grown old



Gothic, Victorian, advanced, aged, ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, antique, archaic, classical, elderly, fossilized, grey, hoar, hoary,

   uncial - alphabetic, capital, cursive, ideographic, lettered, lettering, literal, longhand, lower case, minuscule, pictographic, printing, upper case ,

   bear young - bear, cast, drop, fawn, foal, give birth, have, have a baby, kitten, labour, lie in, litter, pup, throw, travail,

   cusped - acute, barbed, horned, horny, pointed, pronged, spiked, spiny, tapered, tapering, toothed ,

   hammer and tongs - arduously, decidedly, decisively, determinedly, devotedly, earnestly, firmly, fixedly, hard, heart and soul, in all seriousness, in earnest, in good earnest, industriously, inflexibly,

   like a furnace - ardent, baking, blistering, boiling, burning, ebullient, feverish, flushed, grilling, heated, hot, overheated, roasting, scalding, scorching,

   poacher - body snatcher, booster, chicken thief, con man, crook, den of thieves, embezzler, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, jewel thief, land pirate, land shark, land-grabber, larcenist,

   fringe benefit - bonus, bounty, gravy, icing, perks, perquisite, premium, tip ,

   speak soothing words - comfort, commiserate, console, sympathize with, weep for ,

   watching for - agape, agog, anticipating, anticipatory, certain, confident, eager, expectant, expecting, forearmed, forestalling, forewarned, gaping, hopeful, not surprised,

   staggeringly - agonizingly, awfully, bitterly, blatantly, cruelly, deadly, deathly, distressingly, dreadfully, excessively, excruciatingly, extravagantly, flagrantly, frightfully, grievously,