Emily Dickinson Lexicon

morning, adj. [see morning, n.]

1. Early; pertaining to the first part of the day.
2. [Fig.] youthful; fresh.

morning (-s, -'s, morn'g), n. [OE morgen.] (webplay: break of day, breakfast, day, dew, gown, life, light, noon, peace, publish, roses, star, sunrise).

1. Early hours of daylight; first part of the day.
2. Daybreak; dawn; time of sunrise.
3. [Fig.] end to grief and darkness; joy.
4. [Fig.] resurrection; renewal; rebirth.
5. [Fig.] beginning; early part of something; youth.
6. [Fig.] period of grief [word play on mourning.]

morsel, n. [OFr.]

Small meal.

mortal, adj. [OFr.]

1. Subject to death.
2. Pertaining to living human beings on earth, as opposed to a Heavenly state after death.
3. Of or pertaining to death.
4. Human; belonging to the flesh.
5. Deadly.
6. Extreme.
7. Finite; describing a state of not being eternal.

mortal, n. [see mortal, adj.]

1. Necessity of death upon the human body.
2. Human being.

mortality, n. [Fr.]

1. Pertaining to life on earth.
2. Death.
3. Nature of human kind.

mortgage (-d), v. [OFr.]

Dead pledge; security for payment; to expose to future risk for the purpose of immediate gratification.

mortise (-d), v. [OFr.]

Notch; groove; form a joint; attach a piece of wood to a framework; [fig.] secure; fasten; fix firmly.

mortise (-d), verbal adj. [see mortise, v.]

Sealed; obstructed; blocked; closed up; [word play on “mort”] dead; buried; lifeless; deceased; filled with embalming material; [fig.] deaf; no longer able to hear.

mosaic, adj. [Fr.]

Pertaining to Moses or patterned in a mosaic fashion.