idea afloat



buzz, canard, cry, grapevine, hearsay, report, rumble, rumour, scuttlebutt, talk, whisper ,

   tilting ground - amphitheatre, auditorium, background, bowl, campus, canvas, circus, cockpit, coliseum, course, field, floor, forum, ground, gym,

   sea travel - boating, canoeing, cruising, navigation, rowing, sailing, seafaring, steaming, yachting ,

   romancer - daydreamer, dreamer, dreamer of dreams, enthusiast, escapist, fabler, idealist, lotus-eater, narrator, novelist, prophet, raconteur, reciter, romantic, romanticist,

   mock moon - aura, aureole, circle, corona, glory, halo, nimbus, rainbow, ring ,

   errand girl - attendant, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bootblack, cabin boy, caddie, errand boy, gopher, office boy, orderly, page, squire, steward, stewardess,

   outlying - apparent, cortical, distant, epidermic, exterior, external, extraneous, extrinsic, far, far-flung, far-off, faraway, farthest, foreign, fringe,

   trapeze - dumbbell, figure, horse, trampoline, triangle, weight ,

   run at - aggravated assault, aggression, amphibious attack, armed assault, assailing, assault, attack, banzai attack, blitz, blitzkrieg, breakthrough, charge, counter-attack, counter-offensive, coup de main,

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

   ballast - balance, break bulk, clear for action, clear the decks, consideration, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equipoise, equivalent, firm, firm up, freeze, give-and-take, hold,