Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

CLASS III SECTION II. 2. FLUID MATTER

333. Fluidity -- N. fluidity, liquidity; liquidness &c adj. ^† ; gaseity &c 334 [Obs.].

334. Gaseity -- N. gaseity ^† ; vaporousness &c adj.; flatulence, flatulency; volatility; aeration, aerification.

335. Liquefaction -- N. liquefaction; liquescence ^† , liquescency ^† ; melting &c (heat) 384; colliquation ^† , colliquefaction ^† ; thaw; liquation ^† , deliquation ^† , deliquescence; lixiviation ^† , dissolution.

336. Vaporization -- N. vaporization, volatilization; gasification, evaporation, vaporation ^† ; distillation, cupellation [Chem] , cohobation, sublimination ^† , exhalation; volatility.

337. Water -- N. water; serum, serosity ^† ; lymph; rheum; diluent; agua [Sp.] , aqua, pani ^† .

338. Air -- N. air &c (gas) 334; common air, atmospheric air; atmosphere; aerosphere ^† .

339. Moisture -- N. moisture; moistness &c adj.; humidity, humectation ^† ; madefaction ^† , dew; serein ^† ; marsh &c 345; hygrometry, hygrometer.

340. Dryness -- N. dryness &c adj.; siccity ^† , aridity, drought, ebb tide, low water.

341. Ocean -- N. sea, ocean, main, deep, brine, salt water, waves, billows, high seas, offing, great waters, watery waste, vasty deep; wave, tide, &c (water in motion) 348.

342. Land -- N. land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma.

343. Gulf. Lake -- N. land covered with water, gulf, gulph ^† , bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou [U.S.] , fiord, armlet; frith ^† , firth, ostiary ^† , mouth; lagune ^† , lagoon; indraught ^† ; cove, creek; natural harbor; roads; strait; narrows; Euripus; sound, belt, gut, kyles ^† ; continental slope, continental shelf.

344. Plain -- N. plain, table-land, face of the country; open country, champaign country ^† ; basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold ^† , veldt; moor, moorland; bush; plateau &c (level) 213; campagna ^† ; alkali flat, llano; mesa, mesilla [U.S.] , playa; shaking prairie, trembling prairie; vega [Sp.] .

345. Marsh -- N. marsh, swamp, morass, marish ^† , moss, fen, bog, quagmire, slough, sump, wash; mud, squash, slush; baygall [U.S.] , cienaga ^† , jhil ^† , vlei ^† .

346. Island -- N. island, isle, islet, eyot ^† , ait ^† , holf ^† , reef, atoll, breaker; archipelago; islander.

347. [Fluid in motion.] Stream -- N. stream &c (of water) 348, (of air) 349.

348. [Water in motion.] River -- N. running water.

349. [Air in motion] Wind -- N. wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation ^† , eluvium ^† ; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent.

350. [Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit -- N. conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race; head race, tail race; abito ^† , aboideau ^† , aboiteau [Fr.] , bito ^† ; acequia ^† , acequiador ^† , acequiamadre ^† ; arroyo; adit ^† , aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile; flume, ingate ^† , runner; lock-weir, tedge ^† ; vena ^† ; dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon; piscina ^† ; pipe &c (tube) 260; funnel; tunnel &c (passage) 627; water pipe, waste pipe; emunctory ^† , gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper; adjutage ^† , ajutage ^† ; hose; gargoyle; gurgoyle ^† ; penstock, weir; flood gate, water gate; sluice, lock, valve; rose; waterworks.

351. [Channel for the passage of air.] Airpipe -- N. air pipe, air tube; airhole ^† , blowhole, breathinghole ^† , venthole; shaft, flue, chimney, funnel, vent, nostril, nozzle, throat, weasand ^† , trachea; bronchus, bronchia [Med.] ; larynx, tonsils, windpipe, spiracle; ventiduct ^† , ventilator; louvre, jalousie, Venetian blinds; blowpipe &c (wind) 349; pipe &c (tube) 260; jhilmil ^† ; smokestack.