Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: toilsome – tomorrow
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toilsome, adj. [see toil, n.]
Tiresome; tedious; weary; monotonous; dreary.
token, n. [OE tácen, to show.]
Phrase. “in token of”: in memory of; as a gesture of; as a sign of; as a symbol for; as a keepsake, souvenir, or remembrance of; [fig.] as attestation of; as written evidence of; as poetic documentation of.
told, v. [see tell, v.]
tolerate (-s), v. [Fr. tolérer, to bear, endure.]
Abide; be patient; put up with.
toll, n. [OE place of custom, toll-house.]
Tax; assessment.
toll (-ing), v. [ME tollen.]
Ring; peal; resound; reverberate; make a funereal noise.
tomb (-s), n. [ME toumbe, sepulchral mound.]
- Grave; mausoleum; burial chamber.
- Gravestone; marble headstone; cold hard motionless memorial monument.
- Cemetery plot; [metonymy] graveyard; [metaphor] funeral ceremony; burial service; death procession.
- Sepulcher; crypt hewn out of stone; [fig.] the effects of death (see Matthew 27:57-60).
- Death; time when life ends; [fig.] winter; season when living things go dormant.
tome (-s), n. [Fr. volume, section of a book.]
Book; volume; opus; lengthy poetic composition; literary work by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, such as Aurora Leigh.
tomorrow, adv. [ME to + morwen.]
During the next twenty-four hour period.
tomorrow, n. [see tomorrow, adv.]
- Potential; possibility; that which is not yet experienced.
- Day after today; the next twenty-four hour period.
- Future; consequence.