rotundity

  • 51HANSWURST —    (i. e. Jack Pudding), a pantomimic character in comic performances on the German stage; a great favourite at one time with the vulgar; distinguished for his awkwardness, his gluttonous appetite, and his rotundity …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 52ball — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. dance, cotillion; shot, projectile; sphere, globe. See amusement, arms, rotundity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A spherical body] Syn. globe, spheroid, sphere, balloon, orb, perisphere, globule, globular or …

    English dictionary for students

  • 53barrel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. keg, tun, cask, vat; cylinder, tube. See receptacle, rotundity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cask, keg, hogshead, stoup, vat, tub, puncheon, firkin, butt, carboy, cylinder, tun, receptacle, pipe, container …

    English dictionary for students

  • 54bead — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. drop; pellet, ball. See rotundity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A small globule] Syn. drop, droplet, bubble, globule, pellet, grain, particle, speck, dot, dab, pea, shot, pill, spherule, driblet; see also… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 55beauty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality that arouses pleasure Nouns 1. beauty, the beautiful; form, elegance, grace, charm, beauty unadorned; symmetry; loveliness, attractiveness, comeliness, fairness, pulchritude, good looks, body… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 56blob — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. drop, bubble, lump. See rotundity. II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. mass, daub, glov, lump, globule, ball, clump …

    English dictionary for students

  • 57bubble — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. globule, blob. See rotundity, deception. v. i. effervesce, boil, gurgle. See agitation, transientness, water. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. globule, sac, air bubble, soap bubble, balloon, droplet, foam,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 58bulb — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. knob, globe; tuber, corm; lamp. See convexity, vegetable, light, rotundity. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. globe, globule, ball, knob, nodule, corn, nub, tuber, bulbil, tubercle, corm, protuberance, head,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 59column — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. pillar, shaft; formation (of troops, figures, etc.); article, byline. See continuity, rotundity, support, combatant, news, height. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A post] Syn. pillar, support, prop, shaft,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 60cone-shaped — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. conic[al], conoid[al]; coniferous, pyramidal. See sharpness, rotundity …

    English dictionary for students