Emily Dickinson Lexicon

maimed, adj. [see maimed, n.; NW says: written as mayhem in law-language.]

Crippled; disabled in limbs; lame.

maimed, n. [ME.]

One who is injured or crippled.

main, n. [OE 'strength, force, power'.]

1. Strength; force.
2. Phrase. “In the main”: for the most part.

maintain (-ing), v. [L. manus, hand + tenere, hold; to practice habitually.]

Keep; continue; hold; preserve.

maize (maise), n. [Sp.]

Native corn of America; Indian corn.

majestic, adj. [see majesty, n.]

1. Stately; becoming majesty; from a person of majesty; NW says august.
2. Splendid; grand.

majesty (majesties), n. [Fr. < L. 'dignity or greatness of a sovreign'.]

1. Emperor; king.
2. Greatness in appearance.
3. Peculiar propriety; peculiar works.
4. Dignity; reverence.
5. Wind; [fig.] surprised air.
6. Office; [fig.] ordination; job.
7. Setting; sunset.

major, n. [Fr.]

1. Officer next in rank above a captain and below lieutenant; lowest field officer.
2. Mayor of a town.

majority, n. [Fr. < L. major, comp. of magnus, great.] (webplay: more).

1. Ancestry.
2. Greater number; dominant group.

make (-s, -th, made, making, mak'st), v. [OE] (webplay: appear, among, art, assuming, bring, call, change, clearer, conclusion, court, delight, earth, face, fashioned, features, forms, God, gains, good, hour, ingredient, journey, keeping, lips, little, long, loss, love, mind, multiply, news, part, party, passage, pleasure, price, prove, proud, repair, rich, sea, second, state, suit, sums, sun, supplied, times, vain, wants, water, what, women, work.

1. Construct; frame; fashion; constitute; form of materials.
2. Cause to be; cause to become; have oneself to be.
3. Prepare; organize; get ready; put into suitable form.
4. Cure; harvest; reap; prepare for preservation; cut, stack, and dry for future use.
5. Perform; accomplish; execute; participate in.
6. Change to; transform into.
7. Cause to; inflict upon.
8. Bear; give; offer; provide.
9. Compel; constrain.
10. Empower; cause to; [make + verb.]
11. Pay; show; extend; respond with; give in return.
12. Cause to seem; cause to approximate.
13. Get; acquire; collect; accumulate.
14. Feign; pose; act.
15. Allow; provide; have a tendency.
16. Create; form; cause to exist.
17. Reach; arrive at.
18. Phrase. “Make out”: constitute; represent; create an image in.
19. Phrase. “Makes effort”: work; labor; travail; strive; struggle.
20. Phrase. “Make acquaintance”: meet; encounter; get to know; present oneself to; become introduced to.
21. Phrase. “Make of”: force; compel; set up; cause to become; cause to assume a role as.
22. Phrase. “Make believe”: dream; hope; wish; pretend; imagine; fantasize.