Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: haunt – hazard
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haunt (-ed, -ing, -s), v. [Fr. hanter, origin uncertain.] (Apparition, fear).
- Trouble; distract; intrude on.
- Frequent; return often; visit regularly.
- Instill fear in; cause incredulity to.
haunt (-ed), verbal adj. [see haunt, v.] (webplay: houses, specter).
Ghostly; mysterious; visited by spirits; frequented by apparitions.
have (had, had'nt, had'st, hadst, has, has'nt, hast, hath, hav'nt), v1. [OE habban; lexical or principal verb.] (webplay: away, befall, belong, fall, happen, obligation, possess, power, rather, snatch, take).
- Eat; drink; imbibe.
- Be subject to; be subservient to; be subordinate to; [fig.] adore; honor; attend to; listen to.
- Receive; experience; encounter; find.
- Know; comprehend; understand; be an expert in.
- Possess; own as property; keep at hand.
- Display; show as an identifying quality; exhibit as a figurative feature.
- Retain as a component; include as a constituent part.
- Need; want; be obligated; sense a duty; feel a necessity.
- Bear; carry; bring; provide.
- Participate in.
- Hold in the hand; be equipped with.
- Gain; obtain; procure; receive into possession.
- Entertain; maintain; keep in the mind.
- Win; pass; gain superiority over.
- Experience; portray; be affected with.
- Be related to; find meaning in; be willing to live for.
- Phrase. “have done”: cease; desist; make an end.
- Phrase. “had rather”: definitely prefer; really wish to.
- Phrase. “have on”: wear; be adorned with.
- Phrase. “had as lief”: would prefer; desire in contrast that.
- Phrase. “what had they to do with us”: what do they hold in common with us; how are they related to us; why are they associated with us; why would they be interested in us.
- Phrase. “have no part”: do not share; retain no portion.
have (had, had'st, has, hast, hath, having, hav'nt), v2. [OE habban; auxiliary or modal.] (webplay: befall, esteem, fall, hastily, power, seize, take).
- [Present perfect.]
- [Have (present perfect) + infinitive] needs; is obligated.
- [Subjunctive] if.
- [Past perfect.]
- [Subjunctive possessive.]
- [Had (past perfect) + infinitive] needed; was obligated.
- Phrase. “Have to” [periphrastic modal]: must; should; ought to.
- Phrase. “Hav'nt You”: have you not? [negated tag question for affirmative emphasis] surely; certainly you have.
haven (-s), n. [OE hæfen.]
Asylum; shelter; place of safety.
havoc, n. [OFr havot.]
Waste; devastation; destruction.
Haworth, proper n. [OE haga, hedge, and worth, enclosure > 'open place in a village'.]
Town in Yorkshire, England; place where the famous Brontë family resided; village where Emily and Charlotte Brontë are buried; [word play] cemetery; graveyard; church grounds.
hay, n. [OE híe < Germanic, 'that which can be mowed'.] (webplay: grass, mow).
- Field of cultivated grass; plant food crop for animals to eat in stables.
- Phrase. “Made hay”: cut the grass that is used to feed animals; [fig.] worked hard.
hay, v. [see hay, n.] (webplay: mow).
Cut the grass crop; [fig.] work in the fields.
hazard, n. [OFr hasard < L. casus, fall.]
- Dice game.
- Danger; trouble; sudden accident.