Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: drape – dream
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drape (-d), verbal adj. [Fr. drape-r, weave < Fr. drap, cloth.]
Cover; cloak; robe.
draught (-s), n. [early ME draht < Germanic dragan, draw, v.] (webplay: drinking).
Drink; swig; large gulp; quantity swallowed.
draw, n. [see draw, v.] (webplay: death, ship).
Drawbridge; barrier.
draw (drawn, drew), v. [OE drasgan, draw, pull.] (webplay: day, death, face, fear, figure, itself, picture, sign, water, well, wind, withdraw).
- Bring; carry; pull near; (see Exodus 3:5).
- Come; go; (see Exodus 12:21).
- Sketch; design.
- Drain; siphon; extract; (see Genesis 24:11).
- Open; close as in curtains.
- Condense; minimize.
drawer (-s), n. [see draw, v.]
Box; sliding receptacle in a case; wooden compartment with a cedar bottom; small storage unit that pulls out from a piece of furniture.
dread (-ed), adj. [ME adrad < ofdrad, frighten, terrify.] (webplay: easy, fright, great, terrors).
Abhorred; feared.
dread, n. [see dread, v.] (webplay: awe, awful, danger, fear, fright, terror, uneasiness).
Fear; apprehension; panic; (see Genesis 9:2).
dread, v. [early ME dreden; see dread, adj.] (webplay: cause, fear).
Fear; tremble; apprehend; expect with anxiety; (see Deuteronomy 1:29).
dream (-s), n. [early ME drém.] (webplay: friend, God, life, man, mind, real, see, sleep, think, thought, time, view, visionary).
- Images; ideas in sleep; more revealing than waking thoughts; (see Genesis 31:24).
- Fiction; imagination; fantasy; vision; (see Genesis 37:20).
- Insight; revelation; heightened state of awareness; (see Genesis 20:3).
- Spiritual bliss; vision of perfection; utopia; (see Ecclesiastes 5:7).
- Poetic imagination; goals; aspirations; ambitions.
dream (-ed, -ing), v. [OE dréman.] (webplay: absent, diving, entertains, friend, life, mind, reading, real, see, sleep, thought, unfounded).
- Envision; experience in slumber; see while asleep; have mental images appear during the Rapid Eye Movement portion of the mind's resting state; (see Genesis 28:12).
- Imagine; invent; make believe.
- Fantasize; pretend; act as of; make believe; create an imaginary alternative.
- Daydream; use time trivially.