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1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS<br />

192. Size -- N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness &c adj.; greatness<br />

&c (of quantity) 31; expanse &c (space) 180; amplitude, mass; proportions.<br />

capacity, tonnage, tunnage; cordage; caliber, scantling.<br />

turgidity &c (expansion) 194; corpulence, obesity; plumpness &c adj.; embonpoint,<br />

corporation, flesh and blood, lustihood.<br />

hugeness &c adj.; enormity, immensity, monstrosity.<br />

giant, Brobdingnagian, Antaeus, Goliath, Gog and Magog, Gargantua, monster,<br />

mammoth, Cyclops; cachalot, whale, porpoise, behemoth, leviathan, elephant,<br />

hippopotamus; colossus; tun, cord, lump, bulk, block, loaf, mass, swad, clod, nugget,<br />

bushel, thumper, whooper, spanker, strapper; Triton among the minnows [Coriolanus].<br />

mountain, mound; heap &c (assemblage) 72.<br />

largest portion &c 50; full size, life size.<br />

V. be large &c adj.; become large &c (expand) 194.<br />

Adj. large, big; great &c (in quantity) 31; considerable, bulky, voluminous, ample,<br />

massive, massy; capacious, comprehensive; spacious &c 180; mighty, towering, fine,<br />

magnificent.<br />

corpulent, stout, fat, obese, plump, squab, full, lusty, strapping, bouncing; portly,<br />

burly, well-fed, full-grown; corn fed, gram fed; stalwart, brawny, fleshy; goodly; in good<br />

case, in good condition; in condition; chopping, jolly; chub faced, chubby faced.<br />

lubberly, hulky, unwieldy, lumpish, gaunt, spanking, whacking, whopping, walloping,<br />

thumping, thundering, hulking; overgrown; puffy &c (swollen) 194.<br />

huge, immense, enormous, mighty; vast, vasty; amplitudinous, stupendous; monster,<br />

monstrous, humongous, monumental; elephantine, jumbo, mammoth; gigantic, gigantean,<br />

giant, giant like, titanic; prodigious, colossal, Cyclopean, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque,<br />

Herculean, Gargantuan; infinite &c 105.<br />

large as life; plump as a dumpling, plump as a partridge; fat as a pig, fat as a quail, fat<br />

as butter, fat as brawn, fat as bacon.<br />

immeasurable, unfathomable, unplumbed; inconceivable, unimaginable, unheard-of.<br />

of cosmic proportions; of epic proportions, the mother of all, teh granddaddy of all.<br />

193. Littleness -- N. littleness &c adj.; smallness &c (of quantity) 32; exiguity,<br />

inextension † ; parvitude † , parvity † ; duodecimo † ; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm;<br />

rudiment; vanishing point; thinness &c 203.<br />

dwarf, pygmy, pigmy † , Liliputian, chit, pigwidgeon † , urchin, elf; atomy † , dandiprat † ;<br />

doll, puppet; Tom Thumb, Hop-o'-my-thumb † ; manikin, mannikin; homunculus,<br />

dapperling † , cock-sparrow.<br />

animalcule, monad, mite, insect, emmet † , fly, midge, gnat, shrimp, minnow, worm,<br />

maggot, entozoon † ; bacteria; infusoria † ; microzoa [Micro.]; phytozoaria † ; microbe; grub;<br />

tit, tomtit, runt, mouse, small fry; millet seed, mustard seed; barleycorn; pebble, grain of<br />

sand; molehill, button, bubble.<br />

point; atom &c (small quantity) 32; fragment &c (small part) 51; powder &c 330;<br />

point of a pin, mathematical point; minutiae &c (unimportance) 643.<br />

micrometer; vernier; scale.

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