Chapter Words Relating to Matter of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

(Verbs). To aerate, oxygenate, arterialise.

(Adjectives). Containing air, windy, flatulent, effervescent.

Atmospheric, airy, alfresco, aerial, aeriform.

(Adverbs). In the open air, à la belle étoile, alfresco, sub Jove.

• Moisture (Substantives), moistness, humidity, dampness, damp, wetness, wet, humectation, madefaction, dew, muddiness.

(Verbs). To be moist, etc.

To moisten, wet, humectate, damp, dampen, bedew, imbue, infiltrate, imbrue.

(Adjectives). Moist, damp, watery, humid, wet, dank, muggy, dewy, roral, rorid, roscid, juicy, swampy, muddy; humectant.

(Phrase). Wringing wet.

• Dryness (Substantives), siccity, aridity, drought.

Exsiccation, desiccation, are-faction, drainage.

(Verbs). To be dry, etc.

To render dry, to dry, dry up, sop up, exsiccate, desiccate, drain, parch.

(Adjectives). Dry, anhydrous, arid, dried, etc., unwatered, undamped, waterproof, husky, juiceless, sapless; siccative, desiccative.

(Phrases). Dry as a bone; dry as dust; dry as a stick; dry as a mummy; dry as a biscuit; dry as a limekiln.

• Ocean (Substantives), sea, main, the deep, brine, salt water, tide, wave, surge, ooze, etc. 348; archipelago.

Hydrography, Oceanography.

Neptune, Thetis, Triton, Oceanid, Nereid, etc., mermaid; trident.

(Phrases). The vasty deep; the briny.

(Adjectives). Oceanic, marine, maritime, thalassic, pelagic, pelagian, archipelagian.

(Adverbs). At sea, on sea.

• Land (Substantives), earth, ground, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, delta, tongue of land, oasis.

Coast, shore, seaboard, seaside, sea-bank, strand, beach, bank, lea.

(Phrase). An iron-bound coast.

Cape, promontory, etc. 250, headland, point of land, highland.

Soil, glebe, clay, humus, loam, marl, clod, clot, rock, crag, etc. 206, mould, subsoil.

(Adjectives). Terrene, continental, earthy, terraqueous, terrestrial.

Littoral, riparian, midland.

(Adverbs). Ashore, on shore, on land.