Lexicon: I – idly

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I (I'd, I'll, I'm, I've), pron. [OE ic < Gmc. ek.] (webplay: arise, closes, coin, delights, ear, extent, fail, feign, field, fine, friend, gift, glory, holy, join, jot, kind, Latin, learned, letter, long, me, meek, oil, opened, organs, pity, seen, seize, self, sound, us, vain, we, writer, yes). The speaker; first-person nominative personal pronoun.

  1. Refers to a gender neutral observer not named in the text.
  2. Refers to a female observer not named in the text.
  3. Refers to a male observer not named in the text.
  4. Refers to a speaker of enormous power and authority, such as a Queen, poet, artist or unspecified monarch.
  5. Specific language suggesting Dickinson herself.
  6. Refers to a speaker from the grave or beyond.
  7. Refers to a gender neutral child not named in the text.
  8. Refers to a girl.
  9. Refers to a boy.
  10. Refers to a female spouse.
  11. Refers to a female considering marriage.
  12. Refers to a female taking vows or making a covenant.
  13. Refers to a speaker who feels imprisoned.
  14. Refers to a flower named in the text.
  15. Refers to a bird that named in the text.
  16. Refers to a three aspects of selfhood in the speaker.
  17. Refers to a direct quotation spoken by Jesus.
  18. Refers to a speaker pondering the next life.
  19. Refers to a speaker pondering mortality.
  20. Refers to a speaker who reflect on the future.
  21. Refers to a speaker who is royal or upper class.
  22. Refers to a speaker as male and female.
  23. Refers to an aspect of nature, such as the wind or a rain storm.
  24. Refers to a speaker who is volatile or one who lives near a volcano.
  25. Refers to a carpenter.
  26. Refers to a person addressing a mountain colored by a sunset or a sunrise.
  27. Refers to a loaded gun personified as speaking to its owner.
  28. Refers to love personified.
  29. Refers to a lost speaker.
  30. Refers to a speaker described intoxicated by nature.
  31. Refers to speaker displaying the traits of a blacksmith.
  32. Refers to the human spirit personified.
  33. Refers to John the Beloved or John the Baptist.
  34. Refers to Thermopylae personified.
  35. Refers to a syllable whose faith saves it from despair.
  36. Refers to midnight personified.
  37. Refers to the sunrise as majesty personified.
  38. Refers to a fly personified.

ice (-s), n. [OE ís < Gmc.] (webplay: cold).

  1. Frozen water.
  2. Iron.
  3. Frailty, brittleness.

icicle (-s), n. [OE isgicel, see ice, n.]

  1. Hanging conical ice formation.
  2. [Fig.] Icy feeling.

idea, n. [L. idea in Platonic sense < Gk.] (webplay: mind).

Something seen; model; [word play on architecture < a. French, structure; construction] representation.

ideal (-s), n. [Fr. < L. ideālis.]

  1. Conception of perfection
  2. Fanciful idea; visionary idea; figment of imagination

identify (identified), v. [L. indentificāre.] (webplay: enlarged, owner).

  1. make or regard as the same [in status, ability.]
  2. discover, recognize.

identity, n. [Fr. identité < L.]

  1. Soul.
  2. Essence of self.
  3. Sameness; oneness.
  4. Self-realization.
  5. Existence; being; life [perhaps a word play on the phrase “House of being”.]

idle, adj. [OE ídel.] (webplay: away, employed, man).

  1. Still; without movement; inactive.
  2. Lifeless.
  3. Existing without purpose or particular use; aimless

idleness, n. [OE ídelnes.] (webplay: labor).

  1. Inaction; no interaction.
  2. Slothfulness; indolence; [fig.] death.
  3. Laziness; aversion to labor.
  4. Inactivity; inert state; [fig.] winter; [metaphor] death.

idly, adv. [see idle, adj.]

Lazily; irresponsibly; haphazardly; in a carefree manner.