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usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business<br />

there; baffle all description, beggar all description.<br />

Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous † ; anomalous, anomalistic; out of<br />

order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary;<br />

teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive,<br />

unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the<br />

common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced;<br />

funny.<br />

unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd,<br />

extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful &c 870; unexpected,<br />

unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint,<br />

nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre;<br />

outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized † .<br />

heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half<br />

blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal † ; asymmetric &c 243; adelomorphous † , bisexual,<br />

hermaphrodite, monoclinous † .<br />

qualified &c 469.<br />

singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.<br />

newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar;<br />

undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.<br />

Adv. unconformably &c adj.; except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and<br />

except, let alone.<br />

however, yet, but.<br />

once in a blue moon, once in a million years.<br />

Int. what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?;<br />

Sacre bleu [Fr.].<br />

Phr. never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like.<br />

I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it.<br />

SECTION V.<br />

NUMBER<br />

1. NUMBER, IN THE ABSTRACT<br />

84. Number -- N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer; counter; round<br />

number; formula; function; series.<br />

sum, difference, complement, subtrahend; product; multiplicand, multiplier,<br />

multiplicator † ; coefficient, multiple; dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple<br />

[Math.]; fraction, rational number; surd, irrational number; transcendental number; mixed<br />

number, complex number, complex conjugate; numerator, denominator; decimal,<br />

circulating decimal, repetend; common measure, aliquot part; prime number, prime,<br />

relative prime, prime factor, prime pair; reciprocal; totient † .<br />

binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number [Comp.].<br />

permutation, combination, variation; election.<br />

ratio, proportion, comparison &c 464; progression; arithmetical progression,<br />

geometrical progression, harmonical progression † ; percentage, permilage.

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