Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: nice – niggard
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nice, adj. [OFr, 'foolish' < L. nescīre, to be ignorant, ne, not + scīre to know.]
Sweet; pleasant to the taste.
nice, adj. [OFr, 'foolish' < L. nescīre, to be ignorant, ne, not + scīre to know.]
Sweet; pleasant to the taste.
nicely, adv. [see nice, adj.]
Accurately, exactly.
nicely, adv. [see nice, adj.]
Accurately, exactly.
nickname (-ed), v. [ON aukanafn, an additional name.]
Give a name of reproach.
nickname (-ed), v. [ON aukanafn, an additional name.]
Give a name of reproach.
Nicodemus (Nicodemus'), proper n. [Gk nikos, conquest + dēmos, people = 'victorious among his people'.]
New Testament pharisee; follower who asked Christ how a man may be born again; man who came to prepare the body of Christ for burial before the resurrection; (see John 3; see ED's letters).
Nicodemus (Nicodemus'), proper n. [Gk nikos, conquest + dēmos, people = 'victorious among his people'.]
New Testament pharisee; follower who asked Christ how a man may be born again; man who came to prepare the body of Christ for burial before the resurrection; (see John 3; see ED's letters).
niggard, adj. [Of obscure origin, a miser, parsimonious.]
Sparing; wary.
niggard, adj. [Of obscure origin, a miser, parsimonious.]
Sparing; wary.