Emily Dickinson Lexicon

closed, verbal adj. [see close, v.] (webplay: place, plank).

Shut; inaccessible.

closely, adv. [see close, adj.]

With close attention or investigation.

closet, n. [OFr < L. clausum (see close, adj.)] (webplay: shut).

Small room, often used for storage; [fig.] body; mind.

closing, n. [see close, v.] (webplay: eyes, gate, land, lid, life, low, night, open, wound).

Shutting.

closing, verbal adj. [see close, v.] (webplay: day, earth, Lord).

1. Shutting; drawing close together, as the petals of a flower; [fig.] ending; dying; concluding.
2. Setting; going down.

cloth, n. [OE clath.] (webplay: clothes, raiment).

Fabric; woven material used as a covering; formed by weaving of threads, and used for garments and other purposes.

clothes, n. [OE cla-thas; original plural of cloth.] (webplay: coats, raiment).

1. Garments; covering for the body; anything that covers something.
2. [Fig.] Body; that which encases the spirit of a being.

cloud (-s), n. [OE clúd < same root as clod, mass formed by agglomeration, cumulus.] (webplay: air, bodies, brow, colors, day, earth, fog, rising, sky, stones, varied, vast).

1. Visible condensed vapor floating high in the air; cloud-like mass of smoke or dust floating in the air; visible mass of condensed watery vapor floating in the air at some considerable height above the ground; [fig.] high place.
2. Heavens; celestial regions.

clouding, adj. [see cloud, n.]

Obscuring; becoming dim; giving an appearance of gloom or sullenness.

cloudy (cloudier), adj. [see cloud, n.] (webplay: fog, obscured).

Dim; obscure; opaque.