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Index — Chapter Words Relating to Matter (Part 3 of 24)

    Grave-clothes, a shroud, winding-sheet, cerecloth, cerement.

    Coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque.

    Grave, pit, sepulchre, tomb, vault, catacomb, mausoleum, house of death, burial-place, cemetery, necropolis, churchyard, graveyard, burial-ground, cromlech, dolmen, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, charnel-house, morgue, mortuary, crematorium, cinerator; Valhalla.

    Exhumation, disinterment.

    (Verbs). To inter, bury, lay in the grave, consign to the grave or tomb, entomb, inhume, cremate, lay out.

    To exhume, disinter.

    (Adjectives). Buried, etc., funereal, funebrial, funerary, mortuary, sepulchral.

    2. Special Vitality

  1. Animality (Substantives), animal life, animality, animation, breath, animalisation.
  2. Flesh, flesh and blood.

    (Verb). To animalise.

  3. Vegetability (Substantives), vegetable life, vegetation.
  4. Animal (Substantives), the animal kingdom, fauna, avifauna.
  5. A beast, brute, creature, created being; creeping or living thing, dumb creature, flocks and herds, flight.

    Cattle, kine, etc.

    Game. Fera natura, wild life.

    (Phrases). The beasts of the field; fowls of the air; denizens of the deep.

    Mammal, quadruped, bird, reptile, fish, mollusc, worm, insect, zoophyte, animalcule, etc.

    Menagerie, fossil remains.

    (Adjectives). Animal, organic, zoological, piscatory, fishy, molluscous, vermicular, etc., feral.

  6. Plant (Substantives), vegetable, the vegetable kingdom, flora.
  7. Tree, fruit-tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, fungus, lichen, moss, seaweed, alga; annual, biennial, perennial; exotic.

    Forest, wood, hurst, holt, greenwood, woodland, bush, brake, grove, copse, coppice, hedgerow, boscage, plantation, thicket, underwood, brushwood, jungle, clump of trees, garden, espalier, herbaceous border, shrubbery, parterre, rock-garden, park, chase, weald.

    Foliage, florescence, etc.

    Hortus siccus, herbarium, herbal.

    (Adjectives). Vegetable, vegetal, arboreal, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, woodland, woody, wooded, well - wooded, shrubby, verdant.

  8. The science of animals.
  9. Zoology (Substantives), Zoography, Anatomy, Zootomy, Comparative Anatomy, Physiology, Morphology.