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	Animal	Vegetation	Object	Structure

Figure


Types
accuser	acolyte	African	angel	assassin
bard	beadle	beggar	bellman	blacksmith
cherub	child	chimney sweeper	corpse	covering cherub
demon	devil	Druid	emanation	fairy
family	father	female	fetus	ghost
giant	herald	infant	jailor	king
knight	male	messenger	mother	nurse
nymph	philosopher	piper	poet	Pope
priest	priestess	prisoner	prophet	putto
queen	saint	scribe	self-flagellant	shepherd
sibyl	slave	slave owner	spectre	spirit
student	traveler	trumpeter	victim	virgin
watchman	wrestler

Characters
Abel	Abraham	Adam	Ahania	Albion
Albion's Angel	Albion's sons	Ancient of Days	Anytus	Apollo
Arthur	Babylon	Bacon	Bildad	Blake, Catherine
Blake, Robert	Blake, William	Boston's Angel	Britannia	Bromion
Cain	Cambel	Christ	Clod	Cloud
Cupid	Daphne	Daughters of Albion	Diana	Elihu
Elijah	Eliphaz	England	English boy	Enion
Enitharmon	Enitharmon's daughter	Enitharmon's son	Eno	Eve
Ezekiel	Fates	Female Will	Fuzon	George III
God	Groat, John	Grodna	Gwendolen	Hand
Har	Hayley	Hecate	Heva	Holy Ghost
Homer	Hyle	Jerusalem	Jerusalem's daughters	Jerusalem's sons
Job	Job's wife	John of Eltham	John the Baptist	Justice
Laocoon	Lazarus	Leutha	Leviathan	Lilly
little black boy	little boy lost	Locke	Los	Los's daughters
Luvah	Lyca	Lycon	matron Clay	Melitus
Milton	Milton's daughters	Milton's wives	Moses	nameless shadowy female
Nebuchadnezzar	Newton	Noah	Oberon	Old John
Ololon	Oothoon	Orc	Palamabron	Rahab
Reuben	Rintrah	Satan	Scofeld	Tharmas
Thel	Theotormon	Thiriel	Tirzah	Titania
Ugolino	Urizen	Urizen's daughters	Urthona	Utha
Vala	Virgin Mary	Worm	Zoa	Zophar

Postures and Gestures
arm	arm at side	arm behind back	arm bent	arm bent upward
arm bent over shoulder	arm braced	arm dangling	arm down	arm drawn back
arm extended	arm on lap	arm raised	arm raised at 45 degrees	arm raised at 135 degrees
arm raised horizontally	arm raised vertically	arm reaching between legs	arm reaching downward	arm resting
arm wrapped around body	arm wrapped around head	arms at side	arms bent	arms bent upward
arms braced	arms crossed	arms down	arms drawn back	arms on lap
arms extended	arms folded	arms raised	arms raised at 45 degrees	arms raised at 135 degrees
arms raised horizontally	arms raised vertically	arms reaching downward	arms resting	arms wrapped around body
arms wrapped around head	arms wrapped around knees	bathing	batting	bending backward
bending forward	bending left	blessing	body horizontal	bound
bowing	brain	breaking	buried	buttocks
carrying	casting	chest	climbing	combing
contracted	contrapposto	cooking	copying	crawling
creating	crouching	crucified	crying	cutting
dancing	descending	dividing	drawing	dreaming
drinking	drowning	dying	ear	embracing
encircling	eyes closed	eyes down	eyes raised	facing away
facing down	facing forward	facing left	facing right	facing up
falling	falling backward	feet	feet touching	fighting
fingers	fingers spread	fist	fleeing	floating
flying	giving	giving birth	hand	hand beside head
hand clutching head	hand holding	hand on breasts	hand on face	hand on genitals
hand on ground	hand on knee	hand raised, palm down	hand raised, palm out	hand raised, palm up
hand resting	hand under head	hands behind head	hands beside head	hands clutching head
hands on ankles	hands on breasts	hands on face	hands on ground	hands on knees
hands raised, palms down	hands raised palms out	hands raised palms up	hands resting	hands to ears
hands together	hanging	harvesting	head bent back	head down
head on arm	head on arms	head on hand	head on hands	head on knee
head on knees	head on shoulder	head toward viewer	head up	heads, multiple
hitting	holding	hovering	howling	huddled
hunched over	kicking	kissing	kneeling	knee
knees	leading	leaning	leaping	left foot
leg	leg bent at knee	leg bent forward	leg dangling	leg drawn up
leg extended backward	legs bent	legs crossed	legs dangling	legs drawn up
legs extended	legs spread	legs together	lifting	limp
listening	looking	lunging	lying	lying on side
measuring	mourning	mouth open	palm down	palm out
palm vertical	palms down	palms facing viewer	palms up	palms vertical
petrifying	planting	playing	plowing	pointing
praying	prone	pulling	pursuing	pushing
reaching	reading	reclining	rescuing	resuscitating
riding	right foot	rigid	rising	rocking
running	sailing	scalp	sculpting	seen from behind
serpent-coiled	sheathing	shooting	shoulder	shoulders
singing	sitting	sitting cross-legged	sleeping	smiling
speaking	spine	spinning	squatting	standing
straddling	strangling	stretched	striding	stroking
supine	supplicating	supporting	swimming	taking
teaching	thigh	throwing	tiptoe	touching
twisted	upside down	vegetating	walking	weaving
whipping	winding	writing

