-n.2. maintainer, sustainer, upholder, supporter; backer, second, seconder, abettor, patron, promoter; endorser, espouser, protagonist, propagator, propagandist, proponent, favorer, countenancer, exponent; defender, champion, vindicator; pleader, apologist, friend at court; activist.
3. intercessor, interceder, mediator, intermediator, intermediary, medium, intermedium, paraclete, middleman, go-between, interagent; moderator, arbitrator, negotiator ornegotiant, umpire, referee; peace-maker, makepeace, pacificator, propitiator, conciliator, ap-peaser.
4. lawyer, attorney, attorney-at-law, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law, councilor, barrister, solicitor, legal adviser, special pleader.
aegis, n.protection, guardianship, sponsorship, patronage, auspices; favor, championship, support, aid; safeguard, guard, defense, shelter, surety, guaranty,
aerate, v. 1. air, hang out, dry out, ventilate, air out, freshen; oxygenate, oxygenize.
2. aerify, infuse air into, pass air through, permeate with air, fill with air, inflate; charge, charge with carbon dioxide, make effervescent, treat with gas.
aerial, adj.1. high, lofty, elevated, towering, soaring, aloft, sky-high; distant, remote, faraway, far reaching; skyward, heavenly, celestial, empyreal, empyrean, supernal.
2. airy, light, light as air, lighter than air, weightless; vaporous, thin, attenuated, invisible, see-through; atmospheric, aural, aeriform, gaseous, volatile.
3. ethereal, unsubstantial, incorporeal, imaginary, fanciful, flimsy, unreal, intangible, dreamy, dreamlike; visionary, ideal, idealistic, rarefied, spiritual, otherworldly; indistinct, faint, elusive, fugitive, tenuous.
4. ethereal, fairylike, delicate, fragile, graceful,
aerialist, n.trapeze artist, man on the flying trapeze, aerial gymnast orartist orperformer; tight-rope walker, ropewalker, ropedancer, high-wire artist, slack-rope artist, funambulist, equilibrist, balancer; acrobat, gymnast, tumbler, somersaulter, high vaulter; circus performer orartist, stunt man, stunt girl,
aerie, n.1. eagle's nest, eyrie, nest.
2. retreat, asylum, haven, sanctuary, sanctum, sanctum sanctorum; hideout, hiding place, hideaway, refuge, cranny; stronghold, fortress, citadel, bastion, safehold, tower,
aeriform, adj.1. airy, light, light as air. See - aerial 0def
I 2).
2. ethereal, unsubstantial, incorporeal. See - aerial (def.
3).
aeronaut, n.pilot, balloonist, aerial navigator; aviator, airman, Inf.birdman, flier,
aeronautics, n.aerial navigation, aviation, flying, flight, volitation; ballooning, aerostatics; gliding, Rare,
aerodonetics.
aesthete, n.1. connoisseur, virtuoso, aesthetician; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; expert, authority, mavin, adept, savant, cognoscente; man or woman of taste, lover of beauty; critic, Latin, arbiter elegantiae,
judge, arbiter.
