already organized in this form that you may wish to use as a guide when developing your own categories of synonyms. Also, of course, uncommon words can be stripped out according to the developer's criterion, keeping only the core and most oftenly used information. Once unarchived, the database format is flat-file ASCII: each record (delimited from other records with a terminal carriage return/linefeed [ASCII 13/10] character) is of the form:

(In this example, the root word is 'frill', which is always the first word of the list. The synonyms and related words are listed in ASCII alphabetical order after the root. Each entry, including the root, is followed by a comma. The last entry in a record is followed by a carriage return/linefeed [ASCII 13/10].)

frill, addition, adornment, amenity, beading, beauties, bedizenment, binding, bonus, bordering, bordure, bravery, chiffon, clinquant, colors, colors of rhetoric, crease, creasing, crimp, crisp, decoration, dog-ear, double, double over, doubling, duplication, duplication of effort, duplicature, edging, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, enfold, expletive, extra, extra added attraction, extra dash, extravagance, fat, featherbedding, festoons, figure, figure of speech, filigree, filling, fillip, fimbria, fimbriation, fine writing, finery, flection, flexure, floridity, floridness, flounce, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, flute, fold, fold over, folderol, foofaraw, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, fringe, frippery, froufrou, furbelow, fuss, gaiety, galloon, gather, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding, gilt, gingerbread, hem,infold, interfold, jazz, lagniappe, lap over, lapel, lappet, list, lushness, luxuriance, luxury, motif, needlessness, ornament, ornamentation, ostentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, paste, payroll padding, plait, plat, pleat, pleonasm, plica, plicate, plication, plicature, ply, premium, prolixity, purple patches, quill, redundance, redundancy, ruche, ruching, ruff, ruffle, selvage, showiness, skirting, something extra, stuffing, superaddition, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, trappings, trickery, trimming, trumpery, tuck, turn over, twill, twist, unnecessariness, valance, verbosity, welt, wrinkle [carriage return]

Part-of-Speech information is not stored with this thesaurus. A separate file (mposp10.zip) available from Project Gutenberg by the same author supplies a separate lexical database providing the part(s)-of-speech for a large collection (>200,000) of English words and phrases that can be used in conjunction with this list to supply POS information if needed by the particular application.

Quick Start 1) Insure you have at least 26Mb of free disk space to hold the contents of this zip file. 2) Create a directory to hold these files listed above.

3) On the PG Catalog page click on the selection "More Files". You will see a "files.zip" folder in the list. Move this zipped folder to your computer. On your computer open "files.zip", double click on its "files" subdirectory and copy the contents into the destination directory on your computer.

End of this Project Gutenberg etext of Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward.