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whatdaheck · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 69 Location: Qatar

Hi!
I'm trying to recall a synonym or a word nearest in meaning to "subsistence"...I think it starts with an E...I hope I'm helped!
Plus I need to know what the following example means...I looked up the word "Stone cold" somewhere, the following example was given..I'm not able to make out its usage!
"Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame"
Is someone stone cold without burnt flame from within or what? Confused

Thanks
Maham

asterix · Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Posts: 1654

Maybe expense. A subsistence allowance is a payment made to someone to cover their expenses.

Stone cold means, literally, as cold as a stone.
It also means unemotional, insensitive.
My coffee is stone cold means that there is no trace of warmth in it.
Stone cold without; within burnt with love's flame, means that although the subject displays no emotion, he/she is in love.

buddhaheart · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 12:22 pm Post subject:

How about �existence�?

whatdaheck · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 69 Location: Qatar

HI!
Yeah, thanks. The explanation for stone cold helped!
About, the E word, nahhh! Anyway, thanks. May be i'm confusing it with something else...or not able to recall. Actually, existence rhymes with subsistence but not exactly the word I was looking for!
Thanks again
Maham

whatdaheck · Joined: 24 Jan 2006 Posts: 69 Location: Qatar

Hi!
I said I was confusing the E word, oh yeah I was! I was actually looking for ALIMENT...starts with A...and guess how I found it out, I looked up in my synonym dictionary...Anyways, phew!
Maham