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manes
[mey-neez; Lat. mah-nes] 
| Main Entry: |
crest
[krest]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | topknot on head of animal |
| Synonyms: | aigrette, caruncle, chine, cockscomb, comb, crown, feather, hogback, mane, panache, plume, ridge, tassel, tuft |
| Notes: | a wave's foamy top is its crest; spray blown up from wave tops is spindrift |
| Main Entry: | ghost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit of the dead |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, banshee, daemon, demon, devil, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vampire, vision, visitor, wraith, zombie |
| Antonyms: | being, entity |
| Main Entry: | hair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | threadlike growth on animate being |
| Synonyms: | beard, bristle, cilium, coiffure, cowlick, cut, down, eyebrow, eyelash, feeler, fiber, filament, fluff, fringe, frizzies, fur, grass, haircut, hairstyle, lock, mane, mop, moustache, quill, ruff, shock, sideburn, split ends, strand, thatch, tress, tuft, vibrissa, villus, whiskers, wig, wool |
| Main Entry: | mop |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thick mass of hair |
| Synonyms: | mane, shock, tangle, thatch, tresses |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, bogey, haunt, manes, phantasm, phantom, revenant, shadow, specter, spirit, umbra, wraith |
| Main Entry: | phantasma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, banshee, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, daemon, demon, devil, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spirit, spook, vampire, vision, visitant, visitor, wraith, zombie* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | visitant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ghost |
| Synonyms: | apparition, appearance, banshee, bogey, bogeyman, bogle, daemon, demon, devil, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spirit, spook, vampire, vision, visitor, wraith, zombie* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | hair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
achaetous, acomous, aurocephalous, balding, barbatulous, barbigerous, bushy, calvous, capillary, capillose, clean, comose, crinal, crinicultural, crinigerous, crinose, cymotrichous, depilous, euthycomic, glabrous, grizzled, hairy, highlighted, hirsute, hirsutorufous, hispid, layered, leiotrichous, lissotrichous, man, melanocomous, mop, mystacial, peach fuzz, philocomal, pilar, piliform, pilose, processed, ropy, smarmy, strawberry blond, stubbly, teased, towheaded, tweezed, ulotrichous, unshaven, upswept
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| Concept: | Shade. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; light; light in general |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
shade; awning (cover); parasol, sunshade, umbrella; chick; portiere; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil, mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds., umbrage, glade; shadow.
-verbs
draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil; cast a shadow (darken).
-adjectives
shady, umbrageous.
-phrases
"welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail" [Thomson]
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| Antonyms: | luminary |
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