Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: tell – ten
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tell (-ing, -s, told), v. [OE.]
- Inform; report; let know.
- Assure; comfort; convince; soothe; console.
- Recount; narrate; recite.
- Calculate; compute; figure; reckon.
- Announce; declare; disclose; divulge; reveal; expose.
- Mention; reveal; disclose; admit.
- Command; order; require.
- Say; explain; verbalize; express in words.
- Understand; comprehend.
- Repeat; utter again and again.
- Confide in; trust with confidential matters.
- Ask; petition; request.
- Speak; express; articulate; pronounce.
- Communicate; convey; transmit; impart; [polyptoton of tell, tale, and told from the same root].
teller (-'s), n.
Narrator; bard; one that recounts a story; [fig.] preacher; evangelist; missionary.
temerity, n. [L. temeritas.] (webplay: rashness).
- Unstoppable force; [fig.] ravages of time; dissolution due to ageing.
- Perseverance; persistence; tenacity.
- Assertion; boldness; audacity.
- Shock; travesty; appalling reality; unjust sentence.
- Obstinacy; spirited stubbornness.
temper, n. [OE < L.]
Force; strength; power; anger; violence; fury; [fig.] corruption; degeneration; disruptive elements such as wind, weather, and so forth.
temperature, n. [L. temperātūra.]
- Degree of cold or hot; measure of warmth and coldness.
- Environment; condition; state of weather; level of atmospheric factors; contraction of a body due to lower caloric input.
tempest (-s), n. [OFr < L. 'season, weather, storm'.] (webplay: wind, rain).
- Violent wind associated with a storm.
- Torrent; downpour; rainstorm.
temple (-s), n. [OE.]
- Place of religious worship; House of the Lord in Jerusalem (see Mark 11:11; John 10:23).
- Body; tabernacle of flesh; [fig.] person; personage of divine holiness; human being with intrinsic worth.
- Human body.
- Dome; shrine; elevated structure; [fig.] sky; heaven.
temptation (-'s), n. [OFr.]
- Enticement; [personification] someone who bribes another.
- Trial; tribulation; [fig.] earth; mortality; material existence.
- Allurement; that which appears to be good but is actually dangerous.
tempted, verbal adj. [OFr 'to handle, touch, feel, test'.]
Enticed; lured; influenced; experiencing an urge.
ten (-s), n. [OE, tien.]
- Five times two; the combined number of digits on the two feet of a human being.
- More than twenty; less than hundred; an indefinite number.