clivers,
goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb,
hackle,
hatchel,
heckle,
wedge, knife edge, cutting edge,
blade, edge tool,
cutlery, knife,
penknife,
whittle,
razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor,
scalpel,
bistoury,
lancet,
plowshare,
coulter,
colter,
hatchet,
ax,
pickax,
mattock,
pick,
adze, gill,
billhook,
cleaver,
cutter,
scythe,
sickle,
scissors,
shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword,
bodkin, belduque,
bowie knife, paring knife,
bushwhacker,
drawing knife, drawing shave,
microtome,
chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade,
guillotine, sharpener,
hone,
strop,
grindstone,
whetstone,
novaculite, steel,
emery V. be sharp, taper to a point, bristle with, render sharp,
sharpen, point,
aculeate,
whet,
barb,
spiculate, set,
strop,
grind,
chip, cut
Adj. sharp, keen, acute,
acicular,
aciform,
aculeated,
acuminated, pointed,
tapering, conical,
pyramidal,
mucronate,
mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped,
spiked,
spiky,
ensiform,
peaked,
salient,
cusped,
cuspidate,
cuspidated,
cornute,
cornuted, cornicultate,
prickly,
spiny,
spinous,
spicular,
thorny,
bristling,
muricated,
pectinated,
studded,
thistly, briary,
craggy,
snaggy,
digitated,
two-edged,
fusiform,
dentiform,
denticulated, toothed,
odontoid,
starlike,
stellated,
stelliform,
sagittate, sagittiform,
arrowheaded,
arrowy,
barbed,
spurred,
acinaciform,
apiculate,
apiculated,
aristate,
awned,
awny,
bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped,
coniform, crestate,
echinate,
gladiate,
lanceolate,
lanciform,
awl,
awl-shaped, lance-shaped,
awl-shaped, scimitar-shaped,
sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous,
subulate,
tetrahedral,
xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set