Emily Dickinson Lexicon

virtue, n. [AFr and OFr < L. virtus, manliness, valor, worth < vir, man.] (webplay: divine, great, makes, presence, visible).

1. Strength; merit; moral choice; character trait; specific moral excellence; [fig.] courage; valor; goodness.
2. Skill; force; edge; influence; capacity; power of a supernatural being; [irony] excellence; superiority; favorable position.

visage, n. [AFr and OFr < L. vīs-us, face.] (webplay: face, man).

1. Face; [metonymy] aspect; appearance; true identity.
2. Countenance; pleasant facial aspect; [metaphor] smile; [metonymy] presence; being.

visible, adj. [OFr or L. vīs-, ppl. stem of vidēre, to see.] (webplay: air, day, eye, sun).

Seeable; apparent; perceivable; within eyeshot; not hidden; able to be viewed.

visible, adv. [see visible, adj.] (webplay: air, day, eye, sun).

Perceptibly; visibly; obviously; noticeably; conspicuously; [fig.] distinctly; markedly; as if engraved; as if carved with letters.

vision (-s), n. [AFr, OFr, or L. < L. vidēre, to see.] (webplay: appearance, confident, dreams, existing, future, God, like, man, minds, presented, real, receive, rest, revelation, seeing, sight, something, strange, turned).

1. Dream; apparition; revelation; beatific image.
2. Sighting; vivid mental concept; [fig.] scene; vista; prospect; panorama; landscape.
3. View; sight; eyeshot; ability to discern; [fig.] presence; sensory perception.
4. Specter; phantom; imaginary being; [fig.] creature; wight; animal; [metaphor] fairy; elf.
5. Scene; landscape; prospect; panorama; subject for a painting.
6. Eyesight; optical perception; ability to see; [metonymy] eyes.
7. Appearance; style; [fig.] fashion; grooming; manner of dressing.
8. Evidence; firsthand knowledge; [fig.] prophecy; foresight; prescience; spiritual insight; (see Joel 2:22).
9. Reflection; mirage; mirror image.
10. Apocalypse; last day; [fig.] entrance into paradise; view of the next life; transition by death into the presence of the Lord; (see Revelation 21:2, 21:9).
11. Fantasy; imaginative story; fictional tale.
12. Perspective; visual sense; [fig.] faith; belief; hope in things unseen (see Hebrews 11:1).
13. Inspiration; insight; [fig.] poem.
14. Picture; idea; concept; mental image.

visit, n. [Fr., see visit, v.] (webplay: come, day, God, judgments, know).

1. Appearance; social call; temporary stay.
2. Pollenation; pollen-gathering; [fig.] social call; [metaphor] intimate encounter.

visit (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [OFr visiter < L. vīsitāre, to go to see, to inspect; < L. vīs-, ppl. stem of vidēre, to see.] (webplay: come, confirm, day, divine, early, friend, go, God, guest, know, long, men, others, persons, see, superior, visit).

1. Accompany; rest upon; come into the presence of.
2. Overtake; pass by; come suddenly; [fig.] make physical contact; call upon for the purpose of intimate relations; [paradox] cause to freeze; affect with frost.
3. Enter; appear; come into a home; [fig.] waft in; drift into a place.
4. Travel to; take a trip to; go to a place for a set period of time.
5. Stay; dwell; reside; attend; occupy; be present.
6. Acknowledge; go out to meet with; become better acquainted with.
7. Punish; afflict; curse; thwart.

visiter (-s, visitor, visitors), n. [see visitor, n.]

visitor (-s, visiter, visiters), n. [AFr < OFr visiter, to visit.] (webplay: another, bring, come, day, divine, flowers, friend, go, grant, guest, house, judgments, know, law, lord, manner, men, move, physician, see, show, subject, superior, trouble, view, visit, wait).

1. Companion; comrade; associate; [fig.] expression; manifestation of emotion.
2. Guest; participant; one invited.
3. Stranger; alien; foreigner; outsider; newcomer; passer by; person who suddenly appears.
4. Neighbor; acquaintance; [fig.] mourner.
5. Dweller; lodger; resident; occupant; temporary resident; person living here temporarily; [fig.] creature in nature such as a bird; [metaphor] angel; heavenly messenger; spiritual being.

vista, n. [It. < L. vīs-, ppl. stem of vidēre, to see.]

1. Glade; forest prospect; open space between trees; [fig.] nest; viewpoint from up in a tree.
2. Perspective; point of view; long-distance vision.