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

embalm, cure, salt, pickle, season, kyanize † , bottle, pot, tin, can; sterilize, pasteurize,
radiate; dry, lyophilize [Chem], freeze-dry, concentrate, evaporate; freeze, quick-freeze,
deep-freeze; husband &c (store) 636.
Adj. preserving &c v.; conservative; prophylactic; preservatory † , preservative; hygienic.
preserved &c v.; unimpaired, unbroken, uninjured, unhurt, unsinged † , unmarred; safe,
safe and sound; intact, with a whole skin.
Phr. nolumus leges Angliae mutari [Lat.].
671. Escape -- N. escape, scape; avolation † , elopement, flight; evasion &c (avoidance)
623; retreat; narrow escape, hairbreadth escape; close call; come off, impunity.
[Means of escape] loophole &c (opening) 260; path &c 627; refuse &c 666; vent, vent
peg; safety valve; drawbridge, fire escape.
reprieve &c (deliverance) 672; liberation &c 750.
refugee &c (fugitive) 623.
V. escape, scape; make one's escape, effect one's escape, make good one's escape; break
jail; get off, get clear off, get well out of; echapper belle [Fr.], save one's bacon, save
one's skin; weather the storm &c (safe) 664; escape scot-free.
elude &c, make off &c (avoid) 623; march off &c (go away) 293; give one the slip;
slip through the hands, slip through the fingers; slip the collar, wriggle out of prison,
break out, break loose, break loose from prison; break away, slip away, get away; find
vent, find a hole to creep out of.
disappear, vanish.
Adj. escaping, escaped &c v.. stolen away, fled.
Phr. the bird has flown the coop.
672. Deliverance -- N. deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval † ; respite;
liberation &c 750; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery;
redeemableness † .
V. deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off, bring through;
tirer d'affaire [Fr.], get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to
the rescue; rid; retrieve &c (restore) 660; be rid of, get rid of.
Adj. saved &c v.. extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
Int. to the rescue!,
3. PRECURSORY MEASURES
673. Preparation -- N. preparation; providing &c v.; provision, providence; anticipation
&c (foresight) 510; precaution, preconcertation † , predisposition; forecast &c (plan) 626;
rehearsal, note of preparation.
[Putting in order] arrangement &c 60; clearance; adjustment &c 23; tuning;
equipment, outfit, accouterment, armament, array.
ripening &c v.; maturation, evolution; elaboration, concoction, digestion; gestation,
batching, incubation, sitting.
groundwork, first stone, cradle, stepping-stone; foundation, scaffold &c (support) 215;
scaffolding, echafaudage [Fr.].