mournfully



grievously, sadly ,

   catkin - cone, head, pine cone, spike ,

   settler - Santa Claus, almoner, angel, arrival, assignor, awarder, backer, cheerful giver, clincher, colonial, colonist, colonizer, comer, conclusive argument, conferrer,

   slithering - amphibian, coasting, crawling, creeping, flow, flowing, glide, gliding, repent, reptile, reptilian, sailing, saurian, serpentine, skating,

   lieutenant colonel - OD, aide, brass, brigadier, captain, colonel, commandant, commander, executive officer, general, lieutenant, major, marshal, officer, subaltern,

   power tool - apparatus, contraption, contrivance, device, gadget, gimcrack, gimmick, implement, instrument, means, utensil ,

   peripheral nervous system - brain, cerebral cortex, ganglion, grey matter, nerve, nervous system, neuron, plexus, solar plexus, spinal cord, synapse ,

   methodicalness - constancy, discipline, evenness, fine fettle, good shape, method, methodology, neatness, punctuality, repetition, system, uniformity ,

   unpretentiously - directly, humbly, meekly, modestly, naturally, quietly, simply ,

   supply on hand - abundance, accumulation, backlog, budget, collection, commissary, cornucopia, cumulation, dump, heap, hoard, inventory, larder, mass, material,

   speaking of - about, apropos, apropos of, as for, as regards, as respects, as to, by the by, by the way, concerning, for example, in connection with, in passing, in point of, in re,