Emily Dickinson Lexicon

did'nt, v. [see did.]

didst, v. [see did.]

did'st, v. [see did.]

die (-d, dying, -s), v. [Early ME dēghen.] (webplay: activity, affecting, among, away, ball, banished, being, blood, blow, born, breast, brethren, brisk, called, caught, cause, ceased, child, Christ, circumstance, cold, color, common, darkness, decayed, deep, depart, desires, dies away, disappear, distinct, divine, dominion, drops, dull, Egypt, end, endure, enemy, eternal, everlastingly, expire, extremely, eye, faith, fall, fame, father, feeling, frost, functions, gates, given, God, grace, Greek, grief, hands, head, heart, heavy, horror, hour, hunger, imitating, immortal, incapable of conception, indifference, kill, land, language, law, life, livest, lose, love, manner of dying, master, means, men, mortal, motion, murder, name, nature, night, occasion, pale, passed, people, perfectly, perish, permanent, perpetual, plain, pleasures, portion, power, prayer, punished, recede, remain, renewed, restored, rights, rising, sake, seas, season, second death, secret, separation, ship's, sickness, sight, signifies, slain, sleep, sought, soul, sound, spiritless, spoken, still, stock, stone, suffer, tasteless, thirst, time, tree, truth, use, useless, velocity, vital, vulgar, want, water, weight, wind, wine, words, works, world, wound, young).

1. Pass away; perish; depart from this world: (see Genesis 5:5).
2. Divide; distance; separated from God as the result of sin; (see Genesis 19:19).
3. Cease; complete; conclude; finish; come to an end; (see Genesis 6:17).

Dieman (-'s), proper n. [See Van Dieman's Land, proper n.]

differ (-ed), v. [Fr. différer < L. differ-re, tend apart or diversely in nature or character.] (webplay: all, one, sameness, than).

Vary; disagree; change in characteristics; (see 1 Corinthians 4:7).

difference, n. [Fr. différence.] (webplay: after, all, another, between, branch, certain, crowded, divers, form, glory, light, nature, never, one, sameness, separate, show, sometimes, species, sum, than, words).

Distinction; discrepancy; inconsistency; variation; (see Exodus 11:7).

different, adj. [Fr. différent < L. different-em, have opposite bearings; see differ, v.] (webplay: all, another, belonging, between, debate, distant, exist, first, found, free, glory, Jew, less, light, men, move, nature, never, one, persons, show, sometimes, star, suppose, than, things).

1. Distinct; variant; separate.
2. Peculiar; curious; distinctive.

differently, adv. [see different, adj.] (webplay: persons, sometimes, suppose, things).

Variously; diversely; dissimilarly.

difficult, adj. [L. difficil-is.] (webplay: any, bad, belief, can, cross, do, done, easy, make, men, opposed, pains, pleased, work).

1. Hard; taxing; demanding; rough; arduous.
2. Impossible; unattainable; unendurable; hard beyond ability.
3. Burdensome; trying; oppressive.