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For those of you who haven't seen this before...I have a bargain-bin thesaurus, a reprinting of a mid to late 1800's Roget's. It's delicious.

Smoothness

Adj. polish, gloss; lubricity, lubrication.

down, velvet, silk, satin; slide; glass, ice.

iron, flat-iron, tailor's goose, burnisher.

V. smooth, plane, file, shave; level; macadamize; polish, burnish, planish, levigate, glaze; iron, hot-press; lubricate.

Adj. smooth; polished; even; sleek, glossy; silken, silky; lanate, downy, velvety; glabrous, slippery, glassy, lubricous, oily, soft; unwrinkled; smooth as glass, smooth as ice, smooth as velvet, smooth as oil; slippery as an eel.

From "Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Classic American Edition, first published in 1852.

Heat

phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; arc; bonfire; firework, pyrotechny; wild-fire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; conflagration.

summer, dog-days, canicule; baking, white heat, tropical heat, Afric heat, Bengal heat, summer heat, bloodheat; heat wave, sirocco, simoon; broiling sun; isolation; warming.

v. be hot; glow, incandesce, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, singe, scorch, scald, grill, broil, blaze, flame; smoulder; parch, fume, pant.

adj.fiery; incandescent, incalescent; candent, ebullient, glowing, smoking; on fire; blazing; in flames; in a blze; alight, afire, ablaze; unquenched, unextinguished; smouldering; in a heat, in a glow, in a fever, in a perspiration, in a sweat; sudorific; sweltering, sweltered; blood-hot, blood-warm; warm as a toast, warm as wool; recalescent, thermogenic, pyrotechnic, feverish, febrile, inflamed.

All thesaurus entries

From Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang Vol I.

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dandy-trap n. a loose paving stone. 1842 Spirit of the times (Feb. 19): The immense number of "dandy traps" (loose flag stones) which, on the slightest pressure, will cover you with mud and water.
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ear-biter n. [ref. to a story that one had chewed the ear off an opponent in a fight, ca1845] Post Office, a special agent of the U.S. Post Office Department. 1845 in DAE: How much the result of this first investigation, after the restoration of the "ear-biters" (as they were then sometimes facetiously called,) had to do with the radical change in opinion and action,...it may not be advisable to inquire.
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dido n. [orig. unkn.] an antic; often in phr. cut [up] didoes to engage in mischievous or uncontrolled behavior. 1807 in OEDS: A jolly Irishman, who cut as many didos as I could for the life of me.
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Odd definition for this one. fakus n. [FAK(E) + (DING)US] Und. a thingamabob, esp. if used for cheating

Care. [Vigilance.]

heedfulness...watchfulness; vigilance, surveillance, eyes of Argus, watch and ward, l'oeil du maître.

alertness; attention; prudence, circumspection (caution); forethought; precaution (preparation); accuracy (exactness); minuteness, attention to detail; meticullousness.

Be careful; reck; take care; pay attention to; keep a sharp eye upon; play gooseberry.

Look sharp; keep a sharp look-out; have all one's wits; have the eyes open.

Protect (render safe).

Do one's best; speak by the card, pick one's steps.

Sure-footed.

Guarded, on the alert, lynx-eyed.

I can see his glittering black eyes as I read these.

Revenge

vengeance, avengement, sweet revenge, vendetta, death-feud, eye for an eye, blood for blood, a Roland for an Oliver, retaliation, day of reckoning.

rancor, vindictiveness, implacability, malevolence, ruthlessness.

avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.

revenge, avenge, take revente, have one's revenge, breathe revenge, breathe vengeance, wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger, give no quarter, have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a rod in pickle, pay off old scores.

keep the wound green, harbour revenge, harbour vindictive feeling, bear malice, rankle, rankle in the breast, have at one's mercy.

revenge, vengeful, vindictive, rancorous, pitiless, ruthless, rigorous, avenging, retaliative, unforgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable, relentless, remorseless.

rankling, immitigable.

revenge is sweet.

I so love this thesaurus. Who knew having a grudge to settle would be "having a crow to pluck"? So amazing.

Oh, and having a rod in pickle? I was thinking it might be referring to having a piece of metal in acid. Pickle is a light acid that eats away certain marks on metal, I believe, and what a potent image, keeping your weapon in acid, ready to deal your revenge...wow.

I think I'm going to try to post a thesaurus entry every week.

Feeling:

impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep-felt, home-felt, heart-felt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic.

I love my thesaurus. Yeah, it's from 1805, so what? Wanna make something of it?