Clothing and Other Attributes
abdomen	anger	armor	aura	bald
bat-eared	bat-winged	beard	belt	blind
blindfolded	breasts	breeches	bun	cannibalism
chained	cloak	cloth	coat	curly hair
dark-skinned	dead	despair	disease	disembowelment
dismembered	drapery	drowned	eating	ecstasy
emaciated	erotic	exhausted	face	famine
fainting	fear	fibres	flame-like hair	flesh
forelock	genitals	gown	grief	head
headless	hair	hair standing on end	halo	hem
hood	intestine	lap	laurels	loincloth
long hair	meekness	melancholy	muscular	nerves
nude	old	pain	partly nude	pity
ribs	robe	sacrifice	sandal	scarf
severed head	shackled	shirt	shoes	short hair
shroud	sinews	skeleton	skirt	skull
snake-like	stigmata	surprise	swaddled	tail
tarsus	tears	teeth	terror	tights
tongue	torture	upper body	veil	veins
wing	womb	young

Animal


ant	antenna	bat	barking	beak
bee	beetle	Behemoth	bird	butterfly
cat	caterpillar	centipede	chrysalis	coiled
cow	crab	crane	crest	cuckoo
deer	dog	dove	dragon	dragonfly
duck	eagle	eel	emmet	fin
fish	flock	fly	flying	fox
frog	fur	glow-worm	grasshopper	grazing
hawk	hoof	horn	hornet	horse
inch-worm	insect	Leviathan	lion	lizard
locust	mammal	moth	mouse	owl
ox	oyster	parrot	paw	peacock
perching	polypus	preying	ram	rearing
reticulated	robin	rooster	scales	scorpion
serpent	sheep	shrimp	skin	snail
snake	sparrow	spider	squirrel	stag
starfish	stork	swan	tail	talon
tiger	toad	unicorn	whelk	wolf
worm	wyvern

Vegetation

acorn	amaryllis	anemone	anemone pulsatilla	anthropomorphic
apple	arching	barren	berry	birch
blight	blossom	branch	bud	catchfly
catkin	corpse-plant	cypress	date	Dodecatheon
fallen	fig	flame-like	flower	fruit
gloriosa superba	grain	grain stem	grain tassel	grape
grass	hedge	indeterminate	intertwined	ivy
leaf	leafless	lichens	lily	Lilly of Havilah
loop	mandrake	marigold	Meadia	monotropa
mushroom	moss	oak	palm	pasqueflower
petal	pine	plant	poppy	reed
root	rose	St. Bernard's Lily	seaweed	snake-like
stamen	stump	sunflower	thistle	thorn
thyme	tree	Tree of Jesse	trunk	vallisneria spiralis
vine	wilderness	willow

Object

altar	anvil	air	apron	ark
Arnon	arrow	Atlantic	backpack	bag
ball	bank	banner	barn	basket
bat	beads	beams of light	bed	bell
bellows	bier	birdbath	blanket	blood
blotch	boat	book	Book of Brass	bow
bowl	bracelet	bread	Britain	brush
bubbles	bundle	Caithness	cannon	cannonball
carpet	cave	chain	Chain of Jealousy	chair
Chaldea	chalice	chaos	chariot	circle
city	cliff	clothing	cloud	coal
coffin	coffin lid	cog	coil	coin
collar	comb	comet	compasses	constellation
couch	crack	cradle	crescent	cross
crown	crutch	curtain	dagger	dark
darkness	dart	decalogue	diagram	distaff
dividers	door	Dover	Durness	earring
earth	eclipse	effigy	egg	etching needle
eye	eye socket	feather	Felpham	fire
flag	flagpole	fleur-de-lis	furnace	geometry
glass	globe	goblet	graphite pencil	grave
graver	graveyard	haft	hail	hammer
handle	harness	harp	hat	heaven
Hebrew letters	hell	hieroglyphic	hill	hinge
hook	hoop	horn	inscription	iron
island	jewelry	key	kite	knife
knot	ladder	lake	Lambeth	lamp
leash	light	lightning	line	liquid
London	Lizard Point	lyre	mandolin	map
marble	mark	mat	moon	mound
mountain	nail	necklace	nest	net
Net of Religion	night	note (musical)	Old Testament	open
Orion's belt	page	pair of balances	palette	palmette
paper	path	pearl	pedestal	pen
peninsula	Pentland	pickax	picture	pillow
pipe	pitcher	plague	plain	planet
plate	Pleiades	plinth	plow	plume
poison	pole	pot	purse	quill
racquet	radiance	rain	rainbow	rein
ring	river	road	rocker	rod
rope	sand	scales	scepter	scissors
scroll	scythe	sea	sea of time and space	seat
serpentine	shackle	shadow	sheath	sheet
shell	shepherd's crook	shield	ship	shoe
shore	shuttle	shuttlecock	skein	skull
sky	sleet	smoke	snow	soot
spear	spectacles	sphere	spike	spiky
spindle	spinning wheel	spiral	staff	star
statue	stick	stream	stone	stool
storm	straw	stream	streams of gore	string
stripe	sun	sunrise	sunset	sword
table	tablet	tambourine	text	thread
throne	tongs	trace	trilithon	tombstone
triangle	trumpet	Ulro	valley	vapor
vase	Venus	vial	void	wake
walking stick	water	waterfall	water spout	waves
web	weight	wheel	whip	whirlwind
wicker	wig	will o' the wisp	wind	wine
wing	wood	yoke	York

Structure

altar	arch	brick	building	cell
chamber	chimney	church	classical art	cottage
dome	door	facade	fence	fireplace
floor	garden	Gothic art	grate	house
lintel	London Stone	menhir	mine	pilaster
pillar	plinth	post	prison	pyramid
roof	room	ruin	St. Paul's Cathedral	spire
stairs	step	Stonehenge	street	temple
tent	tomb	tomb canopy	tombstone	tower
tracery	trilithon	tunnel	turret	wall
Westminster Abbey	window