expanded, widened, extended, broadened, largess, n. 1. charity, alms-giving, philanthropy, altruism; beneficence, munificence, generosity, bounty, open-handedness, liberality.
2. gift, present, Scot. propine, benefaction, bestowal, donation, donative, contribution, endowment; offering, Eccles. offertory, Eccles. altarage, oblation; grant, aid, allowance, allotment, stipend, scholarship, fellowship, subsidy, subvention; inheritance, heritage, Law. dower, Obs. dowry, Law. acquest, Law. bequest, Law. bequeathment, Law. legacy, Law. devise; reward, prize, bonus, extra, plus, dividend, perquisite, Inf. perk, fringe benefit; honorarium, fee, pay, gratuity, tip, lagniappe, douceur, lariat, n. lasso, riata; rope, thong, tether, leash, line. lark1, n. bird, songbird, songster, warbler; skylark, meadowlark, titlark. lark2, n. 1. frolic, spree, fling, Sl. buster, romp, gambol, Inf. skylarking, fun, sport, play, game; antic, caper, prank, trick, Sl. monkeybusiness, Inf shenanigans, mischief, Sl. horsing around.
-v. 2. frolic, romp, rollick, have fun, gambol, disport, play, sport, Inf. skylark; frisk, leap, curvet, cavort, skip about, dance about, jump about; caper, cut capers, play pranks, pull tricks, Inf. pull shenanigans, make mischief, Sl. horse around, lascivious, adj. 1. lewd, lecherous, lubricous, Archaic. lickerish, satyric, satyrical, satyrlike, hircine, goatish, ruttish, Sl. horny; lustful, randy, Sl. hot or hot for; concupiscent, prurient, libidinous, salacious; fleshly, carnal, sensual, voluptuous, erotic; licentious, loose, Cyprian, wanton, abandoned, incontinent; debauched, rakish, rakehell, dissolute, dissipated, profligate; promiscuous, whorish, of easy virtue, Sl. cheap, shameless; depraved, degenerate, perverted, incestuous, masochistic, sadisfic, pederastic, coprophilic; immodest, impure, unchaste, unvirtuous.
2. obscene, lurid, blue, pornographic, Inf. porno, Inf. porn, smutty, Sl. raunchy; indecent, offensive, suggestive, vulgar, coarse, gross, crude; dirty, unclean, foul, filthy, vile; foul-mouthed, dirty-minded; ribald, scurrilous, irreverent; bawdy, Fescennine. lasciviousness, n. 1. lewdness, lechery, lecherousness, lubricity, goatishness, ruttishness; lust, lustfulness, concupiscence, prurience, pruriency, libidinousness, salacity, salaciousness; carnality, carnalness, car-nalism, sensuality, voluptuousness, promiscuity, eroticism, erotism; immodesty, impudicity, impurity, unchasteness, unchastity, unvirtuousness.
2. debauchery, dissoluteness, rakishness, dissipation, profligacy; licentiousness, wantonness, unrestraint, abandon, incontinence, self-indulgence; aphrodisia, sexual desire or passion, Pathol, satyriasis, Pathol. nymphomania; unnatural desire, perversion, incest, incestuousness, pederasty, sodomy, buggery, sadism, masochism; Psychiatry, coprophilia.
3. obscenity, obsceneness, luridness; pornography, Inf. porno, Inf. porn, smut, smuttiness; bawdiness, bawdry, scurrility, ribaldry; vulgarity, vulgarism, vulgarness, coarseness, crudity, crudeness. lash1, n. 1. whip, knout, scourge, flagellum, bull-whip, cat-o'-nine-tails, cat, cowhide, rawhide, quirt, U.S. blacksnake.
2. blow, stroke, bang, hit, smack, rap; knock, buffet, cuff, Inf. wallop, slam, swat, slap, whack, thwack, Inf. bat, Inf. sock, Inf. whop, Inf. lick, Sl. smackeroo, Sl. zinger; strike, thump, tap, pat, poke, swipe, dab, jab.
3. goad, prod, whip, sting, prick, spur.
-v. 4. thrash, flog, switch, swat, birch, scourge, whip, horsewhip, thresh, flail; Inf. lambaste, Inf. whale, Inf. whomp; smite, thwack, slap, smack.