Emily Dickinson Lexicon

appreciation, n. [L. ad + pretium, price.] (webplay: price, prized).

1. Value; merit; advantage; rising price; increasing worth.
2. Gratitude; awareness; acknowledgment; thankfulness; recognition of benefit.

apprehend, v. [Fr. < L. ad + prehend-ěre, sieze, learn.] (webplay: certainty).

Own; possess; fulfill; realize; thoroughly understand; experience the reality of; [fig.] embrace; have and hold; consummate a relationship; become one being.

apprehension (-s, -'s), n. [see apprehend, v.] (webplay: affirming, conceive, certainty, fear, food, inference, in the mind, opinion, think).

1. Fear; suspicion; dread; mental uneasiness.
2. Understanding; comprehension; idea; knowledge; consciousness.
3. Approximation; similitude; suggestion; conjecture; allusion; foreshadowing; (see Philippians 3:12-13).

apprentice (-d), v. [see apprehend, v.] (webplay: care).

Assign to learn from; appoint to work for; bind by covenant to serve; put under the custody of a master.

approach, n. [see approach, v.] (webplay: place).

Advancing; proceeding; coming near; going forward into; [fig.] death; entering the grave; becoming a citizen of a cemetery.

approach (-d, -ing), v. [OFr < L. ad + propi-āre, draw near.] (webplay: day, delight, place, see).

1. Advance towards; enter into; come near to.
2. Approximate; emulate; follow; keep pace with.

appropriate, adj. [OFr < L. ad, rendering + propri-us, own; see proper, adj.] (webplay: Creator).

Suitable; proper; fitting; agreeable; harmonious; in season; right for the circumstances; [fig.] Phrase. “Appropriate Creatures”: crickets.

approving, verbal adj. [OFr < L. ad + probā-re, try the goodness of, prove.] (webplay: approved to God, measures).

Pleased; accepting; appreciative; satisfied; confirming.

apricot, n. [Pg. albricoque or Sp. albaricoque < Arab. 'ripe in early summer'.] (webplay: berry, delicious).

Sweet orange fleshy stone-fruit; plum-like golden fruit of the genus Prunus.

April, proper n. [OFr < L. aprīlis.] (webplay: year).

Fourth month of the year; spring month in the northern hemisphere; time after winter when plants grow and flowers bloom again; [fig.] resurrection; time of rebirth; period of growth and renewal in Nature.