Emily Dickinson Lexicon

deal, n. [OE dæl < OSlav. dêlŭ, part, dêlitî, divide.] (webplay: art, cold, great, made, now, space, time, true).

An amount; (see Exodus 29:40).

deal (-s), v. [OE dælan; see deal, n.] (webplay: between, blows, deaths, do, exchange, have, hungry, man, one, one's, own, players, thee, true, will).

1. Apportion; administer; associate; deliver; bestow among a number of recipients; grapple; any act toward others; (see Exodus 8:29).
2. Judge; reward; punish; mete out; [fig.] implying great power; decreeing time; aging to nature; (see 2 Chronicles 2:3).
3. Consider; bequeath without heart; treat harshly; an important transaction; (see Genesis 21:23).
4. Satisfies association; (see Genesis 47:29).

dealt, v. [past tense of deal, v.] (webplay: affairs, after, both, deaths, do, give, gold, ill, one's, part, shalt, such, true, use, way, well, word).

1. Given out; provided freely; (see 2 Samuel 6:19).
2. Dispersed; strewed about; spent without judgement; (see Psalms 119:78).

dear (-er), adj. [OE déore; glorious, distinguished, worthy, costly.] (webplay: children, close, demand, estimation, fear, followers, God, joy, last, high, hurt, last, more, narrow, one, precious, rest, scarce, seems, than).

1. Loved; cherished; precious; significant; (see Jeremiah 31:20).
2. Valued; expensive.
3. Considerable; important; substantial; (see Acts 20:24).

dear, interj. [see dear, adj.] (webplay: God).

Exclamation expressing emotion.

dear, n. [see dear, adj.]

Loving word; term of endearment; affectionate address; a person who is greatly loved or cherished.

dearth, n. [ME derthe < MG. tûrde, glory, honour, value, costliness; related to dear, adj.]

Desire; significant want; [fig.] famine; (see Genesis 41:54).

death, adj. [OE déath.] (webplay: hands, life, livest, vital).

Lethal; fatal; destructive.

death (-'s), n. [see death, adj.] (webplay: action, another, arrow, away, ball, banished, being, blood, born, breast, called, caught, cause, ceased, child, Christ, circumstance, cold, color, common, danger, darkness, deadly blow, decrease, deep, depart, deprived, destitute, disappear, divine, drops, dull, end, endure, enemy, eternal, everlastingly, extinction, eye, faint, faith, fall, fame, father, feathered, feeling, fire, force, frost, functions, future, gates, given, God, grace, grief, hands, head, heart, heavy, horror, hour, hunger, imitating, immortal, impotent, indifference, invisible, kill, land, life, livest, lose, love, manner of dying, means, men, mortal, motion, murder, name, nature, night, nothing, obscure, pale, passed, peaceful, people, perfectly, perish, perpetual, poor, portion, power, prayer, property, quiet, realm, remain, renewed, request, resembling, restored, rights, rising, river, sake, seas, second death, secret, senses, separation, ship's, sickness, sight, signifies, slain, sleep, slumbers, society, sought, soul, space, spiritless, still, stone, suffer, surface, tasteless, timber, time, torments, tree, truth, use, vital, walls, want, water, weight, wind, wine, winter, world, wrath).

1. Being dead; being permanently without life.
2. Losing life; process of spirit separating from the body.
3. [Fig.] a personification of death bearing physical characteristics of or acting in some way like a person.
4. The end of mortality; the transition from this world to the world beyond.
5. [Fig.] an amount of money or ability to make a purchase.
6. A mystery; something not understood.
7. The duration of time in which a person, animal or plant is dead (not necessarily limitless).
8. [Fig.] a place, high, low, near or far.
9. [Fig.] a contract in which is written the conditions by which a person lives.
10. [Fig.] a sharp weapon.
11. Something hidden or not seen.
12. [Fig.] a creature having many attributes of an insect.
13. A state of separation from God.
14. [Fig.] Bridge; something that joins two parts (like a hyphen).
15. A punishment (to die).
16. Something that causes worry.
17. An agent that causes someone to die.

deathless, adj. [see death, adj.] (webplay: breast, fame, land, name, tree).

Immortal; not subject to dying; endless; [fig.] eternal.