Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: big – biography
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big (-gest), adj. [ME] (webplay: brought, grief, load, size, spirit, swelling).
- Large; great in size;
- Heavy; weighty; burdensome; [fig.] dreadful; sorrowful.
- Substantial; consequential; significant; important.
bill, n. [ME bille, written document, note of charges.] (webplay: account, paid).
Payment; settlement; statement; tab; reckoning; recompense of debt; [fig.] finish; resolution; termination; conclusion; (see Luke 16:6-7).
bill, n. [OE bil, sword; split, cleave.] (webplay: trees).
- Beak; nib; hard termination of a bird's mouth; sharp extension of a fowl's mandible.
- [Word play] cutting instrument; crescent-shaped pruning tool.
billion, adj. [Fr.]
Many; countless; innumerable number of; extremely great number of; one thousand million (1,000,000,000).
billow (-s, -'s), n. [ON.] (webplay: sea, wave, wind).
- Swell; surge; puff; undulation; sweeping force; wave in something other than water.
- Tumult; upheaval; movement; turmoil; slow but powerful motion.
- Curl; bulge; current; swell on the ocean; running ridge of sea water; (see Jonah 2:3).
bin, n. [OE binn.]
- Manger; crib; rectangular feed box; [sound play with “Ben-” in “Benefit”] boon; goods; blessing.
- Receptacle; grain storage; repository for the harvest.
bind (-s, bound), v. [OE bindan.]
- Tie; fasten; attach; secure; [fig.] control; maintain; govern; regulate; (see Job 28:11).
- Abash; confound; shackle; confine; hinder; limit; muzzle; silence; put restrictions on; deprive of liberty; take away the freedom of (see Ezekiel 3:25); [in music] place a curved line between repeated notes to show continuance of sound.
bindless, adj. [see bind, v.; Franklin var. reads “findless”.]
Free; endless; untied; illimitable; limitless; boundless; without cohesion.
biographer, n. [see biography, n.]
Recorder; scribe; life story author; personal history writer; [fig.] witness; judge; accuser; one who incriminates; giver of a true account.
biography, n. [L. biographia > Gr. 'life' + 'write'.] (webplay: history).
Account; inscription; record; evidence; true testimony.