Synonyms of the word

calamus

• n. The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
• n. A quill.

palm

• n. Any of various evergreen trees from the family Palmae or Arecaceae, which are mainly found in the tropics.
• n. A branch or leaf of the palm, anciently borne or worn as a symbol of victory or rejoicing.
• n. The inner and somewhat concave part of the human hand that extends from the wrist to the bases of the…
• n. The corresponding part of the forefoot of a lower mammal.
• n. A linear measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of…
• n. (sailmaking) A metallic disk attached to a strap and worn in the palm of the hand; used to push the needle…
• n. The broad flattened part of an antler, as of a full-grown fallow deer; so called as resembling the palm…
• n. (nautical) The flat inner face of an anchor fluke.
• v. To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something.
• v. To hold something without bending the fingers significantly.
• v. To move something with the palm of the hand.

quill

• n. The lower shaft of a feather, specifically the region lacking barbs.
• n. A pen made from a feather.
• n. (figuratively) Any pen.
• n. A sharply pointed, barbed, and easily detached needle-like structure that grows on the skin of a porcupine…
• n. A thin piece of bark, especially of cinnamon or cinchona, curled up into a tube.
• n. The pen of a squid.
• n. (music) The plectrum with which musicians strike the strings of certain instruments.
• n. (music) The tube of a musical instrument.
• n. Something having the form of a quill, such as the fold or plain of a ruff, or (weaving) a spindle, or…
• v. To pierce or be pierced with quills.
• v. (figuratively) To write.
• v. To form fabric into small, rounded folds.
• v. To decorate with quillwork.
• v. (US and Canada, especially Appalachia and the Prairies, transitive) To subject (a woman who is giving…

rib

• n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from…
• n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
• n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
• n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to…
• n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
• n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially…
• n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
• n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
• n. A teasing joke.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
• n. A stalk of celery.
• n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
• v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
• v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
• v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
• v. (transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

root

• n. The part of a plant, generally underground, that anchors and supports the plant body, absorbs and stores…
• n. A root vegetable.
• n. The part of a tooth extending into the bone holding the tooth in place.
• n. The part of a hair under the skin that holds the hair in place.
• n. The part of a hair near the skin that has not been dyed, permed, or otherwise treated.
• n. The primary source; origin.
• n. (arithmetic) Of a number or expression, a number which, when raised to a specified power, yields the specified…
• n. (arithmetic) A square root (understood if no power is specified; in which case, “the root of” is often…
• n. (analysis) A zero (of an equation).
• n. (graph theory, computing) The single node of a tree that has no parent.
• n. (linguistic morphology) The primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects…
• n. (philology) A word from which another word or words are derived.
• n. (music) The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.
• n. The lowest place, position, or part.
• n. (computing) In UNIX terminology, the first user account with complete access to the operating system and…
• n. (computing) The highest directory of a directory structure which may contain both files and subdirectories.
• n. (slang) A penis, especially the base of a penis.
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To break into a computer system and obtain root access.
• v. To fix the root; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow.
• v. To be firmly fixed; to be established.
• v. (transitive) To turn up or dig with the snout.
• v. (by extension) To seek favour or advancement by low arts or grovelling servility; to fawn.
• v. (intransitive) To rummage, to search as if by digging in soil.
• v. (transitive) To root out; to abolish.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse.
• v. (horticulture, intransitive) To grow roots.
• v. (horticulture, transitive) To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A sexual partner.
• v. (intransitive, with "for" or "on", US) To cheer (on); to show support (for) and hope for the success of…

shaft

• n. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• n. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• n. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• n. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed…
• n. A beam or ray of light.
• n. The main axis of a feather.
• n. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• n. A long, narrow passage sunk into the earth, either natural or for artificial.
• n. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
• n. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
• n. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pediment.
• n. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• n. The chamber of a blast furnace.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• v. (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
• v. (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.