ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Phr. die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht [G.]; earth is but the frozen echo of the
silent voice of God [Hageman]; green calm below, blue quietness above [Whittier];
hanging in a golden chain this pendant World [Paradise Lost]; nothing in nature is
unbeautiful [Tennyson]; silently as a dream the fabric rose [Cowper]; some touch of
nature's genial glow [Scott]; this majestical roof fretted with golden fire [Hamlet];
through knowledge we behold the World's creation [Spenser].
319. Gravity -- N. gravity, gravitation; weight; heaviness &c adj.; specific gravity;
pondorosity † , pressure, load; burden, burthen † ; ballast, counterpoise; lump of, mass of,
weight of.
lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion.
weighing, ponderation † , trutination † ; weights; avoirdupois weight, troy weight,
apothecaries' weight; grain, scruple, drachma † , ounce, pound, lb, arroba † , load, stone,
hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod † .
[metric weights] gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram; nanogram,
picogram, femtogram, attogram.
[Weighing Instrument] balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge † ; spring
balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance;
postal scale, baby scale.
[Science of gravity] statics.
V. be heavy &c adj.; gravitate, weigh, press, cumber, load.
[Measure the weight of] weigh, poise.
Adj. weighty; weighing &c v.; heavy as lead; ponderous, ponderable; lumpish † , lumpy,
cumbersome, burdensome; cumbrous, unwieldy, massive.
incumbent, superincumbent † .
320. Levity -- N. levity; lightness &c adj.; imponderability, buoyancy, volatility.
feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble,
balloon; float, buoy; ether, air.
leaven, ferment, barm † , yeast.
lighter-than-air balloon, helium balloon, hydrogen balloon, hot air balloon.
convection, thermal draft, thermal.
V. be light &c adj.; float, rise, swim, be buoyed up.
render light &c adj.; lighten, leaven.
Adj. light, subtile, airy; imponderous † , imponderable; astatic † , weightless, ethereal,
sublimated; gossamery; suberose † , suberous † ; uncompressed, volatile; buoyant, floating
&c v.; portable.
light as a feather, light as a thistle, light as air; lighter than air; rise like a balloon, float
like a balloon
SECTION II.
INORGANIC MATTER
1. SOLID MATTER