Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: log – lonesome
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log, n. [ME logge, origin unknown.]
Timber; piece of wood; large fallen branch of a tree.
logarithm, n. [L. logarithm-us; proportion, ratio + number < Gk. λόγ-οs, word.]
Calculation; mathematical function; abridgment of numbers through formulas in trigonometry; [word play on “logos” + “rhythm” or “rhyme”] words; language; lexicon; poetry; metrical verse.
logic, n. [Fr. < L. < Gk λογική.]
Reason; human understanding; mortal contemplation; arbitrary rationale.
logician, n. [see logic, n.]
Philosopher; scholar; expert in logic; writer of critical thinking, sound inference, or scientific method.
loin (-s), n. [OFr < L. lumbus.]
Waist; lower torso; area from below the ribs to the base of the buttocks; part of the body about which clothes are bound.
lone, adj. [see alone, adv.]
- Single; unwedded; not married; without a bride; having no helpmeet; (see Genesis 2:18).
- Isolated; unaccompanied; unfrequented; apart from others.
- Widowed; forsaken; desolate because of her husband's death.
- Singular; particular; specific; [fig.] seldom read; [kenning “lone Orthography”] epitaph; individual gravestone inscription in a cemetery or an abandoned battlefield.
- Exclusive; sole; chosen; designated; one and only.
- Solitary; lonely; lonesome.
loneliness, n. [see lonely, adj.]
- Solitude; isolation; reclusiveness; single status; solitary existence; lack of companionship; retirement from fellowship; seclusion from other people; withdrawal from social relations.
- Emptiness; void; seeming nothingness; [fig.] existential crisis.
- Desolation; bleakness; forlornness; lonesomeness; [fig.] death; separation from loved ones by dying.
- Longing; pining; homesickness; nostalgia; yearning for a loved one's presence.
- Grief; heartache; sorrow at the loss of a loved one.
- Solemnity; gravity; somberness; perfect privacy; sublime solitude; profound reverence; sense of a divine presence.
lonely (lonelier), adj. [see lone, adj.]
- Solitary; isolated; remote; unfrequented; sparsely populated.
- Homesick; longing for the company of loved ones.
lonesome, adj. [see lone, adj.]
- Isolated; secluded from society; lacking familiar associations; far removed from ordinary life.
- Empty; void.
- Unfrequented; [fig.] spooky; scary; eerie; ghostly; haunted.
- Solemn; sober; somber; sublime; hauntingly beautiful.
- Sad; mournful; plaintive; woeful; gloomy; funereal.
- Singular; select; elite; peculiar; uncommon.
- Solitary; lonely; eremitic.
- Single; individual; solo.
- Ostracized; shunned; excluded; subject to persecution.
lonesome, n. [see lone, adj.]
Phrase. “lonesome for they know not What”: nostalgic ones; people who are longing for something that they cannot quite identify;[fig.] mortals.