Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: dullness – duplicate
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dullness, n. [see dull, adj.] (webplay: dull, industry, life, seeing, stupid).
Lack of Intelligence; slowness; sleepiness.
dum, prep. [L. 'While, in the meantime, as long as, so long as'; see vivimus and vivamus.]
Phrase. “Dum vivimus vivamus”: while we live, let us enjoy life; while we are alive, let us live fully.
dumb (-er), adj. [OE, mute.] (webplay: power, show, signs, speech, sounds).
- Silent; still; (see Habakkuk 2:18).
- Speechless; destitute of the power of speech; (see Psalms 38:13).
dumb, n. [see dumb, adj.]
Mute; person lacking speech abilities; (see Exodus 4:11).
dumbly, adv. [see dumb, adj.]
Mutely; silently; without words or speech.
dun, adj. [OE, brown.] (webplay: air).
Dark color; black; dull; swarthy.
dunce, n. [An application of the name of John Duns Scotus, the celebrated scholastic theologian, called 'Doctor Subtilis' the Subtle Doctor, who died in 1308.] (webplay: dull).
Person of weak intellect; dullard; dolt; thick skull.
dungeon (-s, -'s), n. [Fr. donjon, lord; see dominion, n.] (webplay: light, prison).
- Pit; underground hold; deep dark incarceration place; hole in the ground used for confining prisoners; (see Genesis 40:15); [fig.] desperate situations; circumstances of deprivation.
- Gaol; prison; jail cell; [fig.] casket; coffin; grave; tomb.
- Keep; holding place; innermost castle tower for confining important prisoners; [fig.] body; mortality; human life on earth.
dungeon (-ed), v. [see dungeon, n.]
Imprison; incarcerate; confine; keep hidden from view; conceal from the knowledge of others.
duplicate, n. [L. duplicāt-us, doubled.]
Copy; twin; similitude; mirror image; second thing of same kind; [fig.] synonym.