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Adj. fatigued, tired &c v.; weary &c 841; drowsy &c 683; drooping &c v.; haggard;<br />

toilworn † , wayworn:, footsore, surbated † , weather-beaten; faint; done up, used up,<br />

knocked up; bushed [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent,<br />

overfatigued; unrefreshed † , unrestored.<br />

worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.<br />

breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind; blown, puffing and<br />

blowing; short-breathed; anhelose † ; broken winded, short-winded; dyspnaeal † ,<br />

dyspnaeic † .<br />

ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to<br />

death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat [Fr.].<br />

fatiguing &c v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.<br />

689. Refreshment -- N. bracing &c v.; recovery of strength, recuperation &c 159;<br />

restoration, revival &c 660; repair, refection, refocillation † , refreshment, regalement † ,<br />

bait; relief &c 834.<br />

break, spell.<br />

refreshment stand; refreshments; [Refreshments], ice cream, cold soda, soda pop, hot<br />

dogs (food).<br />

V. brace &c (strengthen) 159; reinvigorate; air, freshen up, refresh, recruit; repair &c<br />

(restore) 660; fan, refocillate † ; refresh the inner man.<br />

breathe, respire; drink in the ozone; take a break, take a breather, take five, draw<br />

breath, take a deep breath, take breath, gather breath, take a long breath, regain breath,<br />

recover breath; get better, raise one's head; recover one's strength, regain one's strength,<br />

renew one's strength &c 159; perk up, get one's second wind.<br />

come to oneself &c (revive) 660; feel refreshed, feel like a giant refreshed.<br />

Adj. refreshing &c v.; recuperative &c 660.<br />

refreshed &c v.; untired † , unwearied.<br />

690. Agent -- N. doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator; executor, executrix;<br />

practitioner, worker, stager.<br />

bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant; laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum.<br />

workman, artisan; craftsman, handicraftsman; mechanic, operative; working man;<br />

laboring man; demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy † ; hand,<br />

man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack; mere tool &c 633; beast of burden,<br />

drudge, fag; lumper † , roustabout.<br />

maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer,<br />

smith, forger, Vulcan; carpenter; ganger, platelayer; blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker,<br />

wheelwright.<br />

machinist, mechanician, engineer.<br />

sempstress † , semstress † , seamstress; needlewoman † , workwoman; tailor, cordwainer † .<br />

minister &c (instrument) 631; servant &c 746; representative &c (commissioner) 758,<br />

(deputy) 759.<br />

coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis [Lat.], dramatis personae [Lat.];<br />

personnel.<br />

Phr. quorum pars magna fui [Lat.] [Vergil]; faber est quisque fortunae suae [Lat.].

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