puritanical



Franciscan, Victorian, abstinent, anchoritic, ascetic, austere, bigoted, censorious, choosy, conscientious, critical, demure, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic,

   quits - alike, at par, au pair, commensurate, drawn, equal, equalized, even, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, knotted, level, like, nip and tuck, on a footing,

   slow-foot - ambling, cautious, circumspect, crawling, creeping, dawdle, dawdler, deliberate, drone, easy, faltering, flagging, gentle, goldbrick, goof off,

   catch on to - catch, catch on, figure, penetrate, realize, see through, understand ,

   archer - Nimrod, amateur athlete, artilleryman, athlete, ballplayer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bowman, catcher, centre, coach, competitor, crack shot,

   ticket scalper - clerk, floor walker, sales force, salesman, scalper, seller ,

   invocation of saints - agape, aspersion, celebration, circumcision, confession, confirmation, incense, invocation, litany, processional ,

   peculator - booster, con man, crook, ghoul, grafter, grave robber, lifter, poacher, prowler, robber, scrounger, shoplifter, swindler, thief ,

   nursery - X ray, bedchamber, bedroom, birthplace, blood bank, boudoir, breeding place, brooder, chamber, charity ward, clinic, cloche, cold frame, conservatory, consultation room,

   hands - administration, authority, claws, clutches, command, control, disposition, domination, dominion, empire, fighting force, fire-power, forces, governance, government,

   whiz off - dash off, hurry, light out, nip, scamper, tear out ,